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Uh no not even close to being the worst Bond film. Try anything with Daniel Craig except maybe Skyfall. And Dalton was awesome.
Drew Barrymore was a drug addict and alcoholic trainwreck before she was 15. Her own mother had her locked up.
Add Brad Renfro, Jonathan Brandis and Jake Lloyd to the list of children ruined by the business as well.
Well, the events of OHMSS are part of Bond's character arc as Ian Fleming originally wrote it. You could argue that it worked better in the novels because we were inside Bond's head and could read his emotions, something that obviously isn't possible in a film. I think the way his romance with Vesper Lynd was portrayed was far more out of character. I find it harder to believe Bond would act so vulnerable as to tell a woman "whatever's left of me, whatever I am, I'm yours," which sounds like a line that belongs in a Twilight film or Nicholas Sparks novel and definitely wasn't in Ian Fleming's novel.
I would say Craig. I really can't get into him as Bond and he's been in the worst movies of the franchise. Lazenby was great, the reason people hated him was because he replaced Sean Connery (and made a fourth-wall breaking joke about it) and because his movie had a downbeat ending.
Yep I agree, much better than Red Dragon and more like the novel in a lot of ways. About the only real criticisms I have are that Mann discarded Dolarhyde's tattoo of the Red Dragon and eliminated the shock ending of the novel which Ratner's Red Dragon reinstated.
He was awesome as Marty Funkhouser on Curb. Big R.I.P.
LOL what a fucking puss. The dog dies and that's too horrific for you, even though it's not even graphic. Don't watch films like Halloween then cause the dog dies in that one too, it gets stabbed by Michael Myers.
As for the film itself it was decent, good performances but action wasn't graphic and brutal enough and not very creative. In fact John shows too much mercy whereas his enemies show none and it comes back to bite him in the ass repeatedly. Films like these need that Charles Bronson/Paul Schrader touch where the hero suddenly turns brutal and unforgiving. Compare this film to Rolling Thunder or Death Wish II or III.
Nope. I did when I was like 9 but later on in life I realized that the only good films were the first 3, the ones that Carpenter and his people were directly involved in.
This isn't just the worst Craig-era Bond movie, this is the worst Bond movie PERIOD. Skyfall was infinitely better. Casino Royale was boring and way overrated, QoS was kinda a return to form but still sucked and the editing was awful.
And these movies aren't closer to the books, that's just something that Eon and Craig fans say in order to present Craig as "definitive" and "gritty" which he isn't.
But I agree that it's time to fire Purvis and Wade, Craig, the whole lot and return to making JAMES BOND films. The SJW set are trying hard to collapse the series even further.
It entered wide usage way before 2010. This looks like a movie that just pays lip service to looking like the 80s by featuring a few cars, a VCR, New Wave music or something. Charlie's hair isn't even 80s.
He was with the same woman for 22 years and then suddenly betrayed her and his kids. If I was her I'd be pissed off too. He committed ADULTERY.
This movie came out during the summer of 88 FFS!
Well there's a scene where McClane yells JESUS EFFING CHRIST so that makes it entirely inappropriate to watch during Christmas for me. Something like It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, or The Bells of St. Mary's would be more appropriate.
It's like saying David Cronenberg's Rabid is a Christmas movie because it's set during the season and a mall Santa is massacred during one scene.
The main reason this one is the best remembered is because it showcased Rambo as an action hero. This is the one where he puts on his red bandana, heads into the jungle and mows down hundreds of bad guys with chainguns and ammo strapped to his chest, which is the iconic image of Rambo that everybody refers to. It shows the meaning of the term "Ramboing it" or the like. First Blood was a different kind of film and was not about mowing down bad guys, as a matter of fact I think only one guy dies in FB.
Um you're all getting Alan Ladd confused with Alan HALE.
I already read your links before I replied. They are all hearsay based on what Bob Clark said. The Snopes thread, which is over a decade old, gets key details wrong. One of the other ones doesn't even mention the fact that Yablans came up with the name and theme and that the script was originally titled "The Babysitter Murders." The Wikipedia page for Black Christmas makes the same mistake and cites the same articles you just linked to.
If there is a video or audio interview where Carpenter confirms he alone came up with the idea after speaking with Bob Clark then I'd believe it. Other than that Clark was apparently just excited to connect his name in some way with Halloween. It's true that Carpenter was inspired by cult films like Black Christmas and Dario Argento's films, just like it's true that Carpenter directly took aspects from Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead for Assault on Precinct 13. Doesn't mean Bob Clark never talked to Carpenter, but the actual verified facts are that Akkad and Yablans came up with the basic plot idea for Halloween, and Yablans came up with the name and Halloween motif. That is how most successful films get made, a marketable idea is developed and great talent is employed to make that idea.
Everything else is hearsay, including that guy who said Carpenter stole his short film's plot to make Halloween when they were all at USC in the early 70s. There is no reason for a coverup, especially considering that Carpenter is a pretty no-bullshit blue-collar guy which is why he didn't last long in Hollywood.
It's like if Carpenter suddenly came out and said "Dan O'Bannon stole my idea for Alien!" Too suspect, although everybody knows O'Bannon was motivated to develop that screenplay because he wanted to make a scarier, better Dark Star.
But John Carpenter was not the one who came up with the title and theme of "Halloween." It was Irwin Yablans, the executive producer. John Carpenter and Debra Hill had written the screenplay "The Babysitter Murders" for Moustapha Akkad and Yablans. As a matter of fact it was Akkad and Yablans who came up with the idea of a killer who stalks babysitters and commissioned Carpenter to write and direct it after seeing Assault on Precinct 13. So Bob Clark was lying.
IK! Now you have kids who were born that year in high school and going on YouTube videos and saying WOW IS THIS WHAT TV/MOVIES WERE LIKE IN 2003? It's really crazy.
True, it is really campy and cheesy. Especially with the music in the beginning (a famous classical piece that is cliche), the awful setup (random people just randomly decide to pull over and tour a creepy cave/tomb), etc.
Regarding the argument about Grimsdyke not being scary, I think it's important to note that this movie very much predates the slasher movie explosion of the 80s and they wanted to keep it tasteful. If they had setup a bunch of gory shots then the BBFC would have banned the film, important to consider as this is a British film.
Don't forget it was also remade as an episode of the HBO Tales from the Crypt series with Mary Ellen Trainor and Larry Drake, directed by Robert Zemeckis. That one is good too in its own right, though it has less of a comfy traditional Christmas feel with hymns as it relies on American pop Xmas songs instead.
I remember seeing this on Fox Movie Channel about 15 years ago, I was 9 years old and a huge Crypt fan. I caught it during the Monkey Paw story and saw the infamous intestines shot. When I got the VHS shortly afterward it was the PG-rated cut without that shot, and that was the only way I saw the film until recently when I got the awesome Scream Factory Blu-Ray.