Avatar

Reporting For Duty

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

matt_u

About

Username
matt_u
Location
better known as Mr. Roark
Joined
Visits
10,412
Last Active
Roles
Member
Location
better known as Mr. Roark
Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
Casino Royale
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
Posts
4,347

Comments

  • peter wrote: » It was the only film I wanted to walk out of. But I stayed until the bitter end. There was nothing smart about this film. It was just another ticking time bomb scenario, gussied up with a half-baked sci-fi element, with “characters”…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » matt_u wrote: » Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Tenet is like OHMSS, which was also slated upon its release. Some films are just ahead of their time. Lol that doesn’t prove anything. If bad writing means being ahead, th…
  • Mendes4Lyfe wrote: » Tenet is like OHMSS, which was also slated upon its release. Some films are just ahead of their time. Lol that doesn’t prove anything. If bad writing means being ahead, then you’re right.
  • phantomvices wrote: » Someone wrote: » Nomi has a scooter? Interesting, haven't seen this before yet. Could it mean she appears in Cuba with it? See my previous post..
  • jake24 wrote: » antovolk wrote: » The data is there and the vaccine works. The question is how quickly it can be rolled out. In UK terms (and US too), the expectation is that the most vulnerable should be vaccinated by April, therefore endi…
  • Nomi drives the scooter in Jamaica, as we saw in the very first Jamaica video, as she pays a visit to Bond at his beach house. Seems like ages ago.
  • A further delay is inevitable. As long as EMA doesn’t approve the Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines the UE won’t be able to start a real mass vaccination campaign. April is just too early and NTTD simply can’t make Tenet kind of numbers. As I see th…
  • I received Thunderball as a Christmas present! OHMSS would’ve been more appreciated but that’s okay! XD
  • I think the soundtrack will feel like a culmination of all the Craig era, with themes reprised from both Newman and Arnold, filtered by Zimmer’s touch. So more guitars and a more pompous feeling to it.
  • Yeah it sounds quite a lot like Newman. Anyway it’s too early to judge.
  • November and December 2021 are quite crowded months with two Marvel movies, M:I7 and The Matrix 4 coming out, speaking about blockbusters. Perhaps late October would fit Bond better... Dune comes out October 1st, and Scott’s The Last Duel doesn’t s…
  • Here's the 2021 restyling of the Seamaster 300. Well, the seconds hand (lollipop) is misplaced and a total dealbreaker for me. I'm not even a fan of the return of the vintage numerals and no ceramic bezel is a miss. The new domed sapphire crystal i…
  • In a world without Covid I’m pretty confident Bond would’ve gross more. NTTD was predicted to fall inbetween SF and SP numbers, likely hitting the one billion mark. I don’t see an M:I film being able to hit such a milestone, even tho the gap now is …
  • As long as he keeps making his “pioneer” stuff far away from Bond then I’m fine with Nolan. Anyway, he desperately needs a writer. Desperately.
  • Gerard wrote: » Meanwhile, in France, 2020 has known a drop of 70 % in th attendance in movie theaters. Well, not so much a drop as a crash dive, I say. But really, with movie theaters being "non-essential", what's to expect, right ? 90% dr…
  • I think they won’t release NTTD til all those capacity restrictions and distancing will mostly expire, at least in key markets.
  • Until theaters won’t work with a 100% capacity across all the big markets I believe they won’t release NTTD. If streaming is not even an option anymore for them, the only way is delaying again. I don’t think people will lose interest if NTTD keeps d…
  • The best spot for a November release is already taken by Cruise.
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » matt_u wrote: » Seriously? Lord was redeemable. Zod not. He would've killed 7.8 billion people one by one because he had noting left, nothing to lose. And Clark still suffered a lot from that. True, but it's not…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » When it comes to my preferred versions of DC, I pretty much love the Bruce Timm shows. I revisited that entire run from 1992 thru 2006 and was astounded over how well they held up. It all felt like a near perfect summary o…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » So do you guys think WW84 is worth the price of an HBOMax Subscription? Or should I wait to see it? My advice is to wait if you don't care all that much about seeing it today. Let's…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » matt_u wrote: » https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2020/12/26/the-warped-morality-of-wonder-woman-1984/?sh=329c6a173e23 The article has good points to make. Thanks for sharing, @matt_u. I wouldn't think about …
  • Glad someone liked it. Speaking about my experience, it was very cool to see Diana throwing away everything Steve taught her in the first one. It was very cool to see Diana accepting the fact that someone else’s life has been eradicated to make her…
  • Snyder’s Superman is the best ever portrayed. His Superman is not just a good guy trying to do the right thing, he truly represents humanity at his best. He sacrifices his life in the name of a world that consistently doubt and question him. That’s …
  • Even tho Tenet ended up being an atrocious experience Nolan is a great director, but I hate the idea of him helming a Bond film.
  • 007ClassicBondFan wrote: » matt_u wrote: » I didn’t expect WW84 to be such bad. The film has probably the worst action scenes in the history of big budget films. Utterly trash. Since it’s a Wonder Woman film I didn’t expect it to be such not p…
  • I didn’t expect WW84 to be such bad. The film has probably the worst action scenes in the history of big budget films. Utterly trash. Since it’s a Wonder Woman film I didn’t expect it to be such not progressive. Speaking about Snyder, his 4 hours…
  • I loved both SP and DAD since the first viewing. The problem is I was 12 when I first saw DAD...
  • The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. This new cut is a significant improvement over a film I already love. It's shorter since eliminates unnecessary narrative baggage, with some great new expanded scenes adding more weights to the c…
  • Well, it depends. For companies like Apple or Disney wouldn’t be more interesting to have such a big film available for their streaming services as a brand new content?