Casino Royale doesn’t count
it is a reboot of the series.
The first 20 movies is one character played by 5 actors.
Remember the bit in the one with Halle Berry in with the Brosnan Bond walks among Q’s arsenal, mocking devices that had been used by the Connery & Moore Bonds?
no I haven’t seen Die Another Day because I have heard nothing but bad things about it
I’m not a huge Bond fan, though I have been watching them recently at my wife’s behest. DAD was something less than compelling, but it is a cinematic masterwork next to Octopussy.
Actually, the 1960s, noncanonical Casino Royale posited several different 007s. And that was pre-Lazenmooredalbroscraig.
I just now decided that, in '05’s Superman Returns, the last son of Krypton died at the end. Everything after he falls from orbit occurs in imagination.
Also, the entire island he tossed into space was not kryptonite. That simply makes no sense. The crystal Luthor used reshaped the land, true, but not into kryptonite; simply something green. He lost his powers on the island because of his proximity the shiv in Lex’s pocket. Kal could feel that Lois had left a tiny sliver in him after the rescue and knew he was dying; he flew high enough to get a final solar charge, but it wasn’t enough to save him.
Admittedly it would be more simpler and more elegant if he died in the water or on the seaplane, but I refuse to imagine Luthor winning. If I want a story in which evil triumphs I’ll pick up the newspaper.
I’d think if I were coming up with a fantasy world to escape a horrifying reality, the fantasy world wouldn’t also be horrifying.
To make a good superhero movie, choose a lead actor who can convincingly portray the secret identity, not the hero.
The Coyote (silent in the Roadrunner cartoons) and Wile E. Coyote (who speaks and introduces himself) are two different characters played by the same actor.
According to the Transitory Property of Movie Villians, David Warner is the ultimate movie bad guy.
Really cool villains in science fiction movies must be turned into good guys in the sequels. This is The Law of the Emasculated Sci-Fi Badass.
The Curtain/Clothing/Classic Correlation; any movie in which characters make clothes out of old drapes will become a classic.
Basil Fawlty dies at the end of Fawlty Towers.
I nominate this for canon.
Is Ralph Wolf played by his brother?
Where does this happen other than The Sound of Music?
Oh, and in the Matrix movies, the machines using us “as batteries” is either shorthand or an uninformed guess. They’re really using as as a distributed computing cluster for a variety of sorts of problems more amenable to wetware than silicon. But I’m not sure I’d call that “my” theory; it’s so widespread among fans that it’s the next best thing to canon.
It was actually in the original script, but was dropped because it was hard to explain in a few lines of dialogue.
I think it’s Felix Leiter who is the alias.
No, same guy but with makeup on his nose and a good dialect coach. What a range he had.
I’ve been watching to see if he’s ever referred to as “Wile E. Coyote” in the cartoons with the Roadrunner. I think we see his mailbox and a few of the packages he ordered from Acme. I can’t call it canon yet; still just a theory.
Gone With the Wind.
This is an out-there theory regarding an obscure and convoluted movie, but here goes: in The Dead Zone, with Christopher Walken in an early role, remember the crazy politician Greg Stillson? The one who Walken eventually…
foresees will start a nuclear war after becoming president, therefore driving Walken to attempt to assassinate him (which fails, but still ultimately succeeds in ruining his political career after Stillson shields himself with a baby)
Remember his weird bodyguard, the lanky, oddly handsome Sonny Elliman, in the long leather coat, who goes everywhere with him?
My theory is that Sonny is the one with the charisma and Stillson is actually being manipulated by him in his political ambitions, until he is ultimately a puppet of Sonny. My reason for thinking this is:
OK, remember the scene where Walken grabs Stillson’s hand and has the vision of the “scanning screen” (wonderfully 80s-looking technology) where Stillson forces a general to put his hand on the scanning screen to authorize a nuclear strike? Here is the scene. OK, notice how Sonny says, “Complete the sequence, Mr. President”? And notice how Stillson says later, “Thank you, Sonny.” And notice the way Stillson says it. He sounds like he genuinely means it.
It seems as though Stillson is in some way emotionally/psychologically dependent on Sonny. And it seems as though Stillson is under the sway of Sonny.
Snake Plissken and Captain Ron are the same person
Everything we saw in the Matrix trilogy was an illusion. Zion and the machine world were just as much a fake as the 1991 world was. The real controllers (aliens? demons?) knew there would be some humans who would escape from the 1991 illusion. So they set up the machine illusion as a back-up. People like Neo and Morpheus would think they were free but they had just moved to another level of illusion. And the real unseen keepers just build another level above that in case the humans ever start slipping out of the Zion illusion.
This explains all the times when the “rules” of what can happen in the real world break down - the characters are never in a real world. And all the confusion about the Architect and the Smiths and the Machine City is just a sign that what we’re seeing is a poorly written program that is breaking down.
My own “Matrix” theory is that the Machines were actually following their basic programming of helping mankind, and the alleged war wasn’t between man and machine but between humans using computers and Luddite terrorists.
The terrorists caused the nuclear winter, and therefore the machines are protecting people the best way they can, giving them a safe life in their minds while protecting the bodies. Even Smith is not actually “evil”. He’s a program, he doesn’t hate humans more than Photoshop does, his whole act is an affectation to psychologically instill fear on the Neo (pun intended)-Luddites.
In “Silence of the Lambs”, it’s mentioned that Will Graham from “Red Dragon” is a drunk in Florida.
I believe he eventually sobered up, and found a career in law enforcement he could handle.
He didn’t want the hassle of dealing with his past in his new career, so he changed his name to Gil Grissom, and moved to Las Vegas.
A TV theory:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is a Frenchman who doesn’t speak a word of English. We *hear *him speaking English thanks to the Universal Translator.
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