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Great write ups, @Birdleson. Looking forward to SP. I know how you love it so. The music of John Barry; I love what he did in TB, but his work in AVTAK is superior by a fairly wide margin; his last great Bond score (I find THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (…
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THE NEON DEMON. I'm a bit puzzled at the reception it received. I would think it'd be the sort of thing critics would lap up. @DarthDimi, I definitely get where you were coming from in comparing it to the works you chose to. I went in thinking I was…
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Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » Strog wrote: » 1. TB, YOLT, OHMSS 2. DN, FRWL, GF 3. TSWLM, MR, FYEO 4. DAF, LALD, TMWTGG 5. QOS, SF, SP 6. LTK, GE, TND 7. TWINE, DAD, CR 8. OP, AVTAK, TLD @Fire_and_Ice_Returns and myself seem to be on…
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Thunderfinger wrote: » It is time to break up @TheUnitedStates. Most states would be better off by themselveses. Municipal, bottom up. Feeling no shame is easy when you don't have to look in the eye every day those you serve.
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1. TB, YOLT, OHMSS 2. DN, FRWL, GF 3. TSWLM, MR, FYEO 4. DAF, LALD, TMWTGG 5. QOS, SF, SP 6. LTK, GE, TND 7. TWINE, DAD, CR 8. OP, AVTAK, TLD @Fire_and_Ice_Returns and myself seem to be on our own so far with TB, YOLT, and OHMSS in the top…
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I'm glad I managed to convey my excitement, @Birdleson! I am really glad to be finally getting through them in order. And I'm having a whale of a time so far. The pages are flying by, and I've just fallen wholly into Fleming's world. Really looking …
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@FoxRox Yes, the blame does lie with society. Take those quoted in the article to which you linked. That apparent celebrity and the social researchers appear to believe that the way forward with raising boys is to raise them to be unlike boys. If yo…
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Right. I'm through the first two novels and a third of the way into MR. Some brief thoughts on Casino Royale and Live and Let Die. (I’ll do the remaining books in groups of three, I suppose). Casino Royale The thing I might look forward to mos…
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DarthDimi wrote: » @Strog If you decide to watch the film, I expect one of two possible responses: - DD, you are my hero! - You and me, pal, and we're gonna duke this out till only one of us is left standing. ;-) So I'll be happy to l…
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Excellent thoughts, @bondjames. I also really enjoy DAF, and I adore the script. Where it is let down is by its execution, but even that comes off in the end, as you say, with "oodles of charisma." What some see as boredom, I see as perfectly nu…
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I have the same feeling. I get confused, though, whether it's simple nostalgia (probable) or something that's more justifiable because we've maybe actually arrived at a point that's worse. It really bugs me because I know people from every generatio…
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DarthDimi wrote: » THE NEON DEMON Nicolas Winding Refn, the man who delivered DRIVE in 2011, put together this psychological fashion thriller with Elle Fanning, Jena Malone and Keanu Reeves in 2016. Though highly polarising in terms of crit…
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I might make that effort, @Birdleson. I definitely don't have the time to offer as thorough notes as you all, but I would possibly be able to at least make some brief comments on each. Maybe what I will do is read several of the novels at a time, th…
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BMW_with_missiles wrote: » I never realized DN was so highly regarded around here. I kind of think of it the way I think of most pilot episodes of TV series; it okay, but only okay. It's the prototype of much better things that came after. I …
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@Mendes4Lyfe I'd argue that QOS also has a theme, potentially more basic ("the villains and the heroes get all mixed up"), but which still runs through the blood of the film. Those two aside yes I wouldn't say any of the others have been concerne…
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LIVING IN OBLIVION (1995). Directed by Tom DiCillo. Steve Buscemi and Catherine Keener. A really good small-budget comedy. All the things that can go wrong in a single day on a film set do. Script is never dull and has some great lines. Film debut o…
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Popping in to congratulate everyone involved in this thread. Still working my way through it from the beginning, but I think it's a marvelous correspondence of commentary. Should probably be published in its own right as a scholarly Bond work. I mea…
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1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 2. Mulholland Drive 3. Eraserhead Blue Velvet, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, and Wild At Heart are all fairly much on the same plane for me (which is to say I still think they're great), but if forced to rank the…
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OHMSS over TMWTGG for sure. I'll be interested to see how this second match turns out. I'll be taking DN over TSWLM, though I do adore the latter. In spite of how iconic and wonderful TSWLM is, it's just never entered into the zone that DN has, w…
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Thunderfinger wrote: » The gap between TB and YOLT was only three months longer than GF-TB. Hardly noticable. You're correct there, @Thunderfinger. I've let the year on the tin fool me. bondjames wrote: » I can imagine that the pressure…
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BondAficionado wrote: » I'd remembered seeing this mentioned in Some Kind Of Hero. This book is a must read. p.153 "In April 66 [...] Variety announced the first signs of fissures in the Eon camp..." "...they would informally be the key produc…
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bondjames wrote: » I wasn't aware that Cubby and Harry rotated principal producing duties on the earlier films. Come to think of it, there is a slight tonal difference between GF, YOLT & DAF in comparison to the other films. I wonder if that e…
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Definitely, @Master_Dahark. Worth it just for the sake of completion. Master_Dahark wrote: » BTW am I the only one who hates calling it "Rocky Balboa"? I actually made a custom Bluray cover for my copy that says Rocky VI :)) I initially …
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Never like to see DAF and MR scraping the bottom like that (below SP no less!) but I can't really fault that top 10, @FoxRox.
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I love the Rocky films. The only one I legitimately don't like is V. I is a classic, II is a solid follow-up. III and IV are cartoons, but a blast, in almost a primal kind of way. ROCKY BALBOA and CREED are each a good enough time.
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bondjames wrote: » Very true @Strog, but I also believe a major factor that has been missing is Cubby Broccoli's oversight. Sometimes I sense a tendency here to downplay his impact and sort of lump Babs in with him (given the obvious family connec…
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Having got three more director-dominated efforts in a row, I'm mostly in agreement with the journeyman approach for the next one. The one potential hiccup I see is that we've got less talent on the whole nowadays in the rest of the phases of the …
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Thunderpussy wrote: » Any opinions on putting milk in to the cup first ? Or is that something only a Barbarian would do ;-) Two superior literary minds debate: http://www.h-tea-o.net/newsletter/G001DouglasAdams/teatalk/ So the best a…
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DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (1961). Entertaining, but not on the level of Germi's follow-up SEDUCED AND ABANDONED, which was probably my favorite film I watched last year (the other contender would be THE APARTMENT). FURY (1936). Also watched Fritz Lan…
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Strictly a coffee man now, but used to go in for tea. Oolong was my definite favorite, then white, then green, then black. Always loose leaf. Hardly ever used milk. Been a couple years since I've made a cup. I think I still have some leaves around..…
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