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  • Yeah, Noble House is worth seeing. I liked it enough to hold onto the DVD. There are a couple of Bondian connections beyond Brosnan's involvement: John Rhys-Davies has a key supporting role (and his character from TLD, Pushkin, appears in Michael…
  • I saw MURDER A LA MOD again recently. That movie is so much fun and should be better known.
  • I always wondered why Guy Haines has the same name as the protagonist of Patricia Highsmith's excellent novel Strangers on a Train (Haines is played by Farley Granger in the Hitchcock film adaptation). There's no connection between the two works.…
  • BULLITT is a great movie. The only issue that I have with it are the scenes with Jacqueline Bisset, which are a bit hackneyed (even for 1968). Otherwise it's a masterclass of a police procedural and thriller -- well-written, acted and especially dir…
  • I think it will be his last feature film, although he will continue to direct the occasional episodic television (as he did with ER and CSI) and produce and perhaps write/co-write other projects. Right now he seems far more interested in doing hi…
  • The only western that I'd like to see from Tarantino is his long-promised adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Forty Lashes Less One, an ingenious (and offbeat)) combination of western and prison story full of Leonard's clever dialogue and engaging charac…
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Many of the winners were humble and genuine people which was good to see. I was thinking the same thing. Too often the actors especially come off as embarrassing narcissists, but I don't feel that was the case …
  • So now there are two (Berry, Yeoh) Best Actress winners who starred in Brosnan-era Bond films, and four who have been nominated in that category (Berry, Yeoh, Judi Dench, Rosamund Pike).
  • Michelle Yeoh is always completely convincing in her roles. I thought she should've at least been nominated for an Academy Award 23 years ago for CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.
  • Shirley Eaton's real voice can be heard in the first episode of The Saint ("The Talented Husband"). Eaton gives a good performance and is easy to understand in that episode. I never understood why she was dubbed in GF.
  • I wonder how much Maibaum was being paid to crank out these increasingly silly scenarios.
  • OUT OF THE PAST is far superior to both KEY LARGO and DARK PASSAGE. DARK PASSAGE is a terrific novel by David Goodis that somehow doesn't click as a movie, despite all of the talented people in front of and behind the camera.
  • Fans of the Mitchum/Greer pairing in OUT OF THE PAST should absolutely check out THE BIG STEAL, a breezy, noir-ish chase film/comedy where the stars — quipping and setting off romantic sparks — make a very likable and engaging duo. It’s also interes…
  • I was so traumatized by the embarrassingly bad KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, I only just remembered that Indiana Jones married Karen Allen's character at the end of that movie. So where is she in this? Or their son for that matter? I really wante…
  • 007HallY wrote: » At no point are Bond's heroism nor his decisions as a man questioned, which would be interesting given the controversies with the character over the years. Without this NTTD relies instead on that element of tragedy. The film set…
  • I don't know what to think of this documentary. It's well-paced, and I liked seeing all of the interviews with John Barry, but there are some editing decisions that I don't understand. For example, "Live and Let Die" was the first Bond theme to b…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » Escalus5 wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (1972). The effects would work in a faithful modern day adaptation. It's a Cold War satire and more entertaining for adults t…
  • MaxCasino wrote: » Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (1972). The effects would work in a faithful modern day adaptation. It's a Cold War satire and more entertaining for adults than children, which is why I'm guessing it's …
  • I have to give Osborne and Davies credit for writing Bond as a guy who is not unflappable, but doing the most dangerous things imaginable and who is clearly scared sh*tless while doing them, to a humorous degree. As I mentioned already, that's a uni…
  • 007HallY wrote: » I love reading these first drafts. I think had the series not taken its hiatus/have done another with Dalton, Bond 17 would have likely been different than these scripts, perhaps closer to Goldeneye in plot and tone. They clearly…
  • Here's another question: If Connery had made the CASINO ROYALE film with Feldman, would the fans be bleating about it decades later, claiming that it's not "canon" and not really a Bond film, as they do with NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN?
  • You need to read the essay "Rogue Royale" by Jeremy Duns (included in the book Duns on Bond). It answers a lot of your questions and also gives a detailed overview of Ben Hecht's Casino Royale script, a serious attempt at an adaptation (not a spoof)…
  • I haven't read the Osborne/Davies script but did read the synopsis in Mark Edlitz's book -- and it sounds like there's some brilliant (and hilarious) stuff in there. My guess is it was shot down by MGW because of the overly comic tone.
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Salvador Dali Dream Sequence from Spellbound (1945) I recently learned that this sequence was not even directed by Hitchcock, but by William Cameron Menzies.
  • Ludovico wrote: » Great analysis @Revelator ! Questions for everyone: why did Bond succeed where Templar felt short? I have a few answers myself: mainly Fleming is a superior writer and Bond is unique in himself, if that makes sense. For all his …
  • It's weird to see Charteris describing Templar as a hero with "swashbuckling zest" from a more innocent time, when he sometimes wrote the character as a gleefully homicidal vigilante (particularly in The Saint in New York). I like Charteris's writin…
  • Soderbergh already has a terrific Bondian action- thriller among his credits: HAYWIRE.
  • I don't know enough about his career pre-Bond to judge, but I think that LOGAN LUCKY is easily the best thing Craig did during his tenure with EON. Sure, it flopped, but people should check it out anyway. I wish Soderbergh would direct a Bond fil…
  • DoctorKaufmann wrote: » Orson Welles took writing credits for CITIZEN KANE. The difference being that Welles actually did co-write CITIZEN KANE. Pauline Kael's foolish claims to the contrary were contested by Welles's friends and collaborat…
  • peter wrote: » As far as the the unfortunate scriptwriter; this is also Hollywood on any given day. I myself had been threatened and bullied by a producer who actually said to me, "I'll make sure you never work in this town again." Yes, the most c…