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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
I thought Owen was good in Shoot 'Em Up.Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Timothy Dalton was similarly lacking in humour
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Croupier for the nth time.
9/10
Masterpiece.
Please bring back quality UK crime thrillers.
And cast Clive Owen as an aging James Bond.
I really need to seek out this movie to see if the plank is actually good in it.
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
Watch itâŚ..Daniel Craig made some good quips occasionally
I like Craig as Bond, it's just a pity that more of the movies around him were bad than were good.
I'm lobbing Bond and Owen grenades all over the place today. Great fun.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
I thought Owen was good in Shoot 'Em Up.Lazenby actually showed more acting chops than Connery or Moore, the scenes where Tracy died were actually quite moving. Sean Connery was cool as fuck but the fact he won an Oscar for playing an Irish Cop with a Scottish accent was a bit of a joke.
Plus Lazenby was an absolute gun in the fighting scenes.
Iâd also argue when the bad guy skied into the snow plow and the snow turned red and he said âHe had a lot of gutsâ was one of the funniest Bond one liners ever.
On her Majestyâs secret service was a terrific Bond, one of the best ever, I wish heâd done more but we got left with Moore instead ( I just used that as an excuse for a shit joke, Rog was cool too )
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Midway (1976)
- PC gone mad! What the fuck was the point of that ridiculous side-plot: Heston's son having gotten addicted to rooting the sideways jap puss-puss? Madness.
- Offended. Zero appreciation of the black-american contribution to the 1942 US Navy. Just... racist.
- Tit-watch: zero. I mean... ? Make an effort. It was one of the most important historic events in some (very limited fucking nerds) peoples list of historic events. Throw in some titties, yeah?
Pretty sure there was some shit there at the end that I got offended by, but can't remember if it was my left or right side which got tingled.
Fuck it... for use of actual historic footage, I'm going to give this a 4 Zero-hitting-the-sea..s out of 5-yankee-mother-fucker-hitting-the-sea..s.
Some historic footage of sweet sweet titties would have been appreciated but. -
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Sean Connery
was cool as fuck butthe fact he won an Oscarfor playing an Irish Cop with a Scottish accentwasa bit ofa joke.But then again, so did Shakespeare in Love...
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Plus Lazenby was an absolute gun in the fighting scenes.
Wasn't he former Aus special forces or something?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
Yeah the people who have a go
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
Yeah the people who have a go at Lazenby seem to assume Connery and Moore were these amazing thespians. They werenât and the role didnât exactly require that, more a presence in a suit with charisma which they all provided.
Thereâs so many different stories as to why Lazenby didnât continue. Another one is that they offered him a multi picture deal which he turned down because people said the character wouldnât be relevant in the 70s.
Dalton was good too, shit I liked all of them, even Pierce Brosnan was ok at times.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Plus Lazenby was an absolute gun in the fighting scenes.
Wasn't he former Aus special forces or something?
Yeah a combat instructor apparently. He threw fists on screen more convincingly than any of them ( well Craig comes close but much of that is down to modern editing )
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
Maybe Dalton was before his time. The portayal of Connery and Moore was quite different. He reminds me of Bond in the Daniel Craig mold
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Midway (1976)
- PC gone mad! What the fuck was the point of that ridiculous side-plot: Heston's son having gotten addicted to rooting the sideways jap puss-puss? Madness.
- Offended. Zero appreciation of the black-american contribution to the 1942 US Navy. Just... racist.
- Tit-watch: zero. I mean... ? Make an effort. It was one of the most important historic events in some (very limited fucking nerds) peoples list of historic events. Throw in some titties, yeah?
Pretty sure there was some shit there at the end that I got offended by, but can't remember if it was my left or right side which got tingled.
Fuck it... for use of actual historic footage, I'm going to give this a 4 Zero-hitting-the-sea..s out of 5-yankee-mother-fucker-hitting-the-sea..s.
Some historic footage of sweet sweet titties would have been appreciated but.it's really good, and the reason i was so nervous to watch the latest version (well, that and Pearl Harbour).
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@Nepia ive seen them all (have the box set)...and you might be right, enough mad "bond" stuff (laser watch) and fem fatale names (Xenia Onatopp)....but not too much (invisible car)
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia ive seen them all (have the box set)...and you might be right, enough mad "bond" stuff (laser watch)....but not too much (invisible car)
Itâs Pierce Brosnans best Bond yesâŚâŚ
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@MN5 weird when you think about it, he has one of the best and also some of the worst
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 weird when you think about it, he has one of the best and also some of the worst
Goldeneye wouldnât be one of the best in my opinion.
Brosnan did ok but probably my least favourite Bond overall.
But then others did brilliant ones and shit ones too. Apart from Lazenby, his only one was outstanding
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
From memory, his wife fucked up the negotiations for the second film demanding too much. A shame, as he was a good Bond and that was a cracking film.
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
It was unfairly pilloried. Had arguably the best Bond song, great score, the scene where the evil skier gets sucked into the snow-plough was uber-cool, had Diana Rigg and had a great, if unconventional, ending. Sadly it had George Lazenby who, while not being a great actor, wasn't too bad. He could have become a great Bond but behaved like a complete knobhead by all accounts and pissed off everyone with his attitude.
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things
I loved Dalton. He was close to the books, did his own stunts and played it straight after it had become a bit of a parody after Rog. One more Bond and he would have absolutely nailed the interpretation of Bond.
From memory, his wife fucked up the negotiations for the second film demanding too much. A shame, as he was a good Bond and that was a cracking film.
Always ranked in my top five Bonds.
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the more i think about it...craig is one of my least fav...casino royal was good but i always struggled with we're supposed to see the start of his "00" career...and then he is some super spy that plays by his own rules...he was also like 40 when he gets if licence to kill...did he just have a 20 year military career before that?
I do hope we see them take a similar approach going forward with each new bond, sign up for 3-4 movies and tell little trilogies, so clusters of movies that stand alone
