The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

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[Alessandra]

After watching trailer all I can say is:Napoleon Solo rocks! when is the movie coming out?

Aug. 14, or 14-August, if you prefer, in the United States.

And in Europe?

Mostly Aug. 12-14, with some countries the following week. List of release dates:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/rel ... f_=tt_ql_6

Entertainment Weekly just posted a preview for Man fro U.N.C.L.E and their tweet was "If you like James Bond, you will LOVE Man from U.N.C.L.E"

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/09/ma ... 9a29aa1b5a

[bjmdds]

This should do a hell of a lot more business than Brosnan's NM.

[Veronica]

After watching trailer all I can say is:Napoleon Solo rocks! when is the movie coming out?

Aug. 14, or 14-August, if you prefer, in the United States.

And in Europe?

Mostly Aug. 12-14, with some countries the following week. List of release dates:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/rel ... f_=tt_ql_6

Entertainment Weekly just posted a preview for Man fro U.N.C.L.E and their tweet was "If you like James Bond, you will LOVE Man from U.N.C.L.E"

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/09/ma ... 9a29aa1b5a

I am so watching this.

[Count_Lippe]

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/SPECTR ... ogPage.htm

[Alessandra]

Well... Wikileaks has posted the ENTIRE amount of Sony emails and archives on their page. Have fun searching.
Just one example:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/70008
Please note this is from OCTOBER so it is VERY recent and right before they were filming, or as they were starting to.

Main page is wikileaks.org/sony

[Alessandra]

Veronica, I can't wait for Man from U.N.C.L.E. and many lovers of ACTUAL and classic Bond are feeling the same way. It looks like a hell of a lot of fun and both Cavill and Hammer look fabulous in their respective roles.

[Blowfeld]

Well... Wikileaks has posted the ENTIRE amount of Sony emails and archives on their page. Have fun searching.
Just one example:
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/70008
Please note this is from OCTOBER so it is VERY recent and right before they were filming, or as they were starting to.

Main page is wikileaks.org/sony

The Doctor Who brigade is searching the archive they already found Sony was pushing hard for a Doctor Who motion picture, the show runners were dead set against for at least the next 18 months. One of the emails the Sony executive was pushing hard for a face to face meeting with I assume Moffat even althou he was warned against trying to push to hard as it would hurt the moive cause. The curious part is it was revealed the show runners have in place (will have in place by this time) a eight year plan for the series that may well include a movie. I am glad Doctor Who appears to have competent leadership planning well ahead. I doubt Bond has planned beyond their will be a Bond 25 and it will tentatively star Daniel Craig. If the current production had no finished script they have to be at square one with Bond 25, where as Marvel, Star Wars, other non Disney owned franchises are planing decades ahead. I wonder how long EON's half arsed management will be tolerated.

[Veronica]

Veronica, I can't wait for Man from U.N.C.L.E. and many lovers of ACTUAL and classic Bond are feeling the same way. It looks like a hell of a lot of fun and both Cavill and Hammer look fabulous in their respective roles.

it looks and feels fun and very exciting."How did you get the invitation to my party?" "I stole it." Now that's Bond! Agreed,both Armie Hammer and Cavill seem(and look) awesome! I think we have very similar tastes,you know.I see that one of your favourite movies are "To Catch a Thief","The Devil Wears Prada"(watched for about 100 times and it still isn't boring to me) and I also like "How to Loose a Guy in Ten Days"(hello,Matthew McConaughey)..

[bjmdds]

Bond=doom and gloom now.

[Alessandra]

Veronica, I can't wait for Man from U.N.C.L.E. and many lovers of ACTUAL and classic Bond are feeling the same way. It looks like a hell of a lot of fun and both Cavill and Hammer look fabulous in their respective roles.

it looks and feels fun and very exciting."How did you get the invitation to my party?" "I stole it." Now that's Bond! Agreed,both Armie Hammer and Cavill seem(and look) awesome! I think we have very similar tastes,you know.I see that one of your favourite movies are "To Catch a Thief","The Devil Wears Prada"(watched for about 100 times and it still isn't boring to me) and I also like "How to Loose a Guy in Ten Days"(hello,Matthew McConaughey)..

Hahaha yes we do have similar taste. What I like about "How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days" is the fact that for once the male protagonist isn't made to lose his essence because of the female he must court at all costs, but SHE is handed her ass, too. LOL. And of course I love Matthew McConaughey. Cary Grant is my perfect man so OF COURSE I love all of his movies, and To Catch a Thief and Charade (I should add it to the list) are all time favorites. My all time favorite is Sabrina of course, because I adore Billy Wilder and love Audrey Hepburn... and it would have been SO much better with Cary Grant. I should add many others to the list of favorites, but only so many fit.
AND LOL about "The Devil Wears Prada" I feel the exact same way. But being Italian and a fashion lover, that shouldn't be surprising. My friend Elena and I always comment on the fact that film is clearly aimed at a "foreigner" (e.g. not Italian) audience. Cause it's not anything extraordinary for us to go to the office dressed the way Anne Hathaway does once she learns what to wear and how to have a decent haircut and make up. That is normality for us. LOL. I hardly ever went to the office wearing flats, unless it was casual Friday and I was wearing Capri pants. (working for an American company means casual Friday happens, for Italians IT DOES NOT lol). And I would never be caught dead wearing anything Anne Hathaway wore at the beginning of the movie! LOL. The whole "Cultural difference" approach makes us laugh every time. And the movie is great and I love seeing great shoes and dresses, and SIMON BAKER and Stanley Tucci whom I adore.

Now back to Man from U.N.C.L.E: I alerted a few of my female friends about it and the reactions were like "OMG IS IT CHRISTMAS?!!? WHAT is all this handsome at once!" Let's just say on top of looking incredibly entertaining, the fact Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer look the way they do CERTAINLY does not hurt.
That whole invitation scene is HILARIOUS. Especially because of the lady using British accent to answer him "so you're a thief, I hope you wear a mask". LOL. It's pure Bond humour right there!

[bjmdds]

Clooney and Cruise bowed out of the Napolean Solo role and Cavill got the nod. Will Cavill bring in as many viewers as the other two who passed on it? MI:5 and UNCLE are opening only 2 weeks apart. Will they cannabolize each other's box office with both films overlapping the spy genre for discerning moviegoers?

[bjmdds]

Affleck as Batman released........AVCLUB.com: "the world kind of hates Superman right now. We know this because various characters are engaged in philosophical debate over his nature—always the most fun part of a comic-book movie. A statue honoring Superman, which someone obviously put up a little prematurely, has been defaced with the words “FALSE GOD.” Meanwhile, a voiceover from Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor reminds everyone that devils come not from beneath us, but “from the sky” (which is true in a Milton sense, I guess?). And Holly Hunter cribs from Jurassic Park, noting that everyone was so concerned with what Superman can do, they didn’t stop to ask themselves what he should do. Ah, now eventually you do plan to have superheroes on your superhero tour, right? Indeed. Enter Ben Affleck, glowering at his Batman costume like it just insulted the Red Sox. “That’s how it starts—the fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men… cruel,” Jeremy Irons intones from off screen as Alfred, the Werner Herzog of butlers. And then it’s time for the Dark Knight to treat that fever, taking to the streets and the skyscrapers to do some exploding and ruminating, before donning a suit of armor with glowing eyes for that much-promised “V.” of Batman V. Superman. In addition to the headlights, the suit also apparently features a modulator that renders Affleck’s voice so guttural, it makes Christian Bale’s Batman sound like Wayne Newton. “Tell me. Do you bleed?” Batman asks Superman. “You will.”

[bjmdds]

The new Lex Luthor This film will bomb so badly that they might not do another one for years with this producer and cast............“Our Lex is disarming and he’s not fake,” says Snyder. “He says what he believes and he says what’s on his mind. If you can unravel the string and decipher what he means, it’s all there.”

[Veronica]

Veronica, I can't wait for Man from U.N.C.L.E. and many lovers of ACTUAL and classic Bond are feeling the same way. It looks like a hell of a lot of fun and both Cavill and Hammer look fabulous in their respective roles.

it looks and feels fun and very exciting."How did you get the invitation to my party?" "I stole it." Now that's Bond! Agreed,both Armie Hammer and Cavill seem(and look) awesome! I think we have very similar tastes,you know.I see that one of your favourite movies are "To Catch a Thief","The Devil Wears Prada"(watched for about 100 times and it still isn't boring to me) and I also like "How to Loose a Guy in Ten Days"(hello,Matthew McConaughey)..

Hahaha yes we do have similar taste. What I like about "How To Lose a Guy in Ten Days" is the fact that for once the male protagonist isn't made to lose his essence because of the female he must court at all costs, but SHE is handed her ass, too. LOL. And of course I love Matthew McConaughey. Cary Grant is my perfect man so OF COURSE I love all of his movies, and To Catch a Thief and Charade (I should add it to the list) are all time favorites. My all time favorite is Sabrina of course, because I adore Billy Wilder and love Audrey Hepburn... and it would have been SO much better with Cary Grant. I should add many others to the list of favorites, but only so many fit.
AND LOL about "The Devil Wears Prada" I feel the exact same way. But being Italian and a fashion lover, that shouldn't be surprising. My friend Elena and I always comment on the fact that film is clearly aimed at a "foreigner" (e.g. not Italian) audience. Cause it's not anything extraordinary for us to go to the office dressed the way Anne Hathaway does once she learns what to wear and how to have a decent haircut and make up. That is normality for us. LOL. I hardly ever went to the office wearing flats, unless it was casual Friday and I was wearing Capri pants. (working for an American company means casual Friday happens, for Italians IT DOES NOT lol). And I would never be caught dead wearing anything Anne Hathaway wore at the beginning of the movie! LOL. The whole "Cultural difference" approach makes us laugh every time. And the movie is great and I love seeing great shoes and dresses, and SIMON BAKER and Stanley Tucci whom I adore.

Now back to Man from U.N.C.L.E: I alerted a few of my female friends about it and the reactions were like "OMG IS IT CHRISTMAS?!!? WHAT is all this handsome at once!" Let's just say on top of looking incredibly entertaining, the fact Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer look the way they do CERTAINLY does not hurt.
That whole invitation scene is HILARIOUS. Especially because of the lady using British accent to answer him "so you're a thief, I hope you wear a mask". LOL. It's pure Bond humour right there!

Oh,you are Italian?Well,then we are neighbors-I'm Croatian!Hey,were you the one who wrote that post how Craig is barely known in Italy?If not,is he or is he not?Yes,I love "The Devil Wears Prada" because of fashion,I love both Meryl Streep,Anne and Emily Blunt, Simon Baker is nice to look at and the music in the movie was great.The movie also has a good story,showing the sides of fashion world because people(females especially) like to idolize the thought of being in that world."To Catch a Thief"-there's not much that needs to be said about this movie.Hitchcock,Grace Kelly and Carey Grant.Plus the brilliant beginning with cat like a metaphor.

[Veronica]

You know what rises the hell out of me?hOW This immature Craig fans bash other Bond actors.They don't make posts about why Craig is good as Bond(probably because they can't make more than two reasons),they make posts about why others were not good.Yeah,yeah,go bash on actors who made Bond the man every guy wanted to be like and every woman wanted to be with.Go bash on actors who had charm and were suave...you do that... they could just admit how they like Daniel Craig because he is like Jason Bourne...they could just admit they were born when the first Bourne movie came out(2004 ) because then their stupidity would be a little less...stupid.(for the lack of better word)

[Veronica]

I mean come on Moore was knighted for two reasons: his Bond work and his UNICEF work. UNICEF work is admirable and well in Bond movies he was no different than in his real life. Suave,charming,humorous,aristocratic guy. So that means the guy was knighted because he played...himself. that's AWESOME!

[Omega]

The new Lex Luthor This film will bomb so badly that they might not do another one for years with this producer and cast............“Our Lex is disarming and he’s not fake,” says Snyder. “He says what he believes and he says what’s on his mind. If you can unravel the string and decipher what he means, it’s all there.”

I don't care for glowing eyes batman (ironman wannabe) or this lex.

Saying this lex is real um had there been a lex who wasn't given its a comic book movie


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[Alessandra]

Clooney and Cruise bowed out of the Napolean Solo role and Cavill got the nod. Will Cavill bring in as many viewers as the other two who passed on it? MI:5 and UNCLE are opening only 2 weeks apart. Will they cannabolize each other's box office with both films overlapping the spy genre for discerning moviegoers?

If anything, I think people will go see both.

We are, for once, in disagreement over the Henry and Affleck Superman movie. I believe Affleck is gonna be good and I truly can't see what the complaint about Lex Luthor is. Have you never watched Smallville? This is a "younger" Superman movie because Cavill is certainly not an old dude, so they got a Luthor in the same range. Dude looks exactly like Lex Luthor would, just younger. I don't see any problem with that whatsoever. Again, same thing as Smallville. I've read many comments from people who can't wait to see it. Just like the Superman movie did just fine, this one will as well. Probably better, in fact. There again you hated the Superman movie and I actually enjoyed it a lot, so... Guess we have different tastes when it comes to this particular branch of comics

[Alessandra]

Veronica: we love Croatia in my family, my dad went there MANY years ago on a memorable holiday and one of my brothers was there twice in the past two years for the same reason (seaside).

I wouldn't waste time trying to even understand the Craig fanboys, if I were you. A lot are like that because of what you said, others just were never Bond fans to begin with (of the movies, I mean). A minority group are reasonable people who just have preferences we don't share. This last group are obviously people you can have conversation with. Sadly, they are the minority.

Craig was never fit to be Bond. That's just the reality of things, and if one is even remotely objective, they'd say so. Short, blond and ugly (cause HE IS ugly, and some try to change that into "unconventionally attractive" which just makes me laugh) is not who James Bond is. An actor needs to PLAY the part and LOOK the part. Craig can't do either. One can like it anyway because of other factors, but this is the reality of things.