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Also by googling it appears the author of these books wrote 91 titles between '49 and his death in '63, after which his widow carried on with over 100 more, then his daughter after that. It looks like there are well over 200 novels in the series.
A shame Fleming didn't manage that! ;-)
The two OSS flicks I've posted so far are the first ones with the same director, André Hunebelle who had wanted to work on this for a long time. Their signing of Kerwin Mathews to star was also a sign of making this a big budget series in France. The first 2 star Mathews, then once he priced himself too high they turned to unknown (a la Lazenby) Frederick Stafford who spoke 5 languages fluently, and then to John Gavin in 1968, the same man who went on to become James Bond for DAF before EON convinced Connery to come back. I tell you Nick, the OSS history is very interesting!
If you understand French I can't state enough how interesting this is. I picked up the Region 2 box set which contains 5 flicks on amazon.fr. The series comes with a nice little booklet providing a bit of history about the novels, the flicks, and the actors. All movies are filled with extras too B-)
Also the recent spoofs of OSS, which I find absolutely fantastic starring comedic genius Jean Dujardin have little to do with the old series. They're still great but more of a Bond spoof starring the OSS character than an OSS spoof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117
I think this now my be below Die Another Day for me in position 23/22.
X_X Nonsense! NSNA didn't rape the franchise!
No Bond film is more lifeless than AVTAK.
Do you see A View To A Kill as having Graves and a David Arnold score?
Don't get me wrong, i'm not holding DAD up as a paragon of Bond greatness. In my last Bond film ranking, I put it in the bottom tier / about 4 films from the bottom. I see DAD as being less awful than AVTAK. But at the end of the day, they're both Bond films that I could happily go with watching indefinitely.
4/5
10/10 - 5/5 - Five Stars - Two Thumbs Up
What an Effing Awesome Movie!!
The Rite (2011)
6. Anthony Hopkins
1. The Tenth Man (1988)
2. Hannibal (2001)
3. The Edge (1997)
4. When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
5. The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
6. The Rite (2011)
7. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
8. Magic (1978)
9. Red Dragon (2002)
And...
1. Hawks (1988)
7. Timothy Dalton
1. Hawks (1988)
2. The Living Daylights (1987)
3. Licence To Kill (1989)
4. Toy Story 3 (2010)
5. Hot Fuzz (2007)
6. Possessed (2000)
7. The Rocketeer (1991)
8. The Informant (1997)
9. Made Men (1999)
10. Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
the original Jurassic Park still blows me away to this day... the effects still hold up and only in brief moments do they appear dated..
The Lost World, while not as classic as the original, I still feel it's a fun movie..
Jurassic Park 3 suffers from being just a little short... the other films were over 2 hours - and part 3 i believe is only 100 minutes (or something like that).... a little more time on the island, with a little more Dinosaur variety would've made the film terrific.... but alas, it's only "decent"
it looks even better on DVD
I counted 239 times the F word was used
LOL!
Okayyyy, that has to be one of the most off-the-wall films i've seen. A little more investigation might've prepared me, rather than just seeing Bennett's name in the list and wanting to get a copy. It's like: dream, sex, sex, dream, sex, masked killers, sex, illuminati style cult, end.
24. Haley Bennett
1. The Haunting Of Molly Hartley (2008)
2. The Hole (2010)
3. Music And Lyrics (2007)
4. Kaboom (2010)
5. Marley & Me (2008)
Not Good 5/10
Bernard Herman's fantastic score is what makes the film though.
8/10
8.5 out of 10.
On a different note:
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) - aka 'The Ford And Connery Show'; a thoroughly satisfying origins and father-son adventure for the whip-cracker
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008) - a more sedate, maybe over-CGI-ed, but still eminently entertaining Cold War outing for a veteran Indy
Salt (2010) - loud action-driven espionage hokum that, although engaging at times, completely loses the plot in its second third
Coming To America (1988) - classic '80s fairytale rom-com for adults from John Landis, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall
Tango And Cash (1989) - complete cobblers violent action adventure from - again - the '80s; Sly and Kurt's ridiculous by-play ensures its more engaging than Salt, mind
The flicks I've watched in 2011
CW = Cinema watch
FW = First watch
RW = Re-watch
5 out of 5 ~ *****
Elizabeth (1998) RW
The King's Speech (2010) CW/ FW
Layer Cake (2004) FW
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) RW
They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) FW
WALL.E (2008) RW
4 out of 5 ~ ****
Alpha Male (2006) RW
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) RW
Brazil (1985) RW
Coming To America (1988) RW
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) (2007) FW
The Damned United (2009) FW
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) FW
The Departed (2006) RW
An Education (2009) FW
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) RW
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) RW
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008) RW
The Killing Fields (1984) FW
The Last King Of Scotland (2006) FW
Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes From A Marriage) (1973) FW
Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957) FW
X-Men: First Class (2011) CW/ FW
3 out of 5 ~ ***
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) RW
Birthday Girl (2001) FW
Brideshead Revisited (2008) FW
Cote d'Azur (Cockles And Mussels) (2005) FW
Escape To Victory (1981) RW
Female Agents (2008) FW
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) FW
Genova (2008) FW
The Ghost Writer (2010) FW
Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003) RW
Hallam Foe (2007) FW
Hope Springs (2003) FW
Monkey Business (1952) RW
Octopussy (1983) RW
Proof (2005) FW
Quantum Of Solace (2008) RW
Les Rivières Pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) (2000) FW
Sweet Charity (1969) FW
Trust The Man (2005) FW
2 out of 5 ~ **
Cocktail (1988) RW
Déficit (2007) FW
Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) FW
Night Watch (1995) RW
Salt (2010) FW
Tango And Cash (1989) FW
1 out of 5 ~ *
The one's in charge always want to shove us these first two films. Particularly the first one, which is shown many many times on the commercial channels, and sometimes, even on the non-commercial channels. Anyway, even though I think I last saw it earlier this year, I still think it's good. Hmmm... maybe 4/5...
Funny film.
Batman Sub Zero is all right , not great like Mask of Phantasm but watchable.
Going through the Millennium books with Misses Luds, who just finished the 1st one so we popped the blu-ray in last night. The first installment is rather good, but suffers as much as any novel which is adapted to the big screen: The action is too fast. The movie is 150 minutes long yet everything feels rushed. No time to establish secondary characters and relationships, such as Michael's relationship with Berger, Lisbeth's past, a lot was removed from Vagner and Michael's talk, the movie basically hints that Michael is hired to find Harriet's killer, no mention of writing the novel about the Vagner history and no mention of helping Michael with Wennerström. Out also is Michael and Cecilia Vanger's romance, and plenty more.
As expected a few things had to be modified to better fit the story on screen, Dragan Armanskij basically has a came role, no time to put Anita Vagner's sequence where Michael taps her phone call to Australia, Lisbeth providing the help about the numbers and names in the bible rather than Michael's daughter, amongst others.
Obviously, when watching such a movie, it's important not to be too focussed about these differences as not all stories can be adapted into a 2h movie, even a 2h30 movie. Noomi Rapace was very good as Lisbeth, and so was Michael Nyqvist as Blomkvist, there really isn't much more to say than that. Great story, disappointing pace, typical adaptation. For the story and not pansying out, I'll give this an 8/10