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Agreed, LTK is a highlight. Giving Bond a personal mission when that was still fresh while also providing several brisk action scenes and fabulous stunt work.
Funny though how people always say ‘Dalton does Craig before Craig’ while I would definitely say ‘Craig does a working class Dalton after Dalton already brought us the gentleman version’.
Definitely the other option, it is equally stylish, mysterious and well-written as OHMSS, but it doesn’t have Majesty’s tragic love story.
The Orient Express scenes are simply brilliant.
Frankly I don't need any more tragedy in a Bond film.
Agreed. Those scenes get everything right. The atmosphere, tension, romance, suspense is all off the charts.
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And FRWL, great as it is, is not as great a piece of filmmaking as OHMSS, which is better directed, more stylish, and just as well edited. OHMSS is also the summation and conclusion of the first Bond film cycle. It's an epic--emotionally and physically--in the way the previous films weren't.
Well said.
No, FRWL is THE classic Bond movie and never fails to fascinate me, and I've seen it probably 15 or 20 times. Slow? Not really, and no, I'm not diagnosing you as being a case of ADHS, either. But that movie has never been beat in the entire franchise for me, by ANY other Bond film.
OHMSS might be a rival if they hadn't chosen that amateur actor for the main character. Lazenby is still the worst thing about that film. It's surprising how good it still turned out in spite of his presence
I really like his presence in the film. He did a good job, IMO.
Re. FRWL, it never feels slow to me. If anything, the time goes by too quick when I watch it!
This.
And I'd add complaining that FRWL is slow is like complaining that Mozart is too classical. The movie is as slow as it should be.
I agree. George did well.
But I have noticed with him that he suffers a problem other non-actors can have: they're able to do high emotion well, like anger or sadness or sneakiness, but more mundane low-key scenes are a problem. So George is great talking to M or Draco, or with Tracy, but talking with a minor player about "the club's usual high standards", or chatting with Ruby, that kind of falls flat.
Good point, and I think you're right about this. I do enjoy the scenes with Ruby though, as they provide great comedic relief. And about that; OHMSS is one of the films with the best balance of lightheartedness and seriousness, IMO.
Yep,always nice if someone else manages to put a finger on something that you noticed but couldn't quite grasp.
Where was all this FRWL love when I was arguing for my enthusiasm of it a few pages back?
You're right. I was just struggling to remember the bits I was referring to, though there are several.
Definitely agree. And the dramatic ending isn't a long sequence either. It didn't need to be.
Let's face it, they are both really bloody good.
Put CR in there and you have the holy trinity.
All have a strong romantic thread too ...
In Thunderball, when Bond says "my dear girl, don't flatter yourself...", Connery's acting leaves a bit to be desired. It's not bad at all, but his eyes are missing a certain spark. While it wouldn't have been right to be too emotional, his eyes lack a quantum of expressiveness that would've been appropriate for the anger he's feeling toward Fiona. I can see Roger Moore playing that moment very well.
Always has to be an exception, and that's me I guess. OHMSS is in the bottom half for me. FRWL scores high, of course, but there are too many problems with Majesty's for me, the biggest being that Diana Rigg outshines Lazenby in every scene. The pacing is poor (to the point that I found myself checking my watch to make sure it hadn't broken, because surely the movie isn't this long?), some of the other choices are odd...it's just not an enjoyable film for me.
I disagree. I think he says it with just the right amount of emotion. He's obviously lying (you should be caged) but says it to rile her up. She then repostes and he understand it's not going to be that easy (you can't win them all).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R3XSj6kUGkE
Not for me. While CR is a good effort, it’s not nearly as stylish and sophisticated as either FRWL or OHMSS.
Stylish and sophisticated? It's called Thunderball.....