Topic: Movie thread.

@RR529 Ohhhh, I've got so much guff, I'm not sure there's enough room to fit it all in one post.😁jk.

Of the new Star Wars, I've rewatched The Force Awakens the most, but I have a hard time with han solo getting killed, it's such a sad moment. I think the recent sequels have a certain excitement to them. I'm not saying they're better than other star wars, but I still like them. They've got some amazing, cool AF sci-fi visuals and design that just make me say, "wow", when I see them. I'm glad we got some new star wars with new modern effects.

Watched no time to die the other week. It's okay isn't it? Stuff happens, and things go bang. Better than Spectre, as this seemed to have a narative linking the scenes.
Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch were both really cool.
Still puzzled by the Marcel Proust reference.

@Rambler I'd say it was okay too, pretty much as forgettable as Spectre except that Daniel Craig is definitely not gonna play Bond again. Other than that, i would think that the movie could have done fine, being a bit shorter. It's the usual bond stuff though, some bang, some irony and entertaining enough for me

@Rambler It bugs me it's been 15 years and 4 movies since Casino Royale and he's still obsessing over Eva Green. I'm glad this Bond is dead as he's like an emo anti-social teenager that can't keep their job and won't shut up about his lost love. Can't Bond just watch any other Eva Green movie to be happy as she's normally got her kit off in them? ;p

Ana de Armas and her set pieces was great though and the highlight of the film for me. I would have loved for her to have more screen time.

Eva Green is quite the hottie however…..

Ana de Armas really rocked, best Bond Girl ever.

Watched it last weekend, definitely a great action movie! You didn't enjoy the John Wick movies that much? This movie is written by the same writer, though they don't have the same directors.

@PSVR_lover, @Solaine, @Jump

I did actually enjoy it, but it was indeed far too long. One of the things I find strange in Bond films is the lack of jeopardy, but I guess that is part of the charm.

There's a interesting bit towards the end of Spectre, where Bond looks overjoyed at the prospect of getting tooled up to take on the bad guys, and Swann walks away. (However they then spoiled it by making the end a rescue the princess story.). That bit of him should've been kept if he's going to settle down and not be a spy (he went rogue in License to kill, didn't he?). But it was him just moping in pretty surroundings.

I couldn't detect the hand of PW-B unless it was to do with Ana de Armas and Lashana Lynch actually being in the film and doing things. They were the best characters in it as well.

Lea Seydoux seemed to spend the film whispering "James" which I thought was a nice bit of continuity (and she was wasted in that role).

And what's with the bad guys having facial scarring? Its not the 70s.

They could do a Bond multiverse couldn't they?

@Rambler that was gonna happen at one point in the 80/90s. There was a script where it would have had Sean Connery, Roger Moore etc all team up together, as James Bond was just a codename to the best agent and there was gonna be something so big they would need all the Bonds to stop it. I can’t remember the reason it was never made but I reckon it was probably too much money for all of those actors.

It’s a shame it never happened, I would have loved to see Sean Connery slap Daniel Craig around shouting at him to stop being a moody emo kid.

@jump
If it was scripted by Catherine Breillat and directed by Gaspar Noe then I would be totally up for it.

@Rambler Nah, I don't want thought provoking art house creators near a Bond film.

Bond is a series of films about a toff who's job at the government is to kill people but his drinking, gambling and sex addiction often take him on detours from the mission so get Micheal Bay in!!! ;p

I've only just found out that Turning Red is a Disney+ exclusive. I've thought it was in cinemas for the past month. Well god damnit ._.

@jump - it would work. A film about a man utterly addicted to sex and murder, with an ego the size of a planet.
With all Bonds appearing, it would be a deconstruction into who Bond loves the most: himself (and yes, I mean that)
Filmed in a series of long takes, complete with violent strobing images, 20hz bass tones, and all one-liners flashed up on the screen in huge sans-serif lettering.

And Megan Fox in shorts

@Rambler Haha, almost sounds like a description of the film American Psycho.

@OldManHermit
My favourite bit with Bateman is in Glamoramara, where he's telling someone he really does have a coat of arms

@Slowdive I dunno, I’d put Casino Royale and Skyfall as equals but in different ways with Casino being more raw and Skyfall a more conservative take but updated for todays audience far better than say Die Another Day.

The plotting of Casino drives me made though. Bond follows a guy kills them and then looks at their phone to find the next guy to kill and look at their phone and repeat plus a break where he plays Poker for an hour. I was reading a book at the time I saw it about Operation Mincemeat, which was this fascinating bit of spy work during WW2 where they faked a Capitan dying to let the Germans find his body with his fake invasion plans to trick them which compared to Bond just looking at peoples phone makes Bond seems abit dumb, he could have at least seduced the girl at carphone warehouse to get her to unlock it!

What are your thoughts on Smith and Rock last night?

@Gryffin I'm pretty sure it was staged. I looked it up and they are both actors.

@Slowdive Spectre wasn't the worst of the Craig films but it's the most bloody infuriating. We all knew the brilliant Christoph Waltz is gonna be Blofeld but they insist on hiding it (but why bother calling it Spectre then?) so they give the boring revelation he's actually Blofeld and then followed it with a stupid plot twist to spice it up of Bond and Blofeld are actually brothers which instantly made me dislike the film. After that point I was like fudge this stupid film.

@Fizza Yeah, it was supposed to come to cinemas originally but was announced to be going straight to Disney+ at the last minute. My local cinema even had a poster for it. I don't know why this is still happening with Pixar films even now all of Disney's other films are coming out in cinemas again (though I'm sure Lightyear will get a cinema release). At least it will probably come out on DVD/Blu-ray; that's how I watched Soul and Luca as I don't have Disney+.

@Gryffin The memes were glorious.