Recently Watched Films

You really shouldn't want Bond films to hurry up and finish, but this just went on and on and on...

I saw this when it came out. Dad took me and my brothers to see this and Jaws 3-D on the same day, only the second time ever we'd seen two movies in a day (the first time we saw Battlestar Galactica and The Shaggy DA). I've never seen this again in the nearly 40 years since.

I remember the mini-jet at the beginning, and the circular saw yoyo weapon really well, but this really plays like something put to film a bit too late. It may have been a compelling or believable story in the 50s, but the stuff with the circuses and the island populated by only women were a bit of a stretch even for the 1980s. It seemed like the producers had run out of good Ian Fleming stories and were getting toward the bottom of the barrel. And I found Maud Adams to be a bit cold and unlikeable as Octopussy. She really didn't have good onscreen presence.

Incredibly moving. Both sad and funny:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5805752/

Third Satoshi Kon's movie. Seems like this will be the simplest anime from Kon yet so beautiful and soulful. Love this.

Found it a bit poor, personally. 

The law of diminishing returns in action. Really boring. Critters in space, but misses so many opportunities for good gory fun. Nowhere near enough Critters, hardly anyone got munched, and no real comedy at all. Of the entire series, I think Critters 2 is easily the best, followed by 1, and wouldn't bother at all with 3 and 4.

One of the most boring snoozefests I've ever forced myself to stay awake through. An often depressing work that makes it's approx 2 hour runtime seem more like 20. I'm glad to have decided to give this a look on a day I generally feel good because I imagine if someone happened to see this on a really dark day in their life (and there have been a few of those for me during the pandemic) they may just decide to end it all there and then. I saw it through to give it fair chance, but this has ended up a movie I despise so fucking much I'm breaking my rating rules and giving it 0.5, which is usually reserved for crap I can't even finish. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

I liked this one, I had low expectations, but enjoyed it in the end. 

The last Connery Bond film. I've seen it a couple of times, but not for a lot of years. I remember the videogame scene quite vividly, the fight with Bomber from Auf Wedersehn Pet, and Bond's final confrontation with Fatima, but didn't remember much of the rest. Connery was right to retire the first time round, and playing a semi-retired agent works well as a way of bringing him back, but the film is a bit pedestrian and as far-fetched as usual. 

It's outside the Albert Broccoli stable of canon Bond films. It's not any better or worse for it. It's a good movie, just not a great one.