Perhaps I'm a little jaded...
Watching The Wicker Man and while watching a scene with the lovely Britt Ekland(nsfw image search) prancing about I found myself thinking...
"This is nice, but I want to see Christopher Lee's character already!"
Been a full week for movies, I also got Krull and Flesh Gordon(yes, that's Flesh, not Flash) in the mail, and rented Hancock and Quantum of Solace.
Krull: The best of the cheesy 80s fantasy movie genre with cheap effects like too much lens flare (even torches look like road flares), but a good story, some major crowning moments of awesome(such as an inept shapechanging magician going from joke to Bad Ass when he turns into a tiger to protect a boy), and a soundtrack by James Horner.
Flesh Gordon: Umm... not sure what I was thinking other than "Hey, only a couple of bucks on Amazon" and vaguely remembering watching it on the sly as a teenager after my parents went to bed. Kind of nostalgic for the "boobs and bush", though, the visual gag of the Penisaurus(NSFW obviously) (long before the Japanese started doing tentacle porn!) and Craig T. Nelson as the voice of a hilariously laid-back giant stop-motion animation monster.
Hancock: Some fun superhero FX but not really that good otherwise.
Quantum of Solace: I probably don't have much room to talk, since I was brought up on the Roger Moore Bond movies, but I wasn't terribly impressed with Casino Royale or Daniel Craig as Bond. I couldn't quite shake the feeling he should be playing some KGB villain instead of Bond, but that changed after Quantum of Solace. Pissed-off-avenging-dead-lover Daniel Craig Bond is just too awesome for words.
"This is nice, but I want to see Christopher Lee's character already!"
Been a full week for movies, I also got Krull and Flesh Gordon(yes, that's Flesh, not Flash) in the mail, and rented Hancock and Quantum of Solace.
Krull: The best of the cheesy 80s fantasy movie genre with cheap effects like too much lens flare (even torches look like road flares), but a good story, some major crowning moments of awesome(such as an inept shapechanging magician going from joke to Bad Ass when he turns into a tiger to protect a boy), and a soundtrack by James Horner.
Flesh Gordon: Umm... not sure what I was thinking other than "Hey, only a couple of bucks on Amazon" and vaguely remembering watching it on the sly as a teenager after my parents went to bed. Kind of nostalgic for the "boobs and bush", though, the visual gag of the Penisaurus(NSFW obviously) (long before the Japanese started doing tentacle porn!) and Craig T. Nelson as the voice of a hilariously laid-back giant stop-motion animation monster.
Hancock: Some fun superhero FX but not really that good otherwise.
Quantum of Solace: I probably don't have much room to talk, since I was brought up on the Roger Moore Bond movies, but I wasn't terribly impressed with Casino Royale or Daniel Craig as Bond. I couldn't quite shake the feeling he should be playing some KGB villain instead of Bond, but that changed after Quantum of Solace. Pissed-off-avenging-dead-lover Daniel Craig Bond is just too awesome for words.