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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Loved Spooks, so am really looking forward to the film. :)
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    DrGorner wrote: »
    Loved Spooks, so am really looking forward to the film. :)

    Me too! Years ago when the BBC axed it I always thought Peter Firth would have made a good future M? I still do to be honest! He is absolutely brilliant as Sir Harry Pearce!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    :)) Harry's the man. Spooks had some brilliant stories, so my hopes are high
    For the film.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    RogueAgent wrote: »
    DrGorner wrote: »
    Loved Spooks, so am really looking forward to the film. :)

    Me too! Years ago when the BBC axed it I always thought Peter Firth would have made a good future M? I still do to be honest! He is absolutely brilliant as Sir Harry Pearce!

    Peter Firth has come a long way does anyone remember The Double Deckers ! Saturday Morning Children's TV from the 70s .
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited April 2015 Posts: 15,718
    I thought I could never have the energy to watch the 3 'Lord of the Rings' films (extended versions) in the same day. Well, today I managed just that! Took me almost 12 hours but I succeeded. I think this may very well be the greatest movie experience I ever had in my life. The one thing that could top this is doing the same marathon on the big screen.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    @DaltonCraig007 that's dedication!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited May 2015 Posts: 24,183
    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

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    It's the swinging 60s. It's a James Bond parody. It has fembots. Yet it's not Austin Powers! Even before Derek Flint fought the SPECTRE-like G.A.L.A.X.Y., there was Dr. Goldfoot, starring Vincent Price as the titular character. His diabolical scheme: to steel money from rich dudes who get infatuated with sexy, willing, female robots.

    Made for only 1.5 million dollars, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine never got a chance to be of the same scope as Goldfinger or even Our Man Flint. But that's no excuse for its lame jokes and terrible acting. Rather than serve us some subtle winks and nods to the Bond series, Dr. Goldfoot is, at best, a failed screwball comedy in which doors hit people who then, after a painful delay, jump up to nearly fall out of a window while yelling "aaaah!". It doesn't help that most of the actors just can't pull it off either - let's just say there's not a single 'His Girl Friday' Cary Grant level performance to be found in this film.

    Only Vincent Price provides a beacon of light but it takes a while to get there. During the first half of the film, even Price struggles to be any better than what is far beneath his own potential as an actor. Luckily, things drastically improve once Dr. Goldfoot takes us to his lair. But even then, Price never gets quite as good as in Dr. Phibes or his many collaborations with Roger Corman. It's sad enough that Vincent Price was never cast in an official Bond film, it's even worse that he got attached to this garbage.

    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is neither funny nor entertaining in terms of acting, music or production design. Most of all, it's an uninteresting movie, boring as hell from its opening to the final seconds. That a sequel even got to see the light of day, let alone be directed by Mario Bava, defies any logic in my opinion. Since this isn't one of those charming 60s spy spoofs, I suggest you stay away from Dr. Goldfoot!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
    I watched this only once when I was a teen because, BIKINI. I didn't hate it on that level.

    We just watched Lupin The 3rd: Dead Or Alive and had some grand anime fun! I laughed out loud more than once, and that's all you can ask.


  • edited May 2015 Posts: 645
    I felt this was worth sharing on here, pretty silly.
    No spoilers here.

    Avengers 2 Review
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    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    DrGorner wrote: »
    Loved Spooks, so am really looking forward to the film. :)

    Me too! Years ago when the BBC axed it I always thought Peter Firth would have made a good future M? I still do to be honest! He is absolutely brilliant as Sir Harry Pearce!

    Peter Firth has come a long way does anyone remember The Double Deckers ! Saturday Morning Children's TV from the 70s .

    Heard of it but never seen it, have you a pic from the show?
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    RogueAgent wrote: »
    Mrcoggins wrote: »
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    DrGorner wrote: »
    Loved Spooks, so am really looking forward to the film. :)

    Me too! Years ago when the BBC axed it I always thought Peter Firth would have made a good future M? I still do to be honest! He is absolutely brilliant as Sir Harry Pearce!

    Peter Firth has come a long way does anyone remember The Double Deckers ! Saturday Morning Children's TV from the 70s .

    Heard of it but never seen it, have you a pic from the show?

    Google Here come the double Deckers will show all that you need to know.
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    Avengers: Age of Ultron

    As some of you may know from my previous review on the last page, I'm not the biggest Avengers fan in the world. I thought it was decent fare, but ultimately ended up a bit forgettable and tedious.

    For me, Age of Ulton represents a few more steps toward monotony. Lame villain, endless fight scenes, one-liners right out of something like Superhero Movie, generic plot and tensionless drama (Ultron's minions reminded me of the Battle Droids in Phantom Menace). With the exception of Jeremy Renner's line of
    "None of this makes sense"
    and a funny scene with Thor's hammer, I'm not sure I'm going to remember any of this movie in a few days.

    I don't mean to be 'that guy,' but I just...agh. :(
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    All these superhero movies seem to blend into one for me :-/
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    LETHAL WEAPON 2

    How this was so popular in the 80s is beyond me now. Intellectually challenged b movie at best.
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    LETHAL WEAPON 2

    How this was so popular in the 80s is beyond me now. Intellectually challenged b movie at best.

    I watched that for the first time in years a few months back. Had to turn it off after 40 minutes. So irritating
    ~X(
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    @SJK91 - Not everybody else is a fan, either. :) I found The Avengers boring and uninteresting, and have no plans of even bothering with its sequel.

    I found the first 3 X-Men movies pretty boring, as well, and decided give up on them. Except for...
    The Wolverine. It sounded like it might be worthwhile, plus I haven't yet seen a James Mangold movie I haven't liked (haven't seen them all), so... And indeed, it was much better. The final act was the least interesting part of the whole movie and somewhat disappointing, but on the whole, I liked this one. Based on this I would check out the other one Mangold and Jackman are scheduled to do, but otherwise I pretty much lost interest in X-Men with those first 3 movies.

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    Magnum Force in which Callanhan meets Starsky [or is it Hutch] and Spencer among others and Callahan needs to find out who is killing the bad guys. In this movie Callahan admits that he does not like the judicial system but until a better one comes along it will do.
    Clint Eastwoods Dirt Harry movies are mostly well made movies that never fail to entertain.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    SaintMark wrote: »
    Magnum Force in which Callanhan meets Starsky [or is it Hutch] and Spencer among others and Callahan needs to find out who is killing the bad guys. In this movie Callahan admits that he does not like the judicial system but until a better one comes along it will do.
    Clint Eastwoods Dirt Harry movies are mostly well made movies that never fail to entertain.

    Excellent movie, @SaintMark! My favourite DH film as a matter of fact.

    Ai no korīda / L'Empire Des Sens (1976)

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    Wow. @-)

    So I've seen a lot of 'atypical' films in my life but this one may very well have defied all of my expectations. It's basically an entire film of porn, ending in what can best be described as a stomach turning conclusion. Though I have no complaints about the aesthetic values of the film, or the story of compulsive desires, I simply cannot see what made this French-Japanese film more mainstream than The Openings Of Misty Beethoven or Emmanuelle. It's a crazy film. Watch it only if you really want to.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    LETHAL WEAPON 2

    How this was so popular in the 80s is beyond me now. Intellectually challenged b movie at best.
    I'm with you. I hated Lethal Weapon 2. 3 was slightly better and 4 is just as bad as 2.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Murdock wrote: »
    LETHAL WEAPON 2

    How this was so popular in the 80s is beyond me now. Intellectually challenged b movie at best.
    I'm with you. I hated Lethal Weapon 2. 3 was slightly better and 4 is just as bad as 2.
    For you younger dudes- back in the day the first ruled, the second hammered us (in a good way), the third was a little tough to love given the Rodney King incident, and the fourth was a hoot.

    Just a little history....
    :D
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    I love 1 and 2; 3 is so, so, 4 became a parody.
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    Mel lost the mullet in part 4. Doesn't count! ;)
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    Tim Burton's Batman (1989). I know a lot of people aren't crazy about this version, but I've always loved it myself. Michael Keaton is my favorite live-action Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Jack Nicholson is very entertaining as Joker. I really enjoyed the movie's entire design - the way Gotham City looked, the Batsuit, the Batmobile, etc. I for one also enjoyed the twist of having the Joker having killed Bruce's parents, simply because this is BURTON'S Batman - not 100% stuck to the source. It helped really add depth to their relationship in the movie. Anyways, I sill enjoy this film a lot, and I think it's one of Burton's best movies.
  • WillardWhyteWillardWhyte Midnight Society #ProjectMoon
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    RogueAgent wrote: »
    Avengers Age of Ultron!

    What a fantastic movie! Loved it and if I had money to burn I would go again! All the characters got a good equal share of the movie I felt and the story and movie went along so fast it was the end before I realised! Great film and I would highly recommend it for sure! \m/ :-bd

    Absolutely, my sentiments exactly!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE DEPARTED
    First view was more exciting of course, as this is a totally unpredictable film. Scorsese has that in common with the Cohens.(I know it is a remake.)

    Everyone is on top form, but Jack Nicholson still manages to steal the show.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited May 2015 Posts: 28,694
    THE DEPARTED
    First view was more exciting of course, as this is a totally unpredictable film. Scorsese has that in common with the Cohens.(I know it is a remake.)

    Everyone is on top form, but Jack Nicholson still manages to steal the show.

    I had a fun time a few years ago showing this film to my dad. It was on TV and we decided to watch it, and
    he had all these really happy endings imagined for the movie which made me crack a smile. He thought Leo's character and Vira's character were going to get the upper hand on Matt's character and find dirt on him that'd stick, sending him to prison while they survived the mob's advances. Let's just say he was...surprised, to say the least. That's just not the Scorsese way, I wanted to say.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I don t blame him for thinking that if he is not familiar with Scorsese. That is how it usually goes.
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    So I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time today. I read the book in high school, though I didn't remember much of it. Honestly I was just trying to regard it as a comedy because to me it fails on any other level. Great acting by Malcolm McDowell though.

    In retrospect, I have completely changed my opinion about 2001 A Space Odyssey. It really was a very good movie. But I still don't understand the so called genius of Stanley Kubrick. He often works with very striking or compelling source material (The Shining, Lolita, 2001, Clockwork, I recently even read he originally wanted to film Das Parfum, but found it impossible), and he puts his own spin on it, which is never bad but in my opinion not tremendously awe inspiring either. And some parts of this movie were vulgar, regardless of how it might contribute to the point of the story.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Boyhood (2014)

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    Boyhood is a beautiful film with a great cast and some incredibly powerful moments. However, I think it's more a film I respect than a film I found entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but praise for Boyhood; the "12 years in the making" thing is wonderful. That said, take a long running soap series, you know, one of the more serious ones, dealing with ordinary people and the facts of life, cut out 99.9 % of material gathered over a span of 15 years and glue together what's left and you have Boyhood. Maybe the result will not be as interesting or well acted but you'll have the same mechanism of characters growing up along with the real actors and passing through the various stages of life.

    On top of that, I have just sat through Linklater's Before trilogy and found it interesting and at the same time a daunting task. These movies, along with Boyhood, are recorded events and dialogues but with very thin overall stories. While inspiring, allowing us to reflect on our own lives, these movies have also been a challenge to my patience. I've now reached a point where I'm Linklater'd out for a while. (Even though A Scanner Darkly is currently playing on my television. ;-))

    Still, Boyhood commands my respect.
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    Age of Ultron second viewing
    Found Ultron very funny with his Tony Starkisms, Spader did a great job of mirroring Tony Stark. The Hulk buster scene was fantastic as was the moment when The Vision, Iron Man and Thor unleash some serious power on Ultron and a Hulk punch for good measure. Some serious comic nerd dream shots and scenes in this film.
    just edges the first film for me.
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