Film Thread

[Giggles]

Quantum, Skyfall, For your eyes only, Octopussy, OHMSS, live and let die. All excellent.

Edit - Spy who loved me too. And view to a kill and the living daylights.

[randomlegend]

Quantum, Skyfall, For your eyes only, Octopussy, OHMSS, live and let die. All excellent.

Edit - Spy who loved me too. And view to a kill and the living daylights.

Quantum of Solace???? I thought that was absolute shit.

[Shindig]

I'd like a Quantum of Solace,
but not more than a quantum,
I know you have big bags of solace,
But I don't want them.

[Pepe]

Casino Royale is the only Bond movie that I've liked, although I haven't watched that many.

[Giggles]

Quantum of Solace???? I thought that was absolute shit.

Songs.

[randomlegend]

Missed that detail.

[Cord]

If I can just interrupt the Bond theme chat (I'm voting Tomorrow Never Dies as a guilty pleasure) to give a strong recommend to Everything Everywhere All at Once, and definitely to the idea of going into it knowing as little about it as possible.

[Gray Fox]

I don't know who had the idea to put Alicia Keys with Jack White, but it really works well. That said Keys could probably make most things work.

Since then we do seem to have reverted to flavour of the month singing the song. So much so that I can't even remember the song, or who sang it for Spectre.

[Giggles]

Die Another Day is comfortably the worst song. Probably not even just counting Bond songs.

[wullie]

I always thought Thunderball is a good one, Tom Jones almost giving himself a hernia by the end of it.

[Ben]

Everything about Casino Royale (theme song included) is about as perfect as Bond will get in my opinion. Normally I’m a sucker for the oldest ones but Casino Royale stands out massively.

In terms of theme songs only, the entire Connery era and Live and Let Die are tremendous. The whole thing went tits up with Brosnan.

[Ian]

I fucking hated the Jack White one.

[Dave.]

Die Another Day is comfortably the worst song. Probably not even just counting Bond songs.

It is an awful song in isolation but (I watched Die Another Day the other day) it somehow works when played over the opening credits.

I agree with whoever said that Diamonds Are Forever is the best song. Live and Let Die and You Know My Name follow.

[wullie]

You Only Live Twice would be pretty high up on my list. Sam Smith dead last because of his voice

[Dan]

If I can just interrupt the Bond theme chat (I'm voting Tomorrow Never Dies as a guilty pleasure) to give a strong recommend to Everything Everywhere All at Once, and definitely to the idea of going into it knowing as little about it as possible.

Agreed, it's great.

Casino Royale is definitely the best Bond movie too. The Daniel Craig era has to be the best by far, not least because they got further away from the old formula.

[Mike]

Been tasked with picking tonight’s film as my partners brother and mum are here. Going with Everything Everywhere All at Once, don’t let me down TTH.

[Giggles]

Licence to Kill time

[Shindig]

I watched Scott of the Antarctic today. That was kind of alright. I did wonder which point in the revisionist history this would coincide with but it felt fairly historically accurate. RP accents all over the shop apart from one lower class lass delivering the post. I quite like the stiff conservatism running all through the acting.

[Dave.]

Agreed, it's great.

Casino Royale is definitely the best Bond movie too. The Daniel Craig era has to be the best by far, not least because they got further away from the old formula.

I'd personally have Skyfall and No Time To Die above Casino Royale because I'm a keen poker player and found that section a little boring and very predictable whereas many others would find it thrilling. It's still great overall though.

For me, the best eras are the early Connery films, Dalton and Craig. Personally, I prefer the grittier, more realistic Bond films opposed to the more comedy based slapstick ones (I'm looking at you Sir Roger).

Licence to Kill time

Enjoy. It's my second favourite Bond film.

[Lofty]

I watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Tonight, odd film.

[Manc]

Did you find out?

[Baz]

Did his arse run out?

[Shindig]

All I know about that film is DiCaprio plays a retard ... poorly.

[Limoutsonik]

Anyone else here who watched Top Gun:Maverick? Was it just me who came out thinking it was the movie of the year?

[Alex]

Bond update - The Roger Moore years finished, the brief Dalton period done and the beginning of Brosnan.

A View to a Kill

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This one didn't really grip me. It was fine, I suppose. I'm sure the whole Silicon Valley thing was kind of topical at the time too but it just hasn't aged the best. I like the idea of Walken as a Bond villain but he was just going through to motions a bit it felt like. I did like the ending on the Golden Gate Bridge. The Grace Jones character was maybe my favourite thing about it, she was cool. This one has maybe the weirdest of the "Bond getting caught with his trousers down at the end of the film" moments too, where Q tracks him down with his weird remote control robot and catches him at it in the shower. Also, we can file this one in the "good Bond themes" category I think! 5/10

The Living Daylights

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I really like Dalton's take on the character. He's not really the "for Queen and country" type of guy at all. He's a bit more jaded but he plays him the most believably (so far) as a stone cold, professional killer, I think. Like as a guy you would not want to cross. Roger was like this gadget wielding, wise cracking lothario with the raised eyebrow and the witty quips. Which was cool. Dalton plays him as a man who is believable as somebody who goes out in the field and, you know, kills people as his job. I just wish they had leaned a little more fully into that. Because it's a great change of pace and much more grounded and gritty but there are still a couple of more goofy bits (he rides the cello case down the bloody mountain to escape, that sort of thing) when it could have done with a clean break from that I think. Still a good film though. 7/10

Licence to Kill

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So this one is great, and it's like they took on board what I was thinking about the previous one RE it not going all the way serious and ran with it, to an extreme. I read this is the only one to have ever had a "15" rating and I can see why. They murder Felix Leiter's wife and then half feed the poor bastard to sharks, for fucks sake. Bond off the reservation on a revenge mission is just class. Again it sort of emphasises this side of him as somebody who you don't want to fuck with, and who can work on his own and really make life hell for the people in his sights. I loved it. I wish Dalton had got another crack of the whip because I just really, really enjoyed his version of the character. 8/10

Goldeneye

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Another great one. Brosnan is a cool customer. He's got a lot of charm. He delivers the stereotypical Bond one liners with a sort of dryness that I really like. And he does have a lot of great one-liners in this. The opening with the dam jump and him and 006 on the mission is the best Bond opening so far, I would say.

I liked the villains. Alec Trevelyan is great ("For England, James?") and Bean plays him really well. Famke Jansen is class in this too, she's so unhinged. Good supporting characters too. Jack Wade (who assume has come along because, continuity wise, Felix is crippled now!),Valentin, Boris - these are all fun characters. I would argue Judy Dench cements herself as a superior M just in the space of this one film, too.

Brosnan tearing around Saint Petersburg in a tank is an all time great scene. Something about him periodically popping his head up out of the hatch while driving (straightening his tie at one point ) is just proper cool and very Bond. As much as I love him in it I found myself wondering what Dalton would have done with it though. Because I think the story very much felt like it would have worked in his Bond universe too. 8/10

[Ben]

Licence to Kill is just tremendous.

[Alex]

Licence to Kill is just tremendous.

It really is. Very unique in the series I think, at least of the ones I've watched so far. A very different kind of Bond film. It's not comparable to any of the others really.

[Manc]

Are all titles available on a certain platform?

[Boydy]

Are all titles available on a certain platform?

Amazon Prime has them now.

[Alex]

Are all titles available on a certain platform?

They're all on Amazon Prime. I believe they now own the film company that makes Bond so can do that. Ironically Bezos has all the makings of a classic Bond villain. He's a swimming pool full of sharks away from completely fitting the bill.

[Ben]

Prime is running them all but only for a couple of weeks.

[Manc]

I'll have to get involved.

[Giggles]

Licence to Kill was well worth my time to watch again. Love it. Probably one of the best bad guys in the whole thing and Dalton is great.

Was going to stick on Goldeneye but I’ll wait until next Sunday when it’s next up.

[wullie]

I've got a soft spot for A View to a Kill as it's probably the film I've seen the most times overall and it's one of the top end themes, but Roger Moore really stood out as being too old for all this in that one.

[Ben]

Yeah, definitely. He looked fine in Octopussy though and that was only two years previous.

[Gray Fox]

Anyone else here who watched Top Gun:Maverick? Was it just me who came out thinking it was the movie of the year?

Just got home from seeing this. It's going to take some film to beat it.

[Giggles]

I love hearing that, been looking forward to it for longer than I can remember. What’s Sky store now, about a month after release?

[Mike]

Been tasked with picking tonight’s film as my partners brother and mum are here. Going with Everything Everywhere All at Once, don’t let me down TTH.

Our viewing got delayed but yeah, this was pretty great.

[Gray Fox]

I love hearing that, been looking forward to it for longer than I can remember. What’s Sky store now, about a month after release?

I'd get to the cinema for this one if you can.

[Jimmy Floyd]

On the subject of MI6, I fancied going through the 2011 Tinker, Tailor again tonight. Really is good. I remembered who did it and most of the plot, so not much suspense this time, but I just loved sitting watching men in bad suits smoke in brown rooms and say 'The Circus' portentously for two hours. Brilliant.

[Shindig]

Yeah, it's a shame it rushes out the door with that montage. The deleted scene of Oldman cooking an egg should've made it in.

I watched Sorry to Bother You last night. I wish that film played itself more straight instead of devolving into the forced craziness. Funny at times but really desperate at others. And the director likes nude puppets which is very sus.

[Ian]

I love Goldeneye. Partly it was the first new Bond film I remember (I will have seen the Dalton ones when they first came to TV but I don't remember that at the time.) Goldeneye we went to the cinema though. I remember this because my dad hates heights and obviously the first thing that happens is Bond hurls himself off a dam.

I think Brosnan was a good Bond dealt some terrible scripts, though I maintain that Die Another Day has a great first fifteen minutes or so that then all then goes spectacularly to shit.

[Giggles]

Die Another Day also has the worst special effect of all the films, even going back to the 1960's, when that thing on the parachute goes off the ice cliff.

[wullie]

Was Die Another Day the ice castle and invisible car stuff? I remember seeing that one at the cinema and hating it.

[Baz]

I’ve never seen James Bond.

[Dave.]

I’ve never seen James Bond.

You really are missing out.

[Dave.]

Die Another Day is a classic case of a film of two halves - it's almost as if it's directed by two different people. The first hour is excellent then Iceland happens. It's a shame as it had huge potential.

[Ian]

To have never even seen one Bond film is odd stuff.

[igor_balis]

The Duran Duran and A-Ha are my favourite themes. The latter is great especially for the backstage drama - the when Barry added some strings, he slightly changed the synths and the Scandi lads just changed it back, and Barry eventually called them Hitler Youth. Class.

[Baz]

To have never even seen one Bond film is odd stuff.

Yeah I realised that by the amount of people chipping in their opinion, which is why I mentioned it.

I don’t plan on rectifying it anytime soon though.