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That IS an awesome moment!
Exactly, might be an idea for a future Bondie?
Okay I shall file it away for a future Bondie….Any thoughts on the category it fits into?
Good @thedove!! this thread should definitely be one of controversy and unexpected choices! There’s plenty of other threads on the community where serious comparison and discussion of all the Bond entries can take place!
My birdbrained colleague has tapped random numbers into a calculator whilst blindfold for several minutes and can confirm that 68% of people don’t agree with the nominations in 81% of categories in the Oscars, whilst correctly predicting the winner only 22% of the time, and I sincerely hope the Bondies will continue to match such impressive (independently verified) statistics! 👍
Best Bond Slide .... up against Roger playing ice hockey, Sean sliding into Tiger’s office, Craig taking the quick way down the tube escalator?
Maybe we can vote for that one in the 'Best Use of Action Man Toys' category in future :)
Two moments of Brosnan come to mind:
- GE: PTS escape out of the facility, even though he goes upwards.
- TND: at Carver's press at the very end he dives onto something and drives it on his belly before rolling out of the building.
No one has suggested the oil rig battle from DAF :))
Anyway out of the nominees my vote goes to OHMSS. The battle is top quality but it also benefits from having the best pre-battle build-up, with Tracy delivering her wonderful poem to Blofeld to distract him, and the Swiss Air Force buzzing Draco’s helicopters, all adding to the tension. Love the whole thing really
And in the SP PTS when the house is falling apart. GE, when the water is out of the lake and they slide to the “sink“.
Not a fan of the YOLT and TSWLM battles. They are alright but no highlight for me.
I vote for OHMSS.
I was tempted to put Columbo and Bond raiding the warehouse and getting Locque but didn't feel the scope was big enough. Also just re-watched the TLD and forgot about the runway battle between Soviets and rebels. But I guess that says something that it wasn't memorable.
I haven’t been able to “unsee” that scene after it was pointed out to me several years ago. Poor cat, it was probably upset by all of the bright lights and loud noises on set. Of course, it could also have been angered – like Connery himself - by the lack of film residuals written into its’ contract! In any case, according to Taschen’s “The James Bond Archives” a second white cat had to be purchased by the production team when the first went missing (see figure 7.44 for the December 7th, 1966 memo). You’ll also note, that later on, after Blofeld shoots Mr. Osato, the cat vanishes (along with its’ film career probably).
This comes down to either TB, YOLT or OHMSS. I’ll give YOLT the nod here since the stunts are done “in-camera” and for the energetic action. Plus, I have a thing for seeing Mie Hama run around in a bikini 😊.
Can't recall numbers for Goldfinger, but Thunderball was smaller scale certainly. Bond and Leiter led a team of about ten divers against Largo's dozen or so. And they never went back on board the Disco Volante, everything was fought underwater, including Domino killing Largo with the spear gun.
OHMSS was also relatively smaller. There was still a gun battle, but Bond wasn't heavily involved and left it within the same page as it starting - he was off the helicopter and straight after Blofeld on the bobsled if I recall correctly. He witnesses Piz Gloria exploding from the base of the mountain.
For worst, I wish to nominate the big battle at the end of MR : astronauts sniping at each other, no dramatic flair at all, boring in one word.
My issue with OHMSS is that Bond seems to go missing for the best part of it. I still like the scene, but when I watched it at Christmas with an audience at the Prince Charles, it did seem to go down limply, with everyone watching the Bond theme playing while Tracy is fighting the guard, and no Bond in sight for too long. As soon as Lazenby is sliding on the ice the atmosphere in the cinema lifted.
Like others, I do feel that MR has been overlooked here. I understand all the criticisms of the film, despite me liking it a lot, but as a standalone sequence the space battle is ace.
Anyway, TB is my shout. Just about...
But that's awesome.
Cool thanks. I guess as long as 007 turned up mob-handed it still counts as coming from the books.
Although that version of the Bond theme is just lifted straight from Dr No, so inherently terrible ;)
I hope one day they return to having a midget janitor whistling some previous Bond tune.
Yeah I think it's much better too. I don't really like the '62 version popping up there, I don't think it works.
Serious?....Well, what impresses me more about OHMSS is, even with all the throwback, it still comes out as an original Bond film. Maybe something slicker like Bond 7's alarm from his watch belting out YKMN's tune in Bond 26 would suffice.
Since Craig has been very impressive like Connery, maybe EON out of slight anxiety of missing Craig, might transfer snippets of elements from Craig's Bond to Bond 7,maybe in his first outing alone....Even if Bond 7 is as good as Craig's Bond.