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  Licence to Kill 1989

  ★★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  I realise I'm rewatching these movies in a weird order, but Licence to Kill feels like the obvious follow-up to a rewatch of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, seeing as it's Bond's revenge plot to bring justice to the man responsible for gravely harming Felix Leiter, and murdering his wife. Seeing history repeat itself for his closest ally, Bond refuses to leave it all to bureaucracy.

  The result is like a weird, almost Miami Vice style film, very reflective of…

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  On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

  ★★★★ Rewatched 22 Mar 2025

  Been a long, long time since I'd last seen this entry. Was well worth revisiting as I think I appreciated its strengths much more this time around. The fight choreography is impressive for 1969, almost meeting the energy of Daniel Craig's Bond films in brutality and ruggedness. The filmmaking itself is also quite impressive for the time, with a lot of great effects, shot transitions, stark lighting, and rapid editing unlike what you see in previous and subsequent outings. I…

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  The Social Network 2010

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 28 Jan 2022 5

  Can't believe there was a time I thought movie Zuckerberg was more evil than real Zuckerberg.

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  GoldenEye 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2021

  I still consider this the best Bond film to date. The sheer leap in cinematic direction going from Timothy Dalton's films is incredible, and the setting of a post-cold-war-era world is perfect for a series that took place entirely during said era and then returned from a hiatus to see its end. They play into that cold war tension so well, with a classically schemed doomsday plot. This is the first Bond film to use CGI, and it brings some…