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Bond chases Cigar girl down the Thames from TWINE
P.S. I rather enjoy the boat chases myself. I love both the MR ones. In fact I would say the Amazon boat chase, followed by Bond's hang glider escape, his spotting the Venini glass receptionist by the falls, her luring him to the pyramid, the arrival of the remaining angels of death, I mean Drax's girls, Bond's falling into the pond, and battling the python constitute my favorite 7 1/2 minutes of the Moore era. A good example of pure cinema. No dialogue but every thing being communicated perfectly to the viewer via picture and sound(John Barry's magnificent score):
@thedove Could we also have a round where these 5 contenders compete for the title of best boat chase, please?
Anyway, back on topic. The worst is TMWTGG’s chase in Thailand. It is an atrocity.
MR’s Amazon chase is beautifully filmed. It is so nice to see proper explosive charges detonating, creating real columns of water, and boats going through them. It would all be CGI today.
I quite enjoy all of the other ones to be honest.
TWINE is the best one. I saw LALD at a cinema relatively recently, and it really dragged. Top stunts, but it doesn't zip anymore.
Clearly QoS is the worst. It makes no sense. No matter how many times I watch it I can't work out how it finishes where it does. It's rotten.
I'm going to go with the TMWTGG one though, as I can't really think of anything it adds to anything... it's just sort of there. Yes, I know the MR Venice one actually just does the cutting-a-boat-in-half gag again (which is kind of shocking), but I can't deny I actually find that one kind of exciting. Bond leans forward, pushes the joystick, the Bond theme cuts in... it's quite good :)
The TWINE one is very episodic rather than a flowing sequence, but it's spectacular enough. MR in Brazil I quite like just because of the sheer size and power of Bond's boat, plus those mines are really powerful and impressive and pretty great to watch, and it's really over before it outstays its welcome, plus the hang-glider gag isn't bad at all. Actually, it's also rather lovely to look at with all of those aerial shots, and the music is nice too.
I don't mind the kid so much as that's a fairly original gag and it works, but the whole bit about Hip and his nieces forgetting Bond is one of the worst scripted moments in any Bond film. It's just... crap. They couldn't write a better excuse for an action scene?
And lest we forget it ends with this guy...
It does start with a very rare shot of Roger running though: and you can see why he refused to do it on screen for the most part. He does have a very funny run! :)
The Jar Jar Binks of the Bond movies.
Sheriff J.W. Pepper works for LALD -- he has a reason to be there, it's his parish, and quite frankly, this storyline needs to portray some white racism -- but he doesn't really belong in TMWTGG. We can't actually believe that he'd go vacationing in SE Asia. His presence in this scene is another reason why this sequence deserves the Klebbie.
One of the more fan liked boat chases of the series, is one that I find a bit...meh!
The TWINE chase down the Thames. It does have moments of excitement, but is overly long. Camera rigs and stuntmen are clearly noticeable at times, and the less said about the boats ability to drive on the streets of London and through a restaurant, the better.
But the winner has to be the boat chase down the Klong's of Bangkok in TMWTGG.
The poorly scripted set up for the scene, where Hip leaves Bond to fend for himself as he speeds off in his car. As his nieces protest, why did Hip not simply stop his car allowing Bond to get in?
Then we have the way Bond stops the karate school attackers from taking him on, by waving the long propeller shaft back and forth. Surely one of the group could've made an attempt to get in the boat at this time. Certainly they could of, as Bond drops the propeller into the water to make his escape. Whilst it's not the worst concept, I do wonder why Bond couldn't see or workout that the fuel line was turned off, when the boat loses power. And finally the breaking the boat in half, which is clearly breaking, before Bond hits it, and the inclusion of Sheriff JW Pepper turning up in Bangkok observing Bond in action, once again. All in all, a poorly conceived and played out Bond chase, that ultimately doesn't add anything to the story. Bizarre!
But which one? If you mean the Venice chase, then +1.
The one in Brazil I love.
Actually yeah, I do like all the Brazil stuff in MR.
+1
Yeah, I think in retrospect, Moore himself felt bad about that. It's funny, TMWTGG is often considered a silly Bond film, but there are scenes in there where Moore's Bond is Brutal....Another example, is when he's roughing up Maud Adams.
Haha! Ugh, that's a great way of putting it :D
I guess to be fair the kid had already just swam out of the canal!
It does make me wonder why they put a boat chase in this film, considering audiences had watched Roger having another massive boat chase in cinemas only a few months before! Some of the camera angles even make it look the same.
No, am talking about the chase itself, find it very poor, and just never seems to end!
Yes, he said it on the commentary track.
About Maud's thing, Moore said it, too. Both scenes would have worked with Connery, but with Moore... He really looks unconfortable.
I do quite enjoy the scene where he makes Britt Ekland listen to him shagging Maud Adams for a couple of hours, possibly as punishment for daring to rebuff his advances earlier in the evening. It's so weird! :D