Posted on 02/23/2019 10:41:26 AM PST by fishtank
Geeks + Gamers begs Disney not to screw up Star Wars IX (9).
Geeks + Gamers beg Disney not to screw up Star Wars IX
Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?
Star Wars going the same way. Same coming for James Bond.
007 has been gone for a long time.
I guess they can make it even even worse tho.
They’ve already made the franchise non-recoverable.
Actually I think when they brought Daniel Craig in they pretty much revitalized the franchise and made it more serious and grounded like the Ian Flemming novels. Less of a dependency on gadgets that had gotten out of hand.
When Craig finishes his last film then I am not sure where the franchise goes. If the producers give in to PC and the SJW crowd then you can say goodbye to it. If they give in and have a Bond that is of other race or ethic group to conform then I think they ruin the franchise and a great run in the Films will be over. At some point Bond will probably be over and it will have been a great run.
I am 63 and saw the first film in 1962 when I was 7, they have been good and bad Bond films. I look at the Roger Moore years as too light and frivolous, almost prefer not to watch those much, but I do like Daniel Craig and he might be the last really good actor to play the role.
I’m at the point where I can only stomach the Sean Connery ones.
Time and perspective are funny things. I was born in 1974 and Roger Moore in For Your Eyes Only was my first intro to 007. Even after I saw all the earlier ones with SC it took me years fully appreciate him since Moore had shaped how I saw the character. Even still, I really like Craig’s grittier take on the role.
Connery was great and the one everyone is compared to and he did a great job, I even liked George Lanzeby in the only one he did. He could have had a good run if he had not gotten greedy and taken bad advice on the role.
I still say Craig has done very well and has come across well and close to what I think Flemming wrote about.
Now Desmond Llewellyn who played Q in 17 films said in an interview that Timmothy Dalton was the closest to what Flemming intended as Bond and felt he might have been the best. Of course he did not live to see Craig.
Dalton was fully prepared to play Bond in more films but there had been a huge lawsuit on who owned the rights to Bond and there was a long gap between “License to Kill” and “Goldeneye”, when Pierce Brosnan took over. So Dalton opted out to playing Bond again.
I just watched “License to Kill” again last night and loved it. Only film where Q was in the field and had a nice large part.
There’s no need for a Jedi order when some Mary Sue type can just practice swing a light saber a few times and presto! Instant super Jedi warrior. There’s no more dark side, no light side, and ships 20 miles across can be destroyed by any ship with hyperspace capability.
Not really. I suspect I’m too old for this foolishness.
Screenwriting by committee.
Every minority group wants to see their minority represented.
Extend that to every minority subgroup and you have a mess.
They want their minority story line of 'fighting oppression'.
Lando is now bi. We have a 'strong female Jedi role model'.
Do we have a trans character yet? Is there a way to include a Muslim character?
"What we have here is a failure to communicate."
I have noticed that the closer they are to the books the better the movie. “Dr. No” was very near the original story.
The next few as well.
Eventually they had nothing in common with the books but the name. A good example was the awful “Moonraker”. I can’t understand why as the book was fascinating.
Finally they didn’t even share the title. I do think “Skyfall” was Ian Fleming’s estate on Jamaica tho.
I think “Spectre” is one of the very best of the series.
I like that one to, frankly I have enjoyed all of Craig’s pictures. I think “Skyfall” was very well done.
I still remember the impact that this movie came on it first came out in 1977 it was amazing
I’ve still never ever seen a movie since they had lines around the corner for weeks after opening
Daniel Craig is good, the storyline is not.
Next up for ruin: MCU Phase 4.
Yes. I stood in long lines several times, for hours.
They went from deep within the parking lot of the Century Domes (22) of San Jose, out to the Bob’s Big Boy restaurant, then south along Winchester Boulevard (past the Winchester Mystery House).
The Empire Strikes Back had a regular 1 AM showing there when it released; it still had a line. I ended up in the front row in one of the last seats available.
The last time I remember anything like that was for Batman (1989?), but not nearly as long. I did, however, wait in a line for hours for Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith, in San Francisco in 2005.
Multiplexes came about, I think, as a direct response to Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, et al.
Now the old, grand theaters like the Century Domes are dead and gone.
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