To say that No Time to Die is a divisive movie is the understatement of the century. After having been delayed for more than a year and a half due to the pandemic, the movie has finally arrived in Theaters with fairly good box office numbers, but highly divisive reviews. That the movie delivers in …
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Die Another Day. A step too far.
Spoilers ahead!! When the 20th Bond movie, and fourth and final one of Pierce Brosnan’s tenure came out in November 2002 after a three-year hiatus, no one could have imagined the backlash it would create among fans, to the point of making the producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson consider rebooting the whole franchise …
The World is not enough. Prisoners of the past.
The James Bond series was on a roll. The character was hugely popular once again, and Pierce Brosnan was comfortably established in the role. But the producers didn’t want to just rest on their laurels, and live off of the previous success the new movies had provided. They wanted to reinvent themselves, and try and …
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Never Say Never Again. Sean is back!. Again!!
Had Ian Fleming known the turmoil the writing of his ninth James Bond novel Thunderball was going to cause, he might’ve thought better about giving credit where credit was due to both co-writers Jack Whittingham, and Kevin McClory. As it turned out, the whole affair resulted in a lengthy court battle that would go well …
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Planet of the Apes. Going Ape.
On April 3rd, 1968, a movie came out that would forever change the way Science Fiction movies were viewed by the masses. That a movie based on a book by French writer Pierre Boulle, who himself regarded it as one of his minor efforts, and unworthy of being proper cinematic material, became such a Sci-fi …
Batman. The Dark Knight finally rises.
When Batman came out on June 1989, it took the world by storm. Anticipation for the release of the first serious attempt to bring the Dark Knight to the big screen had been building up for months. It could be said that this movie had the most effective, and massive marketing campaign ever done for …
Blade Runner. Technological Hades.
On June 1982, one of the most influential Sci-fi movies in Cinema history was released. It was based on a book written by prolific Science Fiction writer Phillip K Dick; Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and it was a financial failure. But how come one of the highest regarded Science Fiction movies in history …
Tomorrow Never Dies. James Bond vs Mass Media.
After succesfully proving that the James Bond franchise was still a viable box office commodity with the runaway success of Goldeneye (Martin Campbell,1995), work inmediately started on the next James Bond picture. Having found a new audience for the latest iteration of the iconic character, Eon Productions wanted to move ahead, and demonstrate to the …
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Goldeneye. Like a Phoenix from the ashes.
After a six-year hiatus, the time had finally come to get a new 007 adventure off the ground. Having been entangled in never-ending rights disputes, Timothy Dalton had been waiting for a long time in the sidelines to make another movie. Some very nice ideas had been bounced around in an attempt to breathe more …
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The Shining. Lost in the maze of madness.
With The Shining, Stanley Kubrick wanted to dabble in a genre he had no previous experience with; Horror. After the financial disappointment that had been Barry Lyndon (1975), Kubrick was obliged to give Warner Bros. a fail-safe box office hit that would restore the Studio’s faith in Kubrick, to give him the necessary financial backing …
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