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Is anyone else with me on this one?
Yes that was meant to be a subversion. I think Bond has done that particular move in more than FRWL and SP though. Roger does it twice in TSWLM, but pulls it off far worse...
Yes the Bond vs Hinx fight is definitely a homage to the Bond vs Grant fight.
I got a combo FRWL/TSWLM vibe from the fight. FRWL due to the visceral nature of it, and TSWLM because of the size difference between the two of them.
Helicopter shot of clinic.Of course this must be done by pilot Marc Wolff returns for Spectre.
Madeline playing with Bond like Tracy.
Irma Bunt
DAF: When Bond shooting the bullet in the glass.
Moonraker: Hugo Drax. When Bond talking with Ober at the villian lair, showing them with some proud some others places.
The room remember me to Moonraker too and and a litle bit to Live and Let Die & The Man With The Golden Gun.
Octopussy: Maintitle. Property Of Lady. Who is Who ?
Tomorrow Never Dies:
Maintitle start
Give the people what there whant, but in the mean time..
Control room and Ober is mix of Eliot Carver, Hugo Drax (and his hidden Silva part).
Who is Who ?
Bond and Madeline in Helicopter (Wailin)
Twine:
007 your time is up...
Bond and girl in room in the pretitle. Remember me delete scene between Renard and Cigar girl.
Funeral
Trater
Torture
Who is Who ?
DAD:
Bond not coming for the girl. In Die Another Day in Cuba clinic Bond steeling a wheelchair whyle girl is sitting on her beath and in Spectre in that scene i discribe above with Twine Bond taking a girl room, but again that's where he is not coming for.
QOS:
Symbol/People missing something..
Blind for something you don't see or don't wanna see.
Some people have problem with title song/performer.
Mr White and Quote from Mr White (If Vesper..)
The lair. Atleast there inprove a bit.
Overall CR, QOS and Skyfall.
Are there finlay going tell us more about Vesper / QOS was refreshing, but also created new quistions and also there are stil some left from CR. That is what Spectre doing too. Spectre contuned in stil not giving ansers. But is Le Chiffre time warning almoost over / 007 fan your time is up...
Still really like though!
Unbalanced tone, somewhat forgettable and a boring climax.
Oh and the helicopter PTS.
Are you referring to the conclusion at St. Cyril's? If so, I thought that was anything but boring. May have been FYEO's best bit, and that film has lots of good material.
PS--What is this bullet/glass thing some of you have mentioned?
The St Cyril's climb and assault are some of Moore's best Bond moments!
Blofeld introduction in both was a major let down, and also in both cases we have a Bond actor who is a shadow of his former self (again imho).
The TSWLM tanker shootout on the other hand is still great to me because they stop/slow down for the 'bomb defusal' scene as well as the kick 'a' Bond assault on the control room using the overhead camera track, complete with Bond theme. TB's finale is bearable because of Barry's brilliant score during the underwater fights.
TSWLM.
Wise-cracking über-confident 007, effortless quasi-fantastical adventure, souped up car in Italy, pull out all the stops production
TWINE
Overdone MI6 crew screentime, personal angle, emotional-impact twists gone haywire
Quite true. The climax of FYEO, aside from the climb, was quite boring, uninspired, and incomplete given that Melina doesn't even complete her revenge quest. SP's is far worse though.
I also found it a little mindless. I wouldn't say there is no suspense as Bond averts WW3 with just 5 seconds to spare alongside Barry's excellent Space March, but the ninja finale was obviously very over-the-top. YOLT sort of diminishes with each viewing.
Controversially I find myself preferring the much maligned "Brosnan one-man stand" climax as seen in TND and to a lesser extent GE. It is more focused around Bond and less around allies I don't care about.
\m/ Yep!
Both movies are composed of one iconic sequence after another that could be watched on their own.
GOLDFINGER is perfect in that regard. You could watch that movie backwards and it still would be fun. SPECTRE is almost as perfect.
Guy Hamilton delivers a practically perfect direction of GOLDFINGER, it's his masterpiece.
The same goes for Sam Mendes, he was never better at directing and that's a huge accomplishment regarding the many great movies he has directed.
"No Mr Bond, I expect you to die" Goldfinger to Bond
"And I thought you came here to die" Blofeld to Bond
Goldfinger wants to cut a strapped to a table Bond in half.
Blofeld wants to drill a strapped to a chair Bond to death.
Sorry for being so late to respond. Anyway, SP is clearly derived from YOLT - particularly Blofeld's hidden base, his scar, etc - although his character seems a bit more like Telly Savalas' one in OHMSS. The fact that Bond teams up with an Intelligence Agency to take down Blofeld at the end is also a callback to YOLT, I believe. As is Bond and Blofeld watching numerous screens in Blofeld's base and Bond using some sort of gadget in Blofeld's base in cause mayhem and foil the villain's plan (or at least delay it).
Yeah, and so does Dalton in TLD, and Moore does a variant of it in LALD where he swings on a ladder to kick someone in the face for a knockout. 006 uses a variant of it on Brosnan to initiate the fight in GE, I believe.
It's a bit funny how strained Moore appeared to be when he did the overhanging kick against Sandor. A lot less effortless than every other version.
He kills one of the villain's henchmen before the henchman can kill him.
He is pursued in a car chase by the henchman but manages to escape.
Along the way he becomes involved with a beautiful girl who by default is caught up in proceedings and the two of them are captured by the villain's men and taken to his private retreat where they are both put in comfortable accommodation before meeting the villain of the piece where Bond is told about SPECTRE and what it's aims and ambitions are.
Bond is beaten and tortured but manages to escape, rescues the girl and blows the villain's lair to high heaven.
Some aspects of Dr No and Spectre. In effect 53 years on from Dr No we can really cherry pick similarities in all the Bond films even though the presentation has altered over the years.
I like your comparison. In fact the whole idea that Bond and the Bond girls are cought by the villain and then brought to an extremely luxury lair - located in an extremely abandoned place - which is also the villain's headquarter where he manages his operation is very similar to Dr. No. The overly simple destruction of the villain's lair is also similar to Dr. No.
The same applies to the Bond girl who - in both films - has hardly any deeper connection to the plot but is more like a random companion in Bond's adventure..
Didn't Bond use that move also in LALD to knock Whisper into the canister ?...its been a while since I watched so maybe not...
Moore found this new 'one leg lift' kick which he employed only in TSWLM. I think he uses it 3 times (once when fighting Anya's goons at the the pyramids, another time with Sandor, and one more time.....but I can't remember exactly when at the moment).
Dr No homage during the Waltz/ Blofeld SP HQ sequence. I almost expected him to say "ONE MILLION DOLLARS, MR BOND".