I can't wrap my mind around a Van Damme movie not sucking in one respect or another.

I liked both Hard Target and Timecop, but that was mostly in spite of JCVD, not because of him.

Random aside: one reviewer of JCVD pointed out how much he's starting to resemble Buster Keaton. I'm never going to be able to get that out of my mind now. Not sure if it's a bad thing - I have a feeling his movies would play better silent. Though in the two I referenced we'd lose out on Lance Henrickson and Ron Silver chewing the scenery so enjoyably.

I liked both Hard Target and Timecop, but that was mostly in spite of JCVD, not because of him.

I'm pretty sure I liked those movies too. I don't think I saw Double Impact, but I saw the trailer enough times, and I sometimes like to break out the ol' "There are two of them!"

Hey, I still love Double Impact. Mmm. Cory Everson.

Don't judge me more than you already do.

I was a big time fangirl. Didn't like Timecop that much. Preferred Universal Soldier, Double Impact, and I just adored Double Team. I also have a shameful soft spot for Nowhere to Run.

I liked that his character didn't always ride off into the sunset with the girl.

Naturally, I enjoyed Sudden Death. It had Luc Robitaille, the fate of the nation being decided by a Stanley Cup Finals game, and JCVD getting his ass kicked by a giant foam penguin.

Just got back from the new Bond movie. It was kinda meh. There wasn't much of a plot (even for a Bond movie), and the action sequences were a mess.

We saw the new Watchmen trailer on the big screen. Ooooooh. And the trailer for the new Star Trek movie, which brings the slash right away, bless 'em.

Jilli, a friend of mine in Wales said about the same thing. He was unimpressed.

Bond:

I too found it a bit meh. But I *adored* the action, even if I found it a bit confusing (2 too many sequences intersplicing the action with other "action"). Emotionally, I didn't feel it. And when it got to the end, I wasn't sure if it was ending, and before it ended, I thought it was about to end. The end I thought the pacing and structure fell apart.

I liked that the whole movie was Bond working through his feelings about Vespa, but I didn't feel the end. I didn't feel closure, or, um, that he'd obtained his measure of peace, or even that he hadn't. I liked M going on about not knowing who to trust, and that if you can't tell your enemies from your friends you should get out, and then putting her faith in Bond.

I wonder that if there are more Daniel Craig Bond movies, that they'll keep searching for this organization that nobody knows exists (or did I miss that in my confusion and that matter is resolved?)

Did the actor playing Greene remind anyone of Gaius Baltar?

cereal

I put this in Boxed Set by mistake: [link]

Video review of Quantum, hits upon some of the issues that I had.

Not really spoilery, deals in very vague terms.

I actually liked QoS, because the bad guy's plot actually makes sense (in a break from usual Bond) and the main female other than M was actually competent. But I like the new serious Bond better than the goofy 70s Bond, even to the point that I was OK with no Q. And I liked that it was artsy.

My friend and I picked out all (?) of the references to other Bond films, but I think there were a number of refs to other movies (Chinatown being the most obvious)...and they even did a shout out to the end of Tosca.

And yes, the bad guy was Gaius Baltar. With less of a conscience.