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New/Rented Movies: Bring Back Laserdiscs!

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Read today that the new Bond film is back on again after being put on hold indefinitely because of MGM financial problems. Scheduled release for November 2012, and Craig will reprise his role.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Read today that the new Bond film is back on again after being put on hold indefinitely because of MGM financial problems. Scheduled release for November 2012, and Craig will reprise his role.
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This is great news. There were rumors he was going to move on. He's perfect.

Linky?
 
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Count me in the Zoolander sucks crowd.

Saw True Grit last night. I liked it. Wasnt quite what I was hoping for but I think I let my expections get to high by putting off seeing it. However, that said Hailee Steinfeld was excellent and deserves some recongnition at least in the form of award noms if not wins.

Good news on Bong though. Hopefully it will be better than Quantum of Solace....
 
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And Pierce Brosnan has 3-4 really dumb ones.
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Which weren't really his fault. GoldenEye holds up really well as one of the best Bond films. Tomorrow Never Dies had an awful villain (media mogul? really?) - The World is Not Enough was decent outside of Denise Richards. Die Another Day was just too over the top.
 
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Octopussy is my favorite one that doesn't have Connery in it.
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Saw Octopussy on Spanish TV a few nights ago. I don't think it loses anything in the translation, but it's not in the all-time stupid league:

License to Kill (Dalton)
Living Daylights (Dalton)
Thunderball / Never Say Never Again (Connery)
Die Another Day (Brosnan)
Moonraker (Moore)
Quantum of Solace (Craig)
 
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Daltons movies are better than 3 of the 4 Brosnan movies, not because of Brosnan, but because the movies themselves were just trash.
 
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Handyman said:
Daltons movies are better than 3 of the 4 Brosnan movies, not because of Brosnan, but because the movies themselves were just trash.
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You're saying Dalton's movies weren't trash?! Those were the worst premises* and scripts of all the Bond movies. Dalton was also a terrible choice for a Bond (good actor miscast), and he had the misfortune of being stuck with the period's ethos of "sensitive Bond" and "not nailing everything in a skirt Bond."

(* except Moonraker, which is a whole other universe of dumb)
 
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I don't think it's in the league of stupid ones, but if for nothing other than nostalgia, I still think my favorite Bond movie is A View to a Kill. Moore, Walken, etc. It's the first Bond movie I remember seeing as a kid and I feel like I've seen it dozens of times.
 
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Maineiak said:
I don't think it's in the league of stupid ones, but if for nothing other than nostalgia, I still think my favorite Bond movie is A View to a Kill. Moore, Walken, etc. It's the first Bond movie I remember seeing as a kid and I feel like I've seen it dozens of times.
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I like A View to a Kill also. I don't like that the Bond chick in that movie is a freaky bodybuilder chick with a buzz-cut.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I like A View to a Kill also. I don't like that the Bond chick in that movie is a freaky bodybuilder chick with a buzz-cut.
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The geologist is the Bond girl. Grace Jones is a henchman.

Walken is a great villain. Even though Tomorrow Never Dies is pretty lame, I think Jonathan Pryce was also a great Bond villain. Sometimes it works out that way. Michael Lonsdale was a great villain even though Moonraker blows. Joseph Wiseman is completely forgettable but Doctor No is a classic.

I'd love to see Michael Sheen be a Bond villain, but he's such a great actor he'd probably even be a hot Bond girl. ;)

It will be interesting to see the next storyline. From time to time they try to be topical -- sometimes it works (Cold War, silicon valley) sometimes it doesn't (drug lords, water crisis). After the financial meltdown, the obvious heavy is The First Bank of Evil. I'd also like to see them bring SPECTRE and Blofeld back someday, but IINM that's all screwed up by lawsuits on the name.
 
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Kepler said:
You're saying Dalton's movies weren't trash?! Those were the worst premises* and scripts of all the Bond movies. Dalton was also a terrible choice for a Bond (good actor miscast), and he had the misfortune of being stuck with the period's ethos of "sensitive Bond" and "not nailing everything in a skirt Bond."

(* except Moonraker, which is a whole other universe of dumb)
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No they were, just less stinky trash probably because honestly speaking Brosnan was way better and the movies were still horrid. It is like the movie The Score...it has 3 fantastic actors (Deniro, Brando and Norton) but despite that the movie was so average that it felt ten times worse. Dalton, while a good actor should have never been Bond so average movies dont feel as bad.

Any serious movie that puts Denise Richards in a starring role is lucky to even be called trash.
 
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Handyman said:
It is like the movie The Score...it has 3 fantastic actors (Deniro, Brando and Norton) but despite that the movie was so average that it felt ten times worse.
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I think you just identified why I hated Dark Knight. Great cast, the finest director working today, but such a weak movie that even they couldn't save it. I recently watched it again (dang kids' movie choice night) and found myself liking parts of it, because I came in the second time with zero expectations. I'd call that the Freejack Effect -- when you have such low expectations for something that the actuality of it can only be an improvement. It also explains why Will Ferrell is funny one movie out of every 15.

Not The Departed, though. That was trash even by the standards of a student director and a high school show choir.
 
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Not The Departed, though. That was trash even by the standards of a student director and a high school show choir.
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I guess Martin Scorcese should thank his lucky stars then that the voting members of the Academy or all those critics associations aren't made up of student directors or high school show choirs! :)

I watched The Company Men this afternoon. It was OK. Timely. Somehow I missed the fact that this movie was filmed here. In one scene in Ben Affleck's house there was a shot of a framed BU hockey jersey, and in another scene his wife was wearing a BU tshirt. I thought the movie went up a few points because of that. :) Then Kevin Costner had to try and do a Boston accent again and almost ruined the movie.
 
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Kepler said:
I think you just identified why I hated Dark Knight. Great cast, the finest director working today, but such a weak movie that even they couldn't save it. I recently watched it again (dang kids' movie choice night) and found myself liking parts of it, because I came in the second time with zero expectations. I'd call that the Freejack Effect -- when you have such low expectations for something that the actuality of it can only be an improvement. It also explains why Will Ferrell is funny one movie out of every 15.

Not The Departed, though. That was trash even by the standards of a student director and a high school show choir.
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Except the Dark Knight was awesome...and so was Freejack (awesomely bad) now that you mention it. (we wont even discuss the Departed) The fact that you have no taste in movies is well documented do you really want to keep digging the hole further :D
 
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