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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The dinner scene! Is Roger the only Bond we get to see eating eggs?
    Here its a souffle, in AVTAK it's quiche.

    The eyeball looks like a boiled egg.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Sneaky Bond............which we are long overdue for a comeback.

    I love Bond sneaking around the palace in his matching beige safari suit. Blends in with the stone walls of the palace.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Along with LALD and TSWLM, OP has my favorite Roger look.
    He is perhaps, slightly heavier here than in FYEO and AVTAK, and, to me looks tougher. I can believe he could knock an opponent down with one punch.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I remember Richard Maibaum, in an interview promoting, OP and discussing, NSNA saying he thought Roger looked his best here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Octopussy's introduction is classic.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I do remember the long lines outside the cinemas for OP. This is one I would love to see on the big screen again in a 35 mm print.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Sneaky Bond............which we are long overdue for a comeback.
    We got a bit of sneaky Bond in Shanghai in SF. That's one of my favourite bits in that film.
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I love Bond sneaking around the palace in his matching beige safari suit. Blends in with the stone walls of the palace.
    Me too. Barry's score during that section is sublime, particularly when Orlov arrives. As always, his tune blends in with the background noises (in this case the copter blades) perfectly.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    bondjames wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Sneaky Bond............which we are long overdue for a comeback.
    We got a bit of sneaky Bond in Shanghai in SF. That's one of my favourite bits in that film.
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I love Bond sneaking around the palace in his matching beige safari suit. Blends in with the stone walls of the palace.
    Me too. Barry's score during that section is sublime, particularly when Orlov arrives. As always, his tune blends in with the background noises (in this case the copter blades) perfectly.

    I love that section of SF, another Bond I'm due to watch again soon. There's also some sneaky Bond as he's climbing behind the opera scaffolding in QoS.

    I'm on the train Orlov confrontation. Bond looks cool in the red shirt black vest costume.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love the whole train section of OP.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    FOLLOW THAT CAR!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Brat college kids offer Bond a ride
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Friendly couple gives Bond a lift and sticks a big wiener in his face.
    I love when Bond steals the car.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    A great climax to OP......

    IN, OUT, IN OUT..............

    Bond in traction.


    Another excellent screening, of OP has this time thrust the 13th Eon Bond to my number one Roger spot. Although it's a close tie with TSWLM.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    I might go for OHMSS tomorrow.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited January 2018 Posts: 12,467
    What a mixed bag there of those 4. Love OHMSS, like LTK a lot, up and down with TWINE, and meh on MR.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,467
    I feel a lot of cautious optimism for Bond 25. Usually after a more disappointing entry they bounce back well.
  • StrogStrog
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I do remember the long lines outside the cinemas for OP. This is one I would love to see on the big screen again in a 35 mm print.
    @ToTheRight 35! Heck what about 70? ;)
    Birdleson wrote: »
    40 % drop in 00 casualties!?! Just how many of these SOBs were getting knocked off before M got there?
    If we take casualty to mean killed or injured, perhaps they were all merely wobbling around stubbing their toes.
  • StrogStrog
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Dr. No has one of the best villain deaths in the series.
    Interesting. That really might be the only bit of the film I don't care for.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited January 2018 Posts: 11,189
    Dr No's death is good I think.

    Controversial view though: Connery's "where's the girl I came in with...WHERE IS SHE!!" is unintentionally funny - especially as he says it twice.

    In a parody he'd say it repeatedly to everyone.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    40 % drop in 00 casualties!?! Just how many of these SOBs were getting knocked off before M got there?

    That was a very odd statistic.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,467
    Birdleson wrote: »
    The last 20 to 30 minutes are absolutely horrible.

    The worst section of all the Bond films for me. Just painful. After the first half really there is next to nothing I like a whole lot. Pretty much dies once they get to the ice palace. Before, still on the weaker side for a Bond, but definitely better.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited January 2018 Posts: 16,163
    double post
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Strog wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I do remember the long lines outside the cinemas for OP. This is one I would love to see on the big screen again in a 35 mm print.
    @ToTheRight 35! Heck what about 70? ;)
    Birdleson wrote: »
    40 % drop in 00 casualties!?! Just how many of these SOBs were getting knocked off before M got there?
    If we take casualty to mean killed or injured, perhaps they were all merely wobbling around stubbing their toes.

    Not sure the Bonds ever had a 70 mm release. I could be mistaken, though.
  • StrogStrog
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Not sure the Bonds ever had a 70 mm release. I could be mistaken, though.
    That site claims OP was but who knows? I've certainly never set my own eyes on it...though what a treat it'd be.

    FWIW they also list MR and AVTAK as having 'unconfirmed' 70 mm prints.

    Even if they were all just blown-up I dribble slightly imagining how awesome MR might potentially look.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Birdleson wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Strog wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I do remember the long lines outside the cinemas for OP. This is one I would love to see on the big screen again in a 35 mm print.
    @ToTheRight 35! Heck what about 70? ;)
    Birdleson wrote: »
    40 % drop in 00 casualties!?! Just how many of these SOBs were getting knocked off before M got there?
    If we take casualty to mean killed or injured, perhaps they were all merely wobbling around stubbing their toes.

    Not sure the Bonds ever had a 70 mm release. I could be mistaken, though.

    OP was filmed in 35 mm, but a 70 mm print was artificially "blown up" (for lack of a better term) from that original print and also released in a handful of theatres.

    Wow! I didn't know that. I'd be curious to know what it looked like by comparison.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    The first hour of SF has some good moments, the Casino scene starts off well.
  • StrogStrog
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    I most of all like everything up to Silva's capture. My interest dips when we move back to MI6. Briefly picks up again during the inquiry. The finale is all right. It grabs me on some watches more than others.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    There are many fantastic scenes in SF. The cell scene is really good but I'd say my favourite is the entire Shanghai Patrice pursuit, subsequent fight/kill & the audience's introduction to Severine across skyscrapers.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    My favorite part has to be the Shanghai sequence, but 99% of it is terrific. It barely got beat by TSWLM this Bondathon for me, but SF is likely to still stay inside my Top 5.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Just now starting OHMSS. Best gunbarrel of the series for me to get things started.
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