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Kara improves over the course of the film and is excluded for...
Kara: 'We're free'.
Bond : 'Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan. ' I always find that hilarious.
Goodnight is a walking talking plot device though is likable.
Kissy is well suited to the film she is in, though admittedly given little to do though in no way am I irritated by her character.
Jinx wins and is easily the worst, the majority of her scenes are terrible.
Yo Momma!
Performance of the actress.
That said, I can see why many of you are voting for Mie Hama. Ms. Hama doesn’t add anything to her role in YOLT, and despite that white bikini, she is a virtual non-entity. It is telling that in the BOND 50 Box set, the blu-Ray slot for YOLT contains a picture of Akiko Wakabayashi and not her.
Discovered by Toho while working as a Bus Conductor, Ms. Hama actually had a decent film career, and was labelled as the Japanese Brigitte Bardot by Playboy magazine. As with many “foreign” actresses of this era, she was dubbed in most of her movies that I’ve seen (King Kong v Godzilla, King Kong Escapes), so it’s hard to completely judge her as an actress (overall).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/movies/going-from-bond-girl-to-a-normal-life.html
She does not, however, have me covering my ears in pain (JAMES! …J-A-M-E-S!!!...DON” T LEAVE ME JAMES!!!).
Yes, agreed: Wakabayashi leaves a much bigger impression- pretty much everyone prefers her in that film, don’t they?
Agreed.
In that case I will have to go for Halle. Not the worst actress on this list, but she should be remembered as one of the best Bond girls, instead Halle gives a really iffy performance for what should be a good character. Others have nothing to do, so I don't blame their performances.
Otherwise, my vote goes to Tanya Roberts. A rather difficult choice between her and Jinx.
I just re-watched DAD with the watch along and I found Halle to be not as bad as people paint her out to be. She handles herself well in the action scenes.
I would go with Tanya Roberts for AVTAK. Maybe the character was poorly written but she adds nothing to it. The audience should feel sympathy for her but I don't think we ever do. Maybe the screams for James undermines this.
My vote is Tanya Roberts in AVTAK.
I agree with you about Jinx.
1. Goldfinger - Laser scene
2. Thunderball - Fiona bites the bullet
3. YOLT - PTS space capsule
4. OHMSS - Bond escapes from Piz Gloria
5. TMWTGG - PTS Scaramanga’s fun house
I'd petition to add GE - Bond Meets Janus w/ Whispering Shadows (Whispers/Two Faced)
The tension, the call back to the Facility, the melancholic, intriguing piano melody.
The montage arrives after a brilliantly conceived sequence where Bond has to show Tracy he cares about her and doesn't simply want to date her to get information about Blofeld. The film weaves together Fleming's twin plot lines and gives the film's plot more coherence than the book. The montage itself is lovely.
"She needs a man to dominate her" is obviously intended as a comedic line, since Tracy is never dominated (see Draco and Tracy's last conversation in the film, or in the limo, or anywhere). Bond himself doesn't even bother directly responding to the line.
Absolutely! I will pry the award from the grubby mitts of Purvis, Wade, and Haggis (sounds like an awful lawfirm) and place it on Maibaum's hallowed grave.
It’s crap though. You don’t do a love story by simply writing ‘SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM HERE’. And the film is supposed to be about Bond falling in love. It’s an awful let down.
Whether the montage is lovely or not it has nothing to do with the writer.
It’s not a joke no, I’ve never been aware of anyone finding it to be so. I’d say it’s what happens.
The only thing I might disagree with here @mtm is that I don't believe OHMSS is primarily about Bond falling in love. The love between Bond and Tracy is a component of the story, but I wouldn't say it's a love story, and therefore I think it's fair that the love isn't as flushed out as in a story where it's the primary 'plot'.
Good suggestion I will use it for a future post for the academy to consider! Wonderful choices by the way!
The montage is a short-hand way of showing the couple spending time together, and it works excellently for that purpose (that's the point of montage--to compress similar events!) You act as if it's the only love scene in the film, and that is obtuse. In fact it follows a scene where Bond has to prove his commitment to Tracy and is followed by a scene where Tracy admits she isn't sure if Bond loves her. None of those scenes are in the book, and the film does a more convincing job of showing the two gradually falling in love.
You might want to try watching the film with an audience. I've seen it twice in the theater and the line got a laugh each time. Even in 1969 the line would have seemed like old-fashioned machismo, and it's spoken that way.
Halle Berry has received 8 votes
Tanya Roberts has received 8 votes
Mie Hama received 5 votes
Britt Ekland received 3 votes
Maryam D'Abo received 0 votes.
So who is the worst actress in a Bond movie? Remember it's actress not the role. Who shall be deemed to be the worst actress in a Bond film?
Tanya screams too much, but delivers her lines like a human being. Halle can obviously act buy is given possibly the worst dialogue in the series.
Barbara looks like she's from the moon and trying to pass as an Earthling. Every intonation and facial expression is wrong, when any exists in the first place.
Lol you’re not wrong about Bach at all
What’s obtuse is not noticing that it moves from her hating the sight of him, him giving her an awful cheesy platitude, MONTAGE, she’s in love with him. That’s dreadful. They couldn’t be bothered to write her falling in love with him.
Even 80’s buddy cop movies manage to write the characters slowly changing their opinions on one another, they don’t just flick a switch.
Because it’s cringeworthy and out of date, yes. I watched Jurassic Park at a screening a couple of years ago and the scene with Goldblum laying down with his shirt open got a huge laugh, not because of anything intentional but because of a meme that was circulating at the time.
Yes, I can’t entirely disagree with that. And yet I do find her quite charming for some reason. Can’t explain it! :)
It’s funny though, if I think of either of the main actresses from the previous film doing it (Ekland or Adams) it would be a lot better, I can’t deny.
Ekland’s great actually, she really shouldn’t be nominated for this.
the others are pretty bad i think mainly from a performance aspect, not so much how they were written as characters... but i could argue that Kara from The Living Daylights is probably right up there with Sutton in terms of uselessness - i mean, my god, how could she seriously get caught off guard by a mountain she was flying towards?? :)) plus her undying devotion to Koskov got a little annoying until she got woke lol.. but she didn't really annoy me or give me migraines the way Stacy did.. i think Stacy comes off as being too 'valley girl' to be believable as a geologist.. at least with Denise Richards as Christmas Jones, she still managed to sound convincing enough as a nuclear physicist, despite her shortcomings as an actress..