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Mixed bag, but I had some laughs throughout.
Wow, they were pushing the near-full-on Bond vibe here. Even got Britt Ekland fresh off filming TMWTGG to be the 'Austin' girl.
It was terribly entertaining, and they certainly threw tons of money into it for a TV movie back then, but I'm glad this was a one off attempt at it; Steve was no James. ;)
Still, Steve Austin was a Colonel!
But I won't miss a chance to post images of Steve in his "tux". And you've got me digging up the tuxedo mashup.
Oh yeah!
What can I say about this film that hasn’t been said already? Simply, “Citizen Kane” is a landmark film, and on the off-chance that anyone hasn’t seen it yet, don’t let the movie’s “the greatest film ever made” reputation scare you off. “Citizen Kane” is both funny and poignant in equal measure. And (IMO) its’ message is just as relevant now as it was in 1940.
BTW: Not withstanding Joseph Cotton’s roles in “Citizen Kane”, “A Shadow of a Doubt”, “The Third Man” and the “Magnificent Ambersons”, his most notable role was as Capt. Craig McKenzie in the award winning “Latitude Zero.” =))
As a shameless zombie fan, I decided to finally check this out. After 2.5 hours, I regretted it. Zack Snyder made the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead and while a terrible remake, it was at least a serviceable zombie film. The man is clearly in need of studio interference, however, as being unrestrained left us with a disjointed movie more interested in setting up plot threads for later installments than actually working on its own. There are over a dozen different hooks thrown at the viewer in the first half an hour and none of them are paid off by the end of the movie. Couple that together with characters who are either all the same stereotype or a different stereotype, who try to be funny but fall completely flat, who are supposed to be the best at what they do but can't seem to go five minutes without screwing something up.
I wish the Zack Snyder of 2004 directed this movie, because that Zack Snyder knew his limitations and respected that there were just certain things that made a movie better because. Modern Snyder has soaked in all the undeserved fan worship and believes he can go wherever he wants and do no wrong. I'm sorry, that's just not the case. We would hold Spielberg's feet to the fire for terrible movies, but he has never gone this low, and Snyder doesn't deserve a pass.
Either wait until more movies and such related to this come out or skip it altogether, because either way, it's just a bad movie.
Dead Again
Once more, a disappointing zombie movie, this one a sub-low budget attempt to cram all three movies of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy into one tangled mess. We have the serious cop/laid back cop in a small British town duo from Hot Fuzz (they seem to have made great effort to find actors who mildly physically resembled Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as well), there are zombies like Shaun of the Dead, and the plot happens because aliens are invading like in The World's End. The biggest problem here is that, unlike those films which were comedies, this attempts to play everything straight and good lord, does it fail spectacularly.
The acting is terrible, the direction looks like something you'd have seen from a fan vid at the advemt of YouTube, not even the decent quality productions of today, and the special effects look worse than what games in the 90s were capable of. There's nothing to like about this movie across its 83 minute runtime, and even less to remember. Characters disappear toward the end for little reason, and the majority of the film takes place in one solitary location with little in the way to justify it.
The creators must have assumed they were funny, though, as one of the credits is literally "More drone work in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones". I'm not sure what the hell this exists for, but it's about the only memorable thing in the whole movie. I paid $10 for it at a Walmart and feel like I was robbed of $10,000.
John Payne's efforts to get the rights to MOONRAKER and other Bond novels fell through so he and Andre De Toth went off and made this "Bond" film.
He plays a detective attempting to rescue his sister in Denmark and comes across a counterfeit ring.
Hypothetically had he gotten the Bond rights, this films gives an idea what his MOONRAKER might have looked like: am espionage noir.
Needless to say I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not great, but I love it!
What's not to like ;) or am I just Old and twisted
a few months. Last night I watched Batman 1989 still a favourite of mine. Then
Sin City 2005. A really stylish thriller, Haven't seen it in years.
I really love 2. Ti West has a very peculiar but most enjoyable sense of humor.
I loved Temple of Doom when I saw it in the cinema, there was massive hype for it, being the follow up to the much loved Raiders! I have cooled towards it now, but the opening scene and the climax are excellent still! I never liked Last Crusade, apart from Connery, it just didnt do it for me, and Kingdom is downright awful!
Raiders still holds up as marvellous entertainment!
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
I enjoyed it very much; a fitting conclusion to a phenomenal film saga.
4/5
They went out on a high.
I can't help thinking this is how the A Team movie should have been. Action
filled over the top nonsense. It has some great action sequences and a
fantastic cast.
I have been with this "saga" (the pretentiousness!) for twenty years, but with F9, they really have jumped the shark. If DAD and XXX had a baby, and In Like Flint raised it with Deadpool 2, this is what you get. My favourite in the series, F5, had some eyebrow-raising stuff going too, but
I'm throwing my hands in the air. I turned my head towards Missus Dimi, and she reciprocated my cynical smile. We've now convinced ourselves that the writers were smoking a lot of pot when writing this film. I have written better films in my sleep.
Look, the party is on, I get it. It's all a lot of fun. And they sure as NOS have committed to the old mantra that sequels have to top their predecessors. (Remember that first film? When Dom and co were raiding semis and steeling VCR's?) But this film is replete with bad dialogue, scenes that have zero to do with the rest of the film, crazy resurrections of the dead, and lost family members returning just like that. The best drinking game no fan of this series was waiting for, I'm sure...
Solidly in the so-bad-it's-good genre.
F9? What will they call the next film, Scroll Lock?
😅😅 Excellent!
Comments I keep seeing from the fans seem to want Fast-10 Your Seatbelts.
Haha!
Fantastic French action spy thriller with Jean-Paul Belmondo, graced with a magnificent Ennio Morricone score.
Highly recommended.
@mattjoes ;)
That all being said, I found it quite depressing that I am subscribed to no less than three (!) streaming services and I couldn't find this European classic anywhere.
Sometimes I'm rather concerned how difficult it is to find classic European cinema and quite frankly I'm scared that so many Eurogems will disappear from our public memory.
Our cultural choices have become increasingly one-sided. So for those of you who love European cinema as much as I do, please consider warming up your peers to those great Italian/German/French/Slavic/Scandinavian/(...) classics.
Long live those subtitles ;)