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There is a fine balance to it. I love his down-to-business approach in TMWTGG, but in LALD and TSWLM he just comes across as an unpleasant scumbag.
I'm also in the mood for a 5th outing.
I also want to see Blofeld.
We have more than 6 months to go still.
So I'll go for
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Especially since the Blu-ray thread I've been in the mood for this one, but now have some time to indulge in Bond.
Busy week, worked graveyards, had my car worked on.
Ran some errands today..
Here we go...............
Our man in Hong Kong is working on it now.
SEAN!!!!!!
Since the Blu-ray of YOLT looks very little like the cinematic prints, my television is calibrated to the warmer "MOVIES" picture setting.
Helps a bit, actually.
Great titles.
I often change the picture setting on my TV dependent on which film I am watching
Looks great.
I remember taping this film off of The ABC Sunday Night Movie back in '86. It was around this time of year actually. Mid to late September. The next film to air would be NSNA in November, then FYEO in December. The transfer of YOLT was incredibly washed out looking. In fact there's a Youtube ABC Sunday Night Movie video of the intro for that airing. Bond movies aired on ABC were kind of an event back in the '80's. We still had a couple years to go before the series would be re-released on VHS at affordable prices. So recording them off TV was the most feasible option for collecting the films. This particular airing wasn't too truncated. Neither was NSNA in fact.
Although Connery looks a bit tired here, and not quite as lean as the previous outings I think it recalls the world weariness Fleming's Bond had in the later novels.
That moment of Daniel walking along the rooftops is classic Bond, IMO. Great scene in that film.
I thought the same DC is great during that scene
Reminds me of Stacy Keach on MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE HAMMER. Connery's toupee in this film looks similar to Keach's as well.
Bond looks goofy in those shoes, TBH.
I want to see Bond break into a safe again sometime. I miss those kinds of scenes.
She probably could have just been called Kissy Suzuki and the other character written out altogether. Aki could have been the main Bond girl. She has quite a strong screen presence. Though we would have missed out on her death scene.
Mike Hammer is hard as nails, Sir Sean looks the part for sure. I recently rewatched Kiss Me Deadly, at some point I am going to revisit the Keach films.
KISS ME DEADLY is great. My personal favorite of those early Hammer films is the ultra low budget MY GUN IS QUICK.
I have a hard time with that title sequence. Could never appreciate it.
Cut to a shot of him looking astonishingly bored in the cab. Then even more bored in the elevator.
I have never watched MY GUN IS QUICK I will look for it
The SP title sequence and title track are just weird, showing all the past characters is a bit naff, the naff finale well the writing was on the wall with the foreshadowing in the title sequence, pun intended
MY GUN IS QUICK is pretty cool. Very much a B movie with Robert Bray as Hammer.
I, THE JURY is good also.
I'm at the Kobe Docks sequence. One of my favorite scenes in the series. The Barry score is amazing.
Bond shoots everyone and beats everyone up. LOL.
He does have some good line delivery. Very arrogant character.
The roof top fight aerial shot is great love that sequence, one of Barry's best scores
I loathe some of the score in this film
Yeah. I love the novel.
Biff Elliot, who played Hammer in that film version reminds me of one of the DEAD END KIDS, only grown up. Still, it's a solid noir. Remade in '82 with Armand Assante and Barbara Carrera.
This can only be for children! Don't use it, Bondsan. Take my helicopter!
I love that line! I should use that sometime : This can only be for children!
Of course I remember the Assante film, another to revisit
Technically I could understand where's he's coming from but it kind of bothered me.
Aside from the crane sequence in CR, the car roll, the Craig films mostly rely on car chases and fight scenes. Those sometimes enhanced with CGI.
I find the Little Nellie battle more fun than say the plane car snow chase in SP.