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tbh I can't find anything negative in that description.
I think the tame climax was a deliberate attempt to scale back the series after the excesses of the last few entries in the series.The whole film is really a back to basics approach similar to what happened later with CR after the outlandishness of DAD.
As for having a '' platonic alliance '' with a female guest star,well this was Bond,not Simon Templar! Said it before,but il say it again,lots of women find older men quite attractive rather than the other way round.Its just a fact.Just look at 66 year old Dennis Quaid,he recently got married to a lady nearly FORTY years younger than him! To that i say MY MAN!
Yes, that's all well and good - but many people don't think the film really conveys that they are romantically invested in each other very well, regardless of their age.
It seemed to me that they started getting close after the bike attack on Melina in St.Moritz.Also Melina looks quite jealous when she sees Bond leaving the restaurant with Countess Lisl.
Many are like that in Hwood
But not many with the panache and fun of Lazenby. I loved that 'Becoming Bond' biopic about him. It explains a lot about him and why he behaved as he did.
Never met him of course, but always thought he came across as a very likeable fellow.
@BT3366 apologies for the late reply.
LTK is a cracking film. Its well paced, plotted and acted. The gritty vibe is superb, too.
The reasons I don't find it quintessential Bond; Simply, it feels too American. A touch too dark, it has a decidedly 'made for TV' look about it, and was too in to the Miami Vice vibe.
My wife and I watched it a couple of weeks ago, the first time I have seen it for a few years. She is by no means a big Bond fan, but she remarked that it "feels like a Die Hard film with Timothy Dalton instead of Bruce Willis". I have to agree with that.
Its a better film than probably 10 of the other 007 movies at least, but it isn't quintessential Bond, for me.
Agree. I do also agree with another poster, that the somewhat tame finale hurts it a little, but this was a back to basics Bond film, which, quite frankly, Moore needed. It would have been a terrible shame for him to not have had at least one 'Fleming-esque' film on his resume.
FYEO is very high up the food chain for me. A slightly more exciting climax, and a better score probably would have pushed it into the top 5 or 6 Bond films, for me.
He could have still had his 7 films, and a pleasant offshoot would have been an extra two for Dalton...
It would have suited Tim, for sure, but Moore needed a grounded film after Moonraker. Plus it messes with my dream timeline!
We wouldn't get OP any earlier than 1983 because it's inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark. We might have gotten a very different OP with Dalton--maybe not. Tonally OP and TLD seem to go together...
...as do FYEO, AVTAK, and LTK.
How is OP inspired by Raiders?
https://www.forcesofgeek.com/2018/06/say-her-name-octopussy-turns-35.html
Nothing wrong with that, if you want to stay in the game for more than 50 years you must adapt to survive.
TSWLM, FYEO, TLD and GE are the ones I would say have been influenced more by their predecessors than by other films.
That's a fair shout.
She was in the shooting script dated October 2014, so very nearly made it. From memory she was just Bunt in name only really, the character didnt do much.
+1. I definitely like the idea of Tim Dalton's Bond having Carole Bouquet's Melina as his leading lady. However with Connery making NSNA the same year I doubt EON would've taken a chance on a new Bond actor in 1982-1983. Hence, James Brolin didn't get the role(thankfully) and Sir Rog enlisted for another turn.
Agreed. My top 2 1980s Bond films. Both feature John Barry scores, both feature 2 of Bond's most believable romances with his primary leading lady, both Cold War themed, both involve villainous plots where a criminal who lives in an exotic, palatial home teams up with a renegade Soviet general who is at odds with another Soviet general.
I also love both those films. They share a rollicking sense of adventure (the aforementioned Indiana Jones influence) and I’ve come up with a few other similarities, although they’re much more tenuous than yours. Both feature the villains involved in smuggling operations; both feature famous antiques as plot points ( Fabergé egg and Stradivarius cello); both feature an mi6 /00 colleague of Bond being assassinated near the start of the movie to kick off the plot; Bond goes to a circus in one of the films and a fun fair in the other; both showcase airplane set pieces with spectacular airborne stunt work.
Both feature Bond driving a gorgeous car while being chased by local police forces. I also think they are the only two Bond films where we can see him literally crossing the Iron Curtain: West Germany - East Germany and the other way around in OP, Czechoslovakia - Austria twice in TLD. Now that I think if it, both are partly set in a former Eastern Bloc country that today doesn't exist anymore.