Just posted my Bond reviews for the week. I find it refreshing how different your rankings are from mine. Also, I'm watching a good number of these for the first time, which lends a different sort of perspective.

I continued my Bondathon this week with two more Roger Moore outings. It was a significant improvement, to say the least:

That comment about the setting of the final showdown is an excellent point. Lewis Gilbert and Peter Hunt excelled at staging sequences in big, exciting landscapes in their movies. The volcano lair, Blofeld's mountain fortress, etc. Movies like DIAMONDS and LIVE AND LET DIE feel like small potatoes after what happened…

Yeah, I get that. It's different for me as I only discovered the Bond movies as an adult.

In regards to your inability to understand the popularity of ZOOLANDER, I only have one question:

He really is. His scenes are completely unnecessary to the plot of either of the movies he's in, and I spent the majority of his screentime wondering what exactly it was about his character that was supposed to be funny.

I continued my Bond run-through with three more movies. These ones were… not great.

Maybe watching them in random order is a better way. After the first 6 films, I've already watched a good chunk of the best films in the series, and I've got a LOT of dumbness heading my way.

I've been trying to get through all of the Bond films before SPECTRE's release. I watched DR. NO thru THUNDERBALL a few months ago, and finally got around to a very curious two-parter this weekened.

Along with some photos of a formica table.

Oh, it WAS sick!

It should be everyone's favorite Indiana Jones movie.

Villeneuve isn't a bad director, either. I'm certainly more intrigued by it coming from him rather than latter-day Ridley Scott.

I'm slightly more onboard with the BLADE RUNNER sequel than I was earlier in production because I want to see a version of BLADE RUNNER shot by Roger Deakins.

The Spectre meeting does have a bit of a GODFATHER look to it.

At least we've got SPECTRE to look forward to in that regard.

I'd be fine with Pfister returning. He's not Hoyte van Hoytema, but he's still a damn good cinematographer.

Nolan is a good (possibly great) director. INTERSTELLAR was probably his worst movie, and even it was bulging with crazy-ass ambition up the wazoo.

It's in the same release slot as THE DARK KNIGHT, INCEPTION and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, so that makes it a pretty safe bet that it's some sort of blockbuster. The only question is, what?

One word: BLOODRAYNE.