The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Blowfeld]

I read a report that said Martin Campbell thought QOS was a lousy film...well he's right there.

I really hope the producers get there act together for Bond 23............in that they dont leave everyting to the last moment,
not giving the production team time to get there part of the film right.

If Bond 23 is another mess...then i might have to go and join another film franchise aka The Muppets.

EA

Kermit misses you.


Might be another franchise where the children do not do justice to their fathers legacy.

I am worried that they are leaving everything concerning Bond 23 for the last moment. Most of us expect them to make a 3rd film with Daniel, however this is shaping up to be disastrous. I hope they do not scuttle the series over Barbara's hubris.

[Kristatos]

When it comes to his movie set, filmmaker Martin Campbell is a talented tyrant in search of silence. “It isn’t pretty when a cellphone rings,” says Daniel Craig, who played James Bond for Campbell in “Casino Royale.” “People leave puddles when Martin comes after them.”

I suppose we can add this to the list of his failings on the CR set. Left a puddle

I think that was a joke. That's the funny thing. Craig in interviews often displays a charm and humour that are almost entirely absent from his portrayal of Bond.

[carl stromberg]

The biggest bit of Dark Knight Rises news right now is that a teaser trailer may premiere with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 next month

I hope there's the another Potter trailer before release since the last trailer from April didn't mentioned it's rated PG-13.

What is this Larry Potter thing?

[FormerBondFan]

The biggest bit of Dark Knight Rises news right now is that a teaser trailer may premiere with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 next month

I hope there's the another Potter trailer before release since the last trailer from April didn't mentioned it's rated PG-13.

What is this Larry Potter thing?

It's the Boy Who Lived....NOT Larry Potter.

[shaken not stirred]

EA: this is my theme song to Eon from now on until Cr-egg is fired! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOezCgfV780&feature=fvst

This is eons current bond theme for bond and fits the c-rrraaaggge era too well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg

Brosnan: so I asked babs if I could do another bond get one last good film out of Me she said
babs: yeah whatever( babs starts dancing around c-rrreeg)
Moore: So I was told to watch the new bond casino royale film, bond gets asked for
waiter: do you want a martini
moore: and bond says
bond: yeah whatever (knockouts out waiter, drinks a holstenpills and runs through a wall).
Moore:?????
babs: Cause this is My screwed up bond reboot of whatever (babs dancing around cregg again, cregg pouts) yeah this is my eons horrible reboot of whatever, so I talk to My friends and say quantum of solace was cool les make another one and they said tha's cool ....cause this is babs complete bollocks reboot of whatever ( dee deh dee deh deh) yeah this is babs bourne bond of whatever.

[Alessandra]

EA: this is my theme song to Eon from now on until Cr-egg is fired! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOezCgfV780&feature=fvst

This is eons current bond theme for bond and fits the c-rrraaaggge era too well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7_3n7xyDg

Brosnan: so I asked babs if I could do another bond get one last good film out of Me she said
babs: yeah whatever( babs starts dancing around c-rrreeg)
Moore: So I was told to watch the new bond casino royale film, bond gets asked for
waiter: do you want a martini
moore: and bond says
bond: yeah whatever (knockouts out waiter, drinks a holstenpills and runs through a wall).
Moore:?????
babs: Cause this is My screwed up bond reboot of whatever (babs dancing around cregg again, cregg pouts) yeah this is my eons horrible reboot of whatever, so I talk to My friends and say quantum of solace was cool les make another one and they said tha's cool ....cause this is babs complete bollocks reboot of whatever ( dee deh dee deh deh) yeah this is babs bourne bond of whatever.

Except this is meant to be clearly sarcastic, but I think some of Babs's sentences reflect reality in a scary way.

[bjmdds]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... n-lantern/ I had a feeling Campbell would blow this with Reynolds in the lead. Reynolds is NOT superhero material and no Adventureland reject should be cast as one.

[Omega]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... n-lantern/ I had a feeling Campbell would blow this with Reynolds in the lead. Reynolds is NOT superhero material and no Adventureland reject should be cast as one.

Ouch! The Green Latern shouldn't of got a green light from the reviews.

[Kristatos]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... n-lantern/ I had a feeling Campbell would blow this with Reynolds in the lead. Reynolds is NOT superhero material and no Adventureland reject should be cast as one.

It did even worse on Rotten Tomatoes, 21%, though most critics blame the script rather than Reynolds. What's happened to Martin Campbell? He did Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro, both of which were fine adventure films, and then followed them up with vastly inferior sequels. Now this. He seems to have lost it.

[Omega]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... n-lantern/ I had a feeling Campbell would blow this with Reynolds in the lead. Reynolds is NOT superhero material and no Adventureland reject should be cast as one.

It did even worse on Rotten Tomatoes, 21%, though most critics blame the script rather than Reynolds. What's happened to Martin Campbell? He did Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro, both of which were fine adventure films, and then followed them up with vastly inferior sequels. Now this. He seems to have lost it.

21% it went up since last night, so far 85% of the audience on RT like it, could be studio plants takes a little while for the real numbers to come in. I noticed at some movies site there will be an early showing of praise when the movie is hardly out
People forget Campbell made Zorro 2 a suck fest. I don't think he did a good job with CR it was too boring. It like saying Steven Spielberg recent movies suck, but he made Saving Private Ryan and ET! Except for the Bourne editing QOS with Campbell would still suck hard.

[Kristatos]

People forget Campbell made Zorro 2 a suck fest.

Not this person. I mentioned it in my previous post in the same sentence as CR. I'm normally someone who likes to stick with a movie till the end, even if it sucks, but I turned off Zorro 2 halfway through. The film seemed more interested in Zorro's divorce than the swashbuckling adventure that made the first one so much fun.

[bjmdds]

It's the Eon curse I guess. Bad films rub off.

[Alessandra]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-crit ... n-lantern/ I had a feeling Campbell would blow this with Reynolds in the lead. Reynolds is NOT superhero material and no Adventureland reject should be cast as one.

It did even worse on Rotten Tomatoes, 21%, though most critics blame the script rather than Reynolds. What's happened to Martin Campbell? He did Goldeneye and The Mask of Zorro, both of which were fine adventure films, and then followed them up with vastly inferior sequels. Now this. He seems to have lost it.

21% it went up since last night, so far 85% of the audience on RT like it, could be studio plants takes a little while for the real numbers to come in. I noticed at some movies site there will be an early showing of praise when the movie is hardly out
People forget Campbell made Zorro 2 a suck fest. I don't think he did a good job with CR it was too boring. It like saying Steven Spielberg recent movies suck, but he made Saving Private Ryan and ET! Except for the Bourne editing QOS with Campbell would still suck hard.

See I never even look at early reviews because most of that stuff is either piloted by the studios OR by rivals... Once it's widely released, we'll see. Meantime to prove the whole "It sucks" doesn't matter one bit, the movie did JUST FINE in midnight showings, made more than Thor and the same as X-Men... so I'd wait. Regardless, Reynolds is not the one at fault here, it's the script. I like him and I very much liked him in "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock, there again they had a very good script there, not coincidentally penned by my boys Orci&Kurtzman... so of course he can't do miracles. I completely agree on QoS, there was no saving that. Not even Pierce or Cavill would have saved that crapfest. I also agree on CR, I NEVER liked CR either. While being better than QoS (which doesn't really take much) it was the most boring Bond movie EVER. As I said many times, my father, who is the one who introduced me to Bond as a TODDLER (LOL) fell ASLEEP during CR. He said not only it was boring as you-know-what, but also "THAT DUDE!? He's got NOTHING of Bond. Absolutely nothing. And he's UGLY" (and I mean, it's my dad, not really one who makes such remarks unless he's really put off by someone's looks ). So yeah, Campbell did fine when he had what he needed and wanted. I'm sure CR would have been a completely different movie had Henry Cavill been the protagonist, and that's probably why when Campbell found himself saddled with Craig, he just delivered a poor product. He didn't want to do it and he had envisaged a totally different movie, so he just had to make do with what he was given instead.

[bjmdds]

Green Lantern: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/images/gre ... poster.jpg :

Domestic Total as of Jun. 17, 2011: $21,605,000 (Estimate) Not a bad day one opening. The budget is not available on boxofficemojo.com though. I wonder why?

[Alessandra]

Good friend of mine and MAJOR Green Lantern comic fan ever since he was a kid just went to see it and he said "The haters are IDIOTS. This is a perfect translation of the comic into movie. I think most of those who hate it know precious nothing about the comic." And there it is. He said he was highly entertained by it and that he really enjoyed it. I KNEW the moment someone who actually knew the thing went to see it I'd have gotten a good review. The opening figure of $21 mln must add the $3.5 mln they made in midnight showings.. it's definitely a good opening, despite all the bad talk.

MEANTIME, and in MUCH more important news, it is official:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... tum-203094

Sorry I am SOOOO happy about this I'm just laughing nonstop. THANK YOU Martin Campbell (and I'm dead sure what he says about Bond 23 is just and only PRs... He probably DOES like MEndes, and SO DO I, but NOT as an action director! LOL). Anyway, this deserves its own news thread

[Blowfeld]

Good friend of mine and MAJOR Green Lantern comic fan ever since he was a kid just went to see it and he said "The haters are IDIOTS. This is a perfect translation of the comic into movie. I think most of those who hate it know precious nothing about the comic." And there it is. He said he was highly entertained by it and that he really enjoyed it. I KNEW the moment someone who actually knew the thing went to see it I'd have gotten a good review. The opening figure of $21 mln must add the $3.5 mln they made in midnight showings.. it's definitely a good opening, despite all the bad talk.

MEANTIME, and in MUCH more important news, it is official:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... tum-203094

Sorry I am SOOOO happy about this I'm just laughing nonstop. THANK YOU Martin Campbell (and I'm dead sure what he says about Bond 23 is just and only PRs... He probably DOES like MEndes, and SO DO I, but NOT as an action director! LOL). Anyway, this deserves its own news thread

That is interesting I know of the Green Lantern and nothing about it really. Strange how a movie can get a unwarranted bad rep and bad movies can get a good rep.

[shaken not stirred]

That is interesting I know of the Green Lantern and nothing about it really. Strange how a movie can get a unwarranted bad rep and bad movies can get a good rep.

We're living in an era where crap sells and is in the so called trend (ie twilight) need I say more , a lot of people only want to settle for mediocrity today or only like something if it's completely reworked and ruined but hailed a bloody master piece (yeah a masterpiece of crap comes to My mind) and of course truly underrated films that deserve a lot of attention never get them (just like with a lot of other things) and people laugh if you like such thing or say who the hell is that?, what the hell is that etc? and it can't be good cause it must've flopped when in reality it only sold so much because it had poor advertising or people just couldn't be asked because a lot of people nowdays are sheep and only follow this poxy trend ie if it's in it's great and I'm glad I'm not a sheep and can make My own opinion of things, people like that are missing out, I'm not saying everything popular is bad but there happens to be a great deal more of that around today instead of good ones.

[Mazer Rackham]

Lantern is doing good considering it is not as widely known a property. Word of mouth will sell it or sink it.

[katied]

Quantum Of Crappiness was on the USA network last night.No, I didn't watch it.

[bjmdds]

Two nights in a row MP........utter trash.......not watchable.........I'd rather watch a nectarine rot over time........