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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 9/10 - Well, after I watched FYEO, I read somewhere that people consider it Moore's best Bond film. And yet, my memory told me that I thought TSWLM was Moore's best. I watched it, and I remember correctly. I love this movie. I believe like this, more than any other film, feels most like the Connery's. Lot of classic stuff here. Very exciting plot and action. Funny too. Only a few downsides. The score's a little too 70s at parts, and Barbara Bach doesn't really do a good job. Also, at times in the second half, it is a little too slow. Other than that, great film.

The Living Daylights (1987) 9/10 - I saw Moore's best, so I decided to jump ahead ten years and see Dalton's. I love this movie, too. In fact, each time I watch it, I like it more. Bond's a real guy again, thanks, in great part, to Dalton, who does a fine job as Bond. Pity he only did two. As with any good Bond film; the plot's interesting, the action's intense, and the score is first-rate (as it always is with John Barry). Yet, it suffers in much the same most Bond films do: by being too long. In this case I think the finger can be pointed at the portion in Afghanistan. Hate to sound like a broken record, but, other than that, great film.

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - 5.5/10

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) - 4.9/10

First Men in the Moon (1964) - 6.8/10

Psycho II (1983)- 6.8/10

Psycho III (1986) - 5/10

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) - 6/10

Legend (director's cut) (1985) - 5.6/10

SKYFALL

I agree with greenpenguino, this has to be the finest Bond movie, the perfect mix.....after watching a LOT of Bond recently on the 007 channel, this film marks 50 years nostalgically.

The cg dragons didn't bother me, but the DLP image just wasn't bright enough, especially in bright scenes where I was conscious of the screen material.

Cant wait for Bond 24

J

Dementia 13 (1963) - 6/10

The Body Snatcher (1945) - 6/10

SilverWook said:

Jaitea said:

SKYFALL

blah, blah blah.....after watching a LOT of Bond recently on the 007 channel, this film....blah blah blah

J

There's a 007 channel!?

Yeah it started beginning of Oct Sky UK

J

greenpenguino said:

Silent Hill: Reve-whatever 3D (2012)

Unbelievably crap. Apart from one brief scene with Malcolm McDowell, avoid like the plague.

1 out of ten balls.

It's so maddening.

The Silent Hill games (like the Resident Evil games) should be impossible to adapt badly.

Everything is designed from the world to the sounds, the tone is easy to describe but even most of the recent games can't grasp this.

It doesn't actual need a coherent plot or characters (it's one case where coherence is actually a hinderance to success).

Just get some Lynch fans to make it on the cheap digitally and then get a superb editor to polish it to a Hollywood standard (Hollywood circa 1979).  

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

What a film - what a film indeed. There are so many things I could say about it - so many things indeed - but where would I begin, where would I finish? Such an undertaking would require superhuman endurance, and I don't thing I could even a halfway decent job. Therefore, I'll just describe the steps that were taken to make this movie.


1. Speilberg buys copies of The Crab with the Golden Claws and The Secret of the Unicorn

2. Speilberg hands the two books to a toddler then says "Here, read these, then write up a screenplay. I don't have all day, so chop-chop"

3. Toddler takes a pair of scissors, and goes to work cutting the books to pieces with gusto

4. Toddler grabs a handful of crudely-clipped panels and begins arranging them all out in what he hopes is a cohesive, sequential order, but just can't get the pieces to fit right

5. Toddler sets about glueing the panels down on a piece of paper, but does a bad job, mucking the whole thing up with sticky glue, wrecking some panels while all but destroying others

6. Toddler takes a set of crayons and begins scrawling a bunch of formless blobs, lines, and various scribbly shit all over the collage

7. Speilberg returns, and the toddler hands him the collage. Speilberg takes the incoherent mess and says "Awesome! Perfect! This is just what I say looking for! There'll be no need for further drafts or rewrites - we'll film it as it is!"


4/10, and I'm being generous.


Star Trek: Generations (1994) - 5/10

Les Diaboliques (1955) - 8/10

M (1931) - 8.5/10

Black Narcissus (1947) - 9/10

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - 7.5/10

I have to say the Criterion BRD of Black Narcissus is one of the most gorgeous things ever displayed on my TV. It was almost like watching an actual Technicolor print. Beautiful beyond words.

The Devil's Backbone - 7.5/10

I really liked this film. Unsurprisingly, a lot young people who loved Pan's Labyrinth found this film "boring" and "not scary". Proof that expectations color perception. How some of these same people can enjoy the unremittingly boring Paranormal Activity movies boggles my mind. Apparently extended shots of empty rooms is more entertaining than a well-paced drama about loneliness and abandonment. And jump scares are cooler than existential horror, I guess.

asterisk8 said:

The Devil's Backbone - 7.5/10

I really liked this film. Unsurprisingly, a lot young people who loved Pan's Labyrinth found this film "boring" and "not scary". Proof that expectations color perception. How some of these same people can enjoy the unremittingly boring Paranormal Activity movies boggles my mind. Apparently extended shots of empty rooms is more entertaining than a well-paced drama about loneliness and abandonment. And jump scares are cooler than existential horror, I guess.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Repulsion (1965) - 6/10

 

Why so low a score? I think it's one of the greatest horror movies ever made, a true psychological horror with an incredible lead performance, fantastic sound design, and the reveal in the last second of the film still haunts me. It's in my top 10 all-time favorite films.

Moonrise Kingdom - 8/10 - a beautiful, funny, and poignant coming-of-age story. Fails a little in the final act, but the two child actors in the lead roles were incredible.

asterisk8 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Repulsion (1965) - 6/10

 

Why so low a score? I think it's one of the greatest horror movies ever made, a true psychological horror with an incredible lead performance, fantastic sound design, and the reveal in the last second of the film still haunts me. It's in my top 10 all-time favorite films.

Gargoyles (1972).

A truly wonderful awful film.

It looks like Pertwee era Doctor Who but it's the incredible characters and the 'no cliche too bad for us' attitude that I love about this film.

Grayson Hall is brilliant as a perpetually boozing motel owner.

She is a classy drunk, even when the van she's in is being attacked by the titular rubber unitards she refuses to drink out of the bottle and doesn't seem to drop her glass.

How Scott Glenn's career survived this is anyone's guess.

It demands to be remade, either seriously or as a musical.

The titles deserve a special mention.

What genius to make a typeface that looks like it's carved from radioactive snot.

3 five headed siamese chickens.