Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted January 27, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2017 Fucking septic song, that, C-Bol. Septic. Â An absolutely muck film that followed it, but The World is Not Enough is probably my favourite Bond tune ever. Shirley Manson's voice makes me want to do fierce awful things to my right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 On the subject of Bond themes this is the greatest Bond theme that never was.The original is great but there's something really haunting about this. Josh Homme definitely deserves to be given the gig at somepoint. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 27, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2017 Did Trainspotting 2 today. Really good. Toned down the comedy a little bit and I liked the fact that it made Spud more than just comic relief as well. Well worth seeing and waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 28, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) I remember one kicking about that Elton John was supposed to be doing for a "View to a Kill" and it got canned very last minute for Duran Duran. He was raging. I'm sure it was on Youtube. It might have been one of his songs from his "Ice on Fire" album. Â ADDED: Found it. Elton John - "Shoot Down the Moon" Â Â You could probably see it as an ending song, but you're probably best with Duran Duran's for the opener.. Edited January 28, 2017 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick Soapdish Posted January 28, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2017 I remember one kicking about that Elton John was supposed to be doing for a "View to a Kill" and it got canned very last minute for Duran Duran. He was raging. I'm sure it was on Youtube. It might have been one of his songs from his "Ice on Fire" album. Â ADDED: Found it. Elton John - "Shoot Down the Moon" Â Â You could probably see it as an ending song, but you're probably best with Duran Duran's for the opener.. I love the almost Bond songs. Didn't Muse have one as well? I do think the one for Spectre was shocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick Soapdish Posted January 28, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2017 I just watched The Girl On The Train. The trailer looked great. The film was decidedly average. It was like a big budget 5 afternoon movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 28, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 28, 2017 It was alright, much like the book. The hype over both is baffling though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted January 28, 2017 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 28, 2017 I read the book last summer due to all the fuss, and it started off well (the unreliable narrator stuff was nice) but it turned into an ultra-generic by the numbers thriller and ended up not wowing me at all. It was alright but not sure why it got all the praise it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 29, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) Watched 1984 (for the love of Big Brother) yesterday on NowTV due to John Hurt's passing and it was better than I remembered. Gregor Fisher playing a wee snivelling, wee bastard is a bit odd due to being Rab C. Nesbitt but there you go.  Whole music situation about it is complicated too. Virgin (who made the film) wanted the Eurythmics to do it, but the other producer wanted Dominic Muldowney (who I've never actually heard of) to do it and there was a big court case. No Eurythmics music is in the film, but they made a theme song and released a video for it (which is below). So there you go. Watch the film.  Edited January 29, 2017 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I read the book last summer due to all the fuss, and it started off well (the unreliable narrator stuff was nice) but it turned into an ultra-generic by the numbers thriller and ended up not wowing me at all. It was alright but not sure why it got all the praise it did.Pretty much how I felt. Really enjoyed it to start with and then lost interest. It was as if the author just ran out of ideas and went for something easy. The problem I had with the movie was that everyone just felt cast wrong. The location shift was pointless. The cast was full of people I've always enjoyed their work but here it just didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 29, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 There wasn't really much wrong with the cast. I don't really like Justin Theroux so I'd have replaced him with anyone else and Luke Evans should never be trying to do proper acting. It was certainly stronger in its early stages before it just became a pulpy whodunnit, much like the book. My biggest disappointment was that it didn't really look to solve any of the book's flaws and tried to be too much of a 'proper' adaptation. Â Still, Haley Bennett tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted January 29, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 I remember one kicking about that Elton John was supposed to be doing for a "View to a Kill" and it got canned very last minute for Duran Duran. He was raging. I'm sure it was on Youtube. It might have been one of his songs from his "Ice on Fire" album. Â ADDED: Found it. Elton John - "Shoot Down the Moon" Â Â You could probably see it as an ending song, but you're probably best with Duran Duran's for the opener.. Just listened to this with my eyes closed, imagining silhouettes of dancing naked women and phallic guns on a lava lamp background. Didn't quite do it to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 29, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) Yeah, song is a pretty crap attempt really. You could see Shirley Bassey knocking it out in the 60s or something. Edited January 29, 2017 by bAzTNM#1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CavemanLynn Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Just got back from Split. Full of Shyamalan's usual problem of underwriting and underediting, and the ending (to the story) was a bit disappointing (I'd have preferred something more "proactive" from the heroine) but an enjoyable 2 hours. I could have watched McAvoy being insane for that long, and I worried I'd developed a Hermione Granger for Anya Taylor-Joy, but I was relieved to discover she's 20. Mesmerising young actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Nick Soapdish Posted January 30, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2017 (edited) There wasn't really much wrong with the cast. I don't really like Justin Theroux so I'd have replaced him with anyone else and Luke Evans should never be trying to do proper acting. It was certainly stronger in its early stages before it just became a pulpy whodunnit, much like the book. My biggest disappointment was that it didn't really look to solve any of the book's flaws and tried to be too much of a 'proper' adaptation.  Still, Haley Bennett tho. Justin Theroux is definitely never bettering his turn as an Irish man in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. I have to say Haley Bennett didn't do it for me at all. I like Blunt, but found her below her best in this. Am going to have to watch Edge Of Tomorrow again to wash of the stentch  The Girl On The Train - Just a poundland Gone Girl. Even found the score to be a bit of a rip off of the score from that (was it another Trent score? I figured as it was a Fincher film it was). Not one of Danny Elfman's finest Edited January 30, 2017 by Nick Soapdish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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