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Sydin
Oct 29, 2011

Another spring commute
The only two James Bond movies I've ever seen are GoldenEye and Moonraker, both because of the N64 game. I literally could not tell you a single thing about Moonraker, I think there's a scene where they shoot the laser gun in a garden maybe? That's about it.

GoldenEye loving slaps and has the perfect amount of cheese and ham.

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fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once
wrong thread lol

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

License to Kill has it all; Timothy Dalton, 80s drug cartel scare, DEA ninjas from Hong Kong, a guy getting explosively decompressed, a young Benicio del Toro killed by a machine that grinds up cocaine bricks, a semi truck chase

fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once
i havent seen a single bond movie in my life somehow. which one should i watch.

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



The 2006 Casino Royale is actually a really good entry point, which makes the failure of its followups all the more disappointing. Unless Skyfall was actually good, it's the only one I didn't see.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Terrible Opinions posted:

The 2006 Casino Royale is actually a really good entry point, which makes the failure of its followups all the more disappointing. Unless Skyfall was actually good, it's the only one I didn't see.
Skyfall has some fun scenes and is very pretty.

Best Bond theme in forever too.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



Augus posted:

I have seen Quantum of Solace several times and do not remember a single thing about it

Specter was awful

Was it Quantum or Spectre that had the moment at the end where Bond was all drugged up and you thought for a second that the Bond Girl of the movie would get to actually shoot a gun and protect him. But instead she just rescues him and then he goes to be completely fine to shoot bad guys the rest of the movie?

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Skyfall has some fun scenes and is very pretty.

Best Bond theme in forever too.

I prefer You Know My Name but I can see Skyfall being up there.

Jamie Faith
Jan 13, 2020

fun hater posted:

i havent seen a single bond movie in my life somehow. which one should i watch.

Dr. No, Then From Russia with Love, then Goldfinger, then just keep going. Watch em all. Even when they're bad, they're still alot of fun. :)

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Skyfall has some fun scenes and is very pretty.

Best Bond theme in forever too.

The best Bond song is Another Way to Die, because it's not a Bond song, it's a Jack White song.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Just start with the first Austin Powers movie, it's all the same by the fifth James Bond movie anyway.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013
The disparate parts of Tomorrow Never Dies are pretty cool, namely Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, and Jonathan Price as a slightly less evil Rupert Murdoch. It's also got some of the best Q dunks on Bond in the franchise.

A View to a Kill is also so nutty batshit it circles around back to being good again, fueled largely by the power of Christopher Walken, horse steroids, and a blimp with the villain's name on it that he commits crimes out of.

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!

dmboogie posted:

not liking a goofy mashup is one thing but lmao at the implication that its more embarrassing than the mega man 2 rap song with the line "it's a man's world baby don't go flashing your vag"

Did someone say goofy

https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1329529694090235905

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

nine-gear crow posted:

The disparate parts of Tomorrow Never Dies are pretty cool, namely Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, and Jonathan Price as a slightly less evil Rupert Murdoch. It's also got some of the best Q dunks on Bond in the franchise.
Price is also playing Ghislaine Maxwell's dad.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Terrible Opinions posted:

The 2006 Casino Royale is actually a really good entry point, which makes the failure of its followups all the more disappointing. Unless Skyfall was actually good, it's the only one I didn't see.

Skyfall is great, unlike QoS and Spectre, both of which thoroughly suck a poo poo.

Jamie Faith
Jan 13, 2020

nine-gear crow posted:

The disparate parts of Tomorrow Never Dies are pretty cool, namely Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh, and Jonathan Price as a slightly less evil Rupert Murdoch. It's also got some of the best Q dunks on Bond in the franchise.

YES TND owns! its so underrated. I've always prefered that one over Goldeneye tbh.

Jamie Faith fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Nov 21, 2020

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Price is also playing Ghislaine Maxwell's dad.

I feel like he's closer to Murdoch than Maxwell. Either way he's 100% Pryce chewing the scenery and he's great.

Jamie Faith
Jan 13, 2020

Oh and don't forget Dr. Kaufman! Played brilliantly by Vincent Schiavelli, who was so good, he completely stole the spot light for the entire 4 minutes he was on screen :allears:

Jamie Faith fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Nov 21, 2020

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

if you don't like neil c taking two completely unrelated genres and synthesising billy idol out of them you're dead inside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdSoZO-5mM

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Jamie Faith posted:

Oh and don't Dr. Kaufman! Played brilliantly by Vincent Schiavelli, who was so good, he completely stole the spot light for the entire 4 minutes he was on screen :allears:

The second funniest phone call in Bond history. The first is the one where Drax is trying to get a replacement henchman after Bond killed his last one.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

nine-gear crow posted:

The best Bond song is Another Way to Die, because it's not a Bond song, it's a Jack White song.

That song sounds like two cats having sex in an ally and they won’t shut up. Truly wretched.

Jamie Faith
Jan 13, 2020

Meanwhile, back at Channel Awesome.....

https://twitter.com/Q_Review/status/1330065000153669634

https://twitter.com/Linkara19/status/1330067710269599744

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/1330098558972928006


:ohno:

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


it’s always the first grift people pivot towards

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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Fil5000 posted:

I feel like he's closer to Murdoch than Maxwell. Either way he's 100% Pryce chewing the scenery and he's great.

He's murdered aboard his private boat, just saying.

Pryce is also somehow pulling from Steve Jobs' persona a decade after the movie was released, which is impressive.

Roach Warehouse
Nov 1, 2010


Wasn’t the twist with the villain in Spectre the exact same as the one in Austin Powers in ‘Goldmember’?

You’ve gotta laugh at that after apparently the popularity of Austin Powers informed their decision to pivot to gritty with the Craig movies.

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Oh it's beautiful. The man whose whole professional identity was born in the idea nursery that Animaniacs created--to the point where he once tracked down
Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulson to do his own personal Pinky and the Brain reunion skit--thinks that Animaniacs has somehow betrayed him because it evolved over the course of the 20 years it was off the air.

Then again, the idea of evolving professionally is anathema to Doug :v:

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




The wide umbrella of definition that things can fall under to be called 'too left' is so absolutely massive that I have no idea what the hell it means here. What, specifically, is the problem? I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Did the first episode have Dot as the main character or something?

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Roach Warehouse posted:

Wasn’t the twist with the villain in Spectre the exact same as the one in Austin Powers in ‘Goldmember’?

You’ve gotta laugh at that after apparently the popularity of Austin Powers informed their decision to pivot to gritty with the Craig movies.

That's the premise of Patrick H Willems most recent video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ebOZ-aBX4

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009


It's reductive but in my experience, incurious and otherwise apolitical people with a platform—which includes Doug—rarely drift leftwards over time. Their complacency inevitably results in folks calling them out when they act the fool, and their laziness prevents any significant introspection or growth. They end up gravitating to the right because at least over there, nobody asks them to think too hard or consider the impact of their speech.

I'm glad Lindsey, Linkara, and most of the other CA folks made it to a better place.

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

RareAcumen posted:

The wide umbrella of definition that things can fall under to be called 'too left' is so absolutely massive that I have no idea what the hell it means here. What, specifically, is the problem? I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Did the first episode have Dot as the main character or something?

it has trump as a gross polythemus in an odyssey parody

Roach Warehouse
Nov 1, 2010


Doctor Spaceman posted:

That's the premise of Patrick H Willems most recent video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ebOZ-aBX4

I’ve never heard of this guy, but as a long-time adherent of the Mike Check podcast, this video is extremely my thing. Thanks!

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




CYBEReris posted:

it has trump as a gross polythemus in an odyssey parody

Sigh

Wonderful.

I'm barely familiar with the original series to begin with so now I've got two more shows I have to watch if I'm going to be 100% sure if political jabs are par for the course with them or not. Thanks a lot, Spielberg!

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

RareAcumen posted:

Sigh

Wonderful.

I'm barely familiar with the original series to begin with so now I've got two more shows I have to watch if I'm going to be 100% sure if political jabs are par for the course with them or not. Thanks a lot, Spielberg!

it made fun of the clintons pretty often iirc

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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Bill Clinton was in the title sequence.

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

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Terrible Opinions posted:

The 2006 Casino Royale is actually a really good entry point, which makes the failure of its followups all the more disappointing. Unless Skyfall was actually good, it's the only one I didn't see.


2006 Casino Royale and Skyfall are about as good as each other IMO. Skyfall might be a bit better if you can stomach Bond Backstory Focus.

QoS is an overly edited mess that can barely keep itself going and Specter is....Trying to be DEEP JAMES BOND LORE where all the previous good things actually didn't matter it was this guy actually and it's....really bad.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

CYBEReris posted:

it made fun of the clintons pretty often iirc

yea it's not like it was ever some deep 'leftist' critique like 'Clinton's welfare reform policy hurts the poor and working class while shifting the money to wealthy technocrats...waka waka!!!!!' but 'lol clinton like burger' or 'al gore boring' was, like, a common joke.

It never really 'got political' but it sounds like this version doesn't either. It just references people in popular culture? Like 'lol trump look like big dumb ogre' isn't political satire it's just...a joke about what a big turd trump looks like.

sexpig by night fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 21, 2020

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




sexpig by night posted:

yea it's not like it was ever some deep 'leftist' critique like 'Clinton's welfare reform policy hurts the poor and working class while shifting the money to wealthy technocrats...waka waka!!!!!' but 'lol clinton like burger' or 'al gore boring' was, like, a common joke.

It never really 'got political' but it sounds like this version doesn't either. It just references people in popular culture? Like 'lol trump look like big dumb ogre' isn't political satire it's just...a joke about what a big turd trump looks like.

Okay. I was trying to make a joke about 'Welp, looks like I have no other option but to go and watch all of both the Animaniacs shows to figure out if they liked to throw jabs at political figures in the past or not, I have no other option left'

It's honestly been over a decade since I've seen any of it, had no idea the old one was on Hulu.

Garrand
Dec 28, 2012

Rhino, you did this to me!

Doesn't look like this was posted

Pushing Up Roses has a new video on the questionable episode of the X-files, The Post-Modern Prometheus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9gcBG-gNk


While I'm a big fan of the x-files, I didn't actually watch it until around 2009 when I marathoned the series while in college. It definitely had me side-eying it a whole lot at the time.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything

sexpig by night posted:

yea it's not like it was ever some deep 'leftist' critique like 'Clinton's welfare reform policy hurts the poor and working class while shifting the money to wealthy technocrats...waka waka!!!!!' but 'lol clinton like burger' or 'al gore boring' was, like, a common joke.

It never really 'got political' but it sounds like this version doesn't either. It just references people in popular culture? Like 'lol trump look like big dumb ogre' isn't political satire it's just...a joke about what a big turd trump looks like.

I was shocked when Bill Clinton ordered the FBI to kill Wakko.

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Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

RareAcumen posted:

It's honestly been over a decade since I've seen any of it, had no idea the old one was on Hulu.

It's really strange how much people think it was exclusively a kids show. Did eight-year-olds eat up George Wendt references?

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