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#6765
November 28, 2012, 08:19:36 PM
Jesus Christ, Ide, you have the worst fucking track record on film.  What the hell is wrong with you?

FRWL is a great movie qua movie; it may not be a great Bond spectacle, but it has three acts, it has good acting, and it has great characterization.  None of the weaknesses of Dr. No, although not as strong as Goldfinger, which, IMHO, is the best Bond until Casino Royale (2006).  It's a character study among the Bond films, like OHMSS, and Casino Royale (2006).  It does not suffer from being overloaded with tech, or being camp.

Quantum is sloppy, in that it has great set pieces but a weak through-line.  The movie does not move from plot point to plot point, and beat to beat, organically.  It's a stringing together of beautiful set pieces without any purpose other than to string together beautiful set pieces.  And the laughable finale is just Licence to Kill levels of wrong.
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Ed Anger

#6766
November 28, 2012, 08:21:25 PM
Timothy Dalton would have saved Eva Green.
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mongers

#6767
November 28, 2012, 08:38:29 PM
Was Robert Shaw any good in FRWL, it's donkey years since I've seen it.
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CountDeMoney

#6768
November 28, 2012, 09:43:19 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 28, 2012, 07:59:07 PM
Been going through my James Bond movies.  Got up through Thunderball on the one end and both the currently-on-home-video Daniel Craigs on the other.  Two questions:

1)I've heard tell in some parts that From Russia With Love is considered a "very good" or even "great" Bond movie?  Is this a widely held opinion?  Are a lot of people actually high, all the time?  Compared to either Dr. No preceding it or Goldfinger following it, it pales, but even without suffering from standing between giants, it's blah in its own right, with only a few scenes of great interest.  The train fight is really good, sure, and I liked that there was more SPECTRE, but most everything else is kind of mediocre, the Gypsy part is sort of racist and even if it were not it's also padding, and the central conceit of the story is boring and also poor spywork, blowing up an embassy and stealing an encryption machine, letting the Soviets know that their encryption system is compromised.

Yeah, I think FRWL gets a pass based more on sentimentality than anything;  granted, Robert Shaw makes anything worthwhile and the fight scene was one of the better ones to that date, but as a whole both Dr. No and Goldfinger especially were stronger films.

Habbaku

#6769
November 29, 2012, 01:50:02 AM
Quote from: Josephus on November 28, 2012, 09:45:20 AM
So Boardwalk Empire finale this Sunday.   I expect a high body count.

I will be somewhat disappointed if Gyp turns out to be a one-season antagonist.  Who would fill the void?  Masseria?  [spoiler]I already know he's not going anywhere for a while unless they pull an Inglourious Basterds.[/spoiler]
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Viking

#6770
November 29, 2012, 02:54:30 AM
seriously? [spoiler]I don't think the fucking spoiler tag is supposed to be used to hide actual historical events. It's like complaining that somebody spoils that Anne Boleyn loses her head in the Tudors or that Capone doesn't die in Boardwalk Empire.[/spoiler]
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Habbaku

#6771
November 29, 2012, 03:08:33 AM
[spoiler]And yet you used it for just that purpose.[/spoiler]
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Grey Fox

#6772
November 29, 2012, 08:11:37 AM
Masseria doesn't die, nor do Capone. Gyp isn't real so he dies. My question (haven't watch last sunday episode) is who will replace Owen? Nuchy has no legacy, at some point he needs to keep one alive long enough.
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Josephus

#6773
November 29, 2012, 08:20:02 AM
I'm pretty sure Gyp will get it. Not only cause he's a made-up guy, but because he's just so freaking evil, the series can't possibly end without him getting his just desserts. I'd like to see Chalkie die too...only to enforce to Nuckie how much his doings are causing people to die around him.
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Grey Fox

#6774
November 29, 2012, 08:28:07 AM
Gyp is too evil, if I was his #2 he would have been dead by the second episode. Unstable leaders die!
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Razgovory

#6775
November 29, 2012, 10:11:07 AM
Watched Henry V, the 1989 version.  Kinda got in the mood after playing some Crusader Kings.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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viper37

#6776
November 29, 2012, 10:27:22 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 29, 2012, 08:28:07 AM
Gyp is too evil, if I was his #2 he would have been dead by the second episode. Unstable leaders die!
Yeah I think he'll die too, but I think he'll lose Atlantic city, crawl back to New York and then be wacked by Masseria.
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#6777
November 29, 2012, 08:31:03 PM
Why didn't you faggots tell me about Eastbound and Down?

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Tonitrus

#6778
November 29, 2012, 08:36:37 PM
I thought it was some kind of "Smokey and the Bandit" tv series.

katmai

#6779
November 29, 2012, 08:37:21 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 29, 2012, 08:31:03 PM
Why didn't you faggots tell me about Eastbound and Down?

I figured you already knew.  :huh:
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