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Licence To Kill is a 1989 spy film. It is the 16th instalment in the James Bond series, and the second and last to star Timothy Dalton as MI6 agent James Bond. Licence to Kill was the first official James Bond film to use a title not derived from either an Ian Fleming novel or a short story. However, it does contain characters and elements from Fleming's novel Live and Let Die and the short story "The Hildebrand Rarity". The film revolves around Bond's dismissal from MI6 and his vendetta against a South American drug baron. The title refers to Bond's discretionary licence to kill which allows him to kill without prior approval to complete his mission. The film was originally due to be called "License Revoked" until research revealed that many Americans didn't know what the term "revoked" meant.

Following the film's disappointing U.S. box office performance compared to some of the other Bond films, the death of screenwriter Richard Maibaum and subsequent legal battles over the ownership of the James Bond series, Licence to Kill was the last Bond film for over six years, the longest interval in the history of the series. It was also the final film to be produced by Albert R. Broccoli, whose declining health led to a diminished role in bringing 1995's GoldenEye to the screen.

8/10

Octopussy, released in 1983, is the 13th film in the James Bond series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's 1966 short story "Octopussy". However, the film's story is original and the short story is narrated as a flashback by the main Bond girl Octopussy. In the film, Bond is assigned the task of following a general stealing jewels and relics from the Russian government. This leads him to a wealthy Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, and his associate, Octopussy. Following captivity and attempts on his life, Bond uncovers a plot to force disarmament in Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon.

Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, Octopussy was released in the same year as the non-EON James Bond film Never Say Never Again. Written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson, the film was directed by John Glen.

9/10

View To A Kill, released in 1985, is the 14th film in the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond.

Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film is the third Bond film after The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy to have an entirely original screenplay. In A View to a Kill, Bond is pitted against Max Zorin, who plans to destroy California's Silicon Valley.

shame its classed as one of the worst.

7/10

The Living Daylights, released in 1987, is the fifteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional British secret agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's short story "The Living Daylights," first published in The London Sunday Times colour section on February 4, 1962. The first American publication was in the June 1962 issue of Argosy under the title "Berlin Escape". In 1966 it was the second story to be added to the short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights, published two years after Fleming's death. The beginning of the film is almost completely accurate to the short story.

The film begins with Bond investigating the deaths of a number of MI6 agents. A Soviet defector, Georgi Koskov, informs him that General Pushkin, head of the KGB, is systematically killing Western operatives. When Koskov is seemingly snatched back by the Soviets, Bond follows him across Europe and Afghanistan.

Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, his stepson Michael G. Wilson, and his daughter Barbara Broccoli, it was released in 1987. This was the last film to make use of an Ian Fleming story title until 2006's Casino Royale.

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Moonraker, released in 1979 is the eleventh film in the James Bond series and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. When the end credits rolled for the previous Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, it said: 'James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only; however, the producers chose Moonraker as the basis for the next film, following the box office success of the 1977 space-themed film Star Wars. For Your Eyes Only was subsequently delayed and ended up following Moonraker in 1981.

In the film, Bond is set on the trail of a space shuttle that went missing during transport on the back of a plane. He visits the owner of the transport company, Hugo Drax, to investigate further. After befriending space scientist Holly Goodhead and a narrow brush with a centrifuge, Bond follows the trail of clues from California, to Venice, to the Amazon rain forest and finally into outer space in a bid to prevent a genocidal plot to conquer the world.

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The Man with the Golden Gun, released in 1974, is the ninth film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional British secret agent James Bond. In the film, Bond is sent after the Solex Agitator - a device which can harness the power of the sun. He teams up with agent Mary Goodnight against Francisco Scaramanga - The Man with the Golden Gun. The action finally culminates in a duel between the two men.

The Man with the Golden Gun was the fourth and final film in the series to be directed by Guy Hamilton. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy crisis, a dominant theme in the script — Britain had still not yet fully overcome the crisis when the film was released on December 14, 1974.

8/10

Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film. It is the 8th film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. In the early 1970s, Broccoli and Saltzman wanted to choose a new actor to portray the Bond character, to replace Sean Connery, who portrayed the Bond character in several films from the 1960s. After a substantial search, they picked actor Roger Moore for the lead role.

The film is based loosely on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, a drug lord known as Mr. Big plans to distribute two tonnes of heroin free so as to put rival drug barons out of business. Bond is soon trapped in a world of gangsters and voodoo as he fights to put a stop to Mr. Big's scheme.

7/10

I am a fan of the Simpson's and haves the show since i was about 8-9 and I am so pleased that they have made a film of it. I first new about it when i was watching a program about it in 2005 and until this year its finally come out after almost 2 years of waiting!!!!

The only bad thing was that the TV advert kind of ruined it because when i was at the cinema watching a film, when the adverts came on I laughed at the jokes in it like spider pig. But when i watched the film the spider pig wasn't that funny. But at least the bits not shown we good.

8/10

Thunderball is a 1965 spy film. It is the fourth film in the James Bond series, and the fourth to star Sean Connery as MI6 secret agent James Bond, 007.

The film follows Bond's mission (Code name: Thunderball) to find two NATO nuclear bombs stolen by SPECTRE, who hold the world to ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States of America (later revealed to be Miami).

The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, one-eyed SPECTRE Number Two. Helped by the CIA and Largo's mistress, Bond's search culminates in underwater battle with Largo's frogmen. Though some enthusiasts consider Goldfinger (1964) the best 007 film, Thunderball is the most-watched, with almost 140 million paid tickets and Goldfinger the second-most watched 007 film, with some 130 million tickets sold.

Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film. It is the 7th film in the James Bond series, and the sixth and final to star Sean Connery as star of Eon Productions' James Bond film series. Connery would later return as Secret Agent James Bond in the 1983 unofficial James Bond movie Never Say Never Again. Connery returned for Diamonds Are Forever after his absence from the previous Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby in the lead role.

Connery would later lend his voice to the 2005 video game adaptation of From Russia with Love. In the film, Bond impersonates a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring. He soon uncovers a plot by his old nemesis Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a giant laser satellite that he will use to hold the world ransom.

Loosely based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli and released in 1971. It was the second of four films to be directed by Guy Hamilton.

You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film. It is the 5th film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and lightly based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the same name.

In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Russian spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. With one side blaming the other, and an American moonshot just a few days away, Bond goes undercover on a remote Japanese island to find the perpetrators, bringing him face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. This film reveals the features of Blofeld, who was previously a partially-unseen character.

After its release in 1967, Connery stepped down from the role, leading to the hiring of George Lazenby for 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Connery later returned officially, one last time, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and 1979's Moonraker, both starring Roger Moore.

You Only Live Twice became the quintessential example of the spy film particularly with the super villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his aspirations of world domination and extravagant lair in a volcano. As a result the film has been parodied greatly perhaps most prominently by the Austin Powers series and the scar-faced Nehru suit wearing Dr. Evil but also in music. The backing soundtrack to the film was used by British singer Robbie Williams in his hit Millennium .

American Pie 2 is the 2001 sequel to the comedy film American Pie. It was written by Adam Herz (characters, story, screenplay) and David H. Steinberg (story), and directed by James B. Rogers.

The film picks up the story of the four friends from the first film as they reunite during the summer after their first year of college. It was released in the United States on August 10, 2001, and grossed over $145 million in the USA and $142 million overseas on a budget of $30 million. Its sequel is American Wedding (2003).

American Pie 2 is the better sequel according to 'Total Film' so see this first. ._.

9/10

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American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz. This was the first film directed by the Weitz brothers. The movie is centred on four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures. The title refers to a scene in the film in which the lead character is caught having sex with a pie—earlier he was told that "third base" feels "like warm apple pie". It was a box-office hit and spawned two direct sequels: American Pie 2 in 2001, American Wedding in 2003. Singer Don McLean was credited for allowing the name of his hit song to be used as the title.

This film ranked number 49 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies", and ranked number 32 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted American Pie the 6th greatest comedy film of all time.

Since the conclusion of the American Pie trilogy, featuring the courtship and marriage of Jim Levenstein and Michelle Flaherty, the American Pie name has gone on to be used as an entity similar to National Lampoon. The American Pie entity has spawned three spin-off films: American Pie Presents: Band Camp, which was a direct to video release in 2005, and American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile was released on DVD in December 2006. The next film, American Pie Presents: Beta House will be released in 2007.

As i said its funny when all dead bodies come alive and they try to kill the one that eventually gets burnt and the guy really over acts this and ruins the scene because hes like, "Oh my god, thats sick, uurrgghh and oh thats disgusting" it shows where the director tries to make the scene more disgusting than it really is only though it doesn't.

What is wrong with that crazy girl that gets naked and walks around the cemetery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But i like the music when the acid is seeping out of the casket and going into the air. its really cool!

6/10

The Shining has every thing that a good horror film has and not many horrors do that. Jack Nicholson delivers great acting and actually looks like he is going mad, so good! My favourite scene like probably everyone else's is the "Here's Johnny!" bit it is probably one of the most famous lines and scenes in cinema history.

Although the film trails off a bit from the Stephen King Book it still is really good and I recommend it to everyone that hasn't seen it and is reading this comment.

Sherly Duvall was good but still she got a razzie award for worst actress ?????? Plus Stanley Kurbick was nominated for the best director but then got another nomination for worst director!!!

10/10

Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho was the starting point of slasher films, Black Christmas was the main point of slashers for the 70s because lots of 70s horror slashers used some of the ideas from this like Halloween for instance where you see the vision of the killer himself like on Black Christmas. But no sequels though only a crappy remake in 2006 and even that was 33 years after the 1974 classic.

The 2006 remake sucks, it tries to hard to be gory and violent when it doesn't look real, so DON'T WATCH IT (unless you want a good laugh at how rubbish it is)

10/10

Wow this is what a zombie film is all about. It mixes between a slasher film like Friday 13th with a zombie film like Night Of The Living Dead because there isolated in a forest- (Slasher) and they get attacked by flesh eating zombies- (Zombie Film what more could you ask for!! Also the effects are really good especially for its time, 1981!

I haven't seen the sequel but I gather that it is better than this one so I really want to get it. I hope that it IS as good as the 1st and as gory.

Sam Raimi's best piece of work.

10/10

The Birds was made in 1963 for Christ sakes and yet the effects still amaze me because if you compare the effects for this film with the one in Jaws 3 the you'd think that this was made years before it. The bit where Melanie is stuck in the phone booth is my favourite bit because its well spoofed in the Simpsons, or the scene where that man is dead and his eyes are pecked out.

I cant believe that it is being remade in 2009. They should leave things alone like with the ridiculous amounts of sequels like with Halloween or Friday the 13th.

10/10

The Exocist spoof is probably the best part in the whole movie. In fact I have the song they sing on the piano that goes - "Shake your ass watch you self..." etc. on my mp3 which I love it makes me laugh every time I see it and I never get bored of it. Also inside the Exorcist spoof is The Amitiville Horror spoof which is so funny i cried with laughter.

James Woods is good as Father McFreely and he should have got an award for that, James should try and be main character for something as he is so good, shame.

6/10