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It had, but they didn't have the tape to keep them on the side of the CGI plane....
Very good, but I meant the inside of the plane...😁
Or 'GE' 🙂
I always thought all they had to have done was have Q give Bond another gadget upgrade to his gun, like he did in SF. This time make it able to fire one explosive round, enough to blow open a door or something.
It's kind of why Q is in these films, guys- to allow yourself a way to get out of these improbable things!
DAF. Tiffany suddenly loses brain cells and there’s no resolution, the climax simply stops and cuts away to the luxury ship.
TMWTGG: The climax should have ended with Scaramang’s death, but instead it just keeps going with Goodnight shenanigans and a solex plot that should have just been scrapped entirely during the draft phase.
TND: A lot of generic machine gunplay.
TWINE: Watching Bond and Renard trying to hug each other to death.
DAD: Brosnan surrounded by CGI monstrosity that is the collapsing plane, accompanied by Halle Berry. Only Toby Stephens is the one that’s fun to watch, “oh look, parachutes for the both of us!”
QOS: Things blow up and Bond has a fight with the worst villain of the franchise.
Honorable mention: FYEO. I dunno about you, but watching Roger Moore gingerly hammering a piton on a rock for ten minutes is not exactly the most exciting thing to watch. The footage of the stunt guy dropping is what saves it all.
And I do think the climax of SP sucks, despite my love for it.
EDIT: TLD, embarrassing.
Kind of neat to have Bond and Camille on parallel quests for revenge. QOS was so great for what it was.
Yes I can't even remember what happens in that climax, it's really dull. And worst of all for a Bond film: it looks horrible.
I must admit I usually stop watching before the end of FYEO; it doesn't really do it for me. I find it a bit dry.
SP's one is at least quite snappy and quick compared to those: he shoots a helicopter, it crashes, he chats to Blofeld and walks off. Done and dusted.
On the other hand, I don't mind TND's at all. It works as a climax and is quite exciting. That machine guns are used has never upset me.
FYEO has a very good climax. That rock climbing scene ist absolutely amasing and it has one of the best stunts in the series ....
Such a simple fix that would've made it a lot more dangerous and intense, yet one I hadn't even thought of until I saw it mentioned here. With the way Hinx seems indestructible, you'd think they could've taken that route on the train exit and had him return once more, at least.
They just about get away with it in the climax to CR because the piazza is shadowed from the sun.
The execution could've been better, but I do like the setting.
But, yes, Hinx should definitely have returned to the ruins of MI6. Baffles me how it doesn't even seem to have occurred to anyone - not Logan, not Mendes, not P & W, not the Sony and MGM execs who were chipping in ideas all through the leaked emails, none of em. Talk about an oversight. Once it's occurred to you, you can't unsee it - it would've immediately elevated that whole sequence. I like SP for what it is - but there's so many missed opportunities.
I can't imagine they wouldn't have been able to get him back for a day or two.
The problem with Bond on a speedboat chasing a helicopter is exactly that. How slow and low did that helicopter need to fly to stay in range of a handgun? It just doesn't make sense. It would even have been better if bond had found the jetpack in the ruins over that speedboat. At least he'd actually have been able to catch up.
I've never understood why the DAF oil rig battle just...ends. Is it:
1. They did not want to go over budget and pay Connery the massive overtime so they just stopped filming, or:
2. They wanted to leave Blofeld's ultimate fate unknown?
I'm guessing they wanted to give Connery's Bond the final catharsis of killing Blofeld but also realized that they might need Blofeld in the future, especially with Connery gone. Hence the muddled climax.
Would have been interesting if they did film it like they filmed Mr White’s death in QOS.
Wait, you are okay with that? This is Blofeld, the villain most associated with Bond, Bond's arch enemy, the villain fans pleaded to come back, the one Eon wanted to bring back into the fold and fought to get the rights back for and the climactic confrontation is this: ridiculous shot, the copter coming down, a limp dialogue exchange and have the police take him away like the ending of a Batman '66 part 2 episode?
I find it one of the most unengaging and wasted opportunities in the entire series. The least they could've done was have the copter crash into the river or someplace remote and had him escape.
One thing SP at least does do is show Blofeld being escorted away and having that closure. What was it in OHMSS and DAF where they figure Blofeld is defeated and not going back after him? Lazenby's Bond is more interested in having a drink. DAF of course cut a lot of material as the rig was set to explode by a demolitions team. I guess Bond figured Blofeld would be incinerated by the blast while stuck hanging in the bathosub. Then again, if Bond and Tiffany merely dove off the rig, they'd be in pretty bad shape when it went off unless Leiter picked them up with the winch hook from TB. So many questions, foreshadowing the film that would come 50 years later.
I like how Lazenby dispatched Blofeld. He did seem like he was dead.
But Blofeld was built up as a much more substantial adversary in the Connery-Lazenby era.
Yes, I agree with Craig's Bond getting that closure and being able to use one of Fleming's lines in doing so was satisfying.
Another thought that occurred thinking about the climax of OHMSS was where was Bundt when Piz Gloria was invaded? Was she in hiding and got out or was she out getting the Angels of Death established? One can't help but wonder.