ProfJoeButcher
About
- Username
- ProfJoeButcher
- Location
- Bless your heart
- Joined
- Visits
- 12,813
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Location
- Bless your heart
- Favourite Fleming Novel
- Dr No
- Favourite Bond Film
- SPECTRE
- Favourite Bond Actor
- Timothy Dalton
- Posts
- 1,732
Comments
-
Creasy47 wrote: » Damn, it's a shame it didn't make the Top 10 at least, as I had it at #2. It's my favorite Arnold score and one of my favorites in the series, clearly. From the opening main menu music that instantly puts me in the mood to watch …
-
I had it way up at number three. This to me is the kind of score Thomas Newman should have (and could have) done. It's modern, occasionally minimalistic, but always memorable and engaging.
-
I was ready to come in and say Octopussy's score was underrated, but I had it at 14! It's not as memorable as an OHMSS or YOLT, but Octopussy's score is tremendously effective. There's a lot of darker, sneakier, more ominous stuff in it that help…
-
MakeshiftPython wrote: » So no, Kathleen Kennedy isn’t exactly setting out to do a female spin on The Handmaid’s Tale where women take over the world and the men are forced into roles of breeding stock. This is pretty funny, but of course t…
-
@AstonLotus , again, if you think a feminist agenda involves having the female lead beg men for help, you're quite mistaken. These would have been better movies if any kind of agenda had been behind them. Only one character in this trilogy got an…
-
@mtm Well, sorry for that then. I see what you mean and it wasn't quite intended. There is a frustrating slipperiness to these discussions. You do occasionally qualify things and say that "not all these people are misogynist/racist", but if any s…
-
I had it at 19. It just sounds like it could belong to most any movie, and I don't find a couple hints of the Bond theme leading to the song proper particularly genius. But it's fine overall.
-
mtm wrote: » You're quite right that Rogue One gets a pass, but there doesn't have to be consistent logic to these accusations and they can't be held up to it, hence some of the complaints about Rey indeed are misogynistic. Well, it doe…
-
mtm wrote: » Ripley is always right in those films: everything she does turns out to be right, she runs rings around the white male Army leader who is shown to be incompetent (plus you have Burke as the ultimate embodiment of the treacherous whi…
-
MakeshiftPython wrote: » mtm has a point. People just need to stop getting so hung up on “wokeism”. It’s sad. If ALIEN and ALIENS had come out today you know there would be limp dicks on the internet accusing the filmmakers of “shoving an agend…
-
DarthDimi wrote: » mtm wrote: » RogueAgent wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Film censors bow to snowflakes: Classic films including Rocky, Flash Gordon and Star Wars are slapped with stricter ratings to app…
-
Agent007391 wrote: » mtm wrote: » Yes I must admit that two Mandalorian series seems a bit odd, but I haven’t finished S2 yet so maybe it becomes obvious. Is it a bit weird they haven’t done a female-lead series yet? Or have I missed somethin…
-
Top ten here too. Licence to Kill is the only non-Barry score where I don't see how John Barry would have actually done anything better. There are both Barry and non-Barry scores I like a bit more than this one, but Michael Kamen didn't go wrong …
-
I love most of them. But they usually have some quirky thing to make them interesting, like a gadget car, or a dead driver in LALD, to make them interesting. OHMSS, FYEO, and QOS are probably the only films that have a great, classic, rough-and-tumb…
-
I think it was my number eight too. After Quantum, it's easily my favorite Arnold score.
-
IGotABrudder wrote: » So SP’s chase is just following in a long tradition of slightly tension-less car chases in Bond films. That's kind of a less charitable version of what I'm saying, yeah. :)) I give Spectre credit for at least havi…
-
BT3366 wrote: » Agree to disagree, I guess. To address your points further: -Here's a villain who Bond just saw crush a guys eyes in, can we not fear him a little more? -In short, yeah, I'd much rather it be like the QoS chase where it was…
-
BT3366 wrote: » So if Bond isn't worried about the predicament, why should we even care? Why have the scene at all as it does little other than get Bond away from his pursuer. What that car chase does that's damaging is it largely undermines th…
-
I ranked it low largely because I just found it unremarkable on last viewing. Maybe it's my TV or something, but the music seemed to be mixed rather low a lot of the time, and I'm of course trying to rank these in context.
-
PrinceKamalKhan wrote: » +1. I've always found it fascinating to see MR get pilloried for being OTT, comic book-ish, sci-fi and derivative by fans who praise TSWLM.(Disclaimer: I love both films). Another +1. TSWLM is at least as silly …
-
I had Skyfall at 11, just below Spectre. Obviously an odd placement, but I thought Newman's style worked slightly better with the atmosphere of his second film. His music has certainly grown on me though. A year ago they'd have ranked quite differen…
-
Thrasos wrote: » Slazenger7 wrote: » Thrasos wrote: » Personally, I'm surprised these haven't gone down already: The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Licence to Kill, A View to a Kill, Diamonds Are Forever. Don’t confuse the qual…
-
BT3366 wrote: » QBranch wrote: » SP's car chase is underrated. Maybe just misunderstood. The London section and shooting down the copter is underrated too. Sounds more like controversial opinions thread material than underrated movies. …
-
If AVTAK isn't in the top ten, then we are all collectively ridiculous.
-
I think Goldeneye is second worst of the lot. Dr No is of course rock bottom. I actually like all the music here that has the typical GE sound of timpani and chanting and industrial sounds. That's all fantastic. Like Pierce Brosnan himself, this …
-
pachazo wrote: » Yes, some of it sounds like it belongs in the previous decade but the Jamaican bits really add an unmistakable atmosphere that make the film so memorable. As far as the Bond theme goes, hey it was the first film and they were st…
-
DarthDimi wrote: » It makes sense to have DN this low. The actual film score is paper-thin, with the Bond Theme overused at times. Not only is it overused, and that is putting it mildly, it's used badly. The volume varies strangely, the bit…
-
I should start a thread on the third acts of Bond. They're a decidedly mixed bag, even among us crazy fans...
-
GoldenGun wrote: » Junglist_1985 wrote: » I’m gonna say it: Spectre is an underrated Bond film. …at least among hardcore Bond fans. I do think it has some serious problems, but to put it dead last as so many do… I don’t get it. It also…
-
mtm wrote: » Oh I think you've got to embrace the gags: the corniness is what makes it fun sometimes. Roger exclaiming "this should shake them off" as the Tuk Tuk bounces down a staircase in Octopussy is a dreadful old joke, but I love it :) I ca…
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine