RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media What DVDs are you watching?

Oh, I watched The Hunted. Classic.

I know anything you dislike must be good.

That was a good movie.

I just watched the first Ron Burgundy movie. Mostly a silly movie with some funny moments that make it worth watching. Applegate is always easy on the eyes.

I really liked this.

Season 2 of "the Wire."

Season 1 was pretty good. I think this season is better.

Decided to watch some of my least watched/favorite James Bond movies starting with "Moonraker". According to IMDB,this was the highest-grossing Bond movie until "Goldeneye".......

Picked up a few blu rays here and there in the last month or so (some as DVD replacements, some entirely new to me), and rewatched a lot of films I have owned for a while:
Old:
Indiana Jones blu ray set
Priest 3D
Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter 3D
Death race inferno
Batman (89)
Broken arrow

New:
Escape plan
R.I.P.D. 3D
1:Life on the limit
Rush
Thor:dark world 3D
Breakfast club
Kick ass 2
Ronin
Three musketeers 3D
Rock of ages
Man of steel 3D
Maximum conviction
The condemned
GI Joe retaliation 3D
The Wolverine 3D
Push
Lucky number Slevin

Oh, and also watched the new Evil dead on Lovefilm, and it was shockingly shit.

"Highest grossing" rarely means "adjusted for inflation" so I wouldn't sweat it.

"License To Kill" was next on the watch list. Nothing of note for this one except that it had Benico del Toro as a secondary villain. It had Wayne Newton too but that's it.

allan1 sighting!

One of my favorites mostly because it was the first one I watched when I was a kid. And the Spanish chick was hot.

Aye.She am the hawtness.

Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Gary Oldman in his prime.

I've been downloading a fuck ton of movies during mobilization. I'd long since forgotten this gem til I tripped over it on the Pirate Bay.

Hot Talisa Soto moments aside, the two Bond films starring Timothy Dalton were the absolute worst of the franchise. License To Kill was more like a Miami Vice episode than a Bond movie. Dalton's personality just wasn't Bond.

Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig all have strong runs. Dalton was the only one for me who was a complete dud.

"The Man With the Golden Gun"- Ol' Tattoo in this one makes it more comical but with tweenie karate girls and a very not needed appearance from Sgt. J.W. Pepper,well let's just say there's a lot of fast forwards in this one. Christopher Lee is cool though.

Yeah, if there's a Bond film with untapped potential that deserves a proper remake, that's it.

I'm about to watch The Raid: Berandal. We'll see if it's any good.

You are talking out of your arse. I like all the Bonds, but if you think these are duds and Brosnan had a strong run, then you are totally fucked in the head. Brosnan started off well, but the ridiculousness of invisible cars etc ruined his run.

Goldeneye was fantastic. The next one vs. Ted Turner was bullshit and turned me off the rest of Brosnan's run. He was a perfect fit for Bond. The scripts were shit. The same for Dalton. I liked him as Bond; but I just found his movies to be lacking.

The only good thing about Die another day was the fact the villain was like a counterpart with his gadget laden Jaguar, but everything else kinda sucked (especially the aforementioned invisiblity on Bonds car).

The stuff with Michelle Yeoh was good. The opening of Die Another Day was excellent. If the rest of the movie had continued in that vein it would have been a great film.

Brosnan as Bond had a bit of the same problem as Clooney as Batman: both could have been the best actor to play the character if they hadn't been saddled with shit films (though Brosnan at least had one and A half decent films with Bond)

I'm going to have to say that Roger Moore is my favorite Bond. Part of it has to be the fact that he was the first Bond I saw and saw in good quantity as a kid. So the nostalgia aspect is heavy there. As an adult, though I enjoy the others (especially Brosnan and Connery), I still prefer Moore as I can see just how self aware his Bond is. He plays the character like Bond knows that he's in a campy spy movie.

...and, being an ancient fart, my first Bond was Connery. Goldfinger on the ABC movie of the week.

I remember those. ABC presented those like they were a big deal.

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That's exactly why he's my least favorite. I like Bond to be played in a more serious tone. That's why Im partial to Timothy Dalton who took it from Moore and made Bond less campy. That...and he was the first one I saw when I was a kid.

Like the Doc,Moore too is my favorite because that's who was in the role when I was a kid and in the early days of HBO,"For Your Eyes Only" was in heavy rotation and I watched it over and over agian. Connery is the best though no question. I actually find Dalton underrated as Bond and thought he himself was good in the role.I just didn't really care for the movies he got stuck in. Same with Brosnan(with the exception of "Goldeneye").

Anywho,next on the list is "The World is Not Enough." Not a terrible movie but very "meh" though. Hate Denise Richards as Christmas Jones(stupid,stupid name) but the chick who played Elektra was smokin' with sultry sexiness. The bad guy was pretty much a throwaway and the action scene with the giant buzzsaw was decent. Brosnan kills the whole movie with the ultimate cheese line of Christmas coming only once a year. UGh!! Done with that one for a while

Sophie Marceau!

She's gorgeous beyond belief. And she's also great as the French princess who has at it with Mel Gibson in Braveheart.
I also like her in a remake she did of Anna Karenina.
I also enjoyed her in a comedy film with David Spade called Lost and Found.
And an independent movie she did called Firelight.

After World is Not Enough (in which she looks beautiful, but the movie somehow is incoherent as a whole and not up to par) Marceau kind of disappeared. I know she came from French cinema before the above Hollywood roles, so she apparently had her fill of American cinema and went back to the French market.


Of the Bond players, I too am a Roger Moore man. The first Bond movie I saw in the theatre was Live and Let Die. And with the introduction of an amazing Jane Seymour (only 20 at the time) and a great Paul McCartney title song, how can you possibly go wrong?
For my money the best action movie ever made until Raiders of the Lost Ark came along.
Moore is the cavalier slightly-snobbish English gentleman that I always thought perfectly captured the Bond role.
I kind of retroactively watched the Connery films and appreciate him in the role now too, but for me, Moore was best in the role.
Timothy Dalton was awful as Bond, completely out of character.
Pierce Brosnan was a return to consistency with Roger Moore's version, with a great increase in epic scale and quality of the Bond franchise.

And I like what Daniel Craig has done as well. Casino Royale was absolute perfection. The one after that was engaging but not quite as good. I haven't seen Skyfall yet.

But the series was very consistent under Roger Moore, and the series declined for a while when they got away from what made Moore's films so appealing.

My favorite line is from Moonraker, as Bond and the girl are floating naked at the end of the movie, in zero gravity, with a bedsheet discretely floating in front of them to avoid an R-rating.
"M" and the other MI-6 higher-ups turn on the video monitor and see Bond, and one says "I say, what is Bond doing?"
Another responds, "I think he's attempting re-entry!"

As a huge Bond fan I have always said this. To say I have a favourite Bond is ridiculous because each of them essentially play a different character, bringing their own thing to the table and were a product of their era.
The classic Connery films were great, but feel very dated in this day and age.
Connery was brutal, very dry and had a darkness to him.

Lazenby while not a great actor, starred in what has been my favourite Bond film for years. He was more sauve than Connery, but never really got a chance to put his stamp on the character due to people around him feeding his ego.

Moore was part of a lighter era (the 70s) where things were more over the top. He was more likeable as a person, wittier and yes, somewhat camp.

Dalton brought things back down to a darker era like the 60s Bond, but doesnt look as dated today. Dalton was gritty, had a darker brooding side and was probably the first "real" actor in the role.

Brosnan for me had a bit of all previous Bonds in his character. He was smooth as fuck, but had the mix of Moore campness and the grittier side that Connery & Dalton brought to the table.

Craig for me though is a different kettle of fish. Because the franchise was actually being rebooted, it really was a different character this time, not being the seasons spy everyone was used to.
To some respects while I love his films, I still struggle to see him as Bond. Apart from his look (he looks like Gollum), the character just doesnt have the charm and wit that we are used to, but this is a character in development basically being his origin.

I'm not telling you which Bond to like, but just realize that Moore didn't make Bond campy. The producers did. You see it creeping in during Connery's run. Moore just ran with it. I love his wink and nod style he gave Bond letting the audience know that he was in on the joke. The producers started to get more gritty and violent as the 80's went on which can be seen in Moore's final film A View to a Kill. That made Dalton, who's a fantastic actor, a perfect choice to replace Moore for the new direction. Just a Brosnan was replaced by Craig for the new direction of Bond, which has oddly come back around to the Connery era. The realism of Casino Royale has slowly been peeled away for more and more over the top stunts and gadgets that the franchise is well known for.

Yeah. Connery and Moore seemed to be playing versions of themselves as Bond rather than a character.

Brosnan was the perfect casting. To this day, I believe he was the person all of the other Bonds were trying to be even if I didn't necessarily enjoy his films (I like Golden Eye and Tomorrow Never Dies).

That being said, Dalton is still my favorite since his depiction/stories were the least boring of the franchise, and his character was far more practical--if not truly practical--as a spy. Roger Moore voiced reservations about being more violent and conniving than clever. But, ultimately, Bond's character would have to be as ruthless as Dalton or Craig to get the job done.

As much as I liked Craig's attitude, his physical appearance can't possibly be reconciled with Bond's character. Also, the stories for his films were some of the silliest bit of shitty fucking writing ever conceived. Naturally though, the directors were more concerned with covering up plot weakness and inconsistency with action sequences than they were with making the story coherent.

Peter Sellers

First base!

Big Bang Theory seasons 1-6

I finally finished The Raid 2.

That movie is fucking awesome as fuck.

I just finished season 3 of Homeland.

.....Eeeeeeehhhh....The entire series was a mish-mash of good and bad. Compelling, boring, interesting, annoying, and large chunks of the story arcs were clearly shot from the hip.

Ultimately, if it weren't for Mandy Patinkin, I wouldn't have even gotten through the third episode. Kicking him out of the CIA in the last season basically guarantees I won't bother with the fourth season.

It's pretty sad because I used to have a crush on Claire Danes when I was a teenager, but her character turned out to be one of the show's weakest and most irritating components (see also: Brody's fucking retard daughter).

Damien Lewis' character wasn't much better, but every now and again he would show signs of being a loving father and husband who wanted to put his life back together. Despite this, he kept cheating on his wife with Danes (who was perfectly fine with the idea of being a home-wrecker), the relationship with whom only made worse the fact that he was a traitor. I actually wanted to see him heal, but the writer(s) avoided every single exit route off the road to divorce and misery, and made him totally unlikeable by the third season.

That being said--even though I realize they've been trying to kill him off since season one--his death, I predict, will be the show's inevitable undoing. Despite him being unlikeable, his character has become too ingrained in the show for it to survive without his participation. Bearing in mind his all but complete absence during the third season, every aspect of the series focused on events of which he was at the center. As refreshing as it was not to have to see his face up to that point, the story could only be reconciled with him as a player.

Ultimately, what they should have done was just make a series about the CIA with Danes and Patinkin without unthinkingly entrenching characters in the series that were supposed to die off.


SPOILERS

The whole point of Danes' character is that she's mentally unbalanced and probably addicted to danger. Why wouldn't she have an affair with him?