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That's pretty much what the Daily Mail's rumour says when you read it, that Bond is pulled back in while no longer being 007.

Technically, it's a rumor sourced from the Daily Mail.

I thought it was good as well. The effects looked good on the big screen. The Male lead was weak, but hes the weakest character in the manga, so him being the weakest character in the movie worked for me

Its computer animated, but they're dropping the framerate on it (presumably so it mimics hand drawn animation or offset weight issues with 3D animation vs traditional animation).

I also thought he'd already passed away until I saw him on a birthday list a few weeks back (he turned 89 on June 27). RIP.

Please keep tv and streaming topics to the open thread for that topic.

Friends don't let friends watch MST3K.

That's not my profile. Mine already has a cover photo on it due to suparpowars. 😨

Arte Johnson

The option when it is activated is called a "Cover Photo". If it is/were activated for you, you'll see it right next to the "EDIT PROFILE" button on your user profile (you can click on yourself in the upper right corner to get to your profile).

Please address the topics and not individual posters.

Forgot the link for reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.

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Predator, Predator 2, Predators and The Predator for those keeping score at home.

I actually liked Alien: Resurrection (aka Alien 4) although, to be fair, it stuffs up the ending. Also I saw it on a double bill with Mortal Kombat: Annihilation which might have adjusted my appreciation for it. IMO, Alien3 (aka Alien 3) is a messy film, and I think its disjointing how little it is a follow-up to Aliens (aka Alien 2). If you can get past that, there are a few things to like in the film. The two Alien vs Predator films are a very mixed bag - the first one is sloppy but feels right, the second one about midway through made me feel like the filmmakers were intentionally aiming to insult my intelligence. Prometheus is a mess that probably needed a few more passes at the script and Alien: Covenant (Alien 5? 6? 7? 8? Do we count the AVP and Prometheus films?) basically pulls an Alien3 and jettisons the stuff that was worth saving from Prometheus and tells a bad story (sorry, but I just don't care about David and it will never make sense that Shaw would rebuild his body after the events of Prometheus). There were better films to be made out of these ideas. I liked the first three Predator films, haven't seen the fourth (aka The Predator). Terminator and Terminator 2 are both good, but much like Alien and Aliens, I give the edge to the original film. Terminator 3 isn't very good IMO. Terminator: Salvation has some good ideas but basically pulls an Alien: Resurrection on the ending. Terminator: Genysis feels like its from an alternate universe. I enjoyed it but I can see why it may have felt too different for other fans. Also the trailers spoiled the big twist which probably didn't help things. Looking forward to the new one.

Original Mad Max is very different from The Road Warrior as society hasn't collapsed completely and Max is a cop on an increasingly brutal police force facing crooks who are becoming increasingly brutal and anarchic. Its a different kind of film, although if you didn't like The Road Warrior I'm not convinced you'd think Mad Max is any better. Also Beyond Thunderdome began life as a script without Mad Max in it; he was added later. Death Wish (the novel, 1972) had a sequel, Death Sentence (1975), that came out before Death Wish II (1982), the film sequel to Death Wish (1974). So its a bit like the Red Dragon/Manhunter - Silence of the Lambs/Silence of the Lambs situation. Death Sentence was written specifically because Brian Garfield was disappointed in the film version of Death Wish, though and this novel eventually received an adaption as a stand alone film in 2007 with Kevin Bacon and directed by James Wan. Death Wish II only took a small amount of inspiration from the sequel novel. Die Hard was based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever which was a sequel to an earlier novel, The Detective, both by Roderick Thorpe and featuring the character of John Leland. Similar to the use of On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers to make Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the sequel Die Hard 2 is based on the 1987 novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager.