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I loved it when Octoberman called the Shatner-led cast of THE STAR TREK a "Golden Girls cast", and the re-boot a "Beverly Hills 90210 cast".
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Hey, that just insired a TV show idea:
"Beverly Hillbillies 90210"
Watch as they trigger ever woke sky-screamer.
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Only because Norm MacDonald was comedic gold.
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One of my favorite Norm bits, where he gives Conan O'Brien a gift...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarJj-K4XH4
(by the way, to really appreciate it properly, you have to know that Conan says unlike other guest who do pre-interviews to get ready for what they talk about, Norm wouldn't do them and just said whatever he wanted to, so you never knew what was coming)
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Dec 19, 2024 - 6:55 AM
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Solium
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615. ZapBrannigan in the "The Improbable James Bond" thread with a twofer. First, felt the need to make a spoiler warning for a Bond film and second, looking for logic in a Bond film.
Tonight I watched You Only Live Twice. Spoilers follow.
One thing that struck me was Bond's opponents often lack common sense. For instance, when Karin Dor is supposed to kill Bond, she has him tied to a chair, threatens him with a scalpel, only pretends to accept a phony bribe he offers her (half of his non-existent industrial espionage loot), unties him and gets it on with him, then takes him up in a small plane for their getaway. Then she traps his hands under a board that slams down (after-market parts that anyone would ever install?), and she bails out, leaving him to crash. And she resumes working for Blofeld. So... if she wanted to kill Bond, why not do it when he was tied to the chair? Why throw away an airplane?
Bond's enemies engage in unmotivated behavior a lot. But so do his friends. Bond's pre-credits assassination has to be staged with gunfire, when they could just plant an obit in the paper saying he died of a heart attack? M and Miss Moneypenny need a submarine-borne version of their office?
When Bond goes to see Mr. Henderson, he has no idea he'll end up impersonating an assassin and riding away in the getaway car. He especially has no idea this will be taking him to Osato Chemicals that night. But once there, and after his fight with the driver, Bond has a big safe-cracker device in his suit pocket that comes in handy.
Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service with his own private subway train, goes out into the field personally as a secret agent and commando, getting into full-on machine gun combat? And Tiger gives Bond a makeover as a Japanese impersonator, rather than just send one of his own men on the fishing village mission?
On that mission, two minutes after finding out that the volcano pond is a sliding metal hatch, Bond is suddenly equipped with with wearable suction cups to scale down inside the volcano with. How did he think to bring those, and what pocket were they stuffed into?
So YOLT has fantastic music, and it's filled with very impressive action scenes (not just inside the volcano), but the plot has its share of improbable developments. Luckily the other Bond films' plots are pretty much airtight.
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Dec 24, 2024 - 7:14 AM
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Jim Phelps
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617. Dan Hobgood's honest, well-rounded post in "Hey, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?" He even managed to shoehorn Jerry Goldsmith into his reply:
Dan Hobgood? The lone American FSMer who could claim to have an "ancestral home."
"I'm here, Jim -- though I don't really get the comment. (That's OK.) Very busy these days, thriving (which is good, especially following an astounding injustice that befell me a decade ago and that still needs additional rectification). Passion for quality scoring still runs white hot, but with favorite scorers/composers relegated to history at this point (and not much that I've found to get excited about in recent years), active discussion about the genre isn't as appealing.
"I am still lecturing, etc., about scoring, though, and here is a link to a(n as-good-as-I-could-make) recording that I did of my most recent college lecture, the subject of which was Jerry Goldsmith:
https://youtu.be/gWiK2fdXntw?si=i8O_eUkXChvsGfDZ
"(Bear in mind that this was for college students who, as college students, weren't even alive in Jerry's lifetime and who are largely contemplating music in film for the first time.)"
DH
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?pageID=4&forumID=7&threadID=157465&archive=0
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