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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff

    Brilliant stuff Barbel. It is a tragic unfulfilled wish that on the set of Star Wars Lee and Ewan McGregor were never shown together involved in a card game of some kind, with the latter prevaricating, so Lee could utter the immortal words once again: 'Come McGregor, it's a game of chance!'

    (Wicker Man btw)

    :)) :)) :))
  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
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    This movie is cosmic horror at its finest, and I wont be forgetting that bear scene anytime soon.
  • SpectreOfDefeatSpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent
    A double bill of Bond parodies:


    LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (2003)
    A metafictional comedy in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with animated characters interacting with live-action sets. While some of the breathless pop-culture references feel very early 2000s, such as the running gags about Brendan Fraser, the film partially redeems itself with a strong sense of visual humour and the added bonus of Bond parody elements thrown into the mix, with a cameo appearance from Timothy Dalton as a suave superspy. Worth watching if you’re in the mood for some cartoon nostalgia, or if you just want to see James Bond interact with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.


    GRIMSBY (2016)
    Sacha Baron Cohen goes off the rails in a crass and distasteful spy spoof, playing a hard-drinking football fan pressed into service for Her Majesty alongside Mark Strong, who essentially reprises his secret agent sidekick role from Kingsman. Little more than a succession of badly executed cringe comedy skits, with overtones of uncomfortable sneering at working-class stereotypes. The Bond parody jokes are ripped verbatim from a variety of better films, with material recognisably borrowed from Austin Powers and Johnny English. By turns nausea-inducing, hackneyed and dull, this fails both as a Sacha Baron Cohen project and as a 007 satire. Avoid at all costs...

    "The spectre of defeat..."

  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Operation Crossbow (1965)

    WWII film where the Allies send spies to check out German rocket development. Bond-like in places. A couple of scenes reminded me of Moonraker, the novel.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Had so much fun tonight watching Airport 75, as because of the "Airplane" films it's so
    unintentionally Funny. With all the expected stereotypical characters. The singing Nun,
    The sick Kid etc :D
    I actually first saw this film around 1979 or so, In my school when we had a film club
    which would hire a film and show it on the lecture hall film projector. We only had the one
    projector, so had a break between changing reels.
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  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    Had so much fun tonight watching Airport 75, as because of the "Airplane" films it's so
    unintentionally Funny. With all the expected stereotypical characters. The singing Nun,
    The sick Kid etc :D
    I actually first saw this film around 1979 or so, In my school when we had a film club
    which would hire a film and show it on the lecture hall film projector. We only had the one
    projector, so had a break between changing reels.

    That was like what Austin Powers did to James Bond. "Why don't you just kill him?' :))
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) " Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit watching disaster movies "
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    The connection between "Airplane" and the "Airport" movies is complex and (hopefully) quite interesting.

    In the 1950s Arthur Hailey wrote a TV script called "Flight Into Danger" which was

    (a) Adapted into a feature film called "Zero Hour". Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker much later bought the rights to this to use as the basis for their film "Airplane". The parallels are very close- see

    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=zero+hour+film&&view=detail&mid=B1FB0EC38BAF6254091CB1FB0EC38BAF6254091C&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dzero%2Bhour%2Bfilm%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

    - right down to character names (eg Ted Stryker). It's almost impossible to watch "Zero Hour" nowadays and take it seriously. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

    (b) Adapted into a novel "Flight Into Danger" by John Castle (actually two writers). Hailey was not impressed with the result, and began to write his own novels- one of which was "Airport" which was successfully filmed and led to sequels, one of which was mentioned above and also provided influence for "Airplane".

    I saw "Airplane" in the cinema on its original release and laughed so hard I was physically sore afterwards! I had to go back and see it again to catch the jokes I had missed through laughing so much.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Back when I was a teen and very much in to Martial Arts, I loved all those
    Movies {[] and still wonder how George Lazenby's career may have been
    if he'd been able to do some films with Bruce Lee, as they were due to meet
    on the day of his death.
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  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    Hidden Figures 2016

    Based on the true story of three African-American women who worked for NASA as mathematicians, in the early 1960s. An inspiring film showing how important these women were in the space race with Russia and the discrimination they faced.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Not a movie I've seen, but I movie I plan to watch. Mission Impossible 7 will film scenes in Møre and Romsdal county in Norway in late August. Exemptions were given to the corona restrictions for the production after Tom Cruise phoned the Minister of Culture. At first it was reported that there are plans to shoot parts of MI8 in Bergen, but this was only the minister's suggestion.
    It looks like the filming for MI7 will be in Rauma municipality and location and movie oficials've been in contact with local authorities, but nothing is confirmed. The Trollveggen ("Troll wall") The Troll wall is the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, about 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) from its base to the summit of its highest point. At its steepest, the summit ridge overhangs the base of the wall by nearly 50 metres (160 ft). This area could have been a prime location for a Bond movie, but once again they are too late.
    Will Tom Cruise parachute off Trollveggen in august?

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    The billion dollar brain (1967)

    I've watched all the other Harry Palmer movies earlier, but for some reason I've haven't seen this one before. I shame. really. It's a good cold war thriller and Michael Caine is great in it. One wonders why they cast a French actress as a woman from Finnland - the accents are very different. And the edges of broken ice is light blue, not brown. These are of course only details. A more important question is: Is this movie too Bondian? There is a number of elements that remind me more of James Bond movies than it resembles the two previous Harry Palmer movies. In my opinion it is near the edge of going too far, but it still works.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    The Vikings (1958)

    It's perhaps even more surprising that I've never before watched this Hollywood movie. It's even filmed in Hardanger in Norway, back when big American productions could film large parts of the action in this country. I still stand by my opinion that no good viking film has been made, at least if you have higher standards for historical accuracy than Mel Gibson. But the plot and cast of The Vikings is good, and all I had to do to enjoy it was to pretend I know next to nothing about Norse culture. Fun fact: Kirk Douglas is still the only Hollywood star to have made two movies in Norway (other than Liv Ullmann), but Tom Cruise will share the first place with Kirk from the end of August.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,239MI6 Agent
    Rough Night

    Or Rough Film, really. Scarlett Johannsson takes the lead in the bachelorette party comedy in which school friends reunite in their late 20s or early 30s for an out of town party before she ties the knot.
    Things take a fatal twist early on but the problem is the death is done so well, so effectively mundane and horrible that it casts a pall over the proceedings. It reminds me of a notorious British film some years ago called Donkey Punch where a group of lads and lasses find one girl dies during a sex 'game' or manoeuvre while on a yacht at sea and things go from bad to worse. This, however, is meant to be a comedy but the tone just isn't quite right for that Weekend at Bernie's thing. It's a hen night, so one has to ask 'Am I being sexist here? Would I think it okay if it were a bunch of lads in the same spot?' but if the gender roles were reversed here, the film would not even get a release as it would be deemed so horrible and sexist.
    It might also tag on the Bridesmaids success but there isn't a gross out moment in the film - actually an oversight, because gross out comedies do unite the audience in its reaction, a valuable asset. It's the same reason Xmas cracker gags are made deliberately bad - because if everyone groans at them, it unites the party, whereas not everyone will get or like a good joke. I learnt that from a rerun of the BBC's QI.
    The 'OMG I can't believe I'm going along with this!' vibe isn't present for this film. None of them are really quite comic actors, which harms it too.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    "Just a little tip " .... I've often heard of a dark night, ;) but a tip for anyone looking
    a bargain I've just got the HD version of Where Eagles Dare on Amazon Prime for
    only £3.99 -{ At first I was unsure of buying as Number24 has pointed out it may
    not be 100% historically correct. Which for me is usually a must in my movie collection
    of War Documentaries such as Pearl Harbour, Carry on Sargent and Which Way to the Front?
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited July 2020
    I really shouldn't have revealed that Where Eagles Dare isn't 100% historically accurate. After all the main reason people watch that movie is historical accuracy. Historical correctnes means a lot to me and Mel.

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) ........ I'm watching it now ;)
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    The novel is much better, IMHO- please have a go at reading it and see how the film should have been.

    A memory from watching the film with my family, when I was a boy:

    (One of the party falls down a sheer drop and is clinging on desperately.)
    Brother: Is that rock?
    Father: It's solid ice!
    Brother: No, Rock Hudson!
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    As a huge McGoohan fan since childhood, I've seen Ice Station Zebra many times. The early scenes really effectively build the tension and is at its best in the underwater scenes, particularly the attempted sabotage. Sadly the producers wanted a 'bigger' climax than the novel, which is a shame as the novel is one of Alistair Maclean's best and the ending is a cracker. Patrick McGoohan though us the best thing about it and one can easily see how good he would have been as James Bond.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    (One of the party falls down a sheer drop and is clinging on desperately.)
    Brother: Is that rock?
    Father: It's solid ice!
    Brother: No, Rock Hudson!

    :)) :)) :)) Did you have a similar conversation when Honour Blackman came on screen in Goldfinger? :D
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    (One of the party falls down a sheer drop and is clinging on desperately.)
    Brother: Is that rock?
    Father: It's solid ice!
    Brother: No, Rock Hudson!

    :)) :)) :)) Did you have a similar conversation when Honour Blackman came on screen in Goldfinger? :D

    Alas, no!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    The best years of our lives (1946)

    If you don't know this movie I can say it's a bout three servicemen returning home after WWII and their struggles to adjust to civiian life. William Wyler directed it, a director best known for Ben Hur. Wyler hired ex-servicemen for both cast and crew for "The Best years of our lives", including Harold Russell who last both his hands during his military service and plays one of the leads. This is a high quality drama about an important subject and it doesn't shy away from some some of the darker side of being a veteran and it's very different from all the other American WWII movies from that age that I've seen.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 )

    Great boys own adventure stuff, lots of action with the Nazi's as the villains {[]
    I read in some of the IMDB Trivia that Ingrid Pitt said the film was harder for her
    to film, than she thought it would. As she'd been a survivor of the Death Camps.
    Sometimes it's frightening to think it wasn't all that long ago.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    On a somewhat similar theme to Gymkata's Guns of Navarone viewing, I watched Escape to Athena last night - another WWI action-adventure yarn set in the Greek islands, and even has David Niven too. Perhaps of most interest to Bond fans is that Roger Moore plays the German commandant of a POW camp in which the prisoners are digging up archaeological relics. Telly Savalas also stars as a local Greek resistance operator. Besides the POW camp and the archaeological aspects, the plot also involves a U-Boat refueling depot and and a 2 rocket launching site hidden inside a monastery. It's not as a action packed as the likes of the Navarone films or Where Eagles Dare and it's all a load of nonsense really, but humourous, fun and I enjoyed it.
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    I watched KNIVES OUT recently.

    Very Agatha Christie but very watchable. Really enjoyed Daniel Craig and his southern drawl. Don Johnson is actually a very good actor and Jamie Lee Curtis is always good value.

    I just absolutely adore Christopher Plummer though. I can't believe he is 90 and still turning in top notch performances. What a legend. Had a bit of a crush on him since Sound of Music Days . A very handsome man with amazing presence.
  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    I enjoyed Knives Out too. There was talk about Daniel Craig playing Detective Benoit Blanc in a second film.

    Have you watched The Scarlet and the Black? It’s a tv film with Christopher Plummer and Gregory Peck. (1983). Based on a true story from WWII. Very good film.
  • Lady RoseLady Rose London,UKPosts: 2,667MI6 Agent
    I enjoyed Knives Out too. There was talk about Daniel Craig playing Detective Benoit Blanc in a second film.

    Have you watched The Scarlet and the Black? It’s a tv film with Christopher Plummer and Gregory Peck. (1983). Based on a true story from WWII. Very good film.

    I have indeed, though it's quite a while since I've seen it. I may rewatch it now you've mentioned it.

    I absolutely love Gregory Peck. Him and Christopher Plummer are definitely at the very top of my favourite actors.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The Mummy 1959

    Another Classic from Hammer, with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
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  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 3,907MI6 Agent
    edited August 2020
    A Boy and His Dog
    mid70s post-apocalyptic sci-fi, based on a story by Harlan Ellison.
    Stars teenage Don Johnson as Vic, and Tiger from the Brady Bunch as Blood.

    I like sci-fi of this period, low-budget cynical extrapolations of our probable future, before Star Wars came along with its bigbudget escapist fantasy version.

    Story follows the amazing adventures of Vic and Blood, who wander a typical radioactive wasteland following the events of World War IV (which lasted five days).
    Blood is telepathic, and can sense and identify other humans from a distance. But for this (mutant?) gift, he has lost the ability to find food. Which is why he partners with the teenage human Vic, who finds food for Blood, and Blood finds women for Vic.
    But the latest woman Blood has found is different from all the others, wow, she actually likes to do "it", even more than Vic does! whats's going on? she has plans for Vic too, she's not from the surface, she's from Downunder, a place Vic then enters, leaving his faithful dog behind as he joins the grown-up world (getting a bit metaphorical here is this story structure).

    Downunder is the typical underground city as always seen in such early70s sci-fi, where the more privileged survivors live on in a mutated version of a smalltown Thornton Wilder style society, all perpetual hardware stores church meetings and high school pep rallies, all very Baptist and Republican. Come to think of it, wasn't the freedom of the radioactive surface wasteland preferable to a secure future such as this?

    It's available for free streaming on the Shout! Factory dvd website, which I assume is official and OK to link to.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Knives Out,
    Fantastic cast in a modern whodunit ( although to fans of the genre, not too difficult to solve )
    well worth a watch. -{
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