#4550799 - 01/05/21 04:00 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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New James Bond will suck. I watch the Impossible films because I like the films and not for that crazy wanker. I don't care for Dune. Then the comics movies, no one cares no more! They put out so many so quickly people are burned out. What evidence do you have the new James Bond will suck then?
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#4550803 - 01/05/21 04:35 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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New James Bond will suck. I watch the Impossible films because I like the films and not for that crazy wanker. I don't care for Dune. Then the comics movies, no one cares no more! They put out so many so quickly people are burned out. What evidence do you have the new James Bond will suck then? It's a modern movie, the odds are not in it's favor. With few exceptions they just seem to get worse and worse. Or maybe I've finally gotten old and cranky. Or all of the above.
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#4550807 - 01/05/21 05:00 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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Or maybe I've finally gotten old and cranky. Or all of the above.
There is absolutely no doubt that age is a big factor when it comes to how movies are perceived. The best example that comes to my mind is the Star Wars franchise. I saw the original trilogy as a kid and I absolutely fell in love with those movies. I even got those strong visceral feelings of excitement and anticipation. The prequel trilogy movies were largely derided by the adults but the kids absolutely loved them. At that point I realized that what a person sees as a "good" movie or a "crappy" movie is largely based on their age.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4550809 - 01/05/21 05:06 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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. What evidence do you have the new James Bond will suck then? He has none. He's treating his personal opinion as if it's some sort of mathematical axiom.
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#4550852 - 01/05/21 07:45 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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New James Bond will suck. I watch the Impossible films because I like the films and not for that crazy wanker. I don't care for Dune. Then the comics movies, no one cares no more! They put out so many so quickly people are burned out. What evidence do you have the new James Bond will suck then? It's a modern movie, the odds are not in it's favor. With few exceptions they just seem to get worse and worse. Or maybe I've finally gotten old and cranky. Or all of the above. The Daniel Craig Casino Royale? Skyfall? Worse than some of the older ones?
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#4550860 - 01/05/21 08:23 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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For me it's Roger Moore first then Craig, some of that is the fact that most of the bonds I saw as a kid were Moore I think. Plus I used to love hearing what an absolute gent he was.
This story for an example :
"As a seven-year-old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"
As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.
I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.
Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.
Beautiful.
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#4550872 - 01/05/21 09:53 PM
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#4550893 - 01/05/21 11:30 PM
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New James Bond will suck. I watch the Impossible films because I like the films and not for that crazy wanker. I don't care for Dune. Then the comics movies, no one cares no more! They put out so many so quickly people are burned out. What evidence do you have the new James Bond will suck then? It's a modern movie, the odds are not in it's favor. With few exceptions they just seem to get worse and worse. Or maybe I've finally gotten old and cranky. Or all of the above. The Daniel Craig Casino Royale? Skyfall? Worse than some of the older ones? Mostly just movies in general. The Bond series may not be the best example of this as I remember the Pierce Brosnan ones being ok and Casino Royale was excellent. I actually liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service. George Lazenby might not have made a good Jame Bond, but forget that he's supposed to be Bond and take it as it's own spy movie, it was good. Maybe that makes me a terrible critic of the Bond series though.
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#4551442 - 01/08/21 11:02 PM
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#4551678 - 01/10/21 08:25 PM
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#4551763 - 01/11/21 11:45 AM
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This one I want to see. Leonov really struggled with getting in after his spacewalk, because his suit became very rigid when pressurized. Looks like a good movie.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4552024 - 01/12/21 07:27 PM
Re: The movies coming soon thread.
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Never saw Silence of the lambs. I was a baby. Well watch it now. It's a classic.
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