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Are you sure? Guess he wasn t so bad after all, then.
Satan would vote TWINE.
Just the terrible thought of Denise Richards dull monotone delivery.
She doesn't kill the entirety of the movie for me like she does for some, but her acting/role certainly doesn't help, either; bad dialogue, bad delivery.
I'm all for a witty, sexual pun or quip, but around this time (TND, as well) was when they really made no effort to mask what they were hinting at.
I remember Martin Campbell saying that 'of course they had to include the groaners' in Goldeneye. So they started out with the idea that these quips were intended to make you groan rather than laugh. no wonder so many of them were unfunny.
Yes the sexual quips were often woeful then. "Now that's a mouthful"
I could never stand DAF, even with Connery coming back. I loved OHMSS to such an extent that DAF felt like a slap in the face to that film.
Correction: DAF is weird but fun. TWINE is boring, apart from PTS :)
Elektra king is my all time favorite Bond girl and one of my Favorite Villains. Pierce gave his best and most Bondian Performance and his chemistry with Sophie was incredible they looked they were truly attracted to each other like of they weren't married they would have become a real life couple.
I loved the pre tittles sequence and the revelation of Elektra as a Villain.
There are some really great moments in TWINE like the boat chase and death of Elektra. DAF has the elevator fight, then.... not much else...
TWINE is in my top10. I have always liked this film very much and cannot understand why so many people hate it. OK there is Denise Richards but overall the story is quiet interesting, there is a plot twist, the story is much more down to earth and I like the post Cold War atmospheare. All in all a very solid Bond adventure for me with interesting characters, some nice action scenes, a good score and a few new ideas (oil supply as a sub plot, female villain, M being kidnapped).
DAF however is a mixed bag for me. The first hour is really good. Especially the Amsterdam scenes and the first half of the Las Vegas scenes. But post moon buggy it all falls flat and goes into the wrong direction. Tiffany becomes more and more anoying, the space laser is an insult for big budget cinema (even in 1971), we are shown a cartoonish Blofeld and the climax on the oil rig is the worst and least suspensefull in the whole franchise. Not even the great score can save it. So DAF has gone down in my ranking and is meanwhile my No. 21.
That's valid especially considering how vapid Jill St John becomes as DAF wears on. But I guess Denise Richards sticks out like a sore thumb because from Dalton onwards they had at least attempted to move toward casting capable actresses playing roles important to the plot line. And Richards seemed like a step backward - and to appeal to a demographic. I don't know if they'd cast a barbie doll kind of actress that often before - they usually went for exotic types. As for Madonna - well, she was the least of my problems in that film - but her character is weird. As a kind of conscience who has some past with bond - it doesn't resolve itself and I guess she's so iconic it's like casting Prince or something - she can't help but play herself. Anyway DAD lives in its own bubble for me. Far, far away.