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Can't comment on the games because I have never played any, but fair point about the films. I suppose I always prefer the ones with Bond in them and am not as invested in the others but they are all good.
True, true. AVTAK has a great score thanks to John Barry.
I don't know with regard to the video games but with the films I think the worst PTS is probably LALD simply because it doesn't have Bond. Not a bad scene though.
My controversial: that submarine office for M in YOLT is far worse than M showing up in the field during the Brosnan and Craig era.
That is controversial. I don't like the submarine office in YOLT though so I agree with you because I don't mind M showing up in the field in TWINE/QoS
I agree LALD is the worst, but for me the absence of Bond has nothing to do with it though, TMWTGG is one of my favourites.
I think Eon was somewhat copying the grittier film trends of the '70s, more realistic and indie films...not completely obviously, but influenced by their smaller, more intimate scale.
By 1977 Eon was back to blockbusters, as was the industry (Jaws and Star Wars).
Probably, but I think California Girls is fun.
Don't mind it either. Never really had a problem with it actually.
I too think it's fun. Just not in a Bond film. And not in the middle of an action scene, interrupting Barry's score, which then picks up again like nothing's happened. That's like having Tina's "The Best" or Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" playing while Bond and Vesper go at it at the recovery clinic in CR. ;-)
Yes, I don't mind it, but it's totally out of context in the middle of an action-y pre-title sequence in a Bond film, like you said
No free passes, it was awful then and it's still awful. At least in retrospect I know the series would move away from that and two years later and we were spared Dalton's ride down Gibralter wasn't set to the Supremes' or Kim Wilde's version of You Keep Me Hangin' On.
It would have been interesting had Eon also followed the tone of early 70s films: darker, grittier and more violent. I don't know if Moore would have worked with such approach (although I think he was far more flexible than people credit him for), but I think they'd have accepted anything from DAF as long as Connery played Bond.
Thanks for that @DarthDimi, I'll never see that scene without hearing either of those tracks now! :))
Well it's a joke: it's not interrupting anything- it's an action scene but it's a funny action scene. Without the music it would be a flat moment. It's not a totally serious film.
The recovery clinic is a vaguely light moment but it's not supposed to be a comedy scene.
I don't think I can either.
Yes, and the submarine office for M in YOLT was the beginning of the rather silly trend of pop-up hidden MI6 offices in the field seen in the later Roger Moore Bond films such as the Egyptian pyramid HQ in TSWLM, the South American HQ in MR and the Indian Q Branch workshop in OP. Of course YOLT, TSWLM and MR were all directed by Lewis Gilbert so it seems to have been a trope of his Bond films in particular.
On the point about M showing up in the field in the more recent Bond films merely reflects what was going on in the Bond continuation novels by Amis and Gardner. M was even kidnapped and held at the villain's lair in Greece in Amis's Colonel Sun! That M kidnapping idea was of course later replicated in the films with The World is Not Enough. Bill Tanner also had a bigger role with more action in the field in some of the Gardner novels, particularly in Licence Renewed where he accompanies Bond in hunting down the villain, Dr Anton Murik, at the novel's climax in Scotland.
That’s the joke though. I know snowboarding wasn’t all that new at the time but it wasn’t mainstream and the idea was that he appeared to be surfing, only on snow. It’s Bond being inventive.
I can't imagine watching something so well-intentioned and made in the sense of fun and getting annoyed because it's not enough of a serious spy thriller. It's just not the point.
Very true.
Even in the sub-genre of Movies That Feature a Blimp, AVTAK is not particularly serious as a film.
Well, he was on vacation. ;)