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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    JAMES!

    JAMES! JAMES!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Golden Gate Bridge climax is one of my favorites in the series.
    MAAAAXX!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    A little soap here, a little soap there. DRAT! I dropped the soap.

    I'll get it.

    THAT is NOT the soap.

    Ha ha

    OOOOHH
  • Quantum_of_TomorrowQuantum_of_Tomorrow
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    I love the fight on Golden Gate Bridge, and I love the way Zorin is laughing as he falls to his death, re-enforces his feeling of insanity.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Quantum_of_Tomorrow wrote: »
    I love the fight on Golden Gate Bridge, and I love the way Zorin is laughing as he falls to his death, re-enforces his feeling of insanity.

    It's a wonderful scene.

    Now I'm onto a Connery film.........

    DR. NO

    Although there are many to chose from, this film has my favorite M sequence. I love that M and Moneypenny are working the graveyard shift and call Bond in at 3am. The fact that this scene takes place after 3 in the morning gives it a little extra something.

    Peter Burton as Boothroyd isn't bad in his limited role. Its like watching THE ROCKFORD FILES pilot in which Rocky is played by Robert Donley rather than the wonderful Noah Berry Jr.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited July 2021 Posts: 16,162
    I find the mono track on the Blu-ray to be far louder and brighter than the DTS 5.1 track or whatever it is.

    Bond lands in Seattle Washington at SeaTac Airport. That is NOT the Boeing airport as some have reported.
    Now we cut to Jamaica.
    The James Bond theme kicks in loudly as Jack Lord ruffles his newspaper.
    Bond vs Mr. Jones is my favorite scene in the series.
    007 swings with his right and hits with his left. Just like Willis Jackson.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Quarrel is about 60 years ahead of his time. I see people wearing bright red T shirts all the time these days. All they need is the straw hat.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Underneath the mango Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my honey and meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    as performed by Sean Connery.

    He did a rendition of this hit for Johnny Carson while promoting NSNA.

    In honor of Connery's look in this film I'm wearing my sea island blue polo style shirt.
    Mine is slightly more turquoise in hue in honor of the new Bond film NO TIME TO DIE.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond owes Honey a new boat. I wonder if he lived up to his promise and bought her a new one one they got back to Kingston?
    Bond barks orders at everyone in this film: HONEY, GIVE ME THE KNIFE!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond is genuinely repulsed when Honey tells him of her attacker's fate. Connery's facial expression is priceless.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond gets pounded by Sandor.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love the heating vent sequence. Bond looks properly battered here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Always loved the climax to this film.
    We get a climactic gunbarrel image for this first time. Bookends this classic.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Bond lands in Seattle Washington at SeaTac Airport. That is NOT the Boeing airport as some have reported
    Another moment of interest at the airport is how Bond flies with Pan Am, and yet, dangling from his briefcase is a BOAC baggage tag.
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I love the heating vent sequence. Bond looks properly battered here.
    This is one part of the film that looks very 50s. It's the slick hair and sleeveless shirt that does it.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
    edited July 2021 Posts: 7,021
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Although there are many to chose from, this film has my favorite M sequence. I love that M and Moneypenny are working the graveyard shift and call Bond in at 3am. The fact that this scene takes place after 3 in the morning gives it a little extra something.
    It humanizes the MI6 staff and makes the office feel like a real place. In that sense, it also reminds me of The Ipcress File. In fact, it's probably the most "Ipcressy" Bond's workplace has ever felt. If that chain-smoking lady who works at Palmer's office had shown up in DN I wouldn't have batted an eye.

    Ipcressy. Now there's a word you won't hear again. Or ever.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    GOLDENEYE
    Superb PTS opening. One of the best.
    I don't think I've watched this one since that wonderful Brosnan watch along last year. I'm way overdue, then.
    Excellent title song and title sequence.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited July 2021 Posts: 16,162
    Ladies First.
    I love that Bond's watch band is at least two sizes too big here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Blu-ray looks pretty good. A solid representation of how the film looked in cinemas.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited July 2021 Posts: 16,162
    That's one tricke I've never leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrned.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The Xenia/ Chuck Farrell sex scene.
    Not quite sure if it's intended to be sexy, funny or both.
    Brosnan kicking the guy's ass with a towel however, is both bad ass and funny.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I'm not minding Serra's score. It does sound quite '90's industrial.
    The Natalya/ Boris rapport scene.
    Boris reminds me of an old friend, who dressed in that style and had that exact haircut.
    He hated GOLDENEYE.
    I liked it, so he effectively ended our friendship.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Natalya is quite striking. My favorite Brosnan era leading Bond girl.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Q stopped off at Subway and got himself a foot long before reporting for duty.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Jack Wade is so goofy he makes Sheriff JW Pepper look like, well, James Bond.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Brosnan's hair looks quite long as they arrive in Cuba.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The 006 fight is pretty good, possibly Pierce's best fight scene.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Everyone sing along!

    I know you dream a lot
    Holding on to lies
    And you wait around
    For someone to know where you hide
    In your dreams, you feel a lot
    But you keep it all inside
    And you close your eyes
    It helps keep you alive
    But the experience of loving
    Won't take all the pain away
    Just understanding for the first time
    What you feel inside, love is in your life
    (The experience of love, first time)
    And having come this far
    Cherishing your dreams
    You have realized now
    How they help keep you alone
    And the experience of loving
    Won't take all the pain away
    Just understanding for the first time
    What you feel inside, love is in your life
    Breathing in the scent of love
    (Leave the dreams behind)
    Sensing life in everything under the sky
    And the experience of loving
    Won't take all the pain away
    Just understanding for the first time
    What you feel inside, love is in your life
    Searching forever
    (The experience of love, under the sky)
    Won't take all the pain away
    For the first time
    (Under the sky)
    Love is in your life
    (The experience of love)
    Take it below, feel the flow
    Hold it close, don't let it go
    (The experience of love, under the sky)
    It won't take all the pain away
    (The experience of love)
    For the first time
    (Under the sky)
    When love is in your life
    (The experience of love)
    For the first time
    (Under the sky)
    Searching forever
    (The experience of love)
    For the first time
    (Under the sky)
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    So far this year I've watched most entries........except

    DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

    Normally I'd have watched this one 5 times so far this year. But it's not a normal year, so getting a late start.

    The Blu-ray is the UK print. It reads "Colour by Technicolor" . I remember the CBS/Fox Home video edition using the American spelling and reversing Saltzman and Broccoli's name sin the credits.

    Always liked this M scene. No office scene. Sean hasn't been seen in M's iconic office in 6 years by this point.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Actually watching this one in the stereo mode.
    Several changes: the cat's meow in in the PTS as we segue into the titles is radically different in the Lowery version than the original film.
    Also there's an extra sound effect of the copter crashing.
    I tend to think of these changes as not true to the original film.
    I feel like I'm watching a George Lucas altered version of DIAMONDS.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Tiffany isn't subscribing to Bond's charm.
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