Train and Shanghai fight are the only good bits for me.

Yes. And also, the first half moves far too slowly. Probably because a major action sequence in Switzerland was cut from the script, so there's no jeopardy at all. Once Bond gets to infiltrating Blofeld's lair and its bunch of school girls (!) the pacing picks up nicely.

That's 'break' any heart… Wonderful lyrics…

The same face he pulls throughout Spectre, probably.

Goldfinger, Russia, Thunderball (YES!!! Ultimate Macho Alpha Male anthem), Instrumental of OHMSS, Live and let Die, Diamonds, and the rejected theme song for Tomorrow Never Dies retiteld Surrender (sung by k.d. lang) are my favorites. The others - not so much. Though the brass riff on the Keyes/White fiasco is pretty…

Not the way I experienced it… Hated almost the entire movie for its blatant stupidity (Bond taming the tiger using the method of a then-popular British dog trainer on TV, Barbara… forget her name now and doing the Tarzan yell while swinging from the trees were just embarassing. And the clown bit - ugh ugh ugh. I still…

Hear hear. I completely agree with you. TND is the only Brosnan Bond I like - because it does the tradition very well, for the most part. (I did hate the Terry Hatcher romance though - 'you ran away because I came too close'. Gah! As if Bond would ever run away from a woman.

Seems to me that AP is largely forgotten by now, though. And as Bond never took itself too seriously pre-Craig, and AP didn't have the money for cool action scenes (or even send-ups of said action scenes), both properties can exist side by side.
I do think you're right in your assessment: cinema caught up with Bond…

REALLY bad movie. Almost a carbon copy of MI: Rogue Nation but less fun (and with an equally underwhelming climax in the same city. And with a penultimate big sequence in Morocco). It really is a Bond Greatest Hits album - almost every scene can be traced to homage older Bonds, even the Craig ones. The plot doesn't…

This was indeed the case: the series was launched in primetime and lost
viewers at an unbelievable pace. So the show was moved to late night and
two episodes were screened one after the other, to get through the
season as quickly as possible. And season 2 won't be aired on the
network, but Netflix has
bought the right…

Interesting that you found it hard to care about Sam's murder because Sam wasn't very nice. I didn't care about ANYONE last season. I have literally never watched a network show with such a bunch of hateful jerks and bitches without a single redeeming or even redeemable character in the bunch. The show was also a…

Or they couldn't think of a good way to get Tom out of this jam and they figured, 'what the heck, the audience will probably have forgotten about that warning by now anyways'.

But it's not a few guilty people. It's each and every criminal. There is NO major crime anymore in the world of Minority Report - The Movie.True, it makes no sense to treat someone who's about to commit a crime of passion in the same way as a serial killer or a professional criminal, but they never really thought…

The spider sequence was great, but… they warned Tom Cruise not to get light into his newly transplanted eyes or he'd be blinded forever!!! What happens at the end of the sequence? The spider flashes light into Tom's eyes in order to scan him - and he's totally fine, not even the slightest lingering problem. Even…

The point of the short story is that precrime IS the better system, and the hero sacrifices himself in order to keep it going. The complete opposite of the message of the movie, where hundreds of thousands of murderers, rapists, etc. etc. are released because there will be a few innocent detainees amongst them.

B- for me. The film takes a nosedive in the final act (London) and never recovers the tempo or the adrenaline rush. The climax is really low-key compared to what came before… And Sean Harris is a worthless villain, a wimpy, whispery pseudo-Benji (I actually thought they were going to do a 'hello, brother'-reveal when…

Mark Waid wrote the best ever Pym story in a lead-in to the pointless and justly forgotten Avengers A.I. series. As good as his best work on Wally West… And of course it was promptly forgotten, and Pym jettisoned dead in space after a recent graphic novel. I HATE contemporary Marvel…

No, the reason for those choices - which aren't optimal, Dorne doesn't work and Sansa is deplorable - is that they give central characters a central role in the narrative, instead of shuffling them off to the sidelines and put new characters - or very secondary characters - in the spotlight so late in the game. It…

Oh, how I disagree. Very little of importance happens in both 4 & 5. Endless descriptions of food, hundreds of 'much and more, little and less'-es, new characters being introduced who simply aren't interesting, nothing about the real threat (the White Walkers), nothing but delaying tactics, stretching a thin narrative…

Oh heavens to Betsy, GoT is not engaged in 'critiquing the male gaze' at all. Its sexual component is very often purely exploitational (especially when it's not bound to the narrative). They often transgress boundaries just because they can (Joffrey's torture of the prostitutes - necessary? No. Character-revealing? No…