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#93920
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I'm sorry, but I must say this... screw this forum, and screw the entertainment industry
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
OMG i really cannot believe some people i swear. Change is a good thing, you want to know the real reason why the PTs movies and of the new reamkes are not good in your eyes, it one reason only: you hav changed that is why you dont like it, your personalities are different and so when you see things you interpet them differently. that is why, go find a kid the same age as you when the first SW movies came out and ask him what he thought of the PTs. same goes with many of the other remakes that are coming out.


I will bet you a million dollars that you will never find a kid that feels and talks as passionately about the PT as some of the people here(including me) feel and talk about the O OT. Change is not always a good thing.




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#93912
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The Essentials (films)
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here's more that (imho) are essential
(adding to what was already meantioned)

The Wizard of OZ.
Gone With The Wind(laugh if you must)
To KIll a Mocking Bird.
12 Angry Men.
Inherit the Wind.
Judgement at Nuremburg
Planet of the Apes(the original)
The Three Stooge short movies.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
Raiders Of the Lost Ark.
Robin Hood(Errol Flynn version)
Dracula(the Bela Lugosi version)
Frankenstein(the Boris Karloff verison)
The Bride Of Frankenstein
Godfather parts 1 and 2
Rocky
Ben Hur(both the silent version and the Heston version)
The Ten Commandments
The King of Kings(the silent version)
High Noon
1776
Pink Panther
A Shot in The Dark
The Paleface
Veritigo
Rear Window
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Psycho(the original)
Sunset Boulevard
Stagecoach
The Shootist
The Magnificent Seven
It's a Wonderful Life
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
Witness For the Prosecution
In the Heat of The Night
Double Indemnity
The Maltese Falcon.
The Hustler
Die Hard.
Dr. No
Goldfinger

There is more but that will have to do for now...



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#93882
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Sequels that should never be...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93882/action/topic#93882
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I read the Moonraker novel, its a pretty good cold war story.

What in the world were they on when they thought that the book had any of the things the movie had in it?

Moonraker also has the cheesiest moment and the least memorable bond girl: Jaws and the girl standing at the window waving when Bond is blasting off and Holly Goodhead(although I think she looked pretty good).



What you have to do is find a way to over look the the cheesy stuff. Don't take them too seriously. Stop comparing the Bond movies to the books. No, the Bond movies of this era wheren't anywhere near close to the Book, they weren't trying to be. . No, they weren't realistic. No, they weren't dark or serious like some of the books are. They weren't trying to be realistic,dark, or serious. They were trying to be entertaining, funny, and fun to watch, and they succeeded. They weren't trying to show the real life of a spy. They were just trying to make good spy movies and live up to everyone's fantasy of what being a spy is like. You may perfer the darker Bond, but Bond was much more popular when it was light, funny, and (IMHO) better.

Just look at Frankenstein. The Boris Karloff version is nowhere near accurate to the book. Certainly not realistic. This does not make it bad. It is considered a classic. A movie doesn't have to accurate to the book to be good. This is true with the Bond movies.


Bond doesn't need to be dark, serious or realistic. If you want that, go watch somting else. But don't change Bond. Let Bond be Bond.

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#93880
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Sequels that should never be...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93880/action/topic#93880
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
I can't belive no one mentioned Bond's most memorable vilain/henchman: Jaws!


What about Oddjob from Goldfinger? The guy with the pain-in-the-neck hat.


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Originally posted by: ricarleite

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Sometimes I wonder how much preferring the old Bond films is based on how good they actually were and how much is nostalgia.


Well, can't one say the same about Star Wars?


good point.
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#93859
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Sequels that should never be...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93859/action/topic#93859
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
They should wait 5 years then make a new bond movie, much darker, less gadgets (in Dr.No he had his watler PPK and that was it - I'm thinking we still have gadgets, but keep it to a minimum, and no invisible cars). Bond should be in his mid to late 30s. Something happens and MI5 gets fucked up, lots of people, including M, dead. Bond goes into hiding. He meets Q (a new Q, not R or any other shit and not John Cleese) secretly and Q kits him out with all that he could manage to get hold of - a few guns and gadgets. Bond then goes about getting the people who done this and saving the world. The Bond music can stay, but that's about it. We need to go back to a Dalton style Bond. The Dalton movies did have humour, despite what some people say (what about the bit where he parachutes onto the girl's boat, shouts 'nothing to declare' as he bobsleighs over the border on a double bass? - that was bond humour, not all this Brosnan era 'Cunning luinguist' crap). They should also cast an unknown. And Irvin Kershner should direct (Never say never again may be unofficial, but it's one of the 5 best in my opinion).


You hit the nail on the head.


*shakes head in disbelief *

I say we need to go back to the Connery era not the Dalton era. The Dalton era put the Bond series into a dark age from which it has not recovered. And this "Brosnan era 'Cunning luinguist' crap" was done in the Connery and Moore era and is (IMHO) part of Bond.