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Thunderball (1965), when adjusted for inflation, was the highest grossing Bond ever at $142.2m on a budget of $9m. It featured Connery in his fourth outing as Bond. Spectre steals two nukes, and uses them to blackmail the world, threatening to destroy a major city if demands are not met. Bond is sent to find and recapture the nukes. That pretty much covers the first boring hour, which mainly concerns Bond trying to harass a nurse in a spa into having sex with him.

Once he is actually on the job, the second hour is mostly boring underwater battles. He does, however, have a relationship with the villains girlfriend, Claudine Auger. Claudine's brother was a NATO officer who was killed and impersonated by Spectre to steal the nukes. This was remade, again with Connery, as Never Say Never Again. You might have guessed by now that this was not my favorite of the series. As a matter of fact, it may be my least favorite. One note of interest from the special features. There are multiple versions circulating with minor dialogue and scene differences. Nobody can explain why the multiple versions exist. IMDB readers have it at 6.8/10, Maltin says 2 1/2 stars, and Berardinelli liked it at 3 stars.

I wrote a little bit about Gladiator, and I updated my comments on X-Men.

I also did a couple of new collages of Romijn (1, 2) in X-Men, just because I had a little extra time.

I did find some new release nudity. Fairly obscure, but some eye-candy, anyway. The source is The Hunger collection. For you outside North America, it's a cable series, sort of a Twilight Zone with tits. This particular DVD is called The Hunger: Wicked Dreams, and includes four separate stories.

The following are gleaned from each of the four:

Well, I have moved away from my hardcore trend of late and into a much more mainstream film line than I usually touch on.

Oh, first off, not from film at all, Major Gunns (Tylene Buck) of WCW. I wouldn't have bothered capping this at all cept I wanted to make it a desktop for myself, it's not really often you see a hot babe on TV flying the Canadian maple leaf, lets me be patriotic and perverted all at once.. kick ass.

I watched Xena for the first time since it's first season last weekend. I keep hearing reports of more and more skin, and I love Renee O'Conner, well, I should say I love looking at her, I am not a huge fan of her acting. But then again, I haven't really seen anything with her cept Xena, and not that much at that. But, alas, no nudity, or real peeks, but I did find the scene of her being bathed in some kind of Cannibal turkey basting pretty sexy. So rather than just junking all the caps I was snapping I made this collage.

Ok, back to wrestling.. sort of. I have been a big Wrestling fan since back in High School (both the professional and Olympic Style). Well, I have seen all the behind the scenes films, Hitman Hart's "Wrestling With Shadows", The Unreal Story of Wresting, Beyond The Mat etc. But by far, the most entertaining, on a purely entertainment standpoint has to be "Ready To Rumble". David Arquette played the hillbilly wrestling fanatic perfectly, and the addition of a bunch of real wrestlers thrown in didn't hurt. I think if they used all actors playing wrestlers, rather than faces we fans recognize, it would not have had half the kick. So anyway, I capped Julia Schultz, former PB playmate of month, who sadly showed nuthin' 'cept underwear. And my favorite pale face (after Vampira anyway) Rose McGowan, who didn't show a hell of a lot either.

I have done caps of American Beauty before, with the help of my good friend Jeweller, but I watched the film for the first time last weekend. And as is my usual habit, if I see skin, even if it's skin I have seen 100's of times over, I gotta snap frames. So anyway, you know the two suspects at hand. Thora Birch looks awesome of course although I never really understood the big draw to Mena Suvari she has I nice body, even tho, most would argue, but I always did like 'em sinewy. But I just don't find she has any real sexual draw, and, without sayin' too much, I find her a little unpretty. Birch has a real natural beauty tho, not plain, girl next door kind of looks, just flawless beauty.

I snapped a few frames of Patricia Velasquez from the Mummy as well. I gotta say, I really didn't like that movie, maybe the only thing that could have saved it, would have been a lot more of Velasquez.

Also, I made a collage of Tara Reid in Body Shots. She is a nice looking lady, and the caps of this scene I have seen out there by a lot of other guys, is the only reason I watched this one. And I'll tell you, I think the only benefit of watching this one, was seeing her naked. I just can't take that "My Secret Identity" guy seriously in anything. Gary Coleman would have been just as believable as a "Pro Football Could Be Rapist".

Dwarf Nuns

The pope goes to visit the Seven Dwarfs who are drinking in a bar. As he is finishing his speech on comparative religions, Dopey raises his hand to ask a question.

"Mr. Pope, are there any dwarf nuns in Rome?"
"No Dopey," responds the Pontiff, "there are not".

"Mr. Pope, are there any dwarf nuns anywhere in Italy?", Dopey questions.
"No Dopey," chuckles the Pope, "there are no dwarf nuns in Italy."

"Mr. Pope," Dopey asks pleadingly, "are there any dwarf nuns anywhere in the world?"
"No Dopey," the Pope says sadly, "there are no dwarf nuns anywhere in the world."

And softly in the background the six remaining dwarves start chanting...
"Dopey screwed a penguin, Dopey screwed a penguin."