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I also agree on the ski scene from this same porker of a film.
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The 2nd worst has to be this, from MR. Terrible imho and felt like it was just inserted for a laugh:
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This also has to be one of the worst, complete with bad projection screen. Moore almost looks embarrassed to be involved in it:
----However, I think the TSWLM Lotus scene is one of the series best.
Maybe it's this that's contrived :)
-The skiing scene/chase
-The aforementioned buzzsaw/BMW bit
-Bond and Christmas traveling in that pipeline to defuse a moving bomb(!)
-Final fight with ridiculously convoluted setup just so Bond and Renard can get together and punch each other
I agree. This has to be up there as one of the most contrived scenarios in a Bond movie. Note that the train is aimed directly at Bond, like a gun:
A: Bond getting in bed with May-Day. Enough said. :D
If you want to put it like that, the majority of every Bond movie is contrived! That's not what we're here for.
I don't think this particular scene was contrived in that it was necessary for the villain's plot to move forward. Silva causes a train crash to distract the police and emergency services so he can walk into the courtroom, kill M and get away. But of course Bond survives and messes it up for him, because that's Bond, innit.
A good test for this thread is - if you remove this scene, does it have any effect on the film at all? The TWINE ski chase that comes out of nowhere and just ends when the filmmakers have decided it's long enough, does that change or add anything to the film? No. TMWTGG car chase? It's just there so they can have a car chase. They could easily just have Bond losing Scaramanga and Goodnight at the boxing arena and the film could continue on the same.
I think a good test is whether the scene feels contrived or not. Nearly every action sequence in TWINE felt contrived to me. They did indeed seem tacked on and came out of nowhere - in addition they were poorly conceived, contributing to disbelief..
The gondola sequence in MR felt that way too, but mainly because of poor editing and the gadgetry. The same applies to the speedboat chase in MR (the glider gadget just popped out of nowhere and blew a potentially great scene) and the Jaws falls drop.
I personally did not find the TMWTGG chase contrived at all. It seemed perfectly legit given the sequence of events. JW's convenient appearance was the contrived bit for me....but that was to add humour.
Anyway, can't believe this one hasn't been mentioned yet - a certain scene where Bond is in an invisible Aston Martin which is racing around an ice castle that's being melted by a space laser, while being chased by a villain with diamonds in his face who's been turned into an albino through DNA replacement. Cough. Just think of all the individual bizarre elements that have to come together for this scene to happen.
That was a stretch, for sure...
Gee whiz. The incessant whining about SF on these boards is unbelievable.
MR was full-on contrived from the get-go, so I always thought that the squeeky clean good guy space cadets were par for the course (you can't send Bond to space and not have a lazer battle with the baddies surely........). I was always surprised about how fast they got there though.
It adds little, if anything, to the film and could have been dropped altogether.
Also I'd add the dogfight in QOS. Again, that seems to come from nowhere.