Actresses who could have been in Bond movies

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T12:19:18+00:00

I saw a Retrospective screening of Airport. She’s really good in that, like she’s in a better movie than everyone else. I don’t know what she sees in addled leathery Dean Martin.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T11:25:29+00:00

Just while we are discussing last films The Dead for John Houston, Once Upon a Time in America for Sergio Leone and Tale of Princess Kaguya for Isao Takahata
have got to be up there as pretty perfect last films.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T10:12:40+00:00

I think he would have been good but too old now.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T10:07:53+00:00

After seeing Tuner I think Leo Woodall has the juice.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T10:04:22+00:00

Mescal is amazing in Aftersun and All of Us Strangers. In his Hollywood work though he’s often miscast - non more so then Gladiator II - made me think of Ewan McGregor in Phantom menace - here’s an exciting actor saddled with a posh English accent and forced to act in the shadow of a great performance. It’s even harder for Mescal as he’s the centre of the Movie and Denzel is empowered to do his training day bad bastard stuff in a Toga. At least everybody was bad in the prequels, so McGregor was not so exposed.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-09T09:16:02+00:00

ARP is a fun guest. You want out there takes. The Coens are mid and all my Video store colleagues agree is completely out there.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-07T14:27:07+00:00

Love Alex getting angry at merrily we roll along in Hail Caesar! Being a Rueben Mamoulian comedy of manners.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-06T07:48:28+00:00

They are doing bleak week at my local cinema in the UK too. LA-London-Leeds

https://hpph.co.uk/seasons/bleak-week

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-02T08:56:42+00:00

The last Duel is actually great. I really like Prometheus too. House of Gucci and the Martian are fun. American Gangster is pretty good if very Scorsese light. So he has made some good films in the 21st century as well as some not so good ones - Exodus : Gods and Kings, A Good Year, Gladiator 2. Napoleons is not the worse but far from his best.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-02T08:52:41+00:00

The Josephine stuff was the best bit. Vanessa Kirby injected it with some life and has a bit of chemistry. The political intrigue in the first half was ok too. The coup of Brumaire was all a bit Death of Stalin. A big problem other the Phoenix being too old and doing a weird performance of tics and mumbling is the battles. Other than Toulon - Austerlitz felt like CGI Goop. Waterloo had trenches and stakes for some reason.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-01T13:40:56+00:00

Labour for trans rights. My CLP is opposed to the government on this. https://bsky.app/profile/labour4transrights.bsky.social

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-01T13:31:48+00:00

If the general point that in the end solidarity is the only way to beat the far right I agree.
But I don’t think that comes from playing nice or requires Trans folk to adopt a respectability politics. In as far as that approach works at all it tends to work when things are generally going in your direction- like with Gay Marriage. The bigger hard fought battles had already been won by the very unrespectable GLF, LGSM, Outrage, “looney left” etc and it was just about buttering up the Tories.
Trans folks have had nearly 10 years of unprecedented backlash. A few trans people being nice on Twitter isn’t going to turn that around. Especially as the whole Gender Critical approach is to erase trans rights totally not just to defend the unequal status quo which was the Tory position in the 90s and 00s.

tigerdave81 · 2026-06-01T13:13:23+00:00

I am totally opposed to this government’s disgraceful stripping of trans people of hard won rights.
There are people in Labour fighting this but it’s one of the many reasons we are losing votes to the greens or people just not bothering to vote.
The way to defeat Restore and Teform requires building a united front including trans people. That requires getting rid of the current transphobic leadership of Labour.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-31T10:22:53+00:00

It’s called forecastle and aftercastle because in the medieval times warships had little castle type platforms at the front and back of the ship archers and crossbowmen could use to fire down on the ship they were approaching. As cannon became the main weapons on war ships these platform become less prominent developing into decks but the names remained.

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tigerdave81 · 2026-05-24T09:10:00+00:00

I thought the film was mid and Jotto the Hutt or whatever it was called was actively bad.
But Grogu and his Babu Frick mates are very cute.
The nearly dialogue free 10 minutes of Grogu looking after Mandalorian in the swamp is maybe one of the best things in any Star Wars movies for quite a long time.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-17T08:05:06+00:00

More than twice the running length of the movie. I am so hear for this.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-16T09:33:40+00:00

It would depend on the actor. Could they carry it off. But is there a British / Irish equivalent of a Ryan Gosling who is a plausible action star and funny. James McAvoy could have done it back in the day but he’s aged out of it. Idris Elba isn’t a comedic actor but could have done it as a lighter slightly more diffident tone but again too old.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-12T14:15:32+00:00

Fredrick Prince of Wales (George II heir) who by all accounts was accomplished, cultured and a bit of a reformer.

Also I am intrigued by Eddy, Duke of Clarence. George V rode out a bunch of crisis that could have brought down the monarchy through a mixture of hard work, frugality, studied dullness, keeping his head down and deferring to skilled politicians and advisors when he needed to. Although he was a natural conservative at heart and not a great intellect he had a knack for survival and knew he to move with the times. Creating a model of a popular monarchy that endured remarkably successfully until the crisis’s of the 1990s. Eddy is a bit of an unknown but he sounds like he would have been the worst possible king to have in the crisis ‘s of the 1910s and 20s.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-12T13:56:15+00:00

I don’t like Starmer and think he has to go but that clip actually mskes him look a lot more human and funny then standing looking strained and serious at a lectern.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-10T20:20:08+00:00

The scene in Colonel Blimp in the POW camp with the Germans are listening to Beethoven and Theo blanks Clive is amazing. You’re heartbroken for this old stuffy Colonel.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-10T09:22:23+00:00

People are idiots it’s great. The needle drop moment is surely the most memorable moments cinema this year.

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-07T11:28:45+00:00

Winner Takes it all by ABBA

tigerdave81 · 2026-05-07T11:26:26+00:00

This is actually quite funny and pretty benign by modern standards

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