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OK saw Skyfall last night. It was OK but too long. Looked good but if that is as has been reported one of the best Bonds ever its clearly only a franchise for the fan boys. Still it keeps the Brocolli's in brocolli.<br />
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Worried bout Hobbit. Caught end of trailer. Seemed self indulgent and playing for laughs (New Worlfd all the way to the bank????) Gotta wonder how a slim childrens book can be padded out to 3 movies. I fear it will have all the poor bits of LOTR - Legolas surfing down the oliphant - bleech. Still I live in equal parts hope, anticipation and expectation. -
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Gotta wonder how a slim childrens book can be padded out to 3 movies.<br />
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I haven't seen the movie but of all the criticisms in advance, this one doesn't worry me in the least.<br />
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The book has a background of mythology, meaning, I can write a single expository sentence, "Army engages big battle with enemy," that takes me all of 5 seconds to type and 3 less seconds to read. But you can make that battle and all the events that lead-up to and transpire within to play out dramatically as long as you want.<br />
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I could condense WW2 to an essay-length assignment - but that doesn't mean there's only a 20 minute movie in it. Think of William Shirer's single volume "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" ... from the [i]footnotes alone[/i], you could get The Wannsee Conference, The Longest Day, The Bunker, Stalingrad, Saving Private Ryan, Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, and even things like Schindler's List, Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dambusters, The Great Escape, Stalag 17, Midway, Tora Tora Tora, They Were Expendable, The Dirty Dozen, Das Boot, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Objective! Burma, The Benny Goodman Story, To Hell and Back ... even Inglorious Bastards!! -- that's a lot of hours of entertainment ripped from the endnotes and I'm only getting started! -
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I haven't seen the movie but of all the criticisms in advance, this one doesn't worry me in the least.<br />
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The book has a background of mythology, meaning, I can write a single expository sentence, "Army engages big battle with enemy," that takes me all of 5 seconds to type and 3 less seconds to read. But you can make that battle and all the events that lead-up to and transpire within to play out dramatically as long as you want.<br />
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I could condense WW2 to an essay-length assignment - but that doesn't mean there's only a 20 minute movie in it. Think of William Shirer's single volume "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" ... from the [i]footnotes alone[/i], you could get The Wannsee Conference, The Longest Day, The Bunker, Stalingrad, Saving Private Ryan, Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, and even things like Schindler's List, Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dambusters, The Great Escape, Stalag 17, Midway, Tora Tora Tora, They Were Expendable, The Dirty Dozen, Das Boot, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Objective! Burma, The Benny Goodman Story, To Hell and Back ... even Inglorious Bastards!! -- that's a lot of hours of entertainment ripped from the endnotes and I'm only getting started!<br />
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Spot on - I just re-read the Hobbit and kept this in mind as I read. There is so much content that is described in utter bare bones - "Bilbo killed dozens of spiders" or something similar. The apparent slower start is just part of setting up a pretty large ensemble cast that in the book is really only involves the colour of their hats, family relationship and a brief physical description!! -
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How would you reach any conclusions about M if you hadn't already seen the film? [spoiler]Last time I checked M's didn't have the job until death[/spoiler] Still I am apologetic if I managed to ruin the film for anyone out there<br />
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I'm not really criticising you for the post, it was tongue in cheek after (spolieriffic!). <br />
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[spoiler]My point about the new M bit was that it would have helped me guess earlier that she was goneburger[/spoiler] -
[quote name='dogmeat' timestamp='1355308066' post='332321']<br />
OK saw Skyfall last night. It was OK but too long. Looked good but if that is as has been reported one of the best Bonds ever its clearly only a franchise for the fan boys. Still it keeps the Brocolli's in brocolli.<br />
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Worried bout Hobbit. Caught end of trailer. Seemed self indulgent and playing for laughs (New Worlfd all the way to the bank????) Gotta wonder how a slim childrens book can be padded out to 3 movies. I fear it will have all the poor bits of LOTR - Legolas surfing down the oliphant - bleech. Still I live in equal parts hope, anticipation and expectation.<br />
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I enjoy the Bond films more since Craig has been Bond.<br />
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The HObbit preview was on when I went, and the movie, for obvious reasons has a very LOTR feel to it. I mean it was successful, and it is set in the same place, just earlier.<br />
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Saw The Sapphires tonight. Kind of a cut-price Commitments based around Aboriginal girl soul singers in 60s Australia who end up entertaining US troops in Vietnam. It has it's moments but it's a bit, umm, crap in parts. It's got a "let's do the party right here" feel to it - made worse by the obvious dubbing when the girls start to sing and the sets start to wobble. Chris O'Dowd is the Irish manager and he's easily the best actor in it, but you don't really understand what his character is doing in the Aussie Outback and why such a pasty Celt has got a hard-on for Detroit soul.<br />
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Apparently, the film is based on a true story - but how true I don't know. Let's say I found it odd that American troops would be entertained by an Aboriginal girl band when it must have been easier to ship out the real thing.<br />
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So it sounds like I hated it, but tbh it's quite watchable. There's some good comedy and some great music. If you have to take the Mrs to the pics, this could be the best compromise available. -
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Well the Pierce Brosnan efforts less so.....could never get the image of him being that doofus on Remington Steele out of my head.<br />
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There's some truth to that, but a lot of preliminary damage had been done in the Moore era. I saw them all when they came out, and each one became less forgiving. Octopussy might have been the nadir, but for me the lowest moment has always been the pigeon double-take (2:55) in Moonraker. I get that gloriously stupid can still be glorious, but this whole scene is just ridiculous.<br />
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Holy shit. So, crashed on the couch last night, and a movie started at 8.30 that i hadn't seen, and the remote wasn't within reach, so i left it on. And yea, "The Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" happened.<br />
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Bond dressed up as a clown was the nadir for me.<br />
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Ye gods, the ticking time bomb trope. Fuck me that was bad. And trains! What is it with fucking trains? Even in Skyfall there's a fight on top of a train. Nobody fights on top of a train. It's not possible. And yet directors and stunt coordinators continue to insist on train-top combat in defiance of the laws of physics and self-preservation.<br />
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Octopussy was bad, but The Living Daylights is just awful. Timothy Dalton's Bond might as well have been renting his arse out in Old Compton Street he was that much of a man. In a scene with Maryam d'Abo he says they have to get out of town. She says she has to go home and get her cello first. Cut to the next scene of Dalton waiting for her in a car outside her flat. Call me old fashioned but a real Bond would have smacked her in the mouth, fucked her sideways and then dumped her in the boot with her knickers for a gag.<br />
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I enjoy the Bond films more since Craig has been Bond.<br />
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Same. In fact I'm not much of a fan of Bond films generally, but of my top four, the Daniel Craig ones occupy the top three spots. Goldeneye comes in fourth because the Nintendo game was so awesome. -
Godzilla vs. Transformers.
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[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I'm not much of a fan of Star Wars films generally, but of my top four, Attack of the Clones occupies the top three spots. Return of the Jedi comes in fourth because Salacious B. Crumb was so awesome.[/font][/color] -
Alex Cross - was ok, reckon it coulda been better and also think (an extremely ripped but bordering on unhealthy looking) Matthew Fox was under-used, also the ending was a bit weak.
