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Agree, it was a pretty big anti climax!
"10 minutes and counting"
It's good point, but without the orange wellington boots and matching hardhats it just lacks that certain sense of style!
;)
The henchman in DAF look like those in Austin Powers, I can't take them seriously.
This oik rig climax left me rather underwhelmed, as currently being tried to be topped by both the climax scenes from QoB & SF.
But, @SaintMark, would you say that Bond is more useless in the QoS and SF climaxes? I tend to think he takes rather a lot of initiative in those and actually bends the course of things to his advantage.
Well in SF Bond is totally useless in preventing his boss' death, he actually played a active role in her death.
The climax of QoB was in a hotel that burned down and he had to get a baddy who was about as impressive as a wet towel and saved the lady, as he did in DAF.
As for the final climax in CR, the sinking house, I still haven't discovered what it adds to the inevitable death of Vesper. I prefered a low profile and more subtle way he discovered his betrayal and her suicide. Which would have made Bonds apprehention of Mr White far more of a climax to end a movie on.
<font color=blue size=7><b>Norman, Martin, Hamlish and Conti put their Bond films more in a time capsule than Barry ever did.</b></font>
Perhaps I'm biased towards Barry, but for the most part they are wonderful and are absolutely timeless.
For me they gave each of their movies their own identity more than aging them. The pre-Arnold time showed that even the one-off composers were more than able to really put their personal stamp on their musical compositions, something that has been lacking severely post-Barry, with the exception of GE that has its own distinct sound.
So DISAGREE
<font color=blue size=7><b>Bond's benzedrine use from the novels would have been easier to sell in the 70s Bond films than today.</b></font>
Would agree with this thesis, highlighted for me with Conti's FYEO chase scene score.
On the fence as have not read the books for my sins! :-\"
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that.