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Doublefixed.
Wishful thinking on your part. =))
My heart beats. :))
2 years ago I would have agreed with you but after seeing each film a couple more times, Jinx angers me more than any Bond girl in the entire series. Eckland isn't an amazing actress but Halle Berry, at least in DAD, is awful.
Sure, Goodnight isn't intelligent or memorable (in any positive way, at least) but her line delivery isn't half as bad as Berry's. Yeah, we have the writers to blame for a lot of Jinx's problems but it still stands: Jinx is the worst Bond girl.
Goodnight is near the bottom though, definitely.
It's a rare you can't argue with a single word of someone's post. Fine work Sir, although personally it didn't take me numerous viewings to reach that conclusion. Jinx was hideous on first viewing but you're right she does get worse each time you see it.
I agree. It's just a terrible picture.
Jinx is just offensively bad (though mostly easy on the eyes).
Curiously, Stacey ("James! JAMES!!") Sutton is better than both IMO.
I disagree. Every sound that came out of Goodnight's mouth made me want to jam nails into my ears. She had terrible line deliveries. JAMS CAN YOU HEAR ME? JAMS! ugh utter rubbish.
@TheWizardOfIce - Thanks! Ironically enough I probably like and defend DAD more than the majority of those on this board. Definitely bottom 3(ish) though not quite the absolute bottom of the barrel, in my eyes.
I guess because I didnt see TMWTGG in a cinema my reaction to her awfulness was never as acute as the sheer horror of Jinx.
With Jinx I was sitting in a room full of about 100 people, cowering into my seat, terrified that somehow they would realise I was a Bond fan, hold me responsible for this atrocity and organise an impromptu lynching.
But to be fair by the time 'Yo momma' and the CGI icebergs came into view I was already tying the sodding noose for them.
And lets not forget that at least Goodnight just fulfills the traditional gormless Bond girl roll of looking good in a bikini and not doing much else.
By the end of DAD Jinx and Bond are a double act getting equal screen time and climactic fights. And the posters are just as bad with them inseparable to the point where you could ask 'who's the star here?' And it was thought by some at EON that this character was so great she should get her own spin off FFS. I think I could stomach a Goodnight or Stacey Sutton spinoff before I could watch another second of footage of Jinx quite frankly.
What I like:
- The pre-titles sequence
- The sword fight
- The Bond theme being used
- The subtle references to the series history
- "Then maybe it's time you stand aside and let me get on with my job."
- The end of the car chase (how Bond evades Zao's broadsiding)
- Q (yes, I like Cleese's sarcastic take on Q, nobody will top Llewellyn, but Cleese didn't try to copy his predecessor. i couldn't imagine Llewellyn's Q tradign bars with Bond in the same way
- An Abandonned station for abandonned agents
- "Global warming... is a terrible thing."
- The scenes with Bond and Raoul
What I didn't:
- The title track
- Madonna's cameo
- "Yo mama" (make that Jinx's dialogue in general, no fault of Berry)
- The speed ramping
- The not so suble references to the series history
- "Ahm checkin' art."
- Bond doing a spot of tundra surfing, it's as bad now as it was in 2002
On the contrary - this is also rubbish. Why? Because it makes out the invisiblity is a useful gadget when it really makes zero difference. It's the spiked tyres that get Bond out of that pickle and it makes no odds if Zao can see him drive up the wall at the last second or not as he's already committed.
The adaptive camoflage did come in useful. I doubt the tyre spikes would have been enough to anchor Bond to the spot when Zao would have collided with Bond.
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How did the adaptive camouflage help anchor him to the spot precisely?
It's become shorthand for 'bad', when in reality there are far worse films out there and regards Bond, quite a few of the cannon have moments equally as ludicrous. In all honesty, while it is at times unforgivably bad, it's not boring. It's just bat-shit crazy. I'd rather watch something hammy and overblown, than something tedious and dull.
I didn't say that it did. The spikes were clearly enough to hold the weight off the Aston up on the slope, but add in the weight of the Jaguar, and I don't think the spikes would have been as successful in holding the Aston to the spot. So the adaptive camoflage helped. Without turning the adaptive camoflage on, Zao would have seen Bond reversing up the ramp.
Like any Bond film, there are good and bad parts. If The Living Daylights has to suffer John Terry, then no Bond film is perfect.
You want to talk about a bad movie--those Star Wars prequels, Man of Steel, Superman Returns, all bad. There are no bad Bond movies. Even films like AVTAK and MWTGG are fun and watchable with memorable villains and a good leading man.
Yes he would have seen him reversing and what's he going to do about it?
The weight of the Jag doesn't come into it. Bond sees the Jag coming and gets out of the way - he doesn't intend them to collide because of course the Aston would get pushed over the edge. The point is Zao can't stop in time anyway because even when the Aston disappears he still goes over the edge so why not just drive up the wall giving him the finger as you do - he still ain't stopping in time.
Whoa. A bit of respect for the great JT please. No one can say 'World War 3' with quite the same level of woodenness as this guy. What next Sir? Slagging off Klaus Hergescheimer?
There's always one person who has to take things too far. I think you may have taken the title of this thread a little too literally old son.
I guess they're both on the outlandish scale albeit at different places.
On that action sequence from TSWLM please read my blog article below:
http://www.thebondologistblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/kingsley-amis-draxs-gambit-and-reform.html
Maybe Bond wanted to rick roll Zao. Other than that, i've got nothing, you'll ask Purvis and/or Wade.
How dare you. I live in G Section. Nobody insults Sir Klaus on my watch.