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The stairwell fight in Casino Royale is the best fight in the modern Bond era.
Oooh, good one. Though you have a very strong case to be made there. Personally, I'd have to say the bathroom brawl in the PTS and Bond vs. Janus on the cradle in GE are the only two that top it.
What is the modern era? However you define it, the stairwell fight is one of the best in Bond, regardless of the era. And the fact that it punctuates the incredible card game section makes it even more powerful.
I think the modern Bond would be Dalton onwards.
I've also always loved the one in the kitchen in TLD.
Agreed. If the PTS was just the Bilbao bank escape it would've been one of the best in the series, but as it stands it suffers from 'too much too soon.'
I wholeheartedly agree.
Overlong - agreed.
Insipid - I don't think so. The shots of Pierce getting facefuls of Thames water and the boat bouncing across the wake are superb, Gary Powell's barrel roll is a truly dangerous stunt done to perfection and some of the boatmanship is phenomenal.
Before you think I'm being too praiseworthy however I'll add another adjective: inane.
The opening in the wall where the boat jumps out of the MI6 building is utter bollocks. Why is there a small dock in Q branch with an opening onto the river which is 25 ft above the surface? Is the boat only designed for when the the ice caps have melted?
Why, when the boat has no protective windscreen and Cigar Girl is shooting a pretty hefty machine gun at point blank range, does Bond not end up with a faceful of lead?
Why after diving once to go under an obstacle does Bond not do the same later on when the surface is on fire rather than the more preposterous and likely to fail option of going down the street?
Driving down the street for miles and even actually turning corners! How does the boat stay upright? How does it turn with just a rudder? Whatever happened to friction? Complete and utter bullshit.
Fair point. The bomb is presumably to kill King and Bond brought the money/bomb and King the trigger so why is she there at all?
What sort of terrorist sits outside MI6 waiting for their bomb to detonate?
What is the purpose of the Q Boat performing a barrell roll? It makes no sense at all other than to serve the appetites of the filmmakers and stunt team to say "Hey! Do you remember the barrell roll in TMWTGG? We can do that with a boat too!" It doesn't help that you can see the jets on the top and bottom of the boat when it rolls.
Granted that is the real reason but I tend to suspend disbelief that Bond thinks 'I know - I'll take out that massive machine gun by jumping over the back of the boat. In the process I might get shot in the face or have my neck broken by the force of the water if I don't nail the barrel roll perfectly but that's a risk I'm prepared to take. Certainly its a more sensible option than firing my torpedoes at a stationary target - that would be sheer lunacy.'
We aim to please ;-)
For the longest time I did too, but now I like them about evenly. Except GF's climax is the best in any Hamilton Bond.... IMO.
True, there are some nice moments, but like most of Vic Armstrong's action sequences it's pretty bland, and throws everything at the viewer hoping some of it will stick. No visual flair, tepid editing and pointless explosions galore.
The GE fight better? With the way you described it, I think you need to watch the stairwell fight again and the Bond vs Slate fight from QoS; 2 fights that make the GE fight look elementary by comparison.
So do I. Quite a bit better, actually.
That's just it. The boat chase is bland, generic and fundamentally unexciting. And that goes for the vast majority of the action in both TWINE and TND.
I don't think the Slate fight is in the same class as the others mentioned here. It suffers from the same poor editing that plagues QOS' first third.
It's not so much the editing for me as the pace. It seems too stylized, in contrast with the raw brutality of Bond vs. Grant, Bond vs. Trevelyan, and Bond vs. Obanno. I still like it, though.