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Re: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

Ryan Stuckey — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:54:54 -0000

Well I've added 3 more movies since posting this and they were all ranked above it so it's now 1550/1770

Re: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

Nigel Druitt — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:25:02 -0000

Seriously, pissing fire is want you WANTED to see?

I jest. And though I haven't seen this (and, now, probably won't), I agree with the rest of your review.

Just curious: #1547 out of how many films on your chart?

Re: New Movies Streaming on Netflix Instant Watch: Sept 19th – 25th

Nathaniel Richmond — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:39:57 -0000

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Re: ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

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Re: Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

Colin "Fitz" Biggs — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:06:32 -0000

The overrated category is always inviting an argument. No two people agree on what film is overrated. Except for Red State.

Re: Flickchart Daily: Weekend Box Office and The Week’s Expiring Netflix Instant Watch Movies

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Re: Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

Colin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:47:44 -0000

Ah, I see what you've done there. You've put Kevin Smith in for Best Director and then, when anyone votes for him, you can immediately ignore the rest of that guy's ballot. Clever.

Re: The Best Action Movies on Netflix Instant Watch

Alicia M Clark — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:14:11 -0000

valhalla rising i have to clue what that was about oh my gosh i just dont understand

Re: New DVDs, Blu-rays and Netflix Streaming Movies: January 18, 2011

Nathaniel Richmond — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:40:22 -0000

I'm totally sold on DISH's Blockbuster@Home package where I can rent blu-rays, movies, TV shows and games by mail and stream thousands of movies to my TV and PC. DISH only charges $10/mo for all of this and you get 20 premium movie channels. I have 100,000 titles to choose from by mail with the newest released movies and customer have unlimited store exchanges instead of waiting for the next disc to be sent. A DISH co-worker told me that Blockbuster gets new releases 28 days before Netflix and Redbox does and they have 3,000 game titles to choose from.

Re: Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

Murray Robert — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:44:09 -0000

Why is Red State not in the Worst Film category?

Re: Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

Danny Hastie — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:08:03 -0000

I find the lack of Win Win disturbing.

Re: Vote In The 1st Annual Flickcharters’ Choice Awards!

Mark Salamon — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:51:34 -0000

Flickcharters snub! How can The Help not be nominated for Best Overall Cast?

Re: Flickchart Daily: Weekend Box Office and The Week’s Expiring Netflix Instant Watch Movies

Jandy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:16:47 -0000

That Nicolas Cage clip was AWESOME. Thanks for that. :)

OSS117 isn't only Jean Dujardin before The Artist, it's also Michel Hazanavicius before The Artist. I haven't seen it, though. Probably won't have time before it expires, unfortunately.
Totally agreed on Charade. I rewatched it a couple of times recently, and it cracked my Top 100, no problem. Simply delightful.

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Re: Drive: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

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Re: Drive: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

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Re: Everyone Has Their Favorite Bond

Derek Armstrong — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:27:40 -0000

Thanks Nigel and Travis.

Nigel, I'm with you on Tomorrow Never Dies. Brosnan's first two Bond movies are great, but I prefer TND. After that, Brosnan goes WAY downhill.

Travis, excellent point about the creative vision being managed by the producers. I agree I was painting a somewhat misleading picture when I indicated that the Bond movies over the years have not had a consistent vision or tone. I think I was thinking primarily of Casino Royale, when it was decided to make Bond a lot more "hip and modern" and remove most of the humor. Then again, I found the Timothy Dalton movies pretty humorless as well.

Yeah, I neglected to mention Barry because I am generally not as confident speaking about film scores as I am about other aspects of making movies -- and would consider myself especially unqualified to compare this score to other scores in the series.

Good point on Khan's eyeball snack preceding Temple of Doom. I did actually think of Temple of Doom when I watched that scene this time around.

Re: Everyone Has Their Favorite Bond

Travis McClain — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:55:03 -0000

Nigel, would I be correct in guessing that you started with Bond with GoldenEye?

Re: Everyone Has Their Favorite Bond

Nigel Druitt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:42:54 -0000

Great post; love it.

My favorite Bond movie is either GoldenEye or Tomorrow Never Dies. My favorite theme is "The World is Not Enough" by Garbage. (Brosnan is, of course, my Bond.)

My favorite pre-Brosnan movie is either Licence to Kill or From Russia With Love. (I lean towards the former.) They are also, I think, the only pre-Brosnan 007 movies that I've seen more than once. The glaring omission on my Bond list is Diamonds Are Forever; I've never seen it, and that's bad, because Connery would be my second-favorite Bond.

Re: Everyone Has Their Favorite Bond

Travis McClain — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:46:05 -0000

Terrific stuff, Derek! You've managed to piece together an actually reasonable defense of Octopussy, which I suspect few Bond fans would have attempted (or believed possible). Excellent points about generational perspectives and the way that our views on Bond are largely informed by our initial first exposures to his world. It's worth noting that Roger Moore played Bond longer than anyone; seven movies across twelve years (versus Connery's six across ten).

Nice nods on the music but I'm stunned you neglected to mention John Barry by name. For my money, this is one of the gems of his Bond work--which is saying something indeed, as he's responsible for the definitive sound of the whole franchise! His Octopussy score was especially welcome following Bill Conti's disco-themed For Your Eyes Only work...and the assertion of vintage Barry was doubly important in 1983, with Never Say Never Again set to pit Sean Connery's one-off return to the role outside the Eon Bond canon. Barry = Bond, frankly, and this score proves why.

If I was to add an eleventh great thing about Octopussy, it would certainly be Kristina Wayborn as Magda. Not only is she absolutely gorgeous and alluring, but that moment when she leaves Bond's hotel room--with the Faberge egg--by falling over the rail and letting her body scarf unravel is one of my favorite moments in the entire series. It's one of the cleverest things I've ever seen done with clothing in any movie, and it could only have happened in a Bond picture!

Just a couple of minor notes:

Readers should be mindful that Kamal Kahn presented the sheep's head soup almost an entire year before Indiana Jones visited the Temple of Doom.

The Bond franchise is one where creative continuity has been maintained by the producers, rather than directors. Albert R. Broccoli produced the first seventeen movies from Eon Productions (the first nine with his Eon co-founder, Harry Saltzman) and the reins have been handed over since to his stepson, Michael G. Wilson and daughter, Barbara Broccoli. Each of them has worked their way through the ranks of the production company over the years; Wilson began as an assistant on Goldfinger back in 1964 and co-wrote all five of the Bond movies made in the 1980s...including Octopussy!

Re: Flickchart Daily: Friday’s New Movie Releases

Nigel Druitt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:56:31 -0000

Hm. I kind of want to see Safe House...

Re: Drive: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review

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Re: Flickchart Daily: Friday’s New Movie Releases

movieguyjon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:24:34 -0000

Rampart is TERRIBLE. Woody Harrelson does a great job as the disgraced cop, but the rest of the movie is just not all that fun to watch and the film grinds to a complete halt about half of the way through. No one else really turns in a noteworthy performance, instead just being caricatures of themselves.

I actually have my AFI review posted here on the Flickchart blog.

http://blog.flickchart.com/afi...

Re: Flickchart Daily: Friday’s New Movie Releases

Jandy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:21 -0000

I'm so not interested in any of these movies it kind of hurts. Not sure what we're going to see this weekend...maybe The Woman in Black. Or try to find Tinker Tailor or something still playing nearby.