The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Omega]

ID 2 looks like its gonna be a smash hit. Didn't think much to that trailer for the new Star Trek though, that music seemed very out of place, doesn't give off any excitement!

Anyway, i'll be off to see SW7 later this week.

I'm not sure about trek but I'm going to star wars this weekend


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[Irony-man]

ID 2 looks like its gonna be a smash hit. Didn't think much to that trailer for the new Star Trek though, that music seemed very out of place, doesn't give off any excitement!

Anyway, i'll be off to see SW7 later this week.

I think the trailer looks great. And the music is a callback to the music Kirk was playing when he stole his stepfather's classic 'Vette in the first movie of the rebooted series.

[bjmdds]

It appears 2 sci-fi films will be competing against each other next summer. They look OK, but nothing like Captain America: Civil War IMO. You also have the crummy Bat/Superman flick too, so it looks like 4 'escapism' films, 4 months apart next spring, for the public to check out. Is Broccoli listening?

[Irony-man]

Just watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier again today. That movie had the energy, style and drama mixture that I want Bond films to have.

[bjmdds]

Tony Stark-y, I think The Winter Soldier is the BEST superhero movie made so far and Civil War will be a box office smash and beat Affleck's Bat joke at the box office.

[FormerBondFan]

It appears 2 sci-fi films will be competing against each other next summer. They look OK, but nothing like Captain America: Civil War IMO. You also have the crummy Bat/Superman flick too, so it looks like 4 'escapism' films, 4 months apart next spring, for the public to check out. Is Broccoli listening?

ID4 2 look ok? What are you talking about? The first ID4 was amazing, and I have no doubt the second will be too.

[bjmdds]

It won't do Civil War numbers FBF. ID is not one my favorite films, in fact I waited until it was on tv to see it. Many may have liked it, but I never even watch it on reruns.

[Omega]

Star Wars has got a lot of good reviews . Hopefully they are not the front loaded pr crap


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[FormerBondFan]

It won't do Civil War numbers FBF. ID is not one my favorite films, in fact I waited until it was on tv to see it. Many may have liked it, but I never even watch it on reruns.

Don't be so sure. ID4 was 1996's highest grossing film so don't underestimate the aliens.

[bjmdds]

Multiple sources are reporting late Tuesday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has breached the $100 million box office threshold in pre-sales through the end of the year.

Needless to say, this is historic territory for a film still more than a day away from actually playing in theaters. A reported $50-60 million of that figure comes from opening weekend alone.

Fandango and MovieTickets.com have each reported record-breaking pre-sale activity as well, but ultimately direct comparisons are approaching nil at this point.

[bjmdds]

It won't do Civil War numbers FBF. ID is not one my favorite films, in fact I waited until it was on tv to see it. Many may have liked it, but I never even watch it on reruns.

Don't be so sure. ID4 was 1996's highest grossing film so don't underestimate the aliens.

Don't underestimate Civil War either. The search for Bucky will be box office gold whereas the aliens in ID could be a tired retread film.

[dirtybenny]

Star Wars has got a lot of good reviews . Hopefully they are not the front loaded pr crap


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Multiple sources are reporting late Tuesday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has breached the $100 million box office threshold in pre-sales through the end of the year.

Needless to say, this is historic territory for a film still more than a day away from actually playing in theaters. A reported $50-60 million of that figure comes from opening weekend alone.

Fandango and MovieTickets.com have each reported record-breaking pre-sale activity as well, but ultimately direct comparisons are approaching nil at this point.

I don't know how good the film will be but they definitely nailed it on the poster! Its exciting and invokes the original while updating it to a modern standard!


Something Babzy and Eon should take note of.

[FormerBondFan]

It won't do Civil War numbers FBF. ID is not one my favorite films, in fact I waited until it was on tv to see it. Many may have liked it, but I never even watch it on reruns.

Don't be so sure. ID4 was 1996's highest grossing film so don't underestimate the aliens.

Don't underestimate Civil War either. The search for Bucky will be box office gold whereas the aliens in ID could be a tired retread film.

Obvioussly Capt will do a billions and so will the aliens.

[bjmdds]

Critics' Choice Awards 2016 nominations: Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig-----Best Actor in an Action Movie:

Daniel Craig - Spectre

Tom Cruise - Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Tom Hardy - Mad Max: Fury Road

Chris Pratt - Jurassic World

Paul Rudd - Ant-Man

[bjmdds]

Dear Mick LaSalle: I find Daniel Craig too thuggish a Bond for my tastes. He lacks suaveness and the epicurean’s delight in sensual pleasure that Sean Connery created with a twinkle in his eye. Craig’s eyes are steely, and when he wears a tux, he looks like a bulldog with a chain around its neck. There’s no whimsical mischief — he’s a gloomy Bond.
Neil Silverman, San Jose
Dear Neil Silverman: Interesting. Your description of Craig is largely accurate (except for the part about his lacking mischief), but a lot of what you see as flaws, I like. Craig’s blue-eyed stare is one of the coldest in the world, second only to Vladimir Putin’s, and he does look like a bulldog in a tuxedo, but to me that harks back to Sean Connery.

[Omega]

WTF? Connery look like his clothes fit him and he was cultured enough he might run off with you're date


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[dirtybenny]

Dear Mick LaSalle: I find Daniel Craig too thuggish a Bond for my tastes. He lacks suaveness and the epicurean’s delight in sensual pleasure that Sean Connery created with a twinkle in his eye. Craig’s eyes are steely, and when he wears a tux, he looks like a bulldog with a chain around its neck. There’s no whimsical mischief — he’s a gloomy Bond.
Neil Silverman, San Jose
Dear Neil Silverman: Interesting. Your description of Craig is largely accurate (except for the part about his lacking mischief), but a lot of what you see as flaws, I like. Craig’s blue-eyed stare is one of the coldest in the world, second only to Vladimir Putin’s, and he does look like a bulldog in a tuxedo, but to me that harks back to Sean Connery.

Mr. LaSalle is demonstrating the definition of the "Bond fan who doesn't like Bond". "I like Criag because he is everything Bond isn't". "All those things that encapsulate Bond, Craig has none and comes off as a thug, PERFECT!" Its perfectly fine not to like Bond, but to say a man who embodies none of what the character was constructed to radiate is a "great Bond" is delusional! For instance, Vladimir Putin should never be uttered in a Bond description!

As to Connery, who wore nothing but bespoke clothing in his Bond tenure as invoking the same "bulldog look" as Craig, I thing Mr. LaSalle has been watching the wrong movies, or has no clue about men's clothing, or both!

[bjmdds]

Mick LaSalle (born May 7, 1959) is an American film critic and the author of two books on pre-Hays Code Hollywood. Up to March 2008, he had written more than 1550 reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and he has been podcasting them since September 2005. James Bond returns to top form in ‘Spectre’ By Mick LaSalle: “Spectre” is the James Bond movie that fans have been waiting for ever since “Casino Royale” and Daniel Craig rebooted and rejuvenated the series nine years ago. The two films in between were fine, and yet something was missing: “Quantum of Solace” had lots of action, but no introspection; and “Skyfall” was a moody entry, without much in the way of glamour. But “Spectre” has everything anyone could possibly want in a James Bond movie. It has virtuoso action sequences, imaginatively crafted and meticulously filmed. It has two beautiful Bond women — ever since Eva Green, there are no Bond girls. It has an international conspiracy that taps into the current paranoia just as the Cold War Bond movies did in the 1960s. And it has a villain who immediately enters the pantheon, both for the way the role is written and for the way it’s played — in the latter case, by the remarkable Christoph Waltz. “Spectre” has only one drawback, an unmistakable yet localized problem that matters little in the end. It has the worst opening song in memory, a ghastly concoction sung by Sam Smith called “Writing’s on the Wall.” It should have been called “Nobody Does It Worse.”

[dirtybenny]

After reading the rest of his article, my opinion of this goof ball still stands. Just another hack who's lost as to what makes a Bond film. Case in point this remark;

"And it has a villain who immediately enters the pantheon, both for the way the role is written and for the way it’s played"

You mean Blofeld? The character who's been in the pantheon for over 50 years? Yeah I can see how he would instantly enter it, since he's already there, Nit Wit! And the fact they tacked on the oldest and most ridiculous Soap Opera trope is of no consequence ether? As far as Waltz' performance I can't think of a more bland, vanilla performance, not just for Waltz but ever. He was sleep walking right though the film. (Can't say I blame him, with this script, I'd want to pretend it was all a bad dream too) For a "professional" critic to gloss right over those two gaping holes is inexcusable! Not to mention all the other misplaced praise this philistine heaps on top! Shameful!

[bjmdds]

You wonder how this 'Imperious Curse' that Broccoli has placed on her movie going public worked? I am not interested in any movie critic's opinion because they are all of the same 'artsy' mindset. Bond should be a fun and escapism experience, not a pathologically induced nightmare by EON. If the critics hate the Connery style era, to hell with them because THAT IS what Bond should be all about.