AJB live commentary on SKYFALL

Higgins

Time for another group-viewing, this time, it‘s

SKYFALL











London Summertime: 20:00
Paris Summertime: 21:00
New York local time 15:00
LA local time 12:00

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !


PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE ALL STARTING 10 MINUTES LATER !

The 19:00 deadline is set so that everybody has enough time to find their DVDs/Blu Rays, boot their players and get done with the menus and pause right before the gunbarrel sequence.

WE ARE STARTING PRECISELY AT 19:10


- Please make sure that everybody has their BluRay/DVD/VCR ready and start the player latest 19:00 GMT to get done with all the dodgy menus.
- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE WHERE IN ALL RATIONALITY THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE SHOULD BE AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.
I‘ll post some timecodes during the thread just in case that somebody has messed it up

Higgins

Barbel, can you please stickie this one and unstickie the other one?

Thanks! :x

JTM

Haven’t seen Skyfall in ages—very keen for the rewatch!

Shady Tree

Happy to be able to join in for this on Friday.

Gymkata

doubtful I'll be there but I'll get on the gifs!

Shady Tree

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

bosoxfan

Hope to join in, a bit confused by the column on the time chart above that says "Planner" please educate me.

JTM

bosoxfan wrote:

Hope to join in, a bit confused by the column on the time chart above that says "Planner" please educate me.

It’s the date at that current time in the listed location. That picture showing all the time zones is old though—from April 4 (04/04)—or the date on it is incorrectly set. But going by that image, 2000 on the April 4 in London makes it 0700 on April 5 in Wellington.

Below is an updated version (with correct dates) for the Skyfall viewing.

Higgins

Thanks, and I have updated the chart.

I have been recycling the old one from early April, never thought that anyone would care about the date

Barbel

Shady Tree wrote:

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

Don't worry, Shady, I've fixed it... :007)

Higgins

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

Barbel

Higgins wrote:

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

1st sentence, true.
2nd sentence, false.

Higgins

) )

Asp9mm

Barbel wrote:

Higgins wrote:

Now I know, why in most of my posts come over like I am a total jackass.
That‘s just because Barbel has been fiddling around with them and nobody can see! X-(

1st sentence, true.
2nd sentence, false.

Gymkata

As of now, my conflicting meeting for tomorrow has been punted. As such, unless things change, I'll be able to attend.

Shady Tree

Barbel wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

Higgins wrote:

- PAUSE YOUR PLAYER RIGHT BEFORE THE GUNBARREL SEQUENCE STARTS AND
- HIT PLAY PRECISELY AT 19:10.

Wait... does this mean we're watching only the end titles, this time?!

Don't worry, Shady, I've fixed it... :007)

Cool! So with SF, it begins with the MGM logo, followed by the Columbia Pictures logo. Our starting point, I'd venture, should be when the Columbia Pictures logo fades, just before the first shot of the movie proper...

Gymkata

Number24

I'm looking forward to Skyfall :007)

https://giphy.com/gifs/skyfall-3LOi5dAB1XPxu/fullscreen

Barbel

I'm looking forward to it, too. This time I won't be doing my usual discussion of the musical cues, since there are a lot of them and they're mostly very similar.

Higgins

I‘ll be missing your comments, Barbel.

Barbel

They will be back, when you pick a film with a better score! Newman's work hasn't impressed me, I'm afraid (even less with SP). I do like Adele's song, though.

Number24

If there only was some other aspect than the music you could comment on …

Barbel

8-) Yes, cos that's all I have ever commented on previously.

Higgins

He has a broad knowledge about german beer and Scotch whisky - not sure how helpful that would be

Number24

Barbel wrote:

8-) Yes, cos that's all I have ever commented on previously.

Good, because that's what I thought.

On a slightly other topic: At some point we'll run out of Bond films or we'll feel the need for more variation. Do you (plural) think we can expand to other films? I know the chanses everyone has excess to a particular movie, but this is so much fun I think we should consider it. We won't get everyone each time, but I think it could work. Perhaps other spy movies (Jason Bourne, Mission Impossible etc.) or classical special operations films like "The guns of Navarone" or "The eagles nest". I think there'll be enough of us for it to work.
Discuss.

Barbel

Hey, hold on there N24!!!! Far too soon!!!

Number24

It's far too soon to do it, but I don't think it's too soon to talk about it. I look forward to watching the Bond films we skiped in the first round, but I think it could be nice to watch for example "The guns of Navarone" together at some point.

Barbel

It's a good film, and David Niven is in it, but it'll be a while before we get to that.

Alistair MacLean is a good subject for us Bond fans to get into, but if we go there eventually I'd suggest "Where Eagles Dare" first.

Number24

I was actually thinking of "Where eagles dare" when I wrote "The Eagles nest", I just translated the Norwegian title without thinking. )
I don't think we'll watch it in May, but we may be ready in June.

Gymkata

May I respectfully suggest the Harry Palmer films?
Or the Austin Powers films?

That said, count me in for WHERE EAGLES DARE. That's my personal favorite 'men on a mission' film, and I'm due for my annual viewing of it.

'Second rate punk, huh?'

JTM

The issue with non-Bond films, even some big ones, is that a lot of members won’t have them on disc or might not be subscribed to a streaming service that has them. But this being a Bond forum, there’s a pretty good chance that most have access to all the Bond films; which is why these rewatches have worked.