by 007hertzrumble | Apr 28, 2014 | Misc., Title Credits Remixed
The Octopussy title track from Rita Coolidge is a certifiable classic. A certifiable slow jam with an awkward pace that causes a tragic difficulty in matching a song with the image. I was convinced… CONVINCED… I could match Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Big shocker. It didn’t work. At all. When a bunch of other ideas failed, I went to what I thought was an obvious connection, but probably not a match — The Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden.” I had no hope for it really… but the pace fit and the lyrics matched roughly with the image. So I dug a little deeper. And I found this. And now life will never be the same.
BEHOLD! The Octopussy opening remixed with The Muppets
Octopussy Opening Titles Remixed with The Muppets!? from James Patrick on Vimeo.
by 007hertzrumble | Apr 28, 2014 | Tournament of #Bond_age_ Tweets
You know what they say…. behind every great bracket is a great lesser bracket. The NCAA’s have the NIT. The Winners have the Losers bracket. And the Tournament of Bonds has the Tournament of #Bond_age_ Tweets.
Introducing the Tournament of #Bond_age_ Tweets
After each live tweet a secret panel of “experts” selects their favorite tweets from the past week. I will then decide on the Top 5 and submit those tweets to a vote. As we roll along through the live tweets, our second bracket will be populated and then the tweets will duel for their own fame and glory. The author of the winning tweet will be crowned Man or Woman with the Golden Tweet and be required to add a third nipple… and be showered with fame and glory and uncertain Interweb riches.
To kick this whole thing off, here are the contenders for Golden Tweet of the DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (#DAF) Live Tweet.
Winner:
Also brilliant:
by 007hertzrumble | Apr 25, 2014 | Live Tweet Digests, Tournament of #Bond_age_, Tournament of Bonds
April 23rd, 2014 – The Tournament of Bonds launches with the 16 seed: the DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER live tweet. We had a few thoughts. Not all of them were especially pleasant.
INITIATE THE DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER LIVE TWEET (before we change our minds)
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by 007hertzrumble | Apr 21, 2014 | Tournament of Bonds
Tournament of Bonds: Match A
After the viewing of #Octopussy on April 30th, voting will go live for one full week. At the end of that week, the winner of Match A will be crowned and advance to the second round.
16. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (April 23rd, 9:00pm EST)
Year released: 1971
Domestic Box Office: $43.82 million ($221.75 adjusted)
#DAF in #Bond_age_:
Essay / MFB / Live Tweet #1 / Live Tweet #2 / Remixed Opening / #DAFHatecast
vs.
17. OCTOPUSSY (April 30th, 9:00pm EST)
Year released: 1983
Domestic Box Office: $67.89 million ($179.97 adjusted)
#Octopussy in #Bond_age_:
Essay / MFB / Live Tweet #1 / Live Tweet #2
by 007hertzrumble | Apr 9, 2014 | Tournament of Bonds
In searching for a gimmick, a hook, a gee-whiz-let’s-all-watch-Bond-again attention grabber, I wanted something more than just a cute follow-up to THE WRAPAROUND.
First there was THE WRAPAROUND, now experience THE TERTIARY!
Though, now that it’s out there… The Tertiary sounds like a terrific title for an early 80’s schlock movie. Nevertheless, The Tertiary wasn’t totally working for me. So I crowdsourced some ideas… we had the notion of watching the Bonds according to the order of Fleming’s novels/stories… and the notion of using my alternate chronology, which was a grand idea. Except for the part about starting with CR, QoS and then a couple of Brosnans. All of which I feel like we juuuuust watched. The hordes have been frothing for Connery and Moore (and we’re constantly frothing for more Smolder, but I digress).
And then Mr. @TRWilcox suggested a bracket tournament. Oh? The NCAA tournament had just wrapped. The idea was fresh on everyone’s mind. “But how would we seed it? How would we watch it?” was my initial response. So we let it simmer. If we seeded our own brackets, where would we find the grand upsets, the shocking David v. Goliath defeats? No. The seeding placement would have to come from somewhere else. Somewhere that we’d all, generally, contest. Peter Travers? Ugh. Slightly less evil. IMDB. Ahoy!
I’d use the IMDB scores for the Bond films to seed the tournament of 23. Tiebreakers determined by # of votes. I’d create the bracket and we’d watch the head-to-head matchups on back to back weeks. The following week, a #Bond_age_TV week, we’d vote for the winner. That’s called brain percolation, my friends.
Due to the unholy nature of a 23-team tournament, 9 teams received byes into Round 2. You might be shocked which teams survived the bubble. So for example on April 23rd, we’ll watch Diamonds Are Forever (lol) and on April 30th we’ll watch Octopussy. After Octopussy, we’ll open up the voting, which will last for the next week… and so on and so forth. If you don’t like the seeding don’t blame me. Blame the world of folks who vote at IMDB.
So. Beginning Wednesday, April 23rd, I give you the Tournament of Bond_age_.
by 007hertzrumble | Feb 19, 2014 | Misc., Title Credits Remixed
I really liked the thematic coincidences between Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party” and the Skyfall title credits. So I mashed ‘em up. No offense, Adele, but I could listen to Oingo Boingo all damn day. Now, when I watch Skyfall’s I’m hearing Oingo Boingo in my head. Call me crazy, but I’m writing in Oingo Boingo on my ballot for all future Bond themes.
Skyfall Opening Remixed with Oingo Boingo
Skyfall Remixed Opening w/ Oingo Boingo from James Patrick on Vimeo.
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