The Look of Love is great, and the theme song catchy, but the rest of the score is just awful, sort of would-be humorous and groovy, but actually really square. CR would be fun but the first 45 minutes with a stuttering David Niven are incredibly naff and puts one off.
And yet you reference the film in your signature...not quite a direct copy of the lines from the film, but very close...I think you must like it more than you let on :v
Nah, that's a mickey take of the other Casino Royale, the idea of having a Mathis who is Italian, not French. You're the first to reference my sig...
And it's not a bad line in the 67 film, sort of witty, except it's then followed immediately by that awful kind of sassy, swaggering brass cue, killing any humour stone dead. It's also used when 'Coop' has to audition women by snogging them, just toe curling.
"This is where we leave you Mr Bond."
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Sir MilesThe Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,927Chief of Staff
It's a great film...and it was (at least) six directors B-)
For some reason not all of them wanted a credit mention
You've got to be joking, Sir Miles!?
Plus, what's another director between friends - who's countin'? )
No I'm not...I think it has some fabulous parts to it...and I do really enjoy it -{
The spoof version is OK. I don't hate it all - as a spoof on the then current Bond films it is spot-on in a few scenes. The part where a casino teller asks for James Bond's autograph and the defends himself by (I think) saying that it was for his younger brother is indeed brilliant considering how many times ordinary people seem to know of James Bond as a secret agent in the official EON films - DAF, AVTAK, TLD, TMWTGG, MR, DAD etc. spring to mind in this regard.
As a review I once read said, "You can't spoof a spoof." How true!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Plus, what's another director between friends - who's countin'? )
No I'm not...I think it has some fabulous parts to it...and I do really enjoy it -{
considering how many times ordinary people seem to know of James Bond as a secret agent in the official EON films - DAF, AVTAK, TLD, TMWTGG, MR, DAD etc. spring to mind in this regard.
TMWTGG suffers the most from this. "Not many people don't know bond either. SECRET agent, 007, licence to kill" - Hypocrisy right there ) (Although I don't know if that is word for word, but the same point still stands anyway)
No I'm not...I think it has some fabulous parts to it...and I do really enjoy it -{
considering how many times ordinary people seem to know of James Bond as a secret agent in the official EON films - DAF, AVTAK, TLD, TMWTGG, MR, DAD etc. spring to mind in this regard.
TMWTGG suffers the most from this. "Not many people don't know bond either. SECRET agent, 007, licence to kill" - Hypocrisy right there ) (Although I don't know if that is word for word, but the same point still stands anyway)
Yes, but DAF and AVTAK have the "Oh! James Bond!" element of unbelievability.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
considering how many times ordinary people seem to know of James Bond as a secret agent in the official EON films - DAF, AVTAK, TLD, TMWTGG, MR, DAD etc. spring to mind in this regard.
TMWTGG suffers the most from this. "Not many people don't know bond either. SECRET agent, 007, licence to kill" - Hypocrisy right there ) (Although I don't know if that is word for word, but the same point still stands anyway)
Yes, but DAF and AVTAK have the "Oh! James Bond!" element of unbelievability.
Actually yeah, DAF's "Oh my god, you just killed James Bond" is pretty ridiculous lol.
Can't remember any scenes like that in AVTAK though.... there's the Dick Tracey line, but I saw that as the cop relating it to secret agents in general rather than James Bond the person
Glad im not the only one who hated AVATAR (Daltonfan 1)
this bloke turns up in a wheel chair then they come up with all this super
dooper technical gizmos ,body transformation robotic suits ,with me so far
but they cant cure this poor sod in a 3 spoke wheel chair ,i would have thought
that in thousands of years in the future ,disability would be a thing of the very past
after all there were no wheel chairs in star trek
By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
PPK 7.65mmSaratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,256MI6 Agent
@96mn12 I was only 12 when I saw the Brady Bunch Movie, so I doubt that I had high expextations going in the cinema that Saturday. As long we are talking bad movies, here are some others I that have watched:
Charlie' Angels: Biggest waste of time and money in modern cinema. The Jokes were as stale as old bread, and this movie did not deserve a squeal at all.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Biggest slap in the face ever for anyone who is a big Turtles fan like me. I remember it was one of the only times in my young life I left the cinema disapointed.
Batman and Robin: Nothing but a really expensive toy commerical, mixed in with poor jokes.
Men In Black II: A very poor follow up to a decent comedy.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Bad plot, lousy jokes, and I have heard that William Shatner( who directed this stinker) made the cast shoot multiple takes of various scenes when it was not needed. Definatly a jump the shark moment on the part of Paramount Pictures.
Thunderbird 2East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
I didn't like Mallrats or The Big Leoboski. I bought both films on the understanding that they were cult classics and I soon discovered that neither was funny.
Silhouette ManThe last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,866MI6 Agent
Die Another Day, Diamonds Are Forever and You Only Live Twice are my Bond picks - God awful.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Without a doubt Buried with Ryan Reynolds. It's literally over an hour and a half of himself buried alive in a coffin somewhere in the middle east with a phone that miraculously gets reception six feet under and *spoiler alert* he dies in the end! Nearly two hours of my life I will never get back and I don't say that often! X-(
"You were fantastic! We're free!"
"Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan."
Irreversible it pissed me off to no end someone would make an evil POS movie like that. The only other one I can think of (Because I do take pleasure in bad movies or exploitation films of the 60' thru the 80's) is this Canadian comedy I saw once called Moving Violations which was a Police Academy rip off which made me physically angry in how unfunny it was kinda like CR 67.
I dunno really which one it was but seeing as all of that crap is the same I guess they just took a usual cack episode (cack being the premium grade of storyline) and strung it along for an extra couple of hours et voila, a 'movie'. One woman acts all deep and meaningful while trying to get laid, her shy mate squeals whenever anyone says ****, her anorexic ginger mate gets preggers again (I think) by her nu yoiker bf, and the old hag who played valaris in Star Trek stuffs as much gentleman sausage into each and every orifice on her ageing knackered out figure.
Oh and I think someone gets married after having a tiff over what colour the flowers in the bridesmaids hair should be, typical girl stuff.
All in all, 3hrs or so of my life I'll never get back, but it made the missus happy.
The only other film that was as bad was one of them twilight things. I've no idea which one, but after going to the flicks to see it I refused to see any more. I'm sat in a cinema with hundreds of teenage girls who are simply there for the eye candy (can't blame them, the storyline is **** ****) and at the point someone takes their shirt off the whole cinema erupts into coos, sighs, shrieks and moans of affection for whoever the shirt remover was. It wouldn't have been so bad if the silly bitches hadnt woken me up.
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And yet you reference the film in your signature...not quite a direct copy of the lines from the film, but very close...I think you must like it more than you let on :v
And it's not a bad line in the 67 film, sort of witty, except it's then followed immediately by that awful kind of sassy, swaggering brass cue, killing any humour stone dead. It's also used when 'Coop' has to audition women by snogging them, just toe curling.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Well...perhaps I'm the only one whom likes CR67 enough to watch it more than once
The spoof version is OK. I don't hate it all - as a spoof on the then current Bond films it is spot-on in a few scenes. The part where a casino teller asks for James Bond's autograph and the defends himself by (I think) saying that it was for his younger brother is indeed brilliant considering how many times ordinary people seem to know of James Bond as a secret agent in the official EON films - DAF, AVTAK, TLD, TMWTGG, MR, DAD etc. spring to mind in this regard.
As a review I once read said, "You can't spoof a spoof." How true!
Ah, the late great John Brosnan and James Bond in the Cinema.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Was that who it was - I read it in a TV guide in 1997!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I got that book only last year, so forgive my ignorance!
TMWTGG suffers the most from this. "Not many people don't know bond either. SECRET agent, 007, licence to kill" - Hypocrisy right there
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
Yes, but DAF and AVTAK have the "Oh! James Bond!" element of unbelievability.
Actually yeah, DAF's "Oh my god, you just killed James Bond" is pretty ridiculous lol.
Can't remember any scenes like that in AVTAK though.... there's the Dick Tracey line, but I saw that as the cop relating it to secret agents in general rather than James Bond the person
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
I'm donning my Kevlar vest as I type
Here goes - I just don't "get" Sellers
However, Welles was great, just a bit ahead of his time
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Roger Moore 1927-2017
(Always the same, Thunderbird 2 has to tidy up the emergency calls FAB 1 won't touch!
this bloke turns up in a wheel chair then they come up with all this super
dooper technical gizmos ,body transformation robotic suits ,with me so far
but they cant cure this poor sod in a 3 spoke wheel chair ,i would have thought
that in thousands of years in the future ,disability would be a thing of the very past
after all there were no wheel chairs in star trek
Charlie' Angels: Biggest waste of time and money in modern cinema. The Jokes were as stale as old bread, and this movie did not deserve a squeal at all.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Biggest slap in the face ever for anyone who is a big Turtles fan like me. I remember it was one of the only times in my young life I left the cinema disapointed.
Batman and Robin: Nothing but a really expensive toy commerical, mixed in with poor jokes.
Men In Black II: A very poor follow up to a decent comedy.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Bad plot, lousy jokes, and I have heard that William Shatner( who directed this stinker) made the cast shoot multiple takes of various scenes when it was not needed. Definatly a jump the shark moment on the part of Paramount Pictures.
Er, not quite.
ST - TOS
& Film 11 - Admiral Christopher Pike "The Menagerie" & Final scene at Starfleet Academy
ST TNG - Admiral Mark Jameson "Too Short A Season"
ST DS9 - Ensign Melora Palzar "Melora"
ST ENT - Dr Emory Erickson "Daedalus"
But your point re Avatar is a valid one!
i shall omit star trek as a reference from my next
blokes down the pub chit chat
"Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan."
I dunno really which one it was but seeing as all of that crap is the same I guess they just took a usual cack episode (cack being the premium grade of storyline) and strung it along for an extra couple of hours et voila, a 'movie'. One woman acts all deep and meaningful while trying to get laid, her shy mate squeals whenever anyone says ****, her anorexic ginger mate gets preggers again (I think) by her nu yoiker bf, and the old hag who played valaris in Star Trek stuffs as much gentleman sausage into each and every orifice on her ageing knackered out figure.
Oh and I think someone gets married after having a tiff over what colour the flowers in the bridesmaids hair should be, typical girl stuff.
All in all, 3hrs or so of my life I'll never get back, but it made the missus happy.
The only other film that was as bad was one of them twilight things. I've no idea which one, but after going to the flicks to see it I refused to see any more. I'm sat in a cinema with hundreds of teenage girls who are simply there for the eye candy (can't blame them, the storyline is **** ****) and at the point someone takes their shirt off the whole cinema erupts into coos, sighs, shrieks and moans of affection for whoever the shirt remover was. It wouldn't have been so bad if the silly bitches hadnt woken me up.
The things we do for the Missus huh
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