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As much as people love to praise Pierce Brosnan for his Bond (and he was good, don't get me wrong), he was in a single truly "good" James Bond movie and the rest ran from mostly-forgettable to awful. Tomorrow Never Dies was passable, but then TWINE and Die Another Day were just garbage. And speaking of garbage! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C5NLfYdZaE e: I actually do like that title track though.
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 16:55 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 03:32 |
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Are there any good deals or cool poo poo for the Spiderverse release?
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 18:16 |
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FilthyImp posted:Are there any good deals or cool poo poo for the Spiderverse release? The only exclusives I've seen was a book with the Target release, and steelcase for Bestbuy (for extra). I just ordered it on Amazon.
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 19:17 |
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I'd rather watch the bad Brosnans again than the bad Craigs.
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 19:45 |
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Where do the Daltons fit into this?
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 19:53 |
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Ineffiable posted:Where do the Daltons fit into this? WHo?
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 19:54 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:I'd rather watch the bad Brosnans again than the bad Craigs. Spectre is at least shot extremely well, so it's enjoyable on a visual level, which is more than I can say for Die Another Day or The World is Not Enough. Can't say the same for Quantum unfortunately, although the story does work a lot better if you watch it very soon after Casino Royale so that it feels like a direct sequel(which it is).
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Basebf555 posted:Spectre is at least shot extremely well, so it's enjoyable on a visual level, which is more than I can say for Die Another Day or The World is Not Enough. Can't say the same for Quantum unfortunately, although the story does work a lot better if you watch it very soon after Casino Royale so that it feels like a direct sequel(which it is). Was gonna say that about Quantum too. On its own it sucks but as a double feature it fucks.
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 21:14 |
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I thought the Skyfall intro was pretty cool because it captures the vibe of the movie and instead of them just projecting an Aston Martin on someone's tits it's a bunch of stuff that's in the movie. The movie itself is thoroughly okay which is basically what James Bond movies are when they aren't completely terrible.
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 21:32 |
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If they were only mediocre or 'terrible', I wouldn't have followed a 20+ film series. They're mostly legitimately good or at least fun. Terrible movies aren't fun.
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Teenage Fansub posted:If they were only mediocre or 'terrible', I wouldn't have followed a 20+ film series. They're mostly legitimately good or at least fun. Terrible movies aren't fun. I’m a huge Bond fan but I would never say they’re “mostly” good
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 01:42 |
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Is Spectre bad? It's the only Bond movie I've never seen, I just haven't gotten around to it.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 15:25 |
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Finally got around to buying a 4k screen with the new models coming out soon. I will need to buy a UHD player soon, as I've been buying the disks for the last few movies that had the option. Is the Xbox One X that terrible of a UHD player that I should avoid it still?
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IUG posted:Finally got around to buying a 4k screen with the new models coming out soon. I will need to buy a UHD player soon, as I've been buying the disks for the last few movies that had the option. Is the Xbox One X that terrible of a UHD player that I should avoid it still? An Xbox One S can do it too if you want to save some money and don't care that much about 4K gaming.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 15:46 |
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RichterIX posted:Is Spectre bad? It's the only Bond movie I've never seen, I just haven't gotten around to it. Very. I wouldn't bother, even if you liked the previous Craig instalments.
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RichterIX posted:Is Spectre bad? It's the only Bond movie I've never seen, I just haven't gotten around to it. It’s long, boring, and absolutely bloated.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 16:34 |
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Spectre's opening is worth watching, IMO
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 16:38 |
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TheScott2K posted:Spectre's opening is worth watching, IMO The opening is probably the best part of the entire movie, so that's a pretty big downer because once it's over you know it's all downhill from there. It really is fantastic though. I actually enjoy the first half, but once Waltz comes into the picture the thing just goes nowhere(at least nowhere coherent) and becomes a major slog to finish.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 16:47 |
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https://www.twilighttimemovies.com has a sale on ClassicFlix releases. They’re all from the Westchester Films or Hal Roach libraries. I grabbed Fritz Lang’s You only Live Once, Tomorrow is Forever, and a DVD set of Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly comedies
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 16:48 |
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Basebf555 posted:I actually enjoy the first half, but once Waltz comes into the picture the thing just goes nowhere(at least nowhere coherent) and becomes a major slog to finish. It's a shame though, because Waltz is really good as Blofeld. They just had absolutely no idea what to do with him.
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Basebf555 posted:The opening is probably the best part of the entire movie, so that's a pretty big downer because once it's over you know it's all downhill from there. It really is fantastic though. The World Is Not Enough has that problem too. There's a whole little movie at the beginning that includes a fun escape in Spain, some excitement at MI6, and a great boat chase (set to a fantastic score that just hammers the Bond theme), and the rest of the movie just pisses it all away.
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TheScott2K posted:The World Is Not Enough has that problem too. There's a whole little movie at the beginning that includes a fun escape in Spain, some excitement at MI6, and a great boat chase (set to a fantastic score that just hammers the Bond theme), and the rest of the movie just pisses it all away. It's not really uncommon for the lesser Bond films to have that problem. It's a travelogue series really, but the best of them keep you engaged in the story while Bond is globetrotting around. The worst of them feel like too much of a whirlwind where Bond is just in some new location and you have to wrack your brain to remember the one line that M said that explains what he's doing there. Quantum is a great example, because it's amazingly easy to be knee deep into the whole Dominic Greene plot and have zero idea why Bond is even after him. Greene's connection to Mr. White is explained in like a 3 second exchange and then never mentioned again. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Unmature posted:I’m a huge Bond fan but I would never say they’re “mostly” good "good or at least fun"
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 18:46 |
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Haven’t seen Spectre since the theater but remember enjoying it enough. I remember being most annoyed by the retcons more than anything.Teenage Fansub posted:"good or at least fun" That I’ll take. I was mostly joking around as I can watch any Bond movie and have a good time. I think they all have at least one fantastic moment (unfortunately a lot of them have ONLY one fantastic moment)
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 18:47 |
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TheScott2K posted:Spectre's opening is worth watching, IMO When I first saw the movie, the opening raised my hopes so much. Then I saw the rest of the movie. That hope was destroyed.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 20:41 |
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The totally awkward "twist" at the end of Spectre really pissed me off because I took my like 85 year old grandfather to see it. He's always enjoyed Bond films, but he of course doesn't stay current with it, and I used my best judgement and decided that Spectre didn't look like it was going to be directly connected to anything that came before(and hey it's Spectre, he knows that name from previous Bonds). Well, it was a complete disaster, he had zero idea what was happening in the last third and ended up coming away pretty confused and annoyed
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 20:50 |
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I knew what was happening and had that exact same reaction.
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# ? Mar 20, 2019 20:54 |
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Warner Archive's latest 4 for $44 sale just went up: https://www.wbshop.com/collections/...hsudliz7cxdqten Ended up ordering Blus for The Thing from Another World, The Sea Hawk, The Sea Wolf, Cabaret, Innocent Blood plus the DVDs for The Lost Squadron, Lights of New York, Why Be Good?, Show People, and Meet the Baron/Gold Raiders. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 23, 2019 |
# ? Mar 23, 2019 16:14 |
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Here's a horror story for format enthusiasts.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:34 |
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That statement from the director of photography—god drat. I guess Buffy’s kind of a dead property since it’s very 90s and Whedon has been revealed as a sexmonster who used his shows as hunting grounds to pressure people into loving him?
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:47 |
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There's a reboot currently in the works.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 04:53 |
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I'm sure we'll see a lot more of this kind of poo poo if other pre-widescreen tv shows make it to blu-ray because people still lose their minds when PICTURE NOT FILL WHOLE SCREEN.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:22 |
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It's kind of wild that it took so long for movies to stop being released cropped (or uncropped in some cases) in order to fit 4:3 TVs only for that to come back a few years later for 16:9 TVs.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:47 |
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Because those people are swine and should be butchered as such. But I'm a moderate, your views may differ.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 05:55 |
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CPL593H posted:I'm sure we'll see a lot more of this kind of poo poo if other pre-widescreen tv shows make it to blu-ray because people still lose their minds when PICTURE NOT FILL WHOLE SCREEN. Some of those are 16:9 shots that were cropped into smaller 16:9 shots anyway
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 07:04 |
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I remember the original Buffy DVD sets used the uncropped 16:9 frame for later seasons with miscellaneous crew and equipment poking in at the sides, so that bit's not new.Detective No. 27 posted:There's a reboot currently in the works. A reboot Buffy comic just started. https://www.comixology.com/Buffy-th...XN1bHRzU2xpZGVy They meet at Buffy's fast food job, Willow's gay from the start, they all have cell phones. It's still use the show's likenesses, which makes the thing feel very weird. At least a redone show couldn't have that.
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Almost Blue posted:It's kind of wild that it took so long for movies to stop being released cropped (or uncropped in some cases) in order to fit 4:3 TVs only for that to come back a few years later for 16:9 TVs. I was hoping we'd see the end of that garbage because there are widescreen tvs now but I underestimated people's resistance to knowing how things work.
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 07:54 |
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 09:29 |
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Seemlar posted:Into the Spiderverse: 3NN9 2QP1 KMBB GCN7 (movies anywhere) Thanks!
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lol https://twitter.com/BeerStix/status/1110070943811018752
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