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The votes from the academy were cast as follows:
Write in votes for YOLT, TLD, NTTD, CR, MR, DN, GF. All received 1 vote each!
Lets head back to the bad side and do the Klebbie side of things. Some Bond films have memorable and rather poignant endings, but others? Well they leave us cold, or maybe groaning and not in a good way. Time to look at the worst ending of a Bond film.
The nominees are:
Okay dear academy, which film deserves the kick in the shins as worst ending of a Bond film?
I just didn't liked it, that ending didn't felt like a scene from a Bond film, and the use of We Have All The Time In The World really insults me up to this day, especially as a fan of OHMSS, I just didn't liked it, I don't think it's deserved and earned, felt forced and shoehorned.
I could still watch the others, but not this one.
It occurred to me (too late!) that one of the better suspense scenes (a lot of it because it looks genuinely quite scary to watch) is Bond stuck on the crocodile island in LALD. And of course Bond's button-pressing gadget actually fails, and he has to get himself out of it in one of the best stunts of the series.
Juvenile is a choice, a very bad one, but still they went with what they thought was a good way to end it.
Uninspired is not a choice. It wants to be better than it is. Using Armstrong’s song, which is copied from a better film, is the perfect metaphor for the whole scene. Lazy, safe and unoriginal.
Can’t really decide here, but I think the easy way out with OHMSS’s song is the nail in the coffin for NTTD. For me anyway.
I don't think any of them are that awful to be honest, maybe a bit flat. DAD's is a bit weak perhaps but it's functional.
I think I'd go for Thunderball from those, it is extremely sudden and a bit jarring.
Maybe a mention for Octopussy's really quite naff joke :)
The rest are incredibly poor. I'll probably go for AVTAK because while NTTD made me groan and DAD is (as noted by others) juvenile, neither make me feel actively uncomfortable the way seeing Grandad Roger in a steamy shower with Tanya does.
In hindsight, I might have chosen that as well. Or LTK, when his air is cut underwater. In both scenes, I have no idea how Bond will get out of his circumstances, and in both cases the solution is very novel and very satisfying.
It looks like I'm already outnumbered, but my vote on worst ending is TND. NTTD may not be for everyone, but it's a nice cap on Craig's era. DAD and AVTAK may be corny, but I don't see them as being all that much more so than most of the other earlier movies. TND is just awkwardly ticking a romance box despite there being ZERO chemistry between Pierce and Michelle. Easy vote for me.
If DAD wasnt there, I would agree with you!
I could have done it, but then we would have ended up with three Brosnan's and I like to spread out the nominees.
Yeah the TND one seems perfectly fine to me. It's not very memorable but it's not actually bad.
GoldenEye's is more memorable but a lot sillier: Pierce appears to dislocate his jaw like a snake as he laughs, whilst we're treated to the spectacle of James Bond 007 taken by surprise by a helicopter hovering just above his head.
Got to be honest, I've always thought that's a pretty good joke :)
I remember people laughing at it quite a bit at the time, as they were supposed to. And considering we got a full on reboot four years later, retrospectively it almost seems like a bittersweet ending to the "old Bond and Moneypenny" relationship. Cleese's reaction to it sells it, too.
The only problem is that we went from a raunchy, almost filthy scene like that to yet more groan-worthy innuendo between Bond and Jinx, which meant the sex stuff was laid on very thick in the final couple of minutes.
"It's rather hard, isn't it?"
"Yes. Very."
....is funny.
"Leave it in, please.....a few more minutes", is not.
It has to either be AVTAK or DAD for me, because both represent instances where you can see that the formula has run its course and there were evident signs the series was in desperate need of a refresh. It's fitting and by no means an accident that each film marked the end of each actor's tenure, where they went out with a whimper and not a bang.
I think I have to give it to AVTAK, though. DAD ends with sophomoric dialogue and horrible cringe, but that is in fact the entire film. So do I disparage the ending for being what the entire film already was? I think AVTAK is the bigger offender because of what that ending and entire film represents. Roger should've hung up his holster years before, and by this point in his tenure it was just embarrassing to watch him chase around women young enough to be his daughters. The ending is the definitive reason why an actor should go out early, rather than hang on to the role too long to the point that it's embarrassing to watch. While OP was much more watchable because the film gave Roger's Bond a woman closer to his increasing age, AVTAK didn't follow that same restraint and pays for it. And they pick Stacey Sutton of all women to be Bond's lover on top of it. Oh, Roger...
"JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!"
Connery's Bond had the most endings on water. In fact many films seem to end with a watery end. Craig might be the first Bond to have no endings on water?