Stewart Moncure

Pouring one out for you all at #FullMoonFrights tonight!

Join #CultShelf this Tuesday at 9 PM Pacific for HELLRAISER! A man escapes from Hell and while killing to regain his human form, Hell’s minions are looking for him! You can find the movie on Amazon Prime!

And with that, thanks #ImpromptuTheater gang! Next week, we go back to Roger Moore and some voodoo action in LIVE AND LET DIE! Until then, take care and have a great week!

#impromptutheater Moneypenny and the new M. Time to get to work.

#impromptutheater That was quite a shock to see M die. That really wasn’t something you saw in a Bond movie before where a supporting character that long running met their end. Of course, they really pushed that for NO TIME TO DIE.

#impromptutheater “I was in some deep water.” He couldn’t even believe she said that.

#impromptutheater Knife to the back. Fitting.

#impromptutheater Another visual trick using the burning Skyfall estate as a main light. The cinematographer had built a wall of lights to simulate that effect for the night scenes.

#impromptutheater “I always hated this place.”

#impromptutheater Nice how they handle the transition from late afternoon to evening in this sequence.

#ImpromptuTheater Heh heh heh.

#impromptutheater We revisit Bond’s past in the follow-up to this, to probably more diminishing results. We will not be watching SPECTRE next month.

#impromptutheater “Some men are coming to kill us. We’re gonna kill them first.”

#impromptutheater Albert Finney’s last film role before he passed. Scuttlebutt said the role was going to be originally offered to Sean Connery!

#impromptutheater “Oh go on then, eject me. See if I care.”

#impromptutheater Ha! The Aston Martin!

#impromptutheater “Oh good. There’s a train coming.”

Of course our villain has that 2000’s/2010’s trope of “he didn’t get caught, he WANTED to get caught”. #ImpromptuTheater

#impromptutheater Of course, our villain has to be extra creepy with some extra physical injury.

#impromptutheater This was Judi Dench’s 7th (but not last) appearance as M.

#impromptutheater “I win. What do you say to that?” “What a waste of good Scotch.”

#impromptutheater “What makes you think this is my first time?” I’m sure the conservatives got irritable over that. Good.

#impromptutheater And our introduction to our villain, played by Javier Bardem.

#impromptutheater The island is a combination of actual large sets and CGI extensions.

#impromptutheater Turns out the palm coded gun came in handy.

#impromptutheater “Can you kill him?” “Yes.” “Will you?” “Someone usually dies.”

#impromptutheater While the basic outline of the script comes from longtime Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the credited script is from John Logan.

#impromptutheater Berenice Marlohe (who we saw earlier in Shanghai) as Severine.

#impromptutheater The casino was actually a soundstage in the UK.

#impromptutheater Mendes was pitched on this by Craig (they worked together on ROAD TO PERDITION) while he was a little sloshed. As Craig mentions, he told the producers he may have accidentally offered Mendes this movie.

#impromptutheater Bond has at least remembered how to vanish like Batman.

#impromptutheater This whole sequence against the changing neon lights is really impressive. Some really creative photography in this movie, especially during the climax.

#impromptutheater While location footage was filmed in Shanghai, the actors and the locations they are in were filmed in the UK.

#impromptutheater “A gun and a radio. Not exactly Christmas, is it?” “Were you expecting an exploding pen?”

#impromptutheater And we got the new Q, played by Ben Whishaw.

#impromptutheater “Whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives?”

#impromptutheater And “SKYFALL” triggers him. Of course we learn why but that was a question a few people asked when this word association thing popped up in the teaser trailer.

#impromptutheater “Bird.” “Sky.” “M.” “Bitch.”

Music by Thomas Newman, a longtime collaborator with the director. #ImpromptuTheater

#impromptutheater “We packed all your things away in storage. Standard procedure for a dead agent with no next of kin. You should have called.”

#impromptutheater I would be remiss if I didn’t mention in lieu of running the Trek movies last month of the passing today of Walter Koenig, Pavel Chekov himself. Left us at the age of 90. RIP.

#impromptutheater Photographed by the legendary Roger Deakins. He got an Oscar nomination for this, but ultimately nabbed it for the first time with BLADE RUNNER 2049.

#impromptutheater The last movie had the bad luck of not only being a direct sequel to CASINO ROYALE (expect that in November here), but being hampered by a writer’s strike.

Ralph Fiennes! #ImpromptuTheater

#impromptutheater The theme song and the work on the sound editing won Oscars that year. Also was nominated for sound mixing, score, and for photography.

Time for the Oscar winning theme song. #ImpromptuTheater

And Bond’s dead. Well, hope you enjoyed the movie, see you next week—OH WAIT, the title sequence is starting. #ImpromptuTheater

Looks like the Bond movies are sticking around for November, so we’ll be doing some of the best ones, starting with a late Halloween tinged one. Stay tuned… #ImpromptuTheater

Naomie Harris (28 DAYS LATER) as Bond’s fellow agent in pursuit. #ImpromptuTheater

This was directed by Sam Mendes, who did AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROAD TO PERDITION, and also is finishing up those four (!) Beatles biopics. #ImpromptuTheater