Skyfall

[WDW]

It was a double rifle, it was a 500 nitro express.
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/pr...s-double-rifle

$24,500 a pop huh? I better just get one then.

[TNK]

a buddy and I did a double feature to see this. We'd intended to just see Skyfall but the good seat were all gone, so we went to Wreck it Ralph first then Skyfall after. Wreck it Ralph was far better.
Why oh why can't they write a decent story/plot for these films??????? seriously, the amount of just plain dumb things people do is stunning. I know we need certain things to happen to make a movie, but the shear stupidity and lack of sense displayed by pretty much everyone in this film is atrocious. Leave out the lame teachable and you have a really bad action film that was nicely filmed.
And depleted uranium pistol bullets that also fragment when they hit you?????????????????? aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Of course, you are correct, sir.

[Chemsoldier]

Saw it last night.

I thought is it was a great movie, the Craig movies have been very good. While Quantum of Solace didnt pop the way Casino Royale and Skyfall did, it was solid. I like how in this kinder and gentler and sensitive age, they have not been afraid to make this bond a bruiser. You can tell he is uncomfortable in conversation and really happy to be punching people.

[ToddG]

I saw it with my Dad over the holiday.

The Craig Bond movies have definitely been the best, though I personally think Casino Royale has remained the pinnacle of Bondness.

I actually thought the references to early Bondness were pretty cute. Everyone in the theater applauded when the Aston appeared. I was also very interested in the biographical nature of the film in terms of Bond's pre-MI6 life, though I don't know enough about the Bond mythology to know whether that was canonical or created from whole cloth for the movie.

It seemed a little forced that they rebooted M, Q, and Moneypenny (that was poorly done) all in the same movie.

As for the gun stuff... whatever. Sure I roll my eyes at the cornier parts (a Beta mag for a G18 when you're an undercover spy? OK). But Bond has never been gun-centric. The biometric scanner was there for a single reason: so one particular scene could have a guy try to shoot Bond with his own gun and fail. It's Hollywood. (though I do think a PPS would be an ideal Bond choice)

Anyway, I liked it enough that I'm sure we'll buy it when it comes out on iTunes.

[Chemsoldier]

I suppose spies carrying guns that dont make a lot of sense...makes a fair amount of sense.

I have read a few biographies of clandestine service officers, their firearms training was rudimentary. After they became operational they spent the great majority of their time unarmed and sometimes when armed were carrying eclectic firearms in order to have deniable weapons. They spent years in areas where practice could blow their cover or was just plain illegal.

Even the OSS, which knew they were sending agents into harms way very soon, where they were expected to fight German soldiers, gave very brief weapons training. I am not near my bookshelf, but I recall Applegate saying that total combat training at Camp Ritchie NJ for new agents was what...a week? That included hand to hand combat, edged weapons, improvised weapons, pistols, rifles, sub-machine guns, grenades, demo and foreign weapons. His work reflected it and if you read between the lines, while he thought his training methods best for all personnel they were implicitly geared towards people who would have minimal training and skills maintenance. A product of WWII mobilization culture.

The idea of the operational person who spends a great deal of time and resources on firearms training (while on the clock) seems to be a relatively recent innovation and mostly in law enforcement and military specialist units. Outside of those circles, great ability seems to come more from great personal interest than anything else.

[Nate]

It was a double rifle, it was a 500 nitro express.
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/pr...s-double-rifle

Here's what I found interesting about that article: in the picture of Craig holding the rifle, looking all Bond-like in front of the DB5, he has his finger outside the trigger guard. In the similar picture of the author, the author also has his finger outside the trigger guard. I don't know if the author was simply mimicking Craig's (greatly improved over, say, the iconic Charlie's angel's picture) gun handling or if the author would have done so on his own, but either way, I found it interesting.