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James Bond - No Time to Die was OK. Merely OK.

Not a movie, but I highly recommend "The Boys". It's a series on Amazon Prime. Currently just fished season 3. Very R-rated. It's set in a world where superheroes are real. And they are a bunch of narcissistic a**holes, screw-ups and perverts behind the scenes. But their parent company covers it all up and markets the hell out of them. And "The Boys" are a group of normal people fighting against them who have lost loved ones to collateral damage or mistakes by the superheroes. It's hilarious.
 
jayShomp said:
Nobody does the silent/brooding roles better than Ryan Gosling except maybe Tom Hardy. And damn Gosling must have done some steroids for that role, he was jacked!
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I'm a fan of Hardy. Ever see "Child 44"? About a Soviet-era pedo serial killer and the State doesn't want to admit that he's real. So Hardy's character decides he
has to find the killer while flying completely under the Commie radar, because he just can't let it go. Great book and a really good film primarily because of Hardy's dark, tortured persona.

I'd also plug Chris Evans' character in Gray Man. He was incredibly annoying, yet convincing, as a narcissistic sociopath.
 
Hawg73 said:
I'm a fan of Hardy. Ever see "Child 44"? About a Soviet-era pedo serial killer and the State doesn't want to admit that he's real. So Hardy's character decides he
has to find the killer while flying completely under the Commie radar, because he just can't let it go. Great book and a really good film primarily because of Hardy's dark, tortured persona.

I'd also plug Chris Evans' character in Gray Man. He was incredibly annoying, yet convincing, as a narcissistic sociopath.
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I think Tom Hardy would make a great James Bond now that Daniel Craig has left the role.
 
foobahl said:
Had another viewing of Casino recently. I think it is right up there with Goodfellas.
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I'm a big Scorsese fan and think Casino gets downgraded unfairly because it covered similar ground as Goodfellas and was made just 5 years afterward. It only got one Oscar nomination (Sharon Stone), but if there had been no Goodfellas there would have to have been more. If Joe Pesci hadn't already won for a similar role, I don't see how they could have ignored him.

Casino pretty much goes from one memorable scene to another and it's really rewatchable.
 
Hawg73 said:
I'm a fan of Hardy. Ever see "Child 44"?
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I did yes. He's definitely one of my favorites, and anyone that can pull off a minimalistic movie like Locke and make it captivating is special. First movie I ever saw him in as a lead was Bronson and a must watch for any Hardy fan.
 
Mark_Henderson said:
I'm a big Scorsese fan and think Casino gets downgraded unfairly because it covered similar ground as Goodfellas and was made just 5 years afterward. It only got one Oscar nomination (Sharon Stone), but if there had been no Goodfellas there would have to have been more. If Joe Pesci hadn't already won for a similar role, I don't see how they could have ignored him.

Casino pretty much goes from one memorable scene to another and it's really rewatchable.
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Sounds like every AC/DC album...
 
Big/Sky/Fly said:
Tranny... :coffee:
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Oh god no.....

Amazon is being eviscerated by people over the upcoming Lord of the Rings series as the writers/producers have butchered Tolkien's work by going ultra-Woke. Black elves and black female dwarves, women being given a role that Tolkien never wrote about, Tolkien's themes and timelines for the stories ruined. Fans have been flooding YouTube where the trailers are with negative comments and dislikes, and someone keeps resetting the feedback to try and stop the fan outrage.

Tolkien's creation did not need wholesale tinkering, the $1 Billion series should have stayed faithful.

This nonsense is why the last Star Wars trilogy was hated by fans as well. Constant tinkering and moving away from canon etc.
 
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Roberto71 said:
Oh god no.....

Amazon is being eviscerated by people over the upcoming Lord of the Rings series as the writers/producers have butchered Tolkien's work by going ultra-Woke. Black elves and black female dwarves, women being given a role that Tolkien never wrote about, Tolkien's themes and timelines for the stories ruined. Fans have been flooding YouTube where the trailers are with negative comments and dislikes, and someone keeps resetting the feedback to try and stop the fan outrage.

Tolkien's creation did not wholesale tinkering, the $1 Billion series should have stayed faithful.

This nonsense is why the last Star Wars trilogy was hated by fans as well. Constant tinkering and moving away from canon etc.
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I first read the Trilogy when I was 14 and have since read it 3 more times. I consider it the best book I've ever read. I'm also a huge fan of the Peter Jackson movie trilogy, which I thought was brilliant. I truly love LOTR.

I won't watch a second of the new series. Enough is enough. I want the people who made the decision to mess with that brilliant work in order to further some dubious woke agenda to lose their fucking shirts and jobs so that others won't be quite so quick to jam their "progressive" social views down people's throats.

I might change my opinion the second I see a remake of Shaka Zulu where the Zulu tribe is comprised of French mimes, kilted Scots, Hassidic Jews, Drag Queens and Mexican banditos. I mean, why the fuck not? It wouldn't change the flow of the story in any way.
 
Hawg73 said:
I first read the Trilogy when I was 14 and have since read it 3 more times. I consider it the best book I've ever read. I'm also a huge fan of the Peter Jackson movie trilogy, which I thought was brilliant. I truly love LOTR.

I won't watch a second of the new series. Enough is enough. I want the people who made the decision to mess with that brilliant work in order to further some dubious woke agenda to lose their fucking shirts and jobs so that others won't be quite so quick to jam their "progressive" social views down people's throats.

I might change my opinion the second I see a remake of Shaka Zulu where the Zulu tribe is comprised of French mimes, kilted Scots, Hassidic Jews, Drag Queens and Mexican banditos. I mean, why the fuck not? It wouldn't change the flow of the story in any way.
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Totally agree.
 
Hawg73 said:
I first read the Trilogy when I was 14 and have since read it 3 more times. I consider it the best book I've ever read. I'm also a huge fan of the Peter Jackson movie trilogy, which I thought was brilliant. I truly love LOTR.

I won't watch a second of the new series. Enough is enough. I want the people who made the decision to mess with that brilliant work in order to further some dubious woke agenda to lose their fucking shirts and jobs so that others won't be quite so quick to jam their "progressive" social views down people's throats.

I might change my opinion the second I see a remake of Shaka Zulu where the Zulu tribe is comprised of French mimes, kilted Scots, Hassidic Jews, Drag Queens and Mexican banditos. I mean, why the fuck not? It wouldn't change the flow of the story in any way.
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Oh how cute. A gay black tranny midgit! And I assume that like me you are disturbrd by the Woke wide awake tv commercial industry as well.


Back to LOTR, Read it first at about the same age as you. And 3 or 4 more times before I turned 21, Anne was born when I was thirty five and at '40 (or so) I began to read lotr to her. Cover to Cover all three volumes. She loved them instantly. Now her favorite book is also lotr. And by the 3rd grade, I had read it to her 3 times. By HS, 5 0r 6 times .

And the only way I would watch the new abortion is over my dead body (perhaps the could show some at my wake,)

Once again. I'm happy to read your thoughts and find them to be an echo of my own.

Cheers, :toast:
 
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In many things, I don't care about race. If I thought it could be done without impacting the canon - quite possibly the most carefully planned out canon in western literature - I wouldn't much care.

Places like The Dark Tower, changing the race of the main character immediately changes the story. But it turns out the story was literally the LAST thing on the minds of the people making that horrific abortion, so we can ignore that.

My problem is that you can't on one hand say that race and identity define a huge portion of who you are and then turn around and say that the race of a character in a story doesn't matter and shouldn't matter. For stories with worlds and characters that aren't well fleshed out, it's irrelevant. For LOTR? You literally couldn't pick one where it was more fleshed out, where the flow of what society evolved where, why, how, and near whom matters more.
 
Tolkien created LOTR and that entire world based on Norse, Celtic, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon mythology, infused with Christian themes as well. Even saying the following will now be deemed racist or prejudiced, but LOTR is a European-based creation based on those European mythologies mentioned. That's a fact; you can't get away from it. It's ludicrous to have black elves or Asian or Polynesian dwarves etc. It adds absolutely nothing to the story and insults Tolkien, who letter after letter stated that his creations were not to be messed with or changed.

You would never see a Chinese-produced film like the brilliant movie "Shadow", a real epic of a movie based on Chinese mythology, having a white, English of French actor suddenly taking the place of the lead character! You will never see a Japanese-produced remake of the Seven Samurai with white or black actors! It would be ridiculous.

The LOTR is a firmly European-based epic fantasy, just leave it be.
 
The LOTR is a firmly European-based epic fantasy, just leave it be.

Come on Roberto...
That's not what america does. :coffee:
 
Roberto71 said:
Tolkien created LOTR and that entire world based on Norse, Celtic, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon mythology, infused with Christian themes as well. Even saying the following will now be deemed racist or prejudiced, but LOTR is a European-based creation based on those European mythologies mentioned. That's a fact; you can't get away from it. It's ludicrous to have black elves or Asian or Polynesian dwarves etc. It adds absolutely nothing to the story and insults Tolkien, who letter after letter stated that his creations were not to be messed with or changed.

You would never see a Chinese-produced film like the brilliant movie "Shadow", a real epic of a movie based on Chinese mythology, having a white, English of French actor suddenly taking the place of the lead character! You will never see a Japanese-produced remake of the Seven Samurai with white or black actors! It would be ridiculous.

The LOTR is a firmly European-based epic fantasy, just leave it be.
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Try posting that word for word on Twitter or Facebook and see how fast you get canceled.
 
OK, because of my recent injury my wife made me take her to see Where the Crawdads Sing, or something like that.
It was a good movie, well acted by nobodies, and I walked out being a more sensitive person.
 
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