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You're not being attacked, lighten up.
The rope being long enough by chance is no different to every gadget ever.
'Oh cripes. A villain has got in the passenger seat and forced me at gunpoint to drive my own car. If only by some quirk of fate I had say an ejector seat available to fire him out of the car.'
'Lummy. I'm in a pretty pickle here. There's a guy shooting at my car and despite there being a bulletproof shield and all the glass being bulletproof anyway I need some way of disabling him. What I really could do with now is some powerful water jets to knock him off his feet even though there is clearly no room inside the car for such large tanks and no mechanism to pump it out.'
'What a stroke of luck - here's Osato's safe. It's a shame I haven't got a safe breaking gadget conveniently in my pocket for just such an occasion.'
Just because Q gives Bond something first that can only be used in conveniently the exact situation Bond finds himself in an hour later doesn't make it any less ridiculous or lazy screenwriting.
Well you shouldn't enjoy it. It is full of 'ridiculous' moments.
Bond landing on the sofa - there's a stroke of luck.
Bond deliberately crashing his plane to stop some cars must have annoyed you as you only like Bond doing a big stunt if 'there are no other options available.' I would contend that there were numerous options available to him rather than the insane notion of knocking the wings off his plane. (Strikes me the whole plane crash sequence adheres to your cheap and lazy 'thinking of stunts and then applying it the screenplay' cardinal sin given that nobody in their right mind would think crashing a plane they were flying was a sound course of action.)
I don't think anyone ever questioned your Bond fan credentials (except for the mystery of why you bother given all Bond films are packed with implausibility and ridiculous moments.
The question that perplexes me is why you are so vexed about this conveniently long length of rope but seem unwilling to apply the same pedantry microscope to the other films?
Did the TWINE PTS run off with your missus or something?
Thanks, that was the order of events I wasn't sure if she overlooked that detail or she really thought he now readd to get back to work but it does make sense and again mommy was very bad lol.
When we thought she was worried about his health, she sends him back to work knowing his arm didnt heal like it should.
I am not a great fan of the 'few seconds to disaster' conclusions which to my mind are gratingly contrived and often do not produce excitement, not least because they usually are preceded by a turgid gunfight (yes I'm looking at you YOLT and TSWLM).
The thunderball finale is not great because the underwater battle goes on too long and is not half as interesting as the filmmakers seem to think it is. Plus the awkward speeded up and poorly edited fight onboard. A better finale could have been conceived but imo its not necessary to have imminent danger to the world for the finale to be exciting.
I've had that happen to me too after typing out a particularly cathartic rant. So infuriating.
Never mind old chap - your support is noted and appreciated.
I take your point and largely I agree with you. However I would contend that a film where the central premise is the hijacking of nuclear weapons and holding the world to ransom needs precisely the world being in jeopardy and such a countdown. The villain's threat is to explode a bomb. The excitement, drama, tension etc should come from Bond trying to stop then delivering on that threat. When one bomb (which may or may not be armed - we never find out) is recaptured hundreds of miles away off screen and the other cannot be armed because it's fuse has been thrown overboard then where is said drama and tension?
Lovely stuff.
If I recall it isn't so much "off the coast of Miami" as it is within half a mile of downtown Miami. So the damage would be what you'd expect from an atomic explosion from half a mile away. Here's a few videos of underwater nuclear tests.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what could be so controversial about those early films and who might have said it.
I can imagine people might have things to say about the production of SP which will never see the light of day but the production of those first three was fairly straightforward wasn't it?
The only things I can come up with would be:
1. Sean slagging off Cubby & Harry about them cutting him out of the money bonanza that flooded in.
2. John Barry slagging off Monty Norman and claiming the Bond theme was all his.
3. Nikki Van Der Zyl coming out with some sort of controversial revelation. There are still some of us round here who remember Nikkigate from several years ago.
Only this? Somebody at EON must be quite susceptible.
And while we are at it, what was the Nikkigate about, may I ask?
39 things from the banned commentaries: http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/39-things-learned-banned-dr-no-commentary.php?utm_content=buffere4f8f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Actually, they are not so "controversial", I think...
I believe WizardOfIce is referring to the banning of Nikki Van der Zyl from a goldfinger convention and Roger Moore withdrawing his foreword from her book.
If you didn't know, she dubbed quite a lot of the early bond girls. Moore certainly went down in my estimation as a true gentlemen after that because he didn't contact her to explain and it looks like he was leaned on.
From her website, she comes across as very boastful, full of herself, and understandably bitter about what has happened, so not saying she's perfect by any means, but it looks like Eon wanted to airbrush her contribution from history.
I would be happy for there to be another explanation but none has been provided, which you would expect if there was an innocent reason.
What a bundle of joy.
¡Muchas gracias, otra vez!
You said enough, and made a very neutral account, as well, Scaramanga, thanks!
She made a great job voicing Andress, Bianchi, and most of the other girls. If it's like you say, it's a story of mutual butthurt like the ones we read about almost every day in cinema gossip, with both parts having more or less understandable reasons to be so.
Overall, I also think it's something that got a bit overblown, and the connection Nikkigate-"Criteriongate" seems very, very likely (probably along with other reasons, especially the most well known of the ones named by WizardOfIce: the James Bond Theme controversy).
As he was just a John Doe, no one seemed to recognize him.
:)) Good one!
But let's try to answer @TR007's question. I found it interesting.
My opinion, and I state it's an opinion and not a fact, is that their first performance impressed EON enough to consider them for a role without having to pass an audition. Another option would be that they gained the friendship and trust of the crew in their past appearances.
I shall hang my head in shame.
Absolutely. It surprises me some fans still haven't twigged that this is their MO and always has been.
IMHO, he reacts like: "So you chased and tried to gun me down, called me a madman and if not for Octopussy you all would be dead for not listening. Morover you forced me to dress like THIS. And NOW you go and congratulate and pat me? Screw you all, I'm outta here".
I always thought it was his reaction to their American enthusiasm :)
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Yes, but I go by a different name there, Sleeping_Beauty. I do edits there, but for the most part, I spend my time reading. I did one small edit on Pierce Brosnan's section about the trope "Always save the girl".