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superaielman · « **Reply #1125 on:** August 17, 2010, 04:30:34 AM »

Scott Pilgrim was pretty awesome.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #1126 on:** August 17, 2010, 04:38:52 AM »

What they said. Seconding Wallace hype in particular. Otherwise, a very fun genre-mashup and while its humour didn't work 100% of the time, it worked often enough that I had a lot of fun.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #1127 on:** August 17, 2010, 07:44:17 AM »

Scott Pilgrim: 0/10. What bullshit. When Scott Patel was defeated he was supposed to drop $2.10 and Ramona offered to lend 15 cents. In the movie, it was 2.30 and 45 cents. This change was inexcusable and represented a complete rape of the source material.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1128 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:57:29 PM »

Quote from: Captain K. on August 15, 2010, 12:28:25 AM

Scott Pilgrim: is awesome. You're welcome.

Memes aside, I don't think I stopped smiling throughout the movie. Great ensemble casting, everyone does a fantastic job. Kieran Culkin does steal the show as gay roommate Wallace though.

Seriously the best comedy I've seen in ages. Very consistent state of humorousness (even when doing other genres), unlike damn near everything which is focused on one or two key sequences.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1129 on:** August 17, 2010, 10:32:55 PM »

Quote from: AndrewRogue on August 17, 2010, 07:44:17 AM

Scott Pilgrim: 0/10. What bullshit. When Scott Patel was defeated he was supposed to drop $2.10 and Ramona offered to lend 15 cents. In the movie, it was 2.30 and 45 cents. This change was inexcusable and represented a complete rape of the source material.

It's Matthew Patel you douche. Your typos are ruining my internet.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #1130 on:** August 18, 2010, 07:56:06 AM »

SUICIDE. MY ONLY OPTION.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1131 on:** August 18, 2010, 10:11:44 PM »

Scott Pilgrim: Yeah, what basically others said. Went in expecting to be mildly entertained, ended up finding the whole thing hilarious.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #1132 on:** August 18, 2010, 10:55:29 PM »

The movie isn't perfect - in particular, I thought it did a notably poor job of getting me to actually sympathise with Scott himself. From what I read of the comic (which admittedly wasn't much), it didn't really have this problem, which makes me inclined to blame Michael Cera. If serious plot were the point of the movie, this could actually be a major flaw. As is, SCOTT PILGRIM SERIOUS PLOT.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1133 on:** August 18, 2010, 11:05:09 PM »

Scott Pilgrim. Awesome movie. Although, I do agree with:

Quote from: Dark Holy Elf on August 18, 2010, 10:55:29 PM

The movie isn't perfect - in particular [...] Michael Cera.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1134 on:** August 19, 2010, 08:57:15 AM »

The Expendables- The only way I can think of to improve this movie is to have Dolph Lundgren wear a mesh tanktop and smell crime. But then I guess you didn't make The Expendables, you made Crime Stinks: The Smell of Penetration: He Nose the Truth.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1135 on:** August 20, 2010, 01:33:30 AM »

So, I am planning on watching some Bond on my trip. Any suggestions for a good 'old' Bond and a good 'new' Bond?

Grefter · « **Reply #1136 on:** August 20, 2010, 01:40:00 AM »

Moonraker and The World is Not Enough, because you need camp cheese Bond.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1137 on:** August 20, 2010, 01:53:27 AM »

*eyes Grefter* These sound like NITORI suggestions

Shale · « **Reply #1138 on:** August 20, 2010, 02:17:12 AM »

New Bond: Casino Royale or Goldeneye. License to Kill if you've seen both.

Old Bond: From Russia With Love. Connery's best.

Sierra · « **Reply #1139 on:** August 20, 2010, 02:41:09 AM »

Those are very, very Nitori suggestions, yes. The World is Not Enough is the dullest Bond movie I've seen (despite getting one of the best theme songs). Moonraker is late seventies cheese trying to capitalize on the success of Star Wars. Actual recommendations:

New? Casino Royale, yeah. Excellent reboot, threw out most of what I disliked about the Brosnan movies. Best one in the series that I've seen. Quantum of Solace is not as good but solid and worth watching if you like Casino Royale.

I have seen only an uneven smattering of older Bond movies. Enough to know that Connery movies > Moore movies, at least. Goldfinger was alright and is pretty iconic as these things go. I should probably watch the rest of the early Connery ones one of these days.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1140 on:** August 20, 2010, 02:47:20 AM »

I admit I am naturally biased toward Connery and Bros due to hotness. I may try Casino Royale after Goldeneye anyway (I think the person who is watching the movies with me has already seen it.)

The only Bond movie I've seen is Tomorrow Never Dies, which fucking sucked.

Sierra · « **Reply #1141 on:** August 20, 2010, 02:59:45 AM »

Brosnan really looks the part, just didn't get a great selection of movies in my opinion (I only saw Goldeneye once when it was new and don't remember it well, but consensus seems to be that it's the best of the lot). I didn't think Tomorrow Never Dies was terrible but may have been too busy staring at Michelle Yeoh to notice the stupid.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #1142 on:** August 20, 2010, 06:54:06 AM »

Tomorrow Never Dies is the only Brosnan film I particularly disliked. The villain and his plan are laughably bad (which is a shame, since something better could probably have been done with the core ideas there) and the movie had nothing done notably well to recommend it. TWINE... I can see how someone would rate it the worst, but I think it does one thing very well (Sophie Marceau's character) and that's enough for me, even if the rest is a bit of a mess (Denise Richards' nukular physicist deserves a special facepalm).

Shale's recommendations are pretty swell. I'd mention Goldfinger in the same breath as From Russia but otherwise everything he said goes for my opinions too.

Also, good theme songs tend to have rather little correlation with good movies, in the case of the Bond series. Live and Let Die is easily my least favourite movie in the series, yet that song rocks.

Sierra · « **Reply #1143 on:** August 20, 2010, 07:45:52 AM »

It is a great song. Personal preference is You Know My Name (from Casino Royale) for best Bond theme, though.

Grefter · « **Reply #1144 on:** August 20, 2010, 09:40:51 AM »

Pffft, fools not understanding there being two sides to the Bond coin. There is super serious and then there is the absurd, TWINE and Moonraker are both the epitomy of absurdity, especially Moonraker. Sure it was a cash grab, but it was a BOND cash grab. It climaxes with a confrontation with Jaws the man with metal teeth on a space station, Bond convincing him to switch sides, dumping the villain out of an air locker, both Bond and Jaws getting hot chicks to have sweet making fuck with and then Bond shags a chick during reentry. Moonraker is a fucking masterpiece it is the epitome of 1970s holywood cinema, it is nonsensical in the ways that all the best 70s cinema is and chock full of excess in ways that only Holywood can do. It is probably Roger Moore's best film.

If you want a good time you could go with A View To A Kill, that movie pretty much sucks and is a crappy Moore movie then you have CHRISTOPHER WALKEN SCENE and then you go back to sleep, it bounces around between WALKEN WALKEN WALKEN and majour snooze.

If you want to be a big baby and watch serious Bond movies then you will want Casino Royale and I would honestly go with You Only Live Twice. With that you have Connery with 5 other Bond roles under his belt, you get Blofeld who is fucking awesome and to top it all off the screenplay was written by Roald Dahl of all people.

Alternately if you are going for the sexy well then you want Thunderball for incredibly obvious reasons.

Fuck. Yes.

Aaaaaalllllternately, if you are going to be binging on a LOT of Bond, make sure you ignore all the complaints about On Her Majesty's Secret Service and watch it for yourself. For all the issues there is to the movie, George Lazenby was not it and it is really a shame he only had that one honestly pretty shitty script to get to do his work as Bond. A lot of the darker serious Bond stuff you will find later after the much more camp Roger Moore years stems from Lazenby's take on Bond. OHMSS may be a bad Bond movie because it has Bond getting married, on the other hand it also is really freaking brutal and ends with her being gunned down in front of him. If you think the ending of Casino Royale is harsh and brutal it has NOTHING on OHMSS which has credits rolling as Bond clutches his newly wed wife's still warm corpse.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1145 on:** August 20, 2010, 11:54:44 PM »

Live and Let Die is my favorite Bond movie. It's that cheesy 70s stuff but not so cheesy as to be campy. Plus Jane Seymour is fucking gorgeous in that movie.

Also seconding On Her Majesty's Secret Service hype, very underrated part of the franchise.

superaielman · « **Reply #1146 on:** August 22, 2010, 12:23:58 AM »

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

Tide · « **Reply #1147 on:** August 22, 2010, 12:43:54 AM »

Quote from: El Cideon on August 20, 2010, 07:45:52 AM

It is a great song. Personal preference is You Know My Name (from Casino Royale) for best Bond theme, though.

Yes. That song is awesome.

Anyway, I only watched 'New' Bond. Goldeneye and Casino Royale are indeed both good and worth a watch if you want to watch more Bond. If you want ridiculous stupid you could also watch Die Another Day if only because the cloaking car chase scene was just *psyduck*.

Soctt Pilgrim:
And movies, right. I went and watched Scott Pilgrim today with a friend. There really is nothing much else to add. I loved it. I didn't read the comics, but the movie on its standalone is pretty awesome still. Has some of the problems NEB mentioned, but what I like I about it is just that its fun. The action keeps on rolling, the jokes are pretty witty and it doesn't tend to slow down all that much. Which is nice for this type of movie. The aesthetics are also godlike.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1148 on:** August 22, 2010, 07:13:44 AM »

Quote from: superaielman on August 22, 2010, 12:23:58 AM

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

If you made a poll of this (at least on the DL), I'd imagine 75% would say the say choice was in the other direction!

Sierra · « **Reply #1149 on:** August 22, 2010, 07:27:12 AM »

I am personally boggling at the aiel's decision here and I don't even really like action movies much. There are just few things more barf-inducing than Julia Roberts romcom.

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