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Although aware of it's shortcomings, I've always been a pretty big fan of NSNA. It's release after OP, when I was a kid was a pretty big deal for me and a large part of what made me a Bond fan.
To this day I still maintain the opinion that NSNA should have remained the ONLY Bond to not open with the gun barrel, lack proper Bond Theme music, have little use for the double-O section, and have 007 dealing with a new M who doesn't exactly like him that much. Today in the Craig era, pretty much all those elements are not only accepted, but almost expected.
He was screwed over by the producers
Or
He was a greedy asshole who came from nothing and expected too much money
I don't know enough to form an opinion but what do you guys think?
I'm kind of the same way. I'm not sure either side is completely innocent, but I also think Connery seems like a bit of a diva sometimes.
He earned the right to be an a'hole (if he indeed was one). He was instrumental in the incredible success of the films (the net profitability on a % basis was so much higher than the return these days), and a lot of that had to do with his amazing screen presence and inimitable style. Given what some these clowns are paid now for making no impact whatsoever (and what other Hollywood 'A listers' were paid for big films at the time), he deserved all the money he felt he was owed imho.
Mayday is quite possibly the most underrated henchwoman in the franchise. Her death is among the best of the Moore cannon.
I might have mentioned this one a couple hundred pages back, but Dolly and Jaws reuniting on the space station is the most touching moment of the franchise. One of the only moments that has made me genuinely tear up! And not from laughter!
I've always wondered, how were they supposed to have survived? If you plummet into the ocean from space in a capsule without a parachute, you die. I know that it's mentioned that the NASA craft picked them up, is that intended to mean that they were picked up while still in space? Is the US shuttle supposed to have connected with the damaged dock on the compartment?
Especially after the station blows up moments later. I imagine the four of them went back to Rio to enjoy the last couple days of Carnivale, had a picnic lunch, and had a few laughs about the previous few days.
Jaws is forever!
Definitely loved that return. Best Bond game in terms of a movie-like feel.
And....so your comment on McClory was probably unfounded hearsay. Fleming drank and smoked himself into his own health issues. He was quoted as saying "I will not spend my days trying to prolong them". Blaming other people for his personal issues is ludicrous.
It's well documented the case took it's toll on his health, mentally as well as physically. Same goes for Whittingham. Like I said, McClory got his shot with TB. His reluctance to let it lie is why I have no time for his sub par remake or Sean's petty attempts to rile Cubby. Sean knew he was being an ass, hence the 'phone call'.
Both are short with seeming Napolean complexes, short tempers and are insecure about their women, who could do a lot better in both cases.
Thats a very good point ...
Amalric, on the other hand, is 1.68m - which is exactly Napoleon's height.
It's all relative, and the impression conveyed is the key. Both appeared slight in relation to Bond.
I can honestly say that i dont have a Barry score i find least favourable,i like all of them.