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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!
For the film.
Peter Firth has come a long way does anyone remember The Double Deckers ! Saturday Morning Children's TV from the 70s .
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!
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.
No spoilers here.
Avengers 2 Review
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.
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
I don't mean to be 'that guy,' but I just...agh. :(
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(
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.
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)
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.
Just a little history....
:D
Absolutely, my sentiments exactly!
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
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.
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.