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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 15:29:28 GMT
Have to give The Sweeney remake a mention Make that two mentions. Dire. How did it escape from the editing room?
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 15:32:37 GMT
Loved the third and fourth series of Blackadder, Johnny English I can just about tolerate, but I thought Mr Bean was utter rubbish. Bean is real kids stuff. I like all the Blackadders, 2 to 4 being best. Mind you I'm not including Blackadder Back and Forth made by Sky which wasn't funny. Neither was the Christmas special much either.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 15:35:26 GMT
Darkest Hour It Was Shite Sorry Guys. It played with history to make its point in places but I thought it captured the moment. I like the Gathering Storm with Churchill played by Albert Finney, excellent.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 15:40:43 GMT
I think in more recent years I would add Spectre and The Sweeney (2012 version). Spectre was overrun with totally implausible CGI and a lazy storyline that bought events from previous Bond films into the fray, and The Sweeney, well I think we've documented that one enough since its release. Totally unrealistic storyline and a plot with more holes than Del-boy's propane filled inflatable dolls. Sam. Casino was really good buts its downhill from there. Whatever happened to clever scripts? You want to watch films , not find them hard work.
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Post by Cartman on Oct 6, 2019 16:28:51 GMT
I don't like Daniel Craig as bond at all personally, and I sort of lost interest in them a bit after Piers Brosnan finished doing them. Easily my favourite bond was Roger Moore, I thought he was brilliant in the part. I was a bit surprised when I found out that he was actually a bit older than Connery, as I always thought he looked like someone's Dad and looked older than he was.
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 16:49:18 GMT
I don't like Daniel Craig as bond at all personally, and I sort of lost interest in them a bit after Piers Brosnan finished doing them. Easily my favourite bond was Roger Moore, I thought he was brilliant in the part. I was a bit surprised when I found out that he was actually a bit older than Connery, as I always thought he looked like someone's Dad and looked older than he was. I liked RM but the stories became drivel. Spy Who Loved Me was the last of his I really liked, that film had a great look about it.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Oct 6, 2019 17:34:10 GMT
I've never been a fan of Bond films & I don't understand how or why the films became a 'franchise' that exists to this day. I find the character to be a smarmy git in a penguin suit & the whole concept to be hopelessly out of date & formulaic. Surely Harry Palmer was intended as an antedote to Bond & that was 50 years ago! All the discussion over which actor 'would make a good James Bond' is tedious as well, why any actor would want to play Bond ( apart from the pay packet ) is a mystery, I would've thought it was like playing Doctor Who, a career staller, people talk about getting the role as if it were the pinnacle of an actor's career.
I think the Bond films were responsible for all the cheesy American action films with their terrible one liners- 'I think he got the point' as a character gets impaled, etc.
As for Daniel Craig, can't see it at all. Have you ever seen him interviewed?
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 17:37:47 GMT
I've never been a fan of Bond films & I don't understand how or why the films became a 'franchise' that exists to this day. I find the character to be a smarmy git in a penguin suit & the whole concept to be hopelessly out of date & formulaic. Surely Harry Palmer was intended as an antedote to Bond & that was 50 years ago! All the discussion over which actor 'would make a good James Bond' is tedious as well, why any actor would want to play Bond ( apart from the pay packet ) is a mystery, I would've thought it was like playing Doctor Who, a career staller, people talk about getting the role as if it were the pinnacle of an actor's career.
I think the Bond films were responsible for all the cheesy American action films with their terrible one liners- 'I think he got the point' as a character gets impaled, etc.
But apart from you quite enjoy them Arthur?!
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Post by Three Litre on Oct 6, 2019 17:39:25 GMT
Joking aside, I too am surprised they are still successful.
The first couple of Jason Bourn films are a better watch.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Oct 6, 2019 18:23:08 GMT
He was better as Geordie in Our Friends In The North!
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