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cooperman2

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Favourite Fleming Novel
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Favourite Bond Film
Goldfinger
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Sean Connery
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  • No there's plenty of brown colour palette in Skyfall as well as Spectre. I just both colourless and lifeless compered with earlier Bond entries, so to call SF the best looking Bond film ever is just blatantly untrue. Watching Octopussy recently I wa…
  • One thing that's always annoyed me about SF is the Deakins fanboys insisting that it's the best looking Bond film EVER! I'm sorry but that's just not right is it. It's a dull, shitty brown colour palette that has no colour or vibrancy to it at all.…
  • Maverick moving back to next to year has to be a terrible hammer blow to exhibitors. Without top product there's just no encouragment to go to a cinema. I think movie houses were particularly reliaing on Bond and Top Gun getting people back in, now…
  • Totally agree. Recently watched Aquaman and there was much to enjoy, not least a fun Jason Mamoa, but I actually found myself fast forwarding the action stuff. One CG character beating the hell out of another CG character was internably boring. No e…
  • I'm afraid the idea of sitting in the cinema watching a movie with a mask on is unbearable to me, which is why I haven't set foot in a cinema since they reopened. Now with no mask mandate in the UK I can think about going back. But I reckon my first…
  • The best actors just seem to become the Doctor. Pertwee and Tom Baker from old Who, Tennant and Smith from new Who particularly. Whittaker feels like an actor playing the Doctor. Jo Martin displayed more charm and charisma in one episode than Whitt…
  • Clapton had said that he will not play any venue that insists on people showing vaccine passports. Bravo.
  • The Delta variant has proved to be no worse than any other here in the UK. The vaccine is just as effective against it. Of course many Americans still have not taken up the vaccine yet
  • I could never understand why anyone would make a film of The A-Team and not even use a note of one of the most famous TV themes of the eighties. At least the Mission Impossible films use the main theme
  • I sometimes think the composer's of recent Bonds are almost embarrassed by the fact they're scoring Bond movies. Certainly Newman but also Arnold's last couple of scores barely featured the Bond theme. But these are not run of the mill action movies…
  • This might sound a little crazy but the only ones I really like are Leiter and Q.
  • British government is saying that from September people will need covid certificate to enter a nightclub. But no-one really believes that's where it will stop. They will try and extend it to cinemas, theatres, music and comedy concerts and sporting …
  • I just hope the British government can hold its nerve and not rush into another lockdown just because infection rates are high. The vaccine does seem to have broken the link between infection and hospitalisation and death. According to the office fo…
  • No more Bond becoming Bond, no origins stories, no soft or hard reboot, been there done that. Let's just have the new Bond as the fully formed secret agent.
  • They should have released it now in the summer months with restrictions having been eased for now. It's not as if the summer has many major releases. Bite the bullet and realise that NTTD is never going to be the billion dollar grossing movie they w…
  • Sad to hear that Richard Donner has passed. The director of what is still the best superhero film ever,the mighty Superman The Movie. Even at the age of 90 he was hoping to do Lethal Weapon 5. Now sadly never to be .
  • The Goonies. Two hours of annoying American brat kids screaming and shouting. Why is it so many directors think that kids screaming and shouting at everything is funny. It's not, it's just bloody annoying. It's like putting a bucket on your head and…
  • The Predator. Oh dear, oh dear,oh dear. Hopefully this will lay this particular franchise to rest once and for all. How can Shane Black direct such great films when working on a lowish budget, but give him a studio film and he screws it up. This and…
  • 10 Rillington Place(1971). A dark drama based on the true story of serial killer John Reginald Christie starring a very young John Hurt and an astonishing against type Richard Attenborough. It's been many years since I saw this movie, very rarely ge…
  • Just found out that the Fox channel on Sky is being removed from the platform. Gutted! It had some great shows on there. Also angry to find out the reason why is our old friends at Disneycorp. That right, Fox stuff is going to Disney+. That means no…
  • So Boris delays final lifting of restrictions by another month for the so called Delta variant and then along comes the Omega variant or the Alpha variant or any other endless list of variants and so we go on this never ending path to nowhere. Are w…
  • Unlike Netflix, Amazon does sometimes release it's stuff on DVD and Blu-ray. Picard and Jack Ryan have both had physical releases for example. There's still money to be made from physical releasing. It's inconceivable that they won't release Bond o…
  • Is it really that difficult to find a Scottish actor to play a Scotsman in Highlander.
  • Agree 100% @AstonLotus. Simply cannot understand the adulation Fury Road inspires.
  • Haven't seen The Father yet, looking forward to it, Hopkins really is in class of his own when he's on top form. I have been quite disgusted with some of the reaction to Hopkins win however, largely based on the feeling that Chadwick Boseman should …
  • The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers will always be my favourite version of the story. Very sad that it's one of the many films that still hasn't had a blu ray release ( in the UK at least). Kaufman's '78 version is pretty good too.
  • It isn't streaming that's killing medium budget films, it's the Hollywood movie studios who just won't take a risk on 40-50 mill movies. If anything streamers are the ones saving mid budget movie's. And I say that as someone who's no great fan of st…
  • Logan is a very fine film indeed and I quite like the idea of an old man Indy vibe, but Logan was an emotionally dark film and I'm not sure I want that in an Indiana Jones film. Indy should be light and entertaining fun. If Mangold can crack that th…
  • First Blood. One of Goldsmith's best scores I think, from an incredibly fruitful period for him. See also Under Fire and Poltergeist all in a year. Love the movie too, one of Stallone's best. Good solid old school action.
  • Back in the day producers and executives didn't like to publisise the fact that their leading ladies ( or indeed sometimes men) had to be dubbed because their English wasn't very good. It was one of their little secrets that they didn't want audienc…