TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

New Spider-Man trailer is out. Looks good. Has a Spider-Man meets Fallen* theme in there.


*I actually really liked that movie, but I appear to be the only one.

[Savonarola]

The Criterion Channel has the first three James Bond movies on right now.  I saw the first two (Dr. No and From Russia With Love.)  They're still trying to find their way in those movies.  For one thing they're quite a bit more brutal than the subsequent Sean Connery/George Lazenby/Roger Moore movies - the Sean Connery-Robert Shaw brawl in a railcar is especially harsh (and excellent.)  Bond isn't as invincible in those movies either, he admits to being scared in Dr. No, and in From Russia with Love, right before his fight with Robert Shaw, he does seem to be caught in an inescapable situation (rather than one featuring sharks with frickin' lasers.)

One thing from the From Russia with Love commentary that amused me is that Leonid Brezhnev was a fan and had (unofficially) seen the movie three times.