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    The Mitsubishi Lovers Thread

    in Motoring | Vehicle Clubs

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    I HAVEN'T SEEN ONE YET HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. BUT BOTH 2008 & 2009 MODELS ARE ALREADY OUT IN THE UNITED STATES.

     

    MITSUBISHI LANCER EVO - IX SPORTBACK 2008 MODEL (SILVER)

     

    AND THE LANCER EVO - X 2009 MODEL (SHOWN HERE BEING TEST DRIVEN IN FRANKFURT GERMANY)

     

    (Mods, please aptly delete if you believe there is copyright infringement)

    kaya balahan niyo na mga budget niyo. panay 2.0 l engines na ilalabas nila. vicinity nga PhP 1m lahat ng variants.

    James Bond Vs. Jason Bourne

    in TVs, Movies, The Stage & Showbiz

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    The release of The Bourne Identity in the same year as Die Another Day set the bar higher for any spy film that was to follow. Compared to Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, Commander Bond looked soft and effete. Bourne could beat someone half to death with a rolled up magazine, while Bond was rolling about in an invisible car. It was hard not acknowledge that the torch had been passed.

    The MOVIE REVIEW Thread

    in TVs, Movies, The Stage & Showbiz

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    thoughts on casino royale (spoilers ahead):

     

    when i saw cr in its opening day, i forced myself to put aside all the bond pictures behind to really understand the beginning of the 44-year old franchise and appreciate the movie. i was disappointed of the shortcut not showing him recruited from the royal navy to the mi6. long time since is saw bond in a naval uniform in tomorrow never dies.

     

    cr deals us with a real action bond flick. never before have we seen bond bruised, bloodied and banged. jason bourne, i ain't a sissy anymore. unlike the past bond movies where we see only trickles or even no hint of blood, we can see bond as a real person rather than a comic-book character and true to fleming's original description of bond. last time he was roughed up that much was in dalton's ending scene in licence to k*ll.

     

    in the first noir scenes, he is earning his double-O status by assassinating two spies and the new gunbarrel scene...new "focused" barrel and no cgi image of a bullet blasting into the screen, very unlike the past flicks. then came the psychedellic '60's opening theme with cornell's "you know my name" to satisfy bond purists and the bigger market share - the next gen audiences. david arnold again made a good job in the music and background bond themes.

     

    trends in cinematography had evolved bond into a real-life persona, sweating and gasping as he runs after a bomber and using his technical skills and wit in pursuing the "target" in a construction area. his fight scene in the embassy which he infiltrated was very fast-paced and his uncanny escape quite surprising.

     

    cr is a story of espionage and betrayal. he hunts down le chiffre, a banker backing terrorism worldwide. hoping to look into dmitrios (le chiffre's contact in the bahamas) by seducing his wife, first he wins the ol' aston martin db-5 (first seen in goldfinger) from dmitrios over a card game, then following him to miami and kills him, and ends up foiling the destruction of the world's largest passenger plane. the vehicle fight action scenes were reminiscent of schwarzenegger films.

     

    a love story broiled with vesper lynd, a british gov't agent to look over bond's gamble to win against le chiffre in a no-holds barred poker game. in between his poker games, he kills le chiffre's enemies and got posioned. surely vesper to the rescue via bond's new aston martin (haaahh, buti na lang hindi invisible car) and medical equipment supplied by the q branch. now we get to see the whole q group and not the old, funny chief (may he rest in peace).

     

    one-liners in the film were never avoided and craig's 007 seem to escape with it. in one of the notable scenes a waiter asked him, "how do you want your vodka martini, sir? shaken or stirred?" bond gruffily replies, "do i look like someone who cares?"

     

    here craig never tried to imitate the "pogi points" of connery which all of his predecessors did. he was even bribed into wearing a tuxedo by vesper, who bought it for him. imo, he was ruggedly fine-looking and not as bad as his critics do.

     

    the casino scenes maybe took a lot of rolls of film, to illustrate his card decks?. here is meets leiter for the first time (bahamas at the airport in dr. no right?) as an undercover adversary. another black guy as his cia counterpart as in connery's renegade never say never again. but no tactical support from him this time.

     

    craig is no doubt the bond of the times. the powers that be at eon would not bet on him if he did not have it. true to the name, eon (everything or nothing) productions had a poker winner in dan craig. great actor, very powerful performance and bassy english voice.

     

    a high note of the film is his torture scene where he got his balls, yup yagbols niya, beaten up by le chiffre. he even afforded to be sarcastic with his tormentor via a one-liner. because of audience maturity, craig was able to do this scene where no past bond actors would ever dare to try. he escapes this time, thanks to the betrayal of his supposedly "first love" in the franchise and see him saying his famous line - "the name's bond, james bond" in an ending which is a prelude to the next film (due 2008 as "risico" - working title).

     

    commercialism of bond films will never fail to be noticed started by seiko watches of roger moore to brioni of brosnan. this time sony products cartelled (as they now own production rights) and one mention of omega, although not shown.

     

    market foces and technological developments have made this bond into a continuing hero - he's here to stay after 4 years of bond drought. the ending credits....james bond will return. yup, he has returned. http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/8093/iconbond1pq.gif

    The MOVIE REVIEW Thread

    in TVs, Movies, The Stage & Showbiz

    Posted

    on a side note, too much sony products: Vaio laptops, SE phones (M600-vesper, K750-matthis, K790-bond) and cybershots

     

    sony pictures bankrolled the film.

     

    now we also know why Bond does not have children in succeeding movies no matter how many bond girls he sleeps with... that toture scene made me twitch, cringe and grimce with each of Le Chiffre's hits! damn!

     

    in the novels, he had a son james suzuki born in 1964 sired by kissy suzuki of you only live twice.

     

    ....Felix Leiter is black? nice one...

     

    leiter was also black in the renegade connery-bond flick never say never again. choice of actors seemed to break the timeline in the franchise.

    Back To The 70's

    in Culture and Living

    Posted

    Some Hit Songs (foreign) from the 70s:

     

    "Short People" - Randy Newman

    "Sentimental Lady" - Bob Welch/Fleetwood Mac

    "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor

    "Dancing Queen" - ABBA

    "YMCA" - Village People

    "How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees

    "Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin

    "Hotel California" - Eagles

    "Oh Lori" - Alessi Brothers

    "Danny's Song" - Loggins & Messina

    "Annie's Song" - John Denver

    "Terminal" - Rupert Holmes

    "Summer Breeze" - Seals & Crofts

     

    a lot of mp3's of these songs nagkalat sa mga malls. PLATINUM RHYTHMS, THAT 70'S MP3 COLLECTION, '70s R&B COLLECTIONS and BILLBOARD TOP HITS 1976-85.

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