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Finally got around to watching The Hobbit last night.
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Escape from Zahrain. (Yul Brenner, and Jack Weston)
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Finally watched Casino Royale. Possibly my favorite Bond movie.
Craig is good...and now very likely my favorite 007. Never thought there would be anyone as good as Connery.
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Craig is good...and now very likely my favorite 007. Never thought there would be anyone as good as Connery.
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I have to agree Daniel Craig has been the best actor portraying James Bond since Sean Connery IMHO.
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Craig brought back "menace" to Bond. Connery always made me believe he had a "license to kill". In "Doctor No" he shoots the guy in his room stone cold dead without blinking an eye. None of the rest of the Bonds ever made me feel I couldn't take em in a fair fight till Daniel Craig came along. I would never dream of tussling with either Connery nor Craig... ever! They'd eat me alive. Brosnan, Dalton and especially Moore... pheh... no fear, no time no way. Craig's a bad man.... a REALLY bad man!
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What's interesting - as I agree with the above, Connery and Craig are the only real Bonds - is that the best Craig Bond movie, so far, is "Casino Royale." While Craig is great in the two subsequent Bond movies he made, the movies themselves are only okay and not anywhere near as good as "Casino Royale." And the interesting part is that the only one that is based on an original Ian Fleming novel is "Casino Royale." There's a tightness and verisimilitude to the Fleming-novel-based movie; whereas, the other two felt, IMHO, like generic action adventure movies that had Bond in it. I hope they can find a team of writers (the first problem there is that it will be a team) to turn out better story lines for the future Bond movies.
Small aside: there is a new major Bond novel out, "Solo" - sanctioned by Fleming's estate - written by William Boyd. I've read several Boyd books and he can write a tight thriller, but the early reviews have not been good. The last major Bond novel out, "Devil May Care" was written by Sebastian Faulks - also a strong writer - but it felt forced and flat. It appears hard for even very talented writers to capture the je ne said quoi that Fleming put into his plots and characters.
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Watched the first fifteen minutes of it on Syfy last night. Saw it in the theatre when it came out and was wowed by the first fifteen or so minutes. From the start the tone was set that Bond is back in force. After that movie, I felt that finally there was a Bond somewhere close in stature to Connery's Bond.
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"End of Watch" - B-Minus - Good cop buddy film but on a more serious tip than others. This film feels more like an update of "The New Centurians" than anything else. You ride along with two cops and their respectice families as they deal with the changing face of crime in South Central LA. Strong performances by all the leads and a crackling good script written by someone who seems to know the language by heart.
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Watched the first fifteen minutes of it on Syfy last night. Saw it in the theatre when it came out and was wowed by the first fifteen or so minutes. From the start the tone was set that Bond is back in force. After that movie, I felt that finally there was a Bond somewhere close in stature to Connery's Bond.
Not so sure Craig eludes quite the 'elegance' as Connery seemed to portray along with the flip side of brutishness..but his rugged convincing strutting confidence brings something that has been lacking in the role for some time for me.
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Well put. Exactly what I thought of it.
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agreed.
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Part of what might have made Connery the best Bond might be the time period in which the movies were made as well as the era in which he grew up. When I first heard that a remake of Casino Royale was in the works, I thought and hoped that it would take place in the same period of time as Connery's Bond. I understand why they didn't, but It would sure be nice if they did.
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Last night, Lost Continent with Cesar Romero, the MST3K version.
Just now, Old Acquaintance with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.
Just now, Old Acquaintance with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.
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