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"California Girls" in AVTAK comes second, but the snowboarding is a less impressive stunt to ruin. The same goes for the Tarzan yell in OP.
I don't mind the fourth wall break in OHMSS, and in any case it arrives after the action has concluded, not in the middle of it. The same goes for "three more ticks" in GF. After the action has concluded you can wink at the audience, not before.
It’s part of the track. John Barry made the call and included it. He interrupted himself.
I’ll go California Girls. So dumb. At least the others are over in seconds. It looks like surfing so we’ll pick a Beach Boys surfing song. Surfing USA? No. Surf City? No. Then it isn’t even the Beach Boys. Horrible.
It doesn't really matter who decided to put it there. It still ruins an otherwise good track.
The GF is no worse than other moments like the DAF car flip or the cameraman in TMWTGG.
I also don't mind the fourth wall in OHMSS. What makes it weird though is the references to the previous films.
Imagine any other Bond doing it. I think Brosnan could pull it off with a pain face though.
[The Tarzan yell is silly and unwelcome but I can't say it undercuts the already silly swinging through the treetops on vines.]
The moments doesn't bother me too much in OHMSS and GF but the timer of the bomb is generally a bit ridiculous (it should explode much, much earlier and the other guys wouldn't have had enough time to run downstairs).
However, the Klebbie should go to the bad music decision in the AVTAK PTS or the awful slide whistle. I like the PTS ski action and the rest of the music is awesome.
Well, I go mainstream here and vote for the bloody whistle.
Who had this bad idea??? Apart from the whistle, I always think that they should have edited a bit different. Maybe more camera angles??? It looks too simple and almost unspectacular. It is fascnintating that they managed to do this jump but we don't feel the danger and it is over too quick.
Which reminds me if anyone has a category suggestion feel free to PM. I'm always looking for new categories. Our next category will be another Klebbie!
Either way it is an alarming sequence. In the space of about a minute and a half he gets attacked by tarantulas, leeches, and a crocodile, tells a snake to iss off, and tames a tiger (who knew Bond was a fan of Barbara Woodhouse? Do international fans even get the 'joke'?). The Tarzan yell is the least of it, really.
I quite like that there's such a niche joke in a massive global film. A bit like that guy from the 'Clampers' docusoap appearing in TWINE.
Mind you, I never understood why that showjumper guy gets a cameo in DAD. That was just bizarre.
Not in 1985! I remember being astounded by it.
But I also vote for TMWTGG. The slide whistle plus the side of Pepper ruins an impressive stew.
But the actual stunt as so spectacular, that I enjoy it, more than a quick sound effect.
I'm going to go with AVTAK and the California Girls rip off. The sequence till this point is tense and exciting. However the inclusion of California Girls ruins any sense of danger till that point. And then we return to John Barry's wonderful score, for the climax of the pts.
Exactly. The slide whistle is 3 seconds. California Girls ruins what could be a much better and longer scene without it.
+1
I had a similar experience.
Always happy for a win by TLD or by anything composed by John Barry.
Yeah it was almost like he was inventing snowboarding! :) I think that impression still comes across when you watch it, and in fact the music actually helps you remember that surfing on snow was a very unusual thing to be watching.
If it were just the Bond theme playing I think we'd actually have forgotten that and the stunt would be, conversely, less impressive nowadays. So in that way, the music actually helps the stunt! :)
Based on this the Tarzan yell gets my vote. It signifies the moment when a potentialy tense scene turns into complete farce and I can tolerate it less than "the girls" and the breaking of the 4th wall.
Personally it never really bothered me but I know a lot of Bond fans feel differently, considering it comes at the end of a spectacular stunt sequence.
JW Pepper himself could very easily have been included as an option in this round!
I, for one, fully agree. I've hated that car chase mess ever since first seeing it at the cinema.
It's funny but i love it. And the more you watch it the more it becomes evident just how skillfully edited it actually is. (Perhaps thats for the 'controversial opinions' discussion... ;) )
Agree fully my friend! I still see new moments when I watch it! Very well put together sequence. Wish second unit guy Dan Bradley would be brought back. Only recently discovered he did the action on Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, reason why its the only MI film I really like!