Christopher Pucknell
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Joined 2014
- Tomorrow Never Dies
Personally I found Casino Royal a great direction for Bond; taking the character in a more serious direction, a return to the character of the source material. But many felt this Bond reboot lacking a certain something, and that something is trash. This iteration of the franchise has plenty of it, with it's kindergarden plot and comical over the top, hackneyed villian with literal arched eyebrows and unabashed Chinese racism, it's beautiful, embarresing, cheap 90's trash. Bond's terrible corny one liners, gizmos and gadgets absolutely shine in this movie, and both are dated as all hell. (I'm pretty sure I could download an app to control my car on my phone right now, most probably.) The forgettable plot is irremdeemably bad, the set pieces are cartoonish, predictable and have aged woefully. I was particularly fond of the scene where the chinese firework truck exploded, and I'm fairly sure a lot of the industrial set is just spray painted plastic. This is such a collosal let down after the superb and introspective Golden Eye. Whilst it's predecessor questioned the cynical motives of the nation state, and the terrible cost to it's pawn agents who devoted their lives to it's service, this film says "Yeah, but what if everything exploded". Whilst I have seen episodes of Thunderbirds with more dramatic tension and credability, this film made me laugh out loud several times, and at the end of the day, temporarily losing my vision from the blood rushing to my head is the most fun you can have in this terrible year of our lord, two thousand and twenty five AD. And to think people say the 90's were a golden age. Bond always beats the odds.Tomorrow Never Dies - Suspicion
Not my favourite Hitchcock by a long shot, though there were some interesting moments. Not that I'm an expert on the period, but having a Female perspective of an abuser (or is he?), on film, in the 40's, that seems like something quite special. The film has plenty of flaws, the plot isn't great, and it quickly falls into obscurity following Hitchcock's later masterpieces, but the setting, the period, the female protagonist, and some of the effects in dramatic sequences make this an interesting watch.Suspicion - Contagion
A shockingly accurate depcition of a modern nightmare; what if Covid was real?Contagion - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Remains one of the greatest action films ever made, with effects that hold up after 34 years. It saddens me to know that I lived to see cinema at its peak; it doesn't get better than this.Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Alice in Wonderland
We get to see how far Burton has fallen down the rabbit hole into the trash dimension.Alice in Wonderland - Switchback
idk it's alright, it's got trains in it which is pretty coolSwitchback - Hellraiser
Pushes the canon ahead visually by leaps and bounds, but the plot and characters are lack luster. It also expands on the mythology of the box without insulting it, like every other sequel has.Hellraiser - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows