Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
(crossthreading for awesome realization)
This holiday season is going to be freakin' phenomenal.
- Gangster Squad
- Cogan's Trade
- Looper
- Argo
- Anna Karenina
- This is 40
- (unnamed Osama bin Laden movie by Hurt Locker team)
- Lawless
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Great Gatsby
- Skyfall
- The Hobbit
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
I'd have to overcome my dislike of Keira Knightley to watch Anna Karenina. I find her grating in the films where I'm supposed to fall for her - although when she's *supposed* to grate, she's quite good. There's probably some talent there, but too many directors let her get away with her "I'm a strong woman, I'm gonna outchin you!" stroppiness.
What's the general opinion on Gatsby? I liked Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet and, once I got over the initial headache, Moulin Rouge (still love its take on "Roxanne"!), but found Australia tiresome. The Gatsby trailer looks interesting, mind you.
Thirith on
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Saw The Departed last night. Good film, although I've forgotten most of the commentary I thought of. My only real complaints are that the rat at the end was hilariously transparent and it was way too fucking hot.
This holiday season is going to be freakin' phenomenal.
- Gangster Squad
- Cogan's Trade
- Looper
- Argo
- Anna Karenina
- This is 40
- (unnamed Osama bin Laden movie by Hurt Locker team)
- Lawless
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Great Gatsby
- Skyfall
- The Hobbit
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
. . . and maaaaaybe a new Coen brothers film.
But The Dark Knight Rises comes out on July 20th.
Nothing matters after July 20th. And then the world ends in December.
This holiday season is going to be freakin' phenomenal.
- Gangster Squad
- Cogan's Trade
- Looper
- Argo
- Anna Karenina
- This is 40
- (unnamed Osama bin Laden movie by Hurt Locker team)
- Lawless
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Great Gatsby
- Skyfall
- The Hobbit
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
. . . and maaaaaybe a new Coen brothers film.
and you know, The Master.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I'd have to overcome my dislike of Keira Knightley to watch Anna Karenina. I find her grating in the films where I'm supposed to fall for her - although when she's *supposed* to grate, she's quite good. There's probably some talent there, but too many directors let her get away with her "I'm a strong woman, I'm gonna outchin you!" stroppiness.
Hmm. I've never really heard that criticism before. It's true that she can't realistically play blue-collar type characters, she's too aristocratic and pretty, much like Natalie Portman. But when she fills her niche, like in Pride & Prejudice or Atonement? Get out of here. She's fantastic.
What's the general opinion on Gatsby? I liked Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet and, once I got over the initial headache, Moulin Rouge (still love its take on "Roxanne"!), but found Australia tiresome. The Gatsby trailer looks interesting, mind you.
Looking forward to it. Like yourself, I didn't care much for Australia, but Moulin Rouge was spectacular, and Gatsby seems to share more of the latter's DNA than the former's.
Nope. Too often I find her rather one-note and fairly uninteresting. It's not a fair comparison, obviously, but I find Jennifer Ehle's Lizzie Bennet (from the BBC miniseries) much more nuanced and enjoyable to watch, and I don't think that's just because there's hours more of screen time. Knightley's Elizabeth was fine, but it wasn't great IMO. I'm also not a big fan of Atonement; it's a well enough crafted film, but for me it works infinitely better as a novel, and Knightley didn't improve things for me. I did like her in Never Let Me Go, though, quite a bit.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
The Life Aquatic for me is pretty much required if you're at all a fan of something like The Venture Brothers.
I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox because it managed to feel like something you could slot between Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the rest of Anderson's work on your DVD shelf.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was a weird movie, and probably was a particularly hard one to advertise for because it can't decide what it's trying to be. It's too dry to be accessible to children but too "cartoony" for your regular adult movie-goer. It's more or less aimed strictly at Anderson fans and not much else.
That doesn't make it a bad movie per se, but when you're watching it with your folks and halfway through they complain about how much "swearing" there is (they only cuss (literally), but you can replace every one of those cusses with the f-bomb and it would fit perfectly) it sort of kills how you view the thing.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
Yeah if anything its only problem was it was too Casino Royale before there was a Casino Royale, it was a darker movie compared to the Connery bonds.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
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So if it's playing around you, I strongly suggest Headhunters. Very pleasing Norwegian heist-action-thriller. Incredibly tense, and actually gives the protagonist a character arc of meaning by the end of it. If this were an American movie it would star Jason Statham and have precisely nothing to say - not to mean it couldn't be good, but it's certainly nice to be reminded that you don't have to sacrifice everything else in a film like this.
I went into it with some friends-of-friends complaining for the first ten minutes about subtitles, and trying their damnedest to make fun of everything. They shut the fuck up about a third of the way through and were more riveted than anyone else there, if that speaks to how well done it is.
Just got back from Moonrise Kingdom. Everybody I was with absolutely loved it, although I was just very entertained by it. But there was one thing I couldn't figure out. There seems to be a lot of implicit 4th wall-breaking going on in this movie, and I'm not sure what it's aiming at.
The knitted pictures turning into "real places" at the start of the film, for example. Suzy keeps looking directly at the audience during the opening credits, and once right before the end credits. There's the "documentary filmer"-type talking about the storm from what seems to be a semi-omniscient perspective, only to show up as part of the story in the middle of the film. And there is no distinction made between the moments where he is part of the narrative, and when he's outside of it.
Any ideas as to what those moments are going for?
As the movie wrapped up I felt that there was some heavy criticism of the superficiality and juvenile core of many of our current films' so-called "love stories". The relationship between Sam and Suzy was no less heart-felt and deep than what we seem to be willing to accept from our more "mature" entertainment, when it comes to romantic relationships. And that was a story of two teens running away together for a few nights. The absurdity of their relationship was very apparent (even if we do read it as heartfelt, honest and true). It made me wonder why many love stories in films don't really aim any higher than that.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
Its a better plan than "I'm going to steal all the water of a south american country and uhhh FUCK YOU!"
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
Yeah, I don't get the love for OHMSS either, though I strongly suspect it comes from the sudden dark turn the film takes at the very end.
Overall, I feel that it's actually a pretty shit film. Lazenby plays Bond like someone waking from a Benadryl-assisted nap, the film is entirely too long, the plot is utterly stupid, and Bond's romance with Diana Rigg seems entirely tacked on and inorganic. As well, the sudden and random grimdarkery at the end is totally appropo of nothing, depriving it of any real impact. Comparing Tracy's sudden and unforeseen assassination to Vesper Lynd's sacrifice and murder is like comparing apples to asbestos.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
Yeah, I don't get the love for OHMSS either, though I strongly suspect it comes from the sudden dark turn the film takes at the very end.
Overall, I feel that it's actually a pretty shit film. Lazenby plays Bond like someone waking from a Benadryl-assisted nap, the film is entirely too long, the plot is utterly stupid, and Bond's romance with Diana Rigg seems entirely tacked on and inorganic. As well, the sudden and random grimdarkery at the end is totally appropo of nothing, depriving it of any real impact. Comparing Tracy's sudden and unforeseen assassination to Vesper Lynd's sacrifice and murder is like comparing apples to asbestos.
Also, Telly Savalas as Blofeld was just awful. Savalas can't leave the New York-patoised thug behind to come off as an educated Moriarty to Bond's Sherlock, which Donald Pleasance did very easily, even if You Only Live Twice is also stupid in its plotting. The only thing that carries that film off is Connery's waning charm and the strength of Pleasance's villainhood.
Ah, Diamonds Are Forever, the Never Say Never Again of continuity Bond films. Dumb as hell, especially after following the equally dumb On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
Its a better plan than "I'm going to steal all the water of a south american country and uhhh FUCK YOU!"
No it's not.
Controlling all the water rights of an entire country is a pretty good plan to gain major political influence and to do so in a way that isn't blatantly obvious or stupidly super-villainish.
What? How is it not blatantly obvious or stupidly supervillainish? Besides congrats you rule a country in South America a land full of deadly bugs and Jeremy Wade.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
What? How is it not blatantly obvious or stupidly supervillainish? Besides congrats you rule a country in South America a land full of deadly bugs and Jeremy Wade.
How is it supervillainish? This is like a tuesday for the Chiquita Banana corporation. A nice, humane tuesday.
And it's not blatantly obvious for about the same reasons.
It's a grounded, realistic and, frankly, not even far-fetched way to acquire political power.
As to why you'd want to do it? For the same reason anyone has ever done this sort of shit and because power and the things that come because of it seems to be pretty much the point of Quantum.
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Yeah, Quantum of Solace had probably the most realistic super-villain scheme of all the Bond films.
"We're going to depress land values and push an entire country into poverty, and then make billions selling their own stuff back to them."
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
With Bullets.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
With Bullets.
Drinking bullets?
Works in Russia!
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
With Bullets.
Drinking bullets?
Works in Russia!
In Soviet Russia, lead eats you!
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Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
With Bullets.
Drinking bullets?
If you're sweating bullets then they must have gotten there somehow.
Water is needed by everyone, and it would be blantantly obvious when you all pay one group for you water and they are horse fucking you on the price.
I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
Money becomes power through various means.
Like, you know, the one the movie shows. That's the way corporations turn money into political power in the third world.
Or you could just you know buy the military/politicians. Having the water just highlights human rights abuses and gets the UN up in your shit, while owning the government monetarily means you get to pass legislation and have media figures hail it as revolutionary. See the US and the oil industry...
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
The Life Aquatic for me is pretty much required if you're at all a fan of something like The Venture Brothers.
I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox because it managed to feel like something you could slot between Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the rest of Anderson's work on your DVD shelf.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was a weird movie, and probably was a particularly hard one to advertise for because it can't decide what it's trying to be. It's too dry to be accessible to children but too "cartoony" for your regular adult movie-goer. It's more or less aimed strictly at Anderson fans and not much else.
That doesn't make it a bad movie per se, but when you're watching it with your folks and halfway through they complain about how much "swearing" there is (they only cuss (literally), but you can replace every one of those cusses with the f-bomb and it would fit perfectly) it sort of kills how you view the thing.
I know people who can't stand Anderson's movies but love Fantastic Mr. Fox. None of them are kids, though.
Or you could just you know buy the military/politicians. Having the water just highlights human rights abuses and gets the UN up in your shit, while owning the government monetarily means you get to pass legislation and have media figures hail it as revolutionary. See the US and the oil industry...
I guess that's why this whole water rights thing has never played out in real life, albeit on a smaller scale.
The problem with Quantum's plot was that the writer thought he was being way more clever than he actually was. Before the plot is revealed everyone who knows about it in the movie, talks about it in language that makes the audience think they are talking about oil. Then it gets revealed that oh, it was water the whole time... well that makes sense... except that's kind of lame. They failed the expectation game as oil is perceived to be more valuable than water, and in some ways it is. America or really any first world nation doesn't have a water problem, and oil is a global resource while water is more a local one. Bad guys controlling oil (thank god that can never happen) concerns me way more than bad guys controlling the water source of a country I can't find on a map.
Casino's plot may have been very small time, but it works far better as it never pretended to have more going on than there was. QoS makes it seem there is a lot at stake, and maybe for Bolivia there is, but I, and the rest of the audience, couldn't care less. The poker game was more interesting.
Edit: Also get that shaky cam the fuck out of my Bond movie.
So if it's playing around you, I strongly suggest Headhunters. Very pleasing Norwegian heist-action-thriller. Incredibly tense, and actually gives the protagonist a character arc of meaning by the end of it. If this were an American movie it would star Jason Statham and have precisely nothing to say - not to mean it couldn't be good, but it's certainly nice to be reminded that you don't have to sacrifice everything else in a film like this.
I went into it with some friends-of-friends complaining for the first ten minutes about subtitles, and trying their damnedest to make fun of everything. They shut the fuck up about a third of the way through and were more riveted than anyone else there, if that speaks to how well done it is.
yeess! headhunters is fantastic, i saw it last month or so and i've been demanding everyone i know to go see it.
So I just watched The Birds just now. Really good plot, even with the useless romance taking up 60% of it. It probably could have benefited from the original scripted ending, although it's pretty obvious that they didn't have the effects to pull it off, which was true of most of the film and the main drawback (and disbelief breaker). This is one film that could benefit from a line-by-line remake/invasive remastering. Put in some more convincing attack effects instead of moving around little cutout images and add some more serious injuries, and you've got a fantastic/perfect film.
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This holiday season is going to be freakin' phenomenal.
- Gangster Squad
- Cogan's Trade
- Looper
- Argo
- Anna Karenina
- This is 40
- (unnamed Osama bin Laden movie by Hurt Locker team)
- Lawless
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Great Gatsby
- Skyfall
- The Hobbit
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
. . . and maaaaaybe a new Coen brothers film.
What's the general opinion on Gatsby? I liked Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet and, once I got over the initial headache, Moulin Rouge (still love its take on "Roxanne"!), but found Australia tiresome. The Gatsby trailer looks interesting, mind you.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
But The Dark Knight Rises comes out on July 20th.
Nothing matters after July 20th. And then the world ends in December.
and you know, The Master.
Yes. Goddamn. I literally cannot wait. I'm looking for flux capacitors on eBay.
Hmm. I've never really heard that criticism before. It's true that she can't realistically play blue-collar type characters, she's too aristocratic and pretty, much like Natalie Portman. But when she fills her niche, like in Pride & Prejudice or Atonement? Get out of here. She's fantastic.
Looking forward to it. Like yourself, I didn't care much for Australia, but Moulin Rouge was spectacular, and Gatsby seems to share more of the latter's DNA than the former's.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Huh? On Her Majesty's Secret Service is generally regraded as being one of the better Bonds even by people who can't stand Lazenby.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was a weird movie, and probably was a particularly hard one to advertise for because it can't decide what it's trying to be. It's too dry to be accessible to children but too "cartoony" for your regular adult movie-goer. It's more or less aimed strictly at Anderson fans and not much else.
That doesn't make it a bad movie per se, but when you're watching it with your folks and halfway through they complain about how much "swearing" there is (they only cuss (literally), but you can replace every one of those cusses with the f-bomb and it would fit perfectly) it sort of kills how you view the thing.
Yeah if anything its only problem was it was too Casino Royale before there was a Casino Royale, it was a darker movie compared to the Connery bonds.
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I actually liked Lazenby. But the whole plan of Blofeld, that of using international, iconically styled girls to destroy the world's crops with their evil makeup kits is seriously asinine. It's literally the plot you'd develop for a third Our Man Flint movie.
I went into it with some friends-of-friends complaining for the first ten minutes about subtitles, and trying their damnedest to make fun of everything. They shut the fuck up about a third of the way through and were more riveted than anyone else there, if that speaks to how well done it is.
The knitted pictures turning into "real places" at the start of the film, for example. Suzy keeps looking directly at the audience during the opening credits, and once right before the end credits. There's the "documentary filmer"-type talking about the storm from what seems to be a semi-omniscient perspective, only to show up as part of the story in the middle of the film. And there is no distinction made between the moments where he is part of the narrative, and when he's outside of it.
Any ideas as to what those moments are going for?
As the movie wrapped up I felt that there was some heavy criticism of the superficiality and juvenile core of many of our current films' so-called "love stories". The relationship between Sam and Suzy was no less heart-felt and deep than what we seem to be willing to accept from our more "mature" entertainment, when it comes to romantic relationships. And that was a story of two teens running away together for a few nights. The absurdity of their relationship was very apparent (even if we do read it as heartfelt, honest and true). It made me wonder why many love stories in films don't really aim any higher than that.
Its a better plan than "I'm going to steal all the water of a south american country and uhhh FUCK YOU!"
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Yeah, I don't get the love for OHMSS either, though I strongly suspect it comes from the sudden dark turn the film takes at the very end.
Overall, I feel that it's actually a pretty shit film. Lazenby plays Bond like someone waking from a Benadryl-assisted nap, the film is entirely too long, the plot is utterly stupid, and Bond's romance with Diana Rigg seems entirely tacked on and inorganic. As well, the sudden and random grimdarkery at the end is totally appropo of nothing, depriving it of any real impact. Comparing Tracy's sudden and unforeseen assassination to Vesper Lynd's sacrifice and murder is like comparing apples to asbestos.
Also, Telly Savalas as Blofeld was just awful. Savalas can't leave the New York-patoised thug behind to come off as an educated Moriarty to Bond's Sherlock, which Donald Pleasance did very easily, even if You Only Live Twice is also stupid in its plotting. The only thing that carries that film off is Connery's waning charm and the strength of Pleasance's villainhood.
No it's not.
Controlling all the water rights of an entire country is a pretty good plan to gain major political influence and to do so in a way that isn't blatantly obvious or stupidly super-villainish.
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How is it supervillainish? This is like a tuesday for the Chiquita Banana corporation. A nice, humane tuesday.
And it's not blatantly obvious for about the same reasons.
It's a grounded, realistic and, frankly, not even far-fetched way to acquire political power.
As to why you'd want to do it? For the same reason anyone has ever done this sort of shit and because power and the things that come because of it seems to be pretty much the point of Quantum.
"We're going to depress land values and push an entire country into poverty, and then make billions selling their own stuff back to them."
That's, like, what some companies actually do.
No a great supervillain plan that would go unnoticed is harvesting poor peoples organs from the ghetto. Because no one gives a shit about the poor, you could even pull this off in america and no one would notice nor would some scowling guy show up and shoot you over it.
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I'm not seeing your point.
The plot is perfectly realistic in that shit more or less like this has actually happened.
That's a good way to make alot of money. This isn't just about money.
If people know you have all the water and are charging them outrageous prices for it, the more likely your little power play winds up with the military blowing your shit up. Not to mention its hard to control water as a resource, especially to lock it up for an entire country.
And money is power, not to mention free organs, which you can use to blackmail the rich and the famous who direly need them. You just have to make sure you don't piss off a down on his luck former new york cop, because than your shit gets all blown up.
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How is a military supposed to fight you without any water?
With Bullets.
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Drinking bullets?
Works in Russia!
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In Soviet Russia, lead eats you!
If you're sweating bullets then they must have gotten there somehow.
Money becomes power through various means.
Like, you know, the one the movie shows. That's the way corporations turn money into political power in the third world.
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Excellent news. I have been looking forward to this since I saw the trailer.
I know people who can't stand Anderson's movies but love Fantastic Mr. Fox. None of them are kids, though.
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I guess that's why this whole water rights thing has never played out in real life, albeit on a smaller scale.
Oh Wait.
Casino's plot may have been very small time, but it works far better as it never pretended to have more going on than there was. QoS makes it seem there is a lot at stake, and maybe for Bolivia there is, but I, and the rest of the audience, couldn't care less. The poker game was more interesting.
Edit: Also get that shaky cam the fuck out of my Bond movie.
yeess! headhunters is fantastic, i saw it last month or so and i've been demanding everyone i know to go see it.
The theatrical trailer, however, was amazing: