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Shark hunting, plastic iguanas etc, Yes it was disappointing. It could of been maybe the best Bond release ever in retrospect, but the end product was a real frustration
It's merely another big regret or pity about Dalton's Bond tenure I truly feel. We'll have to get back to this another time as out of time for today but that's how I genuinely feel about the release in question
I used to view OP this way also, but after more and more viewings, I actually turned out to enjoy it quite a bit! It's definitely one of the series that has to grow on you; from the outset, it looks really cheesy and comical, but there's a lot to be desired once you watch it enough, I think!
I concur!! It's Moore at his finest, if not his youngest.
I'd say Moore's finest was either in For Your Eyes Only , Live and Let Die, or even The Man with the Golden Gun, but OP does have a rather fine performance from him. If you can look past the more corny aspects of the movie, he does present a genuine hard-edged 007, especially in scenes like his confrontation of General Orlov on the train.
Possibly. The novel is underrated, but then it was never going to adhere to the novel. LALD, and before it DAF, cherry-picked ideas and moments, and before that YOLT had basically air-lifted its literary equivalent and dropped it in the ocean. The novels had become secondary at this point. That's why I still think QoS is the biggest disappointment. It was, and was always intended to be, a direct sequel. No literary narratives to adhere to, but a cinematic follow-up, plain and simple. It hit some of the beats, no doubt, but for a film that an audience can hypothesise over like no other, it fell short. It's the most disappointing for me because CR teed it up, monumentally, and it was well equipped to knock it out of the park. Whichever way you cut it (and I think it's a decent effort) It was nowhere near a home run.
you're not American. Your football team are a shambles so you bring up baseball analogys. "Its political correctness gone mad"
Clearly spelling isn't on the curriculum in Liverpool ;)
DAD: Actually started off good enough, but then silliness on steroids kicked in.
QOS: Again, another follow-up letdown. Pacing was horrible.
The second time was with Quantum Of Solace. It took me about 10 seconds into the PTS to ask myself "what is this? what's goin' on?" I coudn't make heads or tails of the opening car chase, all that jumpy cam and fast editing had me puzzled. I thought "maybe they want to make the PTS as fast-pace as possible..."
And then, the chase between Bond and Mitchell in Sienna got even worse. Now, now I was really, absolutly dissapointed. I was soooooo looking foward to the follow-up of Casino Royale...I felt betrayed, really double crossed. I sat on my seat all the way to the ending credit. Even went back the following night with my wife, closing my mouth very thighly until the end of the film not to influence my wife with my very low opinion of QOS . I went back, but still felt betrayed.
Like I already stated in a post, Marc Forster should be handed a life sentence for this.
I consider DAF to be a sequel to YOLT and OHMSS to be a Sequel to DAF.
I like it! =D>
I didn't want to see CR until I was sure it was a different kind of film, one that was actually more character-driven. It would have been for these fipms not to have been made at all and keep the fans waiting longer than to waste through all those Fleming titles.
Why didn't they notice each other in Piz at first in OHMSS? Simply put, Peter Hunt wanted to follow the novel which made the movie good if not gooder.
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Bond could have given Blofeld amnesia after slamming him into the oil rig several times in his Bathosub. But it does make sense. the opening shot of DAF is in Japan as Bond hunts Blofeld down after YOLT. Then DAF continues to OHMSS. In that film Bond breaks his neck and by FYEO his neck is still broken. So it's fluid. Connery to Lazenby to Moore. No doubling back.
But it's also possible that NO Blofeld in DAF was the real one, and that Blofeld was sitting somewhere in his wheelchair monitoring it all. Then after he wasted all his resources, he used what little was left in his mad attempt in FYEO...
Maybe Blofeld was into experimental drugs in the 60's? :))
Maybe!