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Agreed dam awful painful to watch.
Anyway back a few pages, when does Elvis speak swiss to his mother? All I remember about foreign language phone conversations was the taxi driver taking Bond/Fields to the hotels
After 22:45 you see Elivs on screen close-up talking on the phone saying his infamous lines.
After 23:00 he's hanging up on her. "Bye Mommy, I'll call you back".
Unfortunately, the whole of TWINE is riddled with melodramatic acting. I think the acting is worse than the lines, and the lines are no great shakes.
Lois Chiles needs a charisma transplant in the worst way.
I never understood the purpose of this joker in the film. It's even less clear now. Was he a henchman, or was he a partner of Dominic's? He was embarrassing (cooing over the opera, losing his hairpiece, dying with his pants blown off and now talking to mother) in every way.
I've come to love this over time. Self-reverential Bond overtones.
Now that you mentionally I finally get what that line meant. For years I had no idea what the hell Bond was talking about. Should have said lepidoptera instead. :))
A good point here. I think that many of the lines denigrated here are not bad in themselves, but just suffer from poor delivery and timing. It's like telling a joke -- a good joke, poorly delivered and timed, turns into a bad joke.
Take, for example, the "They'll print anything these days" line rom TND. If Bond had begun to walk away, suddenly turned and glanced at the bloody printing press, shook his head briefly, tutted and muttered the line as he walks away, it would seem more natural than simply uttering it an instant after the event in a way that is obvious that he has an inventive scriptwriter to write his lines.
If I could make it invisible, like the car, I would...
It's a stupid move but it's a Bond thing. He sort of does the same in GF when he turns up at the golf game, and CR when he blows his cover immediately. And as creasy mentioned fly fishing in AVTAK
Honorable mention would go to the closing lines of DAD.
This is the only Bond one-liner that actually made me go absolutely ROFLMAO for several minutes.
"I'm Mr. Kil."
"Now there's a name to die for."
Hilarious!
=))
ROFL! Yeah! =))
The lines that make me cringe are the poorly delivered or strange placement of dialogue.
Fetch my shoes - DN
Gatecrasher -OHMSS
Welcome to hell Blofeld - DAF
It's entering the earth's atmosphere! - MR
I love James so much! - LTK
I think I got the thrust of it - DAD
Don't talk to me like I'm stupid! - QoS
Especially what Gustav Graves says. One of the reasons why he's not threatening and ends up just an annoying villain.
Oh Pierce, you deserved better old chap.
They're equally subpar, IMO.