‘Casino Royale’ Download and Reviews

December 18, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Action, Adventure, Thriller

“Casino Royale” Movie Details

Casino Royale tagline: Everyone has a past. Every legend has a beginning. On November 17th, discover how James…became Bond.
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Casino Royale DVD Cover

Actors:
Daniel Craig James Bond
Eva Green Vesper Lynd
Mads Mikkelsen Le Chiffre
Judi Dench M
Jeffrey Wright Felix Leiter
Giancarlo Giannini Mathis
Caterina Murino Solange
Simon Abkarian Alex Dimitrios
Isaach De BankolГ© Steven Obanno
Jesper Christensen Mr. White
Ivana Milicevic Valenka
Tobias Menzies Villiers
Claudio Santamaria Carlos
Sebastien Foucan Mollaka
Malcolm Sinclair Dryden
Directors: Martin Campbell
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 164,545 votes

“Casino Royale” Movie Review

“Casino Royale” Plot Summary

In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world’s terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.

Bond with a touch of the the Bourne supremacy

I saw this at a special premiere and i was amazed. having never been a Bond fan i wasn’t really expecting much from this. After watching Brosnans invisible car in the previous incarnation I thought it could only get worse. How wrong was I! this film is gritty and sharp. the dialogue is sharp and well thought out with Daniel Craig being the DEFINITIVE Bond. He exudes confidant menace. They have gone back to basics with this Bond ie character and dialogue driven and not thankfully gadget driven. Not only is it the best bond film out so far its one of the years best films out. They have borrowed some elements from the Bourne series of films which is long overdue on the franchise, more realistic fight sequences and with Daniel Craig actually looking like a physically capable man instead of the middle aged paunch of Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan who both quite frankly couldn’t beat up a Ritz cracker.

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‘Mamma Mia!’ Download and Reviews

November 17, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Comedy, Musical, Romance

“Mamma Mia!” Movie Details

Mamma Mia! tagline: Take a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget
Mamma Mia - DVD Cover

Mamma Mia! DVD Cover

Actors:
Meryl Streep Donna
Pierce Brosnan Sam Carmichael
Colin Firth Harry Bright
Stellan SkarsgГҐrd Bill
Julie Walters Rosie
Dominic Cooper Sky
Amanda Seyfried Sophie
Christine Baranski Tanya
Juan Pablo Di Pace Petros
George Georgiou Pannos
Chris Jarvis Eddie
Philip Michael Pepper
Enzo Squillino Jr. Gregoris
Dylan Turner Stag
Norma Atallah Irini
Directors: Phyllida Lloyd
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 out of 42,200 votes

“Mamma Mia!” Movie Review

“Mamma Mia” Plot Summary

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular ’70s group ABBA.

Mamma Mia, Meryl!!!

There’s no better way to describe the HORRENDOUS experience that’s to watch Mamma Mia: Hitler must be looking up, saying to the pseudo-director Phyllida Lloyd ‘You monster, what have you done?’Everything about the movie is wrong. Just Wrong! Even its success, which is unexplainable. I can understand when those crappy parody movies, like Epic Movie, make their minimal share of money and turn profit just because they’re cheap (of course they are!). But when something like Mamma Mia makes 450 million dollars worldwide, you think ‘what the hell is wrong with the world?’And to think we have Meryl Streep, one of the greatest alive actresses of the world, in it? What was she thinking? ‘I need the money’, she could say. Well then, sell one of your grandchildren, even that would be less embarrassing. It’s not that Meryl is good in a disastrous piece of, err, ‘movie’. She’s also disastrous! When she sings, even though she’s got the vocals, it’s ridiculous. Worse than her only Pierce Brosnan. He used to be James Bond. Now he’s singing Abba in a purple spandex during the credits of the worst movie ever. Really? And when I mention Abba, not that I have anything against the band and their music. Though it doesn’t help them when actors started singing (badly), dancing (worse) and the extras join then (They pop out of nowhere! Frequently!) to present one terrible musical sequences after the other. You wanna cry when the music starts. And I love musicals! But this is the first in the genre where you PRAY for actual silence

I could keep going. The list goes on forever. You could write a Stephen King novel with the complete list of mistakes in this movie

To sum up: go watch it! Really! You’ve got to witness to understand!! And since it’s already a huge success, who cares if it makes a few more dollars from you? And it’s not liking you’re selling your soul to the devil. Meryl did that before. For the whole mankind. And now the world must end, because we’ve committed the ultimate evil and we must be destroyed.

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‘GoldenEye’ Download and Reviews

October 3, 2009 by Paul Wall  
Filed under Action, Adventure, Thriller

“GoldenEye” Movie Details

GoldenEye tagline: You know the name. You know the number.
GoldenEye - DVD Cover

GoldenEye DVD Cover

Actors:
  • Simon Kunz
  • Pierce Brosnan James Bond
    Sean Bean Alec Trevelyan
    Izabella Scorupco Natalya Fyodorovna Semyonova
    Famke Janssen Xenia Onatopp
    Joe Don Baker Jack Wade
    Judi Dench M
    Gottfried John Gen. Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
    Robbie Coltrane Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky
    Alan Cumming Boris Grishenko
    TchГ©ky Karyo Defense Minister Dmitri Mishkin
    Desmond Llewelyn Q
    Samantha Bond Miss Moneypenny
    Michael Kitchen Bill Tanner
    Serena Gordon Caroline
    Severnaya duty officer
    Directors: Martin Campbell IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 out of 65,466 votes

    “GoldenEye” Movie Review

    “GoldenEye” Plot Summary

    James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent believed to be dead. add synopsis

    Excellent Bond film and Brosnan’s best outing

    Six years passed between the release of ‘Licence to Kill’ and ‘GoldenEye’, Pierce Brosnan’s debut as Bond, and those six years were clearly beneficial to the franchise. ‘GoldenEye’ has its fair share of flaws, but it feels revitalized and fresh, unlike the film it follows, ‘Licence to Kill’, a lethargic offering that was deservedly the lowest grossing Bond film when adjusted for inflation. ‘GoldenEye’ makes a clean break from previous franchise films, becoming self-aware for the first time and taking on an almost revisionist feel by casting Judi Dench as M and having her call Bond a ’sexist, misogynist dinosaur’. Even the Bond girls are in no way dependent on Bond- if you count the villain she was clearly the uh… ‘dominant’ half of that relationship, and even the ‘good’ girl bossed Bond around. In a way this is refreshing to see, and Brosnan fits the part excellently, never losing his composure, always with a witty one-liner to throw back. The main reason I like Brosnan a lot better than Moore is that he doesn’t take the ‘class’ act too far. He’s classy, charming, witty, but also cruel and ruthless when he needs to be. I don’t see the validity of the claims that he was the wimpiest Bond; he’s got far more physicality than Moore and a much harder edge, generally speaking. ‘GoldenEye’ does have its flaws, of course. The film could have been a whole 20 minutes shorter, the musical score is not one of the best of the franchise (but not nearly as bad as some suggest), and the humor, outside of Brosnan’s one-liners, falls flat most of the time. I’m also not sure about the huge emphasis on technology, which is taken too far at times here, and would be taken even farther into the land of the completely ridiculous later in the series. Then again, it was the mid-90’s and technology was a hot topic. The film handles its subject matter well for the most part. The film’s action set-pieces are terrific and the sets look beautiful. One of the things that impressed me most about ‘GoldenEye’ is that when it went for drama it succeeded reasonably well. Sean Bean and Famke Janssen make a terrific team of villains and Martin Campbell keeps the film moving at a swift pace, drastically improving on John Glen’s work in ‘Licence to Kill’.'GoldenEye’ may not be the best Bond film, but it’s a welcome addition to the series. Brosnan is not as good a Bond as Connery at his best, but he’s on par with Lazenby and Dalton, if not better, and most certainly better than Roger Moore. 20 minutes shorter and ‘GoldenEye’ could have been an absolute classic, but as it is it’s an excellent Bond offering and one of the better Bond films. The title song is terrific, isn’t it?8/10

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    ‘Mars Attacks!’ Download and Reviews

    October 2, 2009 by Paul Wall  
    Filed under Action, Comedy, Fantasy

    “Mars Attacks!” Movie Details

    Mars Attacks! tagline: Nice planet. We’ll take it!
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    Mars Attacks! DVD Cover

    Actors:
  • Lisa Marie
  • Jack Nicholson President James Dale/Art Land
    Glenn Close First Lady Marsha Dale
    Annette Bening Barbara Land
    Pierce Brosnan Professor Donald Kessler
    Danny DeVito Rude Gambler
    Martin Short Press Secretary Jerry Ross
    Sarah Jessica Parker Nathalie Lake
    Michael J. Fox Jason Stone
    Rod Steiger General Decker
    Tom Jones Himself
    Jim Brown Byron Williams
    Lukas Haas Richie Norris
    Natalie Portman Taffy Dale
    Pam Grier Louise Williams
    Martian Girl
    Directors: Tim Burton IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 out of 71,912 votes

    “Mars Attacks!” Movie Review

    “Mars Attacks” Plot Summary

    The Earth is invaded by Martians with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

    Good fun

    It may be silly, but that was the intention. Special effects work well and were state of the art in 1996 and surprisingly still hold up just fine. Some witty writing too. Contains some truly laugh out loud moments .. and nowadays that is a rarity. Nice to see Pierce Brosnan being silly, something which he should do more (works well, as soon to be seen in the Matador). Sarah Jessica Parker had not yet found her stride in this movie, but works OK. Jack Nicholson is, well, Jack Nicholson. Definitely a nice retro 50s style self depreciating science fiction movie. It may work better with people in their 30s and above as they remember actually watching the reruns of 50s movies :) Is that why it hasn’t got a higher score on here as younger viewers don’t get the in-jokes? Enjoy!

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    ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ Download and Reviews

    September 20, 2009 by Paul Wall  
    Filed under Action, Adventure, Thriller

    “Tomorrow Never Dies” Movie Details

    Tomorrow Never Dies tagline: Meet New James Bond [Japanese Theatrical]
    Tomorrow Never Dies - DVD Cover

    Tomorrow Never Dies DVD Cover

    Actors:
  • Terence Rigby
  • Pierce Brosnan James Bond
    Jonathan Pryce Elliot Carver
    Michelle Yeoh Wai Lin
    Teri Hatcher Paris Carver
    Ricky Acker Henry Gupta
    GГ¶tz Otto Stamper
    Joe Don Baker Jack Wade
    Vincent Schiavelli Dr. Kaufman
    Judi Dench M
    Desmond Llewelyn Q
    Samantha Bond Miss Moneypenny
    Colin Salmon Charles Robinson
    Geoffrey Palmer Adm. Roebuck
    Julian Fellowes Minister of Defence
    Gen. Bukharin
    Directors: Roger Spottiswoode IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 out of 44,312 votes

    “Tomorrow Never Dies” Movie Review

    “Tomorrow Never Dies” Plot Summary

    James Bond heads to stop a media mogul’s plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. add synopsis

    Perfect!

    When I received every movie in the James Bond DVD collection (the one with seven movies) for my birthday except for The Man with The Golden Gun, there were three movies in the set that I hadn’t seen. The first one I checked out was Tomorrow Never Dies, and I loved it. Our piece of trash DVD player kept freezing, but I managed to watch the whole thing to the end. The movie kicks off with Bond investigating a terrorist arms market somewhere in Russia and has to escape being blown up by a missile launched by a ship at sea. This scene is great, and after the cool animations and the pretty good theme song by Sheryl Crow, things really start to heat up. Media mogul Elliot Carver, played excellently by Jonathan Pryce, is bent on starting an entire news network that reports nothing but bad news. Carver is trying to get Britain and China to attack each other and start a new world war. All this is great, but there are a few disappointments. For one, I think Paris Carver should have been given more time in the movie. Her character could really have played a great part in the end. There also should have been another action scene or two sandwiched somewhere in the movie. However, this is a still great movie that I recommend. 4 stars out of 5.

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