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Ouch! A bit harsh but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I always thought the gunslinger in Scaramanga's Fun House was Bond. Then I discovered it was Roger Moore's double. I often think it would have made more sense to have Bond disguise himself as the cowboy then the statue. Never understood why Scaramanga would have a real Walter PPK with the Statue. It wasn't designed to shoot.
I found this for you, though it's "from the competition":
Strange Edits and Weird Alternative Lines
I thought it was a discarded Roger Moore mannequin from the same funhouse. For real. Never thought he was a real person.
Yes same with the Al Capone gangsters being real, though that clearly is more visible. The cowboy has the hat and mustache.
Yep, Al is visibly real. He moves and flinches when shooting the machine gun, but Roger's double (I guess it's the guy from Octopussy's pre-credits) really passes as an animatronic.
for whatever reason i used to think Jaws was in OP - and i thought the whole Pyramids of Giza part was in OP as well.. this was back before i was as familiar with the movies as i am now obviously - i would occasionally catch a random Bond film on TV, and this was back before the guide button LOL, so i had no idea..
i used to think NSNA was an official Bond film, until i learned the history behind that film lol..
and up until a few years ago, i used to believe that Joseph Wiseman was the voice of Blofeld in TB - and i could've sworn i remember reading it somewhere that he was.. but in fact, it was the same voice from FRWL, it just sounded a little different (probably modulated a little, plus the echo effect)..
but the biggest one - was i used to have the misconception that Bond films were boring (i was young lol) i was always curious about them, but whenever they would be on TV, with all the commercials it would usually take 3 or 4 hours to get through them, so i never put in the effort to watch... then Goldeneye64 came out, played that a little bit with some friends and thought "let me give the movie a try and see.".. i caught a showing of it on Showtime shortly after - fell in love with the movie.. it wasn't until the following year though, when i saw TND in theaters that i started becoming a bigger fan - and then, the next christmas, i got DN, FRWL, GF, and TND on VHS from my parents - after that, i was forever a Bond fan, and then began my quest to own them all :D
I remember watching a Connery Bond film on the TV and being amazed that they were showing him getting off with all these women illegally.
As a longtime lurker of this site, Wiseman voicing Blofeld in TB is a very common misconception.
Possibly it comes from a reading of the 1959 Ian Fleming source novel where Oddjob has a cleft palate. This renders his speech virtually unintelligible. I know that is not the same thing as being totally mute, but it it might explain the misconception.
I'm sure it was against the canon law anyway. ;)
I always forget about Octopussy's PTS and think the clown bit is the PTS as well. :P A shame because it's a cool PTS.
Now I definitely feel better. I wonder why on certain discs it's one line and then another on other versions. Weird.
No, you’re right
:-bd
I also thought there was a Bond movie in black and white, but in this case, it was CR67.
Actually, and it’s a very personal opinion, I think the EON Bond films delved 5 times on the supernatural and/or full-on sci-fi: DN, LALD, MR, TWINE and DAD (in this case, as much as they try to hide it instead of embracing it: one of the many mistakes done in that movie).
And I guess that Dalton's "GE" would have been one of those instances.
Lol that isn't supernatural though, that was just the effects of the time. His hands (like the Dragon) were just meant to be robotic. Not supernatural.
I think in all your examples the goings on can be more or less explained in a scientific way, even if they're outlandish. Nothing even really happens supernaturally in LALD, ie, no one comes back from the dead or anything.
agreed - i always felt something that is 'supernatural' is something that can't be explained by practical means... Dr No's hands while outlandish, can be practically explained.
as opposed to Baron Samedi being alive at the end of LALD, which is more the obvious supernatural - how did he manage to survive all those poisonous snake bites?.. we don't know... there could be something scientific or biological to explain it, but the movie never affords us that info.. so all we can do is assume he is somehow supernatural.
[Real reason being that Tom Mankiewicz wanted Geoffrey Holder back for TMWTTG, but never came into fruition. But gotta say it would have been MAHHHHHHVELOUS, HAHAHAHAAAAAA]