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Your personal six minutes of fame or how long your own humor lasts at a stretch?
Oh, perhaps you meant Moore. He had some good scenes, quite from Fleming, I'm not going argue with you about it though.
Surely we have a thread comparing Flemingesque moments in films ... I'll go look for it now.
This is is supposed to be OHMSS mainly, so I'll leave you to it.
Give me one good fight scene that Moore was involved in, and I'll give you five from Connery, Lazenby and Craig.
The guy just does not stack up.
Super tired of the suave, soft, never get my hair out of place Bond.
Gimme a tough guy.
Gimme a memorable Moore fight.
I am sincerely looking for the Fleming thread, though, and will continue there later.
I am constantly amazed by how people completely miss the point of the clown scene. If you don't get that one scene it's no wonder you don't get Sir Rog.
Just one. Just one for a supposed action/adventure hero.
Bond is more than an "action/adventure" hero.
I know the clown suit serves a purpose, but it also shows how far the franchise had fallen.
Think Connery, Lazenby or Craig would ever do that? Or even Dalton? I'd like to think that even Broz would object.
Nope, only the Moore would stoop so low.
Nobody is untouchable. Bad and good are both earned and should be judged as such. The ones that don't want bashing are just defensive because they champion those who are usually bashed.
By the way, I did not mean to come off as snide as it perhaps sounded, in my post above. Those were just my first thoughts and not meant as harsh as they probably read.
I am going to update a Fleming thread soon, to modify it for discussing all the Bonds in light of Fleming's Bond.
P.S. I love Brosnan's Bond.
You're so wrong. Being a spy is about fighting? Yeah right. Have you ever met a spy? How many ever fight? Getting into a fight is an admission of total failure for most spies.
I understand Bond needs to be tough in a certain way, but I would never label Bond as an action tough guy. He is the consummate spy, which in itself means secretive and deceiving.
Don't get me wrong:
I loved Sean's Bond fighting Red Grant and winning on the train.
I loved Roger's Bond kicking Locque's car over the cliff.
I loved Brosnan's Bond dropping Trevalyan off that satellite after that fight.
I loved Daniel Craig's stairwell fight with Obanna in CR.
But the appeal of a Bond film is far more than that; that is all I am trying to emphasize.
I don't think they would have gone with a serious OHMSS after TB.
What eventually happened with OHMSS was for the best. It was a one-off, but oh what a one-off.
It strikes me I must be in a bit of a minority here in the fact that I really like ALL the Bond actors prettymuch an equal amount - the margins of difference are so slim and it usually only boils down to the actual film they're in not the actor themselves and even the mood I'm in when I feel like watching one of them - I can have a SC day as much as a PB one. I do mean this and am not just saying it for dramatic effect.
It does seem to me they all had good and 'less good' films - there's always a GF/TB to a DAF, GE to DAD, LTK to TL and CR to QOS but I'll watch every one and not skip sections.
I was introduced to Bond with the Moore films beginning with TSWLM so I have a bit of a soft spot with that particular film yet on growing more aware of LALD and TMWTGG, I see where the tone drifted to a point of being a parody of itself as the films went on yet I do love FYEO and AVTAK too. In any kind of discussion like this one, I feel any film always has to be viewed in the context of its time with its huge bearing on the mood and the presentation of the story depicted. As an example it seems around here that the Bond in outer space idea is very much unloved; yet I remember that in the 80's everything was a bit OTT, Reagan/Thatcher were all maxed up with the cold war arms race and the real shuttle program and the real "Starwars" so Moonraker fitted right in hand in glove along with massive consumerism and commercialisation of the day. Music videos and action films got more and more slicker as time passed and it seemed, to stand out, things needed to be ever more OTT so Bond did.
With all this in mind, as I grew in affection and awareness for the older Bond films in the series I have to say I'm surprised that I have always just truly adored OHMSS and rate it as my no.1 Bond film. Yes, Savalas and Rigg depicted amazing characters with their immense screen presence and there's the breathtaking Barry score too which has to be the best of the series yet it's the whole package of OHMSS for me - I can take Lazenby totally as shown without any queasiness about 'wooden delivery of lines' or 'awkward' acting moments. As a pure Bond romp this one holds my attention all the way as it builds to that toe curling yet amazing ending. Icing on the cake is the location at Piz Gloria, it's quite something. If there was even a way I could magic it, I wouldn't change a single thing and it's the one of the lot I can watch over and over again - unlike some others in the series even where I do still like the actors!
I confess, heresy here I know, I feel the least enthusiastic about viewing some of Sean's films now even though he IS the one for me that set the die for everything I reference in a split second when the words "James Bond" or "007" are mentioned. Maybe it's a bit of over familiarity as I truly have lost count of the many viewings I have had of all his films? I can picture Craig in my minds eye in a similar instant association so that speaks for how well the identity of Bond is working today even where I have strong personal issues with SF - I find the failure of Bond to protect M sits very uncomfortably in the series for me. Yes Tracy dies in OHMSS, as did Vesper too but if they'd lived happily ever after together with a family of baby Bonds, would we even be here now talking about a forthcoming Bond 24!?
I still get goosebumps watching ascent to Blofeld's hideaway with GL in the helicoper and Barry's score building up as it flies over the avalanche debris...
so OHMSS gets my vote and NO it's not overrated.
And I don't know whether it's all in jest here but I can't see the point of all the 'bickering' about "my favourite Bond is better than your favourite Bond"!! :)>- ;) - they're ALL brilliant even with their flaws which is why the whole series is so loved and discussed by so many many people!!
Anyhow, all the best for New Year's and have a great 2015