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Brosnan would be regarded as one of, if not the best Bonds if the movies he was in weren’t loving awful. He was fantastic in them but just surrounded by the dumbest poo poo at all times.
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May 5, 2020 23:07
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Goldeneye is a great bond movie tho? The rest are pretty bad, although The World is Not Enough was good just because the two villains were interesting and kind of a change up from the usual.
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May 5, 2020 23:24
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Runcible Cat posted:It's time for Modesty Blaise to finally get the films she deserves. Not sure if you're aware but there are actually a bunch of Modesty Blaise movies, I just watched the one from 1966 a few nights ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRd8wL0d3m4
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May 5, 2020 23:25
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Agrinja posted:Was Atomic Blonde good? Watch this action scene and decide for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXrcFBJXjM The answer is yes.
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May 5, 2020 23:29
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1redflag posted:Goldeneye is a great bond movie tho? The rest are pretty bad, although The World is Not Enough was good just because the two villains were interesting and kind of a change up from the usual. Whoops, you’re right, meant to exclude Goldeneye from the Brosnan bond sucking thing. It basically exists to make the other brosnan movies look even worse in comparison.
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May 5, 2020 23:36
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1redflag posted:The World is Not Enough was good just because the two villains were interesting and kind of a change up from the usual. I will go to my grave insisting "I never miss" is a strong contender for all time best Bond One-liner It's a little contrived in how they get there, to be sure, but still
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May 5, 2020 23:44
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wizzardstaff posted:Watch this action scene and decide for yourself. This loving rad I'm going to have to watch that movie.
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May 5, 2020 23:47
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1redflag posted:Goldeneye is a great bond movie tho? thats the only james bond title ive ever played
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May 5, 2020 23:50
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Phy posted:I will go to my grave insisting "I never miss" is a strong contender for all time best Bond One-liner “I thought Christmas only comes once a year” was similarly contrived but 
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There was a failed Modesty Blaise pilot where the title character is played by horrifically skinny woman.
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d3lness posted:The James Bond IP is the Final Fantasy of movies. I'm going to regret posting this because now we're going to see riled up FF fans. No, this is absolutely right.
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May 6, 2020 02:19
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Agrinja posted:This loving rad I'm going to have to watch that movie. I thought the movie was good, but be warned that that fight scene is the best part of the movie. It's the equivalent of the Red Circle scene in John Wick.
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I too thought the film is good. And I will always recommend it, but with caveats. Namely, very stylish with not a whole lot of substance, and the story is very arbitrary. It's mainly there as conveyance to set pieces, and to set up emotional moments without having a concrete purpose. And the ending is just tonally off and seemingly undeserved. Like it was spliced from another movie that happened to have John Goodman and Charlize Theron in a platinum blonde wig. That said, the style meter is off the charts (without getting sickeningly so), the soundtrack is killer, and the fight scenes I would argue are John Wick tier (and should, since it's by one of the original John Wick guys). SomeJazzyRat has a new favorite as of 04:21 on May 6, 2020 |
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In the US, Goldfinger was actually On Her Majesty's Secret Service and From Russia With Love is actually Thunderball.
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I wonder when we're going to get a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reboot. ...Roald Dahl Cinematic Universe.
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Runcible Cat posted:It's time for Modesty Blaise to finally get the films she deserves.
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d3lness posted:The James Bond IP is the Final Fantasy of movies. I'm going to regret posting this because now we're going to see riled up FF fans. I only watch Bond films in the original Japanese
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Debunk This! posted:Not sure if you're aware but there are actually a bunch of Modesty Blaise movies, I just watched the one from 1966 a few nights ago: That's why I said "deserves"! The 60's one is a fun stupid campy 60s action movie, and I love stupid campy 60s action movies (hi there original Casino Royale!), but it's Modesty in name only. My Name Is Modesty is pretty good, but I want Willie Garvin in my Modesty movies dammit. (Also my internal nerd pedant bitches about Lob turning out to be a martial arts master. NO THAT'S NOT HOW THAT RELATIONSHIP WORKS. I can see why they streamlined it for script purposes, but it still annoys me.)
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May 6, 2020 12:13
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder when we're going to get a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reboot. Featuring 2 versions of Willy Wonka and the giant bugs from James and the Giant Peach. And the BFG.
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May 6, 2020 12:17
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Runcible Cat posted:Featuring 2 versions of Willy Wonka and the giant bugs from James and the Giant Peach. And a loving war over who the canonical Matilda and Miss Trunchbull are.
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May 6, 2020 12:33
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Cleretic posted:And a loving war over who the canonical Matilda and Miss Trunchbull are. you made me worry that the movie got a remake that I managed to never hear about but I guess you're talking about the musical?
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May 6, 2020 12:39
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Cleretic posted:And a loving war over who the canonical Matilda and Miss Trunchbull are. For those do it like Sonic Generations - Mara Wilson and Pam Ferris reprising their roles and butting heads, each of them paired with the actress that played the character on stage. An older Matilda mentoring a younger one.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wonder when we're going to get a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reboot. We need to make it darker for modern audiences. A Gritty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Anticheese posted:We need to make it darker for modern audiences. A Gritty Chitty Bang Bang. Have you read the original book? French gangsters and dynamite! chitoryu covered it at the end of his James Bond thread.
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flatluigi posted:you made me worry that the movie got a remake that I managed to never hear about but I guess you're talking about the musical? Apparently, Netflix has the rights to make a film adaptation of the stage musical. As far as I know, the only casting that we know of so far is that that Ralph Fiennes is playing Miss Trunchbull. Which sounds so weird it has to be a mistake at first, but apparently Trunchbull has been traditionally played by men in the musical. Makes some degree of sense to me, since Trunchbull is a character type that you'd really struggle to regularly find stage actresses for in different productions; it's just more feasible to cast a man.
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Runcible Cat posted:And the BFG. I didn't know Roald Dahl wrote the DOOM novels! 
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Cleretic posted:apparently Trunchbull has been traditionally played by men in the musical. Makes some degree of sense to me, since Trunchbull is a character type that you'd really struggle to regularly find stage actresses for in different productions; it's just more feasible to cast a man. Now there’s some tricky marketing. Well, not to the masses maybe, but this could inadvertently come off as if they’re unwilling to find a hefty, intimidating woman to fill the role. Every time “oh we just can’t find someone” comes up it turns out there’s plenty of talent out there that some casting director/staff were too lazy to go out and find, and potentially had unconscious bias against due to social norms. Reminds me of a couple years ago when Scarlett Johansson (lol) announced she wanted to star in a biopic about gangster Dante “Tex” Gill but the reaction was so negative she withdrew from the film. *Pam Ferris is the only Trunchbull imo, she was incredible
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Now there’s some tricky marketing. Well, not to the masses maybe, but this could inadvertently come off as if they’re unwilling to find a hefty, intimidating woman to fill the role. Every time “oh we just can’t find someone” comes up it turns out there’s plenty of talent out there that some casting director/staff were too lazy to go out and find, and potentially had unconscious bias against due to social norms. Reminds me of a couple years ago when Scarlett Johansson (lol) announced she wanted to star in a biopic about gangster Dante “Tex” Gill but the reaction was so negative she withdrew from the film. I don't remember, but did John Travolta cop any poo poo for playing the Divine role in the Hairspray musical movie? Is Sean Hayes copping any poo poo for his new movie Lazy Susan?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Now there’s some tricky marketing. Well, not to the masses maybe, but this could inadvertently come off as if they’re unwilling to find a hefty, intimidating woman to fill the role. Every time “oh we just can’t find someone” comes up it turns out there’s plenty of talent out there that some casting director/staff were too lazy to go out and find, and potentially had unconscious bias against due to social norms. Reminds me of a couple years ago when Scarlett Johansson (lol) announced she wanted to star in a biopic about gangster Dante “Tex” Gill but the reaction was so negative she withdrew from the film. Oh, I absolutely think this is a bad move, because a Netflix production doesn't really have the casting pool excuse that a stage production would have. They absolutely have the ability to cast a near-perfect Trunchbull, they just aren't (well, probably aren't, maybe Fiennes will knock it out of the park). Although yeah, no matter who they cast as Trunchbull, they could never top Pam Ferris. Maybe that's another reason they didn't try; any big, intimidating woman in the role will inevitably be compared to a perfect performance, you have to go an entirely different direction.
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Cleretic posted:Oh, I absolutely think this is a bad move, because a Netflix production doesn't really have the casting pool excuse that a stage production would have. They absolutely have the ability to cast a near-perfect Trunchbull, they just aren't (well, probably aren't, maybe Fiennes will knock it out of the park). Without knowing anything about the musical version they may be going with the British pantomime tradition of having the Dame played by a man. But yeah, there'll be any number of solidly-built women out there who can sing while hammer-throwing a kid through a window by their pigtails. Give them a chance!
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Yeah, musical theatre in particular has a long tradition of women who specialise in those kinds of roles. Every parody of an opera has a valkyrie. There are probably plenty of actresses that are known for those kinds of roles that they could have pulled from.
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May 6, 2020 15:11
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Rebel Wilson as Trunchbull. You know it's coming
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Why not go with Initimidatingly huge and muscular for Trunchbull? Say, Gwendoline Christie.
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Christie is just super tall. What you want is Rachel House. She's got the right mean face and shed body. Topaz in Thor: Ragnarok.
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Detective No. 27 posted:In the US, Goldfinger was actually On Her Majesty's Secret Service and From Russia With Love is actually Thunderball. And weirdly, Thunderball was actually Doki Doki Panic.
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Joe Don Baker should have been in every Bond film.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Joe Don Baker should have been in every Bond film. agreed
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