Counterpoint: threeways are awesome.

Say what you will about Dan Savage being Wrong About Iraq in 2002, but unlike nearly everyone else (and there were a fuckload of them), he actually:

Oh. My. GOD.

Actually for all that I mostly do like the stupid things. But enjoying them and believing them to be "good" in any sort of defensible artistic sense are two very different things.

The poker scene, as someone said above, plays better if you assume that Bond bribed the dealer and stacked the decks for the last hand. Sadly there's no diegetic justification for that reading in the movie, but I like to think that's what they meant to do and just ran into running time issues.

And thank god. Imagine the overstuffed messes that EON would have made once they no longer had Fleming's single un-adapted book to work from? The horror…

Deciding to make a visual callback to Ursula Andress emerging from the water with Daniel Craig in a speedo was a kinda ballsy (ahem) move, and it paid off in spades: I heard not a few people say "daaaaamn" in the theater during that scene.

THANK YOU. I still like TDK on its own merits, but man there's a movie that succeeds entirely despite the best efforts of its director and screenwriter.

As much as I loathe 300, the Zack Snyder era has to be grappled with just as much as the baleful and still-ongoing influence of Michael Bay. May as well do it via the only film he made that could claim to still have some lasting cultural influence.

Quick, from memory, quote a line from a Bond movie, any Bond movie that is neither Goldfinger nor Casino Royale.

Pretty sure the cufflinks moment is in Skyfall?

Speaking as a long-term apologist for that film: it's worth watching again. It's a fair cop that it's mostly style and very little depth, but Ferrel and Li carry it off and nobody but nobody stages a shootout like Mann.

TWINE had Michelle Yeoh, which basically makes it an automatic top-5 even if the rest of the film was a little rough in spots.

If possible, find it playing at an art theater or something. You really, really want to see it on as large a screen as possible.

Jeebus. I saw that movie at home (albeit on a projector), having been well spoiled about the content of several of the key sequences, and I still felt like I'd been wrung out like a dishrag at the end of that film. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to walk into that thing blind.

The cold open and the parkour fight, in addition to being propelling, compulsive cinema, are incredible examples of character building via action. Bond barely speaks 50 words of dialogue in the whole first 20 minutes of the movie, but by the time he blows up the embassy you have absolutely no doubt in your mind about…

CORRECT.

Kept scrolling down and hitting "load more comments" because I knew I'd find this comment eventually.

I think Dwigt, below, has it. Spectre had the same problem as Quantum only self-inflicted: EON finally settled the Wilson suit and decided that they wanted to finally make a Blofeld film RIGHT NOW, nevermind that they were mostly through preproduction on another film. So the script got jammed together at the last…

Yeah, after seeing Croupier, it really seemed impossible that they would even consider anyone else for the part.