- And as a follow up to a really busy morning, it's time to go to the dentist! Zowee! #
- Actually, it's a madcap afternoon of dentist, comic books, and a Hep-B vaccination! Do I know how to live it up or what? #
- "Doctor No" is probably my least favorite Bond flick, Ursula Andress notwithstanding. #
- "G-Force", on the other hand, is far more amusing and action-packed than it deserves to be. #
- Have reconfirmed that "Temple of Doom" is as substandard an Indy movie as I'd recalled previously. Way too much gratuitous everything. #
- 3 of 5 stars to The Barsoom Project by Larry Niven Link #
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So you prefer The Man with the Golden Gun to Dr. No?
@Avo – Hrm. I like the music better in GG than DN. I think it’s a more interesting story, and the conventional Bond trappings have been added (DN suffers from being the first oft he series and thus more like a prototype Bond film).
On the other hand GG is executed pretty poorly. So I’d say DN is a better movie, but GG is a better Bond movie.
Temple of Doom: not a great movie, but still the only Indy flick where our hero actually stops the bad guys from doing what the planned all along.
@Doyce – Ha! A good point. In both Raiders and Last Crusade, the baddies succeed in their goals, only to get hoist on their own metaphysical petards. One can argue that Indy mitigates the damage a bit along the way (e.g., saving Marian), but Temple is the only one of the three where he actually stops the main bad guy (the bad guys as a whole are stopped by a deus ex britisharmy, but the heads have been cut off by Indy & Co. before then).
(Can’t speak to Crystal Skull, as I’ve only seen it once and remember only a little of it.)
On the other hand, I found myself wishing multiple times that Willie had met her end in that pool of lava.
I’ll also add, by the bye, that for all that people seriously ragged on the Atomic Refrigerator Shelter in Crystal Skull, it’s really no less improbable than the whole inflatable raft scene in Temple of Doom.
James Bond films that I did not like:
Dr. No (Ursula Andress not withstanding)
Octopussy
View to a Kill
Licence to Kill
Die Another Day
@bd –
Dr. No (Ursula Andress not withstanding) – already agreed
Octopussy – Had some definite weaknesses, but one of the few classic Bond Girls to approach James as an equal. Also some occasional serious acting by Roger Moore.
View to a Kill – Moore is beyond long-in-the-tooth here, but it’s hard to reject a movie with Christopher Walken as the head villain and Grace Jones as his lead henchperson.
Licence to Kill – Dalton is one of my favorite Bonds. Seeing him go off the ranch here is pretty cool.
Die Another Day – I don’t remember a lot of it, but I recall not being wowed. Pretty sure I don’t own it, and only saw it once in the theater.
Crystal Skull is the same thing: Bad Guys get what they want, then get killed by it.
That was what I vaguely recalled, yeah. Oh, and Indy gets punched in the face a lot.