[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

^^ oh that is something i've never seen. and MUST.

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this past weekend watched the XXI century version of CASINO ROYALE

i need to watch it again knowing what i know in the end. particularly eva green. who always does some sort of femme fatale, with her strange face and nice tits.

what's amazing about THIS james bond is how he gets continually traumatized and nevertheless keeps running like a ton of bricks. is it something in his physiology or something else i think it's kinda hilarious. i mean, i get that the actor spends a lot of time at the gym but muscles don't make a person invulnerable.

so i kept looking for something to touch his real vulnerabilities. like winston in 1984. torture vesper in front of him, and then see what he does.

peculiar too that the girl's arm doesn't get cut off either. this is no scarface movie. people here have shreds of honor.

vesper lynd is a superinteresting character though and i realize now i paid very little attention to her because it was in all appearances a dumb action movie and i treated it as such. basically i had a computer game playing all throughout it. ooops!

i might need a rewind ha ha ha

He is a ton of bricks. That's the answer. He's a gorilla. Not a man. Daniel Craig, that is. And if I recall, he does kinda lose his shit a bit at the end of Casino Royale, doesn't he?

That was a really swell reboot attempt, and they had the bases loaded for an awesome new Bond era with the cliffhanger ending. Then Quantum of Solace had to come along and be a big boring stupid thing, most of which I cannot remember for the life of me. Then Skyfall was good. Then SPECTRE was mostly total crap.

This was supposed to be the Bond answer to Nolan's Bat-flicks ... in fact, did you know that Chris Nolan and Christian Bale were originally pursued for the project? I didn't... not until recently. Anyway, turned out to be the most perfectly uneven tertralogy in recent memory.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

hahhaha. Too funny.

Re: Usual Suspects, I think it is the most Hitchkockian film to come out in decades. Perfectly constructed IMO.

I haven't seen it in forever, but that's because I was pretty roundly unimpressed by it. I have never thought of it as Hitchcockian, but maybe you're right. Maybe I need to rewatch.

@ SYMBOLS -- Don't read my post in response to tw2113 about this. There be spoilers. Will edit.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

He is a ton of bricks. That's the answer. He's a gorilla. Not a man. Daniel Craig, that is. And if I recall, he does kinda lose his shit a bit at the end of Casino Royale, doesn't he?

That was a really swell reboot attempt, and they had the bases loaded for an awesome new Bond era with the cliffhanger ending. Then Quantum of Solace had to come along and be a big boring stupid thing, most of which I cannot remember for the life of me. Then Skyfall was good. Then SPECTRE was mostly total crap.

This was supposed to be the Bond answer to Nolan's Bat-flicks ... in fact, did you know that Chris Nolan and Christian Bale were originally pursued for the project? I didn't... not until recently. Anyway, turned out to be the most perfectly uneven tertralogy in recent memory.

yes, he a gorilla in figure but i know plenty of cage fightning athletes that are now retired for much less ha ha ha. but anyway

thanks for the spoiler eradication. much appreciated.

as for a "critical" appreciation of the bond reboot-- it seemed overly long-- not just for me but my wife was also watching. went on and on and on... she complained first. i get it now that's supposed to be as epic as la dolce vita, and therefore...

lol, no. just way too long for the material.

didn't know about the nolan/bale duo. bale as bond? i dont know ha ha ha ha. sounds kinda hilarious.

anyway

what i really was interested on was vesper's face as she delivers her lines.

her lines weren't that great tho. "you're such a man your pinkie finger" haaaa haaaa haaaa haaa. okay it was funny. in a terrible way. like a dirty uncle joke, machismo part and parcel of it all.

[demonrail666]

I think they went too serious with the Daniel Craig films. Losing the fun element almost completely. Not to say they should've descended to the pure comedy of stuff like Live and Let Die but if I'm honest I do prefer that campier side of the series.

[greenlight]

Originally Posted by Severian

I think so too. Especially since I rewatched the TV movie from back in the day and realized how utterly shit it was in pretty much every conceivable way. Total shit. Shit sandwich. Also, hilarious.

hehehe. I have never seen tv movie ver.

[Torn Curtain]

Originally Posted by Severian

I haven't seen it in forever, but that's because I was pretty roundly unimpressed by it. I have never thought of it as Hitchcockian, but maybe you're right. Maybe I need to rewatch.

I was rather unimpressed and disappointed by it too.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Torn Curtain

I was rather unimpressed and disappointed by it too.

Thank you!

[ilduclo]

hmm....about 2/3 of the way thru A Cure for Wellness....sort of Jared Kushner meets Rosemary's Baby at the Road to Wellville. Not sure I'm going to bother finishing it....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1rLFCdewU

[tw2113]

Forget Paris a couple nights ago, Buffy The Vampire Slayer since then. Tonight I have Angels in the Outfield.

I like some cheese, I'll deal with it

[Severian]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

hmm....about 2/3 of the way thru A Cure for Wellness....sort of Jared Kushner meets Rosemary's Baby at the Road to Wellville.

That sounds nightmarish.

[demonrail666]

 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

One of those films I'm always in the mood to watch

[Severian]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to demonrail666 again.

[Severian]

Chicka-chickah

[!@#$%!]

^^ ha ha

ha ha ha ha

yes

[noisereductions]

yup I've said it before and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while... you just might miss it.

[demonrail666]

I really can't fault that film, although I weirdly never actually liked Ferris. I'm definitely Team Cameron.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I really can't fault that film, although I weirdly never actually liked Ferris. I'm definitely Team Cameron.

Same.

[ilduclo]

Under the Skin, shit movie, great soundtrack

[Severian]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

Under the Skin, shit movie, great soundtrack

I loved it.

And the soundtrack.

[!@#$%!]

under the skin was awesome

not just cuz scarlett

it was all great