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Man on Fire.
@Creasy47's art is death, @bondjames. And he's about to paint his masterpiece.
Which scene in CR?
I had no idea you meant that since I love that scene, I've even watched it on YouTube multiple times.
Cryptic @CraigMooreOHMSS . I'm definitely intrigued now.
Enjoy @bondjames.
Solid revenge flick with some great moments.
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/13/bruce-geller-mi-renaissance-man/
AlexanderWaverly, please tell me everyone on this thread knew that already! I'd be mortified if they didn't.
I saw a post in this thread recently where someone said something like, "I guess it was based on a TV show." Whatever the precise phrasing, it sounded like the poster didn't know much about the show. Bruce Geller was a remarkable fellow. He's been dead for 40 years so it's understandable why some wouldn't be familiar with him.
Nimoy preparing to sing Bilbo Baggins
He says despite the return of director Chris McQuarrie, the filmmaker was ‘at pains to make it feel different… the look of it is different; the lighting, production design – it’s gonna feel like another, different movie.”
This has me a lot more excited. Watching RN after GP was like watching MR after TSWLM for me. It felt like they were really trying to recreate what the first one had, not realising that it wasn't just that formula itself that made the first one so much fun, it was how fresh it was at the time. Different sounds better I think.
True, but Mendes tried to go from dark to light. With MI-6 it will be the other way around and it think it will work better
That said, I’m not attacking Fallout. I’m excited to see it. But, I’d like films to start getting impersonal.
I'm a big fan of both TSWLM & MR.
Heavier emotional heapings & personal connections have certainly been a trend for many years now, there's no doubt about that. It could be due to the growing female paying audience, or it could also be due to changes in what is acceptable or expected these days on account of societal impacts. In some ways society is more open, with social media enabling much more private and personal information to be disclosed and even anticipated by the masses.
I'm curious to see if the trend changes again.
I realize the MI films are basically vehicles for Cruise and the second in particular had no emphasis on the teamwork that was key to the television series. But, they've gotten better with each entry and they are just so watchable.
I think watching the MI TV series can be hard to binge as they follow pretty much the same template just in different settings, but that's also part of the fun is seeing what inventive choices they make to accomplish their mission.
But you don't get to know much about the characters. I guess there was some development in some of the middle series episodes, but it didn't go real far. Humor was also rare in the show, it was all suspense and drama.
With other series like Man from UNCLE, The Avengers and I Spy the relationships and personalities of the characters were part of the appeal. One of the pleasures of The Avengers was watching Steed and Mrs. Peel contemplate a case over a glass of champagne or Solo and Kuriyakin jibing each other while trying to escape a trap.
Ironically, some of the best episodes took place when writers and producers ignored that edict. Examples:
--A first season episode sees a mobster kidnap the daughter of a friend of Briggs to force Briggs to kidnap a witness against the mobster.
--A friend of Phelps has been framed for a murder he didn't commit. (This occurred in a South American country.) Phelps assembles the team, tells them they don't have to participate. Of course, they do.
--Cinammon gets captured and tortured in a season 3 episode. It's implied (in a subtle way) that Phelps and Cinammon have some kind of relationship.
--A fifth season episode takes place in Phelps home town.
Is that the one where they bring the dictator down with some video editing?
This never gets old
I have to admit, I don't remember. I haven't seen the episode in a few years.