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Aculias
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posted June 26, 2007 09:43 PM |
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Oh brother forget it Watcher, if your going to get all info on me LOL.
Yes in the books he has been tortured many times in pretty bad ways.
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posted January 04, 2009 07:02 AM |
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Revived.
Got the James Bond Ultimate Collectors set today. It includes every movie up until the newest one, Quantum Solace. 47 discs. It's huge.  Has anyone else picked this up?
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posted January 04, 2009 11:20 PM |
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I've got two volumes of the 4-part collector's thing, but not that.
My favorite James Bond movie would have to be Goldfinger. Just awesome. Best theme song, great and hilarious finish, good villain. Moonraker was ludicrously good as well (astronaut pew pew laser space battles? Sign me up) and Goldeneye for the awesome tank chase. Maybe For Your Eyes Only too, cool theme song and a good movie.
I thought Casino Royale was good, but the ending SUCKED; Bond isn't supposed to get that emotional about the woman who's changing for the next movie anyways. The ending to the ending was great though.
As far as Quantum of Solace goes, what were your opinions? Personally, I thought it was a good action movie, but a terrible Bond movie.
Reasons why? The lead woman wasn't attractive (horrendous burn scars didn't do it for me ), the villain wasn't cool/good, there was no overblown ending action scene/ridiculous escape, reused an old motif from Goldfinger, it was a sequel, and the theme song was GODAWFUL.
My two main objections though, were the lack of the traditional over-the-top "Bond"-style ending, including the woman (not that I was on the edge of my seat for that, lol, but it's the traditional ending), and that it was a sequel. #1 is something that every Bond movie must have to be a Bond movie in my opinoin. #2 is something that every Bond movie must not be.
Think about it. If you had to slog through 22 movies instead of jumping right in wherever you want, or even two or three connected to get an idea of what's happening, who would want to? James Bond movies are better as one-offs, I think.
And the ending fight was just disappointing. He shoots five-ten guards, the chick kills some lame Central American general who wasn't scary or intimidating at all, and then they run through a fire. Compare that to Moonraker, which had fleets of astronauts battling in space with lasers, or Goldfinger where they "poison gas" and raid Fort Knox. Plus, the villain was nowhere near as frightening or effective as say General Petrov/006, who mow down an entire base of civilians in cold blood and shoot the Russian Defense Minister.
It had great action sequences but the Bond elements were lacking, I felt.
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posted January 04, 2009 11:36 PM |
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Got the James Bond Ultimate Collectors set today. It includes every movie up until the newest one, Quantum Solace. 47 discs. It's huge. Has anyone else picked this up?
That's a reason why I don't like 'series' or whatever (many sequels) packed into so many discs, so I probably would turn to an.. ahem... Xvid version
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the villain wasn't cool/good
I thought villains are supposed to be evil? 
(I know what you meant, just tossing with ya' )
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posted January 05, 2009 01:36 AM |
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That's a reason why I don't like 'series' or whatever (many sequels) packed into so many discs, so I probably would turn to an.. ahem... Xvid version
I've gotta say that that isn't that good of a reason. It's got all movies in it, like I said, but it has 2 discs in each dvd case. One for the movie and one for the special features. Casino Royale has 2 discs in it as well. I was wrong about 47 discs, it's only 42 discs. 21 movies, each with 2 discs in there. So it isn't that much really. It's not as if there were 100's of James Bond movies made and all of them are put onto 42 or so discs. There were only 21 movies ever made. Although I KINDA agree with you when there are so many things packed onto a disc. I got the Seinfeld entire series and that came with about 37 discs, with a few episodes on each plus a few special features on each one as well. There were so many episodes that were made and it can be a little confusing at times.
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posted January 05, 2009 01:39 AM |
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Edited by TheDeath at 01:40, 05 Jan 2009.
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For me it is. I hate to have too many discs just for one 'subject' or 'series' or whatever. TV shows on DVD, is kinda overkill.
That, or expensive, but that's beside the point (no really, I do have some DVDs, don't take me wrong)
EDIT: You can fit an entire 12 episodes on a single layer DVD, and I think 22 or so episodes on a dual layer DVD. If they are in Xvid of course, with a bitrate of about 1000 Mbps ("varying", optimized of course, not exactly 1000).
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posted January 05, 2009 01:53 AM |
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Yes, but James Bond are full length movies. Kinda hard to fit a few of them on a single layered disc. TV episodes can fit about 12 but not if they have other things such as special features or whatever. Although I guess it's good that I have the entire collection instead of individual discs that might not have any special features on it. I'm big on special features. I like watching commentaries, deleted scenes, outtakes etc.
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