“On Her Majesty’s” does intrigue me, just never got around to it…the problem with the other 50 or so is that they all seem to be the same movie all over again (including Connery’s) - have to be a spy nut to sit through them all, I guess.
I’ve watched the Scarface last night.
It’s been over 10 years since I’ve seen it last time, so I was little surprised how it felt little bit dated.
Also, sound (dialogue) felt weird at times, like a bad dub - I thought maybe it was due to my tv channel, but I see that others on imdb have noticed that too.
Anyway, I still think it is a great movie. Camp, gore, over the top violence and acting, it all fits well with the aim of the movie to be in your face and to portrait destructive nature of our main guy who wants it all. And as usual, there’s DePalma’s signature style.
I second that the Daniel Craig and George Lazenby flicks (flick) are (is) the best ones (one), but License To Kill with Timothy Dalton is pretty much an R rated hard action film with a PG-13 with no fun in it whatsoever and its one of my favorites. Roger Moore’s Bond flicks are goddamn awful but hilariously fun, I first saw Man With The Golden Gun (arguably the worst Bond film with a switchblade wielding midget, Christopher Lee being awesome, and a fucking goddamn stupid sidekick chick in a bikini that causes mischief by accidentally bumping her ass or boobs into stuff triggering trap doors etc) when I was 7 or 8 and was hooked. I’m going to watch Casino Royale (06) again either tonight or tomorrow, I think that one is definitely in the top 3.
The Man With The Golden Gun isn’t the worst Bond film. Moonraker and A View To A Kill are worse for instance.
The worst of all is decidedly Die Another Day and there is no doubt about it. I like most of Moore’s Bond flicks (most of them are campy, but still fun), while Die Another Day is a true piece of shit. Erratic, overwhelmed with bad CGI effects, absurd… it doesn’t work and make sense at all. I don’t argue Moore’s Bond movies doesn’t have plotholes. They’re forgivable for me. But not Brosman surfing on a 100 meter wave.
The worst of all is decidedly Die Another Day
That’s my favourite one!
;D
This looks classy:
Geez, when I re-watch this clip, I can’t help smiling… what a garbage…
I still can’t quote, have to copy it and put the quote symbols each side.
It’s absolute Dogshit, there’s some Bond’s that I don’t think are that good but I will still watch them and think they are ok but not this one, terrible.
It’s hard for me to say what the best one is, even though it’s obviously not the best I do find Live And Let Die the most fun and have probably seen it the most.
Same case with me. This surfing scene… gash… :
As I said before, I enjoy most of Moore’s Bond flicks. Live And Let Die was very good - Bond meets blaxploitation - loads of fun! And I love this ending - creepy and remarkably unconventional!
I enjoy all the Bond films to a certain extent, although Moonraker, A View to a Kill and Die Another Day are pretty poor as films and I doubt would be watched today if they weren’t Bond movies. Dalton’s pair were very good and it’s a shame he never seemed to “take off” like other James Bond actors, because I think he had a lot of potential. Roger Moore’s got increasingly cheesy and camp and Ian Fleming seemed to become a more and more distant memory under his tenure but that said I do like all of his apart from Moonraker and A View to a Kill.
In A View to a Kill he looks like a grandpa jumping with a PPk on the Eiffel Tower, LOL. 
But generally… despite its multiple flaws, I enjoyed it.
Remember an interview with director John Glen who said Roger Moore could have done a couple of more Bond films after A View To A Kill…not sure about that .
It would be awesome… I’d like to see him with a gray beard and beating villains with a cane. ;D
Watched over the last few days:
[size=12pt]Majesteit [/size] (Majesty - 2010, Peter de Baan)
Biographical movie about Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (who has - like the pope - annouced her abdication) and her marriage with Prince Claus von Amsberg, an ambitious man who wasn’t able to lead the life he had planned because he married a woman of royal descent. Things went from bad to worse for him after Beatrix had become queen of the Netherlands, and he was forced to live an idle life. The situation caused a series of depressions which ruined his health.
Could have been a great film, but unfortunately the script is highly hypothetical in a couple of occasions, and Carine Crutzen (otherwise not a bad actress) is miscast as the queen.
[size=12pt]The Far Country [/size] (Anthony Mann)
We’ve been discussing the movie before. I still think it’s a good Mann western, but not one of his best. John McIntire is great though, as the laughing villain. Almost plays like a comedy with some vaudeville moments as well, but the central story is quite bitter, with McIntire as the hanging judge (based on a historic person) terrorizing an entire region and a shootout with the two opponents shooting at each other while crawling through the mud of a mining town.
[size=12pt]The Man from Laramie[/size] (Anthony Mann)
The best of the Mann westerns I recently rewatched. Great widescreen photography, great story, great acting. Some thought the emphasis is too much on this family falling apart, and not enough on Stewart, but I didn’t see it that way.
Just found out that Mann originally had John Wayne in mind for the role of the patriarch. The project never came off the gound, and the script was then rewritten as a Mann/Stewart western (probably still the reason that the Stewart part is relatively small).
I watched Rubber last night…the story of a rubber tire named Robert that rolls through the desert blowing up animals and humans with his psychokinetic powers.
Yup.
Psycho Legacy - Documentary with actors, directors, writers etc who were involved in the films. Worth a watch and running just short of 90 minutes it doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. The Blu Ray is alright but a DVD would have sufficed.
The Wayward Bus - One of them films after buying it I wondered why I did so. Turned out to be alright, some of the scope black & white cinematography is really nice, there’s some great scenes of miniatures with the bus in various states of peril and Mansfield looks stunning.
Tenebre
I also tried to watch Argento’s Phantom of the Opera again but I couldn’t watch it through. Unbelievably bad film.
Phantom Of The Opera was the first of Argento’s “Pieces Of Shit” in my opinion.
The Card Player the second worst.
Why not?
The Man with a Golden Cane
A Quantum of Viagra
Live and Let Lie