What film did you watch last night?

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Captain Phillips and The Devil's Backbone...

Thankfully my Spanish appears to be at school boy level so I understood some of it without having to spend all my time reading the subtitles and not seeing the picture.

 

[Drago]

Hummingbird with The Stafe. The typical Stafe arse kicking scenes, but blessed with something resembling a plot and a surprisingly sensitive perfomance from the cockney arse kicker at times (he plays an ex squaddie that's had a bad breakdown). 3/10 for substance, but a decent 8.5/10 for enjoyability (new word, (c) drago enterprises 2015)

I've just picked up Blitz on Blu Ray, which I'm told is another one of his better fillums.

 

[davdandy]

The Devil's Backbone

A quality movie.

 

[glenn forger]

 

[glenn forger]

(It's Bernard Lee, not Gert Frobe)

 

[benb]

Er, that's not Auric Goldfinger.
It's M.
(OK, you said that)

 

[glenn forger]

Would Die Another Day have been improved by throwing a chair into shot instead of having Madonna? Worst Bond ever. The flirty conversation with Halle Berry was hideously embarrassing:

"I'm a bird watcher"

"Do you like cock?"

"Oooh, matron!"

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Captain Phillips and The Devil's Backbone...

Sounds like a Navy Lark sequel.

 

[benb]

Would Die Another Day have been improved by throwing a chair into shot instead of having Madonna? Worst Bond ever. The flirty conversation with Halle Berry was hideously embarrassing:

"I'm a bird watcher"

"Do you like cock?"

"Oooh, matron!"

That piece of dialogue was pretty poor.
Still, some good scenes; I liked the sword fight at the fencing club, and the baddies were both pretty good.

 

[PaddyMcc]

I watched Airplane 2 for the umpteenth time. I still laughed a lot. Especially when Bill Shatner opens that door!

 

[glenn forger]

Sophie Ellis Bextor nearly got the Rosamund Pike part.

The sword fight was naff and cringed too, at the end the black dreadlocked waiter (dreadlocks in a private London club, Pffffffffft!" Says to Bond "Place needed decorating anyway". Awful. Bond is mates with waiters with dreadlocks, how cool. It was awful. Die Another Day is a shocking film with no redeeming qualities. Even if you like the sword fight Madonna turns up again and starts stinking up the film with her "acting". She makes Brosnan look like a good actor, that's how bad she is.

 

[benb]

Sophie Ellis Bextor nearly got the Rosamund Pike part.

The sword fight was naff and cringed too, at the end the black dreadlocked waiter (dreadlocks in a private London club, Pffffffffft!" Says to Bond "Place needed decorating anyway". Awful. Bond is mates with waiters with dreadlocks, how cool. It was awful. Die Another Day is a shocking film with no redeeming qualities. Even if you like the sword fight Madonna turns up again and starts stinking up the film with her "acting". She makes Brosnan look like a good actor, that's how bad she is.

Haha. I completely agree about Madonna.
But what about the guy with the diamonds in his face? He was cool. And the car chase on the ice.
I guess I love Bond, and am quite forgiving of the, sometimes quite poor, films.
I mean, some of them he's basically committing at least serious sexual assault.

 

[Leaway2]

Sophie Ellis Bextor nearly got the Rosamund Pike part.

The sword fight was naff and cringed too, at the end the black dreadlocked waiter (dreadlocks in a private London club, Pffffffffft!" Says to Bond "Place needed decorating anyway". Awful. Bond is mates with waiters with dreadlocks, how cool. It was awful. Die Another Day is a shocking film with no redeeming qualities. Even if you like the sword fight Madonna turns up again and starts stinking up the film with her "acting". She makes Brosnan look like a good actor, that's how bad she is.

I didn't like many of the Brosnan Bond films, Goldeneye being the best, I thought this was second best. I don't know if SEB can act but I would have preferred her to Rosamund Pike.
I like the fact that you find the dreadlocks the unlikely part of the film and not the "Vanish" . The homage to Andress come out of the water was good viewing.

 

[glenn forger]

Yeah, the film was packed with homages. Remember the stewardess who gives Brosnan a drink on the plane? Roger Moore's daughter.

 

[AndyRM]

It was the 40th anniversary of Bond, and had a nod to each of the previous 19 films. When you hold a film together with nostalgia, gadgets and CGI, it's never going to go well.