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No Time to Die delayed until April 2. Lots of time to kill here I guess.
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I just picked up the Craig films in 4K because I finally took the plunge and upgraded. Was kinda looking forward to rewatching them before the new one but it looks like there’s plenty of time to do it now! Probably for the best.
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Oct 3, 2020 01:57
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My first Bond film was Oh Her Majesty's Secret Service. ABC used to show the Bond movies all the time, either as a Saturday or Sunday night movie.
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Oct 3, 2020 02:06
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Uncle Lloyd posted:No Time to Die delayed until April 2. Lots of time to kill here I guess. I'm very glad about this - I'm always excited to see a Bond movie in theaters and I really did not want to go to one any time soon.
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Oct 3, 2020 04:13
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Haven't seen official confirmation of it, but 'No Time to Die' getting moved seems like it was the final straw that made Regal close down, at least for a while. Cineworld Chain, Owner Of U.S. Regal, Closing Cinemas In Wake Of ‘No Time To Die’ Postponement quote:In response to MGM’s No Time to Die moving out of the Thanksgiving corridor to Easter weekend 2021, plus the overall lack of studio tentpoles, Cineworld is closing down 128 of its UK and Ireland cinemas as well as its U.S. Regal chain as of next week according to reports.
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Oct 4, 2020 04:24
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Isn't No Time to Die just essentially the same title as Die Another Day? Very low energy nomenclature here.
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Oct 4, 2020 09:20
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Vir posted:Haven't seen official confirmation of it, but 'No Time to Die' getting moved seems like it was the final straw that made Regal close down, at least for a while. Yeah cineworld will be back up in april. Furlough scheme probably wont still be on so that sucks for the staff. Theyll probably freeze my cineworld card again until then like they did during lockdown. They only started the payments up this week tho lol. Thinking of going in to see bill and ted before they temp close tho. Do find it funny everyone on twitter thinks its a perma closing and thus the death of cinema. If bond gets push back again i can see a few locations closing perma tho.
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Oct 4, 2020 16:13
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Uncle Lloyd posted:No Time to Die delayed until April 2. Lots of time to kill here I guess. But but but bond movies always come out in November 
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Oct 4, 2020 16:29
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exquisite tea posted:Isn't No Time to Die just essentially the same title as Die Another Day? Very low energy nomenclature here. Yeah, it's such a limp title. It desperately needs some Italo-gonzo punctuation punch: No, Mr Bond! It's Time to Die! etc.
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Oct 4, 2020 16:30
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I've not seen every Bond so I started a Bond watch through in prep for NttD. I just finished Goldfinger and god drat that movie absolutely owns. Dr No was fun and low key, From Russia With Love was great but chunks of it felt superfluous. Goldfinger was just chef kiss worthy though. My favorite has been The Living Daylights for a long time, but I haven't seen it in years so once I power through the Moores it'll be interesting seeing it again.
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Oct 4, 2020 19:07
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Living Daylights still rules. Favourite Bond car and one of the best car chases in the whole series Movie has a weird ending though. Everytime I watch the plane scene and it ends with them driving to Karachi and Bond saying he knows a great restaurant I'm like "ah, perfect way to finish off th-- oh, right, there's still a whole other villain to take down."
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Oct 4, 2020 19:39
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Just did a TimmyD marathon yesterday and one of the guys I was with said that Daylights was terrible! Needless to say he's, not my friend anymore...
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Oct 5, 2020 01:21
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exquisite tea posted:Isn't No Time to Die just essentially the same title as Die Another Day? Very low energy nomenclature here. tomorrow never dies and that exchange in twine calling back to ohmss was fun
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Oct 5, 2020 01:34
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How come the first half of hour of Thunderball has Bond chilling in a health clinic??? I hope this gets good  The opening theme by Tom Jones didn't give me good vibes.
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Oct 5, 2020 13:35
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:How come the first half of hour of Thunderball has Bond chilling in a health clinic??? I hope this gets good Start watching for the rape/blackmail of the clinic nurse, stay for the 3+ hours of slow underwater fighting.
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Oct 5, 2020 16:28
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:How come the first half of hour of Thunderball has Bond chilling in a health clinic??? I hope this gets good He's there recuperating from his last mission. I forget if it was supposed to be right after Goldfinger or some other mission he was on in between.
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Oct 5, 2020 16:44
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Lobok posted:He's there recuperating from his last mission. I forget if it was supposed to be right after Goldfinger or some other mission he was on in between. He’s smoking and drinking too much so he’s been sent to a health clinic to pass his physicals. The book details his health report and the guy is basically a permanent walking hangover using coffee and more cigarettes to keep moving.
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Oct 5, 2020 22:11
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exquisite tea posted:Isn't No Time to Die just essentially the same title as Die Another Day? Very low energy nomenclature here. No time to die Die another day Another day to die A time and date to expire An appointment to meet your maker another time another day Die on time Missed your time to die,reschedule never Oops your dead again Oops your dead again...again Who throws a shoe? Honestly,you fight like a woman.
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Oct 6, 2020 15:28
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Your Death is Important to Us: You Will Be Connected to A Gimmick Assassin Shortly
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Oct 6, 2020 15:39
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Lobok posted:Living Daylights still rules. Favourite Bond car and one of the best car chases in the whole series Living Daylights also has the best Bond score and one of Barry's best, period. One of the issues with Licence to Kill is the big drop in the Kamen score (and Goldeneye continues the bad score thing). Barry scores were always an almost inseparable part of Bond films, which is why the later Brosnan and first couple of Craig movies aped them a lot. Also has some good cinematography and really feels more epic than most Bond movies at times. I've grown to like the Mitchell second villain fight. The movie was weird in that the "henchman" was not just a henchman and an equal partner in the triumvirate of villains; he just happened to be the hands-on one so he gets taken out first, while Joe Don Baker is just the guy with the main plan and the other guy just kind of around and the catalyst.
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Oct 6, 2020 15:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARR51SFcm5Y This track from The Living Daylights has been on my workout playlist for ages. The orchestra plus the synth drums? Perfection itself.
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Oct 6, 2020 16:53
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I like the A-Ha song. The Bonding podcast seems down on it but they have a lot of bad takes.
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Oct 6, 2020 16:59
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Mantis42 posted:I like the A-Ha song.  I like it better than most of their early stuff to be honest.
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Oct 6, 2020 17:06
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Mantis42 posted:I like the A-Ha song. The Bonding podcast seems down on it but they have a lot of bad takes. WHAT!? It's one of the BEST ONES. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Oct 6, 2020 17:36
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:No time to die No Time to Die? No, Time to Die!
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Oct 6, 2020 18:19
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I have to watch The Living Daylights again. I mostly remember the great opening, the cello, Lawrence of Arabia, and a whistle activated weapon; but I have no memory of how any of these elements interact with the movie itself. I do remember that The Living Daylights was awesome though. Both Dalton movies ruled.
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Oct 6, 2020 18:30
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Mantis42 posted:I like the A-Ha song. The Bonding podcast seems down on it but they have a lot of bad takes. They don’t like you know my name. Awful thought imo
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Oct 6, 2020 19:50
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CelticPredator posted:They don’t like you know my name. Awful thought imo It's not totally different but I love the rock version. It's the one I got used to before the movie came out so the theatrical version always sounds odd to me. Same goes for a lot of the movie theme songs actually. The old 30th Anniversary Collection CD tracks are burned into my brain as the "real" songs so whenever I'm watching one of the movies the theme usually is different in some way. A slightly different arrangement, or different ending, or it's just shorter, etc.
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Oct 6, 2020 20:45
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I used to hate the opening themes so much when I was watching TBS marathons as a kid, but now I like them and I consider myself refined for liking them.
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Oct 6, 2020 22:45
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Yeah, puberty is usually a prerequisite for enjoying those opening credits music videos.
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Oct 6, 2020 23:06
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Lobok posted:It's not totally different but I love the rock version. It's the one I got used to before the movie came out so the theatrical version always sounds odd to me. I'm the opposite. I loved the rock version but the orchestral is so cool. I wish that one was more available. I have to always just go to YouTube to hear it.
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Oct 7, 2020 00:02
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I feel the same way about the opening of Temple of Doom with Anything Goes. Now that I think of it, everything in Club Obi-Wan feels very Bondish
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Oct 7, 2020 00:50
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Lobok posted:Same goes for a lot of the movie theme songs actually. The old 30th Anniversary Collection CD tracks are burned into my brain as the "real" songs so whenever I'm watching one of the movies the theme usually is different in some way. A slightly different arrangement, or different ending, or it's just shorter, etc. Was the the CD that came out between TND and TWINE? I checked that out of the library and ripped it and all of those versions are now the definitive ones for me too. Sometimes I do like to listen to the "alternates" Goldeneye with the really extended intro.
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Oct 7, 2020 01:29
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Coffee And Pie posted:I feel the same way about the opening of Temple of Doom with Anything Goes. Now that I think of it, everything in Club Obi-Wan feels very Bondish Spielberg was famously trying to make a Bond film, but ole Cubby Broccoli rejected him twice. He even asked permission to use a few notes from the score of Close Encounters on Moonraker. Spielberg agreed and asked for bond again... making it three times he was told to gently caress off. That's okay. He cast James Bond as Indy's dad in the third one. Also RE: Thunderball, they are trying to do the "i'm too old for this poo poo" gimmick. Connery wasn't actually Bond anymore... you guys know all this poo poo I just realized what thread this is. Firstborn fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Oct 7, 2020 01:49
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~Coxy posted:Was the the CD that came out between TND and TWINE? It was pre-Goldeneye so the newest song on it was Licence to Kill. But later releases would have had the same versions, yeah.
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Oct 7, 2020 03:31
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Firstborn posted:Spielberg was famously trying to make a Bond film, but ole Cubby Broccoli rejected him twice. He even asked permission to use a few notes from the score of Close Encounters on Moonraker. Spielberg agreed and asked for bond again... making it three times he was told to gently caress off. You’re thinking of Never Say Never Again, McClory’s own adaptation of the story (the Thunderball lawsuit is a whole rear end mess). That was when Connery was in his 50s. He was only in his 30s when he did all of the official ones except Diamonds.
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Oct 7, 2020 05:33
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Lobok posted:It was pre-Goldeneye so the newest song on it was Licence to Kill. But later releases would have had the same versions, yeah. I had that CD on constant repeat as well.
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Oct 7, 2020 13:31
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Coffee And Pie posted:I feel the same way about the opening of Temple of Doom with Anything Goes. Now that I think of it, everything in Club Obi-Wan feels very Bondish I always felt that Dalton going undercover in the desert to get the Macguffin and fighting in the airport felt very Raiders-ish, so full circle, I guess. Edit. gently caress, both movies have John Rhys Davies, no wonder. Edit: Harrison Ford is wearing Connerys tux from Goldfinger in that sequence. Darko fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Oct 7, 2020 13:33
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chitoryu12 posted:You’re thinking of Never Say Never Again, McClory’s own adaptation of the story (the Thunderball lawsuit is a whole rear end mess). That was when Connery was in his 50s. He was only in his 30s when he did all of the official ones except Diamonds. Yes, thank you!
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Bond watchthrough update: Thunderball is a hoot once it gets going but ooooh boy the first half hour/40 minutes are a bit of a slog. Yeah, there's juuuust a tad too much underwater action but I didn't mind it so much. Really dug the villain. Also I know it gets put on the top lists of Bond songs but the Tom Jones theme song......EAUGH. What a step down from Shirley Bassey's theme. I said what I said.  You Only Live Twice is. Well. Kind of boring? But I'm not sure why. Turning Bond Japanese has got to be the most hilariously awful disguise in a spy film ever conceived. It's so dumb. Some good action here and there and I can't deny that ninja squad vs Spectre was fun. Not one I'll revisit though. I've never seen On Her Majesty's Secret Service so this was a treat. Not only has this shot to one of my top Bonds but it's probably one of my favorite movies ever. Bond as a human person? Great action? Shot spectacularly? That ending??? I'm skipping Diamonds Are Forever because it's dogshit. It played a lot on TNT when I was a kid so I've seen it a few times and I truly, truly detest this movie. Onto the Moores. I have only vague recollections of A View to a Kill. Which ones do people say are the good ones? Paul McCartney: Live and let diiiiiie Henry McCullough: 
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