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A View to A Kill is the worst. Imagine Walker and Grace Jones so boring it makes you scream. At least die another day is stupid and is constantly stupid the entire time
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CelticPredator posted:A View to A Kill is the worst. Imagine Walker and Grace Jones so boring it makes you scream. I do have one fond memory of Die Another Day. I still laugh thinking about how there's a guy just named Mr. Kill and he never kills anyone and then dies unceremoniously when a laser beam goes though his head and comes out his mouth.  He looks so disappointed. Sadly, I can't find a gif. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 05:42
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Lol yeah that’s a good death honestly. Funny name too. Die Another Day is dire, but I’d much rather watch it over the last Moore films and Thunderball (yeah went there!)
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Mar 17, 2019 06:00
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CelticPredator posted:Lol yeah that’s a good death honestly. Funny name too. Die Another Day is dire, but I’d much rather watch it over the last Moore films and Thunderball (yeah went there!) I barely remember Thunderball and completely forgot it existed until earlier when I looked up the list of Connery Bond films. Although the worst of those is definitely Diamonds are Forever. It's such a nothing movie and it seems like no one in the movie wants to be there.
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Mar 17, 2019 06:10
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It’s also annoying as hell. But I have a soft spot for Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. At least they’re iconic.
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Mar 17, 2019 07:39
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Hey, I like the racist Japanese one!
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Mar 17, 2019 10:53
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I gotta say, me too. You Only Life Twice is pretty drat racist. But if you can look past that as it being an unfortunate product of its time, it's a really fun spy flick. But I'm not gonna fault anyone for not being able to, because woof.
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Mar 17, 2019 13:21
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According to Blu-ray.com, there's Amazon IT and FR listings up for an October release of The Shining on UHD
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Mar 17, 2019 20:10
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CelticPredator posted:A View to A Kill is the worst. Imagine Walker and Grace Jones so boring it makes you scream. But A View to a Kill has the best theme song. Yeah, you heard me. That song rocks hard and I will fight you.
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Mar 18, 2019 01:40
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I'm alright with A View to a Kill. It's definitely at the lower tier of Bonds, but it's decent enough.
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Mar 18, 2019 01:45
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Cemetry Gator posted:But A View to a Kill has the best theme song.
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Mar 18, 2019 01:57
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Cemetry Gator posted:But A View to a Kill has the best theme song. The best Bond theme is Goldfinger.
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Mar 18, 2019 02:08
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Cemetry Gator posted:But A View to a Kill has the best theme song. It’s in my top 5 favorite songs.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:07
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Cemetry Gator posted:But A View to a Kill has the best theme song. A bad Bond can still have a bangin' theme song. Case in point, The World is Not Enough.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:17
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CPL593H posted:The best Bond theme is Goldfinger. But the best version, the one done by Magazine, came 15 years too late.
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Mar 18, 2019 04:46
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Cemetry Gator posted:But the best version, the one done by Magazine, came 15 years too late. The problem is that there are a lot of good Bond themes and a bunch of them are better than most of the movies. The You Only Live Twice theme rules, Live and Let Die is a classic on its own, Nobody Does It Better Than You is a fun song because it's about loving and only very slightly pretending it isn't about loving.
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Mar 18, 2019 06:30
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CPL593H posted:The best Bond theme is Goldfinger. WRONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOAl8F-NyPs&t=91s
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Mar 18, 2019 08:49
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And yet you somehow posted the wrong clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC8dWWImNzU
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Mar 18, 2019 09:32
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Best Bond theme: https://youtu.be/h6CoNUE5Zho
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Mar 18, 2019 12:18
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One of the reasons I enjoy the bond films is that so many of them capture the era and culture in the times when they were released. If you step back and enjoy them as a relic from the past, they're pretty enjoyable.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:38
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Through that lens the Casino Royale song suddenly becomes almost tolerable. It's perfectly indicative of the worst taste of the early aughts, the Ed Hardy tattoo of the Bond themes.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:40
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Yes exactly. There are movies that are timeless and can be enjoyed by many regardless of the year you watch them in. I will always insist that James Bond movies are a direct result of their time and culture and that can make some movies feel wildly different in terms of experience. Like how the early Craig bond movies feel more like Jason Bourne movies because that's just what was really popular for the times. If I remember right, one of the Brosnan bond films feels a bit similar to True Lies and that was pretty close to the same era.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:49
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Ineffiable posted:One of the reasons I enjoy the bond films is that so many of them capture the era and culture in the times when they were released. If you step back and enjoy them as a relic from the past, they're pretty enjoyable. They are a pretty dependable cliff notes for what action movies were doing a couple of years before they came out. License to Kill is like a lost bad Lethal Weapon sequel.
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Mar 18, 2019 19:57
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feedmyleg posted:Through that lens the Casino Royale song suddenly becomes almost tolerable. It's perfectly indicative of the worst taste of the early aughts, the Ed Hardy tattoo of the Bond themes. Are you talking poo poo on Chris Cornell? 
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Mar 18, 2019 20:08
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Yes.
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Mar 18, 2019 20:40
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The song hasn't aged nearly as bad as the graphics in CR's title sequence.
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Mar 18, 2019 23:23
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Teenage Fansub posted:The song hasn't aged nearly as bad as the graphics in CR's title sequence.
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Mar 19, 2019 00:31
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I love that people often say Casino Royale bucks the “product of its time trend” but it has a theme by Chris Cornell, tons of parkour, and an important set piece takes place at a Body Worlds exhibit.
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Mar 19, 2019 00:34
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david_a posted:What do you mean? The blocky models were clearly a stylistic choice. I just skimmed through it and it still looked good to me (at least on a phone). The posterised Craig at the beginning looks real bad, and I'm not a fan of the fighting polygon dudes.
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Mar 19, 2019 00:37
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Unmature posted:I love that people often say Casino Royale bucks the “product of its time trend” but it has a theme by Chris Cornell, tons of parkour, and an important set piece takes place at a Body Worlds exhibit. The thing is though, you could take that poo poo out of the movie and it'd feel like a movie set in the 60's or 70's. Die Another Day feels like a lovely late-90's movie and there's nothing you could remove that could change that. You'd have to dump literally everything and make a totally different movie.
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Mar 19, 2019 00:51
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Unmature posted:I love that people often say Casino Royale bucks the “product of its time trend” but it has a theme by Chris Cornell, tons of parkour, and an important set piece takes place at a Body Worlds exhibit. All timeless cultural touchstones *scratches armpit through a massive hole in my “there’s always money in the banana stand” t-shirt*
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King Vidiot posted:The thing is though, you could take that poo poo out of the movie and it'd feel like a movie set in the 60's or 70's. Die Another Day feels like a lovely late-90's movie and there's nothing you could remove that could change that. You'd have to dump literally everything and make a totally different movie. The theme song for Die Another Day is completely wretched and was dated when it came out. It does in fact seem like a late 90s movie and it came out in 2002. The intro sequence itself is pretty awful too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmqrtbEuhNQ
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Mar 19, 2019 02:25
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Okay so I've been looking at a bunch of these and several of them are no less goofy than the intro sequence for Die Another Day. I guess I only ever think about the good ones.
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Mar 19, 2019 02:32
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Yeah they're all various flavors of goofy once you get past the stage that's like "ooh sexy lady" The McCartney one for Live and Let Die is just terrible thanks to the sing. And Ace of Base's The Juvenile should have been Goldeneye's 
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Mar 19, 2019 02:37
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Can't find the full version of this bootleg release for Die Another Day (picture is from Ashen's Pirate DVD Showcase), but movie would been better if it was this plot.
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Mar 19, 2019 03:01
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The Jack White and Alicia Keys one for Quantum of Solace was pretty bad too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmEHsoUot8 When I first heard Jack White was doing the theme for this one, I got excited because I've loved Jack White for like 15+ years. Then I heard it and...yikes The fuzzy guitar is exciting, but nothing else about it is.
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Mar 19, 2019 03:04
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Rirse posted:Can't find the full version of this bootleg release for Die Another Day (picture is from Ashen's Pirate DVD Showcase), but movie would been better if it was this plot. That the plot except they mixed up Graves and Zao.
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Mar 19, 2019 03:22
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The Jack White and Alicia Keys one for Quantum of Solace was pretty bad too. Should've just had Alicia Keys sing, with maybe White play the instruments but then I guess any old bugger could've done that. Still, I prefer it to the Spectre theme song, which is just dreary and boring. I guess as a theme song it's appropriate for the film. CPL593H posted:The theme song for Die Another Day is completely wretched and was dated when it came out. It does in fact seem like a late 90s movie and it came out in 2002. The intro sequence itself is pretty awful too. Yeah, but Die Another Day is so poo poo, that I was feeling positively nostalgic for that poo poo theme song by about 3/4 of the way through. Honestly, Die Another Day would have been so much better if it were a film where Bond is stuck in hostile territory with no gadgets or cars or anything, and has to get out using his training, skill and wits. Certainly would've made for a far more compelling film than the tripe we got.
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Unmature posted:I love that people often say Casino Royale bucks the “product of its time trend” but it has a theme by Chris Cornell, tons of parkour, and an important set piece takes place at a Body Worlds exhibit. Yeah it clearly has stuff that's inspired by the era its released in but you have to admit, there's a lot more slower parts (so slower like early Bond films) so it's not really nearly identical to movies released in the same years, just more inspired by those movies and inspired by older bonds.
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Vagabundo posted:Yeah, but Die Another Day is so poo poo, that I was feeling positively nostalgic for that poo poo theme song by about 3/4 of the way through. Honestly, Die Another Day would have been so much better if it were a film where Bond is stuck in hostile territory with no gadgets or cars or anything, and has to get out using his training, skill and wits. Certainly would've made for a far more compelling film than the tripe we got. I watched Die Another Day this week, it's one of those Bonds that I really never gave a second look to after it came out. Yeesh, that thing is bad. I actually enjoyed the first third or so of the movie, but it's over 2 hours long and once it transitions into the main story with the actual big bad it just draaaaags and I was fighting to stay awake. Which is pretty crazy when you think about how ridiculous some of the stuff on-screen is, but ridiculous doesn't always mean compelling.
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