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MR
Two men, one parachute. That was the greatest.
Honorable mentions:
OHMSS
TSWLM
You could say the same about tons of other scenes though (Bond not getting hit). What about CR, at the Embassy, or in any one of the big battle scenes from the earlier films. And not just in Bond films too, the classic "run away while bullets fly everywhere" scene happens in tons of action movies. Watch this clip.
At the embassy he had walls and a human shield in Mollaka. A little easier to rationalize it. And I agree with you in general on this point, I appreciate it when the hero suffers damage, such as in the Die Hard movies.
Welll...tremble with fear 00B..
I have just done a review of GE after not seeing it all the way through for five years.
It is going to blow your minds,,,
DAD has just too many MG's as does most of Brosnan films. By the 1990's MG's were sexy and audiences clammored for them. Bond was just following the current trend.
Die Hard (all of them)
Terminator (1and 2)
Predator 1
Commando
the list goes on and on.
I don't ever recall seeing Sean fire a MG and Roger, George and Timothy very very rarely. Brozza fires more MG's in his four films than all the other Bonds combined (5 actors, 18 films)
I love a good machine gun shoot-out! It is just one of the many reasons why I love the Brosnan era. Plenty of amazing shoot-outs! As for your post, you're right, I don't think Connery ever fired a machine gun. I know Moore did in TSWLM during the Liparus battle, Timothy did during TLD airbase raid, and George did during the Piz Gloria attack.
Where can we see this masterpiece?
Although I have a lot of issues with the editing which render the action practically unintelligible, there is some fine stuntwork here and the shot of the Alfa going off the cliff is lush.
However there's no way that the QOS PTS can rank anywhere than somewhere in the bottom half as it is missing the gunbarrel - it is that important. CR gets away with it with the whole reboot/black & white thing and it does give us a gunbarrel into the titles but with QOS you sit there wondering 'am I watching a Bond film here?'
Mind you when Babs and MGW saw what a shambles MK1 had made of it perhaps they thought it better to tag in on the end in case people walked out in disgust if they left it at the start.
A really poor decision by EON and one which surely will be rectified for SF unless they are mad.
If I was to do a quick list of moments in pre credits sequences and maybe rank them quickly -
#1 The free fall from the airplane in Moonraker
#2 Scaramanga and Rodney in the Fun Palace, TMWTGG
#3 Astrojet, Roger Moore, entire sequence, Octopussy, could well be #2 actually
#4 Hovercrafts, North Korea, Brosnan, DAD
#5 Lazenby and fight with thugs and rescue of Di Vicenzo, OHMSS
That will do for now, but there were some outstanding moments for sure
1. TWINE
2. CR
3. GF
4. TSWLM
5. TLD
6. SF
7. GE
8. OP
9. TND
10. DAD
11. LTK
12. TB
13. YOLT
14. FRWL
15. MR
16. OHMSS
17. TMWTGG
18. QOS
19. FYEO
20. AVTAK
21. DAF
22. LALD
i just love the way Dalton is introduced as Bond.. you get 3 '00' agents in a training exercise, and you don't know which one is Bond right away, his big reveal isn't until the one agent gets executed... it's a nice dramatic build up - and i like the way that they show you that Dalton's Bond is going to be much different than Moore's.. he's more aggressive and has a meaner edge.... and that the two other agents were intentionally made to resemble previous Bonds: Roger Moore and George Lazenby, in a 'wink wink' way, showing us that the new Bond is the superior model..
plus the awesome synth Bond theme from John Barry doesn't hurt either
Sean did in NSNA, in the opening scene, after he's been all stealthy and gotten onto the roof, he drops a stun grenade through the window, swings through, and takes out the guys inside with a machine gun.
Actually, technichally it's not a PTS (because there's no title sequence), I'd put NSNA up as one of the best Bond openings.
Not high on many people's radar according to this thread, as well.
GF
CR
TLD
TSWLM
MR
Really? Controversial.
It's a cute sequence but I really don't buy that the sharpest shot in the world uses such a juvenile and unchallenging training field.
My favorite is The World Is Not Enough, it is the longest and best, people have said all that was needed was the intro in Bilbao. Hogwash. That wouldn't have been much of an intro. The subsequent thrills and spills on the Thames and Bond watersports and all and balloon climax make it the best ever for me. Only spoiled by some asinine sound effects as Bond rolls down the structure at the very end as the credits intro looms large
Hmm. Didnt you claim further up that MR was your favourite followed by TMWTGG? Or are you now trying to distance yourself from rating Scaramangas fun palace above TSWLM, OP, GE and yes TWINE?
You know something Baltimore - youre fickle.
Every member has a change of all things Bond, from time to time, I'm a part of that as Wizard of Ice may be doubtless. Moonraker may well be in the top three, but I've usually stated that TWINE is my favorite opening. These ratings are subject to change, it applies to everybody who participates
2. The Living Daylights
3. Quantum of Solace
4. GoldenEye
5. Licence to Kill
I like most of it, it's just Blofelds death. They should've thought of something cooler. Also, Blofeld seems more of a supervillian parody, with bad puns and that steretype evil laugh.
I'm all down with the pistol fights, for sure, like in FRWL at the gypsy camp. Still though, in terms of preference, I'd take big scale machine gun shoot-outs, and you can still look good while doing so. Just take my aforementioned example of the Russian Archives battle with Pierce in that classys suit, or even in TND aboard the Stealth Boat, with Pierce in the cool black covert fatigues.
It's almost like a separate Bond movie on its own, especially when you consider the timeline of events there, with it being 1986.