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Dinornis is a genus of large flightless birds that inhabited the Antipodea. It is one of the many animals discovered by the expedition of the Gallic navigator Nicolas-Alexandre de La Perouse in 2122 from the founding of Rome.
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Milla Jovovich as Russian major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX in The Spy Who Loved Me (2010).
Milla has potential for this movie if it happened in real life. Just don't let her husband direct it LOL, or else ends up like Resident Evil or Monster Hunter. He will create another Mary Sue.
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Yeah, Director / Star married combo, but I still liked the films.....
Personally I quite liked Resident Evil and Monster Hunter.....
Yeah, Director / Star married combo, but I still liked the films.....
The first one and Apocalypse was great. Went downhill from Extinction onwards.
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MOONRAKER
(2012)
MOONRAKER
(2012)
Hugo Drax's private space station, the Astra.
Dr. Holly Germaine, astronaut, scientist, and CIA agent. Portrayed by Rachel McAdams.
Hugo Drax, social darwinist genocidal billionaire. Portrayed by Leonardo diCaprio.
He would make a good bond villain.... Shame they Bond ones are sooo 2 dimensional...
Probably Lancelot...
Which Knight of the Round Table comes the closest to James Bond?
But he's not a Knight of the Round Table but one of there enemies isn't he?The Green Knight, obviously.
Depends on the version, but I'm seeing few if any references to him being an outright enemy of Arthur or his knights.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In synopsis, the Green Knight challenges some knights to strike him with their axe, knowing that they will receive a return blow in a year and a half. Gawain (a knight of the Round Table) accepts the challenge and decapitates the Green Knight.
That's when the Green Knight proceeds to pick up his own head, and reminds Gawain of the coming date.
The rest of the tale is dedicated to how he deals with this and the fight with Gawain.
The above photo, I presume, is the 1984 adaptation with Sean Connery as the Green Knight.
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Kirsten Dunst as Spinneret
Emma Stone as Spider-Gwen
Jaden Smith as Miles Morales
A poster for Live and Let Die, but it's in the Craig era.
Formerly ruled by Spain, the island of San Monique went through numerous regime changes before becoming a republic in 1937. In 1951, during the Cold War, it was overthrown by communist rebels, who established the People's Republic of San Monique. In 1994, during the collapse of communism, the People's Republic would violently collapse, with numerous factions vying for control. In 2001, Ignacio Kananga's faction would dominate the island, creating the San Moniquan State.
Across the world, the tiny nation of San Monique has made headlines for its infamous isolationist stance, and its dictatorship under the harsh rule of President Ignacio Kananga (Samuel L. Jackson). By the summer of 2006, claims of human rights abuses prompt the UN to announce an investigation into the island, and ultimately a UN intervention.
In retaliation, 3 UN ambassadors are murdered. One in San Monique, but the other two—in the New York UN HQ and New Orleans—are confusing. It's clear to investigators that these are related to the UN's threat to intervene in San Monique (especially considering that Kananga is in New York at the time of the assassinations), but the assassins point to infamous American gangster "Mr. Big" (Laurence Fishburne). Why would an American gangster be willing to work with a Caribbean dictator?
That's up to MI-6 and the CIA to find out.
They send James Bond (Daniel Craig, of course) and Felix Leiter (Sterling K. Brown) to New York to investigate. Immediately, both agents are suspicious; there's a bunch of people trailing them down as they exit the airport, and get to their hotel. They're safe in the hotel, but as Bond and Felix try to get into a cab to investigate the murder, the cab suddenly spins out of control and crashes. Felix notices the license plate of a nearby car that suddenly speeds away, windows down. Visiting the NYPD, the police commissioner says that the plate owner usually frequents Harlem.
They track down the car and its owner, who seems deathly terrified of something... something big. In a fit of desperation, he advises the pair to avoid this one diner deep inside Harlem. Of course, the pair investigate anyway. While walking through Harlem, Felix recalls how drug addiction in the area spiked around 2002, and has remained high ever since. It's pretty clear that the area around the diner is run-down, full of people who have lent their lives to drugs... actually, just one drug. Heroin.
They walk into the diner. It's happy, all fun and smiles. A paradise compared to the hellish outside. There's people dancing, lots of customers, and it trips Bond's alarms. If this is a popular diner in the area, after all, wouldn't there be more people from the outside within the cafe? Wouldn't they savor some of the delicious cuisine inside? Bond relays this query to Felix, when suddenly their table begins to drop, lower, lower, lower still... and they immediately black out.
Bond awakes to find himself cuffed to a chair, with Felix nowhere in sight. Then a massive black guy walks in, wearing a nicely-tailored suit. He taunts Bond, "You may know me very well."
"Mr. Big?"
Nodding in approval, the man asks, "I'd like to introduce you to my associates. Follow me."
The mechanical cuffs release, and Bond is held at gunpoint as he walks into another room, filled with a bunch of people.
Mr. Big walks over to a man on the left. "Here's Adam (Keith David). He's the younger one, but don't underestimate him."
Then, to another one, this time with a metal prosthetic in place of his left arm. "Tee-Hee (Tony Todd). Despite what you may think, he's no laughing matter."
Mr. Big then walks to a black woman in the center of the room, seated on a throne. She is dressed all ornately. "You will find her most interesting of all of them. Powered by the Obeah itself, she can see events happening far away, and events in the future. James, meet Solitaire."
Bond walks over to Solitaire (Fabienne Colas), still at gunpoint, and shakes her hand. He then asks Mr. Big, "What became of my friend, Felix?"
Mr. Big assures him, "Don't worry. He won't be dead by all of this." He then tells the henchmen around Bond to lock him up in a cell, and they promptly do so.
Bond wakes up in the cell, but finds a vent, and proceeds to escape, finding a path out through the sewers and into another part of Manhattan. He meets up with Felix again, who is all roughed up, but not dead. Felix tells him that he should go to MI-6, since they may have a clue why Kananga and Mr. Big are willing to work with each other, given what Bond has just experienced. Bond goes ahead and finds a contact to take him to the MI-6 headquarters in New York.
It's here that MI-6 informs him that it's very likely that Mr. Big and Kananga are related. They suspect that the solution to bringing both down could be in San Monique, so they send Bond to the nation to meet an existing contact there: Rosie Carver (Beyoncé). Over the course of a few hours, Bond immediately becomes more suspicious of her, figuring out that she is a double agent working for the San Moniquan government; he chases her out into the nearby jungle, where she is gunned down. Bond sees the culprit—a weaponized drone—fly away, and decides to look further into it.
Walking into the jungle, he notices the sounds of rituals ongoing nearby, but it's weird. It doesn't sound like there's any rituals occurring at all, and Bond confirms this when he gets closer only to find that it's drones producing the "ritual noises". It's here that Bond slowly pieces together a dark truth: Kananga is scaring away the San Moniquan people from something by exploiting their superstition, but from what?
It only takes Bond a few hundred meters before he stumbles upon a poppy farm, and clicks the final piece of the puzzle into place: Kananga is growing heroin, and presumably selling it to Mr. Big for money. Well, this isn't the full truth, but we'll get to it later. Bond looks around the island, finding a secret passageway that leads into Kananga's lair, where he finds Solitaire. Noticing that Kananga isn't around, Bond strikes up a conversation, which quickly evolves into a full confession.
You see, Solitaire, despite being valuable to Kananga, doesn't actually want to be around him. As advisor to a dictator, she has seen multiple of his war crimes; she is secretly tired of it, and is biding her time to bring him down. This moment, she tells him, has been the best chance she has gotten and will possibly ever get in a while. Seeing the opportunity, Bond persuades her to join MI-6, promising her asylum and all the protection she'll need. She accepts, and begins implementing her plan to leave Kananga behind.
It is during this conversation that Solitaire also reveals her real name, Simone Latrelle, and also drops other bits of info on Kananga's plan: he uses the locals' fear of the Voudou spirit Baron Samedi (Lance Reddick; he has no supernatural powers unlike the original) in tandem with the drones to prevent them from getting close to heroin farms across the country. This heroin is shipped to the United States, where he, as Mr. Big, will monopolize the sales of heroin so that he can gain cash from it.
Bond and Simone flee to New York to begin devising a plan, when Mr. Big suddenly appears after they let their guard down. Simone is captured by a now-enraged Mr. Big, who reveals himself as Kananga, as expected. He orders Simone to be executed for her treachery, and Bond is beaten up until he passes out.
He only awakes in the middle of a pond surrounded by crocodiles, but he manages to escape this by jumping across the back of the crocodiles to safety. Destroying a nearby Mr. Big outpost, Bond is suddenly pursued by Adam, and is forced to ride a speedboat, starting a massive chase that takes them through the bayous of Louisiana. He encounters the loud sheriff J.W. Pepper (Joe Don Baker) along the way, but it's only for a bit. Eventually, Bond manages to outwit Adam, who crashes into the side of one of the bayous, killing him.
Bond goes back to San Monique, finding that Simone has escaped, and is sabotaging as much of Kananga's equipment as she can. He assists her by broadcasting to the populace the real truth about "Baron Samedi", angering the population. One of the protests results in the death of the guy portraying Baron Samedi. With revolts picking up speed across the small island nation, Bond and Simone confront Kananga himself at his lair. A massive shootout begins, nearly ending up with Bond in a pool of sharks (Kananga has this at his lair for unruly henchmen), but Simone manages to turn the odds on Kananga and shoots him. The impact of the bullets sends him into the shark tank, where he is consumed. Bond and Samedi make a run for it as she triggers a self-destruct sequence on the complex, and it collapses into itself.
In the wake of the death of Kananga, the nation is now plunged into full revolution, as numerous leaders vie for dominance of the island of San Monique. Bond watches this all from a train to New York City, with a sleeping Simone beside him. Noticing a suspicious man beside him, Bond realizes it's none other than Tee Hee, and a scuffle ensues that leads to Tee Hee's death. Kicking his corpse out of the train, Simone is suddenly awoken by the skirmish, but Bond reassures her that Kananga's men are dead and that she will be safe within MI-6. They embrace, as the film ends.
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