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kicked by... a penguin.
For an entertainment vehicle, this speaks volumes.
Any guesses as to how long other Bond films have been and remained at #1?
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Well nobody think here that the Casino Royale is a work of a great art.
It is just a good ( as that is already a great achievement ) piece of...junk.
Yes, junk can be fun.
I ate my McDonald, and did not felt the pain...
They ain't McDonald in my book... Big Mac I can consume every now and then, the Bon'd movies - no way on Earth I would sit through one.But then maybe I am an aberation - after all, I also hate the Hitchcock movies.
...as a friend and I were discussing this very topic after seeing Casino Royale the other evening.I said that the grand-daddy of all this is North By Northwest. I do like Hitchcock however and refuse to apologize for it.
CR was rather fun...helped of course by Daniel Craig who is an interesting actor. I ususally can't stand Bond - this was one of the only ones I've ever seen in a theater.
;^D
We will be saved....
;^)
bleep
While I won´t discuss the Bond movies, they are just another word for nostalgia, I mean the first four or so one, and have quite a certain charms in my eyes, the rest is something I would not indulge myself twice.As for the Hitch movies THAT.....
PS: Have you read the Fleming books? THEY are really quite good.
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They don't even speak proper Russian in Moscow!
I got them back in Russia as I was about to leave - I wanted to read the "real" spy story based on what I knew about them... to say I was disappointed would be an understatement... I kept thinking - this could not possibly be what the world is talking about! And when I saw a Bond movie for the first time my reaction was of the "You are kidding... right?" kind.Who knows... maybe if I saw my first one at the tender age of 12 when it came out - perhaps my reaction would have been different (Heck, I enjoyed the Fantomas!) but to be exposed to such "marvels" at mature age simply did not cut it.
...I was as easily bored as you. Then I could walk down the street tapping my gold-capped cane on the sidewalk and think how boring the world was, after all...I'm virtually never bored and really feel quite guilty about it.
eb
The morale is: Everyone is entitle to enjoy some kind of trash.
Each his very own...
Perhaps there IS a handicap in me, as I grew up not seeing idiotic films - all you could get in Russia were serious films, so you kind of accepted the notion that films had to be somewhat related to life, unless they were comedies. Bond movies sort of fall in between, so my mind was not ready to accept them. Typically the spy movies released there were all straight face, very serious with no liberties. And it is not like spoofs would not be accepted - the most memorable one perhaps being The Lemonade Joe, but that one also was overtly a comedy.
We all have some kind of handicaps, it vary from culture to culture, to habits to habits and from seed to seed, and from soil to soil, and a given seed won´t do on the wrong soil.
But a good film remain a good film, universally recognized as such, and a good director is as rare as a jewel.
It is easier to find a good book, no wonder we are writing thme since centuries..But spy films when well done are like others " best of ".
Look at the Le Carre´s films.
Intelligent and challenging as much as any others.
Look at Poe at Simenon and so on.
Without them, life would be even more boring.
That is why we invent them in copying the real life around us.
Me, I will take the Airplane and Naked Gun ANY DAY over that Bond boredom! Spoofs at their finest are absolutely great, when they are not trying to be something else.
Poor guy.Yes Simenon is that far away but it was in another context. The one who make criminal story not a minor art.
That was all about.
many of us here liked the film...you have made it abundantly clear that YOU did not...let's move on now and not continue to beat the poor dead horse...
improvement.
But my post was in jest, anyhow.
I saw it again on the weekend. Beats all the other kids movies hands down.
Cheers,
John K
"Natura abhorret a vacua"
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[from your source] "But Sony Pictures says it remains on track to become the highest grossing Bond film ever. It has earned $94.2 million in the U.S. and $128 million overseas, well above its $150 million production cost."Nice try tinear, but your penguin riposte only serves to further POLARize views. ;^)
CNN, in a just aired segment by Jeanne Moos who had been critical of the new Bond film, literally ate her earlier comments and declared Daniel Craig perhaps the best Bond ever upon reconsideration. Feel free to rethink your opinion; no one will rub salt in your wounds, but it may be offered as a condiment for that crow on your plate. :o)
Cheers,
AuPh
brilliant and incisive comments of a true film connoisseur whose insights already are legendary. The book offers, the talk shows... I can't keep up with all the acclaim my Bond reviews have garnered me.
Perhaps we can talk about your designing my book jacket?
...is very clear as well as the "sewer" part, albeit grammatically challenged! And you're comments are indeed legendary in spite of the fact that your insights are reminiscent of Tvarsky's famous tunnel sequence in Solaris, but let's not go there! :o)> > > "I can't keep up with all the acclaim my Bond reviews have garnered me." < < <
Well, if your word is your Bond, then the value of your reviews probably has definitely achieved double "O" status! ;^D
> > > "Perhaps we can talk about your designing my book jacket?" < < <I'd rather design your straight-jacket! ;^)
Cheers,
AuPh
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