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  • From Russia With Love because I think it's Connery at his very best, but I also love Goldfinger.
  • Has to be the first three with Connery. Hard to beat those.
  • peter wrote: » Thanks @CraigMooreOHMSS ... Well, it's a shame I didn't see DoD sooner (the summer got away from me), but I'm genuinely pleased with the film we watched; Within minutes into it, my wife pointed out that I was smiling, and that sm…
  • ShakenNotStirred wrote: » Some people need films to be financially successful to validate their opinion on the film for some reason. Some of the best films ever made were not big box office hits or underperformed; It's a Wonderful Life, Wiz…
  • AstonLotus wrote: » mtm wrote: » It should have been made because it's a good film, and most of the Indy fans love it. Ford is also superb in it, I'd have hated it if we'd been deprived one more great Ford performance. Kathleen Kennedy was Ex…
  • mtm wrote: » It should have been made because it's a good film, and most of the Indy fans love it. Ford is also superb in it, I'd have hated it if we'd been deprived one more great Ford performance. Kathleen Kennedy was Exec Producer on Crystal S…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » Even a movie made a decade before SUPERMAN IV looks vastly superior. It’s a shame the unit that was used for I-III and SUPERGIRL were not utilized. Actually, Roy Field contributed, as did others who did VFX work on …
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » AstonLotus wrote: » Posted in the Indiana Jones thread but it belongs here.. There’s a guy on YouTube called APRICEPRODUCTIONS who has taken it upon him…
  • Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: » AstonLotus wrote: » Posted in the Indiana Jones thread but it belongs here.. There’s a guy on YouTube called APRICEPRODUCTIONS who has taken it upon himself to remaster and redo the bad fx shots from Superman I…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » That would explain the odd moment where Superman intensely stares at his spaceship and it just disintegrates. Also on a longer version of the flying scene that got cut out, we get Superman letting Lois fly solo for extende…
  • MakeshiftPython wrote: » The full version would have been more coherent, for sure. Still marred by production issues and questionable story choices that kneecapped the film right from the start. I do recall you saying that originally Superman w…
  • chrisisall wrote: » J. Lee Thompson directed the last two Apes movies in the 70's. I thought he did a wonderful job on both, given the TV movie budgets. And his Cape Fear was so much better than the remake. ColonelSun wrote: » Actually, I was t…
  • CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Mathis1 wrote: » Saw it in the cinema. Enjoyable. But certainly no rival to 'Raiders' J.Lee Thompson the director I believe? Anyone remember the T.V. show 'Bring Em Back Alive'? Actuall…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » Saw it in the cinema. Enjoyable. But certainly no rival to 'Raiders' J.Lee Thompson the director I believe? Anyone remember the T.V. show 'Bring Em Back Alive'? Actually, I was the second assistant film editor on King Sol…
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » SIS_HQ wrote: » it's the worst Bond film in the series, only to be edged out by The Man With The Golden by just a little inch. Blasphemy! Everyone knows DAD and NTTD are the worst Bond films. TMWTGG is actually one…
  • peter wrote: » I think YOLT. It tickles my childhood memories of Bond (big, strange, hidden HQs (both Tiger’s and Blofeld’s)…). But I love DAF for the absolutely bizarre humour and it’s almost unnecessary existence…. In the end, if DAF never ex…
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Barbie has crossed $200 million dollars in the US in 5 days. Oppenheimer, a 3 hour, very dense and deeply intelligent drama (with an amazing script, s…
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Barbie has crossed $200 million dollars in the US in 5 days. Oppenheimer, a 3 hour, very dense and deeply intelligent drama (with an amazing script, stunning filmmaking on all levels, and an "A" list…
  • Sorry, "don't " get it.
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » MakeshiftPython wrote: » Why are we comparing an adult drama with popcorn films? Might as well debate over whether THE GODFATHER PART II or THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN was the better film of 1974. Both are equall…
  • Barbie has crossed $200 million dollars in the US in 5 days. Oppenheimer, a 3 hour, very dense and deeply intelligent drama (with an amazing script, stunning filmmaking on all levels, and an "A" list cast, all working at the top of their games,) …
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Zekidk wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Just seen Oppenheimer. Saw it today also...well, the most of it. I heard it was a good movie afterwards :-) You missed the best film of the …
  • Zekidk wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Just seen Oppenheimer. Saw it today also...well, the most of it. I heard it was a good movie afterwards :-) You missed the best film of the year so far.
  • Just seen Oppenheimer. Extraordinary. Superb script. Stunning filmmaking on every level. A cast all at the top of their game. Very powerful. Thought provoking. Scary. Emotional. So good to have a deeply intelligent film drawing such mighty reviews a…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » Isaac Asimov wrote a magnificent book (in fact, Asimov wrote a ton of magnificent books in his life!) on the subject of Extraterrestrial Civilisations, in which he explored the possibility of another advanced civilization existi…
  • UK opening week box office is extremely good.
  • matt_u wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » MI 7 is an international hit. Sorry to disappoint withbthis reality to those who get off on others failure. U know who u are. The reality, unfortunately, is that the film won’t likely cross $700M worl…
  • MI 7 is an international hit. Sorry to disappoint withbthis reality to those who get off on others failure. U know who u are.
  • jetsetwilly wrote: » matt_u wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » matt_u wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Saw it in IMAX, which is a must for this insanely spectacular and brilliantly staged and photographed film. I was on the edge of my seat, …
  • matt_u wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » matt_u wrote: » ColonelSun wrote: » Saw it in IMAX, which is a must for this insanely spectacular and brilliantly staged and photographed film. I was on the edge of my seat, I laughed, I gasped at th…