Like many here I like the Flint movies for the Goldsmith scores alone. However, I really hate how much Eon were so easily influenced by the Flint movies when they made Diamonds Are Forever, reducing Bond to a cheap spoof of himself. Yuck.
Our Man Flint / In Like Flint
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, Apr 26 2003 04:28 AM
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Posted 06 May 2009 - 06:22 AM
I want to get Flint's telephone ringtone for my own cell phone.
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 01:37 PM
I have just been watching these movies and I must say they are fantastic! Coburn did an amazing job. I know they have there flaws but they are great fun 60 spy movies! I love the way that Flint operates. He enjoys life, he is constantly doing things and he is a yes man.
Definitely someone who is a candidate for the most interesting man in the world.
Goldsmith's score is excellent in both films and I am looking into getting the soundtrack.
Definitely someone who is a candidate for the most interesting man in the world.
Goldsmith's score is excellent in both films and I am looking into getting the soundtrack.
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 02:32 PM
That Flint set is great, but it has one VERY LARGE FLAW!!
That flaw would be the fact that it has the made-for-TV Flint movie with the two good ones. It's an interesting little piece of Z-grade entertainment, but it's just no good... and it's definitely not "Flint" at all!
As for Flint vs. CR '67... I used to be of the "Flint is so obviously better" camp, but now that I've seen CR '67 again (and I've actually read the novel a few times in the last few years) I appreciate it a lot more (it's actually a better adaptation than I remember) and enjoy its absolute ridiculousness.
That flaw would be the fact that it has the made-for-TV Flint movie with the two good ones. It's an interesting little piece of Z-grade entertainment, but it's just no good... and it's definitely not "Flint" at all!
As for Flint vs. CR '67... I used to be of the "Flint is so obviously better" camp, but now that I've seen CR '67 again (and I've actually read the novel a few times in the last few years) I appreciate it a lot more (it's actually a better adaptation than I remember) and enjoy its absolute ridiculousness.
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 03:56 PM
"Attention. Attention. Flint has escaped. Find him. Find him." 
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Bryce do you think you'd be up to a 2013 remake?
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Bryce do you think you'd be up to a 2013 remake?
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 05:42 PM
Great films and one hell of a great score!!!!!!!
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Posted 12 July 2011 - 05:45 PM
Just weighing in here to say that I too enjoy Our Man Flint. I have a VHS copy that I still watch, and if I could find a DVD of just OMF, I would buy it, as I would a new copy of Murderer's Row. The downside to the Matt Helm Lounge is that it comes with the other three movies included.
Yes, Flint was a fun satire of Bond, exaggerating 007's charm and expertise only slightly.
Another classic line is: "an anti-American bald eagle? Diabolical!"
Yes, Flint was a fun satire of Bond, exaggerating 007's charm and expertise only slightly.
Another classic line is: "an anti-American bald eagle? Diabolical!"