Bond, James Bond - Skyfall

[chuck_in_texas]

Picky, picky, picky!
I like my PPK!

Right on -- what's not to like? PPK's roots go back as far, almost, as the Luger, P-38, and within a few years of the 1911. If it works, and keeps on working, don't screw around with it! I own my share of plastic stuff, but the old classics are hard to beat.

[rifleshooter]

Bond movies aren't always technically correct, however.
Recently, I watched part of "Thunderball". Bond is escaping by climbing over a tile roof, drops his pistol and, after it clatters down the slope and falls to the ground, the gun fires (alerting the BGs, of course). Plotwise it made sense but the rebounding hammer of the PPK is suposed to make such accidents impossible.
And "Dr. No": when Bond screwed a silencer onto his pistol in one scene, I knew it wasn't a Walther. Now, watching it on an HD TV, I was able to clearly see the FN logo on the grip. Where the heck did he get that?

Spotted the second one, but not the first. Good catch. Was wondering that myself and did some research on the silenced pistol he whipped out.

You guys remember when technical details in stories, plays, and movies were just kind of ignored? In Midway, they show TBFs as Navy fighters (which were, of course, Wildcats). Nobody worried about it, and they were using actual footage from Unca Sugar files... Story was more important than technical details, and nobody worried about it. Try that crap now and, unless it's "suspension of disbelief sci-fi," your studio will get 100,000 emails from internet experts showing you how you screwed the pooch.

[rifleshooter]

Right on -- what's not to like? PPK's roots go back as far, almost, as the Luger, P-38, and within a few years of the 1911. If it works, and keeps on working, don't screw around with it! I own my share of plastic stuff, but the old classics are hard to beat.

The PPK is a nice gun, and accurate as all get-out. But its weight, and the cartridge it shoots... I wouldn't use it for SD. Why didn't they stick him with a P99, or SIG P290? You guys think Walther paid big-time for product placement?

[TexasAviator]

Spotted the second one, but not the first. Good catch. Was wondering that myself and did some research on the silenced pistol he whipped out.

You guys remember when technical details in stories, plays, and movies were just kind of ignored? In Midway, they show TBFs as Navy fighters (which were, of course, Wildcats). Nobody worried about it, and they were using actual footage from Unca Sugar files... Story was more important than technical details, and nobody worried about it. Try that crap now and, unless it's "suspension of disbelief sci-fi," your studio will get 100,000 emails from internet experts showing you how you screwed the pooch.

If the plot and story is good I overlook technical stuff. Lots of T-6 Texans ended up as Zeros in movies and if they cared about details they had a bit of a wing redesign!

[CNCSC]

If I was choosing to upgrade a weapon for Bond as "q" did. I sure wouldn't choose a "short" anything. PPS, PPQ, Sig something. Just saying. But I guess they didn't ask me.

[CNCSC]

.. But the 2nd trailer looked great!

SKYFALL - Official Trailer - YouTube

[TexasAviator]

If I was choosing to upgrade a weapon for Bond as "q" did. I sure wouldn't choose a "short" anything. PPS, PPQ, Sig something. Just saying. But I guess they didn't ask me.

Yeah with James Bonds, macho persona... a "short" anything is not what you want!

[jspdrcrmach5]

I remember one of the big deals about the earlier Bond Movies were the stunts, like jumping a Boat 110 feet through air in Live And Let Die or Skiing off the side of a Mountain into a Parachute Free fall in The Spy Who Loved Me, real stunts.
Now They just use special effects, takes some of the thrill out of it for Me.

[Lance0812]

I remember one of the big deals about the earlier Bond Movies were the stunts, like jumping a Boat 110 feet through air in Live And Let Die or Skiing off the side of a Mountain into a Parachute Free fall in The Spy Who Loved Me, real stunts.
Now They just use special effects, takes some of the thrill out of it for Me.

I feel that way about most movies that use digital special effects.
Rather than watch a modern movie and say "Yah. Cute computer work", I'd much rather watch an oldie and wonder "How the heck did they do that!?!"