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Favourite Bond Moments - Round 9: YOLT - Part 2: Ranking
2 Bond enters Osato Chemicals
3 Aki picks up Bond with the Toyota
4 Kobe docks
5 Little Nellie
2. Soviet capsule capture
3. Volcano lair climax
4. American capsule capture
5. Fake funeral
2. Bond escape from Mr Osato lair
3. Bond's ''wife'' murdered in her sleep
4. Henderson and ''taxi'' ride.
5. Meeting Tiger
2. Little Nellie action sequence
3. Space capsule hijacking
4. Magnet helicopter and car
5. Bond slides into secret service headquarters and meets Tiger
@Dwayne thanks for that, I’ve not come across that film before but it definitely sounds like it has great visuals ... so I’ll keep an eye out for it! 😉😊
Great film, enjoyed reading everyone’s highlights!
2. Aerial shot of the rooftop fight
3. Office fight
4. The lake in the vulcano isn't real and moves!
5. Bond enjoys a bath next to a Tiger, surrounded by very sexyful beauties
Honourable mentions: electric magnet, Aki's death, the endless amount of ninjas abseiling. Wasn't almost everyone killed before?! Who cares, it is a great image!)
2. Office Fight
3. Rooftop Fight
4. The fight with Hans
5. The Death of Osato
1. The Kobe Dock fight.
2. The Ninja Assault on Blofeld’s Lair
3. Blofeld’s reveal (“…allow me to introduce myself….”)
4. US Spacecraft gets kidnapped in space
5. Little Nellie defends her honor
@Max_The_Parrot. I think that “IronFinger” (1965, director: Jun Fukuda) use to be carried by Criterion – but I can no longer find anything for sale. I bought my copy on the “grey” market last year after seeing it streamed on http://daikaiju.tv/ as part of a birthday celebration for Ms. Hama. You’ll be interested to know that they played Barry’s “Mountains and Sunsets” between the various films and that YOLT was streamed as well.
You may also wish to seek out “Key of the Keys”( “Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi” (1965) which was then dubbed by Woody Allen as “What’s Up Tiger Llly.” Both versions are Bond Spoofs and the Allen movie is available on DVD.
1. Kobe docks (with the rooftop shot)
2. Captured US space capsule
3. Office fight
4. Volcano lair action
5. Little Nellie
With Christmas coming very soon and New Years Eve not far away either,it's time for a Bond movie with Christmas and fireworks in the same scene:
Favourite Bond Moments - Round 10: TWINE - Part 1: Suggestions and discussion
Boat chase (Pretitle Part 2)
Devil's breath
Davidov id switch
Valentine Casino
Valentine Factory
Stil there (Warmflash talks about Renard Bullet)
Bond meet Christmas Jones
The bunker
Pipeline in Turkey (Bond on the run with Christmas Jones and Charles)
Goodbye Desmond (First: Never Let Them See You Bleed. And the second ? Always have escape plan)
2- Conversation between Bond and M in the castle. IMO Brosnan and Dench's best scene together.
3- quickly dispatching the bodyguard in the bar. Very cool.
4- Bond's response to Electra asking him if he's ever lost somebody. (I always read Bond's little pause as a rare Tracy reference)
5- "I never miss"
For the record, I would have gone:
1. Volcano lair raid (such a grand set, so many quotable lines, ninjas vs. machine guns, the exploder button!)
2. The PTS (mostly for the tremendous scene of the American shuttle capture set to Barry's ominous space march, but also for how perfectly Bond's staged death segues into the titles)
3. Helga fed to piranhas (a shocking moment made all the more chilling by Pleasance's strange manner of speaking and again a terrific set from Ken Adam)
4. Fight at Kobe dock (more brilliance from Barry backing a very fun chase and shootout around the docks)
5. Fight in Osato's office (simply a great fight staged inside yet another great set from Ken Adam)
But now...ah, The World Is Not Enough. What can be said about TWINE that hasn't already been said by others a thousand times before? That titan of filmmaking that rubs shoulders with the likes of GF and OHMSS and on a good day even stands that quarter inch taller... Wait a minute. Nobody says any of that about TWINE. Guess it's time to right some wrongs.
The 90s was an era of highly inventive and superbly staged action sequences and while some may have thought the plot lost amidst the explosions, this for me is where Brosnan's films really delivered. From the opening Thames chase to the parahawk assault to the bunker shootout to the flying buzzsaw antics of the caviar factory and lopsided submarine finale, the greatest parts of TWINE for me revolve around the film's incredibly fun and well orchestrated action sequences.
But to point out a few more specific moments that shine, I'd mention:
-Glaring at the camera after taking out Lachaise's bodyguards in Bilbao
-Q's final advice before lowering out of frame
-Bond pausing over the reference of a lost loved one
-That very cool moment when Bond knifes the thug's tie to the bar, then trades the man's gun for his incoming martini
-The delayed "Bond...James Bond" while ascending the silo
-The torture chair and death of Elektra
2. Brosnan hanging from a hot air balloon, and getting subsequently injured after falling.
3. The little remark Monnypenny makes to Dr. Warmflash after she clears Bond for duty.
4. The scene where Bond has to calm down Elektra King.
5. The scene were Bond kills Elektra, then feels remorseful.
I love TWINE, I recognize it’s not perfect, but I think it’s good.
I like your #2 @007ClassicBondFan. In fact, I love all Brosnan PTS endings and this one with Bond falling on the roof of the dome and "rolling" down is a cool little stunt and a great final image to end this long PTS.
I completely forgot the Tracy reference, good that already two of you mentioned it!
I'm a bit surprised that the action scenes are one of the main reasons you like TWINE @Some_Kind_Of_Hero. The action in this film is generelly not celebrated on this forum and I feel (at least for some sequences) the same: The action can't match the usual Bond standard of excitement and creativity for me BUT it's still solid, nonetheless).
I've also read some negative statements about the The delayed "Bond...James Bond" while ascending the silo before but I'm also a fan. It's cool:)
An over the top moment I like (and many others don't) is Bond "driving" the boat through a restaurant. It doesn't make sense, sure, but it's is great fun (in a MR way). Brosnan is always stylish while destroying things...
And you can say about the casting of Denise Richards whatever you want but she looks hot (imo). Her first scene with Bond is burnt in my retina since my first screening of the film as a teenager. Same goes for the moment when she distracts the man at the caviar factory. Denise Richards never looked more attractive than in this movie (imo). Unfortunately the exact opposite happend with several other actresses where I thought that they had a much better look (dressed, hair etc) in other movies (i.e. Gemma Arterton).
Adding your vote to my calculations only changes the places of the volcano lair climax and the office fight. The two favourites stay the same way.
I'm glad that your also a fan of hungry piranhas eating attractive henchwomen. It's definitely an outstanding setpiece and one of the best death scenes of the series. Classic!
Such as:
- Swiss banker
- Q boat chase
- Molly Warmflash
- Access Denied
- Q's goodbye
- Casino scene
- Body Double
- Kazakhstan
- In the pipeline
- Caviar factory
- Zukovsky's return and demise
- I never miss
- Bond racing against his lung capacity
- and you know what I like that epilogue too, two lame Christmas puns and I can't help but smile.
Certainly, the moment when Bond shoots Elektra is a standout. Other than that..
It has a great title sequence and song.
- pipeline action (with MI6 observing)
- Bond arrives at Russian ICBM base (as Mr. Davidov)
- ski chase
Thats about all I like in it too! Was a fan of the group 'Garbage' at the time and was delighted they were picked, but I would have preferred they were left to do the song themselves.
Kleinman does a stylish oil and water title sequence!
These are also some great moments I hadn’t mentioned, @GoldenGun. I too am often perplexed by how easily TWINE tends to be written off.
Bond reviewing the documents and news footage of Elektra’s kidnapping is a beautiful, quieter moment—one of many that contributes much to character while letting the film breathe between the spectacle. Bond tenderly touching the screen as Elektra cries is a moment that tends to be criticized for some reason but that I think was spot on and played perfectly by Brosnan. Arnold’s music here, as with so many other parts of the film, really gives the scene its emotional heartbeat.
Though smaller in scale, the pipeline is still a thrilling sequence that forwards plot perhaps more than any of the major set pieces. It’s played purely for the suspense—no winking or comedy here—and Brosnan and Richards sell the urgency well. As the scene unfolds, the audience grows intrigued as to why Bond would want to let the bomb go off. The CGI is tastefully and minimally done as well, and Arnold’s score builds terrifically toward the climactic explosion, which itself plays more impressively than Spectre’s bank-breaking record-setter.
I also enjoy rather than roll my eyes at the epilogue. Champagne and fireworks, silly innuendo, a throwback to the days of M and Q embarrassingly discovering Bond in action as it were, then a fade out to “James Bond Will Return” and Arnold’s rip-roaring rendition of the Bond theme. What’s not to enjoy here?
A few others:
@M_Balje mentioned the briefing with Renard's skull holographically projected. It's a cool visual—another tasteful use of CGI. The scene sets Renard up as a fearful opponent, and yes, Moneypenny ribbing the good doctor is amusing.
Bond and Elektra playing with ice is another nice moment, as well as the latter act echo of Elektra playing with ice with the insensate Renard.
And I like the briefcase bomb in the FSB safe house, too: pulling the pieces of Elektra's and Renard's scheme together, dodging the blast, the fake-out of Zukovsky's death, then captured by Bullion and Gabor by the dock.
Favourite Bond moments - Round 10: TWINE - Part 2: Ranking
2 Bond escapes out the bank window
3 Dr Jones enters the scene
4 Renard shows off
5 X-Ray Specs-so dumb it s funny
2. Bank scene (Pretitle Part 1)
3. Davidov id switch
4. The bunker
5. Valentine Casino
That was not easy, so much good scenes. Inspecialy because of very high standard of franchise.
As for the top five moments of TWINE:
1.PTS. I always laugh at Brosnan as he straightens his tie – while under water 😊!
2.The “Access Denied” scene.
3.Renard’s Introduction.
4.The Casino scene – “this is a game I can’t play” (or something like that) as well as the X-Ray glasses.
5.Q’s Goodbye