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The best part of that minute is the cool way he flips from the roof of the boat to the deck. The rest is too cheesy (for me).
It's classic 'Moore' 007. It's one of the hangovers that they couldn't quite shake. It's a brilliant PTS, but that is a moment written for the icon, rather than Dalts. It's the same reason some of the quips fall flat in SF. They're crafted with the wider icon in mind, rather than the actor and his specific take.
For some reason it's never say too well with me. The action up until then is excellent but it feels too contrived.
Calvin Dyson made a good point in his video, why would Dalton's Bond do that after knowing his colleagues had been MURDERED.
I don't agree re TLD, it's just Bond and not too cheese. I do agree with the SF comment though....Mendes trying to 'force feed' the iconography.
Perhaps you're right. Thinking about it, it's the girl on the boat that totally destroys the scene, although Dalts seems awkward to me.
But OHMSS was the sort of film Connery was longing to get back to making. He was tired of the far fetched stuff having a larger presence in the movies. It's somewhat ironic because when he does come back, he makes tge mother of all cheesy Bond movies where he out Moores Roger Moore in the silly hijinx department. But I suppose when his sole reason for coming back was purely for financial reasons it didn't matter how the film was going to turn out.
Diana Rigg is a highlight of the film, and if you were to have Connery, I can't see there being Rigg. Lazenby's youth and vitality is one of the reasons as to why he has such onscreen chemistry with Rigg, even despite his relative lack of experience in the acting department.
Can you imagine post-YOLT Connery in place of Laz in the wedding scenes, the skiing scenes, the proposal scene in the barn, the PTS, the bobsled scene etc etc...
We were lucky to have Laz for OHMSS.
I'd say that honour now belongs to Daniel Craig. Laz was tough but Dan is the first Bond since Connery that we've seen slowly choke someone to death with only his hands.
Don't buy it.
The most brutal Bond was Dalton. He set Sanchez on fire! He fed Killifer to the shark!
He let Dario get chopped up.
Craig smirked when he saw someone get blown up right infront of him. He didn't even turn his head ;)
let's say I'd rather get blown up than fed to a shark, set on fire or get chopped up ;)
It can all be arranged.
wishful thinking matey.
I agree with you on 'setting fire to Sanchez'. Truly grisly.
I absolutely love the deaths of Stamper and Carver!
Terrible and yet so fantastic a scene.
This beats both Laz and Dalton in terms of sheer brutality.
And snuff films beat CR for sheer brutality, doesn't make them good though.