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Rough Translation: My Spanish is so so. I need to practice my Spanish a lot in order to learn the language. I can understand much Spanish when I listen but I don't speak it as well as I'd like. Watching Bond films in Spanish helps me a lot since I already know the movies so well in English.
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But as usual, I was in awe of Ken Adam's sets and John Barry's music. I think Connery rocks in this one too; I have never found Connery to look disinterested at any point in YOLT, as many have said, though he is not up to his standard set in the previous films. Good flick all around.
One of these days I need to sit down and watch all of the Bond films in a row and come up with a definitive ranking.
I've managed to do it, however films do occasionally change positions and jump about.
Although its rare for a film to take a massive dive or rise in my rankings.
I always ranked it fairly low in my ratings, and to be honest it still is - though maybe it has moved up a few positions.
There is a good film in MWTGG. The central concept of Bond facing his evil counterpart is potentially compelling and was seen again 21 years later in GE. The PTS is brilliantly done with Barry's errie score and the creepy, fair-ground like fun house.
Bond playing detective as he tries to track down the origin of the golden bullet is fine and in fact the first 40 minutes of the film are quite good. Although Moore does seem a little too intense at times, he does carry the story along.
It's the middle part where the film sags however. The attempt at Kung-Fu sticks out like a sore thumb, Bond gets defended by 2 girls, Lt Hip randomly drives off leaving Bond and the main car chase - featuring the much "loved" Sheriff JW Pepper - never really excites the way it should and actually feels a bit boring.
Things get better though once Bond arrives on Scaramanga's island (aside from the rather boring main scheme). The face off between Bond and Scaramanga at the dinner table is one of the best scenes in the film - thanks largely to Mr Lee's relaxed, arrogant attitude. Lee also gets some of the best lines in the film ("Mr Hai-Fat has just resigned, I'm the chairman of the board").
Britt Ekland is one of the more forgettable girls in the series. She seems to jepordise the mission rather than help it along (getting locked in a boot, blowing up the base and - urgh - triggering the solex with her arse). There is little chemistry between her and Moore and she is nothing more than an attractive but pretty one-dimentional sexual conquest. For an MI6 agent she is hopeless - Christmas Jones was never this inept.
Maud Adams is by far the better of the 2 Bond girls as her character has something resembling an intelligent personality.
So...ok but not great, probably 18 on my list.
5/10
Both are believable gadgets that hardly act as a transformative element for the character.
It's Bond, not The Rocketeer :)
Even Conners got tired of the emphasis on gadgets/technology over character.