If it weren't for Pierce Brosnan being the most handsome Bond to date at the time, GoldenEye would be absolute shit. The only other TRULY acceptable Bond is Sean Connery who was the perfect fit for the role. I am not a fan of Roger Moore's portrayals at all.
My 2nd favorite Bond movie is actually License to Kill which has Timothy Dalton, and while I LOVE his acting in the movie, he's not the most amazing candidate for being James Bond.
Dr. No is still prob the only Bond movie that gets it all right. Goldfinger is good too.
There are still a few I haven't seen but I think they're mostly Moore films, the Australian guy, and new ones. Tomorrow Never Dies was absolutely horrible, didn't finish it and I haven't bothered trying to watch anything that came out after it. I did have the PS1 game when I was a kid and it kept me occupied despite wishing I was playing GoldenEye instead.
With movie series, you usually have one or two films that are head and shoulders above the rest, and which define the series. Which the James Bond series doesn't really have, except for the fact that the Connery films are normally considered better than the rest of them.
For example, the Terminator series (the first two), the Godfather Parts I & II, Alien & Aliens (if you're not including Prometheus), and the first Die Hard.
The Breed 2007 Wes Craven executive produced featuring Michelle Rodriguez
5 twenty somethings fly to one of their uncle's cabin on a mostly uninhabited island for a weekend of partying. They encounter a pack of enhanced doggies wanting to chew them up.
Will they make it or die? An IMDb movie that's okay but it's been done better.
Alright, here is your Venom: Let there be Carnage review.
The TL; DR is this: If you don't see every MCU film or are not a diehard fan of the character you should skip this.
I'm not heavily invested in the character or knowledgeable on the lore of Venom as a character but I did enjoy the first film. The sequel is unfortunately pretty formulaic and a scenario we've seen before: After becoming friends/seeing success together in the first film our two characters end up fighting and having a "split" only for them to have to come back together after realizing that, while they can exist on their own, that they're greater than the sum of their parts when together.
Yeah, that's literally the plot.
Throw in the apparent, mostly unexplained, creation of Carnage as the villain that the reunited Venom have to defeat and call it a day. Carnage shows up and get his ass kicked and is gone almost as soon as he appeared.
Woody's character attempts to be more than one dimensional but he doesn't succeed and he's really just the "insane" serial killer trope who happens to have a symbiotic for a period of time.
The film is like a shitty kaiju monster movie of old with too much time spent on human characters interacting and not enough on-screen time with the monsters we do want to see. The final fight is good, but the final fight was also the first fight. Disappointing to say the least. Compare that to say Kong vs Godzilla where we at least got to see the monsters go at it a throughout the film.
The movie really only serves to keep Venom in the public's mind and to set up future Venom films and appearances as the end of the film Brock is okay with Venom eating the (presumably) really bad guys, and the two setting out to become the "lethal protector."
Oh, and perhaps (IMO) unexpectedly (and possibly the only reason they even made this move):
Spoiler:
The inclusion of Venom in the MCU proper! The after credits scene sees Brock and Venom in Latin America watching a telenovela and engaging in banter on their differing views of the character's actions. Venom talks to Eddie about the combined knowledge and viewpoints of the symbiotic species and is about to reveal some of that knowledge to him when crazy special effects happen, the time of day and the room they are in changes. It appears to be a dimensional shift, presumably from the spell cast by Dr. Strange in the next Spiderman Film, as Venom and Eddie see J. Jonah Jameson on the TV engaged in a rant about how Peter Parker (Tom Holland MCU edition) is Spiderman. Venom appear to then have their first target in mind as the lethal protector: Public Enemy #1: Spiderman.
I was genuinely surprised they brought Venom to the MCU. I suppose it makes sense, and I wonder if all the "public" disagreements between Disney and Sony aren't just all made up shit. Anyway, the next Spiderman Movie might be absolutely crazy if Venom is in it, but I'd wager we're looking at a Venom vs Spidey movie somewhere down the line. I bet Venom won't be in the next film, but will be in the after credits scene. Whatever Venom vs Spidey film they do come up with, I predict this: It'll be one of those gay affairs, of course, like Batman vs Superman where they fight each other but then ultimately work together to stop the bigger threat.
I never got the appeal of Bond (beyond booger eaters think that fast cars and girls in bikinis are the pinnacle of human existence). A few of the early movies are fun because Sean Connery was effortlessly cool. The rest are too stupid and formulaic to be good cinema and too slick and self-aware to be fun camp. I get more fun out of the later Fast and Furious movies because they go the extra mile of doing all of that same stupid shit (fast cars, bikini ladies, ridiculous action set pieces) except everyone (except maybe Vin Diesel) seems to be in on the joke and no one pretends that it's some prestigious thing that we need to have serious conversations about complete with brow furrowing and rending of clothing when anyone attempts to change anything about it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Goldeneye on the N64 sucks.
With movie series, you usually have one or two films that are head and shoulders above the rest. Which the James Bond series doesn't have, except for the fact that the Connery films are normally considered better than the rest of them.
For example, the Terminator series (the first two), the Godfather Parts I & II, Alien & Aliens (if you're not including Prometheus), Escape Plan, and the first Die Hard.
So you're saying that the earlier films in a series are usually the best, this isn't true in bond films, then offer up the Connery films as the best bond films.
I like both the Connery Bond and Craig's edgier version. Never cared for the Moore/Brosnan total comedy ones, I'd rather watch Peter Sellers as Clouseau for parody.
I get more fun out of the later Fast and Furious movies because they go the extra mile of doing all of that same stupid shit (fast cars, bikini ladies, ridiculous action set pieces) except everyone (except maybe Vin Diesel) seems to be in on the joke
I guess you've never watched the Roger Moore Bond movies. He was in on the joke completely. Way beyond any self awareness of the F&F cast. Check this out:
With movie series, you usually have one or two films that are head and shoulders above the rest. Which the James Bond series doesn't have, except for the fact that the Connery films are normally considered better than the rest of them.
For example, the Terminator series (the first two), the Godfather Parts I & II, Alien & Aliens (if you're not including Prometheus), Escape Plan, and the first Die Hard.
I think the worst part of that post is considering the possibility that anyone might consider Prometheus a good movie, let alone on par with Alien or Aliens.
No, because the novel never broke out of the hardcore sf reader crowd into the mainstream consciousness where anyone who would complain lives.
The real Lawrence of Arabia character in the first novel is Liet Kynes. Who Villeneuve cleverly ( ) changed into a non-white character to preemptively avoid this criticism. And just to be doubly-safe, they made him a woman, too.
I forget which Dune novel I’ve read to. I think I started the last book but never finished it. Definitely read at least the one where the Paul-Worm-Emperor dies.
After the second book it gets…weird. Though I thought the transformation of the planet to wooded forest and back to desert again was interesting.
Is this movie version skipping over the environmental aspects? Weren’t the fremen working to restore the environment of Arrakis? Or is that in the yet to be filmed part of the movie?
Inspired by Fami's other thread, I watched Rocky IV again and it was glorious... but I have to admit I "accidentally" skipped the beginning until Apollo's fight and from that fight onwards to Rocky landing in Russia because I was distracted with some small chores. I cheated myself out of the robot scenes but oh well, this still is a great movie and I thank Stallone for bringing down the iron curtain with his impassionate (edit: passionate! engrish strikes agen) speech in front of Gorbachev.
Ugh. I have a friend who got one of those DNA tests as a gift a couple years ago and it's made him completely insufferable. Every time I talk to him he steers the conversation into how he found out he's _%_ and the 847th cousin to the 4th Earl of Shitditch on Mudhill. No one cares.
No shit, if you go back far enough we're all going to be related somehow.