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Can someone explain why the bungee jump is an amazing stunt? It's a bungee jump. In fact, haven't I heard of normal people doing the same jump in the same place?
EDIT "Verzasca - 007 Golden Eye Bungee Jump | Switzerland Tourism" https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/experiences/verzasca-007-golden-eye-bungee-jump/
This was an impressive stunt in the time that the new 007 movie delivered some excellent stunt-work each movie.
Most car jumps are boring. But for TMWTGG they gave the traditional car jump a new twist :)) so I vote for Willard’s car jump.
To be honest, though, any one of these stunts would be a worthy winner.
MR is a close second, though, and might have topped it without the Jaws ending.
[*] Rick Sylvester "bonds" with the Union Jack with a parachute from the film TSWLM
Honorable mention to the MR/BJ Worth/no parachute work though.
True. My understanding is a lot of the at-height stuff was done by Craig himself.
BJ Worth doubled for the pilot.
Yeah that’s some pretty crazy stuff there. Octopussy has some great stunt work along with that, the car chase and the train stuff.
so that gets the vote, however TMWTGG (even with the whistle) is a close second
:D
You sure are never a nit-pick but always a welcome edition to any thread you grace! I stand corrected.
Plus of course, don't forget the guy filming it who had to wear the camera on his head, quite a dangerous thing to do back then.
A tally of the votes shows us that all the stunts got at least 1 vote!
Rick Sylvester falls off a cliff in FYEO 1 vote
Rick Sylvester bonds with the Union Jack in TSWLM 9 votes
BJ Worth and Jake Lombard jump out of a plane in MR with 4 votes
Wayne Michaels bungee jumps to bring in a new era and a new Bond 1 vote
Willard "Bumps" Loren flips in TMWTGG with 1 vote
Wonderful stuff! Yes the Bond movies have had a ton of great stunts over the years. Nice to see them get some recognition! Lets award another Bondie. Lets do best song. The Bond movies have been blessed with some wonderful songs. The nominees are
Time for the esteemed academy to vote! Who will take home the Bondie for best song!
Then Goldfinger, NDIB, YNMN and trailing far behind is Skyfall which is quite frankly, shite.
Tricky ones to choose between there yet again...
LALD is a bit of a masterpiece; really quite inventive and not really following the form of other any song I know (its chorus is an instrumental!!!), and if you told Bond fans that the next Bond song would have reggae passages in it they'd be hammering furiously on their keyboards saying 'I'm not racist BUT..' until dawn. And yet it sounds totally Bond. Witchcraft.
Nobody Does It Better is a fantastic song, nothing else to say about that really. And yet for me it's always lacked a bit of Bond factor to it.
Goldfinger. All-time classic, perfect in almost every way and set the standard. Yes, there's more than a bit of Mancini in there, but it's Goldfinger. Nuff said.
Skyfall. I think it's a great Bond song and everyone loved it, plus it worked very well in the film. The melody isn't the strongest maybe, but it's still the best Bond song of the last 25 years or so.
YKMN. It's a really fun tune and it works so well in the film, but I always feel it doesn't quite seem to go anywhere and feels a bit 'faux rock' somehow.
So between LALD and Goldfinger for me. John Barry and Paul McCartney: two of the greatest musical geniuses of the last century. I'm going to have to go for Goldfinger as it's the start of it all, defining the sound the Bond films will forever be known for and still the best in many ways.
It's the one that set the course for all the ones that followed.
When Carly swings into her last "And...nobody does it better," it truly is the best sung moment in a Bond film.
YKMN is a worthy runner up, has the same effect!