Movie review thread...
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Free Guy
Ryan Reynolds stars in this Truman show style film reworked for the new generation. Reynolds is his usual self, there are cameos of a bunch of famous You tube gamers according to CF Jr, and Taika plays the villain. Disney's fingerprints are all over it with nods to the Marvel and Star Wars universes. Lightweight fun but fun nonetheless, 3.5 NPCs gone rogue out of 5 bro's
oh yeah, watched that too, was fun...."catchphrase!" i like how they just leaned into it being this Disney/marvel/starwars thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Free Guy
Ryan Reynolds stars in this Truman show style film reworked for the new generation. Reynolds is his usual self, there are cameos of a bunch of famous You tube gamers according to CF Jr, and Taika plays the villain. Disney's fingerprints are all over it with nods to the Marvel and Star Wars universes. Lightweight fun but fun nonetheless, 3.5 NPCs gone rogue out of 5 bro's
oh yeah, watched that too, was fun...."catchphrase!" i like how they just leaned into it being this Disney/marvel/starwars thing
Yeah, I didn't realise that Disney owns 20th century Fox so they brought all of their resources to bare
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No Time To Die.
Not for me. It's clear that the Bond which was a huge success, the womanising, masculine, confident character, is no longer allowed. I have no time for Bond to go woke. It's not a bad movie, and there is a lot of Bond related stuff in it, but it's just so obvious that they have toned down so much of what made Bond, Bond. So many needless things in it which I don't want to give away, in order to make it appeal to wokies.
Anybody who is expecting a straight white man to play the next Bond is completely dreaming.
2 don't out of 5 cares.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Anybody who is expecting a straight white man to play the next Bond is completely dreaming.
Really couldn't give a stuff about the skin colour of the next Bond as long as it's, well, James Bond.
Personally, I think Idris Elba would be bloody great. Has the charisma, hardness, coolness and is just so quintessentially British to be a great fit for the part.
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@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
Or Tom Cruise to play 6’5” Jack Reacher
But yeah changing the very ethos of something purely for the sake of tokenism is pretty shite.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Where does it end.
I can see where you are coming from, but Bond in the movies has changed and morphed into the modern world without losing his character. And Judi Dench was a great M and the new Moneypenny character is also great. So as long as the character of Bond remains the same, I don't have a problem.
But as @Catogrande says, a woke or gay bond would be as out of place as Quentin Crisp being played by Chuck Connors.
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Taking the boys to Bond on Satdee. Can’t wait. People overseas who I know say it’s fucken awesome so that’ll do me.
I just hope @MajorRage is exaggerating his criticisms.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
i tend to fall down more on the "woke" side of a lot of these things....there are loads of awesome female action characters out there and to co-op an existing male one instead of writing a unique female one actually does them a disservice, thats why i dont actually mind what theyre doing with moneypenny, developed her character more with 15 minutes of screen time in each of the last few films that in the 60 before hand
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Daniel Craig bond movies have unwatchable boredom-fests except for the first one. The Pierce Brosnan ones were garbage too.
Time to kill it.
im a huge fan, all the movies on DVD, the original books in a cool set they release in the 2000's....but you're kind of right, there are better action movies (both realistic and fantastical), its why i liked the first Kingman film, old school madness and im quite looking forward to the next one, second went of the already weird rails
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@tim i think if theyre going to keep it going they need to do something different, i think people expect if there are a series of movies that they connect and i know daniel craigs ones "do"....but theyre still stand alone films to a large extent
i was thinking they could start doing trilogies with proper cliff hangers to build some suspense, you could then look to change the actor easier as "their" story will "end"
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@kiwiwomble Biggest problem for me is that Craig is a dull, charmless, Jason Bourne knock-off. Needs to return to what made the character interesting in the first place.
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble Biggest problem for me is that Craig is a dull, charmless, Jason Bourne knock-off. Needs to return to what made the character interesting in the first place.
Isn't that the problem though? Womanising hard drinking super spies don't resonate with the general population anymore apparently...
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@canefan the woke ness isn;t "new"...just more vocal...at least previous bonds were charming womanisers, you could see why he got so much tail....craig is overly aggressive, mainulative and a bit smarmy
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan the woke ness isn;t "new"...just more vocal...at least previous bonds were charming womanisers, you could see why he got so much tail....craig is overly aggressive, mainulative and a bit smarmy
Definitely more in the brooding moody Timothy Dalton style
