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Well, normally I'd agree to this, but if we erase May Day, then we wouldn't get that spectacular finale when she rides out of the tunnel with the bomb. "May Day, JUMP!" "GET ZORIN FOR ME!" BOOOOOOM! It's still one of my favorite moments in a Bond movie, and surprisingly thanks to May Day, who is otherwise a terrible character.
Or if Grace Jones had her way-- Dolph would play him!
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Use May Day not as a bed plaything but as a lethal asexual woman.
Of Zorin's assistants, May Day was the most lethal and this should have been played to the fullest.
I mean she killed Tippet and agent Lee with no emotion. Such a character should duke it out with Bond. We should have seen her get her just desserts at the hands of Bond like other evil henchmen (Oddjob, Hans, Grant, etc)
That's just great.
Thankfully Moore didn't and knew he should leave.
Physically perhaps, but he gives one of his best performances here.
Agreed. The scene after the horse race when Tibbett is dead proves this point more than anything, and the scene at City Hall when W.G. Howe is killed is another good example.
In hindsight, while I do enjoy the sleepy but beautiful "Wine with Stacey" track it probably would have been better for Moore to leave after Octopussy and have Dalton take over in 1985.
Agreed. Moore is my favorite, but he should have ducked out after FYEO or OP. Compared with Max Zorin, all the ally deaths, and that climatic ending, Dalton would have worked better for AVTAK.
Agreed! While I do love the scene where May Day sacrifices herself with the bomb, I probably would have liked it better of she and Bond had a big fight to the finish in the mine, and then Bond could have gotten the bomb out some other way. Her character was played like an Oddjob, Tee Hee, or Stamper type, where you know it'll come down between the two of them eventually. Besides, AVTAK lacked in fist-fights, so perhaps this could have improved upon that had May Day stayed a villain and fought Bond at the end.
Agreed. The story is just bad warmed-over Superman: The Movie crossed with Goldfinger. I'm not sure the Halley's Comet version would have been much better.
Really? Not a big GF fan?
Sean Connery vs Roger Moore = Sean Connery
Honour Blackman vs Tanya Roberts = Honour Blackman
Gert Frobe vs Christopher Walken = Christopher Walken
Oddjob vs Mayday = Oddjob
Shirley Bassey vs Duran Duran = Shirley
Goldfinger - 4, View - 1 ;)
Agreed! I really don't like Goldfinger, and when compared to an old favorite of mine like AVTAK, GF doesn't even come close. AVTAK has Roger Moore, an amazing score, a better main villain, and a better climax by far!
Okay, I agree with Connery, Walken and Oddjob. Pussy Galore was one of the stupidest Bond girls (Bond with mega-feminists? NO. And Shirley Bassey sang the three most annoying Bond songs in history (Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker; Goldfinger in particular is the worst, and the simple mention of its name made the power in my friend's house go out one day). I'd rather Dance into the Fire anyday.
Ohhh boy this is going to be fun !
I'm not forgetting that. I hated in the book, too.
she's still alive?! Good God, I saw a picture of the woman from the seventies and she looked like she was going to die.