It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
One of Harrison Ford’s best recent roles. I’m surprised how little Karen Gillian is in it, as she’s quite popular now.
Love the main title music and that slap bass:
The title sequence is brilliant:
This was easily the worst of the Langdon books (haven t read the last one), and the movie is no better. Waste of time.
Yet another pointless, idiotic and boring Hitchcock film from that era, although not quite as bad as Jamaica Inn or The Man Who Knew Too Much. The leading lady is charming.
The Lady Vanishes and The 39 steps are the best of the Hitchcock pre Hollywood era.
It's a great film, a template for the innocent man on the run/spy thriller. It's an incredibly atmospheric movie with great characters. I love the film, watched it hundreds of times over the years.
FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (Billy Wilder, 1943): Wilder's second movie as a director in the U.S., and his first propaganda movie. But what a propaganda movie! Although based on a play originally dealing with a WW I-situation and having been put on film twice before, this manages to keep you glued to your seat. British sergeant (Franchot Tone) as only survivor from a tank crew after encountering the Afrika-Korps manages to reach a desert hotel somewhere in Egypt, which unfortunately is destined to become the regional German command centre. He takes the role of an Alsatian waiter that died the night before in an air raid and then is surprised to learn that his new personality was actually a German spy, which puts him in a favourable position when Field Marshal Rommel himself arrives, allowing him to overhear all kinds of conversations, such as the one where Rommel teases British officer POWs during a dinner about the Germans' great plans early on and their having placed five supply depots in Egypt (the "five graves" from the title) two years before the war even started. He now has to find out where those depots are located, and surprise, he does.
The star of this totally implausible but captivating tale is Erich von Stroheim, who plays a Rommel unlike any other Rommel, especially not the real one. But possibly a more interesting one. This movie was made when nobody knew what an ambivalent person the real Rommel was, ultimately being an accessory to the Hitler assassins of 20 July 1944 and driven into suicide afterwards (see THE DESERT FOX with James Mason as Rommel, for instance). Stroheim is an operetta Rommel, even designing his (Stroheim's) uniforms which look more like Göring's than Rommel's. He speaks German (where he does) with a thick Austrian accent tainted by the "r"s of over 20 years in the USA, where the original was Swabian. So as someone with a basic knowledge of this historic figure one had best ignore the name of the movie character and take the cardboard-cutout, bullnecked pseudo-field marshal for what he is: a fascinating and enjoyable movie character/creature without any historical accuracy, while being totally aware that this is a propaganda picture. For the right party, by all of today's standards, but still. And best of all, in a Billy Wilder movie.
I haven t seen The 39 Steps in decades, so don t remember anything from it, but I saw The Lady Vanishes not that long ago, and I didn t care for it.
UNHINGED (Derrick Borte, 2020)
This was better than expected. It keeps the suspense up throughout, and I wasn t bored. Never knew Russell Crowe was such a psycho.
Better than I thought. The animation is at the usual standards, and there are some great moments. Definitely not among the best Pixar movies.
Have you watched Soul it surprised me and I am not usually a fan of Disney animated films etc.
No, I haven t had the chance yet. I am optimistic about that one.
Soul has great ideas throughout, then there was one moment that packed quite an emotional punch.
Looking forward to it. My favourite Pixar movie so far is probably COCO.
Not watched that many Pixar, The Incredibles is good and Zootopia was ok. Megamind was fun not sure if that was Pixar?
Zootopia is Disney.
Megamind is Dreamworks.
All of those are great.
One of the worst spoofs I have seen, Leslie Nielson has a small role in the film which is cringe worthy.
Great thriller involving cloning and Neo Nazi's, Star filled cast with
Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier and James Mason. With Bond veteran
Walter Gotell and a very young Steve Guttenberg
Excellent thriller Has a brilliant theme from Jerry Goldsmith!
Spectacular visuals.
Life of Pi (2012)
Great film.
This is great fun. Based on a comic strip by Claus Deleuran.
Last one I watched a few nights ago was Galaxy Quest. I was in the mood for some Star Trek-like entertainment and it had been quite a while since I'd seen it. Enjoyed it a lot! I noticed Matt Winston in it, who had a really minor role. If you watched Star Trek Enterprise, which came a few years after Galaxy Quest, he played Daniels, the Temporal Agent.
Slow and dark, style over substance....
Everyone else on this forum probably loves this movie ??????
Nice conclusion.
It is a slow film, but that's a good thing in my opinion. I love taking it all in, without having the camera or the editor shaking it up hard and heavy every two or three seconds.
It is style-over-substance, as is the case with most of Scott's films. He's a visual narrator, and the substance exists between the lines, waiting to be pried loose during multiple viewings. Blade Runner has a pretty thin story for sure, and the main protagonist isn't even such a likeable guy when you think about it. So I agree, my love for BR has a lot to do with the style of the film. My love for Alien and other Scott films also has more to do with style.
I do indeed love the movie, not despite its slow, dark and style-over-substance nature but more because of those things. So, @007InAction, you summed up nicely why BR is my second favourite film of all time. ;-)
Justice League: War Watching a few of the New52 Animated Films as we build toward Justice League The Snyder Cut release later this week. War is one of my favourites from this era of DC Animated Movies, plenty of good action in this one.
LAST AND FIRST MEN (Johann Johannsson, 2017)
This is absolutely brilliant, a work of artistic genius.