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Post by rushy on Mar 29, 2023 13:09:53 GMT
Well he IS an antihero...
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Post by zarius on Mar 29, 2023 13:37:33 GMT
Licence. It's my favourite Bond, favourite creative team, favourite director and overall era
Never could get into Brosnan. He was always my brother's favourite.
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Post by mott1 on Mar 29, 2023 15:09:40 GMT
Goldeneye is very polished and all the ingredients work as a late 90s Bond, though License To Kill has an interesting and bloody scary villain, plays more to Dalton's strengths and feels more like a gritty early 90s 18-rated flick.
I went for Goldeneye, but LtK arguably does the gritty thing better than some of the Craig movies.
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Post by rushy on Mar 29, 2023 16:54:18 GMT
"arguably"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 11:16:25 GMT
Licence. It's my favourite Bond, favourite creative team, favourite director and overall era Never could get into Brosnan. He was always my brother's favourite. Brosnan is the favourite of most of my family. I've always liked the first four actors more than the last two, though I have warmed to Brosnan considerably over the last two year or so. I do enjoy Daylights and I don't think people should judge the film on one sectionIt almost feels a bit like From Russia with Love at times and as Rushy says the Czechoslovakia section is classic Bond. It also retains the comedic aspects of the previous Moore films. Licence to Kill is a fun summer action movie which used to be my favourite Bond movie when I was younger. Goldeneye I find slightly overrated and I always found the jump from LTK to Goldeneye a bit jarring. I mean, they changed pratically everything. I would have liked Caroline Bliss to stay on as Moneypenny and maybe throw in a subtle reference by M about Bond becoming slightly unreliable since the Sanchez stuff. It's a shame Dalton never did Goldeneye because the idea of Bond going up against an old friend turned enemy would have been a good way to finish off his arc. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 11:19:37 GMT
But in the context of film, the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan and, like in real life, caused great destruction in the country. Are we supposed to side with them in the movie? In real life whilst the Soviets did cause destruction to some extent, the Muhjideen were worse. We essentially propped up a frankenstein's monster of Islamic extremism and it later came back to bite us in the arse and in the James Bond universe, this means Bond helped cause 9/11. ] Quite a good video from, John Pilger, whose work is strongly recommended. LOL you'd just love Rambo III!  |
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 2, 2023 11:26:21 GMT
Rambo 3 is one of the most awful, shameless and embarrassing pieces of imperialistic trash ever made. I'm glad that the stupidity of all involved in making it was immortalised for all time. I hope Mark Hamill and Ben Stiller are taking notes for how they'll be perceived when the truth about Ukraine emerges. It hurts like hell having to say that about Mark Hamill, the greatest Joker of them all, one of the best voices of 90s villainy, and personally an all around great guy, but well it shows you how stupid and misguided and quick to jump on bandwagons people can be.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 11:37:54 GMT
Rambo 3 is one of the most awful, shameless and embarrassing pieces of imperialistic trash ever made. I'm glad that the stupidity of all involved in making it was immortalised for all time. I hope Mark Hamill and Ben Stiller are taking notes for how they'll be perceived when the truth about Ukraine emerges. It hurts like hell having to say that about Mark Hamill, the greatest Joker of them all, one of the best voices of 90s villainy, and personally an all around great guy, but well it shows you how stupid and misguided and quick to jump on bandwagons people can be. It's strange Stallone did both those two Rambo sequels with their obvious anti USSR themes because Rocky IV's ending was quite powerful in its "if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!" ending which is often credited as ending the cold war, somewhat jovially I suppose. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 11:59:05 GMT
Going back to the actual thread though, I must say Carey Lowell really made me like short haired women back when I was a kid. Her and Ursa from Superman II are the hottest short haired ladies I've ever seen.  |
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 2, 2023 12:00:17 GMT
Big Fam beats any other Bond girl on the grounds that she's Big Fam.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 12:02:19 GMT
Big Fam beats any other Bond girl on the grounds that she's Big Fam. So you didn't want to be James Bond when you were a teen, but rather the admiral that has steamy sex with her and ends up getting crushed between her legs? To be fair, it's probably the best way to go. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2023 12:15:05 GMT
Rambo 3 is one of the most awful, shameless and embarrassing pieces of imperialistic trash ever made. I'm glad that the stupidity of all involved in making it was immortalised for all time. I hope Mark Hamill and Ben Stiller are taking notes for how they'll be perceived when the truth about Ukraine emerges. It hurts like hell having to say that about Mark Hamill, the greatest Joker of them all, one of the best voices of 90s villainy, and personally an all around great guy, but well it shows you how stupid and misguided and quick to jump on bandwagons people can be. I must say though that the first Rambo film is an extremely well made film and not at all like the sequels. It's about a Vietnam veteran who suffers from PTSD and gones on the run into the wilderness after being harassed by bullying cops. The sequels, much like the RoboCop sequels, focused less on the emotion and just about making the main character fight bigger bad guys. Only one person dies in the first Rambo and it's an accidental death. |
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Post by burrunjor on Apr 2, 2023 12:46:20 GMT
Big Fam beats any other Bond girl on the grounds that she's Big Fam. So you didn't want to be James Bond when you were a teen, but rather the admiral that has steamy sex with her and ends up getting crushed between her legs? To be fair, it's probably the best way to go. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 0:19:52 GMT
Licence to Kill is also John Glen's favourite of the ones that he directed. I think a lot of people consider it the best Bond film of the decade with A View to a Kill being considered the worst (which would be heavily disputed here). I think LTK wraps up the decade nicely and I don't really blame the "if you can't beat them join them" mentality in regards to making it more like Lethal Weapon/Miami Vice. Bond films have done this since the 1970s. Don't need to be a genius to know what Moonraker was inspired by....
Star Crash of course. Caroline Munro wasn't too bad back in the day.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 0:24:43 GMT
My only issue with the Dalton films is that got rid of one of the greatest movie cinematographers in Alan Hume and replaced him with someone who only really worked on TV movies. The Dalton films are still nice visually, but they feel smaller than the Moore films and the vibrant look to them just isn't there. I noticed this more when I watched this all on Blu ray. John Glen is still a better director than Guy Hamilton though.
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