@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!
@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+.
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@Rambler I'd like to see them talk about how Bond card counts which is why he's so good at gambling but I guess maths isn't sexy. Like forget scenes where he's just taking women or creating explosions, I want to see him spend an hour in a hotel with a calculator and a book of mathematic theory!
Yeah, the Oscars thing is rubbish all around and it's hard to feel sympathetic but the annoying part is people will keep going on and on about this.
The Oscars in general were a bit rubbish all round. I'm surprised Don't Look Up was taken so seriously, it's more like an overly long SNL sketch than this gen's Doctor Strangelove (it also misses a big point of blaming media but not oil and gas companies' lobbying) which is a shame as I really liked Adam McKay's last few films but the biggest shock for me was Candyman wasn't even nominated for Best Cinematography as it was fantastically shot.
A man makes fun of a woman with an autoimmune condition, and another man resorts to violence (who had an abusive upbringing). No winners there really.
Having never seen a Bond film I thought you were still talking about Casino Royale in this comment. Sounds like the kind of thing that would happen in those movies.
@jump I now have an image of the film Pi with car chases and shootouts.
Yeah, horror films don't normally get a nod (The Get Out being a recent exception), which is strange as the best horror films are thematically much stronger than the average prestige drama thingies
@jump Interestingly enough, don't look up was probably my favorite out of those nominated, but it really seems to be hit or miss with this movie. Didn't win anything though, right?
I never saw Coda and am a bit baffled that it won since it didn't even get into the cinemas around my place which is certainly a first for any oscar movie, same with Jessica Chastain. I got no clue about that movie.
But generally i just wasn't too impressed with most movies from last year and the rest was pretty fine, no clue how west side story deserved anything... but that is just my two cents here
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@Solaine I found Don't Look Up to be too smug rather than witty which was made even worse going looking how stupid the media is whilst brining in another celeb cameo every few minutes. It weirdly reminded me of Josie & The Pussycats movie where they going on about the evil corporations but then half the film is littered with product placements. It's a shame as after Vice and The Big Short I thought Adam McKay really got the satirical dark dramedy down.
I watched West Side Story recently and I thought it really well done myself. It looked sharp, the production values pop, the pacing hits like a truck even at 150mins, it doesn't feel like a rehash of the stage/original and I looked up Ariana DeBose after watching it because I thought she was good and I didn't recognise her so I can't say I was surprised she won an Oscar.
I just rewatched Loki, this time with my Dad. I like it just as well as the first time I saw it. It's easily the best Disney+ show, no contest. It has tight writing, skilled acting, convincing set design, and professional cinematography. It's not nearly the quality of some HBO shows, like Lovecraft Country, but it's Disney's best attempt so far.
That's a big statement however I feel like you're forgetting The Mandalorian, which is so good even the people who want death to Disney's woke Star Wars admit they like The Mandalorian.
That's a big statement however I feel like you're forgetting The Mandalorian, which is so good even the people who want death to Disney's woke Star Wars admit they like The Mandalorian.
People definitely love The Mandalorion. And I wish I did too, but I don't feel quite as fondly about it.
There's a wordle-like called Framed that I've really been enjoying. You try to guess the movie by just a single frame. Framed.wtf
The other thing, in light of the news about Bruce Willis, is an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1985 featuring him. It's called Shatterday. It's directed by Wes Craven. And it's on YouTube. I enjoyed it.
I watched Sonic The Hedgehog yesterday with my 7yr old. They loved it, and I had a great time watching it with them, lots of fun, a well put-together movie. Dragged slightly towards the end, thought maybe it would have benefitted from a more abrupt ending, but overall really impressed with how well they realised it.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
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I watched the new adaptation of Death on the Nile. And then I learned there's an earlier adaptation from 1978, so I watched that to compare. Here are my reviews. https://boxd.it/2IPBU5 https://boxd.it/2J6J25
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