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"Never dream of dying?" - James Bond and sleep induction
Last night, I was watching "Tomorrow Never Dies", when i noticed that I couldn't resist
the idea of going to sleep after Bond and Wai Lin reached Ha Long Bay.
The same occurs to me every time I watch "Spectre". As long as they are in Morocco and London (especially, London),
I'm completely somewhere else, already dreaming, maybe snoring.
What about you? After all these years, are there some Bond films that are like lullabies to you?
(English is not my first language. Correct me, please, so I'll try to improve).
the idea of going to sleep after Bond and Wai Lin reached Ha Long Bay.
The same occurs to me every time I watch "Spectre". As long as they are in Morocco and London (especially, London),
I'm completely somewhere else, already dreaming, maybe snoring.
What about you? After all these years, are there some Bond films that are like lullabies to you?
(English is not my first language. Correct me, please, so I'll try to improve).
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For a while, I used to treat a bout of late-night insomnia with YOLT. I'd usually fall asleep somewhere near the mini-copter being built. This is not to say YOLT is boring stuff; rather, it goes to show how something becomes comforting, so much so that it helps. This was the case for me with YOLT for a long time.
More recently, it's been FRWL or AVTAK that do the trick.
I can, however, talk about the opposite. QoS is the film least likely to put me to sleep. One of its redeeming qualities is that it keeps me very much awake even during the late hours.
But no, Bond films don't put me to sleep; rather they hold me in rapt attention!
Same here but then I saw it wasn't started by you so I decided it probably wasn't!
Yes I am the Master of the Rolls here when it comes to the Continuation Bond! Lord Dragonpol MR if you will.
Yes, your eyes really do a workout with QoS*! :))
*I love it by the way. Top 5 Bond film for me.
Yes, it's like the Ludovico technique at times. You just can't pull your eyes away!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_technique
Actually, the effect is just the opposite with me. I have to look to the other side, because my eyes can't stand what I see. It's painful to watch, but in the literal meaning! I do like both story and cinematography in that film, but I'm not able to enjoy the scenes in which they used that shaky cam technique :)
And no instrument of torture obliges me to continue watching the film after the pain starts! :D
But, thinking a little more, for me, the film is a torture in itself! :D
That scream from Tanya Roberts tends to keep me awake! :D
Kara 'brain dead' Milovy appears and you simply sleep.
I'm thinking of going on 'Dragons Den ' with it and marketing it as a safe way to induce immediate sleep.
-I used to think Kara Milovy is a sweet innocent girl to be loved, and sexy too. Now I got brainwashed by one of the good guys and finally can see the truth. That bloody Kara "Brain Dead" Milovy shall tumble down the big wheel in Vienna to a splatter on the pavement!
-I used to think the Russian spy woman in AVTAK, Pola Ivanova that Bond recognises and is greeting so happily is none other than FRWL's Tatiana Romanova!!! That he met her after many years again.
I am ashamed I only learned years later it's not her!
-I used to think NSNA is an official Bond film, I even didn't think in terms of "official" or "unofficial". When I learned it is not I was quite shocked!
-I used to think there is more than one Lazenby Bond until I discovered to my dismay there wasn't!
yeah, I'm not myself and should not post at all, but could not resist your fabulous new thread WHERE I AM NOT IN RIGHT NOW BLOODY HELL
I'll move it there...like...NOW
In terms of really sleep inducing, and at the risk of committing blasphemy, GF from Bond's arrival in Kentucky up to the Odd Job fight takes the cake.
Most of TWINE does the same.
I agree. It's a very difficult film for me to get through from the City Hall scene onwards.
Now that i agree with,the only exception is the chat between Bond and GF while having the mint tuleps....apart from that the rest of the film tbf is sleep inducing..even Bond vs Oddjob was a let down to me.
I find the Japanese marriage ceremony hard to sit through now, beautiful as it is. I used to not feel that way about it, but now I do...
It's the Ninja Training stuff that bores me, that and the long climb up the volcano. Bond going Japanese should have been removed from the film altogether. More time should have been given to Blofeld as he's wasted in the film.