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adg211288 wrote:

Decided I should get to know older Bond a bit better.

This wouldn't have been my first choice to check out since it's not one of the best regarded ones, but it was the one they put on TV this week. Actually I quite enjoyed it, though some parts were especially corny.

Funnily enough, this is next on my Bond vs Kirk watch list. I have never seen it and may have to break it out today.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357/?ref_=kw_li_tt

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Vim Fuego wrote:

This was better than I expected. It's a bit hard to see why it flopped compared to so many other shit movies that don't.

I quite enjoyed this too, though it's basically Stockholm Syndrome in space and IIRC the media focussed on that. Probably put a lot of potential audience off. But I think even Jennifer Lawrence pointed out that if the roles has been reversed people would have had less problem with the exact same story.

Still, it is often the case that movies critics absolutely slam make tons of money at the box office and critical darlings flounder.

Sci-fi movies are often in a weak position in this because of the amount of money poured into special effects. Blade Runner 2049 is one of the most well loved and critically received movies of the last decade, yet a box office bomb.

I thought it was long and a little boring, and although it raises some moral/ethic questions which are revevant enough, some of the movie just feels like a typical love movie, set in space. It´s of course well done, but it didn´t move me or make me want to watch it again.

I did keep this but I can't say it's a movie I feel in any hurry to see again. Perhaps one day when I've forgotten it completely. LOL

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Decided I should get to know older Bond a bit better.

This wouldn't have been my first choice to check out since it's not one of the best regarded ones, but it was the one they put on TV this week. Actually I quite enjoyed it, though some parts were especially corny.

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Why?

Why does this exist?

Why did I watch it?

Why didn't I listen when everything I ever read said this was dreadful?

I do have very vague memories of seeing this as a child.

Vim Fuego wrote:

This was better than I expected. It's a bit hard to see why it flopped compared to so many other shit movies that don't.

I quite enjoyed this too, though it's basically Stockholm Syndrome in space and IIRC the media focussed on that. Probably put a lot of potential audience off. But I think even Jennifer Lawrence pointed out that if the roles has been reversed people would have had less problem with the exact same story.

Still, it is often the case that movies critics absolutely slam make tons of money at the box office and critical darlings flounder.

Sci-fi movies are often in a weak position in this because of the amount of money poured into special effects. Blade Runner 2049 is one of the most well loved and critically received movies of the last decade, yet a box office bomb.

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Watched this in movie sized chunks. Wink

It has it's moments, but most of the cricket action is so bloody thoroughly unconvincing it's not funny! It seems like they cast the only damn males in Australia who have never played cricket! Hugo Weaving plays a wonderfully malicious Douglas Jardine though.

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Years before I first saw The Thing that poster always made me assume that The Thing was some sort of humanoid creature that emitted light from where it's face should be that wandered the snow.

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