Strog
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TEARS FOR FEARS - Songs From the Big Chair
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@Mendes4Lyfe @bondjames Agreed as well. I was just on here yesterday waxing somewhat off topic in the black-and-white Bond thread about how well TB, YOLT, OHMSS, TSWLM, and MR used their wide lensing. If they're not going to use the landscape, like …
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Torgeirtrap wrote: » YOLT is like a gigantic budget eurospy film to me. @Torgeirtrap Yes! Precisely. YOLT is very much 'Bond goes Eurospy.' Whether this is an intentional stylistic choice or the franchise's first competitive bid at adapt…
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@Minion Used to rank YOLT bottom at one point as well, but now it's a favorite. It simply cannot be watched the way any of the earlier films are, lest it distracts from some truly marvelous and ambitious filmmaking
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Closest thing I could find to a 'favorite writers' thread. Happy to post elsewhere as directed. (Saw this one but seemed more geared to spy-stories generally.) Anyway — General Wodehouse - The man wrote a sentence sharp enough to poke out a…
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@Birdleson Did a search, went back, and had a read through that. I always forget the rich backlog of discussion available on these forums. ;) So happy the passionate discussion around here extends to all cinema, not just Bond. Having slept on it,…
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@mattjoes Interesting. I've always enjoyed Hugh Grant for reasons I never tried putting my finger on. That he evokes some part of the Old Hollywood star might be a big part of it. @bondjames I read Franco's quote as him essentially saying just wh…
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THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (1933) / Fritz Lang Lang is slowly becoming my favorite 30s/40s filmmaker. TESTAMENT was his follow-up to M, and as in that film there's the sense of him playing with sound, feeling his way around it still, discover…
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Great, @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7! Even though the film is pure camp, I agree that the DAF storyline is oddly suited for this conversion, what with all the gangsters and, as you said, sex and murder. In fact its suitability has got me thinking that th…
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On Roads: A Hidden History - Joe Moran Just cracked open this little micro history.
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BLACK KEYS - Turn Blue
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I'd rather EON not limit themselves to drawing villainy from the headlines. I might be up for someone like Carver, who is looking prescient these days, but they've gone there already. I'm sick of the hacking/Snowden/surveillance stuff. Just do somet…
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DaltonCraig007 wrote: » @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 @bondjames @MajorDSmythe @DarthDimi @doubleoego @Creasy47 @ClarkDevlin 1st teaser trailer for Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem and Ed Harris: …
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Birdleson wrote: » That ideal of a sculpted man didn't really come about until partway through the '70s. Part of the appeal of bodybuilders used to be the freakishness of it all. Most lead men looked like normal people with their shirts off prior…
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I loved MR the first time I saw it as a kid. Then I grew into the 'serious' Bond flicks and despised the film. Now I'm back to loving it. It's a real shame that the book (which is my favorite Fleming) was never given a proper adaptation, but the lib…
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BondAficionado wrote: » The last 3rd of AVTAK is mainly action you say? Well the same generalization applies to Goldeneye then. @BondAficionado Apologies, that was stupidly phrased on my part. Of course the last third of AVTAK is mostly actio…
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mattjoes wrote: » BondAficionado wrote: » Another one of his finest moments is his marathon to the Air Force Base. What works is the gradual building of tension with the increasing amount of hurdles. First he can't get a ride, then no chance t…
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bondjames wrote: » Strog wrote: » mattjoes wrote: » If I understand this 'clear machismo' idea correctly, I'd say Brosnan had achieved it by the time of Die Another Day. Yes, maybe slightly. There's something about his performance in …
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GoldenGun wrote: » @Strog Excellent list, you've got some really fine taste in cinema. Extra points for including Stalker. STALKER was the film I was actually most on the fence about including! I had a great first couple viewings, but the m…
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Why thanks @Dragonpol! Well-spoken and gracious members such as yourself are the reason I felt compelled to start posting in the first place.
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Thrasos wrote: » @Strog, you list a great many classics there! I'll list a few of my favorites. But what this thread made me think about was how, though I have many favorites that're in color, many others are in black and white. Thinking about …
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Glad to see my arrival has unspooled the MI6 community. 'And the beginning of the end was Strog.' No doubt the darkest moment my biographers will have the most difficulty pretending to weigh and consider before absolving me.
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bondsum wrote: » Out of curiosity, it was mentioned on The Wrap website that if Nolan was to direct a future Bond movie that he had a concept for Bond that hadn't been done yet, but would not share details for fear that he would need the idea to g…
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@bondjames @patb Chandler once made a distinction between authors who write stories and authors who write writing (of which class he considered himself). I think a similar distinction could be useful here, in that it could be said there are fi…
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mattjoes wrote: » If I understand this 'clear machismo' idea correctly, I'd say Brosnan had achieved it by the time of Die Another Day. Yes, maybe slightly. There's something about his performance in DAD. A certain abrasiveness? It's not the …
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Here's a smattering of favorites. These are in chronological order. Tried to (a) keep it to one film per director (but failed of course; four exceptions with two a piece) and (b) spread the list across the years. Also, the usual disclaimers: I co…
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Just popping in to say I'm really on board with The Return. I think it's been wonderful. This last episode was a barnburner, though it's hard to nail down any one episode as a standout, it's all flowed so well from one week to the next.
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Pierce staying through to SP wouldn't have been good for the franchise. That said, I could see him in each of SF and SP, and in an altered CR. More than any of those, however, I'd have been on board for an extra Brosnan film in 2004 between DAD and …
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DaltonCraig007 wrote: » @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 @bondjames @MajorDSmythe @DarthDimi @doubleoego @Creasy47 @ClarkDevlin Latest trailer for It: Really hope it's not going to just be jump scares the whole time. Regarding Ready Player O…
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I was just extolling MR in another thread, but this one seems much appropriate. Should've done it here. Alas, I basically punched out everything there, so have nothing much more to add, only to say there was a critic at the time of MR's release who …
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