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Gustav's "...even her sex" line tells me they're lovers. Are they only together because he's now Gustav or were they also a thing before Bond forced Moon to don a new persona? That, I'm not sure. The only "commitment" or reasoning we ever get is that he clearly helped her cheat so she could win the gold medal fencing.
DAD's plot is one that doesn't make much sense under scrutiny though, such as how Moon originally planned to get his satellite into orbit. It sounds like it was only plausible under a humanitarian guise, posing as Gustav, but perhaps no explanation is needed since Moon never got that far before his watery cliff dive.
The Great Escaper is the authentic version (so to speak) because Michael Caine is playing a real person.
The Great Escaper are the final film roles for Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. She died before the film's release and Michael Caine recently announced his retirement from acting.
I'll watch them both eventually. I don't see me particularly loving either one but I'm figuring The Great Escaper will be a lot stronger than this one.
Tank chase, remote BMW, BMW bike chase. That’s the trinity for me.
I think the car scene and the TND PTS are two of the best in the entire series.
It’s kind of a shame that Roger S was difficult to work with. We could have gotten more great action scenes with him directing. He should have been Dalton’s 3rd movie’s director, in 1992. Oh what could have been…
Oh, yes. Forgot about TND’s pts. Love it.
Well bear in mind he probably didn't direct large swathes of those; and by the next film Vic was shooting stuff from half a mile away and it all got a bit turgid. But you'd think he'd have been involved with the planning at least, yeah.
The whole cradle scene/fight with Trevelyan at the end of GE, or the Jump from the building and motorbike chase in Veitnam from TND's are the standouts, for me.
They call TND 'Bond by numbers', but if this is what Bond by numbers is like, give it me every time. One of my favourite action scenes in the whole series is the banner escape and the bike chase. The two of them arguing over who's going to drive the motorbike is classic cinematic Bond to me. Humour in the middle of tension.
Yeah it's a bit of a box ticker, but an admirable attempt at melding an old fashioned Bond film and 90's actioner. Infinitely preferable to the two that followed, that's for sure.
Is that a cheeky reference to a certain user with an Aidan Turner profile picture?
Methinks so....