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I honestly thought I was alone here, completely agree with you two. The Esprit s1 is still my favourite Bond car.
It turns into a freakin' submarine. It can't get cooler than that :-)
Could you specify which Aston Martin?
DB5 - yes.
DBS 69, Volante, DBS 06 - no.
Lois changed very rapidly. In the sixties, she was almost Bond girl material, but that period passed quickly, and by the late 70s she was really aging.
I think Lord was terrific, easily the best Leiter of them all. That said, we still have yet to see a faithful realization of Fleming's Leiter on screen, and it's high time we do.
I actually consider the Moneypenny scenes to be real highlights of the series. The Q scenes, on the other hand...
I would be in favor in scraping Q all together.
The Q scene in SF was excellent. Probably the best since LTK, although Desmond's final scene in TWINE was pretty good.
Their first meeting is bang on the Money for me. I felt like the latter scenes at MI6 slightly undermined the character too early, but then I know Mendes loves his symbolism and it lended itself to his old vs. new thematics. I just wished they'd stuck with Q's aloofness a little longer, rather than making him appear out of his depth all of a sudden.
I was originally referring to the DB5 but ultimately the Lotus is cooler than them ALL cos, yes, it turns into a freakin submarine :-)
Just as a car I'd rather have the Lotus than anything else Bond has ever driven.
Personally I thought the scene with Q wasn't great and computer nerd characters are boring and tired, it's not fresh and interesting at all, it just seems you have to a tech guy these days, I kind of agree that maybe Q should have passed away with Desmond, god bless him.
Computer geeks are not boring and tired to me. But that's really beside the point. Fact is that Wishaw brings a unique and successful take to the Q character. And his part was well written.
I agree his intro was great, but I was a little disappointed to see him fall victim to Silva so suddenly and the line 'He hacked us', is the epitome of lacklustre writing. In fact, the whole of that scene bugs me, Bond spotting 'Granborough Rd' etc is deus ex machina at its most potent. I'd like to see him be more hands on in 24 and less of a GCHQ worker, with a nice cardigan. That said, I'm nit-picking and I preferred his progression to the MP arc.
Very valid points. The 'Granborough' moment is one thing that really winds me up about that scene. The whole thing looks like an unintelligible jumble to me and Q is spouting all this computer jargon which is difficult to understand and - you would presume, given that he is one of only a few people in the world who can program it - at a level way above Bond. Yet out of seemingly nothing Bond spots some random word which he then instructs Q to use as a password.
I know he's Bond and brilliant but it just seems ridiculously contrived to me that Bond just plucks the key that unlocks this amazingly secure software out of thin air when Silva and Q must be working at a level he can't possibly comprehend.
I was skeptical at first for the same reasons than you, yet I ended up liking Q in SF way more than expected. Partially because they did not try to go with a Llewellyn imitation.
I am not really sure it is "ridiculously overrated" by anyone. I agree with the point about being a YOLT clone, in fact Benson points this out in detail in TBC. As I have said before I thought Moore performance and over all feel of movie, despite the outlandish plot, made it a good Bond film for the 1970s.
I have no problem with this. It is an example of Bond's outrageous almost preposterous omnicompetence, which we have seen in cinematic Bond almost from the get-go. Bond simply is not like other people, or even other heroes. Bond knows things he shouldn't be able to know. I roll with it and I love it.
Oh Moore was good in it. It's just that the movie, with all its high quality production value, wasn't very good. Or at least not nearly as good as it is rated.
So, the best looking since Melina Havelock? That is indeed a controversial opinion.
Surely 'over 30 years' would mean best looking since TSWLM at the very least?
She is damn fine but I prefer Eva - although technically she came afterwards so you could perhaps say Solange held the title of 'best looking Bond girl in over 30 years' for about 15 mins.
Personally though I would certainly have Bouquet, D'Abo, Scorupco, Marceau and the Pikelet all above her but after that she's up there.
It would work in a Roger film, but in the middle of a Craig it just feels very out of place to me. In the same way slapping Eve's arse and saying 'Man talk' would be. Good use of the word omnicompetence though. Not seen that in a while.