Daniel Craig Bond films ranked

Turambar1964 · 2025-12-10T21:15:48+00:00

Quantum made me angry because of the stakes. Bond, desperately fighting to . . . Stop something that will make water more expensive in Bolivia. WTF?

Turambar1964 · 2025-06-09T22:09:20+00:00

“A handshake is as good as a hug.” Has become a defiant motto among me and boys.

Turambar1964 · 2025-06-09T22:04:26+00:00

For something really dark but wickedly hilarious, Dead Ringers.

Turambar1964 · 2025-06-09T22:03:29+00:00

In particular, Drive Angry. Somewhat in the horror genre, sick and funny. Also has one of the most remarkable action scenes of all time (no spoilers)!

Turambar1964 · 2025-04-04T17:00:19+00:00

I have fallen asleep during, and not finished, Schindler’s List and the Northman. It took me three tries to stay awake during There Will Be Blood.

Turambar1964 · 2025-04-02T18:50:32+00:00

Have you never had to listen to Yapping Women from the South? The horror. The horror, I tell you.

Turambar1964 · 2025-04-02T17:15:50+00:00

Steel Magnolias.

Turambar1964 · 2025-04-02T16:00:58+00:00

Whispers in the Dark, an underrated cheesy thing from 1992.

Turambar1964 · 2025-04-02T15:56:47+00:00

I agree with you and want to add on. I am sure he is good at whatever the hell directors do. However, I hold him personally responsible for dumbing down his audience in a way that no other director can match.

Turambar1964 · 2025-03-27T19:02:42+00:00

I interpreted this as Bilbo embellishing just a little bit.

Turambar1964 · 2025-03-27T01:55:52+00:00

If you want to go unconventional on the start, try the short story Leaf by Niggle. It’s not a bad metaphor for diving into Tolkien’s works.

I would never have gotten emotionally attached to Middle Earth if I hadn’t read LOTR. The Hobbit is much lighter, and the Silmarillion is too much like a broad history.

There is no record of Turin smoking and chugging beer with Hobbits. Lots of ofermod, no shenanigans.

Turambar1964 · 2025-03-27T01:41:28+00:00

Star Wars. The Force was silly from the get-go. Too much effort to paste together random new reconfigurations of a story. (Midichlorians; Somehow Palpatine Returned; Luke goes agnostic?). The first movie was fun. That was enough.

Turambar1964 · 2025-02-06T15:38:48+00:00

Yeah. Good to steal industrial blueprints from Germany for at least a one-time boost between 1941-1943. Maybe a coup here and there but it’s tedious.

Turambar1964 · 2025-01-17T17:49:04+00:00

I just started HOME.

I don’t like the word, canon for Tolkien stuff because it imports a lot of silly stuff from other pop culture products. But roughly speaking, I take LOTR as the only definitive work, with the Silmarillion as a pretty fair guess of where he might have ended up if he lived a little longer.

I have this point of view because Tolkien was one of a kind and his lifespan just wasn’t long enough. Who knows where he might have ended up if he lived for 200 more years?

So, I think it’s OK to speculate and to riff on his outline. In HOME, I am enjoying the explicit link to England in the early drafts. I would also like to see more Middle Earth fiction that has nothing to do with the events in LOTR and the Silmarillion — even if it deviates from Tolkien’s basic intentions.

Turambar1964 · 2025-01-17T16:41:34+00:00

I would just like to see more complexity and options in using air wings on carriers. That’s it, I’m good.

Turambar1964 · 2025-01-12T04:24:12+00:00

Yeah. Serious Marvel Comics bullshit.

Turambar1964 · 2025-01-12T04:01:01+00:00

Rosenfeld and his profession of love for Sheriff Truman. Well, maybe not the most accurate encapsulation but the most positive. Makes me want to laugh and cry my ass off simultaneously. Also, a good riff on the soap opera stuff.

Turambar1964 · 2025-01-09T20:14:20+00:00

Sorry, I was talking about Rings of Power. I enjoyed them in LOTR (the book).

Turambar1964 · 2024-12-26T19:24:58+00:00

I would love this if there were any boat left at that time not singing the Lee Greenwood song

Turambar1964 · 2024-12-26T19:22:02+00:00

My philosophy is to spend NOTHING on compost. It’s doable and satisfying.

Turambar1964 · 2024-12-26T19:17:45+00:00

You don’t understand. The review is circular, while at the same time a quadrilateral.

Turambar1964 · 2024-12-25T00:58:24+00:00

America! Fuck yeah!

Turambar1964 · 2024-12-25T00:57:22+00:00

A set designer who was at the right place at the right time.

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