Movie review thread...
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<p>Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p>
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<p>Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p>
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<p>Some of them...Pierce Brosnan maybe. Definitely not George Lazenby who whilst being a pretty boy with questionable acting chops was actually a legitimate tough fluffybunny in real life.</p> -
<p>I don't get the lack of love for Pierce Brosnan. I actually thought he was good and his "Bond" lifted the series from where Timothy Dalton had left if.</p>
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<p>Certainly the fans of the series didn't really take to Dalton's Bond although I also thought the Dalton Bond wasn't bad.</p>
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<p>I thought Brosnan did a pretty good job of reviving the series and especially his first Bond movie, was pretty damn good with Michelle Yeoh.</p>
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<p>I do admit that the last one was pretty lame especially surfing that tsunami.</p>
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<p>BTW, Bourne would destroy Bond and he doesn't even get all the gadgets :fishing:</p> -
<p>I thought Brosnan was ok, but most of the films he made were a little too much erring on the side of bullshit for me.</p>
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<p>I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.</p>
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<p>For the reason that is the elephant in the room.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="602379" data-time="1470114523"><p>I thought Brosnan was ok, but most of the films he made were a little too much erring on the side of bullshit for me.<br>
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I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.<br>
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For the reason that is the elephant in the room.</p></blockquote>Brosnan was very good, he was dictated to by the scripts which were a deliberate move away from the Timothy Dalton Bond era -
<p>All Bonds had their good and bad points, I like Connery,Moore, Lazenby and Craig equally followed by Dalton and then Brosnan.</p>
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<p>I get pissed off with the whole "let's have a black bond" or "let's have a chick as Bond"</p>
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<p>Is it a crime to not be fucken PC in this world and actually keep the character as he is written ?</p>
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<p>Shit, I had enough stress coping with a blond bloke playing him, thankfully Craig turned out to be awesome.</p> -
<p>they shoulda gone for Martin Freeman</p>
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<p>I'm going to be pissed if Idris Elba is the next Bond.<br>
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For the reason that is the elephant in the room.</p>
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<br><p>Agreed, if they're going to have a black Bond, they could at least have got the last King of Scotland...<br><img src="http://images.popmatters.com/film_art/l/last-king-of-scotland.jpg" alt="last-king-of-scotland.jpg"></p> -
<p>S'funny, if you look at all the Bonds, more often than not their first films are by far the best, definitely much grittier and darker and then the descent into over reliance on gadgets and outlandish action scenes. Casino Royale v Spectre is a case in point. CR was just a great film with little in the way of gadgetry and you just know Bond will be merciless. Spectre, all though a good enough film was basically a series of action sequences with a plot loosely tied around it. From memory there were two minor explosions in CR but Spectre...</p>
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<p>Same for Connery's bond. Compare Dr No with Diamonds are Forever or (God forbid) Never Say Never Again. Moore with Live and Let Die v pretty much any of the others. Goldeneye v that awful last one that Brosnan did.</p>
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<p>S'funny, if you look at all the Bonds, more often than not their first films are by far the best, definitely much grittier and darker and then the descent into over reliance on gadgets and outlandish action scenes. Casino Royale v Spectre is a case in point. CR was just a great film with little in the way of gadgetry and you just know Bond will be merciless. Spectre, all though a good enough film was basically a series of action sequences with a plot loosely tied around it. From memory there were two minor explosions in CR but Spectre...</p>
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<p>Same for Connery's bond. Compare Dr No with Diamonds are Forever or (God forbid) Never Say Never Again. Moore with Live and Let Die v pretty much any of the others. Goldeneye v that awful last one that Brosnan did.</p>
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<p>I had high hopes that the Craig franchise would not become over reliant on the trickery but... meh.</p>
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<p>The Craig ones have also reintroduced the scarred main villain and indestructible henchman as well.</p>
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<p>Diamonds are Forever was fucken crap ( for Bond, it's still okish ) and Connery looked fat and disinterested with a horrible tie....</p>
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<p>and who knows what the fuck they were thinking with the "henchmen".....</p>
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<p>Disagree about Moores gritty dark one though, that was definitely "For your eyes only".....after a frankly ridiculous journey into space and trying to kill Jaws for the umpteenth time that was a real return to basics even going so far as to having Q's car blow up early on ( so not a single "gadget" ) and having a really cool old school mountain climbing scene and a pretty "realistic" plot ( the bad guys just wanted a coding machine, not to destroy the world ) Kriegler was a cool Henchman too.</p>
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<p>It and "Live and Let Die" are my favourite Moore Bonds although this guy is far and away the best lead villain.....</p>
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Jason Bourne would smash all the Bonds together!</p></blockquote>
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<p>Watched Mothers Day which has Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts and Jason Sudeikis in the cast. Thought it would be a comedy. Only funny bit would be the actors, director, screenwriters and producers laughing at you for wasting two hours on this crap.</p>
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<p>The Craig ones have also reintroduced the scarred main villain and indestructible henchman as well. <strong>Yes vaguely disappointing IMO</strong></p>
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<p>Diamonds are Forever was fucken crap ( for Bond, it's still okish ) and Connery looked fat and disinterested with a horrible tie....<strong> Agreed but for Connery's tie, I raise you any one of Moore's safari suits</strong></p>
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<p>and who knows what the fuck they were thinking with the "henchmen"..... <strong><em>Actually not far from the book. In Diamonds there were two homosexual "torpedoes" from Detroit that did all the killing. But yeh, I get your point. Not the scariest unless you're a homophobe.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Disagree about Moores gritty dark one though, that was definitely "For your eyes only".....after a frankly ridiculous journey into space and trying to kill Jaws for the umpteenth time that was a real return to basics even going so far as to having Q's car blow up early on ( so not a single "gadget" ) and having a really cool old school mountain climbing scene and a pretty "realistic" plot ( the bad guys just wanted a coding machine, not to destroy the world ) Kriegler was a cool Henchman too. <strong>I'd forgotten about that one, maybe because it had Topol in it.</strong></p>
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<p>It and "Live and Let Die" are my favourite Moore Bonds although this guy is far and away the best lead villain..... <strong>Hard to disagree</strong></p>
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<p>All Bonds had their good and bad points, I like Connery,Moore, Lazenby and Craig equally followed by Dalton and then Brosnan.</p>
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<p>I get pissed off with the whole "let's have a black bond" or <strong>"let's have a chick as Bond"</strong></p>
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<p>FUCK</p>
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<p>Is it a crime to not be fucken PC in this world and actually keep the character as he is written ?</p>
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<p>Shit, I had enough stress coping with a blond bloke playing him, thankfully Craig turned out to be awesome.</p>
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<p>Agree, they should have a <strong>hot chick</strong> as Bond.</p>
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<p> Preferably<b> </b>the chick in Quantico. </p>
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<p>Agree, they should have a <strong>hot chick</strong> as Bond.</p>
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<p> Preferably<b> </b>the chick in Quantico. </p>
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<p>And a scene where she comes out of the water in a bikini. </p>
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<p>Bond fucks chicks, he is not A chick.</p>
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<p>Go and listen to some Glen Campbell or something......</p> -
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<p>The Dark Horse: I was a bit worried this wouldn't live up to the hype, but it did and so did Cliff Curtis' performance (interestingly Curtis strolled past me pre-flight). <strong>James Rolleston was also good. That kid must be heading off to Hollywood sometime soon as he seems to be in every NZ movie made these days.</strong></p>
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<p>I'm glad you didn't talk the kid up anymore - that could have been the ultimate mockers. Hopefully he pulls through.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11685038'>http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11685038</a></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Actor James Rolleston remains in a stable condition in intensive care at Waikato Hospital this morning nearly a week after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash.</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Rolleston, 19, spent the weekend in intensive care after being transferred from Tauranga Hospital.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">He was in a car near Opotiki, his home town, when it hit Otara Bridge about 10.30pm on Tuesday.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">He was cut from his car and taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition before being transferred to the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital where he remains in a stable condition.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Police investigations into the cause of the crash were ongoing, a police spokeswoman said.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Rolleston's breakout performance in Taika Waititi's 2010 movie <i>Boy</i> kicked off his career as an actor.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">He also appeared alongside Cliff Curtis in the widely-acclaimed 2014 movie <i>The Dark Horse</i></p>
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