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Although I think it does make a slight mockery of the short story: in the book Bond spends weeks of preparation and then is on site for several nights, whereas in the film he just rocks up and busks it on the night :D And their plan to leave the guy they’re trying to save tapping on a locked door in full view of a sniper is perhaps not the greatest! :D In fact why not just pick him up in a car outside the toilet window, might have been slightly less risky!
Overanalyzing Bond films is a dangerous avtivity. None of them really hold up when you do ;)
But when you look at that sniper scene and realise all Koskov is doing is crossing a road (which Bond himself has just crossed with ease), it does start to seem a bit silly :) Just go and get him in your bulletproof Aston Martin!
I wonder why they didn’t just set it at the Berlin Wall?
Maybe because they had been there just two films prior.
Because that would be a very boring scene! ;) Almost all action or suspense films, even the highly acclaimed classics, take certain liberties with logic in order to ramp up tension and excitement. It doesn't really have anything to do with whether the film "takes itself seriously" or not.
Well it certainly does: the more seriously it asks you to believe something the more open it leaves itself to question. That Bond carries a camera with 007 written on it in MR isn’t something I question because the film is so nicely silly, but they wouldn’t get away with him having that in LTK! :)
A slight problem is that Bond literally does park his bulletproof Aston Martin right on that spot a day or two later with absolutely no trouble whatsoever, so it’s hard not to wonder why they didn’t just do that at the time!
I know even this scene is fairly silly because it’s all Bond. For example: it doesn’t actually matter how Q somehow got a Harrier into that gas holder apparently without any of the border guards noticing, because it’s fun :)
Probably: it’s such a brief glimpse you’d have thought it wouldn’t have mattered.
I'd go to that.
TND
GE
DAD
TWINE
DAD
TND
TWINE
TND
DAD
TWINE
EDIT: After two minutes of thought, I'm actually changing my list to that of @ColonelAdamski. I prefer GE, but I do think TND is more fun.
1) GE
2) TND
3) DAD
4) TWINE
Though DAD is solidly below TWINE for me as overall experiences, I can’t deny it is more consistent in the energy department, for better and worse.
2. TWINE
3. TND
4. DAD
DAD
GE
Getting a colonoscopy
TND
TWINE
the other three are about equal to me.
Love these memories. I also liked how it went straight from the credits into Fleming territory with Bond in progress on a mission. That was so against the norm at the time, which seemed to exclusively start with some incident happening followed by or starting straight in with Bond meeting with M and the staff and setting up the mission.
After seeing the film, my friends and I headed to a local pub and had my first ever vodka martini. Asked for it shaken not stirred, but it wasn't that type of place.
I also wanted to get that soundtrack, but delayed when I discovered videos of The Avengers TV series had been released and I opted for several of those.
TND: The one that I saw the most times in theaters. It’s a blast and I strongly associate it with the holidays.
DAD: The one I appreciate more in light of the DC-era’s direction.
TWINE: The one that I always trick myself into thinking I like more than I actually do.
I did this SO MUCH for TND. I would rent the DVD from my local Blockbuster thinking I might like it better on the next viewing. I mean, it has all the formula you want from Bond. It's Brosnan coming off the heels of GE. It's his victory lap. It's from 1997, a year I have strong positive memories of childhood.
And it fell flat every time. Such a pity, because it IS the very first Bond film I ever saw. It should have imprinted on me like so many of my millennial comrades. But no dice.
Bang on first time. The top two are very close but TND just nudges it because it has so many cracking action bits, especially in the first half.
DAD
TND
GE
TWINE
Yes, after watching them all recently, I would go with this ranking too.
Bond films sort of lost the class around the turn of the century: go forward to Skyfall or TMWTGG (oddly) and they feel rich and classy again. But they’re still fun.
:))