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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
All a bit silly.
Rewatching this in 2021, just after the excellent 'Goldeneye' , it all seems pretty good stuff until about the point the BMW crashes into the rental shop.
After this, the film becomes just set piece after set piece, each one more silly than the previous one. The helicopter v bike was absurd, then just a load of gunplay, explosions, and bad guys of the film extreme death methods and destruction of said bad guys stealth ship in a huge explosion. Fast cut to Bond and the 'Bond girl you didn't think would be the Bond girl' bed time scene. End credits.
What the hell?
Its almost as if the first half of the film was properly thought out and shot, then the second half was just rapidly put together because nobody knew how to end it properly. The bad guy of the film seems lame in the first half, then he's brandishing guns and jumping around his lair cackling like a cartoon character before his demise in the second half.
Pretty forgettable stuff. Bar the BMW 750il chase scene which is really well done. I seem to recall Brosnans next outings as Bond are mainly full of one liner fluff and nonsense even more absurd than this one. Such a shame, he showed great promise as Bond in 'Goldeneye', but then i guess he can only work with the material he is given.
Vietnam in HD: The Beginning (2011)
Amazing footage
Stumbled upon this episode on TV last night, although it was titled 'Vietnam in Colour'.
Fascinating footage and some harrowing narration plus interviews.
How accurate it is I dont know but it certainly caught my attention. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.
First Man (2018)
Could have been brilliant
Could have indeed. Really wanted to like this.
It's a very strange film. Some of the sequences are very well done however, I will give it that. The moon landing felt a little disjointed, and as usual with films of this nature they are always strapped in seconds before launch.
Buzz Aldrin seemed portrayed as a complete dunderhead, bizarrely. Micheal Collins, was he even mentioned? For a brief second or two.
While I never met Neil Armstrong, the interviews i have seen of him around the moon landing and later in life - he doesnt come across as the depressing monotone character portrayed in the film. However I have also read the family thinks it was a good portrayal, so who am I to argue. The rest of the Astronauts are also seemingly portrayed as, well, one dimensional couldnt care less figures. It was hard to like anyone apparently.
Even the spacecraft are seemingly falling apart, dirty, almost 'starwars like' in interior appearance and make the oddest noises whilst in roll program and pitch manoeuvres. If this is actually the case I apologise, I was under the impression especially the command module and lunar module were built in clean environments and not reused in any way, to actually get this worn rag tag look. Very odd.
Still think Apollo 13 did it better.