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Thunderball, a review by Rich

Thunderball



The thrills never stop as Agent 007 (Sean Connery) goes above the call of duty - and to the bottom of the ocean - to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust!

Overboard on the gadgets with this outing, and the plot suffers accordingly, but this is still a fun movie which i enjoyed. It is not a personal Bond favourite for me, the villain was not as convincing, the bad girls not as bad, although Claudine Auger is eye candy of the highest order. Connery seemed to become a parody of the Bond character, the lines too predictable and delivered with an apparent monotone disinterest, and the underwater scenes never-ending.
However despite the cheesy one-liners, sexual innuendos, exotic backdrops etc, I find as with the other early 007 films more realism in the storyline and characterisation than in later attempts. The music as always is top notch, and although the action is somewhat dated, in context to production year it is easily appreciatable.
 

(From James Bond Marathon on February 17th, 2009)

Horrible Bosses , a review by Jon

Horrible Bosses **** Year: 2011 Director: Seth Gordon Rating: 15

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The Hangover Part II proved. That was very funny too. It was also bloody awful, treating the audience like idiots with dreadful plotting just to join one gag to another before dumping heavy handed moralising on them as well.

At least the Hangover films are about recognisable people and maybe were so successful because audiences needed a change. While AnchormanClerks, Chasing Amy) seems to have lost momentum to Judd Apatow (Knocked UpEasy A Swimming With Sharks). Jason Sudeikis loves his job and his boss (Donald Sutherland), who suddenly dies, leaving his drug addict crazy son in charge (Strangers On A TrainThrow Momma From The TrainEnter The DragonVery Bad ThingsOffice Space or 9 To 5

(From Horrible Bosses **** on July 19th, 2011)

Birthday Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Friends: Season 3
The One Where Chandler Can't Remember which Sister
A handsome stranger offers Rachel a fashion-buying job. Chandler forgets which of Joey's sisters he fooled around with after getting drunk on Joey's birthday.

My Thoughts:
This is a fun episode. One I enjoyed quite a bit. Both the storyline of Chandler and Joey's sister and the one about Rachel getting the buying job had some real funny scenes in them.



(From Birthday Marathon on May 28th, 2009)