* Did you watch a film last night (on Blu or DVD), and what was it? *

I revisited Spectre 007 last night.

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Was it better this time around? No. Then why did you watch it again? Because I can and I saw few little details that I missed the first time around, like in the backgrounds. With films it's impossible to record everything that's on your screen, in particular from the better movie directors.
There is more to see in films than in music recordings.

i did not mind this, its the second best craig outing imo but not enough character development for me. its not emotionally engaging like casino royale . i think we will look back on craigs outings as a oh so nearly. shame. that said given he has one of the only great bond films under his belt in casino royale its hard to be too critical. i dont think the failings of his films are his fault. he has been great imo.
 
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<> Last film revisited. ... Last last last ... the sky is falling ... the sky is crying ... the sky is bleeding.

yea... and the scrip is non existent !
 
Some people love snow (surfboarding, snowman), some love water (waterskiing, sailing), others like the sun (beach, suntanning).
Some people live in the desert, others in the jungle, and even in igloos of the Antarctic or Siberia.
Some people build the tallest skyscrapers, others the longest walls and bridges.
Some people are leaders of faith, others of deception.
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Part two of Casino Royale, but not as good; missing some important vitamins, and some scenes are better forgotten (childish and not up to Bond's usual/expected caliber).

Le Chiffre, Mr. White, Mr. Greene, ...they'll all lead to the chief mastermind eventually. ...More to come.

When we go along with Bond we go for rides around the globe, with fancy cars, beautiful women, the latest Jacques Cartier watches with the latest lasers and blades and steel cables and explosive dynamite sticks all inside them watches, even poisonous darts and smoke. We fly inside jets, airplanes, helicopters, we waterski in the latest waterski jets, we sail with the most luxurious ships, fully equipped with gold and satin black sheets.
When we're a Bond's fan we climb mountains and we ski down its snowy slopes with zest. We visit some of the best mansions of the most picturesque scenery. We drink some of the best drinks and cocktails and we eat good food and smoke the best Cuban cigars. We fly high when we follow Bond's adventures, and we dream of expensive cars and women, but with love always in control/in-check without forgetting our primary mission; licence to kill, and save the world.

? Quantum of Solace ultimate destiny (rating score): 65

Last word: In the scheme of a grand scheme it measured mediocre @ best.

script missing in action... again
 
yea... and the scrip is non existent !

script missing in action... again

Recap (for me, entertainment value score...out of 100):

1. Casino Royale: 88
2. Skyfall: 77
3. Spectre: 66
4. Quantum of Solace: 65

And that, is very relative. Scores don't mean much because there are just too many variables in films (as in music) that can influence our penchant naturel.

How do we evaluate a film objectively? With a subjective rating score (technical measurements of it's picture colorization, contrast, appropriate brightness, natural light, focus of the cameras by the cinematographer's own decisions on precise locations, for a big screen, a smaller one for Blu-ray, shot compositions...framing, advantage of the screen aspect ration, ...on sound elements, music score, dialog intelligibility, natural sound effects, realism, proper levels in all channels from the hi-res audio on Blu-ray, etc., etc., etc.).

Then, the script, the three stages...opening/beginning, middle and end like a theater play.
Then the acting, the convincing, the attraction, the consistency of the various levels of emotions in each actor's conveyance.
The locales, decors, details, wardrobe, makeups, hairstyle, body language, props, foley sound effects, color of blood, substance, architecture, homes, resorts, buildings, mansions, skyscrapers, natural foliage, forests, jungles, deserts, etc.
Then the message as interpreted and received by each person from the audience, and not as a general public average.
A film is unique for each moviegoer/viewer...no two people perceive the exact same. And words and numbers are superficial because no two people have the same interpretation from each critic's word and number.

It is what it is for only one person...the viewer @ the time and in his own space of mind. ...Without any outside influence or transmitted bias.

It's the same heavenly thing with music. Nothing is above and below, nothing is superior that ain't inferior. It's not black and white because music is always in colors.
...Just like the main character/actor in a movie...the music score.

In the 20s and 30s during the era of cinema muet (silent, Charlie Chaplin, mime), the music score was a live piano. Chaplin was accompanied by a music composer to describe his state. The rest was body language and facial expression. And onscreen they put few subtitles here and there as a reference point.

Daniel Craig is in my opinion the best James Bond character of them all. He's serious, well in shape, smart, good lookin', ...he fits the role like a clockwork orange basketball bond from the floor up to the basket net. ...Like a splandau ballet. ...Graciously, effectively, with girls and villains to match his charisma.

As an ensemble (his four films); it has no equal. It's high class entertainment of perfect caliber with a silencer @ the end of a gun.
His licence to kill and let live is the best. Die with a stylish bang or live with diabolic memories of ending the world while painfully walking the corridors of a prison cell...for his enemies of world's extermination and control.

I hope he makes couple more...Daniel Craig. And then Tom Hardy can take la relève. ...Just an idea, my own idea (I've never read it anywhere, my own imagination).

There are 7.35 billion humans living on our planet. They all deserve what's coming to them. ...Poetic justice.

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The day is so beautiful here where I am right now, that everything is clear in the sky above the stars. ...Everything holds on without falling and breaking.
...From the light blues of water reflections to the turquoises of the ocean and up to the blue sky of daytime to its navy satin blues of the nighttime.
Tonight is full moon above, and I can already perceive the star's formation in a 007 design...like a Batman sign.
 
i think craig has walked away, that's what the ending of spector was all about. i like craig as bond, he might be my favorite but the films waste his talent or rely on it too much at the expense of the script.

the next bond? not hardy, Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill is the only choice but won't get it, not controversial enough. he was born for the role though..
 
i think craig has walked away, that's what the ending of spector was all about. i like craig as bond, he might be my favorite but the films waste his talent or rely on it too much at the expense of the script.

the next bond? not hardy, Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill is the only choice but won't get it, not controversial enough. he was born for the role though..

Yes, I did read few rumors (articles) on Daniel Craig's perhaps last film. But in the movie bizz (industry) money speaks louder than all the best rumors.
We'll see, and when the next James Bond's flick starts filming, even before that, we'll know fo shor who's going to be agent 007
And it might be real soon...stay tuned.

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Later on, most likely this evening, I got some great news for all the movie fans here. ...Including all their families as well. :b

? Hint: http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...4K-&#8594;-Highest-Video-and-Audio-Resolution
 
Fragmentation... It's the same spelling both in English and in French. ...We all know what it means...like a diamond imploding.

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The last three Blu-ray movies that I watched:

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In (((3D))) the animation was phantasmagoric! Superb picture quality, great audio, excellent family messages. ...Value is fun/fair/high.
? Overall (everything): 93

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Good important film; ? overall (film & all): 79 (but that score don't mean a thing...the content does...for some...for most...it should).

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Was ok; ? overall (all): 65

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Sorry for the very short comments; time is flying...so many films so little time.

Last word:
? Do watch 'The Good Dinosaur' with the family. ...3D is best, and 2D is 2nd best.
It's just the way it works...Disney PIXAR 3D on Blu works in mysterious ways...
 
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The Aviator
Leo, Cate, Kate, Alec and John were great. Alan too.
Liked it quite a bit.
 
Bob, as a true blue film buff, check out the 2013 Australian movie "Mystery Road" - if you haven't already done so.

... and let me know what you think of it ...

Cheers,

I'll google it Frank. Cheers,

As good as Leo was, the ate's were scary good. Some scenes were eerily well done. All around fine film IMHO.

Howard Hughes' life was a fascinating one. The film I love it, well directed and good performances indeed.
And in less than forty-eight hours Leo might finally get his Oscar.
 
Bob, as a true blue film buff, check out the 2013 Australian movie "Mystery Road" - if you haven't already done so.

... and let me know what you think of it ...

Cheers,


Yes indeed-- Well done brooding Interpretation of the Oz North --sagged a tad at times but the tension and final shootout well done--I like Aaron Pedersen--deserves his big break --fine indigenous actor

If one fancies some raw vengeance with no holds barred at times stomach turning --the not for the squeamish Aussie Flick here it is---:mad:

BruceD

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'The Horseman' - that looks like a violent film...a la The Hateful Eight or The Revenant.

Violent films do well with the American public; they love violent films, and sex films too.
Tomorrow evening @ the American Oscars some very violent films might do very well with the American judges.
The two just mentioned above...plus Mad Max: Fury Road...all violent crazy films loved by the American public...plus the Marvel comics. ...Deadpool.

Violence has always been a strong point (love affair - fatal attraction) with many societies...Americans, Germans, North Koreans, Japanese, Arabs, ...all love violence and wars and destruction and vengeance and killing and bullets and guns and knives and money and power and ruling and dictating and doctrine and annihilating.
It's a vice, a disease, an addiction, a revenge, an eye for an eye.

Hatred is the biggest pastime, hobby of many gangs and war lords and the highest civilizations. Anything below their rules is worth exterminating for good.
Kids get decapitated for listening to music in some parts of our world...true, right on the same planet we all live on!
I can post some links but I won't because it's just too horrific.

But here @ home, in America, Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, Africa, Japan, ...they all love violent films with killings and blood and machine guns and grenades and dismembered bodies and "pouf" no more bodies just gone into thin air!

Yes violence is done by humans using the most lucrative business on Earth; sales of guns. Without violence our world would be in tumult, total chaos.
Violence is a human balance to equalize our world...get rid of all the vermin including collateral damage.
A world without violence is an impossible world to subsist, coexist, exist in. ...An impossible dream of inconceivable survival.

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Last night I watched (revisited) this:

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There is no violence in that one (those are getting rarer and rarer). It's a fun comedy, very funny. ...With two of the funniest/funkiest comedians.

? Overall (film only): 85 (it's very relative/subjective, but it is somewhere between 75 and 95...so 85 is my score average).

Yes, films are subjective. But you know what...technical camera angles, composition shots, focus...are all reference standards we learn @ art cinema school. And the same with the soundtracks. And also with acting. ...And script writing.
Sure, virtual subjectivity is the predominant factor...but there are rules too in cinema.

Anyway, last word: Fun, and no guns. :b

* I like Romances too, you know...a girl and a boy falling in love in the back of car, or a plane, or even on a train.
I'm looking outside right now...it looks like a painting from a master. It's beautiful.

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Addendum (waxing poetry with justice and freedom with total abandon):

Irreversibilities. ~?~ Slingshot of the human right. Judge no one harm no one. Be one in peace with the movies you love. The decline of the human empire.
 
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Bob, you can relax about "Mystery Road" - this is not about mayhem, but tension, the tension between individuals who see things different ways - the outsider trying to make sense of the underlying currents in the world he is supposed to be part of, and who has his own set of problems; the violence is only the natural result of the need for some resolution of the situation.

For comedy, a good Lewis and Martin movie will do it every time; The Three Amigos would be a modern thumbs up for me, :b.
 
Bob, you can relax about "Mystery Road" - this is not about mayhem, but tension, the tension between individuals who see things different ways - the outsider trying to make sense of the underlying currents in the world he is supposed to be part of, and who has his own set of problems; the violence is only the natural result of the need for some resolution of the situation.

For comedy, a good Lewis and Martin movie will do it every time; The Three Amigos would be a modern thumbs up for me, :b.

Indeed Mystery Road well summed up

Comedy?---" Some like it Hot"-- for Moi!:D

BruceD
 
Bob, you can relax about "Mystery Road" - this is not about mayhem, but tension, the tension between individuals who see things different ways - the outsider trying to make sense of the underlying currents in the world he is supposed to be part of, and who has his own set of problems; the violence is only the natural result of the need for some resolution of the situation.

For comedy, a good Lewis and Martin movie will do it every time; The Three Amigos would be a modern thumbs up for me, :b.

I've checked Frank ('Mystery Road'); I've read few here and there from movie reviews and articles, I've watched the trailer.
I will watch the film...eventually...the entire film.

* 'The Three Amigos' - Yeah, good suggestion! :cool:
 
A controversial movie director to some, and a sufferer himself to others...
It's hard to describe a person; it's easier to describe his films.
And even through his films we can see the person...

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I revisited this last night:

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I am outside in the dark and the rain as I'm typing this.

You can boycott Roman, or you can watch his films; choice is yours, and yours alone. We still live with free choices...about films, and about music.

In my cinema book this is a must see, if you didn't already, and if you can rise above your own prejudices towards the guy.

• Overall (film and technical merits): 92.55
 
^^^ I'm a big fan of ' The Ghost Writer '
 

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