Hey so I'm seeing James Bond: No Time To Dry today in IMAX and I realize right now I don't rememeber anything from SPECTRUMs except the following two little things:
James Bond calls Blofeld an "Inglourious Basterds" [sic] and blue is somehow the warmest colour or something.
Do I need to recall anything from SPECTRUMs to understand No Time To Dry?
Also I don't get the title. Something to do with the beach?
Oh, that's an easy mistake. It's actually "No Time to Dye". James Bond is having trouble with coloring out the grey in his hair.
Thank you, but I still don't entirely get it. Daniel Radcliffe is still so young. Why would he even grey hair yet in this film?
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I always forget that no matter what, even if I successfully avoid trailers and info out there on the web, the theater will still fucking ruin that for me anyway.
This is the first time I’ve seen any part of the Dune trailer which I already have IMAX tickets to for the 21st.
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Le Chiffre - just pop your clothes over there and take a seat, please
Re: Gremlins and the Santa Story:
It's hard not to think it was done as one gigantic satire, especially with the second subverting it via the ridiculous story about Abraham Lincoln.
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There is a 99 cent rental sale of Arrow Video movies on iTunes, peko. Below are image captures of all rentals on sale, from schlocky to modern horror to classics to westerns to foreign (like Joint Security Area and Miike's Dead or Alive):
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Alec Trevelyan - his accent occasionally slips but he's doing it for England
I was going to bring up that Le Chiffre is not a villain he’a just a henchman but I see it was already covered.
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There is a 99 cent rental sale of Arrow Video movies on iTunes, peko. Below are image captures of all rentals on sale, from schlocky to modern horror to classics to westerns to foreign (like Joint Security Area and Miike's Dead or Alive):
Or you could say to hell with Apple and sign up for a free trial of the Arrow streaming service: https://www.arrow-player.com/
JSA and Dead or Alive are on there, along with the Showa era Gamera flicks, and everything from those screen caps that I tried to look up except for Donnie Darko.
I haven’t seen Gremlins 2 since I was a kid, but I remember laughing when Gizmo-Rambo killed the spider-gremlin with a fire arrow made of a paper clip, rubber band, and a bottle of whiteout lit on fire attached to a pencil.
I think this convinced me to switch from IMAX to just normal for Dune.
IMAX Is great and Bond looked fantastic in IMAX. But, it was a little bit of a trek to get to that theater and the seats and spacing wasn't that great - they were comfy cushioned seats, but the AMC literally a 5 minute walk from my apartment has those motorized reclining experience and honestly if it's a choice between a 45 minute trip involving a train ride and a walk to not get reclining seats versus a 5 minute walk with reclining seats, I think the latter represents the overall better experience for me.
I haven't seen the cinematic masterpiece that is Moonraker, no. I did see the Moonraker that had James Bond in it, though.
Oh, so you have seen it. It was one of my favorite Bond movies, as a child, because of all the space lazors and stuff. I watched it again as an adult and, well, I was just a dumb kid.
My favourite thing about Moonraker is that when promoting it Cubby Brocolli took a pot shot at Star Wars and said "We're not science fiction, we're in fact science fact." Like Moonraker of all movies can hold its nose up at others.
I was also always a bit put out by Moonraker as it was during the "take nothing from the books except the name" phase of Bond movies. Which I consider a shame as the book is, I think, one of the better ones. They would go on to try to adapt some elements of it in Die Another Day, but that was terrible in general. (And obviously updated Nazis, ICBMs, and feigned-amnesia to North Koreans, space lasers, and gene-replacement technology.)
Goldeneye is excellent. The only slightly under par element is the score.
Admittedly I can't remember much of the score but I do remember the "electric drum at the bottom of a well" sound that features in the score, and that sound is a classic, I'll have you know
We all know that Tom Hardy is gonna be Nolan's Bond once he gets the franchise.
Please fucking no
That’s a joke, right?
I know shitting on Nolan is de rigueur. But the the last part of Inception is a really good version of the traditional Bond 'infiltrate the base and then blow it up on the way out' conclusion.
Christopher Lee as a Bond villain is perfect, though. It would have been criminal if he hadn't been a Bond villain at some point.
Who are some great Bond villains we never had? How they never got Willem Dafoe for anything is beyond me. Or Rutger Hauer in his prime. Alan Rickman! Imagine how delicious his expository monologue would have been.
Bob Hoskins or Anthony Hopkins
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Isabella Scorupco is pretty good and has an amazing coat in one scene. Every time I’ve watched the film with a woman beside me they always say ooh nice coat.
Alec Trevelyan - his accent occasionally slips but he's doing it for England
Also Natalya is a subject matter expert who is needed to avert catastrophe. Half of the prior Bond movies would have made Xena the Bond girl after James adjusts her world view with his penis.
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My only issue with her is like they wanted to make her the anti bond girl before making her exactly a bond girl bikini and all. It was like someone got scared boys wouldn't understand.
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Next one of the Wong Kar-Wai films we went to see: 2046.
I think it's the one of his films I've liked least so far (though I've only seen four of them) - but I nonetheless relished seeing it at the cinema, because boy, the guy knows how to do stylish images, and the film is often damn sexy to boot. This one is a weird kind-of-sequel to In the Mood for Love that changes the tone completely, and at somewhat over two hours it's probably about 20 minutes too long for the story it's telling, but I can't remember many films I've as desperately wanted to frame and hang on the wall.
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Le Chiffre - just pop your clothes over there and take a seat, please
Last night I finally watched Halloween III: Season of the VVitch for the first time. I know it wasn't exactly well received, and I guess if I had gone in expecting Michael Meyers and gotten... that, I might be grumpy, too.
But it's a charmingly daffy, batshit circus of a movie, taken on its own merits, and Carpenter is clearly having fun with it. It's hard not to smile at a movie in which the big boss from Robocop and his army of robot Gabe Lewis clones want to murder the nation's children by selling them Stonehenge-powered masks that turn their brains into bugs because it would be a hilarious Halloween prank. I mean, that's a fucking elevator pitch right there.
The whole thing is the apotheosis of campy 80s horror, right up there with The Stuff and The Fog. It's not A-tier, but definitely worth a watch.
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I thought the score was great in Golden Eye, especially the the tank scene.
Honestly I think its my favorite Bond movie, with the only weak element being Natalya.
Natalya's ok. She's charismatic, a deconstruction of the Bond Girl until she isn't, very intelligent, cunning and gorgeous. Xenia overshadows her, though.
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Thank you, but I still don't entirely get it. Daniel Radcliffe is still so young. Why would he even grey hair yet in this film?
I love that band and can't wait to see them in IMAX.
I mean, I don't know what the title of this song means - I think it's German - but this video is fire.
This is the first time I’ve seen any part of the Dune trailer which I already have IMAX tickets to for the 21st.
It's hard not to think it was done as one gigantic satire, especially with the second subverting it via the ridiculous story about Abraham Lincoln.
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Or you could say to hell with Apple and sign up for a free trial of the Arrow streaming service: https://www.arrow-player.com/
JSA and Dead or Alive are on there, along with the Showa era Gamera flicks, and everything from those screen caps that I tried to look up except for Donnie Darko.
We all know that Tom Hardy is gonna be Nolan's Bond once he gets the franchise.
Please fucking no
That’s a joke, right?
I had that action figure, and the car!
It will be a musical and the villain will be genetically altered into a Cats cat halfway through.
I still prefer this to Nolan directing it.
IMAX Is great and Bond looked fantastic in IMAX. But, it was a little bit of a trek to get to that theater and the seats and spacing wasn't that great - they were comfy cushioned seats, but the AMC literally a 5 minute walk from my apartment has those motorized reclining experience and honestly if it's a choice between a 45 minute trip involving a train ride and a walk to not get reclining seats versus a 5 minute walk with reclining seats, I think the latter represents the overall better experience for me.
My favourite thing about Moonraker is that when promoting it Cubby Brocolli took a pot shot at Star Wars and said "We're not science fiction, we're in fact science fact." Like Moonraker of all movies can hold its nose up at others.
I was also always a bit put out by Moonraker as it was during the "take nothing from the books except the name" phase of Bond movies. Which I consider a shame as the book is, I think, one of the better ones. They would go on to try to adapt some elements of it in Die Another Day, but that was terrible in general. (And obviously updated Nazis, ICBMs, and feigned-amnesia to North Koreans, space lasers, and gene-replacement technology.)
Brosnon was a great Bond who really got let down by weak scripts for his later movies
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Admittedly I can't remember much of the score but I do remember the "electric drum at the bottom of a well" sound that features in the score, and that sound is a classic, I'll have you know
Golden Eye was the first try at Bond after the USSR fell.
Casino Royale was the first Bond to deal with a post 9-11 world
I know shitting on Nolan is de rigueur. But the the last part of Inception is a really good version of the traditional Bond 'infiltrate the base and then blow it up on the way out' conclusion.
also:
If that's not a Bond line, nothing is.
Honestly I think its my favorite Bond movie, with the only weak element being Natalya.
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I think it's the one of his films I've liked least so far (though I've only seen four of them) - but I nonetheless relished seeing it at the cinema, because boy, the guy knows how to do stylish images, and the film is often damn sexy to boot. This one is a weird kind-of-sequel to In the Mood for Love that changes the tone completely, and at somewhat over two hours it's probably about 20 minutes too long for the story it's telling, but I can't remember many films I've as desperately wanted to frame and hang on the wall.
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"I never miss" is better, even if the movie is just way way worse.
They are directed by the same guy and imo clearly trying to be the same kind of film. But Goldeneye can't quite escape it's campy roots.
Yeah that line is the Icest Bond line.
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But it's a charmingly daffy, batshit circus of a movie, taken on its own merits, and Carpenter is clearly having fun with it. It's hard not to smile at a movie in which the big boss from Robocop and his army of robot Gabe Lewis clones want to murder the nation's children by selling them Stonehenge-powered masks that turn their brains into bugs because it would be a hilarious Halloween prank. I mean, that's a fucking elevator pitch right there.
The whole thing is the apotheosis of campy 80s horror, right up there with The Stuff and The Fog. It's not A-tier, but definitely worth a watch.
It's a matter of how far you're willing to move the needle in one movie.
Although it's funny because both Bonds movies get progressively sillier as they go on, moving them closer to what game before them.
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Natalya's ok. She's charismatic, a deconstruction of the Bond Girl until she isn't, very intelligent, cunning and gorgeous. Xenia overshadows her, though.