James Bond: Skyfall

Seen twice now.
Valid cricticisms have been made I won't argue, but I liked the hell out of this Bond flick!
A lot worked for me. M was the Bond girl of this film.
 
Well, turns out that the rooftop he is standing on at the end of the film is actually the Department for Energy and Climate Change, which is just across the road from the MOD! The green towers we see are the Ministry of Defence.

So when he is looking towards Parliament he is looking south down Whitehall.

The SIS building (MI6) is to the south on the opposite side of Parliament from the MOD.

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'Skyfall' Filming Locations - Business Insider

So in theory new office is inside the DECC. (Though probably not!).
 
Makes sense according to the novels.

It should be a building that holds a few "businesses" one of which is Universal Exports. :thumbsup
 
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Close but no cigar, the building with the copper domes in the first and second pictures is Admiralty House. The building in the last picture with the many flags and copper roof cladding is MoD Main Building, unmistakable. Don't care what the caption says, it's wrong.
 
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Ok doke, the main MOD building is the big green one. My original point still stands. Bond/Craig is filmed standing on the roof of the DECC.

And interesting that Google Maps has labelled it that way. They label the SIS building correctly.
 
Mmmmmm well I've learned never to trust Google Maps/Earth since they published detailed sat photos of Basrah Airbase in Iraq. If you've ever sat under an accurately targeted rocket/mortar attack then you'll know it's not the most fun way to spend an evening. It took several months of diplomatic activity to get those photos downgraded. There are many examples of mislabeling from Google. You're right about the DECC, but unfortunately incorrect about Admiralty House, it no longer functions or forms part of the MoD.

What is quite a coincidence, or maybe not, is the adjoining building to Bonds left in the last photo is now the Corinthia Hotel and was the Metropole Building which was an MoD holding until 2007 and amongst other things used to house MI9 or SOE (think real life Q Branch) during WWII and was oft depicted as MI6 HQ in the Daily Express James Bond comic strip. In more recent times until 2004 before it's disposal it was used as an overspill for MoD Main Building. Maybe EON did do their homework after all.
 
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Wolfie138 said:
- the whole plot seemed ill thought-out, regarding the "i'm going to release more names each week" ~ why? what was that point all about?
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Releasing names of undercover agents...isn't it obvious that would get them killed or imprisoned?:facepalm

And a great point of vengeance for the bad-guy. He took it back old school. He had a good enough reason to want to take her out...

And what does it matter how hot one Bond girl is from the next? They're there for Bond to dry hump and get killed...

I really liked the film. The whole one Bond only makes sense. Until Craig gets replaced...
 
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So the Bluray got released yesterday and I got it at 9 am from amazon having pre ordered! (no wonder the highstreet is dying!)

Is anyone else really dissapointed with the quality of the special features? They seem so superficial. Does anyone remember the days when you would get a propper 'making of' featurette??? :(


On a side note Ma'am and mum are very different!

Mum = sounds like tum and bum. Means mother

Ma'am = sounds like palm, calm and farm. Formal way to address a female of imprtance.


Regardless of accent, they would never be confused.
 
I bought my Combo (Blu/DVD/Digital) from BestBuy last Friday. Pretty sweet!

I never watch the "special features" so I wouldn't know.
 
Wolfie138 said:
as for Silva, how come he went all out shooting up the hearing room, then suddenly at the end turned all weepy and wanted to divorce himself from the killing of M? it just jarred.
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I'm pretty sure he was acting out like a child would if his mom did something like say that he was a bad son and would rather have mom X's kid to raise. The kid would probably me all upset and feel betrayed, saying things like "I hate mommy and I'm want her to die". But then when the opportunity comes and he can smash mommy on the back of the head with a baseball bat, he's ultimately not going to do it.

Plus, he made it a point to his goons that no one was to touch M but Silva himself. So he was upset when he saw that she was shot and dying, and not by his own hand. I suppose the feelings of loyalty came back when he saw his injured mom all frail and helpless. Again, it's something similar to when someone cut ties with his mother for one reason or another, only to reunite on her deathbed.

Kinda, in an insane way. :lol
 
Weequay said:
On a side note Ma'am and mum are very different!

Mum = sounds like tum and bum. Means mother

Ma'am = sounds like palm, calm and farm. Formal way to address a female of imprtance.


Regardless of accent, they would never be confused.
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To you Brits maybe. Between your accents and your slang, we Yanks can't figure out what you're saying most of the time.

I'm only kidding, of course. Here in the States, "Ma'am" is pronounced like "ham" and "Spam" (seeing as how it's a colloquial shortening of the word "Madam"), so there's more of a difference between the way the two words sound. And, although I was only joking above about the accents in Great Britain, I actually do know a few people who have some difficulty understanding English if it's spoken with a British, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh accent. Just another example of the phrase "Two countries separated by a common language". :lol
 
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Weequay said:
.........Is anyone else really dissapointed with the quality of the special features? They seem so superficial. Does anyone remember the days when you would get a propper 'making of' featurette??? :(

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I pretty much expect another release at some point down the road with more. They put just enough to get you to buy it rather then let you think something better will come along later and to wait.
The goal is not to get you to buy the movie, but get you to keep buying the same movie.
Of course I bought it.
 
CessnaDriver said:
I pretty much expect another release at some point down the road with more. They put just enough to get you to buy it rather then let you think something better will come along later and to wait.
The goal is not to get you to buy the movie, but get you to keep buying the same movie.
Of course I bought it.
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Yep. Not to mention it's on BR a mere month after it's out of theatres! :eek

This release gets the die hards, the next release gets those who waited AND the die hards again because they want the features.

Then there's the next box set...

:lol
 
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To you Brits maybe. Between your accents and your slang, we Yanks can't figure out what you're saying most of the time.

I'm only kidding, of course. Here in the States, "Ma'am" is pronounced like "ham" and "Spam" (seeing as how it's a colloquial shortening of the word "Madam"), so there's more of a difference between the way the two words sound. And, although I was only joking above about the accents in Great Britain, I actually do know a few people who have some difficulty understanding English if it's spoken with a British, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh accent. Just another example of the phrase "Two countries separated by a common language". :lol
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And "British" doesn't even begin to cover it. Within England itself, you've got RP (a.k.a. "BBC English"), west country accents, estuarial accents, northern accents (Geordie, Yorkshire, etc.).

It's as varied as here in the states where, for example, a New York accent doesn't sound the same as a Boston accent or a Philly accent or a Baltimore accent. And that's just bits of the northeast corridor, not even touching on the range of southern accents here in the states.


But anyway, yes, to American ears, "mum" and "ma'am" are nearly indistinguishable.


Personally, I always thought Bond was saying "ma'am," but now that I have the blu-ray, I suppose I could just skip to that scene and turn on subtitles...
 
I ran encountered the same thing watching BBC's Ashes to Ashes. I was wondering why they kept referring to the female DCI as mum.
 
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