10 Insane Rules Movies Weren't Allowed To Break

[@rebeccawilliamson1978]

the gun thing in Charlie's Angels is a little odd, but it did require the movie to get more creative in it's action scenes. And the sequel kind of made it a plot point, with Demi Moore's character specifically saying that her era of Angels used guns and demonstrated how much quicker an action scene would be finished if you just shot your opponent.

[@carlrood4457]

The problem is they used a lot of crappy wire work that was OK in The Matrix due to its setting, just looks stupid in what's supposed to be the real world. They were essentially flying

[@Geotpf]

​@@carlrood4457The movie and it's sequel were ridiculous over the top cartoons that weren't to be even close to realistic. The silly wire effects suited the tone of the movies just fine.

[@JustAVerySmith]

I’m American. Having all the Harry Potter actors be British was the right call.

[@danielmitchell6940]

Yes, indeed props to author for sticking to it.

[@ScottFunk-us6ro]

I'm American, and no it wasn't the right call.

[@EvenWinter]

@@ScottFunk-us6ro why?

[@dhenderson1810]

Why?

[@marianr.2155]

Robin Williams wanted to be part of the franchise but because that rule he wasn’t

[@dieseljester]

"Don't make the super suit animated... OR GREEN!" -Deadpool

[@jamesmendonca2900]

How are they supposed to make a Jimi Hendrix biopic without using his music? They should not have made the film in the first place.

[@LoopyChew]

I actually enjoyed Nowhere Boy, which doesn't use any Beatles music as it's a movie about John Lennon and his mother.

[@yello1183]

I don't know a single Jimi Hendrix song, so it's kind of stupid of the estate not to allow it because even if I saw this movie, I still would not know a single Jimi Hendrix song.

[@360dom360]

Im guessing someone did not want the movie made.

[@sureshmukhi2316]

​@@LoopyChewsuch a movie exists? I didn't know that. If it is about pre Beatles John Lennon, then of course it would not make any sense to have any Beatles music.

[@breadmeister]

The worst part of The Golden Compass is that they lopped off the book's ending, which was actually filmed (you can see portions of it in the trailer).

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

No extended cut then?

[@Michaelthekiwi]

The end of the book is a massive twist and a total shock as to what the motivations of the characters are. And instead it leaves you hanging, especially if you know what's coming.

[@elaineb7065]

I hated that the film didn't have a real ending. It felt like they were going somewhere & something was going to happen. I recently got the box set of the TV series & saw the ending as it was meant to be. HOLY MAZOLEY!!!

[@Blitterbug]

The whole thing was ham-fisted and neutered compared to the books and I hate it.

[@slothachunk]

The whole "villains can't use iPhones" is pretty rich coming from the Apple corporation considering their various exploitation of workers including children and using conflict minerals to build their phones.

[@slayingroosters4355]

I wonder how they feel about the grand theft auto game's use of ifruit as the in game phone

[@alanhilder1883]

They didn't want to be compared to the other villains.

[@charleswilliams8964]

Yeah I thought about the People in real life being convicted of murder, etc. probably having an iPhone and idk I know apple can't control that. Guess they could in this case.

[@TheRealRedAce]

No one hates being portrayed as a villain more than a villain.

[@deufvelli]

@@slothachunk every big corp exploit chinese cheap labor, why you saying it’s only apple doing that. It’s just a stupid criteria, but you bring politics in it which is not why they applied that criteria for the movie. It’s just some not smart guy or even maybe girl in the apple’ marketing tram who did that decision and who are not connected to chinese industry development at all…

[@tskmaster3837]

Blofeld does appear in the Thunderball remake "Never Say Never Again", released two years after "For Your Eyes Only", made by the guy suing for the Thunderball rights McClory. McClory won that lawsuit so the Bond team literally dumped "Blofeld" out of the franchise entirely before he got to make his movie. Partly to show they don't need Blofeld, partly to mess with McClory upcoming film.

[@conradsutton1456]

Lol never speak of that movie again 😂😂

[@jSIN99]

Ya know, you can't just slap "INSANE" on every title and that makes the things within it "INSANE". How about being creative and opening up a thesaurus. So weak, so lazy.

[@Commercialnerd74]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@Lok-TM]

First day on KZbin?

[@gj8683]

At least they didn't go with "iconic."

[@kromus1]

"So weak, so Lazy" is WhatCulture's mantra

[@ninjanoodle2674]

I think you meant “So anemic, so feeble, so lackadaisical, so apathetic.” :)

[@jayluck8047]

3:13 - Movie trickery. The Pizza Hut logo is upside down so the viewer can read it, where in reality the logo is always readable by the person opening the box. At least that’s what it’s like here.

[@andrewward5891]

Rowling doesn’t even mention the United States in the original Harry Potter books so explaining an American sounding actor in the movies would be difficult

[@nagranoth_]

Harry Potter cast being British wasn't insane, it was perfect.

[@Nosmo90]

The use of the word ‘insane’ in the title is very clickbaity. The video itself is good, but the title makes the creators seem either dumb or happy to treat their audience as dumb; neither of which is a good look.

[@57thorns]

The Godfather avoiding the words, thereby emphasizing how criminals use their version of newspeak to pretend they are not criminals added to the movie's greatness. Sometimes you just have to rely on your audience getting the point using show, don't tell. And the mobster and his phony civil right front were made impotent by it.

[@dinomonzon7493]

Ironically, given that For Your Eyes Only opened with James Bond visiting the grave of his ill fated wife Tracy, having Ernst Stavro Blofeld being on hand made a lot of sense as in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, where 007 marries, it was Blofeld who kills Tracy DiVicenzo as she and James Bond head to their honeymoon.

[@mirkocegledi7511]

Which is such a sad scene in the end... Maybe George Lazenby was not the best actor, but his line in the final moments of that movie is heartbreaking. Gets me every time.

[@carlrood4457]

@@mirkocegledi7511 He was pretty good in the love scenes, possibly because Diana Rigg helped carry him. He did nail the sheer devastation of the character. His saying, "We have all the time in the world." is heart breaking

[@henrykujawa4427]

The only mistake George Lazenby made was QUITTING the series before his one film was even released. I often imagne how the entirety of Bond films in the 70s might have been so much different AND BETTER had he stuck around. It's kinda like Biff Elliot (long my favorite MIKE HAMMER) who quit after one film because he said he didn't want to be typecast.... although, having seen the producer's immediate follow-up (the nasty unsold TV pilot with Brian Keith and the VISCIOUS sick F*** of a film, KISS ME DEADLY with Ralph Meeker), I can't help but wonder if it wasn't those things he wanted to avoid. Elliot gave Hammer real "heart" he just didn't have in most of the follow-ups... until Darren McGavin did the 1958 TV series.

[@EckelMusic]

"Selma" (2014) was a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr. that had to be made without including any of the real Dr. King's speeches, since his family had made a deal with a different movie studio.

[@M.H3ndr1ks]

In John Wick, the man who kills John's dog and steals his car is seen using an iPhone.

[@sgtGiggsy]

Apple didn't dare to object when the learned they would have to face against John Wick.

[@atzuras]

Then Apple did not pay for product placement and the IPhone was lawfully purchased.

[@alanhilder1883]

Only BIG villains can join the Apple circle. Lesser people/villains don't get to. Therefore, if you use an iPhone, you are a big villain... ;-)

[@ajrollo1437]

John Wick's dog was convicted of running a massive tax fraud scheme back in 1986. He wasn't an innocent victim in this.

[@jmg999]

A Jimi Hendrix movie with no Jimi Hendrix movie is like making a movie about Babe Ruth and never mentioning that he played baseball.

[@markkumanninen6524]

Funny thing, I was expecting a description of Hays Code.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

Yeah me too. I think that's largely been dumped these days though.

[@kp2223]

The apple one is infinitely annoying because some of the best characters in cinematic history have been villains. So to literally impart the option that no one carrying your product can be the villain eliminates so many creative options. It also gives everyone the tell that if a character has an iPhone they guarantee will not be Engaging in any nefarious acts in the film.

[@Grimbago]

"All Harry Potter actors must be British" is a 100% correct call, not the "insane rule"

[@SMDoktorPepper]

At least Golden Compass ended up with a tv series tgat was decent

[@waynesivell1611]

"Warner brother's is is is"😂😂😂

[@Jim1255783]

Thought I was having a stronke, but, nope, @7:54 there it is! ROFL

[@berendharmsen]

It's not mystery at all why they went through all the trouble of opening with a unnecessary 'fake Blofeld' for the opening sequence in the Bond movie. It was deliberately done to piss off McClory in such a way they would get away with it and make fun of his villain at the same time.

[@lukewright9031]

Not surprised at the Deadpool one because when 20th Century Fox was a standalone company, they forbade other studios from using the word "Mutant" which was why the X-Men were completely absent in the MCU (perhaps with the exception of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff whose back stories were completely rewritten as a caveat or loophole).

[@animehuntress9018]

And that's the reason I didn't bother watching that, lol. I'm not even nearly as extreme as some comic fans with the exception of rogue and gambit.... Rogue's my favorite and considering in every universe but I think 3 her and Gambit are together... I was definitely a bit rabid...

[@bsherder]

Too bad we never see a rule saying "Teens in the movie must be portrayed *by* *teens* "

[@DarthWoodrack]

The morality of using underage actors is highly debatable, especially when a lot of shows about teenagers are rated above the age range of those teenagers. Teenagers are better, like fifteen and up, but younger than that, it’s generally the parents pushing them into the job, and that has a wildly mixed bag of results. Take the chaos going on with the actor who played Kid Loki, who ended up homeless because his parents took all of the money he made from the Loki tv show. That’s not as rare as one would hope.

[@Userd542gth67]

Under 18 work rules are much stricter so it makes filming much easier to use young looking adults to fill teen roles.

[@balok63a40]

@@Userd542gth67 And you also are less likely to have the actors sue you more than 50 years later for having "forced" them to do a nude scene (even though their parents agreed to it and were there during the filming).

[@jeremylefevre9610]

For the green lantern they had to pump an extra million dollars into the suit cgi in the weeks leading to its release and it still looked like garbage. To think if they had just used a regular suit that movie would have been the start of the Justice League and we wouldn't have Deadpool.

[@thatjeff7550]

Or have a regular suit that the CGI could enhance. I mean, Mr. Director, come on! Let the FX crew do their job FFS and not overly rely on CGI for EVERYTHING.

[@mta1864]

None of these are "rules". Most of them are creative choices and the others are typical legal restrictions. Nothing "Insane" about them.

[@Ra-Hul-K]

So what do you want the title to read? "10 Non-Insane Creative Choices & Typical Legal Restrictions Movies Weren't Allowed To Break" ?

[@tehlaser]

I’m curious what you think “rule” means.

[@mta1864]

​@@tehlaser I was a bit hasty in my comment. I should've said "None of these are "insane rules" as most of the things listed were pretty run of the mill. That said, to answer your question, I define a rule as a stated regulation imposed on an individual or group with a clear penalty from those in authority if breached. Moreover, a rule is generally agreed upon by those under the regulation beforehand. The legal restrictions are clearly rules under this definition. In my view, though, most of what were called rules in this video felt more like guidelines or impositions. What if the Angels used guns in the movie? Then it'd be just like the TV show where they did use guns. What if Green Lantern used a normal cloth costume? It might've been a better movie. Can't say mafia in the Godfather? More like they didn't want to risk offending the mafia. The penalty in each case is ambiguous at best and the authority for the rules is themselves. That means the creatives in charge could change the rules if they didn't like them. That's why I didn't feel like they were "rules" but rather choices.

[@balok63a40]

@@mta1864 Yeah, if I had never seen a KZbin video of this type before, I would have thought that they meant rules that were imposed on the studios by external authorities such as the Hays Office.

[@mrdth1987]

The Harry Potter rule isn't insane at all. I completely agree with Rowling, Americans actors would ruin it. No offence to Americans actors reading this but you know it's true.

[@alanhilder1883]

The TV show house, someone insisted that the lead doctor, "House" had to be an American, they were definitely not to be british. After at least 2 seasons he found out that Hugh is british, but by then, it was too late to change.

[@dhenderson1810]

No, it is just that the British are snobs and don't like hiring anyone outside their country. They think they are the only country with good actors.

[@thatjeff7550]

The ONE character that I could possibly see as being portrayed by an American actor would have been Guilderoy Lockhart, with the express notion that American actor attempts to portray the character with a fake British accent. It would push forth the notion that the dude is so fake, he's not even from the UK.

[@paulkennedy8701]

​@@alanhilder1883 That story makes no sense. The producers knew he was British. He's Hugh Laurie! Of course he's British.

[@alanhilder1883]

@@paulkennedy8701 Everyone apart from this one person knew he was British, that one person didn't. Hugh did an "American accent" and it sailed straight part him.

[@akshatjain6432]

The apple problem is simple- choose ANY other company

[@reverbscherzo7850]

And if a phone is an important element to the story, no one uses an iPhone.

[@Blitterbug]

"...smooth sailing from hear on out..." - you could say that, seeing as some of Deadpool's first words to Wolverine were "Welcome to the MCU"

[@mechanicaldavid4827]

For "Love Is The Devil", a biopic of sorts concerning painter Francis Bacon (note, had early role for Daniel Craig!) that could not secure the rights to use any of the artist's works. Still a great vision of his art and life.

[@theoneneo5024]

I always took the Golden Compass cult thing to be a shot at the Catholic church. Yes, it was more subtle than the Da Vinci Code but never pretended to be anti-atheist or anti-Muslim. I'm an American and I'm completely okay with the Harry Potter series being exclusively British. That was the story, background, and language so why wouldn't it be. Guess what, throwing in diversity nonsense just for the sake of it can completely ruin a movie.

[@drongobum2037]

How is J.K. Rowling's demand in any way "insane"? Many people are tired of the stunt casting of non nationality appropriate actors who then have to employ invariably bad fake accents. Whether it's Americans with lousy Brit accents, Brits and Aussies with bad American accents, or whoever playing whatever, there's simply no need for it.

[@WhatIsSanity]

Yeah denying people jobs based on their nation of birth should be totally normal and ok :/

[@drongobum2037]

@@WhatIsSanity Hiring people who are completely believable in their roles ought to be normal.

[@WhatIsSanity]

@@drongobum2037 Well that's the thing about actors, they change themselves to fit the role. There are limits I agree, but your argument is egregiously based on racism not an understanding of theatre. You'd be surprised by the nationality of a lot of actors and the ability to fake an accent. Accents aren't genetic after all, but a learnt trait.

[@drongobum2037]

@@WhatIsSanity There is no racism involved. Nationality =/= race. This is about unnecessarily forcing foreign actors to employ a fake dialect when there are plenty of locals who can do the job with a native accent.

[@WhatIsSanity]

@@drongobum2037 Forcing? I'm arguing in favour of allowing. You've completely skewed my words

[@thelorddrinian]

TWO ads one minute in?? do you want people to watch this?

[@jobbe101]

"Festen" in Danish means "The Party" just to give a very little amount of context.

[@peterlucas2998]

I remember thinking to myself during For Your Eyes Only; how many times are they going to kill this guy. You only live Twice, Diamonds are Forever ( killed twice) . Then they dropped him down a smoke stack from a helicopter. So British. And now I know the rest of the story: so meta. Thanks Pete 😊

[@VincentScales]

On IMDb, For Your Eyes Only, it now has him listed as, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited).

[@Baughbe]

In college I worked at a pizza place that very quickly became clear that it was Mafia owned and run. Probably should have read the sign on the wall when I applied. The one that said "Mafia? What Mafia?"

[@chewysaiditfirst]

7:35 is this(Golden Compass) the same as "His Dark Materials" on HBO?

[@slothachunk]

Yep, but "His Dark Materials" is much more faithful to Philip Pullmans writings.

[@littlebear274]

Yeah, it just sucks. The series is a thousand times better.

[@DarkXelNaga]

Saying mafia reinforces negative Italian stereotypes, said the Italian mafia mobster. Brilliant.

[@anthonytippett5997]

Didn’t even know Andre made this movie. He looks perfect.

[@tyshekka]

The green lantern suit had nothing to do with why the movie was bad. I didn't care if it was cgi, because it looks similar to the weapons effects. But the story and character development were bad, and the weapons were unimaginative.

[@Rockhound6165]

The Godfather never mentioning mafia or cosa nostra is actually a nod to the actual mafia not using those terms either. The terms "family" and "crew" are used instead. The closest you'll get is the term "caporegime". If you remember on the Sopranos Johnny Sack was vilified for testifying to the existence of the mafia when he was pleading guilty. Not admitting the mafia exists is one of the tenets of being made or part of the "omerta" the code of silence.

[@Uncle_T]

Apple just wants to make sure they themselves are the biggest villain connected to the iPhone brand.

[@TheBurntPopcorn]

I haven't watched what culture in quite awhile because I though Jules was gone glad to see he didn't leave!!! And that's my one comment per video!

[@w49660]

Festen sound like a great movie for people who like to watch somebody else's home movies.

[@ruthspanos2532]

I saw some of the films made with those restrictions. They were still visually interesting and worth watching. The current way of making movies requires so much money that it severely limits the stories that can be told. I personally would love to see more small budget films that aren’t just a sequel, remake or based on a toy or comic book.

[@kaoskwien]

It's a great movie not a home movie. And if you ever make time to see this or an other dogma movie you would that good movies depend on characters and their way of portraiting a story then a ton of technical stuff to make it look better. And in case of festen the way the movie is shot helps to understand the state the main character is in in his plan to confront his abusive father. And a cleaner and more traditional way to film this wouldn't have the same impact

[@camaronshoultz6137]

That iPhone rule isn’t a rule. Several villains in movies have used iPhones since that movie came out.

[@bonusbaby801]

@camaronshoultz6137, I may be mistaken, but I think they were referring to that specific movie. Not all movies in general.

[@Grizzly01-vr4pn]

If the production has a deal in place with Apple for product placement, then the rule would stand. If the production just purchased iPhones out of its own budget, then they can do what they like with them.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

One more reason why Deadpool goes back in time to shoot Ryan Reynolds before he can accept the role in Green Lantern.

[@rachelwolfe1379]

I don't know if it was a rule, but the Netflix 7-part series Midnight Mass never once mentioned the word vampire despite it clearly the main horror device.

[@arifhussain-dl1vp]

Can an Anti Hero use an iPhone?

[@katashworth41]

3:43 Marta doesn’t either.

[@countluke2334]

Cast being British in Happy Potter makes sense. American accents would simply feel off. Irish counts as British, Northern Ireland is UK after all and I am not aware of a big difference between Northern Ireland and Éire when it comes to accents.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

I think the owners of Hendricks estate are determined to wipe his memory off the map. I can't think of any other reason to lock down his music so completely.

[@echemh]

Now that the iPhone secret is out it makes it harder on directors to do twists and have iPhones in their films.

[@mactallica9293]

Deadpool one isn't weird... none of the xmen movies were talking about ironman

[@davidchism6081]

1:46. You mean Franics?

[@jameswaterfield]

Harry Potter, being set in a British school of Witchcraft and Wizardry means that having non brits in the cast would be wrong. Why, because it is inferred that each different country has their own school, therefore, as it (and presumably all the others) is a boarding school, there would no be any other nationalities represented. I sort of assume, that as the population of Ireland is a lot smaller than the UK, that Irish students would (and did) attend Hogwarts.

[@sunsignhealer]

The makers of the golden compass should have gotten the same writers and crew as the chronicles of Narnia. The made a great adventure movie with religious tone that weren't in your face!

[@komodosp]

It would be better if all MCU movies had that restriction...

[@deborahblackvideoediting8697]

This was an interesting list!

[@kencube86]

In Japan, tattoos are often associated with gangsters. Back in 80s to 00s adult video actresses' tattoos have to be covered by make-ups. Although the rules are loosen in recent years and there are films feature actress who have many tattoos.

[@bigdaddymoe1]

That is really ridiculous that Jimi Hendrix people didn't want his music used in a movie about him. Then what was the point of making the movie anyway.

[@craigroaring]

What's with people using the word "bold" when what they mean is "bald". They are pronounced very differently.

[@humanseekingtruth6080]

The Green Lantern was not actually that bad, I’ve never understood the hate, plus we all know evil people do not choose Apple 😂

[@brucenatelee]

I believe in people respecting their cultures and such, so not having Americans in the HP movies don't bother me that much. Most people don't have even that much control over their own stories and properties getting adapted, like Tolkien.

[@johnmcelroy1635]

I have no problem with creators making money but what culture has a ridiculous amount of ads. Which is why so many won't watch them.

[@kevinclapson]

Was 2:34 meant to be hilarious irony, or did it just work out that way?

[@NoOne-yc4wl]

They couldn't say The Godfather for fear of offending a mafia boss who didn't want there an Italian stereotype mobile boss and would use their puppets to derail the production. I have to store that bit of trivia...

[@THE_CDN]

Apple: "Villains can't use our iPhones!" Also Apple: "We use slave labour to make our iPhones."

[@patriciafenwick5846]

I agree with JK Rowling.

[@countluke2334]

If a biopic is not supported by the estate of the person portrayed and cannot use their work, perhaps that is a good time to shelf the whole project.

[@whophd]

#8 is so weird. What on earth should the words refer to, if not the movie? Surely the words are insignificant compared to, I dunno, the murdering and stuff. Streisand effect?

[@eclecticx]

Rowling's demand that all major actors be British to keep the Britishness of HP made absolute sense. To call it insane is asinine, just as it is with every other instance in this list.

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

"The shooting went well" in a Mafia movie. After Omerta rule was activated.

[@Generalscorpio]

So a film about the mafia wasn't allowed to mention the mafia for fear of the mafia.

[@ajrollo1437]

The biggest disappointment of "The Golden Compass" was that they never made movies based on the other books, and I was genuinely looking forward to people losing their minds in the second movie when the strong female protagonist is immediately pushed to the side for typical male hero for the rest of the series. Honestly, the fact that "The Golden Compass" is held in such esteem is based solely on the fact that no one has read the damn books past the first one, or even a part of the first one. It's absolute sexist garbage that gets a free pass for being critical of religion in the same lazy way that everyone and their mother is. Ugh. (The one famous incident from Don Quixote we all know is also in the first few pages. People lie a lot about reading books.)

[@alm2187]

I'm American but I'm well-aware of my culture's tendency to screw up international properties in a whole slew of different ways. If JKR wanted to keep the film franchise authentically Anglican, what's the problem?

[@jerry2357]

You mean “English” or “British”, not “Anglican”. From the Concise Oxford Dictionary: “Anglican /ˈaŋɡlɪkən / ▸ adj. relating to or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it. ▸ n. a member of an Anglican Church. - DERIVATIVES Anglicanism n. - ORIGIN C17: from med. L. Anglicanus, from L. Anglus ‘Angle’.”

[@ajrollo1437]

@@jerry2357 He literally meant Anglican. The King (Queen at the time!) is head of the Church of England, and as such all of His subjects are properly Anglican! Now please follow this link to listen to me sing "God Save the King" in a sonorous manner.........

[@alm2187]

Dr. Horrible used an iPhone! 😁

[@davidbroughall3782]

Why do a Hendrix movie at all if you can't use any of his music? That rule should have killed the movie completely.

[@nsa3679]

oh, so the teacher from "Class of 3000" is that music artist lol

[@imark7777777]

I heard so much fluff around the Golden compass but when I actually thought I was impressed and then I watch the bonus material. Really they did a good job of it but the Catholic Church doesn't like anything they don't like. Which was sad because it had a lot of religious meeting in which would've been good to not be hindered.

[@dcmanuel7232]

As HUGE Himi Hendrix fan, I still refuse to watch the film of his life that has none of his music in it.....Don't care how good the actual movie might be as I would constantly be wondering how much better it would have been featuring the main characters defining gift to our world....

[@LJLMETAL]

I like the Green Lantern movie.

[@rotterred991]

I thought J.K. Rowling's name was pronounced like "Rolling." No?

[@katashworth41]

It’s actually pronounced Arsehole.

But didn't jimi Hendrix's music go into the public domain a few years after that bio pic was released??

[@paulkennedy8701]

No. Not till 70 years after his death. (And after the death of other songwriters for ones he didn't write, like "All along the Watchtower". Bob Dylan is still alive.)

[@victorfinberg8595]

5:30 actually, quiller NEVER uses a gun (author adam hall)

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

The only reason why #10 exists is BECAUSE of the legal issues. EON productions knew at this point that they couldn't use the name Blofeld or the organization SPECTRE and they knew that McClory was about to be able to produce Never Say Never Again (and I think at this time they knew that Connery was going to star in it). So the whole scene is a big middle finger to McClory and that production. If the competing movie was not going to be made I think the scene never would have been shot.

[@darthpernicious]

Yeah, it was just sending a message. Eon productions knew Blofeld would be in the upcoming (and competing) Never Say Never Again, so they invented a very rushed and jokey pre-credits opening killing him off (or at least a facsimile of him).

[@nosliwec]

SPECTRE (and by association Blofeld) was the leading villain of the Connery/Lazenby Bond films (except for Goldfinger) and having Blofeld's fate left ambiguous at the end of Diamonds Are Forever this let EON close out SPECTRE/Connery's Bond and start fresh with Roger Moore.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

@@nosliwec For Your Eyes Only was Moore''s fifth turn as Bond and he only had three more after it. The scene wasn't about closure or starting fresh, it was about trying to insult McClory and company. EON was more than happy to go back to the SPECTRE/Blofeld well after McClory's estate sold the rights back to them.

[@frankbrodie5168]

Well my respect for J.K. Rowling just went up another notch.

[@sgtGiggsy]

Creates biopic about one of the greatest musicians in the history, doesn't use his music... Don't get me wrong, I get the rights issues, but then the movie shouldn't even have been made.

[@mukiex4413]

Holy shit is THAT who Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget was based on?

[@npckse8508]

Having read the His Dark Materials books, as well as the Golden Compass movie, I think this was all it a bit much. I remember hearing this big controversy about how this was a big pro-atheist book, I found it to be pretty tame and just not all that original in the way it was written. The book felt a bit like a throwback in terms of being a more adult feeling book written apparently for kids.

[@AndyMiller_windskisong]

Yeah, I always felt the Golden Compass was a weak attempt at trying to make an atheist remix of the vastly superior Lord of the Rings or Narnia series. The ideas were weakly derivative at best, and mostly showed the vacuousness of the effort.

[@stingrey1571]

the aaliyah biopic had the same issue. they didnt get the right to the music. the movie had aaliyah singing covers.

[@cdotmonster]

Meanwhile we now have a black Snape

[@korbell1089]

"Please don't make the super suit green...or animated," ~Wade Wilson

[@hurle0409]

If villlian can't use an iphone then the hero shouldn't use an iphone too. It will spoil my future watching experience

[@petermcgill1315]

Licensing issues. Crazy, huh?

[@saneiac]

The producers of The Golden Compass didn’t want to offend Christians? What were they planning to do for the part where the main character saves life, the universe, and everything by losing her virginity?

[@thisiscompletelyreta]

Having a british movie that takes place in britain use only british actors makes so much sense. I kind of wished they did that for the witcher show(polish). It likely would have turned out far better.

[@ytgray]

Come on, Henry Cavill was perfect for the title role, and Joey Batey was excellent, too. The show's issue was not the nationality of the cast.

[@davidmylchreest3306]

His Dark Materials is an excellent adaptation and keeps all the anti religion context that The Golden Compass had to drop.

[@MrDubyadee1]

Yeah, I can see Kevin Costner playing Snape instead of the late great Alan Rickman. It would have been awful.