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LeonardPine

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LeonardPine
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
Goldfinger
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
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  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » MR model work and practical visual effects looks far better than the majority of the modern crap . Absolutely agree. 👍
  • ToTheRight wrote: » Great viewing and this remains my number 1 favorite 007 film. Me too. Always makes me happy watching GF..!
  • Venutius wrote: » Pretty much says what I think, tbh. QOS was the perfect follow-up to CR, SF was a major retreat to safer and more familiar ground and they threw away the gains they'd made. For a long time, the media just seemed to parrot the sam…
  • delfloria wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Not a fan of LTK I'm afraid. Kudos for trying something different, but it didn't quite work. So it's NTTD for me. Many faults, but I still love it. Just out of curiosity, how do you square away the …
  • Not a fan of LTK I'm afraid. Kudos for trying something different, but it didn't quite work. So it's NTTD for me. Many faults, but I still love it.
  • Creasy47 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Creasy47 wrote: » If you want a good, surrealist time with a Lancaster-led film, check out The Swimmer. I love how the film morphs and takes on an entirely new, slightly disturbing and psychological f…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » If you want a good, surrealist time with a Lancaster-led film, check out The Swimmer. I love how the film morphs and takes on an entirely new, slightly disturbing and psychological form in the last half hour or so. Damn good stuf…
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 directed by William Friedkin, no one is innocent in this underrated thriller that pulls no punches. The movie has a great cast of well known actors in the early stages of there care…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » patb wrote: » The Bourne Identity (2002) - really does hold up well after 20 years. Only those CRT monitors let it down...(the trailer has dated though..very 80s) I have all 4 of Damons Bourne movies on tape. (I h…
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Tourist Trap: Uncut 1979 an early role for Tanya Roberts in a weird and very creepy 70's slasher about a telekinetic psychopath who is obsessed by mannequins. Love the Pino Donnagio score!
  • After seeing The Covenant I'd say Guy Ritchie has just won the audition for the job! With none of his usual traits, he's made a taut action thriller. Full of drama and deadly serious. Come on EON, he's just proved he's the man for the job. And…
  • Revelator wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » I don't think I've ever seen that. I'm still waiting for Peckinpah's The Killer Elite to turn up on bluray. The Killer Elite was released on Blu-Ray in 2014 by the now defunct company Twilight Tim…
  • Zekidk wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Cannot for the life of me get the massive appeal of Last Crusade. Blasphemy! It's one of the most entertaining and flawless movies ever made. So much fun action, and still it has much more emphasis on …
  • Mathis1 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » The Osterman Weekend (1983) Director Sam Peckinpahs last film. I remember seeing it in the Cinema, and not recalling much of it. My brother bought me this for my birthday a couple of …
  • Mathis1 wrote: » j_w_pepper wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » Yeh mate. Am debating whether or not I will bother with the latest one! Hated 'Crystal Skull' and I just want to remember 'Raiders' for the superb action/adventure it is, with a nearly …
  • Mathis1 wrote: » The Osterman Weekend (1983) Director Sam Peckinpahs last film. I remember seeing it in the Cinema, and not recalling much of it. My brother bought me this for my birthday a couple of weeks ago! Based on a Robert Ludlum novel (He …
  • Watched Crystal Skull the other day for the first time in years. Not half as bad as I remember. I quite liked the Mutt character. He's first appearance a nice homage to Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The trouble is, after a pretty good first hour th…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Been on a Walter Hill kick of late. Finally got Southern Comfort on bluray. Absolutely love this film! The stranger(s) in a strange land theme is so well real…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Been on a Walter Hill kick of late. Finally got Southern Comfort on bluray. Absolutely love this film! The stranger(s) in a strange land theme is so well realised. Even to the Cajun village scene at the e…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Been on a Walter Hill kick of late. Finally got Southern Comfort on bluray. Absolutely love this film! The stranger(s) in a strange land theme is so well realised. Even to the Cajun village scene at the …
  • Been on a Walter Hill kick of late. Finally got Southern Comfort on bluray. Absolutely love this film! The stranger(s) in a strange land theme is so well realised. Even to the Cajun village scene at the end has a real menace to it even before the h…
  • CR 67 is excruciatingly bad. A poxy dog's dinner of a film. What a disgusting waste of an incredible book. (Sorry I'm in a bad mood tonight..😁) So it's NSNA for me. For all its faults I really enjoy it. Connery is great, as are all the cast. Some…
  • SIS_HQ wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Diamonds Are Forever I really do enjoy this book. Very underrated IMO. So many great moments and characters. Really love the stuff in Saratoga Springs and Vegas. Fleming's travelogue is second to none i…
  • Diamonds Are Forever I really do enjoy this book. Very underrated IMO. So many great moments and characters. Really love the stuff in Saratoga Springs and Vegas. Fleming's travelogue is second to none in this story. He really has a distaste for …
  • Venutius wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » Interesting video with some great points.. Interesting idea that QOS's editing was designed to obscure just how violent the film is and so keep a PG13 rating, because the quick cuts meant that …
  • Interesting video with some great points..
  • CrabKey wrote: » MaxCasino wrote: » Reading Colonel Sun at the moment. It feels like it should have been Dalton’s 3rd movie. I can’t see the other Bonds pulling the role as well as Dalton in the book. Update it for the nineties, obviously. I’v…
  • ToTheRight wrote: » Time for a new ranking.......... 1. GOLDFINGER 2. DR. NO 3. CASINO ROYALE 06 4. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 5. THUNDERBALL 6. OCTOPUSSY/NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN 7. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE 8. NO TIME TO DIE 9. THE LIVING DAYLIG…
  • brinkeguthrie wrote: » LeonardPine wrote: » brinkeguthrie wrote: » 13" from tractor treds at the bottom, to the tip of the tank nose. Had to put a tiny strip of tape at the bottom of the bay doors to keep them from gradually always falling…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » The race to the circus is really well executed by Glen and his team! When the guard at the airbase shouts down the radio "And he's wearing a red shirt!!!!" It got a massive laugh from the audience when I first saw it at the…