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Vim Fuego
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Actually, it looks like Witchfinder General is free on YouTube. Never thought of looking there...
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adg211288
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I've seen The Masque of the Red Death, which I thought was okay but I wasn't blown away by it. My highest rated movie with him in is perhaps one that most may forget he was in: |
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Triceratopsoil
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Witchfinder General is great
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adg211288
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All watched today:
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adg211288
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #1
Sean Connery passed away recently, which got me thinking about the Bond films. I have had a cache of them sitting on my hard drive for years and have never gotten around to watching them. I have seen a handful, but there are gaps in my Bond-watching, so what better opportunity than now to do some catching up? While I was checking them out, I stumbled across the Star Trek movies too. I have not seen many of those, so why not combine the two to keep it interesting, and catch up two franchises at once? So first cab off the ranks... Not as formulaic as the later Bond movies, and seemingly a smaller budget, so there's less reliance on technology and gadgets than later films, and more on Bond's own wit and skill. The bad habits are all there - the boozing, the gambling, the rampant shagging. And the Bond girls. Everyone remembers Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder emerging from the surf. On the down side, there's a few plot holes, there's a little mild racism and misogyny (different times), and parts of Dr. No's hideout look a bit cardboard-y... Still, a strong start to the franchise.
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adg211288
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I'm not the biggest Bond fan, but I would like to see some of the early ones. I probably have seen some but which I have no idea. They were on every week when I was a kid and they've all blurred together a bit over the years. The only ones I know I have seen are Moonraker, the Brosnan's and the first three Craig's. I found Skyfall extremely underwhelming so could never be arsed with Spectre.
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MorniumGoatahl
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My mates and I saw this many times as a teen. We weren't watching it for the plot.
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #2
And starting off the James T. Kirk movies: Incubus. OK, so it's not actually a Star Trek movie, but it has Shatner in it, and there's a heap more Bond movies, so I'll run out of actual Star Trek movies well before the Bond films. This was filmed in 1965, which is pre-Star Trek, and it was thought lost for many years. It's a black and white art house sort of film, scripted in Esperanto, which the actors learned phonetically. Experts on Esperanto were highly critical of the pronunciation. It had very limited runs, mostly in festivals and specialist cinemas, and quite possibly would have been forgotten had not William Shatner starred in it. The original master copies of the film were destroyed in a fire, and was thought lost until a copy was discovered in France. The copy had burned in French subtitles. It was remastered in the 1990s (but it's still not great quality) and had prominent English subtitles added to the version I saw. Overall, it's quite a sexy movie without any actual sex. It's a very low budget film, but it's beautifully shot and framed, and the black and white contrast is quite stunning at times. It explores themes of good vs evil, and love vs hate, with demons, black rituals, and visitations to Hell. It's not a long movie, and it's not too hard to watch. And Shatner was a very handsome man in his younger days...
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #3
From Russia With Love Unlike Dr. No, I don't remember ever seeing this film, but for some reason I remembered the scene with the fighting gypsy girls, so I may have. I also read the book when I was at high school, which is many years ago now... This is a good old fashioned Cold War spy thriller, with Ian Fleming's spicy edge added - the introduction of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. There's plenty of good old fashioned spy craft still involved here, rather than lots of full on action and explosions, or implausible technological gadgets. (There is still action and explosions, and some quite plausible gadgets though.) Where Dr. No was let down by a weak ending (the evil Doctor's secret hide-out), this maintains the tension and danger to the main characters right to the end. Having forgotten the ending, I had no idea what Tanya's final decision would be. Better than Dr. No.
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adg211288
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Basically Psycho all over again, just hyper-sexualised and perhaps with a nod to the Italian giallo movies of the 70s. I really liked this one, more twisty and psychological than most slasher movies. My latest random horror pick off of a streaming service. Verdict: Crap. A great steaming pile of it. I lost interest shortly after the ghost showed up. Couldn't even tell you how it ended that's how much attention I had on this by the end. Very good Italian movie.
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adg211288
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My RYM Satire comments are going to have a field day with all these sci-fi movies they're voting 'alien invasion' on. No one there seems to know what an invasion actually is. RYM's doing this influx of new tags onto a crowd that clearly have no idea what to do with them.
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #4
Zardoz OK, so like I said, there are a lot less James T. Kirk movies than James Bond ones, so in the most tenuous of links, this is a sci-fi film (like the Star Treks), except it has Sean Connery in it. Anyway, Connery made this film after retiring as Bond, basically wanting to play an anti-Bond character. He succeeded. Zed still kills people and likes shagging pretty girls, but he's not subtle or smart. The plot is a bit fucked up, and the whole film is drowned in hippie mystical shit (this is the 1970s, so that means lots of boob shots), but once you stop trying to understand what's actually going on (I'm not sure anyone actually in the film really fully understands either), you have a visually whimsical film with the odd bit of senseless violence. Incubus was easier to understand, but Zardoz is prettier to look at.
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #5
Goldfinger This is the movie, for better or worse, where the Bond series really hit it's stride. Sexy girl at start of movie who dies after an encounter with Bond. Check. The Aston Martin. Check. Silly OTT inventions from Q. Check. A megalomaniacal super-villain who has several chances to kill Bond but doesn't. Check. A memorable nasty sidekick. Check. Despite young women painted in gold or strutting about in bikinis, the sexiest Bond girl (who isn't really a Bond girl) here is Pussy Galore, played by the pushing-40-year-old Honor Blackman, who also passed away this year. It just shows what happens when you give a smart, experienced actress a strong par to play (compare with Ursula Andress in Dr. No). I love and hate this movie because it's formulaic, but it perfected the formula. There are huge plot holes in it, but it's exciting if you don't think about it too much.
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #6
And finally into the real Star Trek movies. A clever story, a welcome reboot, and... it wasn't near as successful as it was expected to be. Apparently there was a lack of action scenes. True, there's not a lot of action, but this isn't that sort of movie. It's slow moving, but visually spectacular, with the best special effects money could buy for 1979. And best of all, it sets up the franchise for a recharge, a reboot, and a reimagining.
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Vim Fuego
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Just as nerdy as, and a lot more enjoyable than, Ready Player One.
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Triceratopsoil
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this movie fuckin rules
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Vim Fuego
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James Bond vs James T. Kirk #7
Thunderball Unlike the previous Bond movies, I hadn't seen this before, or read the book. It's bigger and noisier than the previous movies. It features a Vulcan bomber (one of my all time favourite planes!), more dastardly evil plots, Bond being almost-rapey with scantily clad women, and some silly gadgets. The underwater fight scene near the end is incredible. The Keystone Kops scene on the hydrofoil which follows is not. The poor, almost lazy, special effects around that sequence is what remains strongest in my mind about this movie, which is a shame, because some of the rest of it was amazing. And the attitude of the Bond character to women is hard to watch through a 21st century lens.
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UMUR
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Watched this one again tonight. Damn I think it´s both sweet and funny: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8580274/
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adg211288
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I've fallen behind on this thread, so quick catch-up with no comments:
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