The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[katied]

Just read on Yahoo that Apes is doing REALLY well. I'm going to try and see it sometime this week.

[English Agent]

Just read on Yahoo that Apes is doing REALLY well. I'm going to try and see it sometime this week.

I'll think i will defintely see the 'Apes' film when its released in the UK...........it had a very good review in a newspaper i was reading today.

Yes it had a very good opening in the US, compared to C&A and it was also a lot cheaper to make apparently.

[JackWade CIA]

What does everyone make of Craig's recent interview:

About Bond's softer side

'I wanted to instil it with some emotion. If you look at the later Bond films there’s this untouchable thing about him that I wanted to steer away from. [Because] if you’ve set someone up as Teflon-coated it’s very difficult to then show the sensitive side. Give him a kitten? Well, the f**king baddie’s supposed to hold the cat, you know? It’s a tricky thing to deal with,' he said.



Infuse the new Bond movie with 'wryness'.

'The humour has to come from truth, at how ridiculous the situations are. Otherwise it’s just gags for the sake of gags. I’m not interested in that,' he told British magazine Esquire. 'I want to get the wryness back into it. It’s a balance, because you’ve got to believe that he’s going to be alive at the end of the movie. That’s a James Bond movie.'



Craig worried about the state of the Bond franchise

“If we couldn’t get the film made it would be ridiculous because we’d made all this money and it was a good bet. They were just in a very complicated financial situation but there was nothing [the film-makers] could do. Either it was going to sort itself out or I was going to get too old and that would be the end of it. I was desperate to have another crack at it. I think I would have felt disappointed eventually.”

I do disagree that the "later ones" Bond was Teflon especially Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan movies. I'll ask it so you do not have to; Did Daniel Craig not see Living Daylights, License to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow, The World, or Die Another?

[English Agent]

For all you Harry Potter fans here:-

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/b ... ter-220137

[bjmdds]

In sixth, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 held better than the previous July Potters, Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince, for the first time. Slowing 45 percent, Harry's last stand generated an estimated $12.16 million for a whopping $342.8 million tally in 24 days, and it will surpass Transformers: Dark of the Moon by Tuesday at the latest to become the top-grossing movie of 2011.

[oscartheman]

Potter: OMG! Is that Daniel Craig?
Weasley: What is he doing to that ape!It's too horrible to watch!
Granger: He is stuck in rape mode again!

2 movies expected to under perform out shine Craig's latest POS.

[stockslivevan]

[katied]

Potter: OMG! Is that Daniel Craig?
Weasley: What is he doing to that ape!It's too horrible to watch!
Granger: He is stuck in rape mode again!

2 movies expected to under perform out shine Craig's latest POS.

That is funny-and true!

[Thunderpussy]

The movie with the Ape in it, That's C&A right.
In his latest Interview in the uk every other word is swearing, from Craig. you'd think an actor would have a better use of language.
He's a Modern "Mongo", his research for C&A was watching westerns, In that case I've been researching being a cowboy all
my Life as I was raised watching John Wayne movies.

[shaken not stirred]

Someone pointed out that he looks like he's from a Superman porn parody. I can't argue with that, look at that stare of his, he looks like he's in rape mode.

You look at Cavill as Superman and vision a 'rape' mode?

Well his facial expression suggests it, including the posture. But that's just an amusing observation of mine. Same thing with a photo of Chris Pine as Kirk where he gives that very creepy stare. I actually like him as Kirk, he really pulled off the role but this was a bad photo.





Again, I hope Cavill's costume is a lot more colorful than the photo implies. One of the big complaints about the costume Brandon Routh wore was that the colors were too muted and that the S shield was too small. Looks like they got the shield right but went completely opposite with the color.

Chris pine was great as kirk, same with most of the cast.

Looking at that pic closer Pine in that pic looks like the guy from clock work orange on closer expection , same look in his face.

[Alessandra]

I don't find anything wrong with Pine's expression (or Cavill's, or Connery's LOL) but that's me. They have to play badass, they have the badass, mysterious expression. Which of course also applies to Anthony Perkins so what do I know

More details on Man of Steel filming meantime:

http://www.examiner.com/comic-books-in- ... s-plano-il

And has anyone heard Bond 23 news? Didn't think so.

The Apes movie is doing far better than expected (I would never go see it as I didn't even like the original ones, but clearly it must be well-made or it would never have had these results). Further proof that if you have a decent movie, paired with good advertising, people will go see it beyond its opening day. But if you don't... well, Cowboys & Aliens.

[Alessandra]

What does everyone make of Craig's recent interview:

About Bond's softer side

'I wanted to instil it with some emotion. If you look at the later Bond films there’s this untouchable thing about him that I wanted to steer away from. [Because] if you’ve set someone up as Teflon-coated it’s very difficult to then show the sensitive side. Give him a kitten? Well, the f**king baddie’s supposed to hold the cat, you know? It’s a tricky thing to deal with,' he said.



Infuse the new Bond movie with 'wryness'.

'The humour has to come from truth, at how ridiculous the situations are. Otherwise it’s just gags for the sake of gags. I’m not interested in that,' he told British magazine Esquire. 'I want to get the wryness back into it. It’s a balance, because you’ve got to believe that he’s going to be alive at the end of the movie. That’s a James Bond movie.'



Craig worried about the state of the Bond franchise

“If we couldn’t get the film made it would be ridiculous because we’d made all this money and it was a good bet. They were just in a very complicated financial situation but there was nothing [the film-makers] could do. Either it was going to sort itself out or I was going to get too old and that would be the end of it. I was desperate to have another crack at it. I think I would have felt disappointed eventually.”

I do disagree that the "later ones" Bond was Teflon especially Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan movies. I'll ask it so you do not have to; Did Daniel Craig not see Living Daylights, License to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow, The World, or Die Another?

Apparently not. He also clearly doesn't have the faintest idea what Bond humor is about, and I don't even mean in the films, but in novels. He just knows nothing about how the character he plays is supposed to be. He also apparently doesn't seem to get that he did NOT create the Bond character at all (he destroyed it, if anything), so the whole "I'm not interested in that" part is incredibly ridiculous. We're sorry you're not interested in that: you're supposed to play a PRE-existent character that HAS that type of humor in the NOVELS. You do it and you shut up, because that's how the character is supposed to be. Not that we didn't know, he's RIDICULOUS at humorous scenes. And yeah, that's both a hyperbole and an unintentionally tragic thing. LOL

The part about the cat and the "softer" side, I won't even comment on. Have you ever heard about coherence, Craig? Yeah, you talk about this after having been a Robocop who dumps Mathis's body in the trash in QoS? PRETTY PLEASE! Do not insult my intelligence, thank you.

ETA: and let me just like after ALL this time passed from QoS, he's NOT too old to play him now? (and he looked too old in the first place anyway).

[Thunderpussy]

Chuck Norris has a greater range of emotions than Craig.

[bjmdds]

At age "42" DC was watching westerns to see what what they were all about? Excuse me, but what kind of neglected childhood did he have in addition to his already known penchant for cursing vocabulary. Remember, the apple does not fall far from the tree and from the looks of his mannerisms, he must have been involved with a lot of rotten apples.

[Thunderpussy]

I think his favourite western was LITTLE big man.

[Thunderpussy]

I'm just thinking Craig will be screwed if he has to play a part they haven't made a Movie off. Has he ever Rread a Book perhaps,You know expand his vocabulary a little so he wouldn't have to swear so much. Or he's trying hard to be Englands answer to Samuel L Jackson, but sadly Mr Craig is no where near cool enought to come close to Mr Jackson.

[stockslivevan]

I don't find anything wrong with Pine's expression (or Cavill's, or Connery's LOL) but that's me.

FYI that screencap of Connery is from this flick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZTBtq8W9JQ#t=2m25s

Probably one of the strangest "romance" films, but Hitchcock always had a thing for very quirky couples.

[Thunderpussy]

Marnie was a great movie Like many I always wondered how Hitchcock would of done a Bond. As i think North by northwest has the feel of an Earily Bond film.

[stockslivevan]

I think NBNW is pretty much an indicator of what a Hitchcock Bond film might have been like, heck you could say the helicopter chase was a rip-off of the crop duster sequence. François Truffaut apparently HATED the Bond films because he thought they were just cashing in on the Hitchcock films.

[bjmdds]

FBF, Potter's aunt Petunia is a witch on HBO's True Blood nonsense.