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I don’t know @peter, but Tee-Hee strikes me as the kind of guy who’d stick his claw in your food for pointing out an issue with his service.
😂 😂 😂, very true. But if Mr. Tee-Hee does this in the kitchen, I can’t get upset (what I can’t see, I can’t see!)….
But the doctor would not only treat me as an annoyance, he’d also likely say I’m nothing more than a stupid Torontonian. And I’d think he’d most definitely spit in my soup. In front of me. And, once he’s done that, he’d stand straight with his hand out, expecting a minimum 25% tip!
Yes interesting points, I guess it’s a good thing none of these men decided to go into the Restaurant business. I’d say Nick Nack is probably the best option out of all the Bond villains to have serve as a waiter, plus he has experience! 😂😂
Which one would you rather watch?
I still think that NSNA is not just a better Bond movie than OP, but also at least more entertaining and enjoyable than TB. Neither is perfect (I could have done without Nigel Small-Fawcett, for instance), but yes, I'm among those that consider TB tedious in parts. Plus Brandauer makes a far better Largo than Adolfo Celi, while Barbara Carrera competes quite successfully with Luciana Paluzzi - I wouldn't know which one to prefer. The only aspect in which TB really stands out is John Barry's score, although I don't hate Michel Legrand's effort either. At least it's better than, say, Bill Conti's FYEO and some elements of Eric Serra's GE scores.
All in all, I'd definitely rather watch NSNA if I want to have a good time.
The Petacchi nonsense is quite crazy: he doesn't need to be drugged up, or a clone or have the fingerprint of the president. He can just be a greedy SPECTRE agent/sub-operator, the film doesn't need to be spending time on all this.
The nature of Count Lippe is botched in both adaptations: he becomes quite useless and unthreatening. NSNA gets a point for an intelligent adaptation of the "Rack".
NSNA trying to do the globe-hopping element turns me off immediately. Why does the story need to move all over the place? There is no time to globe-hop, nuclear missiles at risk here.
I suppose if I have to give it to one it would be Thunderball, only on the case of Domino
But I love 'em both of course.
I really wish this had been made 5 years earlier. Look at Sean in The Great Train Robbery ; he really was looking great and at the top of his game. They could have gotten Michael Crichton to direct; he did a great job with Train Robbery . It was stylish, sexy and exciting.
NSNA is always somewhere between 15 and 20 in my ranking, I especially enjoy the French Riviera segment, I just love that atmosphere. Brandauer and Carrera are also excellent villains and Casey is my very favourite Felix.
TB, though, is one of my very favourites atm. Talking about atmosphere, this one is just classy 60's travel elegance from Bond's arrival in the Bahamas onwards, and before that we get some 007 sneakiness at Shrublands. All great fun. Not to mention Luciana Paluzzi, one of the best Bond foes ever.
"You know if they found me here they'd fire me on the spot."
"I won't let anyone find you. Don't worry. I have my reputation to think of."
"I don't think you got your reputation by living on a diet of wild rice."
They can make another version if they want.
TB is more epic and NSNA is more Goldfinger-esque.
TB is better movie overall, but the pacing in NSNA is better.
For me it is a difficult decision. Maybe NSNA, it flows better.
To be honest I think they should have pushed the adaptation a bit further: NSNA sticks quite closely to the original plot and where it does diverge I think shows they could have diverged a little more in places. I don't think the original source material is the strongest in the canon and needs a pep up which neither film really gives it enough of.
The original film is richer in exotic sexiness of the Bahamas, Connery looking his best, and his performance was executed with intoxicating charisma and coolness; the women were drop dead, and Domino was certainly a bird with a broken wing, and Fiona has never been bettered (although Fatima Blush is incredible, Carrera stepped over the line into (a fun, but) OTT performance; Paluzzi was always in control, and that not only made her sexy, but more dangerous). The Barry soundtrack was exciting in some places, and as dream-like as the exotic settings in others.
Where NSNA takes the win is Brandauer, and his top-notch performance as Largo. He was tightly coiled, a barely in control psychotic that certainly scared me as a kid when I watched this film, and still does now.
By no means is NSNA at the bottom of the Bond films, and it has some nice things going for it, but I'll take Thunderball....
I know I always say it, but I almost think Connery could have sued Cubby for making the villain in his next film a young psychotic guy with blond hair called Max :D
Mind you, he didn't really have a leg to stand on with Blofeld's white cat and a character called Q :))
Cats are cats. No one invented them except God ;)
😂, very true.
How did they get away with Blofeld's white cat and Q (these were EoN's inventions, not Fleming, nor the novel of Thunderball)?
Beats me! I guess maybe they banked on Eon not thinking it was worth the trouble. I suppose Casino Royale had done a version of Q too so the waters had been tested.
My issue is that the film isn't big enough: it doesn't feel like a sequel to Goldfinger like YOLT does- it feels like what it is: a script written before the Bond films got successful. So they should have made it crazier, and I think NSNA should have done that too.
I think they should have done something like landed the Vulcan on a runway which rises out of the sea or something- stored it in a base under Palmerya. And make the plan less dull: maybe say they're ransoming the UK but in fact they're going to let the bomb off right where they are and create a tidal wave which destroys Florida and Cuba (then make loads of money by swooping in and rebuilding them) - and frame 007 for the explosion as revenge for Dr No and Red Grant (and Bouvar I guess)!
Largo doesn't know this though- he thinks it's in Washington, but Blofeld kept him in the dark: when Fiona reveals this to him she kills him! Then, she tries to make her getaway in the Vulcan, but Bond (or Domino) stops it taking off and destroys it and the base. Maybe with his jetpack :D
I dunno, maybe that's all very silly, but I wish it were sillier. Having the bombs thousands of miles away just makes it duller and reduces the personal stakes, and the ransom plot is no way as interesting or clever as Goldfinger's plan- and I want more Fiona!