Thursday, July 13, 2017

Thursday, July 13, 2017
Photo by Marlon Cagatin

Go GREEN. Read from

THE SCREEN.


Saturday, November 25, 2017

Watched Tomorrow Never Dies. This time China comes into the picture, pun intended, and two of the features are Michelle Yeoh and another fantasy car. Now EVERYONE talks like tapes played on high speed, so that, to a person who knows no English, they sound like adult chipmunks. In every sequence where people walk fast, they also waddle forward like stilted, mechanized robots. It seems that this kind of talking and walking is as contagious to everyone as the use of the word "absolutely".

As in most Bond movies:

--the gender problem is the portrayal of women as being as cumbersome to the secret agents as the actual espionage, and thus being cumbersome to the story line.
--the true challenge is never presented, and never will be, which is to give all of the gadgets to the enemy and allow James Bond to triumph using sheer will, physical prowess, and sharpness of mind.

The exciting chase through the streets of Vietnam reminds me of what a flop the Manila chase scene in The Bourne Legacy was. The cameraman just couldn't be industrious with his shots because no one in the production foresaw that, in Manila, wherever you shoot, there is more than one billboard and multiple advertisements--none of which paid the producers anything--in the background.

And why is it that in all Bond movies, NO ONE gets hit when people shoot through ladders, railings, cyclone fences, and grilles, and so why do they bother to shoot at all? 

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