What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Pacomartin

I think that the broadening of the character to make the films more appealing to women was what has pushed the series to it's new stratospheric heights. But the next one should have a little less cinematography and a little more old fashioned humor.

Probably due Barbara Broccoli producing the movies
Her Father and a partner started EON (everything or nothing) productions just to produce Bond Movies
She grew up working on Bond Movies
She took over the reins of the company.
She is now the Producer of the Bond films.

Quote: Pacomartin

SPECTRE was beautifully choreographed with fantastic cinematography. But the story line was bland and the characters far less engaging than in Skyfall.

I could tell you the storyline from exactly
2 Bond films. Goldfinger and the last
Casino Royale. The others were so
bland I can't remember a thing about
them. People go to see the FX.

Quote: Evenbob

I could tell you the storyline from exactly
2 Bond films. Goldfinger and the last
Casino Royale. The others were so
bland I can't remember a thing about
them. People go to see the FX.

Hah, I can't remember any of the storylines.

Music. Opening sequence. Something big in all the later movies
Bond gets briefing. Sees gadgets.
Drives car.
Someone tries to kill him. Meets 2 or 3 beautiful women. One usually is trying to kill him.
Gets on the main case, which is usually traveling to the lair of the major villain.
Lots of people die.
Implied sex, with woman or she dies. Hangs up on boss.
Music. Credits. Thanks to all the people of small country for help with the film.

Quote: rxwine

Hah, I can't remember any of the storylines.

Music. Opening sequence. Something big in all the later movies
Bond gets briefing. Sees gadgets.
Drives car.
Someone tries to kill him. Meets 2 or 3 beautiful women. One usually is trying to kill him.
.

You forgot all the running and all the
chasing that makes up 80% of all Bond
movies. He's either being chased in
a car or on a motorcycle or plane, or
chasing somebody. Story doesn't matter.

I have all the Bourne movies, the Indiana
Jones series, the Ring series, Pirate series,
but I don't have a single Bond movie. Only
a few are worth watching more than once.

Quote: Evenbob

You forgot all the running and all the
chasing that makes up 80% of all Bond
movies. He's either being chased in
a car or on a motorcycle or plane, or
chasing somebody. Story doesn't matter.

I wonder if anyone has ever figured out what Bond film has the most physically exhausting movement. Some scenes in real time would likely be beyond human capability for even extreme athletes to make it through at one go.

Spectre has broken half a billion dollars in less than 10 days, so it is still likely to break $1 billion. The last films made

Casino Royale $599.0 million
Quantum of Solace $586.1 million
Skyfall $1,108.6 million

The critics seem divided on Daniel Craig's four movies according to rotten tomatoes. They rate two of them alongside Sean Connery's original 4 films.
29% CASINO ROYALE (1967) #26 David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
35% A VIEW TO A KILL (1985) Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones
42% OCTOPUSSY (1983) Roger Moore, Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams, Kristina Wayborn
45%THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974) Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams
51% THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999) Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards
57% DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002) Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike
57% TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Don Baker
60% MOONRAKER (1979) Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Lonsdale
63% NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983) Sean Connery, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Barbara Carrera
63% SPECTRE (2015) Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Naomie Harris
65% QUANTUM OF SOLACE (2008) Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench
66% LIVE AND LET DIE (1973) Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Julius W. Harris
67% DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood
70% THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987) Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker
72% YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama
74% FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981) Roger Moore, Lois Maxwell, James Villiers, Carole Bouquet
77% LICENCE TO KILL (1989) Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Robert Duvall
78% GOLDENEYE (1995) Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen
79% THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel
82% ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969) George Lazenby, Telly Savalas, Diana Rigg, Ilse Steppat

86% THUNDERBALL (1965) Sean Connery, Adolfo Celi, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi
93% SKYFALL (2012) Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris
95% CASINO ROYALE (2006) Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench
96% FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1964) Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
96% DR. NO (1962) Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman
96% GOLDFINGER (1964) Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton

Quote: rxwine

Hah, I can't remember any of the storylines.

There's the list. At least try to remember the locations

Quote: rxwine

Hah, I can't remember any of the storylines.

1) Super Villain threatens the world and James Bond saves the day.

2) An intelligence operation goes wrong due to betrayal by a double agent and James Bond saves the day.

3) Super Villain threatens Western Civilization and James Bond saves the day.

Just saw the worst movie I've ever seen possibly - nothing worse comes to mind at the moment.

"Mark of the Vampire" - 1935

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Recorded it around Halloween on TCM. Robert Osborne did an intro. Have they quit vetting movies there? Just throw on anything? This movie does not deserve to be replayed, in fact all copies should be destroyed to spare anyone from seeing it by accident.

It would be easy to misunderstand me. I like vampire movies just fine, old ones too. Here's the plot*: A man is murdered and the murderer tries to cover up his deed by trying to make it look like a vampire's deed. The locals, including the doctor doing cause of death, are all superstitious as hell about vampires and it almost works. A suspicious inspector prevails. Something could have been done with this to make an OK movie, really, IMO.

Instead, the movie starts out in the mode that vampires are real, has them going around doing their deeds, the living are at risk. Especially this one chick of course. It's fairly enjoyable as something campy so far, if you are in the mood for that sort of thing. As a vampire hunting professor closes in on where the vampires hide themselves during the day, preparing to destroy them, the movie completely abandons it all. The professor instead hypnotizes the murderer, who 'confesses' by re-enacting the murder in a trance. Worst of all, in order to switch to this scene, the previous part of the movie is completely trashed. The actors are ripped away from where they were in order to place them somewhere else. It's as if a different movie, with a different director, was grafted on to the end; if you didn't see some of the same actors, you'd swear that is what they did. You get the sense that the producers didn't want to keep scaring the audience and just told everybody to dump the film and change the ending. Surely instead it was a case of somehow the director [I guess] just not knowing how to handle the plot.

I was actually angry; if I was in a theater watching it, I would have stood up and boo-ed, expecting every other person there to do the same. Awful.

*a spoiler? forget that, do not watch this movie, ever

I saw Spectre last week. In my opinion, it is the second best of the Daniel Craig films, behind Casino Royale. I could easily compliment every facet of the movie except that the story wasn't very compelling to me. The way they seem to have made every Bond film since Casino Royale is to pick locations, characters, and chase scenes out of a bag, like the way you pick the crime scene in Clue, and let a committee of screenwriters connect the pieces into a story. I think they should do it the other way around.

It makes me yearn for the movies like Goldfinger where they took time to let characters develop. For example the golf scene in that movie was a great piece to a great movie. I haven't seen that kind of patience in a Bond movie in decades.

Quote: Wizard

I saw Spectre last week. In my opinion, it is the second best of the Daniel Craig films, behind Casino Royale.

It makes me yearn for the movies like Goldfinger

Like I said earlier, the only 2 Bond movies
I remember the plots of are Royale and
Goldfinger. GF was the best Bond until
Royale came along. I won't see Spectre
until it hits the net.