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Please enlighten me. when did I ever insult you? When I jokingly said you were a bad Bond villain? If you can't tell a joke from an insult then maybe you should get off your computer for a while.
Follow your own advice.
You don't like my opinions, ignore me.
Easy.
It's hard to ignore you when you spam the entire board. Let me remind you of the rules once more.
Spam
Posts that are deemed as ‘spam’ should also be avoided. These may include mass flooding of identical posts in a thread, or across several threads, posts that contain no active remarks that add to the topic discussion (such as one-word posts) or posts that, regardless of quality, are not related to the topic at hand.
- random member: Yeah it's pretty cold out there.
- you: Roger Moore is responsible.
- random member: The Dark Knight is a great movie.
- you: wouldn't be had Roger Moore been in it.
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(shrug) There's lots of threads. Just ignore me. Or debate.
Lead, follow or get out of the way.
I believe the moment audiences roared with laughter when the man flipped out of the roof of the Aston Martin in Goldfinger that the writing was well and truly on the wall. It was the turning point when Eon new what the winning formula was. The 70s was always going to be about big stunts and big laughs whoever played Bond.
Extreme violent thrillers or easy going comedies
I.e. Deliverance v Smokie and the Bandit.
So I give the producers credit for steering the Bond
Ship forward to even greater success. If they took
The advice of many of us fans, the films would have
Crashed and burned long ago. :))
Beautifully stated as ever @NicNac, the films often reflect the period of time to which they come. The early Connery films were fresh and new. Majesty's suffered at the time due to a change in world affairs, the hippy , free love Easy Rider of the late 60's. As well as following on from a worldwide phenomenon in Connery. And some unfair press too boot.
By the time of Roger Moore and the 70's, it was big stunts (and nobody at the time did them bigger than Bond) a few laughs along the way. Films like Smokey & the bandit were doing well in theatres. EON merely took the Bond formula and churned out new movies every two years with from 1971 to 1985 established and popular actors in the lead role. It was simple. The general moviegoer lapped it up and with no internet, the complaints were not as frequent, or pretty much fell on deaf ears. (To be honest, they still do.)
EON basically took a formula a ruined, for a time, a perfectly good franchise, the best in its genre being espionage, by employing a comedian to play the lead role. Seriously, Niven would have been a better and funnier choice.
How dare they.
I for one believe they made an excellent choice, with a wonderful Bond from 1973 -1985.
YOLT is leaps and bounds above DAF. YOLT contains iconic moments, is an enjoyable adventure, and still has James Bond.
DAF is the biggest mess in the series. It's got Sean Connery so it must be good...maybe not.
Very easy, every single actor in the 70s and 80s.
Very easy, every single actor in the 70s and 80s.
Quoted for truth!
Especially the main theme, it's really beautiful. Though DAF is also another solid piece of Barry stuffs, it's not as lush as YOLT.
Yeah, almost all of the quips from the Brosnan era (although I do enjoy the films, particularly the first two) are extremely juvenile.
Thankfully Skyfall brought back some of the old levity and realized that, like the early Bond films, it didn't require sacrificing wit.
:))
I understand the point you're trying to make and I disagree. The Connery films are full of witty one-liners and quips in my opinion. Brosnan gets a few good lines but more often than not his era suffers the most from poor dialogue writing.
Give me "No... I know a little about women" over "Yeah I think I got the... thrust of it" any day of the week.
Or "That's a nice little nothing you're almost wearing." There isn't a single line in the entire Brosnan era as good as that.
EDIT: And you know I'm a Brosnan fan, one of the defenders on here. Hell, look at my username. But I still recognize shortcoming when I see it.
My favourite is "I'm Plenty. Plenty O'Toole".........Named after your father perhaps?"
Even though I like Brosnan as Bond I also think something can be said for Connery's deliver. He makes "Named after your father" sound classier than it is.
Nice to see we're in agreement on this though. The way I see it the early films are full of witty writing instead of shoe-horned innuendos.
EDIT: @bondjames I think maybe you're right. But I would replace "classic" with smart and "pastiche" with pre-pubescent parody. :P
"You're a woman of many parts, Pussy!"
"Well, I'm afraid you've caught me with more than my hands up."
"Thank you, but I think my mouth is too big." "No, it's the right size... for me, that is."
Okay, TND keeps 'em coming, but really, the bar had been set & it *had* to be exceeded by someone. Some in the Moore years were the worst, btw.