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My only complaints are the PG rating (McClane is a lesser man without the swearing and I'd have preferred some 80's style blood and gore), killing off Maggie Q so quickly (unacceptable imho), Tim Olyphant's dull villain and the horrendous CGI thing with the jet fighter.
It was still a worthy sequel imho.
DH4 was watchable-- and yes I got the call back that he's an old (vibrant! badd ass!) man living in a New World (he's always been uncomfortable with technology), and his struggle with Lucy is similar to the one he had with Holly (these are all very good points), but the film didn't necessarily feel like a DH and McClane adventure anymore.
It was the first steps to Bruce Willis starring as Bruce Willis (as an asshole) in a film with DIE HARD in its title. They shoulda given him a thinning toupee-- woulda gone a long way, in my opinion...
The next film though, would take the cake.
The face he made when cashing that ridiculously fat paycheck from the film.
It isn't remotely a good installment in the series, but I really did enjoy the car chase throughout Russia. Very well done in most parts.
He's been phoning it in and raking in the dough for years, sadly. He is on form in a few movies here and there in recent years, but not many.
-Pulp Fiction (and any other Tarantino film)
-Lethal Weapon
-The Sound of Music
-Frozen
-The Avengers
-Titanic
-Avatar
-Gravity
-Moonlight
-The Hunger Games
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Elf
-Home Alone
-Toy Story 2 (not bad, but pretty darn overrated; 1 and 3 are way better)
-Memento (also not bad, but really overhyped)
-Ratatouille
-Cars
-Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
-The Wolf of Wall Street
-Casino
I agree it’s underrated. Still my least favorite of the original run, but more enjoyable for me than most of the Trek stuff we’ve gotten for a long while. Actually still felt like Star Trek.
I don't know about Rear Window but I agree on North by Northwest and Vertigo. Still all fine movies. The Birds might be my least favourite of his.
I really to get some Hitchcock films in my library. I only have TROUBLE WITH HARRY, NORTH BY NORTHWEST and TO CATCH A THIEF. My favorite Hitchcock might actually be ROPE.
In other controversial opinions, I tend to sometimes prefer the Studio final cut of well beloved movies as opposed to the director's cut.
For instance I like the voice over narrated BLADE RUNNER more than the 1992 or whatever version and the Final Cut.
Far more controversial, I actually prefer the Universal Studios cut of TOUCH OF EVIL with the opening credits over the late 1990's restored version. Welle's vision was certainly far ahead of it's time, though as most movies now save their titles until the end.
Which leads me to this:
I loathe with a passion this current style of not having any titles until the film is over. Most movies follow this trend today and it immediately turns me off. I dread the day Eon will ever see fit to omit the beautiful opening title sequences in the Bonds.
I also find the trend in the current superhero films of having a short end scene after the credits that teases the next entry.
When SKYFALL opened I had someone ask me if there was in fact, a scene after the credits giving us a teaser to the plot of the next film.
I said "No".
The Godfather or any of its sequels. I had never seen any except for bits of the first.
Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface etc.
The only exceptions are Burton’s Batman films and The Rocketeer.
All the others don’t do much for me and I really don’t get why they are praised so much.
This. Can't get excited about new superhero movies. More of the same every time. Nolan's Batman films were a bit of fresh air, but by the last one, even that had become predictable.
Why bother rebooting Spider-Man again, for example?
The title sequence and theme song are set in stone re the Bond movies! EON would never get rid of that part (unless Sam Mendes continues to direct!) "Cant we just have Bond enter the scene with a loud music cue with name of the film above his head?"
You know what, it never occurred to me that something like that could happen, but they did shit all over the gunbarrel for 4 movies do it could possible happen in the next actors tenure. Wow that would be awful no matter what they replaced it with, it would no longer be bond.
With regards to superhero films, I’ve grown up with them so I do enjoy some, but after this year and last year I’m done. Doctor strange, Thor ragnarok, and justice league were just shite. They were boring and silly and just rehashes. I did however enjoy homecoming. I will watch the avengers 3 and another spider man but I’m done for all this aqua man shit and black panther and cyborg and Wonder Woman and all that nonsense
The other possibility is there could still be a classic traditional Binder inspired titles sequence........only placed at the end a'la the DC and Marvel films. Then when we're ranking our favorite PTS in the series, the entire movie would qualify.
Horrifying thought, really, but the tampering with the gunbarrel has left me with a lack of trust in Eon's embracing of tradition.
Yes exactly! I don’t like the weird cgi worlds that they do in Qos, SF, and SP where it’s just bond roaming around in some animated bullshit dark world. CR is fitting for the film and QOS isn’t bad because the colors are good and theirs some ladies but I really like the bond titles with lots of ladies and not much of bond for example by far and away my favorite titles of the whole series are the ones in FRWL, they should do something like that for the next one.
I think Kleinman's best work is in GE and DAD.
I wudnt object to guys from QOS having another go for Bond 26.
Quite right.
Blimey, it must be your time of the month!