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Basebf555 posted:At their best the Bond films are a great travelogue series. They're usually shot pretty well and make great use of exotic locations, the Connery Bonds look great on blu ray. The best part of any Bond movie is when he finally confronts the "anti-bond." Like, Dr. No is exactly like a bad travelogue up and until you finally actually meet Dr. No, and then suddenly the film's imperialist setting and politics are faced with this subdued "yellow peril" specter who is also, as he makes blatant reference in his egomaniacal pontificating, a "ethnic heterodox" figure. From Russia with Love is a vast improvement, though, even what with its hypersexualized depiction of the "native" gypsy women - it boils down the entire formal structure of the film to Bond's clandestine struggle against this nameless figure who is basically him, but for "the other side." It's wickedly gripping on a psychosexual level - and very homoerotic at times, although in a proto-Cruising, sadomasochistic way. Honestly, I think Goldfinger is way less gripping than From Russia with Love, too - And not just because of... Well, you know the scene.
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that is a ridiculous amount of adjectives and words i cannot understand
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Basebf555 posted:the Connery Bonds look great on blu ray. Agreed, the quality is remarkable. Rivals Bladerunner in a "best blu-ray image quality from old movie" contest.
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:that is a ridiculous amount of adjectives and words i cannot understand welcome to Trump's America 
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4 RING SHRIMP posted:that is a ridiculous amount of adjectives and words i cannot understand "all the best bond villains are evil foreign / gay / radical versions of james bond and he wanna bang them, so instead he bangs them by proxy through their henchwomen" with a little bit of "this is probably bad for bond and will eventually result in him getting his dick lasered off, figuratively if not literally"
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I still quite like the way they stage and frame Blofeld throughout the film. Also the opening scene is awesome, as is the train fight.
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Nov 15, 2016 17:39
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After Goldmember they all went to poo poo.
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magnificent7 posted:After Goldmember they all went to poo poo. Nooo, Goldmember was the lovely one.
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Lol, Goldmember was an Austin Powers movie
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I still quite like the way they stage and frame Blofeld throughout the film. Yeah, like Skyfall, Spectre is really well staged and directed, and the photography is great, but ye gods, that script is just an absolute mess. I don't blame Craig for being reticent to return to the role when half of his Bond movies have involved much of the thing being rewritten in the middle of filming (although, at least on Spectre, he wasn't the one doing the writing).
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The second Austin powers movie is better than a good half of the bond films.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:The second Austin powers movie is better than a good half of the bond films.
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GonSmithe posted:Movie is amazing, everyone watch it. I want to ask this as non-troll-y as possible... but why is it good? I heard great things about it, so I rented it 6 months ago or whatever, and was really disappointed. To me it's nothing more than HOSTEL, and the 50 other movies just like HOSTEL. Innocent teens get caught in a bad situation through no fault of their own and are tortured and killed. And if your movie has the grossest kill scene your movie is the best. The only things unique about this movie were that they weren't on spring break, and captain Picard is racist... I think.... Im going to watch it again right now.
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:Im going to watch it again right now. Yeah, do this, because it doesn't look like you paid a ton of attention. The only thing Green Room and Hostel have in common is that they both have gore, and they use gore way differently.
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The best Bond movie is Metal Gear Solid 3.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The best Bond movie is Metal Gear Solid 3. Turning Bond from a sociopath to an autistic man was a stroke of genius.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The best Bond movie is Metal Gear Detective No. 27 posted:Turning Bond from a sociopath to an autistic man was a stroke of genius. 
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magnificent7 posted:After Goldmember they all went to poo poo. Assuming you meant Goldfinger, it's easily the worst Bond movie. Bond rapes a lesbian straight and literally and I mean literally plays no role in stopping the bad guy.
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regulargonzalez posted:Assuming you meant Goldfinger, it's easily the worst Bond movie. Bond rapes a lesbian straight and literally and I mean literally plays no role in stopping the bad guy. I suspect he meant what he said.
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:I want to ask this as non-troll-y as possible... but why is it good? I thought (Green Room) it was particularly cold how Patrick Stewart's character and the others were managing the extermination of the band with budgets and timelines like they were managing a corporate event, even in the handling of their management team and promotions. I can see similarities to Hostel in the violence and the sense of inevitability, but Green Room seems more like drama than gorno, if just in the development of its skinheads compared to empty vessels like The Dutch Businessman. There's a strata of different personalities and motivations in there beyond "malicious killer." Knight fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Timby posted:Yeah, like Skyfall, Spectre is really well staged and directed, and the photography is great
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Remulak posted:Disagree 100%. Skyfall is one of the best looking movies I've ever seen, just about every still is GORGEOUS. Spectre is boring as poo poo to look at (and listen to, agreed that the script is poo poo). The opening of Spectre is the polar opposite of boring and is up there with the best openings of any Bond film.
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I never had any problems with the pacing of Spectre. Like the most common criticism is that it's boring but I never felt the story wasn't moving.
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Casino Royale is the best, followed closely by Live and Let Die, then spectre, then From Russia with Love. E: 
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My favorite Bond is Live and Let Die, and my least favorite Bond song is Live and Let Die.
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My favorite Bond movie is is On Her Majesty's Secret Service. But it has the worst bond.
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coyo7e posted:He always was one - we just used to reward men for being completely unable to function in regular life, for being "Special", and now they get put in "special"ed because nobod wants to put up with a pants-wetting adult man who will attack you for no reason based on things only he sees in his mind Wow this is dumb in like, 12 different ways
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Knight posted:It's a down to earth siege movie where actions have real consequences, so when characters are in danger we should be genuinely worried for their safety, and they have motivations and goals that extend beyond the events of the movie. Most of that can probably be described as "realism" but whatever the filmmakers are doing, along with Blue Ruin, is pretty captivating to me. I watched it again... still feels like something I've seen 100 times. I liked BLUE RUIN...
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:I watched it again... still feels like something I've seen 100 times. That last part is so weird because Green Room felt way more like Blue Ruin than Hostel to me. I think one of the reasons everybody liked Blue Ruin is that the violence is sparse, gritty, and earned. That's the vibe I got from Green Room. By contrast, Hostel is archetypal torture porn.
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regulargonzalez posted:Assuming you meant Goldfinger, it's easily the worst Bond movie. Bond rapes a lesbian straight and literally and I mean literally plays no role in stopping the bad guy. He gets Pussy Galore to warn Fort Knox, then fights Odd Job so that the bomb can be disarmed. Then he kills Goldfinger in the end. I don't think literally means what you think it means.
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The Bond movie where he gets surgery to become Asian is immensely stupid and only believe it is real because I have seen it.
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yo mamma a Horus posted:The Bond movie where he gets surgery to become Asian is immensely stupid and only believe it is real because I have seen it. This is a bad opinion. The assault on the hollow volcano is one of the best set pieces in the entire franchise. Also You Only Live Twice has one of the 3 best theme songs, along with Goldfinger and A View To A Kill.
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Stander is up on Amazon Prime video (starring THomas Jane, who is awesome). I think it used to be on netflix, but it's a really great movie based on the life and career of a South African cop who started a spree of 30 bank robberies s in apartheid-era South Africa. A lot of his robberies were really ballsy, and it's a fun watch. The movie plays up the fact that Stander claimed that his bank robberies were due to him being upset about a massacre of black south africans which he participated in however, it's debatable at the very least, whether he was actually there when it happened or not, and by the end of the film it's pretty clear what his primary motivation seemed to be, right up to the end. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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just watched the tiger features a scene where a tiger massacres a hunting party of 50 armed men (japanese soldiers included) terrible editing and writing, and hollywood-imitator filmmaking. made me laugh. worth a drunk (half) movie night
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Knight posted:It's a down to earth siege movie where actions have real consequences, so when characters are in danger we should be genuinely worried for their safety, and they have motivations and goals that extend beyond the events of the movie. Most of that can probably be described as "realism" but whatever the filmmakers are doing, along with Blue Ruin, is pretty captivating to me. Hostel is an awful - borderline unwatchable - porno; Green Room is cinematic bliss. apples to oranges Only outright not-so-great moment in Green Room was when traitor nazi gets cgi sprayed across his face by the bartender. Was cheap, bland, and pushed an interesting plot device into a shallow grave. Everything before and after was harmonious on all levels. probably my favorite film that plays by genre rules since blue ruin, but i haven't thought to hard about it
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Wonderful Bread posted:Hostel is an awful - borderline unwatchable - porno; Because all violent movies about sadistic killers are porno.
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Spatulater bro! posted:Because all violent movies about sadistic killers are porno. No, just Hostel.
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Wonderful Bread posted:just watched the tiger
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God drat Green Room was good. Did not make the Blue Ruin connection (went in blind, as I try to do with all horror/thrillers) until the end, and now I feel like a double feature is in order. Really cool how Saulnier just kind of takes a single seed of an idea and runs with it. We’re not keeping you, you’re just staying.
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