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Perhaps, but to me it's the epiphany of hat Bond is supposed to be: class, adventure, suspention, high life, exotic locations, on the edge of what's possible, and of course sublime ladies.
It's the perfect mix and no extended underwater sequence can take that away.
Oh, and extrememy good dialogue, and an arrogant, proud, ruthless advisary.
All that is also true. It’s a relentlessly entertaining movie.
It's not controversial if you make a distinction between best and favourite. FRWL is is imo the best Bond movie ever. But my favourite is TB.
Good taste.
I don't know if I said it before, but I think Sean Connery in DAF is the worst looking Bond.
Hate to say it, but I'd go with Craig in SKYFALL. Due to his stubble, tight fitting suits and close cropped non-Bond cut.
True. Tim was also supposed to look disheveled in LTK hence his longish scruffy haircut.
Connery in DAF I end to give a pass as he had no intention of continuing Bond and spent the previous 4 years distancing himself from the image. Agreeing to do it at the last minute he didn't have as much time to get himself into his normal Bondian shape.
As for his sideburns and eyebrows, leading men were looking more relaxed and less glamorized by 1971. Eastwood, Gene Hackman and so forth, so it's not that out of the realm for Connery to have bushy brows and big burns.
I always felt Roger looked alright in all of his Bonds, AVTAK included. Although a bit older, leaner and missing his trademark mole, he was always the dashing gentleman.
His '80's Bond hairstyle was pretty much his Simon Templar look minus the shiny pomade.
I think Connery didn't really cared in DAF. The public would have accepted him as a bald, moustached Bond at that point and he knew it.
Fair enough. I love the adventure aspect of the film and wish we had a bit more of that in the series (though one suspects they were aping Indiana Jones a bit).
As you said, my feeling with many of Moore's movies is that EON pretty consistently leaves a few too many ideas in. No one thing they do is fatal, but heaped together it's too much. The tarzan yell AND telling the tiger to 'sit!' Too much for a single scene. What if, instead of using the watch camera to zoom in on the assistant's cleavage like a schoolboy, Moore simply wasn't paying attention to Q's lecture because he was staring? Etc etc etc.
Leave a few ideas on the cutting room floor, EON!
I think you're probably right. It's the kind of thing Fleming would say - his Bond was definitely a throwback, and nothing if not disdainful about a lot of aspects of pop culture.
A counter-controversial opinion: although I generally quite like Fleming's Bond, I think that line in the film doesn't work. It hasn't aged well and makes Bond sound more like a stuffy killjoy than a connoisseur.
I agree. Maybe I’d add DAF or YOLT but that’s about it.
Considering th music he listened to, you're probably right.
No religion
Not sure what the confusion is. Bond says "You're not my type" to which Vesper asks "Smart?" meaning he doesn't like intelligent women, to which Bond replies "Single" which means he prefers married women as described in the novels.
She was saying that her “cover” is a strict Catholic, and therefore they’re not allowed to sleep in the same bed or have sex outside of marriage. Hence Bond’s comment about religion coming between them.
So he hates religion or? @BMW_with_missiles
He hates when religion gets in the way of sex.
Ok that makes sense @Ludovico
Exactly.
Religion wasn’t why Vesper wasn’t Bond’s type. It was because she was single and thought highly of herself. Bond prefers bored married women who are easier to get because they are trapped with husbands who don’t interest them anymore.
^^ this.