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Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
Poor darts. Trying too hard to be a Dark Knight reboot.
Asininedrivel
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Fark. Just fired up Skyfall (3rd time I've seen it) last night in preparation for seeing Spectre on the weekend.
Skyfall might actually have just usurped Casino Royale as my favourite Craig Bond (and therefore favourite Bond) movie....
Skyfall might actually have just usurped Casino Royale as my favourite Craig Bond (and therefore favourite Bond) movie....
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
The Daniel Bond movies have missed the point of the franchise. They're just not Bond movies without the womanising, one-liners, and OTT villains. If I want a hyper realistic, brooding, dark spy movie, I'll watch the Bourne movies for the eleventy hundredth time.
The James Brosnan 007 did a much better job of walking the tightrope between campish playboy and brooding killer. Can't help but feel they've given Craig far too much input into character development. FFS, you're an actor, and a third tier one at best, stick to taking direction, and leave the writing to the writers.
redline316
Likes Dirt
Jurrasic world.
Deathgasm, not quite on par with the last kiwi film I watched; What we do in the shadows, but pretty good nonetheless!
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Everything you've just said is wrong*. Here's why: Daniel Bond is much closer to the original books' depiction. James Bond isn't (or wasn't) a schmoozing, cavalier, one-line machinegun of cringeability, he was a completely fucked up alcoholic borderline-sociopath with only a wafer thin veneer of charisma keeping him away from a nice padded cell. I really like the way they've developed his character in this series too. Plus he's actually a good actor too. Watch his (utterly hateable) character struggle with his dad's disappointment in Road to Perdition, really good. Plus he's good in another movie I can't remember the name of. I rest my case.
No actually I don't. One last thing: can you really keep a straight face and say Brosnan was your favourite? Really? Go and watch Die Another Day or The World is Not Enough without succumbing to hurling something large and unyielding at your television. Go on, try it.
*don't you just love the internet?
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
Didn't say Pierce was my favorite, Lazenby is, by a fucking mile. You just knew that handsome mother fucker was method acting. I merely pointed out, the characterisation of bond in that iteration of the franchise was more in keeping with the spirit of the movies preceeding them.
Hell David Niven in the original CR poops all over XXXX. Speaking of which, the original CR was pretty much a comedy and the template for the rest of the franchise. The Bond movies should never be compared to the books, in fact any one who makes comparisons between a movie franchise (as apposed to a film adaptation) is in for a bad time.
Bond movies are meant to be a rollicking good time, with equal measures of unbelievability, misogyny and corny humour. Austin Powers was closer to the spirit of movie Bond than the last 3 yawn fests.
Was layer cake the movie you were thinking of? Good movie, but hard to take anything away from a movie where you spend the last the quarters of it rooting for the protagonist to cop it in the neck. Or maybe Cowboys and Aliens? which admittedly, is his best work, as his wooden dour faced acting matched the similarly grey script and barely there direction.
Hell David Niven in the original CR poops all over XXXX. Speaking of which, the original CR was pretty much a comedy and the template for the rest of the franchise. The Bond movies should never be compared to the books, in fact any one who makes comparisons between a movie franchise (as apposed to a film adaptation) is in for a bad time.
Bond movies are meant to be a rollicking good time, with equal measures of unbelievability, misogyny and corny humour. Austin Powers was closer to the spirit of movie Bond than the last 3 yawn fests.
Was layer cake the movie you were thinking of? Good movie, but hard to take anything away from a movie where you spend the last the quarters of it rooting for the protagonist to cop it in the neck. Or maybe Cowboys and Aliens? which admittedly, is his best work, as his wooden dour faced acting matched the similarly grey script and barely there direction.
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Pretty sure we can get a thread derailment happening with this topic if we try hard enough....
I get your point, but am still going to argue it anyway. I think the unbelievability/corny humour wagon was pushed off a very tall cliff with the last two Brosnan movies (hence why I singled them out). They were just fucking stupid. I even saw them in the cinema as a stupid teenager and even as a stupid teenager thought they were fucking stupid. It just went way OTT and I'm not sure how you can come back from that or dilute the stupidity. So why not go in a different direction?
I did see in an interview with someone Bond related (may have been Broccoli, may have been a director, may have been an empty chair) who said that the Bourne franchise was why they went for the gritty, "believable" action in Craig Bonds, as the Bourne series showed that audiences liked spy movies that weren't filled with invisible cars and exploding silicone.
I get your point, but am still going to argue it anyway. I think the unbelievability/corny humour wagon was pushed off a very tall cliff with the last two Brosnan movies (hence why I singled them out). They were just fucking stupid. I even saw them in the cinema as a stupid teenager and even as a stupid teenager thought they were fucking stupid. It just went way OTT and I'm not sure how you can come back from that or dilute the stupidity. So why not go in a different direction?
I did see in an interview with someone Bond related (may have been Broccoli, may have been a director, may have been an empty chair) who said that the Bourne franchise was why they went for the gritty, "believable" action in Craig Bonds, as the Bourne series showed that audiences liked spy movies that weren't filled with invisible cars and exploding silicone.
pink poodle
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Bring back the Roger Moore style Bond. Everything since has failed to ooooooooooze sleaze enough.
Hellyeah
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Howl's-is-a-classic,-just-like-Totoro-and-Spirited-Away.........and-every-other-Studio-Ghibli-film
stirk
Burner
Second that, the kid in me will never die.
On manga topic, ghost in the shell, fist of the north star and ninja scroll are making my other (old) favorites. Not seen many recent manga, any good recommendation?