The Living Daylights was an attempt to return to a younger, more thuggish Bond. Brosnan, like Moore, is a more suave and sophisticated sort, but he would have done fine with it, the Bond-as-sniper scene notwithstanding.

Licence to Kill was an attempt to copy American action movies. It's good action*, but it's not good Bond. Brosnan might have looked ridiculous or he might have lent it such sophistication that it felt more like Bond.

* Christopher Nolan thought so: he stole the hoisting-an-airplane-with-another-airplane opening to put in The Dark Knight Rises.

I just watched Doctor X (1932) with Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill. Atwill is Doctor Xavier (which he pronounces it ZAV-ee-ay, but then he also keeps saying "surgical scal-PEL"). He's running various tests on his colleagues to determine which of them is the cannibalistic strangler who has been linked to his research institute. Fay Wray is luminous as the daughter in danger, and is shot with more generous closeup here than in King Kong.

I think this is the first feature I've seen that uses two-strip color, and it's a fantastic example. The HD transfer used by Turner Classic Movies is clean and beautifully preserved. The creepy story makes good use of it, with the exception of a beach scene that ought to burst with sunny yellows.

It's a talky slow burner, but if you're interested in the development of color photography, it's worth a look. And if you're a fan of early chillers, it's a gem. (The climax is basically a good-girl-art cover of Weird Tales.) I liked it a little better than The Invisible Man, which I watched again last weekend.

The beginning of District 9 is surely supposed to be footage of a documentary that got covered up, so I guess it was "found" in that sense.

Yeah, it was the online campaign that got me into the theater. It had the reputation of being very scary and to have cost next to nothing. To be clear, I didn't hate the film even tho I'm not a horror movie guy. I kind of admired the work that went into it and the cleverness of what it presented. I just wasn't scared and eventually saw that it was all bark and no bite. Some killbillies would have gone a long way.

If Trey had made it, I would be slapping him on the back and calling it a big success.

EDIT
I spelled "hillbillies" wrong and now am incredibly disappointed that two movies by the title "Killbillies" have already been made and I didn't write them.

Why was that dude so mad at Steven Moffat on May 21, 2006?

I watched "The Power of Three" and "The Angels Take Manhattan" more or less back-to-back last night. The first was good, light character fun but not much of a mystery or adventure. I think it would have worked better as a Doctor-light episode, with the Ponds investigating the goings-on at the hospital while the Doctor was off on a wild goose chase looking for the source. ("A Town Called Mercy" would probably have worked better as the matching Pond-light episode anyway, with the alien doctor as the Doctor's pseudo-companion—<gasp> secrets and lies!) But if "The Power of Three" is going to be a family affair, it would have been nice to have River in it, and we could have a funny introductions gag where Brian insists that his last name isn't Pond and the Doctor insists that his last name isn't Song.

"The Angels Take Manhattan" was a lot of fun, and much more effective (for me, anyway) than the two-part angel story a while back. It took some time to realize that the Winter Quay really was gone, so Amy and Rory were free to go anywhere (and therefore could live a happy life and get River's book published). But with New York too unstable to rescue them, why couldn't the Doctor tell Amy to just travel to Chicago and he'd pick them up there? Emotionally, it worked well, but it also felt like the Doctor was giving up.

But I've had issues with Amy and Rory for quite a while. They've been thru much more personal, emotional trauma than any other new series companion. They really ought to have been ready to settle down and say goodbye to the Doctor several episodes ago. The Doctor normally chooses companions who have little family and nothing to lose for exactly the reason that they won't be missed. But here Amy and Rory were juggling jobs and adventuring, and it felt false.

I read an article on the web that has a great theory about what the rhinoceros means.

You are probably all right, but I do see a trend....

/believes this has turned into a post-your-favorite-album thread

Not to mention that the porn area should be significant right back to the early days.

YOU CAN"T FOOL ME, EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE. I KNOW DIRTY MOVIES WHEN I SEE THEM.

The David Prometheus video was awful. Not only does it go out of its way to be creepy, but there is stuff in there that is downright actionable. "I can do things that your human employees would find distressing or unethical"?! Boom -- lawsuit, and probably a DOJ investigation.

/wants to talk about the bonus situation

...says the guy who lists "fighting" as a hobby.