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I love Bond's face when she is embracing him while fixing his back. Enjoying every moment, the bastard.
I agree, the crash feels a bit cartoonish and thus funny. Petachi is a slightly cartoonish character himself. It's the Gavan O'Herlihy touch.
Haha!
I love this scene, very funny to see Bond, uh, multitasking.
Kind of a cross between MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and THE LOVE BOAT it starred Rod Taylor and Kirstie Alley.
I remember thinking the older Taylor looked a bit like Sean in NSNA. The show had a Binder style title sequence with a theme song performed by Crystal Gayle. The song actually was quite memorable, and seemed to be influenced by the ballad style of Bond themes we'd get in OP and NSNA.
I wouldn't call it a great show, but a good excuse for my mom to let me stay up later to watch it.
Connery's facial expression is great after he delivers the "Bond, James Bond" line.
I agree, he did age rather fast. One second he looks like he did in THE TIME MACHINE next he has that chiseled MAQSUERADE look.
I did a lot of theatre in my twenties and dance choreography can be tough. I like that Connery focuses on his objective: Domino by informing her of her brother's fate.
Otherwise this dance scene could've really been silly.
The Small-Fawcett bit is this film's equivalent to the winking fish.
Interesting this was shot at McClory's home.
I remember vividly 1983, and the so called 'Battle of the Bonds' with this and Octopussy! Wish I kept some of the magazines that I bought with articles discussing this competition, ( which in the end came to nought, as NSNA didnt release until end of the year!) Octopussy still is the superior of the two, but NSNA is still a very watchable Bond now, hated it when I saw it first!
I like the underwater/shark scene - it's not necessary to the plot as Bond already knows Fatima is a villain, but it's always a joy to see Bond in the scuba gear. I miss those diving scenes immensely, they need to come back in the next era.
I have a British Airways inflight entertainment guide from 1984 which shows Connery and Moore on the front with the heading "Battle of the Bonds". I'll have to take a photo of it sometime.
Thanks, @Mathis1, I'll have to track down a copy o f the Blu-ray at some point. I have a couple of the STARLOG issues that covered the film and OP. I used to have THE JAMES BOND TRIVIA QUIZ BOOK that was published around that time and Rubin's updated JAMES BOND FILMS book.
I taped the film off of ABC during its premiere airing in 1986. Interestingly very little was cut from the film.
Here's a couple promo spots for a BATTLE OF THE BONDS theme night on Cinemax in 1984
That knock off Bondian music that plays behind the promos was fairly common in the '80's. Seems I heard it everywhere. I wonder what that music was actually from?
You should have ridden the bike while your friend did some shadowboxing.
Haha! I could've been doing "Une..... deux.... une..... deux................."
Well, I'll get into details when I re-watch it. The rest of FYEO and OP are still waiting to be commented here by yours truly.
I have to say the film seemed more high end to me with the original old school 1970's Warner's logo that opened the Dirty Harry films. the Orion logo really cheapens the experience.
NSNA almost never leaves my top 10 (right alongside OP purely for the nostalgia and it's attempt at an updated adaptation of the THUNDERBAL novel.
Interestingly, these days it's trendy on forums to dish on many of the Bond films I grew up with a soft spot for: GF, DAF, and NSNA in particular.
DAF and NSNA are often at the bottom of many fans' rankings whereas when I grew up they were fairly well received.
TBH I don't think the writing on DAF or NSNA were any worse than some of the newer Purvis and Wade films: SP and NTTD.
+1 for the Lorimar reference
While I think TB is a better film overall, I'd rather watch NSNA if that makes any sense...
It makes sense to me: I also think TB is a better film on almost all aspects (especially music-wise),except pacing. IMHO, NSNA manages to be a funnier experience: I said once before it has a very 80s charm… And it happened to be the current Bond movie when I was born (December 1983): My parents went to see both OP and NSNA with unborn me XD Silly but kinda special.
I really enjoy NSNA too. It has a number of things going for it. Brandauer plays a better villain than Celi and Casey a better Leiter than Van Nutter. Without comparing her to Palazzi, Carrera of course is one of the better femme fatales to crop up in a Bond film. The south of France looks gorgeous here. The motorcycle chase is one of the better action sequences of the 80s and the brawl with Lippe one of the better staged fights. Leiter gets in on the gunplay for the first and only time. And as you've already mentioned, the film moves at a good pace.
- Gotta love that cow and poultry just don't giving a damn about Kriegler being in hysterics.
- S.G. Cortina is an actual ice hockey team and still plays in the very same arena. Good to know.
- Now, for a second, I wondered what if… The hockey players took their helmets off and instead - as shown in a deleted sequence - of Kriegler and his associates we saw the Hanson Bros.?
- Too bad Karageorge, one of Columbo's henchmen - doesn't go "WE MEANIES ONLY TAKE A NO FOR AN ANSWER!". Alas, they took Paul Angelis and made him a silent character.
- That guy playing the sad casino gambler that loses against Bond… I've seen him on so many places and I don't know where exactly!
- Never noticed Locke completely smug smile as he's about to kill Lisl. Really, it's one of the most sadistic henchmen of all the saga. Kudos to the tragically departed Michael Gothard for achieving that without saying any word.
- And Roger's reaction… He must be the most pissed off he has been as Bond. For about 10-15 minutes we will see him getting near to what Timothy Dalton's Bond would be: angry, vindicative and serious, aiming for the kill. I know he didn't like it and wanted to add some silly joke after throwing Locke away like a used Kleenex (they settled for a one-liner), but IMHO it's one of the finest moments in all his tenure. When you knew how to push the correct buttons, Roger Moore could really act.
I can't get over how we've only had two Bond films in the last nine years.
And although I love them (because they're Bond), I would never under ANY circumstances, pick either film to introduce Bond to a potential new fan.
I thought CR was the perfect "re-boot". I loathe the term "re-boot" actually, but CR was about as good as it can get in terms of starting the franchise over and giving us a Bond origin story. That's why I truly don't believe the next actor should have his own origin Bond story and arc. I don't think one can top CR in that regard.
If I have time later I may have to pop in a Bond today.
=)) =))
Nice catch @bigladiesman.
Alternatively, he could have joked:” CAN'T HELP IT. I’M A BORN LIVER-POOLER”, after the other character he voiced in that film. :D
Absolutely. Parts of CR just couldn't be bettered.
Now that I think of it, if Ringo's a born Liver-pooler, so was Lisl.