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Date:
8/14/2018 8:05:35 AM
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RE: Idris Elba as James Bond? Yes yes
Agree about the '90s. However, while we're being ashamed, I have to confess that I love the big action genre of that decade. Maybe you could call 1988's Die Hard the progenitor of all those wonderful operatic over-the-top splosion things -- Under Siege, Broken Arrow, The Rock, The Peacemaker, etc.
The best one, imo, was Con Air. It was so unapologetically big and crazy that you were apt to miss how good it was. The screenplay was well written. The editing was perfect. It started out stupid and got stupider until you realized that it was elevating stupid to an art form. All the jokes worked. Every explosion was topped by the next explosion. The characters were unbelievable, but they couldn't have been any other way. It was a crafted, self-aware lunatic fest. I watch it every time it's on.
Agree about Mission: Impossible. Better by far than the Bond series, but Bond had the advantage of convention -- the music, the Bond girl(s), M and Q, Moneypenny, and the silly gadgets. Convention becomes institution. Mission: Impossible, for better or worse, didn't go there.
