Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-27 (Wednesday)

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

Finished cleaning my place yesterday morning, and then had family come
to town, so I didn't get through much yesterday:

I(We) watched a couple of the Pierce Brosnan-Bond movies off Pluto TV's
"007" channel. (Sidenote: When I first discovered Pluto TV, years ago,
it had a Bond channel. But it quickly disappeared back then. I'm
expecting the same again - I'll bet Pluto will have a "007" channel for
the holidays, but I bet it's gone by the New Year).

I'm quite sure I saw "Die Another Day" in the theater. I can't remember
if I saw "The World Is Not Enough" in the theater - I'm sure I must
have, but I don't remember it... Anyway, these were a fine way to pass
the time.

GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) are excellent
movies. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was a hideously expensive movie about
an evil (even more evil) Rupert Murdoch or Robert Maxwell as a
supervillain but the movie just dragged and dragged. Of course Maxwell
was already dead.

I've been boycotting Die Another Day (2002). The first half is supposed
to be entertaining but the second half relies entirely upon special
effects for a lousy science fiction story that doesn't belong in a James
Bond action movie.

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