I didn’t reply because I thought Kevin was referring to recent movies coming out about Elvis. The Hollywood Elvis movies were terrible because Hollywood in that era was terrible. Elvis didn’t have any acting chops and trying to pair him with a visionary director or really make anything that wasn’t visual chewing gum would have alienated the Elvis fan base and his management. Sinatra was a teen idol just as much as Elvis would later become but try and picture Elvis in The Man With the Golden Arm, From Here to Eternity, or The Manchurian Candidate.
The Fleming Bond novels were pulp fiction. They functioned well as mens’ adventure stories when they were written though they have comic book characters and plotting. The Goldfinger story in the book is exceptionally stupid. Getting a good movie out of it is always going to be difficult and they built the franchise by concentrating on gadgets and special effects. Whatever you think of Dr. No, at the end of the movie (spoiler alert) Bond takes out the stronghold by turning off the coolant to the nuclear reactor core, causing a meltdown. Of course in the movie it just causes a conventional explosion and not the apocalyptic effect of a molten reactor core entering the Caribbean Sea. On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 7:36 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > The Elvis movies have not aged badly; they have always been horrible. > > Bond films age unevenly. I agree Goldfinger is not nearly as good as I > once thought it was. OTOH, Dr. No is still pretty damn good. > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 10:53 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Question for the group: Has anyone tried to watch any of the Elvis movies >> recently? I have… they are bad. They aren’t even kitschy bad or nostalgic >> bad or so bad they are good… they are just bad. >> >> Semi-related: I recently rewatched the James Bond movie “Goldfinger”… it >> did not age well. Even if you could set aside the sexism and racism, the >> parts of the story intended to be dramatic seem comical, and the intended >> comedy falls flat. And the story: the villain is a biggish man who cheats >> at golf… I’m quaking in my boots. >> >> I will always be a fan of Bond, just as I will always be a fan of Elvis, >> but sometimes it is best to leave the past in the past. >> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 2:48 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Cinedigm told Variety (f'rinstance) about a year ago it was going to do >>> this. >>> >>> Amazon's Freevee and Byron Allen's company's Local Now are among the >>> participants. >>> >>> >>> https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/cinedigm-launches-free-dedicated-elvis-presley-channel-7-streaming-platforms >>> (link) >>> >>> >>> B >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/05cce134-b5be-4216-baf1-665168a09e4bn%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/05cce134-b5be-4216-baf1-665168a09e4bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B5NAZJMTe_Y6yUvfS9oqSHY_Kd21OdM_QgQaGTZxS3og%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B5NAZJMTe_Y6yUvfS9oqSHY_Kd21OdM_QgQaGTZxS3og%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2B%3D5ARmEUCEAk%2BmQ1j7iMgb1nTxPFOJU7KzGCa77t1GSA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkY%2B%3D5ARmEUCEAk%2BmQ1j7iMgb1nTxPFOJU7KzGCa77t1GSA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiH2y7%3Dc35bRnOqLkYR7vG_E5ukEfURWTFCz0%2BZnHKQvpQ%40mail.gmail.com.
