TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Wasn't that Lazenby's own decision?  (Genuine question.)  I thought that he thought the Bond films were dying, so he decided to do 70s cop stuff.

Pity, because Lazenby is sort of my favorite Bond--at least, I think he could have been, if he'd stayed with the franchise.

(N.B.: still haven't seen either of the Daltons.)

[Syt]

Wasn't that Lazenby's own decision?  (Genuine question.)  I thought that he thought the Bond films were dying, so he decided to do 70s cop stuff.

Pity, because Lazenby is sort of my favorite Bond--at least, I think he could have been, if he'd stayed with the franchise.

(N.B.: still haven't seen either of the Daltons.)

You might be right. At the very least, they didn't manage to convince him otherwise.

[Norgy]

Just like almost all the German general's memoirs, talking about how they were selflessly defending Western Europe from the evil communist hordes...and whoops, holocaust.

Did you judge his book to be insincere?  On what basis?

It may not be insincere, but it certainly does gloss over some of the less palpable sides of Speer, like slave labour. And his attempt to explain how he didn't really know about the Holocaust smells of whitewash.

[Josquius]

18 again- yay for ye olde body switch films. I've never seen this one before. It was ok though I think they missed out by keeping the old guy unconscious and not having the standard two sided story

[Ideologue]

Wasn't that Lazenby's own decision?  (Genuine question.)  I thought that he thought the Bond films were dying, so he decided to do 70s cop stuff.

Pity, because Lazenby is sort of my favorite Bond--at least, I think he could have been, if he'd stayed with the franchise.

(N.B.: still haven't seen either of the Daltons.)

You might be right. At the very least, they didn't manage to convince him otherwise.

I do remember him remarking that he bitterly regretted it, but that almost goes without saying.

[Syt]

From the Wiki page:

Although Lazenby had been offered a contract for seven movies, his agent, Ronan O'Rahilly, convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.[6] After this role Lazenby began to study drama at Durham University's College of the Venerable Bede.

[Ideologue]

He accused Ronan?

(Color me corrected. )

[Sheilbh]

Thank God. Roger

[Josquius]

From the Wiki page:

Although Lazenby had been offered a contract for seven movies, his agent, Ronan O'Rahilly, convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.[6] After this role Lazenby began to study drama at Durham University's College of the Venerable Bede.

He thought he'd done that bad a job that he went to Durham to study drama?
Lol.
Imagine winding up in his class....

[celedhring]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

[Norgy]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

It became comedy rather than action, in my opinion.

Haven't seen any of the movies with Daniel Craig, as I think he's better as an SS soldier than a Bond.
My favourite was the brooding Bond of Timothy Dalton. But let's just face it, it doesn't matter, as movies go, Bond movies are hardly groundbreaking or made to be that, it's entertainment and shittiness is to be expected.

[Ed Anger]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

It became comedy rather than action, in my opinion.

Haven't seen any of the movies with Daniel Craig, as I think he's better as an SS soldier than a Bond.
My favourite was the brooding Bond of Timothy Dalton. But let's just face it, it doesn't matter, as movies go, Bond movies are hardly groundbreaking or made to be that, it's entertainment and shittiness is to be expected.

I recommend Casino Royale for Eva Green.

[Viking]

Colin Farrel is wasted in approximately 80% of his career.

***

Edge of Tomorrow (2014).  Groundhog Day meets Aliens meets Saving Private Ryan meets the parts of the Halo games where I got frustrated and went back to headshotting n00bs with my BR in multiplayer.  But this is, with some caveats, very good.

And I'm hanging on a moment with you

B+

I'm gonna watch that for the sole purpose of having tom cruise die/get murdered repeatedly

[celedhring]

Finished watching Arrow season 2. Liked this season a lot, can't wait for the next.

Really love how[spoiler] the hero never completely wins in this show. Oliver has saved the city, but has lost his family.[/spoiler]

[Syt]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

As Norgs says, it became more of a action comedy which IMO had its campy merits. My personal Bond ranking would be:
Connery
Lazenby
Moore
Brosnan
Dalton
... of these and only Dalton was truly awful.

I didn't put Craig up there, because I've only seen Casino Royale with him (which I liked on that one viewing).