TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

And I'll pay $50 to anyone who Donkey Punches Ide.

[garbon]

50 bucks? Who even gets out of bed for that?

[Ideologue]

Katmai's favorite is The World Is Not Enough To Eat.

[Eddie Teach]

Specifically, there is no reason to watch Live and Let Die, which is good for one thing only--its title song--nor is there any reason I know of to watch The Man With the Golden Gun, which is good for just about nothing in the half of it I actually sat through, before Cletus McLouisiana showed up again and I decided life was, all things considered, already too terrible and too short to suffer this kind of voluntary pain.

J.W. Pepper and Nick Nack were hilarious characters, the boat chase through the swamps was incredible and Jane Seymour was hot as fuck.

[Ideologue]

Actually Katmai's favorite is probably the perennial favorite from "I am boring and like boring movies" set, From Russia With Love, a small, very boring movie with basically two minutes of good stuff (train fight) and lots of stupidity without the fun that usually accompanies it.  It also set the ugliest precedent in Bond films--not the racism, although holy shit is that movie racist--but those fucking speedboat chases.

Edit: I'm kind of kidding--it's not terrible, but it's really not my speed and is towered over by Dr. No on one hand and Goldfinger on the other.  It is really racist.  There's probably some other good parts other than the train fight.

[Ideologue]

Specifically, there is no reason to watch Live and Let Die, which is good for one thing only--its title song--nor is there any reason I know of to watch The Man With the Golden Gun, which is good for just about nothing in the half of it I actually sat through, before Cletus McLouisiana showed up again and I decided life was, all things considered, already too terrible and too short to suffer this kind of voluntary pain.

J.W. Pepper [was a] hilarious character...

I assumed this post was from Derspeiss, but it wasn't.

[Eddie Teach]

Is Spicey the only one who can laugh at rednecks? 

[Ideologue]

Well, anyway, the speedboat chase goes on too long.  They always do in Bond movies.

I will happily concede that it is technically marvelous, and, ok, there are two things Live and Let Die is good for.

[katmai]

My comment was about Musical tastes

[Ideologue]

My comment was about Musical tastes

I assume you mean Chicago, and not Boston.

[Queequeg]

The Spy who Loved Me is wonderful.  Totally agree ide. 

[celedhring]

Both Casino Royales are my favorite Bond films.

From the classical ones, it's got to be Goldfinger. It's over the top, fun, and inventive. Also a great theme tune.

[The Brain]

The Man With The Golden Gun has the best Bond villain and a nice theme.

[The Brain]

Old chauvinist pig Bond is nice. Modern I disrespect the cock Bond is lame. NB I haven't seen a Bond made after the 80s because hell no.

[Savonarola]

The Shock (1923)

I can just imagine how the casting went for this one.  "We have a role for a dope-pushing, safe cracking, crippled, gun-man.  Who could we possibly get to play such a role?"

Of course Lon Chaney is the dope-pushing, safe cracking, crippled, gun man.   He works for "Queen Anne" in the murky underworld of San Francisco's Chinatown in 1906.  Queen Anne sends him to a small town for a mysterious purpose; but in the country Lon undergoes a change of heart due to meeting Gertrude Hadley (Virginia Valli.)  Queen Anne wants to ruin Gertrude's father, Lon intervenes and is called back to San Francisco to face the wrath of Queen Anne.  Just as things look their bleakest, the deus ex machina in the form of the San Francisco earthquake.  What luck!

Lon hobbles about and undergoes a transformation as only Lon Chaney could, but this isn't one of his better films.  The story is light on dramatic tension, and the deus ex machina is too blatant.  The earthquake scene is impressive for the era.  This and "Nomads of the North are two of the very few films where Lon gets the girl at the end; though he's hardly a romantic character in "The Shock."