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@Creasy47 I also want to severely test the rewatchability of some of my favorite Bond films this year (TMWTGG, TSWLM, FYEO, OP, TLD, LTK, GE, TND, TWINE, CR, QOS...) by watching them as many times as I can this year.
@Crazysoul95, I did a little bit ago! If I can stick with my plan, you might see me bumping/updating that thread a lot over the course of the year.
I saw Die Hard recently, as i wanted to remember how good the late Alan Rickman was as Hans Gruber.
Still an excellent watch, though it does seem strange now to see Bruce Willis in a film with a head of hair.
Well EON did try to copy those those films in style some what by filming LTK with that harder edge style, and even had the same composer.
Unfortunately, the film makers made one big mistake, LTK was totally devoid of the humour and light heartedness, that made Die Hard and Lethal Weapon so popular with N.American audiences in particular.
Excellent, excellent film, and it's the best Christmas movie of all time! :D
Was going to watch it tonight, but I settled on 'Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation' instead. Might watch it after if I'm up for it.
Actually I think it and MI-RN are both classics.
I will watch DH again soon myself, in honour of Rickman.
I used to love this as a kid, but the last few times I've seen it, it failed to impress me, and I found it to be a pretty big bore. But, for some reason today, I was oddly in the mood for everything about this movie: the title song, the PTS, the characters, the finale, all of it, I couldn't explain it, so I watched it this evening and I was far from disappointed. It's classic Bond and classic allies and classic villains, all wrapped in an intense plot. Really enjoyed myself this time around.
Yes. Pot plot pot, *ahem*, "plot."
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That's true, but the pacing just seems much slower for me once it gets to this section. I do like that he manages to break out and do a little infiltration, rumble in the hay with Pussy, and stow the homer on Solo before he leaves, as fruitless as that is.
You Only Live Twice
I enjoyed this film more when I was younger. YOLT used to be a definitive top 5 Bond for me, but the last time I ranked the films, YOLT was barely in the top 10. I think i'll always have a fondness for it (the title track is one of the best in the series), but I don't blindly love the film like I used to.
You Only Live Twice
YOLT used to be a definitive top 5 Bond for me, but the last time I ranked the films, YOLT was barely in the top 10. I think i'll always have a fondness for it (the title track is one of the best in the series), but I don't blindly love the film like I used to.[/quote]
This perfectly describes my relationship with AVTAK.
I know exactly how you feel. I think YOLT has dropped the most in my ranking, from being a sure-fire Top 10 entry all the way to #17. I still like it, but I recognize it as the weakest of the golden age entries.
Congrats!
I gave <b>License to Kill</b> a go. It has improved since the last time I've seen it. First off, Dalton is superb. He gives a low key performance, but injects a controlled intensity to the character. I say controlled because I can tell he is feeling a lot in the scenes, but somehow is able to maintain his cool and trusts his ability to handle the situation. Dalton also does so much acting with his steely blue eyes. You know what he is thinking and you can even see him reading people in several scenes. Dalton is the ultimate Fleming Bond in my mind.
Robert Davi is a great actor and brings a lot of charisma to ever scene he is in. He combines ruthlessness with a touch of humor and even a bit of warmness, that you end of kind of liking his character - an excellent trait for a villain I might add. The story is padded out with other villains: Krest, Dario, Kilifer, Butcher which really just serve to demonstrate Sanchez's influence effectively.
Lupe and Pam both serve the story well, and I was pleased to see Lupe not be a sacrificial lamb; that her ability to get out of Sanchez's web was a victory in itself. Hooking up with the President so nonchalantly at the end was a bit awkward though, but maybe that was meant as a throwaway gag. I really liked Pam this time, she seemed genuine and tough, but with a sensitive side. Carey Lowell really is charming.
John Glen's direction was effective. I think "journeyman director" is fitting. He doesn't bring the grandiosity a director like Lewis Gilbert would, but he keeps the story moving. The screenplay by Maibaum and MGW is done well. This was Maibaum's last Bond film and you can sense his influence in the balance of seriousness and comedy - he always got this right. On that note, I had forgotten or didn't realize that there is quite a bit of humor in this film. Story-wise, I like that Bond is able to stay in the villain's good graces until the very end, even able to turn the villain against another baddie, a neat little story device. The cinematography is rather dull, but the action looks good. The locations feel underused and some of them are just a bit boring to begin with. The set pieces don't really dazzle the imagination either, though this could be intentional to go for a more realistic approach, still they look drab. Kamen's score is fine and is a serviceable Bond score. IMO this is the best gunbarrel, the music sets up the intensity of the film perfectly. I could do without the theme song - it's that late 80's schmaltzy light RnB production I can't stand.
Overall, LTK has a lot of great scenes, the story moves along and has plenty of twists and turns, the characters are nicely developed and well played by the actors. This feels like an attempt to shake up the formula a bit and almost feels like a spiritual companion film to CR. I give License to Kill a solid 7.5/10, and probably ranked somewhere around #10.
But as it happens to be about my favourite Bond movie, I give it a 9/10 personally (only FRWL is a solid 10/10).
:D
For Your Eyes Only
Like Bond during the mounting climbing sequence, FYEO has steadily climbed up my ranking, last time I think I put it in at #6, and I don't feel as though it would be any different now. It's not perfect, but I can appreciate that it was an attempt to recalibrate the series after the silliness of Moonraker.