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I agree, these are great henchment. Baron Samedi is just the best, I love that character.
I agree. Although as it's said Judi Dench played 2 different M's, I'd like Fiennes to be Sir Miles during the next re-boot.
I agree on Sir Miles 100%! If Judi Dench can do it, so can Ralph Fiennes.
I see what you mean, but Dench never *explicitly* played two separate Ms. If Fiennes comes back, I'd prefer if his name wasn't addressed at all.
I quite like all of them, and think they do well in the roles. However, I suppose a downside is that they're all becoming (increasingly) expensive - that's a lot of heavy hitters to have to re-hire for every film. I wonder if budget tightening could lead to re-casting. . .
I agree. I’d add Red Grant to that underrated list too.
Well hopefully Grant is not underrated! He's THE first henchman of the series, masterfully played by Robert Shaw, maybe THE best actor who ever played in a Bond film and he spawned a lot of pale imitators, both in the franchise and outside the franchise. He's the benchmark of henchmen and I'd argue he's the main antagonist of the movie.
I don't agree about it blowing away the other songs of the era, but I am a sucker for electro beats so I do share your love for Madonna's DAD.
I wholeheartedly agree. But he often isn’t mentioned in ‘best of’ articles.
Goldeneye is the best Bond title song of the Brosnan era by a country mile. DAD is the worst title song of the series and the lyrics sound like they were written in 10 minutes. Modern dance music has no place as a Bond title song.
While I'm not so sure whether I'd be as uncompromising as your final sentence is worded, I otherwise wholeheartedly agree with your post. The only redeeming value of Madonna's DAD theme is that it fits the situation and strikingly increases the feeling of being tortured, in line with Bond's ordeals being shown in the background of the titles where the nude women used to be.
If people want the likes of the more flashy, gimmicky henchmen in best ofs, that's their right, but Grant isn't simply a case of the older, Connery era being overpraised for their classic sense. He's simply not tarnished by age.
That's what I love about Grant : he does not need a scar, outlandish gadgets, a goatee, or whatever to appear menacing. Just the piercing blue eyes, the sharp voice, the precision, the professionalism. He's one of the reasons why I find FRWL the scariest Bond movie.
Amen to that!
Agreed on all acounts. Maybe not about Scaramanga as the top villain of the series, but we align with the rest of your assessments.
Speaking of cars, I absolutely love the maroon Lotus from FYEO. What a sight, driving that car into Cortina d'Ampezzo, with the skis on top. Not practical, but boy it looks awesome.
Good point about the car. I've heard people complain also that Bond is wearing a different suit in the PTS of QoS, than he is at the end of CR, which is a little harder to explain; when would he have had time to change? :P
EVERY DB5 after TB is a different one, until SF pretends (!) that the original one is back.
The original is the one registered as BMT216A, originally from an episode of The Saint, but re-painted from red to "silver birch". That one appeared in GF and TB.
In GF, we have another Silver Birch DB5, registered as BMT214A. Whatever one thinks of it, it's a different car. This may also be the one parked at Oxford in TND.
The one in CR is left-hand drive and registered outside the UK. It can't really be the one we see later (nor earlier, of course), unless one believes that Q Section spends ridiculous amounts to rebuild it to a 1963 right-hand drive edition, so that it matches the one in GF and TB and also could be featured in SF...and maybe later. I'd accept it as a once-off item in CR, never to be seen again. Just being a DB5 for the benefit of Bond nostalgiacs (is that a word? I think you know what I mean.)
It doesn't make any difference if Bond crashed one or the other in any movie. If it reappears with the same registration, it's the same car, and we somehow have to assume it has been repaired. But if not, it isn't, and we should simply forget about that, like with other continuity issues in the series. Why wonder about a DB5 while the actor changes five times over the decades?
The reappearance of the "original" DB5 (BMT216A) in Skyfall was a brazen kow-tow to traditional fans, and no more. It made no sense...and yet everybody loved it. It shouldn't happen again, but it didn't hurt at all. Let's just not pretend that car has to be around forever, waiting for its deployment in the Q Sections storage department. It looks they haven't learned that lesson in NTTD, but I'll wait and see when the pandemic is over.
At the end of the day, you're 100% correct. I didn't know the original DB5 w as from the Saint, that's really cool. At the end of the day NTTD will feature yet another DB5 than even the one at the end of Spectre, with updated gadgets. It would be cooler if they just kept using more and more modern Astons, like the DB5 was in Goldfinger.
Try this for a start: https://www.imcdb.org/v223582.html
Which is why OHMSS is a great film.
100%
I also agree. We have to promise not to become like disgruntled Star Wars Nerds. :)
What a venomous community. Doesn't apply to all (or hopefully most) Star Wars fans of course.
Star Wars fans have ruined people's lives (Jake Lloyd) and otherwise treat Star Wars actors horrifically because of things they didn't like in the movie/story (Kelly Marie Tran, Daisy Ridley, both of whom had to delete their social media); I don't think you could say that about Bond fans or many other fandoms.
Again, as a Star Wars fan, I'm not saying all of them, I'd just say they have the most vicious vocal minority.
And it's ironic because from the first frames of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher played a strong independent woman! RIP Carrie Fisher.