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If you're interested in Roman/Egyptian history, Cleopatra is surprisingly enjoyable. It sticks relatively close to the facts and doesn't have an excess of Hollywood BS. The actors are larger than life in a good way and the dialogue is intelligent an…
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SomethingThatAteHim wrote: » Something I find interesting is that from Goldfinger on the physical torture and abuse of Bond himself are largely toned down from the horrific things he endures in the first half of the series. Instead his torments be…
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The Band is one of my all-time favorite rock groups, and Robbie Robertson was the driving force behind it. Anyone who wants to see what all the fuss is about should check out their first three albums--Music From Big Pink, The Band, and Stage Fright-…
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Composer Carl Davis has passed away. His achievements were many, but film lovers treasure him most for his magnificent silent film scores. Here's the climax of his epic score for Abel Gance's masterpiece Napoleon:
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » BVS is such a confused film, because Snyder wants it to be a quasi adaptation of Frank Miller’s THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, but also double as the infamous DEATH OF SUPERMAN story with Doomsday, and both crammed into what’s s…
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This week's London Review of Books has a review of the new biography of J. Edgar Hoover, and it includes the following passage: Roosevelt agreed to let the FBI take responsibility for foreign espionage – something Hoover badly wanted – though th…
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A modern-day tour of the Istanbul locations in From Russia With Love:
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Considering that DN overran its budget, there's no way TB could have been successfully made for the same amount of money.
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gt007 wrote: » https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/all-five-daniel-craig-movies-in-4k-uhd-for-35-230711 Does anyone know if the disks in this set are region-free? According to Blu-ray.com the 4K discs are region free and the standard blu-rays ar…
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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 Time. The disc also includ…
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Some fascinating finds on auction: "Unique Maurice Binder storyboards and artwork from the James Bond films to be auctioned in Dallas." Lots of storyboards that show how meticulously Binder crafted his sequences: Here's a direct link …
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Mathis1 wrote: » R.I.P. Alan Arkin...he starred in so many other movies, most famously 'Catch-22' He was perfectly cast as Yossarian in Catch 22. Arkin was made to play that character, even if the movie didn't measure up to the book.
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LucknFate wrote: » What are some good nonfiction Bond books I should check out like SKOH? Stuff about alternate castings, potential plots, fun facts, Fleming's spycraft, that sort of thing? If it's on Kindle, that's ideal. Thanks in advance. …
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I enjoyed The Flash, though it's another version of The Flashpoint Paradox and the animated film did a better job with the story material. Miller overdoes the nerd schtick in the first quarter of the film, but afterwards he's impressively effective …
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I wonder if Connery was demonstrating a golf move to Saltzman and Fleming. GF was the last Bond film Fleming was around to see (in production rather than the theater). His last book, TMWTGG, was a down-to-earth tale, thanks to Fleming's ill health a…
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The Daily Express comic strip version of TSWLM did a pretty good job of turning the book into a more action-oriented adventure. That's the first place to look for anyone wondering what elements to pull from the book.
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Dragonpol wrote: » That little book by Adrian Turner on Goldfinger is highly recommended. Seconded. Turner's account of the screenplay's creation is fascinating and shows how important Paul Dehn's contributions were, alongside Maibaum's.
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j_w_pepper wrote: » Trouble is, I don't have a region-free BD player. You can find modified all-region Blu-Ray players on Ebay and 220-electronics. Many go for reasonable prices. In the days of DVD you could modify players by entering a …
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mtm wrote: » Oh gosh, it's just 'he said' 'she said' now. We're going around in circles. Yes, which is why I'm wrapping this conversation up, from my end at least. As I said, there is evidence that he was okay with them being altered fo…
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George_Kaplan wrote: » I'm so glad that scene with the crabs was cut. For Indiana Jones it's snakes, for me it's crabs. An excerpt from a letter Ian Fleming wrote to the Spectator: "Queequeg asks what happened to the crabs in the film Dr…
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MakeshiftPython wrote: » I do wish the film had stuck closer to the novel in regards to character. There’s so much good stuff from the Shrublands section with Bond thinking M had gone off his rocker, to then coming back supposedly “a new man” that…
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007HallY wrote: » I think there's a sense that without Bond finding Deval's body this section of the movie would feel a bit rushed and even pointless. I can understand that, but I think the film handles this well enough by transitioning dir…
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007HallY wrote: » From a viewer's perspective we've seen Bond get entangled with SPECTRE's plans in this film. He's seen Deval's body, nearly been killed by Count Lippe. I think the fact that he's more involved gives his hunch much more weight. …
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007HallY wrote: » Interesting. I suppose for me I've always felt it makes sense having Domino's brother be more an innocent victim than someone who is bribed and is, in essence, a criminal. To me it feels more plausible for him to commit th…
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I thought the plastic-surgery double stuff in TB was a waste of time and symptomatic of how the film was bloated with unneccesary plot complications. It's simpler just to have Petacchi be glimpsed looking at a Maserati brochure during the flight and…
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R-ratings would limit the audience and lower the box office, so I doubt they'll be considered. Cubby used to refer to the Bond films as "sadism for the whole family," and that applies to sex too. The Bond films will continue to feature beautiful wo…
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Yes, there's no point shutting the barn door 60 years after the horse left. To me watching movies made more than half a century ago is like getting into a time machine and visiting a different era. As L.P. Hartley said, “The past is a foreign countr…
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