Re-Evaluating Bad Movies

Yeah I'd say "Die Another Day" is the worst, but I agree that it's absurdity at least makes it fun to laugh at. "Diamonds are Forever" is just a slog to get through, Connery seems really bored throughout it.

They're all shitty, besides you're the one who likes "Never Say Never Again", yuck.

It's still amazing that Roger Moore is 59 in "A View to a Kill", that's pretty ridiculous.

Nothing's funnier than Die Another Day. Bond gave himself a heart attack in that movie and then revived himself to escape. Using his mind.

HERCULES (1983)



What happens when you combine Richard Donner's Superman with Ray Harryhausen's Greek mythology movies and remove the big budget and artistic integrity? You end up with Lou Ferrigno's Hercules. This Italian made schlockfest might be worse than Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hercules in New York - and that's saying a lot. There's almost nothing positive that can be said about this version of Hercules. Pino Donaggio's music and the fact that a Hercules movie was completed with a shoestring budget are the only admirable things.

D says Doomsday


THE ADVENTURES OF HERCULES (1985)



I don't know how or why, but there's a sequel to Lou Ferrigno's Italian-made Hercules. This time they cut back on the Superman and Harryhausen inspired stuff and focus on a straight-forward Hercules adventure about having to recover Zeus' seven thunderbolts from the God's who stole them. The movie is cheesy and produced on a shoestring budget and has a very comical ending, but it's also a lot of fun. They failed the first time but succeeded the second time. It's weird there wasn't a third installment. The Ferrigno Hercules Trilogy is a missed opportunity.

C+

I'm as big of a Bond fan as they come and I'll say this.  If I remember correctly you're in your thirties, right?  Stick to the Craig ones.  Watch those three before Spectre comes out just for the sake of continuity.  No need to watch any others because you probably won't like them.  Now if you want to be a film completist then go right ahead but if you're thinking that you're suddenly going to become a Bond fan don't count on it.  I don't think there are a lot of people who will be first exposed to Bond when they're adults who will be turned on by it.  Nowadays you need to be hooked as a kid, otherwise you'll watch a good number of them and say 'what the hell am I watching?'  That said if you're going to watch any of them watch From Russia, With Love.  I'm in the small minority of Bond fans who doesn't think Goldfinger is the best and the last thirty minutes or so of From Russia, With Love is pretty sweet.

I.....don't disagree with any of those. Pretty dead on.

Nothing will prepare him for Moonraker.

Moonraker is #11. If he watches all the movies in order, Moonraker won't be as shocking. The general crapiness of the Roger Moore era eases you into Moonraker.