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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Blofeld in drag. DAF does have a wonderfully sleazy element to it. Completely entertaining.

    Bond is drawing the satellite.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Shove your honor!!!!!

    That line was cut on TV.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    bondjames wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    I really enjoy these early 70s Hamilton Bond flicks these days, DAF included. They are somewhat idiosyncratic, eccentric and just a little trashy, but highly charismatic and colourful. Somehow it all works even though it perhaps shouldn't. Moreover, they all boast great scores, particularly DAF.

    That scene as Bond climbs Whyte's penthouse is an example of Barry at his best. Very suspenseful work by him there.

    Great music. DAF has one of my favorite scores.


    I love Hamilton's tradition of having a little post climax fight with the henchman. DAF is a lot of fun for me.
    Yes, that's a good point. It's been a long time since they've done that. SP arguably would have been a perfect opportunity. I'd like to see it again.
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Thumper and Bambi.............another great Barry cue.
    And really fun characters!
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    James is getting destroyed here.
    A serious trashing, but I always get the feeling he's just getting warmed up and letting them have their fun before he kicks it up a notch. Connery sells it well.

    I have a hard time picturing any of the other Bonds in that scene. Sean had a blast filming that I'd think.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Burton's Felix really is in this a lot. He even participates in the oil rig helicopter bit.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I actually like the oil rig climax. It's no volcano battle, but it's really not that bad, silliness aside.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Connery's Bond gets to parachute here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond is lifted onto the rig by crane. That looks like fun, though some may be afraid of heights.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I do so hate marshall music.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I used to have some blank cassettes that looked exactly like Bond's there.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Blofeld disses Kansas.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I actually like the oil rig climax. It's no volcano battle, but it's really not that bad, silliness aside.
    Me too. It fits in with the tone of the film and the Tiffany cassette switch sideline is amusing. Gray is brilliant when Blofeld sees it poking out of her bikini bottoms. One can truly feel his disappointment at the betrayal.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Connery has the Fleming comma above the right eyebrow in this one.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    bondjames wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I actually like the oil rig climax. It's no volcano battle, but it's really not that bad, silliness aside.
    Me too. It fits in with the tone of the film and the Tiffany cassette switch sideline is amusing. Gray is brilliant when Blofeld sees it poking out of her bikini bottoms. One can truly feel his disappointment at the betrayal.

    True. Makes me wonder how far Blofeld got with Tiffany during her capture.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Here is that scene.....................Tiffany my dear................
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love Bond's escape thru the hatch. Any time Bond has to climb around and dangle from a rope or cable I love those scenes.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Blofeld remains calm as Metz freaks out.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    007 theme!

    I love this rendition.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    A lot of this bit was trimmed on ABC as well,
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    ............and Tiffany drops off the rig.


    Bond does a bad ass dive.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Wint and Kidd finale...................Bond looks great in that dinner suit.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Great performance by Bruce Glover.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    The finale is great stuff imho. Score, performances, everything. Even St. John is good in that scene. Connery again owns it, after he gets a whiff of the potent aftershave.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Wint squeal was funny when I was 11, and funny to this day.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    So ends DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

    on VHS.

    That took me back to those days of renting movies from Tower Records.
    Fun viewing I must say.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    bondjames wrote: »
    The finale is great stuff imho. Score, performances, everything. Even St. John is good in that scene. Connery again owns it, after he gets a whiff of the potent aftershave.

    Great moment when Wint realizes Bond has called him out.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Now I'm off to the other thread to comment on a non Bond classic!
  • ClarkDevlinClarkDevlin Martinis, Girls and Guns
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    Roger is as cruel and focused in TMWTGG (despite all of the zaniness going on around him) as any other iteration of the character. As someone pointed out several years ago, it's clear that being told that the world's deadliest assassin, who's appearance and whereabouts are unknown, has really shaken Bond up. He's scared, desperate and does not waste too much time on pleasantries. He threatens people and uses people. Moore plays it beautifully (again, I'm looking past the absurd scenes, but note how Moore never breaks out of character in those moments; none of the mugging and eyebrow raising that would flower over his next two outings).
    +1

    Like I said, it's Moore's greatest performance as Bond.
  • 00Agent00Agent Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.
    edited June 2018 Posts: 5,185
    ClarkDevlin wrote: »
    Birdleson wrote: »
    Roger is as cruel and focused in TMWTGG (despite all of the zaniness going on around him) as any other iteration of the character. As someone pointed out several years ago, it's clear that being told that the world's deadliest assassin, who's appearance and whereabouts are unknown, has really shaken Bond up. He's scared, desperate and does not waste too much time on pleasantries. He threatens people and uses people. Moore plays it beautifully (again, I'm looking past the absurd scenes, but note how Moore never breaks out of character in those moments; none of the mugging and eyebrow raising that would flower over his next two outings).
    +1

    Like I said, it's Moore's greatest performance as Bond.

    Watched it myself yesterday and have to agree with you. Even when the Movie basically looses it somewhere in the middle, with the Karate sisters (that just appear in Thailand with a car for no apparent reason) Roger keeps it somehow together.
    The whole Island Finale is easily my favorite part, for the dialogue, the fight between Scaramanga and Bond all the beautiful landacapes and cinematography.

    Also it has an interesting connection to Skyfall. In both movies the mistress of the villain, who Bond encounters in Macau, asks him to kill the villain for her, sleeps with Bond, and is then shot and killed by the villain.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    +3.

    Easily Roger's best performance as Bond. Masterful imho. Dangerous, lethal and threatening without losing his patented charm.
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