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The word 'joke' has issued a statement on its website disassociating itself from doubleohdad and his alleged 'hilarious' wit.
Have I missed a memo or something and comedy has regressed 40 years? Although to be fair even the likes of Are You Being Served would reject you as a scriptwriter.
1. Say what it is you dislike (and try to be specific e.g.a character or scenes, a general comment like 'I think Dalton is a bit poo' isn't that interesting)
2. Warm yourself with the glow from fellow sufferers
3. Move on
I take pastries seriously.
Painfully tacky & boring PTS' (DAF & TMWGG especially - HOW can you not even manage to get a PTS right? I mean even DAD managed this??!)
Lacklustre performances from everybody, across the whole line, save for Christopher Lee
Low production values all round. Tacky, cheap and boring. Where are the great set pieces?? The underwater derring-do? The cool vehicles? The mid air heroics?
Boring stunts. I mean really insomniac inducing stuff. Only LALD had one or two decent stunts.
Only LALD comes out of this half-decade with a smidgeon of respectability...
Spot on!
It's no coincidence that TSWLM had all that iconic imagery - the ski/parachute jump, white gadget Lotus blowing up Naomie's 'chopper while submerged (one of the most iconic action scenes, for me), all the submarines, enormous battle inside the tanker, Stombergs ocean-lair extravaganza including shark pool et al.
I mean come one - that is more cool stuff in ONE movie than we'd had in three paltry efforts preceding it!!
Cubby had a lot to answer for, and it was put all the money on the screen or go bust in 1976/77
And when they did do cool stunts, they were completely undercut by comedy right after. It was like they were doing a TV show instead of a movie.
Although I thought it wasn't so much a problem of cutting budgets
But rather that the budget wasn't increased ( which I admitted is a
Similar thing ) .
So in a way well done John Glen, in my opinions they still looked good
Except for LTK, which did suffer, in my opinion.
( although I'll point out LTK, is one of my favourite bonds).
Thanks to the mod team too :)
Now back to regular service; DAD's second is just awful. It starts to get wrong when Jinx enters the film, and i think the movies takes the fatal dive when Jinx dives into and water at the end of the Cuba sequence. And the worse is yet to come: the Virtual Reality scene, which would get worse as Q introduce the invisible car, things get even worse in iceland with the tidal wave and 'Yo mamma', and things get worse yet with the Antonov sequence, because Jinx gets equal screentime than Bond, and things get worse big time with the second Virtual Reality scene, the infamous love scene with Miss Moneypenny.
Secret Service didn't help out " The over burdened British tax payer".
By instead of an invisible car, they just gave Bond back his white
Lotus from TSWLM, as you'd never see it in the snow ! :D
Although I do agree the first half of DAD is good, then takes a bit of
A downhill slide in the second.
i'm concerned that there isnt enough Brosnan bashing going on. Rog and john Glen seem to be taking all the heat
i agree the early 70s were a tough time for Bond, and it was clearly a dodgy phase in the series. i think in contrast the 80s were more consistent - Glen brought a general level of entertainment that worked very well. he may not be the most inspired director, but his films have a distinct feel all of their own - i actaully really like the Glen era. however, even those early 70s films have things going for them. they contain some classic scenes and characters.
for me the real low low point for Bond was 95-2002. for me that entire era is just devoid of pretty much any redeeming features.
So do I, but I think it may be a generational thing?
Moore (only just...) and Dalton were Bond when I had just started to become aware of tv & cinema, so the 80's will always be the 'original' cinema decade for me, and OP through LTK are a big part of that.
Completely agreed. You knew what to expect in a John Glen film, like it or not. Which is more than can be said for some of the idiots (Tamahori & Apted come to mind) that helmed some of the later movies.
I respect the folks that like Glen but I don't get it or see it.
:-?
Apted lacked all of that. The difference between Apted and John Glen is that Glen, with years of working on the Bond films, had a solid idea in mind and knew how to deliver (I really love Octopussy - The Living Daylights. It also helped that he had a decent script.
"They met their Waterloo." ;)
=)) C'est bien.