Funny, after Sean Connery he is my favorite Bond, well until the idiots made him a politically correct, sensitive guy who got in touch with his female side. 
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Yup I want more movies about Bond saving the virginal white beauty from the clutches of those damn voodoo practising natives. By saving I mean via his pecker fyi.
On Mock the Week the other day, when they pick a random topic and the answer is given but not the question, the answer was 1.5, what is the question?
The correct answer/question is obviously the climate change goal of limiting temperature rises by 1.5C but naturally they aim for amusing questions/answers first. The one that’s stuck with me was…
How many times does James Bond say his name?
Still laughing now.
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Its great fun, Tarrantino probably wishes he made it!
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Went to see John Williams vs Hans Zimmer at the Liverpool Empire tonight. What a show. Listening to Jurassic Park, ET, Gladiator, Schindler’s list, Inception, Pirates of the Carribean, Star Wars etc live by orchestra was well worth the entry fee.
I don’t know if @cynicaloldgit has done the thread yet, but what are some of the best film scores?
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Not featured in the TAN Greatest… series of polls yet, but there’s a whole thread on film soundtracks:
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I was only asking.
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I thought Dune 2021 was a fantastic viewing experience…however. I was a bit perplexed that PE Shadam IV failed to make an appearence, as he loomed large in Lynch’s 1984 epic. Ditto Feyd Rautha. The Beast Raban featured quite noticably, so why not his sibling? Spice Guild operatives got next to no screen time - they must have had lousy agents I guess.
Maybe all will be made clear in part 2, if it actually gets made. I really hope so.
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I listened to really interesting podcast the other day (probably a subject for a different thread) about the different attitudes of Herbert and Villeneuve in putting the work into understanding middle eastern stories prior to undertaking the project. However, a lot of the conversation was predicated on something in the film I did not catch. Paul chooses his path in part due to the Spice fueled visions he has after escaping from the Harkonens. The people in this podcast claimed that not only were some of these images false, but the fact they were false plays a big part in understanding the narrative. I didnt catch if they meant we as viewers were supposed to know they were false or that Paul knew they were, and dodnt even know which images they are talking about.
Any ideas on this?
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That part confused me a bit as well, they most likely referred to visions including Jamis teaching him and Chani stabbing him. These will prove wrong but the visions of him leading universe-wide Jihad will likely prove right if I remember correctly.
On @FadeToBlack’s note, I wish the movie was an hour longer, I can’t remember passing time so quickly while watching any film. Regular movie-going fans would be up in arms if that happened, though, and there will be no retrospective extended cut should the trilogy of films come to pass as well, which I’m fine with… As long as there are two more films, each at least three hour long. 
(Cool nickname, by the way, I wonder if it’s in B minor. 
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Finally watched the original Blade Runner last night. Thought provoking to say the least.
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I haven’t watched that in years. I’ve got the Blu ray disc; that’s going on after the racing today. 
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Watched Ad Astra (Brad Pitt) last night and didn’t think much of it to be honest. Nice visuals etc. But I couldn’t get this nagging feeling out of my mind for most of it that it reminded me of something else. It then dawned on me. It seems to borrow a lot of ideas from Apocalypse Now but isn’t anywhere at the same level. Not sure if I missed any key messages but it just didn’t strike me as that good.
Snap, music is really good. Not so sure about the story but I enjoyed it.
The actual original or one of the other six versions?
I actually prefer the version with Deckard’s commentary overlaying the story. Gave it a Raymond Chandler vibe for me. Apparently Sir Ridley hated it, which partly explains the several other versions he put out.
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Just seen the new bond movie, my take is a fantastic first half to the movie, average second half.
For a while I was thinking this was best movie I had seen this year, just a pity it was not as sharp and punchy towards the end.
Probably the third best Daniel Craig movie after Casino Royale and Sky Fall.
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I thought it was a good Bond movie but not a great “overall” movie. It comes third in my book, too (though Skyfall is my favourite of Craig’s Bond movies). Malek’s acting qualities deserve a more nuanced character development, I thought the writers couldn’t be bothered about the villain and decided to base the whole movie around Bond and Madeleine. Ending actually improved the movie for me but there were too many cliches in smaller details for my liking.
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It’s a shame it didn’t have more of Ana de Armas. She was fantastic a great Bond girl. She had great chemistry with Craig and was a character you cared about.
I didn’t really care that much about the girl friend and her daughter. I don’t think they really added much. I guess that’s why I didn’t like the ending so much.
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