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Are you streaming it or downloading then watching it? The latter case your wifi is irrelevant.
I thought if i bought online it was a direct download that you could watch anytime.
He would have been more likely to take it down in the way he did if he threw stones at it. If he had taken it down with the Sig I may have been able to buy into it a bit more, if only slightly.
Well I don't know anything about ballistics but surely the bullet would still have enough velocity to knacker the engine if it went straight in?
The trouble is the film portrays Bond as being some sort of sharpshooter but the numerous factors involved (movement of the boat and helicopter, short range of the gun, downdraught of the rotors, possible cross winds on the river) make it hitting his target down to about 99.9% luck. In fact I think any one of us would have as much chance of downing the chopper as Bond and that should never be the case.
I'm not sure it would have. It's an extremely light round and from what I can remember (haven't got my digital copy of SP yet) the helicopter was a considerable distance away. The PPK/S has pretty low stopping power but is reasonably good for close quarters combat, so I'd have to go out and shoot at a helicopter to be sure. ;)
Just for comparison, I'm pretty sure the energy discharged (when fired) from the Sig Sauer Bond was carrying in that scene is more than double that of the PPK.
But then again, it's just a movie.
Agreed about the final few lines. I think the problem was that they struggled to think of a way to deal with Blofeld in the finale. What they came up with was all down to Bond getting lucky and it was all rather dull.
I'll be quite happy to not see a single helicopter in the next film after three sequences (including two finales!) in the last two entries having a chopper as a centrepiece.
In SF, why does M say "it was the possibility of losing you vs the certainty of losing all those agents."? It seems she's saying she was certain Bond would fail to recover to disk from Patrice, is that right? So she chooses to place her trust in an inexperienced Moneypenny to make a difficult high risk shot vs her best man? Am I misunderstanding something?
I believe Robert Brown was not credited 'as M' in his films (OP-LTK).
Bond knew where to shoot the helicopter, where it's weakness was, and it took him like 11 shots to hit it. What's "near impossible" about it?
I'd say surviving the two shots into the river is much less likely, but even then, far likelier if the second shot knocks him unconscious, which it appears to, as his muscles wouldn't be tensed so he'd be less likely to break any bones from the surface tension of the water.
There was a story awhile ago about a woman who went skydiving while (unknowingly) pregnant, and there was a problem with her shute and fell to the ground, and survived (along with the baby) because she went unconscious.
First of all, was Macca considered at one time to write/perform a song for DAF? And secondly, did he consider at one time to do the whole LALD score himself?
Well, seeing as Wiz nailed your question about Q flying, I think this one isn't too difficult. At the inquiry, he's aiming at a much bigger target (center of mass vs. glass on head), so that's a bit easier. He's also acting on instinct, rather than in his first mission back on what amounts to a shooting range. Maybe you don't think that should bother Bond, in which case scrap that, but a major theme of the movie is Bond (and old-fashioned British espionage) getting his mojo back. Why they decided to rerun that plot in half-assed fashion for SP, I will never know.
Also, a question of my own: How do Xenia and Ourumov sneak into the helicopter showing in GE? I remember them flashing Admiral Harper's identification card, but I don't think that would work, given that the two of them are very obviously not him. Is there something I missed?
Well I don't know about you but I've always assumed because he's not 100% and due to the lack of accuracy of such an antiquated pistol he deliberately aims high when he shoots at Severine. For all we know Silva was trying to hit the glass himself but a gun like that is going to rather unreliable when it comes to precision shooting.
As for the rest: Silva's goons are all barely more than 2 or 3 metres away and the enquiry could be another week or so later (during which the Bond has spent 4 hours a day at the shooting range) and all biggish targets. Factor in a burst of adrenalin which isn't there on the range then I haven't got a problem with it.
Much more irritating is Bond suffering no ill effects after the head drilling and scoring fatal head shots with every round he shoots from about 100m away. Someone said on another thread it would have been a lot better (and wouldve strengthened their relationship) if Bond had been all f**ked up after the head drilling and it was Madeline who got them out of there with the odd comment from Bond of 'good girl' as she shot a few guys.
I can do that in Call of Duty (not really), what's the problem? ;)
@Soundofthesinners, you can see a slight profile shot of "Admiral Farrell" once they arrive on the frigate, and you can tell that it's made to look like him. Xenia is more than likely seen as his date to the event.
http://imgur.com/Al7JDUU
Looking at Africa, we see a number of colors. While Ethiopia was communist at the time, I'm not sure what the other colors correspond to.
http://imgur.com/DJqn9pE
This map, for some reason, has all of Korea red. Also, China and Russia were huge enemies at this point in the cold war, not allies. Why are Iran and Iraq light red? Neither were communist, and at this point Iraq was developing close relations with the US.
My question is how to make sense of this map?
I've long wondered about this scene in For Your Eyes Only (1981) and I can't really seem to come up with a convincing answer ass to why it was written in the way it was or what we the audience were meant to take away from it about Melina Havelock's character. The scene that I am referring to is when Melina silently shoots the St. Cyril's Monastery guard with her crossbow and Bond drags him inside the winch shed. He tries to keep him quiet until Melina and Columbo come up into the shed on the winch basket.
What I don't really get about this scene is why is the ever-vengeful Melina suddenly so concerned about the welfare of the Monastery guard that she has just shot? After all, she killed Gonzales. She later tries to kill Kristatos. The guard was in the employ of Kristatos, the man who paid Gonzales to have her mother and father killed, and she could have just as easily killed him with that crossbow. Despite this, she still fusses over him and tends to his wound until Columbo brings some logic back (and reminds us that this is a "take no prisoners" Bond film that we are watching) and knocks him out with a chop from his gun.
Perhaps I'm being a bit too hard on Melina here but this scene bugs me a bit and seems rather like a character inconsistency on the part of the writers Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. Was it just that he was only a guard working for Kristatos and thus not her real target - that he was just doing his job etc.?
So what do we think about this scene and what would you say was its purpose?
If they have thought about it more deeply they are maybe trying to get across to the audience that Melina is only up for killing those who really deserve it, whereas Columbo is a professional at this game hence the meaty thwack on the head and 'sorry' behind her back, which always makes me smile after all the effort she went to to make the bloke comfortable!
In SP, why is C called C?