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Sad really why we push further away from its identity hope it doesn't turn into star wars but its headed in that direction. @CraigMooreOHMSS
I hope not but all the talk here is like we are talking marvel.
Exactly....till this day a great deal of Non-Bond fans still say DAD is the best Bond film.....and many still prefer it to CR.
I quite like the Cuba bit, but that's beside the point :)
I can't stand the sickeningly over-the-top snarling idiocy of Graves (why didn't he place a Hello My Name Is Lead Villain on all of his shirts? After all, he was telegraphing to everyone how "bad" he was. There was nothing charming about him. Nothing intelligent that would suggest he's a smooth operator; like the film, his portrayal didn't care about nuance and everything was dialled up to a very annoying Eleven (out of Ten)).
Jinx was a paper-thin depiction of female "sassiness" and every time she opens her mouth, my ears bleed.
Brosnan, never a favorite, was so hairy, looked terrible without his shirt on, and it always irked me that he could never sell a punch (his closest came in the fight against Alec-- but, unfortunately for Brozzer, it was Bean who knew how to make a scrap look believable and he elevated this over-choreographed match).
The story was silly.
The action was cheap and pedestrian.
The Robo-cop suit and the final fights aboard the cartoon airplane was an abomination.
Getting that off my chest-- and with my passionate dislike for most everything about the film-- it never drove me away from Bond. I just thought-- wow, that was a really bad Bond flick. And then I waited for the next one.
And that was exactly my point, thanks @peter ;)
BTW, we are in total agreement about DUD. And I was a big Brozza fan. But that one nearly killed me.
(as an aside, I wish I liked Brosnan more, but... it just never clicked for me)...
It was. It turned me off from Bond for about a year, to tell you the truth. But I came back to my senses after watching the first Connery 4, OHMSS, TMWGG, TLD and even GE in a straight row.
But yes, as a massive Brosnan fan that I was, even knowing his limitations as an actor, DUD was a super blow. Particularly because I invited my family to go see the film with me at the theatre. I was incredibly embarrassed. I was embarrassed to be a Bond fan for the first time in my life.
And then, I wasn't. It all came back to normal. Of course CR helped. A lot.
... and those four Connery films would light a fire under anyone's butt-- they were/are fantastic pieces of cinema!! To me, a larger-than-life quality that we won't see again.
Reading your story, bringing family out to share this film with you, I had an image of a guy, in his cinema seat, covering his face, pumping sweat, shrinking in his seat. I don't mean to make light of the situation, but I laughed out loud, @Univex !!
It all worked out in the end. You're an optimistic fan, who has his own issues with the series, but never anything with vitriol.
Indeed. I have non-Bond fan friends that found the invisible car fantastic.
Years later, someone from that ensemble got her revenge. She took me to a screening of a new Brozza film. She said it was worth seeing. There I was, sitting beside her, getting ready to watch Mamma Mia, and have a trauma even bigger than DUD. It actually helped me get over it. You know, the lesser of two evils :-D
Laugh at will, my friend ;) Learning curves...
M says:
Humanity is on the verge of a global catastrophe.
Interesting anymore?
No, that's it.
What if is about some kind of killer virus? SPECTRE acolytes falling like dominos seems like an indication. I don’t know but I like the fact that Safin’s plan is revolving around a global menace.
Your skills will be gone when you die, and I will live forever.
Ok I have this wierd feeling the Safin and nomi are the same person maybe genetic cloning.
No reason really I thought we heard about cloning as part of the plot and the mask
I'm telling what M says in Russian dubbing, not what Ralph Fiennes says originally.
It's: Humanity is on the verge of a global catastrophe.
Yes, it could be a freedom of translation.
Alternatively, those could be M's words right before or after he says 'faster than we can respond'.
For example: 'The world is arming faster than we can respond. Humanity is on the verge of a global disaster.'
Remains to be seen.
@mtm ?
It really isn't.
In the original full Russian trailer M says the catastrophe line as a translation of the faster than we can respond one.
So yeah, only new dialogue here is Blofeld.