Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

Eh, non-English-car-driving Bond was sacrilege too and it turned out we didn't care.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

Eh, non-English-car-driving Bond was sacrilege too and it turned out we didn't care.

Indeed, I had to look it up. While non English vehicles have been featured since the start of the series, the first official bond car not to be a British make was a BMW featured in in 1994's Goldeneye. Coincidentally, one of my least favorite bond films.

If the film is otherwise enjoyable I'll quickly forget the issue and move on. If not the issue of what he's drinking will be just one more straw for the camels back.

[innerSpaceman]

It has to be good because the last one sucked.

[Kevy Baby]

We discovered this evening that even when a theatre sells no tickets to a particular showing of a movie, they still show the movie. For this, we are grateful as we got to see The Dark Knight Rises (after watching ParaNorman).

[alphabassettgrrl]

It's probably automated and more effort to go shut it off than to just let it run. Keeps everything else in line, next movie will know when to start and all that. If you go shut it off, you have to pay attention to the time and start the next one when it's supposed to go. Just let it run, and you don't have to pay attention.

[innerSpaceman]

In a sort-of corollary, the Spectrum did not take anyone's ticket for the first midnight IMAX showing of The Dark Knight Rises, so technically any or all of us could have gotten a refund of our admission price or a re-admit to a later show.

[Kevy Baby]

I know I don't follow movies nearly as much as many of you, but we saw the extended preview last night for the upcoming Les Miserables highlighting the "Live Singing" aspect of the film (which they are claiming has "never been done before"). I have to say I am rather intrigued by this and may actually go to see this movie. Since we were fortunate enough to see Les Mis on Broadway (and I *think* Colm Wilkinson was Jean Valjean), I did not think that any movie version would ever compare. However, based on this preview, I think that this version may be pretty good!

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Since we were fortunate enough to see Les Mis on Broadway (and I *think* Colm Wilkinson was Jean Valjean)...

Thanks to Katie Sue on Facebook, I was able to confirm that we did see Colm. Cool.

BTW: we were in the fourth freakin' row for the performance!

[innerSpaceman]

I'll go you one better, I might actually like it more than I did the show (because, well, I was not all that impressed with the show).

Normally, if I don't really care for a show, I won't go see the movie. But the "live singing" has me intrigued.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It's my favorite musical. I've seen 3 productions (Broadway, San Diego, London).

I was very skeptical when I heard about the film version. But that "preview" has me excited. The in-camera singing aspect is novel, and the snippets they show hint at some amazing performances. But what grabbed me the most was seeing the scenes on location in the streets of Paris. I think that will really bring it alive.