InterestingâŚ
From what Iâve heard, only 18 of the 24 films currently in existence (presumably due to other broadcast/streaming rights arrangements on the remaining 7 films) will be on this channel.
Which seven films do you think will be left out?
The most recent? I donât know but it strikes me as reasonable these would be the ones most in demand and therefore most likely to be in some kind of âexclusiveâ package.
My guess would be some combination of the Craig and Brosnan films.
The seven most recent filmsâthat would be (IIRC) TWINE to Spectreâwould indeed be the most logical choices to exclude from this channel, so I would have to agree with Dustin and theSpectre.
However, where 007 is concerned, anything is possible.
Turns out the 18 being shown are DN through LTK, plus two wild cards: NSNA and CR ('54)(!).
Odd, but anywayâŚ
TCM is also spotlighting the Bond series, in September.
Never Say Never Again makes sense, and Iâm glad they include that, as itâs reasonably faithful to the source material and stars Sean Connery. (For those reasons, Iâve always included it as part of the âofficialâ seriesâa step-child perhaps, but still one of the family.)
However, Casino Royale (1954) is indeed surprising although still somewhat understandable.
Including Casino Royale (1967), on the other hand, would be even more shocking, as EON has no logical reason to purposely link themselves to that mess.
Iâm surprised by the inclusion of NSNA, as most Bond film purists I know (such as myself) donât even touch the non-EON, non-Danjaq material such as NSNA, CR54 and CR67.
CR '54 is a nice addition, especially as there are so many (myself included who have never seen it). NSNA is an odd addition, but not entirely unexpected.
Streamed a major chunk of Live and Let Die on Pluto last night. Be prepared for about 45 minutes of commercials per movie. LALD showed a runtime of 165 minutes.
Oh myâŚfrankly, I cannot watch any film with commercials any more. This is lifetime and life is simply too valuable to spend it in front of such.
Iâm the same way. I can have something on TV while I do other things, which was what I was doing last night during LALD. I donât really watch any standard broadcast television anymore due to my aversion to commercials.
Whatâs particularly annoying with Pluto is that the ads seem to show up based on some fixed timetable, or algorithm or something, utterly irrespective of whatâs happening on screen. They donât come at logical junctions between scenes, but instead could arrive in the middle of a sentence of dialog, or in an action scene between a punch being thrown and the fist landing on a jaw. The point being, I donât detect a human hand at the wheel. And when the ads do appear, itâs in an eyeblink, no pause or fadeout, so itâs like theyâve been spliced into the program.
I havenât spent much time on their Bond showings, but I did try to watch Dr Who. Gave up pretty quickly.
All in all, youre probably better off with TCMâs Thursday night marathons.