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I know. I meant both ways.
SF is the one Bond film where M out in the field makes some slight sense to me.
However, it was a nice enough hotel and bed (compared to the dump they were going to stay in), and she was impressed with his confidence, and so succumbed.
Strangely, it worked in the film. Arterton sold it imho. They really shouldn't have killed her off. Great character.
And yeah I figured you knew, just wanted to clarify in case you thought I was praising the line's quality haha
Glad you enjoyed Spectre Major. I thought it was an old fashioned romp, a'la Spy or Thunderball. It was the most Bondian of Craig's era. Like you, I need to think about my feelings on Craig. Maybe I'll move him up to third, behind Connery and Dalton. Or fourth behind Sir Rog, or fifth behind the Brozz.
Oh, and cock block!
After all I have said of Craig in the past, I can't find fault in his peformance in Spectre.
Too on the nose? ;)
I haven't seen quite as much QoS debate around here lately, but I think it's destined to go down like LTK, a real love it or hate it type. SP I see ending up more like TWINE, where fans have opinions all over the map. Still, it seems as though it will be more important to Craig's tenure as a whole than TWINE was for Brosnan's.
Given SP & TWINE are both the lowest rated of mine from the respective actor's 4 films, I tried to see if there were any similarities which caused me to rate both lower. Here's what I found (from my view):
1. lacklustre action which seems tacked on & isn't all that engaging
2. tonal imbalances everywhere (is it serious? is it jokey? are we supposed to care?)
3. acting which doesn't quite work perfectly in the film. Over melodramatic in TWINE (particularly from Bond) and not caring at all in SP (again, particularly from Bond)
4. humour that doesn't quite work all the time
5. poor dialogue in relation to other films
6. a villain that promised so much at the start but failed to really deliver to expectations by the end
So I suppose the above are things which I don't like to see in a Bond film.
Splendid way to spend 2 hours. I started with a classic Bond adventure with an intense Dalton, mixed with a superb Barry soundtrack. This really is one of my favorite Bond films. Then, I continued with a world weary, veteran, gentleman spy thanks to Sir Rog, in the fantastic OP. Great plot, lots of humour at the start and nerve-racking tension in the 2nd half. An excellent all-time-high for Sir Rog.
Apart from the oil rig climax where the film runs out of puff, I thoroughly enjoyed my latest viewing. I don't think I've appreciated DAF this much, for about ten years. Probably the wittiest script, Connery is confident and composed, as befitting a veteran agent. And, you know, Barry.
The older I get, the things that used to pee me of in the Bond series, I just let go, and just go with the flow. If it didn't have the overt humour – a step in the wrong direction for the Bond series – I would've ranked it higher. If Diamond's had contained quips, it would have been fine; the reason why the Bond movies has lasted so long, is because the series has adapted, i.e. 60's chic, iconic and cool; 70's fantasy and humour; 80's conservatism, so having a lighter touch to the Bond films, by having quips, dialogue exchanges achieved that; after all the Bond would be rather dull if they were all the same. However introducing sight gags and overt humour, was a step in the wrong direction. This isn't a complaint with the befit of hindsight, as some reviewers commented in 1971;
“it looks like a sequence of the same kind in the Bond imitations”, Pauline Kendel wrote in the New Yorker.
That tangent aside, I find the pre-GE era Bond films, to have an ineffable charm about them. With the more recent efforts, however, they just come of as more calculating.
Worst Bit – The below par production values, be it the bad dubbing “Ca-Ca-Cario!” or the Moonbuggy wheel appearing from nowhere.
Best Bit – Connery and Jill's chemistry. And Gray's entertaining villainy.
7/10
Royale's Ranking
Casino Royale - 9.5
Live and Let Die - 7.5
Moonraker - 7
Diamonds Are Forever - 7
Die Another Day - 7
CR
LALD
MR
DAD
DAF
FRWL
DN
GF
AVTAK
FYEO
QoS
GE
LTK
SP
OP
TLD
TSWLM
TND
TB
OHMSS
YOLT
TMWTGG
TWINE
SF
by that time we should know a LOT more about Bond 25
anyways Goldfinger tomorrow
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High praise to Spectre that the film I watch immediately after is OHMSS
:)) ...I think...
One of my best all time viewings of this film. Exquisite stuff. Dalton is superb, Kara is a naive but charming Bond girl, Krabbe is suitably slimy as Koskov (Whitaker is the weak link, but is still tolerable nonetheless), the action is probably the best of any Bond film (along with TSWLM), the score (oh the score!), the title track is one of my favourites. I do have some niggles with the film, such as Terry's Leiter, the Muhjahideen inexplicably turning up at the end, the shoot out with Whitaker. But overall, a classic entry and deserving of a strong position in my top ten.
2016 Bondathon Ranking-
-OCTOPUSSY/THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (never had a draw before, but I love them equally)
-LIVE AND LET DIE
-GOLDENEYE
=D>
during the week, ( where they cut most of Roger getting his arm sliced ). In this one
The showed all three cuts to Rogers arm. Just thought it odd they'd go to the bother.
They cut out THAT???
I don't want to know, what they would cut out of QOS for example. I guess the running time would be 35 minutes :))