What Have You Just Seen... Marks Out of 5

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 28 Nov 2006, 07:24

bradavon wrote:
tom2681 wrote:You said "I've ordered TLD". Think about it....
Nope still confused. Does it stand for something? -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLD

That's so brad! Use someone and then ignore and never call him again.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Nov 2006, 19:49

You've managed to confuse me again???

Markgway wrote:No, you haven't. It's just PC dribble as usual.

Nah in this case not PC just respect. I've met a few latinos and they're nothing at all like their stereotypes.

Markgway wrote:Huh? I never said it was. It's his first time as Bond.

I know but the way you were going on about Craig you'd think he had no previous acting experience.

tom2681 wrote:Those were boring IMO.

. OMG I'm speechless.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 28 Nov 2006, 22:55

bradavon wrote:You've managed to confuse me again???

Easily done.

Nah in this case not PC just respect. I've met a few latinos and they're nothing at all like their stereotypes.

Oh, I see. Because you've met a few nice Latinos, no Latino can ever be a screen villain, as the ones you met are representative of all the world's Latin population? Have you met any nice Polish people? Can they be baddies per chance?

I know but the way you were going on about Craig you'd think he had no previous acting experience.

Not at all. You just totally misread what I was saying.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Nov 2006, 23:12

Markgway wrote:Easily done.

Lately it seems so

. Do you get what LD means?

Oh, I see. Because you've met a few nice Latinos, no Latino can ever be a screen villain, as the ones you met are representative of all the world's Latin population? Have you met any nice Polish people? Can they be baddies per chance?

Now you're just being flippant. We'll agree to disagree but you new very well that's not what I meant.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Nov 2006, 02:55

bradavon wrote:Do you get what LD means?

Laserdisc or Lost Dragon? 8)

Now you're just being flippant.

Of course I'm being flippant: it's what your silly *POV deserves.

You're the ONLY person I've ever heard complain about Sanchez being a Latino stereotype.

Where do you get this stuff, honestly?

*And before you ask... POV = Point of View.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Nov 2006, 09:02

It's important to the plot Sanchez is a Latino, someone has to be the bad guy.

For some reason I thought there was an audio glitch (?) in my copy, it plays fine but during the part when Milton Crest (?) is talking to Lupé (sp?) he says "You better watch yourself, girlie. I've seen a lotta girls like you come.. and go" on the actual soundtrack it sounds like "You gr.. better watch yourself, girlie". Like a layer change or something.

Wierd...

Anyway,

Licence To Kill - 3.5/5 (as a Bond movie) - enjoyable but doesn't feel very "Bond"-ish. Nice to see it in its uncut glory though.
The UE transfer is excellent.

IronMonkey · Post by **IronMonkey** » 29 Nov 2006, 10:14

grim_tales wrote:The UE transfer is excellent.

Unfortunately the same can't be said about the god-awful "remastering" job done on GoldenEye. It's terrible! Both The Living Daylights & Licence To Kill look far better, yet they are older films!

The cropping is also very noticeable! I wish I had kept my uncut R1 version but I sold it on E-Bay a while back in anticipation of these new releases.

I don't know what went wrong in the restoration process but surely this DVD deserves a recall & a proper remaster?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Nov 2006, 10:22

Did you notice the soundtrack issue on LTK: UE?
I tried playing it back but got the same result all the time so doubt the disc was faulty or anything.

IronMonkey · Post by **IronMonkey** » 29 Nov 2006, 12:17

No I didn't but then its a while since I last saw it on anything other than the Ultimate Edition DVD. I'll check it out tonight if I get the chance...

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Nov 2006, 17:44

Torchwood (Episode 6) - 3/5

OK episode but a bit silly and let down by a weak ending (again). This show wants to be a UK X Files but isn't really

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 29 Nov 2006, 19:43

hey,

Law Or Justice? - 2/5

Standard courtoom drama done at Shaw Brother's, featuring effective exploitation when it does hit and some valid questions of morals and ethic. Otherwise, not much happens that is noteworthy in Taylor Wong's frame. Except for when the ending hits that is.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Nov 2006, 20:44

Markgway wrote:You're the ONLY person I've ever heard complain about Sanchez being a Latino stereotype.

That's because you've not been asking the right people

. Seriously it's not his role per say (which was fine) it's the number of stereotype Latinos and others as I mentioned get.

Anyway moving on . . .

Markgway wrote:Where do you get this stuff, honestly?

It's out there as much as your opinions on Scottish independence. Where do you get that silly POV from? Years of brutality at the hands of the English hordes maybe?

Markgway wrote:*And before you ask... POV = Point of View.

I know

grim_tales wrote:It's important to the plot Sanchez is a Latino, someone has to be the bad guy.

How exactly? Making him American and setting it in America would suddenly mean LTK wouldn't work? It's only important because they set it in South America around drugs.

Again moving on . . .

grim_tales wrote:Licence To Kill - 3.5/5 (as a Bond movie) - enjoyable but doesn't feel very "Bond"-ish. Nice to see it in its uncut glory though.
The UE transfer is excellent.

Good to hear. Mine is on order.

IronMonkey wrote:Unfortunately the same can't be said about the god-awful "remastering" job done on GoldenEye. It's terrible! Both The Living Daylights & Licence To Kill look far better, yet they are older films!

It's only a bit better than the SE right? I've no problem with the SE look.

I don't think any of the Brosnan SE's are worth upgrading (cuts ignored). The R1 SEs are already fine.

IronMonkey wrote:The cropping is also very noticeable! I wish I had kept my uncut R1 version but I sold it on E-Bay a while back in anticipation of these new releases.

I thought the cropping was the same, no?

brooce-leroy · Post by **brooce-leroy** » 29 Nov 2006, 21:05

Brad,

South America (the likes of Columbia, Cuba) are actually where a very large majority of iilegal drugs originate from. It's not stereotyping. It's a fact. North America get drugs supplied through from South America. Therefore, I don't know why you have this problem with a Latino druglord in a film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Nov 2006, 21:44

I know that, points already made moving on.

p.s - Okay just quickly as no one is getting my point at all.

The stereotyping is the American constantly portraying Latinos as drug lord criminals, it's got naff all to do with where most American drugs come from. You'd think that was obvious by what I've been saying.

Bad Boys 2 or maybe Crank anyone?

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 29 Nov 2006, 23:07

Once a Thief 4/5
This is basically John Woo lite. Enjoyable stuff but I was surprised at how unPC it was - the heroes killing innocent lives in cold blood. However, as it's blatantly meant to be a piss take, I think we can forgive Woo for going a bit slapstick. Nice mix, although some of the jokes went a bit over my head....

I think I've now seen all of John Woo's major HK action films (there's not really that many).

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 30 Nov 2006, 10:24

Rob-B-Hood 2.5/5

Entertaining but horribly overlong and action-lite Jackie Chan movie.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Nov 2006, 10:37

Actually I think Torchwood was a 3.5/5

The set up is great, a bit like "Dog Soldiers" (strange how some plots here are take-offs from movies....?) but the ending...

Harkness should have just shot the bastards.. they're cannibals. Gwen: Just give me an hour with him!" Oh dear. Bad Gwen!

They must have thought the "it makes me happy" line was daring. It wasn't. I just thought "Is that it?"

I do like the characters Harkness and Owen though. The odd but of swearing is the only reason this is on at 9pm

brooce-leroy · Post by **brooce-leroy** » 30 Nov 2006, 12:33

Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead man's Chest 2/5

Horribly disjointed, lacking cohesion, ridiculously overlong. The worst thing is, after sitting through it all, it doesn't even have a proper conclusion (yes, I know it's part 2 of a trilogy, so we will have to wait for part 3). A massive disappointment after the very enjoyable swashbuckling adventure that was the first entry.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 Nov 2006, 15:51

Thank you. Finally someone who agrees with me on Dead Man's Chest.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Nov 2006, 16:48

I agree with you Bruce, not as good as the first one.
I think you gave the film 0/5 Tom, Bruce gave it 2/5. I gave it 3/5.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Nov 2006, 16:50

If anyone is watching "Torchwood", Episode 7 apparently contains some lesbian action for Tosh (the Japanese bird)

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Nov 2006, 19:31

Pirates 1 was very average. There's no way I'm sitting through Pirates 2 or 3.

From Russia with Love

7 out of 10

A big improvement after the limp Dr. No (worse than OHMSS IMO).

I loved the cold war setting, the thriller over action emphasis, Connery as bond of course and the gradual development of SPECTRE.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 Dec 2006, 00:42

bradavon wrote:Pirates 1 was very average. There's no way I'm sitting through Pirates 2 or 3.

That's how I feel.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 01 Dec 2006, 00:50

I liked the first part. Part 2 was waaaay too long. And I am only watching the third part because of Chow Yun-fat.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 Dec 2006, 03:29

Not even Chow will get me to sit thru 2.5 hrs of "arrrrrrr, swash me buckles!" with Johnny Depp slumming and Orlando Bland.