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i don’t think the bond films are very good, but the series regularly produces villains who are entertaining just because of their sheer, unabashed loathing for James Bond and his smug bullshit. i love me a henchman who is so committed to ending Bond’s life that they’ll crash a jet or start swinging a fire axe in a burning building. the commitment is great.
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Gorn Myson posted:Quantum of Solace would have been improved with this superior choice for its theme https://youtu.be/h6CoNUE5Zho I giggle hard at this every time.
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Mar 20, 2023 04:41
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Gorn Myson posted:Quantum of Solace would have been improved with this superior choice for its theme https://youtu.be/h6CoNUE5Zho It's still less ridiculous than the MUSE song they floated as 'their version' of a bond theme; Surpemacy. That would've been Skyfall era.
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Snowman_McK posted:I have to admire Christoph Waltz for adhering to the Bond movies' most sacred tradition, that the best Bond Villain actors end up in the absolute worst Bond movies. He can take his place alongside Walken and Lee. Reminds me of how someone said that Pierce Brosnan got better at Bond as the movies got worse. Alhazred posted:Somehow they're still making live action Asterix and Obelix movies. I don't know what's wilder, that they've been doing it for two decades and yet only been able to make five movies, not even once making a good movie, or that Zlatan Ibrahimović is playing a roman legionnaire: Asterix is huge in France and popular around Europe, and most of the books hold up pretty great. The only good movies are the animated ones, of course. Absolutely a case for 'I've seen lots of live action movies that should have been animated, I've never seen any animated movies that should have been live action.'
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A lady fell down the stairs during my viewing of 1917. They stopped it, moved us outside then shuffled everyone back in when she was trolleyed out. They picked it up 10mins earlier and it completely ruined the flow of the movie, it happened just after the burning village sequence.
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1636884770134298626?s=20 "Good Job 007 now that you've knocked out the African dignitary, take his clothes and assume his identity"
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Prologue is the climbing accident that killed his mom and dad. It's all quicktime events that you can't win.
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Alan Smithee posted:"Good Job 007 now that you've knocked out the African dignitary, take his clothes and assume his identity" I literally can't not hear that as Diana Burnwood.
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Some drunk lady stumbled into a showing of Killer Joe and puked (sounding like a ripping canvas bag) all over the first couple of rows. Ppl just moved up the theater rows. It fit the vibe of the movie perfectly.
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Mar 20, 2023 11:23
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I didn't know James Bond had such a similar upbringing to Batman.
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Mar 20, 2023 13:21
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I didn't know James Bond had such a similar upbringing to Batman. IIRC Batman Begins started life as Nolan's failed James Bond pitch so the circle is complete.
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Mar 20, 2023 13:26
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How come nobody has tried to make an Art Bell movie yet?
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Gonz posted:Prologue is the climbing accident that killed his mom and dad. It's all quicktime events that you can't win. God, they actually made Bond and Blofeld foster brothers, didn't they? It feels like a fever dream or Austin Powers, but no, they really did it in an official James Bond movie. "It was all me, all along, James!" [Laughs like Judge Doom]
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precision posted:How come nobody has tried to make an Art Bell movie yet? Vast of Night did a great job of conjuring up the feeling of listening to Art Bell while driving late at night for me. Unless you mean an Art Bell biopic, that would rule.
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1636884770134298626?s=20 Dunno why this is becoming a news item suddenly. They said from the get go this would be an origin story and they they got permission from Barbara Broccoli to create their fully original Bond. They recently gave a talk regurgitating those exact same points and now the media is reporting it as some new revelation. My main question is if they will have Bond voiced by a freaking voice actor that they can call on for updates and stuff instead of trying to force another celebrity into the role. Have Matthew Mercer voice Bond.
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Enos Cabell posted:Vast of Night did a great job of conjuring up the feeling of listening to Art Bell while driving late at night for me. He's kinda sorta responsible for the Heaven Gates mass suicide
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AceOfFlames posted:Dunno why this is becoming a news item suddenly. They said from the get go this would be an origin story and they they got permission from Barbara Broccoli to create their fully original Bond. They recently gave a talk regurgitating those exact same points and now the media is reporting it as some new revelation. I know he's not a voice actor but I vote Matt Berry.
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Enos Cabell posted:Vast of Night did a great job of conjuring up the feeling of listening to Art Bell while driving late at night for me. I never really had experience with Art Bell, but I have fond memories of the early 00's, and listening to George Noory on the night shift. It really did help pass the the quiet hours of midnight to 4am.
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Payndz posted:Movie opening is a straight remake of the beginning of Cliffhanger, except we see Young Blofeld sneakily sawing through the harness clips. Young Bloefeld dumping Vaseline into Bond's glove would be a much better homage to Cliffhanger
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Cael posted:I've been meaning to revisit it because it seems like one lost to history. Goldeneye straight up owns bones with no qualifiers needed, World is Not Enough and Die Another Day mix laughable bad and totally boring, but while I remember Tomorrow Never Dies being good I don't remember much else about it.
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Enos Cabell posted:Vast of Night did a great job of conjuring up the feeling of listening to Art Bell while driving late at night for me. Yeah, I loved The Vast of Night. I’m not even sure why they set it in the 50s considering it’s such a 90s conspiracy radio movie. Also Art Bell is in the 2006 Prey video game!
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I used to listen to a lot of art bell clips back in the day, late at night. I should listen to some now. I think alien stories and conspiracy stuff mostly rules and I want it to come back.
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CelticPredator posted:I used to listen to a lot of art bell clips back in the day, late at night. I should listen to some now.
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I know. But I’d still like it back. It’s still fun and you can play it without alluding the reptilians are Jewish people. I enjoyed all the goofy conspiracy stuff in Godzilla vs kong
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There's always Bigfoot, who apparently is interdimensional, per that one expert I heard on C2CAM that one time.
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Cryptids are cool, more Bat Boy in all media please.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I didn't know James Bond had such a similar upbringing to Batman. I'm pretty sure basically everyone was saying Skyfall absolutely turned Bond into Batman, complete with his own Alfred.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
Again, I know this. Its just the huge time gap between the movies that's weird to me.
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CelticPredator posted:I used to listen to a lot of art bell clips back in the day, late at night. I should listen to some now. I've been going through old art bell shows all week and it's really astonishing how often the show stops dead so he can pay lip service to conservative Christians, since seemingly most of his audience were that It's not enough to make me not enjoy it but seriously, even things like "abortion is wrong" come out of art's mouth a lot and it gets very distracting, especially since if you listen to the shows with Terence McKenna it's pretty clear that Art wasn't really a conservative
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Shageletic posted:He's kinda sorta responsible for the Heaven Gates mass suicide uh what
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kalel posted:uh what drat shame I can't directly quote it due to being an old pdf https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1997/07/22165006/p22.pdf The idea that there was a UFO trailing Hale Bopp's Comet was promulgated first and repeated on Art Bell's show by the rear end in a top hat Courtney Brown and Art Bell readily passed off Brown's doctored pictures proving it as proof of the theory and repeatedly posted the picture himself. Art Bell lied about it coming from an anonymous source. AFAIK it was the first appearance of the theory that there was a spaceshape behind the comet in conspiracy circles. The leaders of the then Heaven's Gate cult were avid listeners and believed that it was their way to go to Heaven. Ensue mass suicide.
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kalel posted:uh what Art Bell once hosted a guest who claimed that the Halle-Bopp comet had a UFO trailing it, which the Heaven's Gate cult then committed mass suicide in order to hitch a ride on it. Personally I think claiming Bell was "responsible" is a huge stretch since (at least according to the Last Podcast On The Left series on Heaven's Gate Redux, which usually has impeccable research), the Heaven's Gate cult had apocalyptic stuff baked into it from day 1 (leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles AKA "Ti and Do" literally believed themselves to be the two witnesses from the Book of Revelation) and after Nettles died, Applewhite was so erratic and depressed that it was inevitable that he would cook up something like this and Hale-Bopp was just the excuse he latched onto.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure basically everyone was saying Skyfall absolutely turned Bond into Batman, complete with his own Alfred.
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AceOfFlames posted:Art Bell once hosted a guest who claimed that the Halle-Bopp comet had a UFO trailing it, which the Heaven's Gate cult then committed mass suicide in order to hitch a ride on it. I think having Brown on multiple times about it and not pushing back on it was insanely irresponsible, and if you look at the article I posted Art Bell was absolutely unremorseful or even saddened by the event. So yeah maybe he didn't murk 39 people but my god he was an rear end in a top hat about it.
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 I really despise that wave of talk show hosts in the 80s and 90s who propagated conspiracy theory crap. stuff like UFOs but also devil worship/occult, MLMs, etc. at least now it seems like it's moved to podcasts instead of nationally-syndicated television shows but man I hate dubious pseudoscience passed off as fact with complete impunity
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Lol that Blofeld being Bond’s secret brother was literally a plot point stolen from the third Austin Powers movie. We’re truly in the post parody age.
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Writing excuse plots for the international murder cop series is hard. Sometimes you confuse it with parodies of itself because you don’t understand why anyone wants to keep doing this.
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AceOfFlames posted:Art Bell once hosted a guest who claimed that the Halle-Bopp comet had a UFO trailing it, which the Heaven's Gate cult then committed mass suicide in order to hitch a ride on it. Yeah, Heaven's Gate was basically doomed to self destruct once Nettles died since their entire cult was structured around the idea that a spaceship would come get them while they were all still alive.
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I think its very important to remember that during the era Bell was active, a lot of the conspiracy poo poo he dealt with was seen as more "acceptable", for lack of a better word, than it is today. Like, the problems were always there just beneath the surface, but the popular opinion was that is was perfectly harmless at the time. And pop-culture was more than happy to mine that stereotype for comedy gold - look at those kooks, aren't they silly? Surely they'd never be able to pull off an insurrection! Your Dale Gribble's, that radio guy from 2012 - or for that matter, just about everything Roland Emmerich's ever done - that's what the average American thought when they heard "conspiracy theories" back in the day. It wasn't until QAnon found an audience and people started to realize just what kind of person was actually eating this poo poo up before public opinion really started to shift. MechanicalTomPetty fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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