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  5. Posted

    It did seem overly quippy though, like Bond had some shitty comeback for everything that didn't even make sense half the time.

     

    This was a problem throughout the Moore era, IMO. Connery was quick-witted but you got the sense he could also snap your neck if you pissed him off. Roger Moore never really pulled off the darker aspects of a character that kills people for a living.

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    I have to agree to an extant, I don't think A View to a Kill is that bad, I'm biased because I love Bond movies even the shitty ones, and I have a maybe masochistic affection for the Roger Moore era, but there are so many other Roger Moore Bond's that are bad but also more fun to watch, like Live and Let Die is this crazy racist attempt at a blaxploitation movie that ends with Yaphet Koto being inflated like balloon and Bond in Harlem acting like he just landed on Mars. or Man With the Golden Gun which has Roger Moore fight Herve Villacheze then lock him in a suitcase and both have a recurring racist country sheriff character, J W Pepper. or Octopussy were the climax involves Bond dressing up like a clown and infultrating circus to disarm a hidden nuke, also it has a woman it it named Octopussy!

     

    Live and Let Die definitely sits atop the pile of insane Bond flicks.

     

    "So we got Yaphet Kotto as our heavy."

     

    "Really? Wow, that's great! What's his evil plan going to be? Creating a race of superhumans? Destory the world with a supervolcano? Secretly provoke a war between the US and China?"

     

    "We thought we'd have him trying to take over the drug trade with a psychic virgin and his network of henchmen that operate out of his chain of soul food restaurants."

     

    "....."

     

    "Oh, and we thought we'd throw in voodoo because that will explain why all the islanders stay away from the heroin. Because they're scared of the spirits haunting the area."

     

    "......................"

     

    "You aren't saying much..."

     

    "I'm trying to decide between putting my head in the oven or jumping right out the window."

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    Die Another Day is truly terrible, but as I argued elsewhere I also think it's incredibly un-fun to sit through. No one in that movie is being fun terrible, they're just being generically terrible. The bad guy doesn't even chew the scenery with any aplomb. He just sort of wanders around and yells. Madonna is bad but Madonna is always bad so it's doesn't even leave any kind of impression on you. It's less a movie than a mediocre party that you're glad you left but can't really remember a week later.

     

    But A View To A Kill...everyone and everything is so distinctively and uniquely bad. Re-watchably bad. Like 'wait, did I actually hear/see that right?' bad. That snowboarding Beach Boys opening (that isn't even the real Beach Boys!) where Moore literally defies gravity like he's in a goddam Looney Tunes short...Great Grandad Bond sleeping with girls 30+ years younger than he is...that bizarre sex scene with Grace Jones...it's just such an odd but enjoyable mess.

     

    PS - I have never understood why people shit on Quantum of Solace so much. Yes, it's a goofy title but I actually appreciate what a lean story it is. I also appreciated that the relationship between Bond & Montes lacked a romantic subtext. In terms of plot and character it's basically just an addendum to Casino Royale but I still thought it was a solid effort.

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    This doesn't look as bad as the force awakens. I was pissed right off when I watched that this weekend. MInd you I was really upset and not in a happy place. but I just did not feel the force or love in that trailer.

     

    Really? Whatever one might think of the prospect of a new Star Wars movie, the trailer is at least pleasing aesthetically. The CGI in this thing looks worse than the CGI in Judgement Day, a movie that is now 23 years old. That shot of Arnold and his robot hand? Oof.

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    Even though I think there are worse Bond movies (Roger Moore's entire run is a real shit pile tbh, aside from The Spy Who Loved Me), I think A View To A Kill is a good pick because it's also fun to watch. You have John Steed, Christopher Walken doing the best Christopher Walken impression ever, and Grace Jones portraying an escaped mental patient. All the ingredients for a good Bond movie were there, but the whole thing tips just far enough over the line that it doesn't quite work.

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    Yeah, that would be hilarious.

     

    "So, now the 'adults' are talking. I like to season my adult dialogue with a lot of vulgarity...that way you know it's serious and 'adult talk'. I don't want it to come off like a bunch of pre-pubescents discoverying curse-words for the first time and going super overboard. I feel I have a real gentle hand here. After-all, I don't want my characters to come off as one-dimensional morons who can only elucidate a scene through a monosylabbic shout of profanity."

     

    "So here, I wanted Emilio to be real "aw, what the f***?!". But how to communicate, "aw, what the f***?!" to the audience? Inspiration struck when Emilio was looking at the script and said, "aw, what the f***?!". I was like, "Nailed it.", and we just incorporated it into the script."

     

    Sounds like Rob Zombie's creative process.

  22. Posted

    Natasha's accent was all over the five boroughs, but I think it was just a combination of her playing along as well as being a bit of a weirdo (an extremely fun and entertaining weirdo, mind you). PFT made several references to it over the course of the episode. But I'm sure being an actress plays into it as well, as I've seen interviews with her where it's crazy thick and others where you can barely hear it. Gillian Anderson does a similar thing, where sometimes she's speaking in an English accent and other times she sounds like she's from the midwest.

     

    I thought Mary was great. I kept thinking the whole 'Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassss' schtick was going to get old but it just became increasingly funny to me. I hope to see her return (both the comedian and the charac).

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    After painting a room with all the windows shut I was given visions of the future and saw the plot summary for God's Not Dead Part VIII:

     

    Our hero Josh Wheaton - now an 87-year-old senior with dementia - has just been checked into the Shady Acres Retirement Community. Upon arriving, he immediately encounters head nurse Evel Persecutoria, a puppy-murderer who forces all new patients to sign a declaration saying, 'God is dead and killing puppies is great' in order to receive medical care. Josh vaguely recalls something similar happening before, and because he can't actually remember his name he refuses to sign. This results in President Atheismo Obamacare III calling for a televised debate between Josh and Nurse Evel. After approaching the podium, Josh immediately yells out, 'WHERE AM I?', poops himself, and dies. Nurse Evel feels sorry for him and is going to attempt resuscitation but is subsequently crushed by a falling stage light (this is dramatic irony, as earlier in the story she gives a speech about how stage lights disprove God). Josh then awakes in heaven, where he's disappointed to see the woman with cancer from the first movie. He immediately files a complaint with the nearest administrative angel, who explains that they all felt that she had gone through enough, what with the cancer and the Dean Cain dating and the Duck Dynasty marathons.

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  25. Posted

    I'm not watching this and I definitely wouldn't expect the team to, either, but we really need to discuss these subplots:

     

    Against the backdrop of the debates, a series of peripherally related subplots develop. Radisson dates Mina (Cory Oliver), a Christian whom he often belittles in front of his fellow atheist colleagues. Her brother Mark (Dean Cain), a successful businessman and atheist, refuses to visit their mother, who suffers from dementia. Mark's girlfriend, Amy (Trisha LaFache), is a left-wing blogger who writes articles critical of Duck Dynasty. When she is diagnosed with cancer, Mark dumps her. A Muslim student named Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) secretly converts to Christianity and is disowned by her father when he finds out.

     

    I'm going to assume watching so much Duck Dynasty is what gave her the cancer, and they've just wildly misinterpreted it as God's punishment.

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