It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
No love for Unbreakable? It was his best movie.
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Spider-man 3
All the Matrix sequels sucked, the car chase was the redeeming thing in the second one but the third one: big time thumbs down.
I liked Kill Bill Vol. 2 it was witty and the funnier of the saga.
The first 30 minutes of The Matrix Reloaded had me dumb founded I loved the first movie, I could not believe how terrible the opening was. The action to follow redeemed the experience, Revolutions on the other hand was appalling I genuinely felt cheated by that film.
Same here. Reloaded more than redeems itself with its quality action, but I have never felt so criminally cheated by a sequel as I have by Revolutions (Kill Bill Vol. 2 excepting).
There was clearly only enough story for one sequel, it was the beginning of the two part finales to get double the money from audiences for a watered down product.
I should have walked out. I hated it that much.
I like Titanic. :)
As an adult though the romance just feels too sickly. i agree that the best part of the film is undoubtably when the ship starts sinking.
Also, Gloria Stuart who plays Old Rose is great.
So JJ Abrams remake of A New Hope is the 'real' thing is it, @Shardlake..?
ok...
It's the real thing in terms of people actually being desperate to see it.
Are there really billions of die hard Avatar fans out there who will camp out on the pavement for weeks so that they can get into the first midnight screening of Avatar 2 and 3 and 4?
Yes it made a shitload at the box office because it was marketed as an incredible visual spectacle you had to see (not that I did - the trailers were more than enough) but it's not even close to Star Wars however much Cameron might think it is. I really can't see how there will be anything but diminishing returns from here unless the guy can come up with a new trick to wow people each time because we all know most of the work will be put into CGI of blue aliens not a script. Just saying 'more impressive CGI in 3D' won't get people returning time and again.
Mind you the public are morons and each one will probably take a billion as their thirst for seeing tediously long sequences of stuff being blown up in CGI seems insatiable, but box office is no indicator of quality. Good luck to the studio and Cameron though if they can milk the public by pedalling this dreck.
Always a pleasure to read your particular brand of toxicity, @Wiz. That said: most of us wait until after a film is actually made before we start trashing it. Dull and pedestrian practice, I'm sure, but still...
Try actually watching Avatar, @TheWizardOfIce, you might be surprised how much soul and passion is in this 'dreck'
Then again you might just think 'what a pile of poo!', a big disappointment and thank God I don't have to sit through the extended version.
Strange. I'd have thought you might be better off actually seeing it than merely waiting for it to be in the can? But if Avatars 2,3 & 4 turn out to be dramatic and intriguing character studies I will admit I was hasty in prejudging them.
If you look at the last 10 years of movies frequently hitting the billion dollar mark there are very few that would rank as all time greats and fewer still that don't have relentlessly tedious CGI sequences of stuff getting smashed up and fights between various aliens/creatures/superheroes.
There's only really TDK and our very own SF that could be accused of putting character and drama (not to mention some actual stunts done for real) to the fore ahead of just trying to be a son et lumiere show for people with attention deficit disorder.
What happened to films with characters, story, drama like Jaws cleaning up at the box office? These days unless you have a 30 minute scene where numerous skyscrapers are knocked down or the camera follows some flying creature/vehicle as it ludicrously defies the laws of physics to avoid every single obstacle in its path whilst travelling at Mach 3 your film is dead in the water.
But as I said. There's no sign of people getting tired of this so if I was the studio I would also be making CGI hay while the sun shines.
That film has certainly aged better than any of it's sequel, the menace of that film and Brad Fiedel's much more basic score really power it along, brilliantly paced and well acted by all, Arnie has never been better.
When both JC & Fiedel hit the epic button despite T2 being a very entertainingbut flawed popcorn flick the film was sapped of all it's tension and like many blockbusters today relied on SFX too much plus the script to T1 is probably still JC's best.
His command of SFX might not be touched but as far as being a great director I'll take Nolan over him everytime.
Agree with every word you say but given the lack of Nolan love in the 'Fassbender/Nolan for Bond' thread brace yourself.
But even if Nolan did disappear up his own arse with Interstellar, Cameron has never even come close to the narrative brilliance of Memento and The Prestige.
Mabey so @Lancaster007 but we all have different opinions and he won't know until he's actually seen it, will he?
My favourite 2 Nolan films, I hope he can approach that level again but if he doesn't at least we have those films.
On the subject of Fassbender I think he's the only established actor that could do Bond justice, outside of that they need to look for relative unknowns.
I certainly wouldn't boycott a Fass/Nolan team up like some so vehmently do.
Hardy is just a ridiculous thought, he's tremendously talented but playing a suave refined Bond no chance, Craig pushed what Bond could be but Hardy is just even more of a thug and no I don't think he could do refined it's just not in his make up.