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Yes, but the thought of Palazzi getting plastic surgery, voice lessons, etc., is intriguing and colorful. It's not necessarily better than blackmail, but it does offer something that blackmail doesn't.
In the end, with my fast forward button, I will always enjoy SP for being a beautiful mess (and, I still do love DC in it, LOL!).
And why I had stated earlier: I overlook the ridiculousness. TB is one of faves, regardless. ;)
Yes, Volpe and more. I love TB because it is a slow unraveling. It is not exactly an action-packed film. It is whip-smart (great one-liners) with beautiful women and locations.
Would a pilot who needed to fly smack into a mountain before he understood that that is not a desirable way to navigate his aircraft keep getting work?
But in a dictatorship those at the top don't care about a few unlistened to dissidents as long as the general public keep lapping up their bread and circuses so our criticisms are as insignificant to EON as having to step over a dead ant on the pavement.
Roll on sistergate with Irma Bunt.
Well if it's lack of tension we're talking about I can only assume it's pure coincidence talk has moved on to TB all of a sudden?
If ever there's a 3rd act that needed some tweaking it's this one. The world under nuclear threat? SPECTRE about to blow up a major city? The suspense ratchets up as the deadline counts down? Err no.
Bond flounces around for 2hrs on a spa minibreak and then a Club 18-30 holiday, the CIA easily defuse one bomb (offscreen) in Miami and the other one is just a useless hunk of metal because Kotze lobbed the detonator in the sea. Makes the 9 Eyes climax look like The Wages of Fear.
Volpe the only thing that breathes any life into this dull plod and whenever she's off screen your attention starts to wander.
They always remind me of The Pink Panther.
I agree. The plot itself might have been more compelling had it actually been explored a bit more. As it is it seems very unimportant in the film.
TB is in the running for sure. By default, SF is one of the best/most realistic plots in the series.
Uh. No.
Dr. No makes the same sort of mistake with taking out Strangways and his secretary, leading to a proper Mi6 investigation.
Default? Are you sure
That's why I've never got the criticisms I've read of Goldfinger keeping Bond alive. Look at it from his perspective: right now he only has Bond to deal with. Bond disappears then best case scenario they send another spy who Goldfinger doesn't know and doesn't have captured. Worst case scenario they decide that what Bond has told them (nothing, but Goldfinger doesn't know that, like Bond says, he can't risk it) and him suddenly disappearing soon after is enough to go on, so they come down on him hard that he doesn't even make it to Fort Knox.
Keeping him alive is the smartest move he could make, it only goes wrong because he manages to get Pussy on side. And to be fair if Pussy is a lesbian like she is in the book, she should have been immune to Bond's charm. Goldfinger had it all sorted and Bond got lucky. The only thing he does that doesn't make sense is explaining the plan to the gangsters.
The plots of DN, DAF, LALD, FYEO, and SF aren't anything special but they get a pass from me.
Surely Stromberg and Drax take the cake for worst villain’s plan?
‘What a brilliant plan. The world is destroyed and here I am in my underwater/space hideout master of all I survey.’
‘Mr Stromberg/Drax. Worrying news - we’ve just run out of Sugar Puffs and toilet paper.’
‘What are you telling me for? Just send someone out to Londis. Oh bugger.’
Although Blofeld in YOLT comes pretty close:
‘Right I’m off down the Ferrari showroom with my huge wad of cash.’
‘Erm sorry Ernst have you watched Bloomberg recently? You’d be lucky to by a loaf bread with a million dollars nowadays. Tins of beans, bottled water and iodine tablets are the only currencies since you provoked WW3.’
I don’t want to say it but GE’s plot is quite weak in terms of how it’s written.
Trevelyan’s scheme is only mentioned in one line.
Let's face it, most Bond films are ridiculous. This is why I say "by default" SF is actually a really good plot. Look what it's going up against.
TB, MR, and YOLT are especially bad. This doesn't keep TB from being one of my all-time faves.
By comparison, FRWL, CR, and SF are excellent in terms of those two elements above.
On the other hand, I would not be too harsh on the Gilbert films. These plots do not intend to be realistic. So one should be more forgiving. The same applies to the more iconic schemes like the one in GF. It is not very realistic but at least anyone remembers what GF was aiming for. In some other films it is extremely difficult to find out even as a Bond film what the villain actually wants to achieve.
Because there was none. Everything was shrouded in mystery. I have a feeling they wanted to keep the details for a sequel (and they still might, who knows)
As for Goldeneye, sure, the scheme might have been mentioned in one line only, but that was enough really. They even bothered to explain not just what Trevelyan was after (money, and revenge on England) but also which consequences his attack would have on GB and the rest of the world (England back in the stoneage, global financial meltdown).
If they had bothered to do that in SP, the movie would have had a lot more tension and focus. Instead we are left to wonder the whole movie what Blofeld and Bonds beef is about.
It's explained by M that they want him alive in exchange for the information he knows about who he finances. If she just sends Bond to kill him then you have a cold trail. At that point they have no idea about Mr. White