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Listed below are comments made by Gordy76 between Saturday, 1st November 2008 and Friday, 3rd April 2009.

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Why PlayStation 2 still matters 09:48am on 03 Apr 2009 Rovex33:"A PC can be built for the same cost that plays games well enough"

Well enough, but not as well a console. I'm of a generation that had basic consoles before PCs came along and PCs have never and will never provide the same experience as the current generation of consoles. They may do "well enough" but they'll never be as good, and certianly not without spending on better than basic components, pushing the cost beyond that of a console.

Rovex33:"Sure Hi-Def is nice, but the figures speak for themselves, BR just isnt making much impact."

What figures? If BR isn't making an impact, explain the growing number of titles available, the number of old titles being re-mastered, the expanding shelf-space being given over to BR on the high street, the number of manufacturers now producing players, and again the investment made by studios so that films are made in hi-def.

Rovex33:"if anything i buy more HD-DVDs because they can be had for almost nothing."

That would because the format is dead, nobody is producing it anymore, and nobody is producing anything to play it on anymore.

Rovex33:"Sky HD is good enough as is DVD usually (the PC upscales extremely well). "

The majority of people are not sitting using their PC as a media server, and if your 42" tv is only 8' away, you're too close to get the best visual experience.

I bet you were one of those who said you'd never listen to anything but vinyl or watch anything other than betamax.
Shaken, not stirred 08:45am on 01 Nov 2008 It's a shame some people just don't get the point. The Bond franchise was fading as Roger Moore's stint was coming to an end - Pierce Brosnan just about killed it off altgother...not his fault (although he is my least favourite Bond) but the movies were dependant on the gadgets and the girls - Bond had nothing about it him but cheesy lines.

In the Flemming short. Quantum of Solace, Bond learns that no matter how bitter the relationship between two people becomes, as long as the tiniest spark of what brought them together and what they once felt for each other still burns, they will still have something to hold on to, but without that, the relationship is dead. He also realises that he's never had that quantum of solace, he's never had that kind of relationship.

What the last two films have done have taken Bond back to what he was always supposed to be - a ruthless, hard-ass governemnt agent, but also human and flawed.

As Daniel Craig's first film ended with Bond having being betrayed by, and then robbed of, the first true love he had felt that could have taken him away from the only way life he had known, the second sees him out to take revenge on those who had done that to him.

It's odd to mourn the absence of megalomaniac baddie set on world domination, then complain that the gadgets are unbelievable. In this day and age, there's nothing more realistic than a global corporation out to make the world suffer in the name of making money - that's something we can all relate to.

And as for the gadgets, touch-screen technology is already here for crying out loud. And what we saw here was far more believable than the outrageous technology that the pre-Craig Bonds had become reliant on.

No, Bond is now as it should always have been - about the man and his character, scarred on all levels by his past, motivated by duty and his own desire.

(ps, I'll never understand how such a thing as a critic can exist...imagine being paid to express an opinion that only those responsible for creating the thing being criticised care about (although in this case probably not)...most people will just go a head and enjoy it anyway, regardless of what the "professional" tells us we should think).

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