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Yeah I hate the criticism 'lazy'. Even the very worst 007 director, whoever that may be, worked for a year or more on his film with 12 hour days or more and sweated buckets getting the thing made. Not a single one was ever lazy.
Yeah absolutely agree there. It's not flashy but it's a very enjoyable and functional Bond film- I often think it's my favourite of the Pierces.
"Lazy" has become a very trendy, and quite meaningless word around here. You can say it is a very lazy form of criticism.
SF is me Bond movie i dislike the moost, but DAD comes quike after that and TB. Sam Mendes feels a bit like English Steven Spielberg but then more element of doubt part of the movies he made and Mendes looks more crumpy then Spielberg sometimes already be.
Funnily enough, TWINE was my very first Bond film. As a six year old I adored it and was hooked on Bond from that point onwards.
These days the 27 year old me ranks it as the second worst in the series, and, as previously stated, I would regard Apted's direction as the worst in the series. ;)
That particular scene is indeed quite akward. There is also a very strange and lengthy shot in the PTS of Leiter and his deputies running away from the helicopter in slow motion for no real reason...
Really?....You turned it Off?. I find that rare though, not doubting you. But i think a film like Lawrence Of Arabia is the type one turns off as an 11yr old, but later likes it when one is older to understand the slow desert scenes and all that....TND is pure Boyish Bondian Delight, I love it....even if I know deep down in my heart that it isn't the Best Bond film.
TND I feel is the type of Bond film that excites a boy, but he later grows up to discover Gems like FRWL, GF, OHMSS, etc.
"Turning off" and "being turned off" are two different things. As an example I am always severely "turned off" by the akward scene with Moore and Grace Jones in AVTAK, however I have always managed to resist the urge to "turn it off" ;)
Yeah, sure I understand that....But if something turns you off, you're likely to turn it off. As for Moore and Grace Jones' scene, I know exactly what you mean :)
One issue: the film should have been at least 15 minutes shorter. You could cut 2-3 minutes from the Spectre meeting alone, and another 2 from the plane chase.
Also that very weird shot of Dalton (or is it Leiter?) galumping through the Florida shrubbery on the way to the helicopter.
All nominees received votes with Lee receiving 24 votes, Forster receiving 7, Hamilton, Mendes and Spottiswoode each receiving one vote each.
Okay time to turn back to the best this category comes to us from @GoldenGun and I am quite glad as I am not a gear head or into cars too much but I think this will be a welcome category!
Our man has many gadget filled automobiles in his time on the screen. For this category we shall look at when he had a car that was not filled with gadgets and he had to use his wits and driving skills.
Best gadgetless sports car/convertible driven by Bond
We are to judge the car and not the circumstance it was used! Which one is the best! Time to hear from the academy! the scenes are provided to merely help provide a reference to those not motor inclined to vote. :)
(runner up would be the Hornet).
I like when Bond has to use driving skills (rather than gadgets) to get out of, or get into, sticky situations.
@GoldenGun’s remark is actually quite right, I did turn off TND right after the garage sequence when I first watched it.
It wouldn’t be until two years later that I gave GE a shot and that’s what hooked me into seeing more Bond.
A great and thrilling sequence!
The Alfa Romeo in OP would be my runner up as it's one of my favourite sequences in the film. It would have been number one if we were taking the sequences into account.
That stunt is excellent, but the rest of the set piece is fairly dull!
To all the voters, I intended it as a vote for the most attractive looking car rather than the way the car is used.
With that in mind, I have to go for the Alfa!
True, but out of the nominees that car is the one i'd like to own...!