Also just watched Gunpowder Milkshake on Sky.
Nice to see an empowering movie about kick ass women that didn’t feel like it had any kind of agenda behind it.
Watched The Many Saints of Newark at the weekend. The prequel to the Sopranos tv show.
I came away feeling a bit disappointed. Almost seems like this film is the setup for one or two more to come. I guess though that The Sopranos is a tough act to follow.
James Gandolfini’s son plays the young Tony Soprano - the apple did not fall far from the tree there. Vera Farmiga does an excellent job of recreating Tony’s mother - possibly one of the most hateful women characters ever depicted on screen.
It’s worth a look if you are a fan of the TV series.
Just watched No Time to Die, well they have totally fucked that up, it has become a chick’s flick, full of cheap sentiment, a little girl, and a PC black female 007.
I’m done with that shit.
Currently watching The Harder They Fall on Netflix. Pretty good fun so far.
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Yeah no surprise but it is next on my film watch list even though I can’t stand Craig. Good riddance and looking forward to a new Bond.
Meanwhile Oasis Knebworth was fabulous in the Cinema. Liam sledging United was gold but I still rock out to Cigs and Alcohol, Acquiesce and live forever.
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There was a Bond character called ‘Pussy Galore’. The Bond movies were never taken that seriously earlier. It’s a relatively new phenomenon, which frankly is super boring considering how many better serious spy movies have been made.
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I guess Bond was a man of his generation. A bit of a dinosaur now. The handsome, heavy smoking, hard-drinking, womanising hero who could handle himself in a fistfight but was driven by duty, service, and self-belief.
As Kingsley Amiss comented -
“We don’t want to have Bond to dinner or go golfing with Bond or talk to Bond. We want to be Bond,”
Oh and the cars, those lovely, beautiful cars.
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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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