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    What are your top 3 Bond films folks? Never watched em before and wish to take a peek. Thanks

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      You've never seen any Bond films?
      What were you doing every Boxing Day from 1984 to 1995?!

      It's very subjective:
      Friendly Import video game discussion forum, informative reviews, NTSC (Japan / US) and PAL - BordersDown (previously known as NTSC-uk)


      I really like Roger Moore era, but some of those films have really aged and have really been superseded by many recent action films, and excessively parodied by Austin Powers.
      The Spy Who Loved me is a great Bond film.

      I thought Brosnan's films were underrated and ahead of their time. They were criticised for being too gritty, when that's what the Daniel Craig films were lauded for.

      What's making you think about watching one after all this time?
      Maybe that'll help steer you.

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        Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
        You've never seen any Bond films?
        What were you doing every Boxing Day from 1984 to 1995?!

        It's very subjective:
        Friendly Import video game discussion forum, informative reviews, NTSC (Japan / US) and PAL - BordersDown (previously known as NTSC-uk)


        I really like Roger Moore era, but some of those films have really aged and have really been superseded by many recent action films, and excessively parodied by Austin Powers.
        The Spy Who Loved me is a great Bond film.

        I thought Brosnan's films were underrated and ahead of their time. They were criticised for being too gritty, when that's what the Daniel Craig films were lauded for.

        What's making you think about watching one after all this time?
        Maybe that'll help steer you.
        This article:



        Which I found after watching one of those youtube videos about pointless CGI.

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          Why not watch the Daniel Craig films, then?
          Casino Royale is pretty good and if you like it, you can watch the other Craig films.

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            Yep yep, thats what I'd intended to do as they were the latest/most modern so assumed they'd have the thinnest layer of cheese but was wondering about the rest too.

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              Originally posted by replicashooter View Post
              What are your top 3 Bond films folks? Never watched em before and wish to take a peek. Thanks
              1. Licence to Kill - The best actor to play Bond and set the template for what was to come later.
              2. Goldfinger - has all the Bond cliches girls with silly names, gadgets (sat nav in the 60’s!), Shirley Bassey theme song, a villain with foreign accent and a hard as nails henchman. A classic.
              3. Casino Royale or Skyfall - I cannot separate these two. Proper modern Bond. Shame about the theme songs.

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                Casino Royale's theme is aces! And it's much better than Skyfall too!

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                  Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
                  You've never seen any Bond films?
                  What were you doing every Boxing Day from 1984 to 1995?!
                  Don't you mean Every Easter from 1984 on ITV?!?!

                  Seriously every Easter holiday at my grandparents I watched Bond. They were shown almost back to back and I must have seen all of them over the years.

                  I struggle to separate them but the 2 that always stuck to me were View to a kill and GoldenEye

                  View to a kill had a kick ass 80's song by an equally 80's band. The opening scene in Paris is really memorable and I remember recognizing most of the cast as a kid. I adored (and am still fascinated) by Grace Jones, I remember recognizing her in this from the second Conan movie, she is stunningly terrifyingly awesome.

                  GoldenEye is just perfect 90's trash action. Cheesy lines, great action scenes and predictable over-the-top ending with Sean Bean.

                  I couldn't say these were what I thought were 'best' though. Certainly Sean Connery was best BOND in my eyes and my Grandad's who I watched most of the films with. Watched him as Roger Moore mostly though which were good films but even at a young age I thought the age gap between him and some of the ladies was a bit much and it kind of killed the illusion of fantasy.
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                    Captain America: Civil War
                    On this rewatch the film remains solid thoug flawed in structure. The joking subtitle of Civil Unrest remains far more apt as Marvel utterly squanders the Civil War storyline in this trilogy closer. It's a shame, as a film it's perfectly fine but its weaknesses come from how poorly conceived the idea of covering Civil War in a single film is. If you made the exact same movie but stripped out all the Accords and Avengers elements it'd tighten it up and allow for a greater focus on Rogers who threatens to slip into the pack when he should be the central focus at all times in a self-titled movie. Had the film spent it's entire focus on Cap, Bucky and the fracturing of his partnership with Stark it would have worked much better.

                    There's a line in the film where Rogers tries to justify backing Bucky up by stating 'he's my friend' and Stark says 'so was I' and it leaves you thinking... really? The two have only shared screen space up to this point in the two Avengers films and half that screentime is spent disagreeing. It's pushing for an internal struggle Stark hasn't earnt. The reveal is still good enough to carry the conflict though and it could have been a great stepping stone to step off into a Phase long Civil War storyline. Instead it's dealt with more like play fighting with no stakes and no-one taking the key face off seriously, Rhodes injury acting much like a bunch of kids playing too rough until one hurts their knee, hell, even he's on the road to recovery by the credits. That Avengers 2.5 moniker remains apt and it still leaves you feeling like the Cap needs a true final entry

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                      Yep, I agree with all of that. The friend bit didn't ring true. Nor did Black Widow's stance. The character motivations generally were poorly sold. And yes, more focus on the Cap and Bucky story possibly leading to a separate Avengers Civil War movie would have been better. Still, some good bits.

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                        Agreed.

                        I mentioned before that the comic's catalyst for the Civil War is a team of Z-list superheroes are using their powers to make a reality TV show and in tracking down an enemy that's more powerful than they realise, he destroys a whole town, kids and everything.



                        That's a lot more powerful than the film, where The Avengers are trying to stop a team of terrorists stealing a biological weapon.
                        These terrorists are firing guns in the middle of the street and ultimately detonate a massive bomb, but Scarlet Witch flings the bomb in the air. The explosion damages a building and kills some Wakandan humanitarian workers.

                        The Avengers get hauled over the coals for this, but what if they hadn't got involved? Terrorists would have a biological weapon, a bomb would have detonated in a busy market place (who builds a biolab in a busy city?!) and the deaths would have been higher.

                        It doesn't work as a jump-off point to think The Avengers and all heroes should be registered.
                        The comics worked well, because you really could see both sides of the argument.

                        It's also frustrating because there are some really nice shots in the movie, like the airport battle and the Dam fight, but some outrageous shaky cam shots.
                        I liked these shots:



                        Nice think piece here:
                        Spoiler warnings 3/5 Captain America: Civil War is the third entry in the Captain America trilogy that also effectively functions as a third Avengers movie that brings in almost every major player.…
                        Last edited by QualityChimp; 08-03-2018, 10:05.

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                          Yup, it's odd that some fights are framed worse than Winter Soldier when it's the same directors. Really, the film feels more like an audition tape for the Avengers job they're finishing up on now.

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                            Couple of Oscar luvvies and a bit of comic book action ...

                            The Shape Of Water. Beautiful film. Deserving of its wins at the Academy Awards. Can't wait to watch it again.

                            Three Billboards ... Very good, though not quite up to all of the hype it's been getting. Performances were brilliant but

                            some of the events in the film are slightly too coincidental to be believable

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                            Thor Ragnarok. I'm not normally a fan of 'off-Earth' comic book stuffs but this was great fun in a similar way Guardians was. Soundtrack was top notch ... Led Zep and 80s electro ... lovely.

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                              More Billy Wilder (after watching The Apartment a few weeks back) ...

                              Double Indemnity - classic film noir set up of a (fairly) good guy getting drawn into something bad. Top notch stuff.

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                                I watched Iron Man 3 again yesterday. It really is a top tier Marvel movie for me in almost every way. It’s one of the few where the main character has some real development (which was sadly forgotten right after), it is suprising and funny, doesn’t rely on its superhero gimmicks throughout and yet adds a few excellent gimmicks to the Iron Man idea in how it treats the suits. And Kingsley is amazing in it. I really enjoyed it.

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