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  • Birdleson wrote: » Yes, the music was awful. Don't think I noticed it that much on original release, but now it just really lets down a very good film. Would be nice to have a blu-ray release with a David Arnold alternative score available …
  • RC7 wrote: » Out of interest, does anyone remember the SE DVD Boxset retailing for £400 back in the day?! Yep, still got it :-). Although I bought it a little later, for about a third. I was very fond of the quality, until I saw the blu rays …
  • @DarthDimi - who next, Methuselah? In that picture it looks a granddad giving his grand-daughter some advice on her wedding day!
  • Quite interested in some of the new steelbooks, but can I justify buying FRWL and OHMSS yet again?! hmmm thinks…
  • During the Thunderball PTS when Bond escapes using the jet pack, when he lands in the wide shot he's a good few yards from the Aston, quick cut to med shot and he's right next to it!
  • @DarthDimi - poor Audrey. Another film and another leading man old enough to be her father or even grand-father! Didn't she ever get a leading man closer to her own age. Unfortunately this kind of sexism still exists in Hollywood today.
  • DrGorner wrote: » Also Aki climbing down the rope at the docks, is obviously abloke in a wig :)) I've always wondered why they didn't use a female stunt artist. Maybe they didn't have them back then.
  • Thread poses a question that can only be answered after having seen both films. If you're asking which I'm most looking forward, probably M:I5, not sure about UNCLE, looks like they've bollocksed up another classic tv programme.
  • Be interested in seeing the Dr No workprint. I could swear that when it first played on telly that Bond shot Dent in the back more than once. Seem to remember saying something along the lines of 'think he's dead James!' but as all other versions I'v…
  • It gets a fairly good mention in the 'making of' too.
  • Have to say it looks interesting - still, a long way to go.
  • Both actors just seem to have one expression each! Can't really see how anyone thinks Cavill would make a good Bond, just don't.
  • eddychaput wrote: » There have been some movie theatre screenings of the early Bond films. I listened to a podcast some time ago and one of the hosts had been allowed to watch DN. Granted, it was on a large movie screen, not a 50 inch Tv, but appa…
  • @Creasy47 - good luck with GoT, a mammoth undertaking I'm four books in and had to break for shorter reads, will get back to it sometime soon though. I thought Cujo was great with an ending the film shied away from.
  • @chrisisall - and it's got Maurice Binder titles, although they seem more Saul Bass (another Hitchcockian trait) that Binder. Terrific.
  • Just finished Scott Mariani's 11th Ben Hope action-thriller, The Martyr's Curse and am now reading Olaf Stapleton's Star Maker. Probably couldn't get two more different novels. Think Star Maker is going to be a strange metaphysical journey! Not even…
  • @Creasy47 - Road Work is a 'Richard Bachman' so it should 'feel' different to King's 'King' output, but I must say by the time he got to Thinner is was so King I'm not surprised someone put 2 and 2 together and came up with Stephen King!
  • @DarthDimi - not as passionate as your good self, but I'll watch anything with her in, as I think she was a very special person. Like Grace Kelly she has a certain poise and almost otherworldliness about her, a true 'star'. They really should show m…
  • @Creasy47 - just the regular blu-ray, don't have a multi-region player and I believe that Criterion are Region 1 only. Have to say the picture was good, but not stunning…but head and shoulders above the DVD given away with one of the papers a few ye…
  • Thepastykid wrote: » PropertyOfALady wrote: » Ed83 wrote: » 4k will be even more amazing when they release the films in that format. Which they will, and us Bond suckers will snap them right up and give them more money! CURSE YOU EO…
  • Charade - 1963 Universal Pictures - blu-ray. This Stanley Donen produced and directed comedy-thriller is so Hitchockian that a lot of people think it is one of the Master's! Starring Cary Grant as…well Cary Grant and the lovely Audrey Hepburn as the…
  • @DarthDimi - agreed, it is a strange sub-genre. Tried to watch One Million BC a while ago and gave up, must try again though. There is a stupidity in some of these films that really narks me. In She, as the men are lost in the desert, our 'hero' dri…
  • 007InVT wrote: » Just picked up the Rufus Sewell set of audio books in fact. I doubt I'll get through all of them any time soon but nice to have them. Samantha Bond narrates TSWLM too. If it's the same as mine (round tin box-set, without TB…
  • dominicgreene wrote: » "Me nam's Beuhd. Jahms Beuhd. Yeur gonna be in a proper mess when I call up me mates." :)) :)) :))
  • Looking on the BBFC site at the new information for the full SPECTRE trailer the film's release date is given as 23 October!
  • Prehistoric Women - The Hammer Collection - DVD. Shot in early 1966 this didn't get a release until July '68, I wonder why? Oh, that's why, it's utter crap! No really this Hammer does Carry on up The Jungle (though made before that film) is bad and …
  • @AceHole. No, I like that. James Bond from Newcastle - "Hadaaway an shite Blofeld!" :))
  • I agree with @sauvejmf, and I must say the reverse can be true. To me Bob Hoskins American accent is dire - mind not quite as bad as DVD's cockney one in Mary Poppins!
  • @DartDimi - yes it was (and only that one is a BS film - sorry post didn't read right), and the other two little films from the anthology are: The Shawshank Redemtion (Rita Hawyorth and The Shawshank Redemtion) and Stand By Me (The Body). The fourth…
  • @AceHole - yes but Superman per se is Kryptonian, therefore he wouldn't be all-american, his alter-ego, Clark Kent on the other hand is! Just saying that maybe Kal El would have a different voice/way of speaking to Clark. Just an observation. Not re…