[Hank]

Death Wish 1974 - Old? Hell, yes! Still, it's the best of them, in my opinion.

[MusicallyInspired]

The Bourne Legacy. It's worse than I remember it and I never liked it to begin with. Maybe I just blocked it out.

To contrast, the Bourne Trilogy is still as solid as ever.

[Sanek]

Over the last year and also this one, I watched all 007 movies in chronological order. I watched Dr.No, Goldeneye, Quantum of Solace and Spectre (the only one I watched in cinema's) but never had any real interest in Bond...and now i am!

Connery's Bond is the best one, with great sets and over the top characters. It kinda become still by Diamons are Forever. I didn't watch Never Say Never Again because it's a remake and it's not the oficial Bond film.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (George Lazenby as 007) is a very good movie actually and very underrated in my opinion.

Moore's period is a mixed bag. I didn't like Live and Let Die tbh. The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill is pretty average, but I just love For Your Eyes Only, that's my favorite.

Timothy Dalton is not perfect as Bond but I actually liked him, if only the scripts themselves was just as good. Licence to Kill is just a mediocore action movie of the decade, not a Bond movie at all. But Dalton deserved at least one or two extra movies, he's not so bad.

Pierce Brosnan's era is a solid one. Goldeneye become's better with a repitivie viewings and Tomorrow Never Dies is one of my favorites but The World Is Not Enough is extremely forgettable and Die Another Day is super-ridiculous ever for Bond's over-the-top ridiculousness

I don't know what to think of Craig. Casino Royale looked like a masterpiece after the previous episode, but I didn't like it as much as others. Quantum of Solace is just a movie you can skip and you didn't lose anything. Skyfall is awesome and Spectre is not bad but also extremely long and tedious.


To sum things up, some movies is good and some is only average but overall 007 is a great movie franchise that's well worth a watch!

[Morpheus Kitami]

I feel like the people who dislike On Her Majesty's Secret Service would probably agree that the film was good if they could get past Lazenby's performance as a brick.
I actually did something similar with the quite a while back, but ended up giving up before the last Moore film. Did see all of Brosnan's films and Quantum of Solace before that though. You're spot on with Solace. I can see why you spent so long finishing them all. Sad thing is now that I've seen The Saint, his previous work, I don't think I'll be able to take him seriously as Bond again. He's just so perfect as Simon Templar its hard to imagine him as anything else. I'm sure if I ever saw Remington Steele I'd think the same of Brosnan. Would you suggest Dalton's films if I didn't particularly care for Moore's films past...The Man With the Golden Gun, IIRC.

[Balls of Steel Forever]

[Aristotle Gumball]

Charlie Wiederhold told me to watch this film and I gotta admit it's pretty interesting:

[jkas789]

I'm watching The Man With No Name Trilogy again. Clint Eastwood is more alpha than any other action hero. Fight me. I will die on this hill!

[Sanek]

I re-watched Forrest Gump recently, after about 10+ years since the previous time.

When I was a kid, I called it a "Movie's movie", the ultimate movie of them all. It had everything from comedy to drama to action. I watched it a gazillion times, literally every time it was shown on TV (same for Back to the Future and Police Academy series).

And what I find strange today is that despite rather dark and adult moments, it become kind of a "familty favorite", the movie that the whole family usualy watch. Still, it's a marvelous movie and one of these kinds of movies that they just don't make anymore.

[Radar]

IMO it's an overrated boring movie with awful morals. AIDS-infected chick comes back at the end after the father of her child becomes a shrimp billionaire. The movie is also rife with sexual abuse.

[Mark]

I watched Waterworld yet again on cable tv. IIRC it wasn't well received at the box office and it cost a lot to make. I've probably watched all or parts of it 20-30 times. That sounds like a lot but the movie has been out there for quite a while. I remember how cool it was to see the extended version with the surprise ending before fadeout.

[Malgon]

I watched Clash of the Titans yesterday for the first time in over 25 years, which would have been when I was in primary school! I only vaguely remembered a couple of small things from it, so it was mostly like watching it for the first time. Cheesy but enjoyable overall.

[Jimmy]

Sanek, on 05 August 2020 - 06:25 AM, said:

Connery's Bond is the best one, with great sets and over the top characters. It kinda become still by Diamons are Forever. I didn't watch Never Say Never Again because it's a remake and it's not the oficial Bond film.

Connery really is the best Bond. Big mistake skipping out on Never Say Never Again, it's a bit low budget and of course you kinda already know the story, but it's a really good Bond film. It cuts back a little bit of the glamour as Bond is now an older more vulnerable man. It has unique stakes for a Bond film and it's really one of my favourites. I like it more than many of the post-Connery films.

Sanek, on 05 August 2020 - 06:25 AM, said:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (George Lazenby as 007) is a very good movie actually and very underrated in my opinion.

I agree. I think people just hated it because of the actor changing. I can set that aside, I'd have liked to see more movies with him and him getting into the groove of it.

Sanek, on 05 August 2020 - 06:25 AM, said:

Moore's period is a mixed bag. I didn't like Live and Let Die tbh. The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill is pretty average, but I just love For Your Eyes Only, that's my favorite.

Timothy Dalton is not perfect as Bond but I actually liked him, if only the scripts themselves was just as good. Licence to Kill is just a mediocore action movie of the decade, not a Bond movie at all. But Dalton deserved at least one or two extra movies, he's not so bad.

I know what you mean. When I did the 007 binge I almost tapped out because of the Moore era, but in context of those movies I found Timothy Dalton refreshing.

Not a huge fan of anything past Dalton except for Goldeneye. To me the Connery films are probably the only ones I can see myself rewatching many times.

R A D A Я, on 14 August 2020 - 11:22 AM, said:

IMO it's an overrated boring movie with awful morals. AIDS-infected chick comes back at the end after the father of her child becomes a shrimp billionaire. The movie is also rife with sexual abuse.

Forrest Gump is the original SIMP.

Malgon, on 17 August 2020 - 12:46 AM, said:

I watched Clash of the Titans yesterday for the first time in over 25 years, which would have been when I was in primary school! I only vaguely remembered a couple of small things from it, so it was mostly like watching it for the first time. Cheesy but enjoyable overall.

Great movie! I've been rewatching Harryhausen stuff lately. Just got through the Sinbad trilogy. My sleep schedule has been fucked because I've been out of work for so long now, so I've been smokin' dope after my girlfriend goes to bed and watching fantasy type movies like this. Really good series, even though the films were made with many different actors and across many years they do fit as a trilogy of sorts by theme. The third film "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" gave me some great inspiration for environments for a Duke project I've been working on. Although it's the weakest movie, it has some great special effects but some really lousy usage of green screens, done terribly and in scenes that really don't need them. Other than that it feels more like a 60s film than a 70s film, which is quite nice. I've also been watching Kung Fu movies during this time a little, a fun one I watched recently was Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Other stuff we've been watching is like b-movies, cult, and rental type movies and shit, lots of good stuff is free on Tubi. Been digging through the Full Moon Pictures lineup a lot, I don't like their new stuff but much of their old stuff is great. (Dollman VS Demonic Toys is a sight to behold.) I highly recommend Tubi, there's a lot of great shit on there.

Just a few of the weird or random movies (most on Tubi) we've watched lately are: Robot Jox series, Avenging Force, The Head of the Family, Class of 1984, Class of 1999, Class of 1999 2: The Substitute, Microwave Massacre, Mandroid, Westworld, Futureworld, Ed and His Dead Mother, Barton Fink, Big Lebowski (for the millionth time), The Video Dead, Dolemite, Kentucky Fried Movie, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Godzilla Final Wars, Matinee, The Burbs, House, House II: The Second Story, I'm probably forgetting some stuff.

After the night's movie we've been getting a little high together and watching Kitchen Nightmares, Impractical Jokers, and Most Extreme Elimination Challenge for shits and giggles.

Rather recently we re-watched Red Dwarf from season 1 to the new movie. It's a great series, we watch random episodes here and there all the time but it was nice to watch it in order for once and the new stuff is really good.

[Aristotle Gumball]

Jimmy, on 17 August 2020 - 01:37 AM, said:

Rather recently we re-watched Red Dwarf from season 1 to the new movie. It's a great series, we watch random episodes here and there all the time but it was nice to watch it in order for once and the new stuff is really good.

I tried to get into this last month, but couldn't do it. Started from season 1 and just found it too quirky. Kind of an exhale-out-of-nose-once type of funny instead of laugh out loud for me.

[Malgon]

Jimmy, on 17 August 2020 - 01:37 AM, said:

Connery really is the best Bond. Big mistake skipping out on Never Say Never Again, it's a bit low budget and of course you kinda already know the story, but it's a really good Bond film. It cuts back a little bit of the glamour as Bond is now an older more vulnerable man. It has unique stakes for a Bond film and it's really one of my favourites. I like it more than many of the post-Connery films.

I agree. I think people just hated it because of the actor changing. I can set that aside, I'd have liked to see more movies with him and him getting into the groove of it.

I know what you mean. When I did the 007 binge I almost tapped out because of the Moore era, but in context of those movies I found Timothy Dalton refreshing.

Not a huge fan of anything past Dalton except for Goldeneye. To me the Connery films are probably the only ones I can see myself rewatching many times.

Connery is definitely my favourite Bond, but I do mostly like the rest of them. It would have been nice to have seen Dalton in more than two outings (and more solid ones at that), but alas we'll never know. I think I'm probably due for a rewatch of the series, although I don't own Never Say Never Again, which I do remember as being fairly enjoyable.

Jimmy, on 17 August 2020 - 01:37 AM, said:

Great movie! I've been rewatching Harryhausen stuff lately. Just got through the Sinbad trilogy. My sleep schedule has been fucked because I've been out of work for so long now, so I've been smokin' dope after my girlfriend goes to bed and watching fantasy type movies like this. Really good series, even though the films were made with many different actors and across many years they do fit as a trilogy of sorts by theme. The third film "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" gave me some great inspiration for environments for a Duke project I've been working on. Although it's the weakest movie, it has some great special effects but some really lousy usage of green screens, done terribly and in scenes that really don't need them. Other than that it feels more like a 60s film than a 70s film, which is quite nice. I've also been watching Kung Fu movies during this time a little, a fun one I watched recently was Master of the Flying Guillotine.

Other stuff we've been watching is like b-movies, cult, and rental type movies and shit, lots of good stuff is free on Tubi. Been digging through the Full Moon Pictures lineup a lot, I don't like their new stuff but much of their old stuff is great. (Dollman VS Demonic Toys is a sight to behold.) I highly recommend Tubi, there's a lot of great shit on there.

Just a few of the weird or random movies (most on Tubi) we've watched lately are: Robot Jox series, Avenging Force, The Head of the Family, Class of 1984, Class of 1999, Class of 1999 2: The Substitute, Microwave Massacre, Mandroid, Westworld, Futureworld, Ed and His Dead Mother, Barton Fink, Big Lebowski (for the millionth time), The Video Dead, Dolemite, Kentucky Fried Movie, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Godzilla Final Wars, Matinee, The Burbs, House, House II: The Second Story, I'm probably forgetting some stuff.

After the night's movie we've been getting a little high together and watching Kitchen Nightmares, Impractical Jokers, and Most Extreme Elimination Challenge for shits and giggles.

I'm intrigued to check out some of Harryhausen's work, as there's a certain charm to it all that just makes it fun to watch.

Out of all of those movies, I've only seen Westworld (only watched it recently too), The Big Lebowski, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles (saw that as a kid!), and The Burbs (a classic). And of course Kitchen Nightmares was always hilarious. "It's fucking raw!"

[Jimmy]

Malgon, on 18 August 2020 - 05:41 AM, said:

I'm intrigued to check out some of Harryhausen's work, as there's a certain charm to it all that just makes it fun to watch.

I'm a special effects artist/geek so it really appeals to me. I'm not sure if I'd recommend the Sinbad movies in particular unless you like swashbuckling movies a bit. Clash of the Titans is probably the best, but Jason and the Argonauts is my favourite. Mighty Joe Young is worth watching just for it's historical value, highly influential to the industry.

Malgon, on 18 August 2020 - 05:41 AM, said:

Out of all of those movies, I've only seen Westworld (only watched it recently too), The Big Lebowski, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles (saw that as a kid!), and The Burbs (a classic). And of course Kitchen Nightmares was always hilarious. "It's fucking raw!"

Don't bother with Futureworld. Hahahah.

I really enjoyed the Burbs because of its

Spoiler

various twists and turns, I even guessed the ending early in the movie, but later thought that it was misdirecting me and it was all just a misunderstanding. NOPE! IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. Thoroughly surprised.

[Morpheus Kitami]

I've been watching the Tekwar TV series off and on, mostly off at this point, for a bit. I'm thinking of writing a big ol' wall of text if I ever manage to finish it. You think guys think here or in the misc topic of knowledge in the main section? It might be of interest in the misc topic, since its interesting to see how elements from the series went into the game. Like a few of the weapons in that are supposed to be non-lethal.

Jimmy, on 17 August 2020 - 01:37 AM, said:

Just a few of the weird or random movies (most on Tubi) we've watched lately are: Robot Jox series, Avenging Force, The Head of the Family, Class of 1984, Class of 1999, Class of 1999 2: The Substitute, Microwave Massacre, Mandroid, Westworld, Futureworld, Ed and His Dead Mother, Barton Fink, Big Lebowski (for the millionth time), The Video Dead, Dolemite, Kentucky Fried Movie, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, Godzilla Final Wars, Matinee, The Burbs, House, House II: The Second Story, I'm probably forgetting some stuff.

Huh, that makes paid Prime Video look a bit lame. Well, at least they have a bunch of stuff from Arrow Video.
Also, trust Jimmy when he says don't bother with Futureworld. Its lame. Its like they tried to do something deep but only ended up making something long.

On Harryhousen, I feel like the Sinbad films are the best. They've all got nice pacing, good action, and the stop-motion is the best integrated. Clash of the Titans lacked something, despite being based on Greek mythology. And his films involving dinosaurs, to my best memory, are all a bit lacking in everything except his effects work.

[Jimmy]

Morpheus Kitami, on 18 August 2020 - 08:19 PM, said:

I've been watching the Tekwar TV series off and on, mostly off at this point, for a bit. I'm thinking of writing a big ol' wall of text if I ever manage to finish it. You think guys think here or in the misc topic of knowledge in the main section? It might be of interest in the misc topic, since its interesting to see how elements from the series went into the game. Like a few of the weapons in that are supposed to be non-lethal.

Is it good? I've been interested to watch. I love Shatner.

Morpheus Kitami, on 18 August 2020 - 08:19 PM, said:

Huh, that makes paid Prime Video look a bit lame. Well, at least they have a bunch of stuff from Arrow Video.

For a free service it's very impressive.

Morpheus Kitami, on 18 August 2020 - 08:19 PM, said:

Also, trust Jimmy when he says don't bother with Futureworld. Its lame. Its like they tried to do something deep but only ended up making something long.

It feels like leftover ideas from the first movie being rehashed into a pseudo-remake. Cool ideas, bad application.

Morpheus Kitami, on 18 August 2020 - 08:19 PM, said:

On Harryhousen, I feel like the Sinbad films are the best. They've all got nice pacing, good action, and the stop-motion is the best integrated. Clash of the Titans lacked something, despite being based on Greek mythology. And his films involving dinosaurs, to my best memory, are all a bit lacking in everything except his effects work.

I could see that. I like the Sinbad movies a lot, but I could see how it doesn't appeal to others because of the theme. I don't know about Clash lacking though. I love that movie. I agree about the dino movies, there's just cool special effects and that's it.

[Aleks]

Sanek, on 05 August 2020 - 06:25 AM, said:

Over the last year and also this one, I watched all 007 movies in chronological order. I watched Dr.No, Goldeneye, Quantum of Solace and Spectre (the only one I watched in cinema's) but never had any real interest in Bond...and now i am!

Connery's Bond is the best one, with great sets and over the top characters. It kinda become still by Diamons are Forever. I didn't watch Never Say Never Again because it's a remake and it's not the oficial Bond film.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (George Lazenby as 007) is a very good movie actually and very underrated in my opinion.

Moore's period is a mixed bag. I didn't like Live and Let Die tbh. The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill is pretty average, but I just love For Your Eyes Only, that's my favorite.

Timothy Dalton is not perfect as Bond but I actually liked him, if only the scripts themselves was just as good. Licence to Kill is just a mediocore action movie of the decade, not a Bond movie at all. But Dalton deserved at least one or two extra movies, he's not so bad.

Pierce Brosnan's era is a solid one. Goldeneye become's better with a repitivie viewings and Tomorrow Never Dies is one of my favorites but The World Is Not Enough is extremely forgettable and Die Another Day is super-ridiculous ever for Bond's over-the-top ridiculousness

I don't know what to think of Craig. Casino Royale looked like a masterpiece after the previous episode, but I didn't like it as much as others. Quantum of Solace is just a movie you can skip and you didn't lose anything. Skyfall is awesome and Spectre is not bad but also extremely long and tedious.


To sum things up, some movies is good and some is only average but overall 007 is a great movie franchise that's well worth a watch!

I'm with you on that the Connery movies were the best, finest balance between a good intrigue, over the top actions and humour. Especially "Gold Finger" was my favourite, the story was top-notch and the characters were great.

However, my second favourites are Moore movies, I loved how they went all the way over the top ("Moonraker" being my favourite with laser battle in space and abstract humour), they felt very in the vein of Duke when I watched them.

Not a big fan of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and not only because of Lazenby's performance, but the plot just didn't do it for me, and Savalas would be a great Bloefeld, but here his character was too much of a caricature.


Dalton and Brosnan movies were mostly good besides the absolutely crappy "Die Another Day", and the Craig ones... Well, "Skyfall" was pretty good, but in general I didn't like the more serious tone the series took, it just doesn't go well with the action. Also making Bond such a dark character, probably to reflect 90% of today's action movie characters, give him a deeper psychology - it all wasn't a good idea in my opinion, earlier Bond was always reminding me of Duke, with his kick ass and hump every babe on his way attitude.


For the past 2 or 3 months I have been watching all Star Trek series and movies all the way from the beginning. I've never really watched the series before and now I absolutely love it! Captain Kirk is one of the best fictional characters ever and Spock is not far behind. It feels a bit weird to be a geek raising all my life in a culture with so much Star Trek influence and never watching the actual thing, but I'm not sure if I would appreciate it so much if I watched it as a kid - now I'm really impressed how they managed to put so many imaginative and ambitious ideas into a TV show back in the 60's and balance it with action, drama and humour. I totally loved The Original Series and first 6 movies with original crew, animated series was lazy at times in terms of animation, but the ideas were sometimes so crazy that I still had a lot of fun watching it. Now at 1st season of Next Generation, I still have some reserve to it in comparison to the original show, but I'm slowly getting there.


It's also great fun for me when watching ST to re-trace all the references to it in Duke and general pop-culture. I had no idea there'd be so much of it!

[Morpheus Kitami]

Jimmy, on 18 August 2020 - 08:54 PM, said:

Is it good? I've been interested to watch. I love Shatner.

At first. The four movies are nice if you don't mind '90s cheese and a bit of weird anti-drug talk. Then the series proper happens. Starts off okay, but one of the actresses, playing mission control, is replaced. Didn't know why at first. I had a stupid theory that she was uncomfortable with Shatner. There's a shot of him putting his hand and her shoulder and her looking freaked out. No attention drawn to it, just something that should have been an outtake left in. Then characters start disappearing, or dying. Shatner is one of those disappearances. By the point I left off, there was Jake, his new female partner/love interest, replacement mission control, and robot cop. None of which have that much chemistry with each other.

[Balls of Steel Forever]

I watched I'm thinking of ending things.

It's a Charlie Kaufman movie.

Fantastic, odd, perplexing.

A solid entry in Kaufmans surreal portfolio.

[Aleks]

The Overman, on 04 September 2020 - 08:47 PM, said:

I watched I'm thinking of ending things.

It's a Charlie Kaufman movie.

Fantastic, odd, perplexing.

A solid entry in Kaufmans surreal portfolio.

Just watched it as well. Kaufman is one of my favourite movie makers, I love "Being John Malkovich" and especially "Adaptation." which is one of my all time favourite movies, so this was one of my most anticipated movies of the year.

Everything from the start was brilliant, bleak and getting more complex all the time, loved the little details and interconnections between the scenes. It's just too bad that last half-hour or so he went for this "tryhard Lynch" stuff, which was disappointing in my opinion, too much symbolics mixed with that artsy abstraction was quite brave move, which kinda didn't work out here.

It's still a good movie and as always with Kaufman, I've had these "get outta my head, dude!" moments - it's just too bad that it all got too blurry in the end.

[DisgustedGrunt]

Last week i watched The 10th Kingdom, it's a fantasy miniseries from 2000. i watched it once before, when i was 8 or 9, and now i'm 27. Does that counts as a rewatch? didn't even remembered the name, and then, last week i randomly found the intro on Youtube. the same one that has been stuck in my head for almost 20 years, and was the only thing i really remembered about the series:



Gotta say it was worth it, it holds well enough, and i had fun with it. There was even a Blu ray re-release a few years back, so you can find the thing in HD.

[Jimmy]

Just watched the new Scooby Doo/Hanna-Barbera-verse movie the other day because the Blu-Ray was $15 at Wal-Mart. It was pretty good for what it was, a children's movie. I liked the world building and it made sense. Nice to see some of those kind of forgotten characters return. To me, the Scooby Doo series' pitfalls have always just been because it's a product of it's time, and this one follows suit. I'd be interested in watching a sequel. Great if you have kids, its got a perfect (short) length and lots of action and the pace never drags. There's nothing too naughty in it and it honestly has a good positive message which seems to be rarer and rarer in children oriented media these days.

One of the things I really liked is they didn't do the typical Scooby Doo thing; Mystery Inc hijinks are only like 15% of the movie. Which was a brilliant move, because if I wanted that, I could just watch the cartoon or one of the other movies. This isn't to say they changed what Scooby Doo is about, but rather that this movie isn't about that. It kind of does an Evil Dead 2 thing, it shows you how everything happened to get everyone up to speed on this universe. Scooby meets Shaggy, they meet the rest of the gang, montage sequence of the gang's experiences with Mystery Inc, THEN the movie starts. These reboots retread the same old ground so much, but this one just assumed you probably already know what Scooby Doo is, so it was refreshing to see them try something different than what the series is known for, and this allowed for a lot more world building.

It also gets so many things right. The characters are tastefully updated, but still have the same aesthetics. The Mystery Machine is the same old van, and it fits into the universe as well as ever. They even used many of the tropes from the series as well as the theme music, which I cannot stress enough how much it pisses me off when they actively avoid using the themes in these reboots and remakes. Music is one of the best ways to capture the feel of a series, and so many times they opt not to do it when they should.

[Hank]

And Justice for All (1979)


It’s listed as Crime, Drama, Thriller; it’s more a hilarious satire about the justice system, imho.

[Malgon]

^A movie I always enjoy as much as the first time seeing it. Possibly in my top 10 favourite movies.

[Steve 64]

I will be watching this when it comes out Welcome back Animaniacs

[king karl]

i watched the dragon's dogma series. i didn't know they made one found it randomly online. It was alright it mostly followed the plot of the original with some unique parts but with a weird sexual tinge as netflix is want to do

[MusicallyInspired]

I watched Bill & Ted 3 a couple weeks ago with the family. What a great time we had. It wasn't he best B&T movie and it moved at a breakneck pace, but it legitimately made me laugh and have a great time.

[Mark]

Like every October, I'm overloading on horror movies on Cable TV. They can be found morning, noon and night. I bought extra microwave popcorn. Good times.

[Steve 64]

Tremors 7 Had a crazy ending and sad at the same time not going to spoil.