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I have no problem with May Day jumping Bond though. Love that scene.
I had a blast the Sunday afternoon my folks took me to see it. Then I can remember how much an event it felt like when the film was released on VHS towards the end of the year.
Pretty much every other kid in my class who loved Bond named AVTAK as their favorite film in the series.
I notice many members comment on how we see Zorin's psychopath fully come to fruition during the mine massacre - I may find him at his creepiest when he shoots Howe and delivers the line, "That's rather neat, don't you think?" Perhaps because he is showing less emotion here. Just look at his face when he says it. Truly evil!
That anger begins with the death of Tibbett. Also, Bond comes to understand Zorin delights in violence, unlike say, Stromberg, who mostly uses it as a means to an end.
Exactly. Connery's DAF and Brosnan's DAD are two of the series' absolute weakest. I'll be interested to see where Craig's sendoff ranks for me among the 4 long-running Bonds.
Really interested to see if Craig joins them in the dumps with Bond 25 or if he blows us away with another CR-esque thriller.
Obviously we have different feelings about SP, but I still agree that it is preferable to get something very different and more standalone next time. Waiting for news these days on Bond 25 is just painful.
I suspect that's why CR and SF were so good: they forgot about the preceding Bond movie. Whereas QoS was a direct sequel that nobody asked for and SP was a pointless attempt at tying in the previous few entries (which, again, nobody asked for).
The one time we really would've wanted a sequel in the classic era was after OHMSS, and we were instead treated to DAF...
My point is DAF doesn't even remotely feel like a sequel. It just doesn't follow off OHMSS at all save for the half-hearted "revenge" search that Bond undertakes in the PTS. No emotion at all when he confronts Blofeld. That, along with the general tone of the movie, suggests to me that they were deliberately trying to leave OHMSS behind and move in a new, campy direction rather than create proper adaptations of Fleming's works.
I guess it's worth noting that the Bond franchise is more of a populist one than a critical one. It's not made to appeal to critics, but to the general population. So box office revenue is more important than critic's reviews. OHMSS was by far the weakest performing at the box office up until then (and I believe it took until the mid-80's for Bond to see numbers of that sort again), which combined with Lazenby not coming back for more would've made the film seem like a failed experiment.
So from that angle, it's understandable that they would've opted for a different direction. And that approach was validated by the box office results of the 70's, which were a definite bounce back from the nadir of OHMSS.
That's true and they did change direction for TSWLM. It was as big and proud as they come, right down to the memorable title song. A real statement of intent. Moreover, LALD was a massive smash, so they probably felt there wasn't any need for a more drastic change.
This. I like Rogers performance in this, particularly his utter contempt for Zorin as mentioned above. He was just a bit too old by this point to be believable.
Only Moore could have pulled that scene. And with all the issues with AVTAK, and Moore's age is certainly one of them, I think a younger actor would not have worked at all in such love scene.
I still think Roger should have done his OWWWHHRROOOHHHH sound when May-Day climbs on him.
Can we think of any other good examples when this classic line could have been used?
Certainly when Jaws lifts him up by the throat and the bollocks in the train carriage in TSWLM springs to mind.
When M scolds him in TMWTGG.
He almost does it when Tee-Hee gives him a nice punch to the stomach. There are probably a few instances while hanging on the helicopter in FYEO where he could have done it.
A few more I'd say could be: pushed out of the plane in MR, the instant he skis off the Asgard, and him rising out of the chair after sleeping all night with Stacey's cat in him lap as his back must have been stiff.
As he falls out of the plane in MR?
When Mr Big rips his face off?
When he drives the Lotus off the pier?
Have to say I don't think there are many scenes that can't be improved by inserting an OWWWHHRROOOHHHH.