@LN78 Gotcha. I don't have a 4K TV, so I don't have much use for that set. I'm also content with my Criterion set. Thanks for clarifying though. Glad it's mostly region free for anyone who's interested.
And there could be a third Shawscope set? Nice. I still need to get Volume 2. I'm been watching some movies from Volume 1 the past few days. These boutique labels have been knocking it out of the park the last few years with these classic Hong Kong releases.
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My Netflix subscription ended today and I decided it was time to switch to a different service. I browsed through Prime Video to see if anything new has been added since I was last subscribed.
It now has all the James Bond movies! I've been waiting forever for a streaming service to add all of them! It also has the Rocky movies, the Terminator trilogy, the first Halloween and Saw movies, the Uncharted movie and the first John Wick movie. I know what I'll be watching for the next month!
Just finished watching the first James Bond movie: Dr. No. Pretty good movie overall, although I could tell that this isn't considered one of the better James Bond movies. While the set-pieces looked believable, some scenes just felt random and the acting was a bit strange sometimes.
Moreover, it started off promising but then it became harder to follow along with the story. The villain was pretty cool though and having Jamaica as the setting was great. I haven't seen many movies with that country as the setting.
@LtSarge Dr No’s alright but it’s a very different movie from the following ones. Justice for Quarrel, he did not deserve his fate. It’s hard because Dr No himself is a good villain and well-acted, but he’s also portrayed by a white man in horrifically racist makeup. He would have been a much better villain if the performance wasn’t hindered by the thick makeup and he was just a white character, or was played by an Asian actor, but that’s the 60s for you.
@LN78 A fact that I had absolutely no idea about… but can totally believe. There was a whole period during the 90s and 00s where there were a million animated ‘smart’ monkeys and those shows and movies were all inspired by 50s and 60s Americana sitcoms. How very different the movies would be!
@LN78 It’s a matter of mood for me. Casino Royale is incredible but it’s less of a classic ‘Bond movie’ so I’d lean towards GoldenEye for the fun Bond movie and From Russia With Love for an older pick.
@nessisonett I'm gonna be honest, I genuinely thought the actor looked like that, lol. I'm no expert on genetic makeup, so I thought because the character is half German, half Chinese that an offspring of that combination would look like that. It sure fooled me!
@LN78 Didn’t realise they were in 4K, that’s pretty cool. I find black and white stuff fascinating in 4K, although I can’t decide if the sharpness adds or detracts from the atmosphere with some of them. I’ll need to check them out for myself, part of what makes those movies eerie to this day is the weird fuzzy foggy vibe you get before it’s interrupted by daytime ITV2 adverts about stairlifts.
@LN78 I purchased the first batch of four (Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible Man and Wolfman), but have yet to watch them. Got the steelbook versions of them, so I was hoping the second batch would have steelbooks released as well, but it seems only the Mummy will get a steelbook and then only the blu-ray version, for some reason.
Will order them at some point regardless, but will hold off a little longer to see if steelbooks show up at a later date. Would be nice to have a "matching set", as it were
This past weekend I watched The Super Mario
Bros movie which I enjoyed quite a bit. Also watched The Night Comes for Us. Will watch any martial arts movie I can get my hands on at the moment.
Looking forward to seeing The Creator this weekend. Been quite some time since I've been excited for a sci-fi movie!
Just finished watching From Russia With Love. Didn't enjoy this one as much as Dr. No. I don't know if I'm the only one who feels like this, but it feels like these movies start out coherent and then become a jumbled mess towards the end. I could not follow along at all what was happening at the end. Why did they take the train, why was there a car blocking the train, why are they in the car, why are they being attacked by a helicopter, why are they on a boat. It was just so disjointed, it's like somebody just put together a bunch of random scenes with no explanation. Moreover, the villains weren't as memorable this time around, but at least we got a better picture of Spectre and number one.
@LtSarge I really like that one, it’s closer to a Hitchcock thriller in many ways. Red Grant is a brilliant villain and Rosa Klebb is still referred to at least in the UK whenever a slightly terrifying murdery older woman is on screen. I think the reason that it seems like it goes from one scene to the other is that a lot of thrillers from that period were paced in that way, and you have to get yourself in that mindset and pay much more attention than you would do with any blockbuster released after 2000. North by Northwest is an undisputed classic that I watched and it went in one ear and out the other, I think you have to be in the right environment and mood to watch a movie like that. Funnily enough Thunderball was like that for me too so good luck! Don’t worry, the Bond movies don’t get that involved and attention-demanding again until possibly In Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Just finished No One Will Save You on Disney+/Star and I am baffled by all the praise it is getting (at least by Norwegian critics, but it seems to be fairly well received overall).
Took me two nights to get through, mainly because it's a "gimmick" movie and the gimmick annoyed me.
The gimmick? No dialogue.
Which could be interesting and clever if only either
a) there would be a good reason for there to be no dialogue (the main character is deaf, for example)
or
b) the setting is such that there is no natural dialogue taking place (a single person in a solitary location with nobody to interact with)
Neither of these are true. The movie attempts at b) but fails miserably a couple of times by placing the main character in situations where a complete lack of verbal interaction just becomes plain ridiculous (the sequence on the bus... sheesh... why did that even need to be in there?)
If the movie hadn't been so preoccupied with its central gimmick it may have turned out better, but I'm not sure it would have worked anyway, as it seemed either unwilling or unable to give neither the protagonist or the antagonists any clear motivations for their actions and simply seemed content to chronicle just a series of encounters with no particular rhyme or reason. I may have missed some details, because I found it really hard to maintain any interest here.
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