Goldeneye was many things, but it was certainly not boring.

Same with You Only Live Twice.

I didn't even know You Only Live Twice existed. And I don't think I've seen Goldeneye. I must be a philistine.

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You live under a rock, to be more precise!

You Only Live Twice was scriptwritten by Roald Dahl. It's also the only classic Bond movie I can stomach.

Goldeneye has Sean Bean in before he became known as 'That guy who dies in everything he's in.' and James Bond and Hagrid go on a tank rampage through Moscow, or maybe Saint Petersburg. Who cares. My favourite modern Bond. By that I mean the only one I like (Not having seen Casino Royale).

Casino Royale is the only Bond I've seen. It was decent.

See You Only Live Twice. It's set in Japan, stars a team of ninjas and has THE original volcanic lair.

Originally that was written without the has. Though corrected, I stand by the implication the volcano was a member of the cast. Quite possibly the most integral.

Like The Lord of the Rings, basically? ;3

I think you're confusing Mount Doom with the One Ring and/or the Eye of Sauron.

In any case you're very silly.

You Only Live Twice has Sean Connery as Bond, too, just as the icing on the cake. I'm not sure if it was just the era but he had something that the other Bonds didn't quite capture, for better or for worse.

I was being sarcastic and no I wasn't confused.

Noooo way.

I've been watching a lot of Modern Family. Funny show.

the dark Knight rises. I disliked it.

Paranorman. I liked it.

I still need to see Paranorman. At this point, there's no excuse for the fact that I haven't.

Dark Knight Rises had so many plot holes, cliches and downright bad writing choices, but for some reason I left the theater satisfied. Nolan did a decent job directing, I thought.

I understood every word that Batman said. It felt unsatisfying for some reason

I still hate the fact that Christian Bale is still doing the deep and overly dramatic smoker's voice. It wasn't as bad as previous films. I actually watched TDKR without attempting to puncture my eardrums.

I saw part of a new ballet adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland on BBC4 the other night. It was shit.
The choreography was a typical post-Nijinsky affair (as far as I could tell), the music sounded hackneyed and archaic, as if it was trying to be somewhere between Stravinsky and Debussy (both great composers, but I think it's time to progress in terms of creating new material), and the only modern element was the use of projections to create backgrounds and special effects.
I was also disappointed (but not surprised) that they decided to base their work off old material. I don't remember the last time I saw something actually original broadcast.

Needless to say, I turned it off after a while, since I felt I was wasting my time watching someone else waste theirs.

Idiocracy.

I liked it.

Speaking of ballet, I recently finished Princess Tutu which has now become one of my very favourite anime.

It's ridiculously incredible and a crying shame that because of the title and premise people will listen even less than usual when I advise you to watch it and show your younger family/children how fantastic kids shows can be.

I'm sold.

I've almost finished the seventh season of The Office and dear god has the quality dropped from the first four seasons, I don't think I'll even bother with the final seasons. It's still an ok show and sort of fun to watch if you're bored but I think the show really suffered from Jim and Pam getting together, I mean one of the reasons I really liked the first seasons was because their relationship was so awkward with Roy involved in it but then they just screwed it up. You could say the same happened to Frasier, but then again they had the whole Daphne and Niles thing going for way longer.

Some characters in the show are still gold though like Stanley, Toby and Ryan, but they also got some really fucking stupid characters like Erin, Holly, Andy (fuck that guy) and numerous others. Even Dwight has been pretty shit for quite some time now. But yeah, probably won't watch the last seasons unless I'm really bored.

That's true of many shows these days. Fringe, Heroes, Breaking Bad, etc.

I wouldn't say Breaking Bad has taken a turn for the worse, actually I thought that the first half of the fifth season was really interesting. Can't say about the other ones.

Don't you fucking dare lump Breaking Bad in with Fringe and Heroes. I will desecrate your family values.

watched The Hobbit.

it was alright. enjoyed it.

yep.

Yeah....Let's talk about The Hobbit. Because it was not alright. It was bad. Very bad.

Let's start by discussing the pacing. There wasn't any. When the movie started I was enjoying it. The dwarves were silly, but not too silly. Some of the acting was bad (Ian McQueen or whatever he is called was awful as Gandalf) but for the most part it was going really well. But then the action sequences started, and they never ended. Everything that happened in the movie from that point on was just an excuse to set up another dull, poorly choreographed action sequence. Important plot points were sped through so that we could get more shots of the cast falling down things, and holy fuck do they fall down a lot of shit. It should have been called The Hobbit: Falling Down, but then Joel Schumacher, and Michael Douglas might have been offended. The only time that any given non-battle scene was given time to breath and actually exist is when they were at Rivendell, and my god was that an abomination of a scene. It completely pulls you out of the story with its dark and somber overtones, and also does this weird thing where it shows Saruman being untrustworthy well before he became untrustworthy.

And why the fuck would he add story elements and then blaze through the existing ones like they didn't matter? The Azog the Defiler shit was just fucking ridiculous. Not because it was necessarily bad, but because it turned a bloated film into an almost unwatchable, obese snorefest. Why would you treat the Gollum part of the story (arguably the most important part of the story) so flippantly, barely giving it any dramatic weight at all, but spend almost an hour going back, and forth with a fucking goblin that you made up, you stupid, fat shit?

Peter Jackson doesn't understand that action scenes don't create drama. So, he hamfistedly shoved about 4000 of them into this over long piece of shit. Which wouldn't be so bad if

a. There wasn't actual drama readily available

or

b. They were well done instead of just a lot of falling down.

Yeah, it was alright.

I saw Life of Pi. I quite liked it.

Then again, I was with a http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7...rzd8o1_100.gif girl so I was fairly cheerful anyway.

Indie Game: The Movie.

It was pretty interesting and Team Meat seem like very cool guys. Phil Fish on the other hand, jesus christ what a fucking whining hipster, okay, I get that he had a ton of stress because Fez was very hyped and he had been working on it for a very long time but still, ugh. Jonathan Blow seems like such a weirdo, when Braid got extremely good reviews and people loved it he just got plain depressed about it, what the hell. But yeah, interesting to see what they went through to get their first major games published.

I don't understand why anyone would pay money for that kind of vanity project.

Me neither, but it was a part of the latest Humble Bundle so I figured why not watch it.

I got it as part of the Humble Bundle too, haven't watched it, I'd rather spend my time playing their games. The only ones I'd be interested in would be Team Meat anyway.

I love the idea of self gratifying circlejerk vanity project in a 'humble' bundle.

WoF is so angry these days.

No idea how I double posted.

Magic. Actually I think you must be Jewish.

Peter Jackson is reminding me more and more of George Lucas and that is sad.

I am afraid you're right.
plus it was totally unnecessary to bloat the plot out to three movies, at least you shouldn't expect that he'd rush through the scenes. there is more than enough time for atmosphere and character development, but they screwed it.
the hobbit shouldn't be that epic in the first place. (including the music)
even when out of the place, I enjoyed the scenes with radagast.

I still prefer the deitch version of the hobbit



edit:
I just realized, I repeated what you said.

I care about The Hobbit for one reason: Smaug. If he looks like a shitty generic dragon than I'm going to be pissed.

Benedict Cumberbatch's voice will make my loins vibrate.

He looked pretty shitty and generic on the original cover and in the Tolkien bestiary, how do you define a non-generic dragon?