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Good question @fjdinardo I've never actually thought about that before. It also leads in to a follow up question of why actually is Bond taken to Hai-Fat's karate school. (Obviously to get some kung foo into the film as it was popular at the time) But within the context of the story, are they intending to kill Bond at the karate school? Or just rough him up a bit? If the intent is too kill 007, then again it leads back to the question of whether Scaramanga would approve.
My answer would be it was to rough him up a bit, and then take him to Scaramangas island where Bond would be weaker in Scaramangas fun house. BUT this theory tho might get canceled out if you take into the fact that Scaramanga wanted Bond 100% for the fun house fight because he saw Bond as is equal and wants to prove he can kill Bond when Bond is at his best.
The fact that Nick Nack would inherit everything if Scaramenga died probably added to this tension.
I thought Atlantis was the city
Yep,it was.
I know they've all talked about their favourites starring other Bond's before. Connery I think has said FRWL is the best of his run, and Brosnan said in the EON doc that GE is his favourite of his. But have any of the others picked a favourite from their own era?
Craig I'm especially curious about. I'm assuming it's CR or SF but they're such different films that I'm interested to know which he prefers, if he does have a preference.
I still have the Bond DVDs and checked the PG Rating. In Switzerland it is called FSK. All Bond Movies are either FSK 12 or FSK 16. Most are FSK 12.
Those are the ones with FSK 16:
DN, FRWL, GF
OHMSS, DAF
LALD, TMWTGG
LTK, GE, TND
Is it the same group with a higher rating in your country?
Would you say these are the right ones to deserve a higher FSK/PG? Why?
LTK is obvious. LALD could be because of the voodoo stuff and Kanangas death. TMWTGG shows more skin (?) and Bond is more violent against women.
I'm surprised that FYEO is FSK 12 compared to the two first Roger movies.
DAF? Because of the burning asian soldier?
Does it make sense that the Craig films belong all to the lower rating? They are definitely more serious...
Which movie did you felt to be violent as a kid/teenager?
Rated PG: DN, FRWL, GF, TB, YOLT, OHMSS, LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP, AVTAK
Rated 12: DAF, TLD, TND, TWINE, DAD, QOS, SF, SP
Rated 15: LTK, GE, CR
However, the rating for the disc is the overall highest rating of any content on the disc (so for instance, in the case of DAF, the feature film is rated PG but the audio commentary has been rated 12, hence the disc bears a 12 logo).
I don’t know about the FSK ratings, but I suspect it’s probably similar, where some of those films rated FSK16 should really be lower, but other content on the disc is bumping up the overall rating.
I remember when I was at school watching Bond films on TV, around mid 80s they suddenly started cutting the scene from LALD where Bond kills the snake by igniting an aerosol canister (presumably for fear of all us teenagers going round burning people’s hair off with hairspray tins) - I knew that scene well from watching previous versions, so was surprised when it suddenly disappeared (and made no sense then of Rosie discovering the snake afterwards).
They have become more lenient over the decades, though. Quite a few zombie and horror movies that remained unrated for violence initially (meaning they could not be sold over the counter and could not be mail-ordered, nor imported into Germany) were re-rated 18 or even 16 in the meantime, without cuts. While actual porn is likely to remain at least at 18, nudity is no longer an issue at all. A movie can still show full frontal nudity and still be rated 12 or even 6.
Unless one thinks that the Bond films have actually become more harmless, one can see that in the franchise. No Bond film after TND has been rated any higher than "12" while seven of the first ten were rated "16". For what it's worth.
I never thought about the possible fact that the rating could be higher because of the extras... I really doubt that this is the case on my DVDs. But it is definitely surprising that TMWTGG is much higher rated on my DVD than in the UK.
@j_w_pepper isn't Germany generally stricter compared to Switzerland when it comes to violence? I suppose the samr DVDs were made for Germany and Switzerland, though.
@Gerard no rating? Never heard this before. But wouldn't there be at least a recommendation for parents?
@Thunderfinger they made it a bit easy to rate them all the same. Rate LTK the same as, let's say YOLT, is a bit strange imo.
The latest Bond films have been rated 12 in the cinema.
Well, yes, @Thunderfinger, that's another story. I'm pretty sure I saw Goldfinger (rated 16) well before I was 16, and I also managed to "sneak" (with the tacit approval of the gatekeepers) into one of those soft-core pseudo-porn "Schulmädchen-Report" ("Schoolgirl Report") movies of ca. 1970 with my cousin when I was about 14 although it was rated 18.
@Gerard: Unrated in Germany is not the same as everyone allowed, but the contrary. We now have a rating that says "Released for all age groups". That one typically applies for the likes of Disney cartoons (you're right it once was that no one under six was allowed in a theater, but they changed that a long time ago). Not rated over here means, as I said in one of my last postings, that the movie is not legal to be shown in any place where they let in people under 18, must not be publicly advertised and cannot be sold online, including from another country. I once ordered the first Terminator film "uncut" from what was then play.com in Jersey because I wanted to finally see what the fuss was about and didn't find it in German stores, including amazon.de. It didn't arrive because customs had checked the package (Jersey not being part of the EU) and confiscated the movie because it was "unrated" at the time (I only learned about that later...when I complained, play.com sent a replacement that made it here unscathed before the customs notice arrived). It is one of those examples I mentioned that is now in general release and rated 16 instead.
@goldenswissroyale, I can't comment on whether Germany is stricter than Switzerland in terms of violence. But I wasn't aware (or at least never thought about it) that Switzerland is also using the FSK rating system. It sounds to me that it is the same system and not a separate one (which probably wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to have, considering separate discs would have to produced etc.), so I wouldn't expect the German rating to be stricter than the Swiss, but they are most likely the same.
He was doomed regardless of what he said. It blew up in his face.
At what point does Blofeld realise who Bond is in OHMSS? A kilt and a pair of glasses isn’t much of a disguise, so Blofeld ought to recognise him straight away, but I suppose we are expected to accept the ruse and go with it. Then again, quite a few of Blofeld’s comments do seem loaded, as if he’s ‘in the know’ and wanting Bond to know he knows. Does Campbell give the game away? Or is it really his Augsburg slip up?
I’m assuming there isn’t a definitive answer, but anyone any theories?