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Post by iank on Apr 27, 2023 21:23:33 GMT
Casino Royale (2006) is utter shite and one of the most boring and overstuffed films in the entire Bond series. It's a Craig movie. Boring goes with the territory. Like Who, Bond died in 1989. |
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Post by cyberhat on Apr 28, 2023 9:10:31 GMT
One of the few Daniel Craig Bonds where he isn't moaning about not wanting to do the job anymore. The dullest parodying the real actors views joke in cinema history.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2023 21:45:23 GMT
The Schumacher Batman films are great popcorn entertainment with splendid visuals and amazing stunt work.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2023 15:00:18 GMT
I don't know if this is unpopular here, but it certainly is in mainstream circles:
Getting all the stars of the show onboard and becoming mainstream has been the main detriment to Big Finish. I can read the synopses of their new releases and surmise that most of what they produce nowadays mainly consists of garbled crossovers chock full of cameos and over-used villains, all starring in very safe and uncontroversial stories. Oh look, here's another Kate Stewart series, where she fights the Weeping Angels alongside the Fourth and Sixth and Seventh Doctors, with a cameo by River Song and... it's just ridiculous. Just, why? We've seen it all before. The whole thing was much better as a quiet BBV-esque racket in the 90s/early 2000s that occasionally managed to nab some of the stars from the screen. Sure, not all the stories were great, but the underground following was what made it, really. That and the occasional diamond in the rough, of course. Not to mention how experimental they could get, simply due to not being limited by technology or budget (Doctor Who's real arch-enemies) or really having to conform to a formula, market broadly or please a ton of people. They knew it would be an obscure operation and ran with it. I'd rather they dispensed with their roster of stars who are pretty much on a permanent paycheck; that way they wouldn't have to focus so hard on pandering to as many fans as possible just to scrape enough money to pay them. On the other hand, the past is the past and Big Finish had its few years to shine just like pretty much everything else. Nothing lasts forever, and we might even consider that the same fate applies to the Doctor Who TV show.
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Post by rushy on May 4, 2023 15:06:53 GMT
Big Finish nowadays strikes me as a kind of retirement home for older actors, where they can all show off their talents, hang out together and feel appreciated by all the young'uns. I can't even hate it, because you can tell they're all genuinely happy to be there. Even heavyweights like Derek Jacobi. I just wish the stories were better.
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Post by cyberhat on May 4, 2023 15:09:44 GMT
There's too much Big Finish. Whenever I see fans put up their favourite stories, it's almost identical to the favourite BF stories lists you'd see 20 years ago. Despite there now being more Big Finish stories than there are humans.
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Post by rushy on May 4, 2023 15:51:49 GMT
tbf my favourite Big Finish audio only came out a few years ago
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Post by burrunjor on May 4, 2023 16:20:24 GMT
I don't know if this is unpopular here, but it certainly is in mainstream circles: Getting all the stars of the show onboard and becoming mainstream has been the main detriment to Big Finish. I can read the synopses of their new releases and surmise that most of what they produce nowadays mainly consists of garbled crossovers chock full of cameos and over-used villains, all starring in very safe and uncontroversial stories. Oh look, here's another Kate Stewart series, where she fights the Weeping Angels alongside the Fourth and Sixth and Seventh Doctors, with a cameo by River Song and... it's just ridiculous. Just, why? We've seen it all before. The whole thing was much better as a quiet BBV-esque racket in the 90s/early 2000s that occasionally managed to nab some of the stars from the screen. Sure, not all the stories were great, but the underground following was what made it, really. That and the occasional diamond in the rough, of course. Not to mention how experimental they could get, simply due to not being limited by technology or budget (Doctor Who's real arch-enemies) or really having to conform to a formula, market broadly or please a ton of people. They knew it would be an obscure operation and ran with it. I'd rather they dispensed with their roster of stars who are pretty much on a permanent paycheck; that way they wouldn't have to focus so hard on pandering to as many fans as possible just to scrape enough money to pay them. On the other hand, the past is the past and Big Finish had its few years to shine just like pretty much everything else. Nothing lasts forever, and we might even consider that the same fate applies to the Doctor Who TV show. If someone still has access to Clockwork's Dick Briggs parody, please post it her for Yak Emperor. It's absolutely hysterical. It's probably about 6 years old now mind you, shows you how long this crap has been going on for with BF. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2023 21:50:54 GMT
f*ck OFF with the Weeping Angels, for God's sake. If they'd only ever appeared in Blink, their creepiness factor would be through the roof; just a tiny band of strange, obscure creatures stranded on Earth for no good reason. Now they've since made it out that they're a big and well-known force in the universe, which is so boring. Stuff like that makes the universe feel so much smaller. Why didn't they just use the Krotons or those mushroom c*nts or any other old villain that no one cared about instead? I'd rather have had 100 episodes of Sil and Morbius and Kamelion collaborating than 2 of the Angels.
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Post by Spark Doll King on May 5, 2023 22:56:01 GMT
f*ck OFF with the Weeping Angels, for God's sake. If they'd only ever appeared in Blink, their creepiness factor would be through the roof; just a tiny band of strange, obscure creatures stranded on Earth for no good reason. Now they've since made it out that they're a big and well-known force in the universe, which is so boring. Stuff like that makes the universe feel so much smaller. Why didn't they just use the Krotons or those mushroom c*nts or any other old villain that no one cared about instead? I'd rather have had 100 episodes of Sil and Morbius and Kamelion collaborating than 2 of the Angels. Well I think in part their popularity worked against them. Regardless of the nonsense you find online, nuwho had not actually been able a single Monster that was worthy of becoming a proper recurring enemy to rival the Daleks, Cybermen, Master and Sontarans. The Ood, the Judoon, the Silence. None of them hold a candle to the classics, except the Angels. Sadly they have had it worse then any classic monster, not only are they overused but now Chibbs has given them an origin so ludicrous I'll neve take them seriously again. |
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Post by rushy on May 5, 2023 23:06:29 GMT
the Ood >>> Sontarans
Sontarans were a joke even in most of Classic Who. The Ood's polite voices still creep me out a little.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2023 23:33:54 GMT
the Ood >>> Sontarans Sontarans were a joke even in most of Classic Who. The Ood's polite voices still creep me out a little. Ood were creepy but they quickly became tired after two or so episodes... there's only so much you can do with a monster like that, and it looks like they've been relegated to the cameo carousel along with the Angels and the Silence and such. Also, Sontarans only really became a joke from the Invasion of Time onwards, after which they only had one episode anyway, and they might as well have been guest appearances in that story. In their earlier appearances (especially the first), they were actually quite menacing. |
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Post by rushy on May 6, 2023 0:08:34 GMT
I guess it's a matter of opinion. To me, they were just discount Klingons. Holmes could write them in a vaguely interesting way, but that was mainly because it was Holmes writing them. Half the stuff Holmes did would've been drivel in the hands of any lesser writer.
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Post by burrunjor on May 6, 2023 8:44:25 GMT
the Ood >>> Sontarans Sontarans were a joke even in most of Classic Who. The Ood's polite voices still creep me out a little. Sorry strongly disagree with that. The Time Warrior is an absolute classic story, with Kevin Lindsay's performance being among the best for any monster. It's up there with David Banks' Cyber Leader, the guy who played the Ice Lords, Michael Wisher and Terry Molloy's Davros etc. Irongron and Linx also have the best bromance in all of DW haha. I love the way Irongron switches from telling Linx he loves him like a brother to wanting to stick an axe in his head. He's tempremental to say the least. Also the world building around the Sontarans in the Time Warrior is some of the best. It ultimately led to a whole other story. Horror of Fang Rock. The Sontaran Experiment meanwhile is an interesting (if perhaps a little overhyped) story too, whilst the First Sontarans (a Colin Baker audio story) is the best origin story for any Who villain after Genesis. They were originally going to make that instead of The Two Doctors, but Saward convinced them to do Two Doctors instead because it was a Bob Holmes script. It just goes to show you that actually JNT who is often condemned for wanting new writers was right in that instance. Whilst I agree that it's stupid to not ever want to use old writers, ultimately the strength of the script, rather than who wrote it should always come first and honestly had they made the First Sontarans, that would have been better and might have even beefed up the reputation of Colin's first season. Just to be clear I do still like Two Doctors, but it's not well written. The Sontarans are badly done in it. Really it's saved by its actors, namely Jacqueline Pearce's hamtastic villain "KILLLLLL HIM". Apparently she improvised the bit where her character licks the blood from the floor! Even in New Who the Sontarans have been much better than the Ood. The Tennant Sontaran two parter is great, and I like Strax and the Paternoster Gang. As I've said before, they are something that only Who can do. Take people and things from different environments that no other show could bring them together, and have them take part in a fairly straight forward story. I also think Strax's character development was quite interesting. Whilst he seemed silly at first, his "death" in A Good Man Goes To War is quite moving. The Sontarans have always been a metaphor for the military. Originally they were the classic, bloodthirsty soldier, which was contrasted nicely with Irongron (showing that for all their technology, they were no different.) Then they became a coloniel blimp, bumbling idiot soldier stereotype with Invasion of Time, and then finally with Strax we get the WW1 soldier who is hyped up into thinking war will be a glorious thing, only to die a pointless death, and realise in his last moments how he's just a pawn. It was a great way of making them sympathetic within the original concept (unlike Dalek.) The Ood meanwhile have got one classic story, The satan two parter, which is good for reasons beyond them. Planet of the Ood meanwhile is okay. Not bad by any means, but pretty average. Just another humans being mean to aliens story like the Mutants, but it doesn't bring anything new to it. Since then as Iank says they've just been reduced to cameo appearances. Really you could replace them in most of their stories with another monster and it wouldn't make a difference. (That is literally what happened in the Doctors Wife. The script had some horrible Frankenstein alien made up of other aliens chasing Amy and Rory, but the budget wouldn't allow, so they just brought out the old Ood costume.) |
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Post by burrunjor on May 6, 2023 8:52:48 GMT
f*ck OFF with the Weeping Angels, for God's sake. If they'd only ever appeared in Blink, their creepiness factor would be through the roof; just a tiny band of strange, obscure creatures stranded on Earth for no good reason. Now they've since made it out that they're a big and well-known force in the universe, which is so boring. Stuff like that makes the universe feel so much smaller. Why didn't they just use the Krotons or those mushroom c*nts or any other old villain that no one cared about instead? I'd rather have had 100 episodes of Sil and Morbius and Kamelion collaborating than 2 of the Angels. Personally I liked all of the Weeping Angels stories, except for the Jodie one. I can barely remember anything about it to be honest. I'm not sure if I watched it or not? Did I LOL. I do remember the final shot of her changing, but I might have seen that online. I did like the two Moffat stories after Blink though. The base under siege one is a brilliant throwback to the Troughton era and has some genuinely creepy moments like Angel bob and Amy lost in the woods. Angels Take Manhattan though very mawkish and incredibly stupid with the Statue of Liberty bit (That's a plot hole that most people can't get over LOL, which is a shame but understandable as it's such a stupid idea.) Still the story is genuinely terrifying in places, like when Rory is alone with the Angel children. Also what they do to their victims in that is far more terrifying than anything in Blink. Being trapped alone in that tiny little room for the rest of their life, and Rory knowing that is what awaits him, even if the Doctor gets him to the other end of the universe, they'll find him. To me that's their scariest moment. That said I do agree that having them be a big power in the universe is shit. They should be a mysterious race of creatures that we only get glimpses of. Not going to war with the Daleks and the Cybermen on Trenzalore. |
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