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x007AceOfSpades

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In Topic: Henry Cavill is Superman

Today, 07:39 AM

I personally think Kevin Costner is a terrible actor, though I liked him in only 3 films. Mr. Brooks, Dances With Wolves, and JFK.


In Topic: General Video Game Disscussion Thread

Today, 03:05 AM

How many Splinter Cells are there and are there any on the 360 that are worth playing?

Go to wikipedia and look it up...


In Topic: What movie have you seen today?

Yesterday, 04:42 PM

I was completely surprised with how fun it turned out to be as well Dove!


In Topic: What Bond Movie do you feel like watching

Yesterday, 03:30 PM

The World Is Not Enough .

 

A further progression of Bond films slowly becoming more or less action films than spy films. Though it still is James Bond and it's still a spy film, it's delving further into the fact that for a time, the producers were practically making strictly action films with thin plots, forgettable characters, and loud noises.

 

After retrieving money for Sir Robert King, MI6 is under attack, literally. A massive bomb explodes killing several, including Sir Robert, and Bond goes on a long drawn out chase to track down the culprit. After catching up and realizing it's a woman that he met briefly when retrieving the money, she kills herself and Bond is injured in the process. With MI6 relocating to a safer location, the Scotland Yard offices, they trace down the money to KGB turned terrorist, Renard who is invulnerable to pain, literally and seems to be targeting King's daughter, Elektra, therefore placing Bond in the field to protect her from anything. Bond tracks down Renard to Azerbaijan, posing as a scientist, with the added intent of finding and killing Renard, but his cover is blown by Dr. Christmas Jones, nuclear physicist. After narrowly escaping certain death, Bond learns that Elektra and Renard are in it together, and must do anything to save himself from certain attacks and to stop Renard from triggering a nuclear meltdown.

 

Although it's got maybe one or two less action scenes, the action in this severely drawn out and goes on and feels uninspiring, almost as if you had seen it before. A good example is the prologue, which goes out for nearly 20 minutes. While it's engaging, it needed some heavily editing. Besides the flat generic music score from David Arnold, Brosnan and Denis Richards (Who I'm sure was cast in this after going topless Wild Things) who plays Dr. Christmas Jones have literally zero chemistry together. Aside from the fact she is good looking (at that time) it's a bit hard to believe she's a nuclear physicist in a tank top and short shorts. Yeah, it can be plausible, but still. Then Again that's Bond for you.

 

The villain is a huge step up from Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies, but the whole "Derr, I feel no painz!" thing was a bit too much. The actual plan he has is quite clever and interesting enough to be up there, no it is up there with Trevelyan from GoldenEye. Oh and Sophie Marceau is gorgeous (a bit random), just needed to throw that out there. The plot is okay, a bit better than the previous film, though somewhat poorly executed, but it's still good to watch. The locations don't seem engaging or exotic like usual in most Bond films, and I blame that the sole fact they chose to focus on the action more.

 

The Ratings:

Dr. No - 4.5
From Russia With Love - 5
Goldfinger - 3
Thunderball - 5
You Only Live Twice - 3
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 5
Diamonds Are Forever - 2.5
Live And Let Die - 4.5
The Man With The Golden Gun - 4.5
The Spy Who Loved Me - 4
Moonraker - 3
For Your Eyes Only - 5
Octopussy - 2
A View To A Kill - 4
The Living Daylights - 5

Licence To Kill - 5

GoldenEye - 5

Tomorrow Never Dies - 3.5

The World Is Not Enough - 3


In Topic: Christopher Nolan "in talks" to direct Bond 24

Yesterday, 05:29 AM

Not to mention the 4 year gap worked well enough to craft a wonderful film and not be below par like QOS. As for Star Trek Into Darkness, I enjoyed the film, and It's a shame it's not doing well, but I blame that on the producers for taking too long to get it made when it was originally to be out in June of 2012. Star Trek is big, but not as big anymore.

 

I don't mind waiting 3 years, but if it's three, It may be Craig's last due the physicality and demands the role brings.


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