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BreakfastwithNick
Clintonville
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I'm very excited to see what a good director like Sam Mendes can do with a Bond story.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Mister Shifter
Lewis Center
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Sad to see the producers are selling out to Heineken by accepting 45 million dollars for Bond to order a Heineken instead of a vodka martini (shaken not stirred).
I'm usually no purist, but this is incredibly lame given that Bond orders the same drink in EVERY MOVIE.
Hollywood's greed never ceases to amaze me.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown / Gay Street
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Rockmastermike
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Mister Shifter said:
Sad to see the producers are selling out to Heineken by accepting 45 million dollars for Bond to order a Heineken instead of a vodka martini (shaken not stirred).I'm usually no purist, but this is incredibly lame given that Bond orders the same drink in EVERY MOVIE.
Hollywood's greed never ceases to amaze me.
if you're going to be a "purist" about the james bond mythos he starts by drinking "Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel." (later known as the Vesper). Although in later books he ordered a slew of gin and vodka martinis, as well as several whiskeys.
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Mister Shifter
Lewis Center
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Noted, and sorry if I was incorrect. Product placement in movies, especially where companies are bidding millions of dollars against each other gets to be nauseating.
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Rockmastermike
The Bacon District
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Mister Shifter said:
Noted, and sorry if I was incorrect. Product placement in movies, especially where companies are bidding millions of dollars against each other gets to be nauseating.I totally agree, and you're right that for the majority of the movies that's what was being ordered. Since this is being done strictly for crass product placement cash it *sucks*.
I just don't think one can be *that* much of a purist about this kind of thing. These are movies based loosely on a series of books that really would not directly translate to great movies (especially nowadays; the books are really racist in parts). But mostly, though, they're just good cinematic FUN. The Bond in the books drank far more and more variety than in the movies.
And, frankly, given the essential monopoly of vodka (at least in the US market) for most of the run of the original bond films, I would not be surprised if the 'vodka martini' ordering was originally started as some form of product placement by Smirnoff!
but yea, when everything becomes a commercial one gets really effing tired of hucksters and shills shitting up the entire effing world with their crappy sales pitches trying to get us to buy shit we don't need. I'm with you 100% on that.
Posted 9 months ago # -
bayrea
Dublin, Oh
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Overall this is shaping up to look like one of the better Bond movies. Visually it looks real good and you can't go wrong with Sam Mendez directing. However, the whole "Bond is dead, no he's not" story line has been played out sooooo many times.
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Walker
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