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Good review, @ThighsOfXenia!
Have always had a love/hate relationship with this film. I never felt it realised the potential of Dalton's Bond after the brilliant TLD.
I still feel that way but after a recent Bondathon I'd put this higher than any of the Brosnan films.
It has some scenes I really don't like and Dalton's performance sometimes misses the mark, especially when his dodgy accent comes through.
But when it's good it's a cracking Bond film. The whole Wavecrest sequence is the best thing in the film. Intense and beautifully edited. The PTS is also really cool.
Thankfully it's got a wonderful supporting cast. Robert Davi is pure class and Carey Lowell is one of my favourite Bond girls. And of course features one of Robert Llewellyn's best performances as Q.
Michael Kamen's score is found wanting but it just about works in it's own way.
I think the title sequence should have been a complete revamp instead of the godawful old fashioned tired one we got. Perhaps an instrumental theme instead of the ill fitting song.
Do agree regarding Kamen, it was always the weak spot of LTK, but definitely disagree about Gladys Knights song, one of my favourites and so much better than aha and TLD! Binders title sequence was an improvement too, but it was definitively time for a change of titles designer (and I was Hopi g for a change again as I think Kleinman has run out of ideas!
Yeah, with the change to a new hard edged Bond film a revamped title sequence would have been a better move instead of sticking with the old (and tired) style.
Been avoiding watching Bond films in whole since DN on Bond Day in an effort to save them for a Bondathon leading up to NTTD next year, but I can't resist revisiting some favorite scenes lately. I love this part in TMWTGG so much. It's a flawed Bond film, but it has some seriously awesome moments like this one. TMWTGG has grown on me a lot lately.
Me too. It certainly flawed but it does have some good stuff in it.
I think the best thing about it is Moore's excellent performance.
His best, although FYEO and OP come close.
Yeah, I think it's definitely these three (I love how easy the role is for him in MR too, that uber-confidence and ease is infectious, so that's an honorable mention).
Our current era just lacks the exciting and unapologetic pace of the Brosnan years for me. TND's script is probably just one long storyboard but it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Having just received latest issue of 007 magazine special on it, I decided to watch Rogers 4th entry (re-entry?)
Really enjoyed this showing! Good fun, far more so than TSWLM! I was thinking as I watched, if you removed the gondola chase, the Rio sequence, and tightened up some of the editing, this would be much improved.
As it is though, there is loads to enjoy, pts, Basseys theme, Lonsdales Hugo Drax, the centrifuge scene, boat chase, Corinnes Dufours eerie death scene, Derek Meddings excellent effects, and best of all John Barry, this is really entertraining Bond movie! Love it!
You can get a seamless cut from Bond meeting Holly in Venice to Bond infiltrating the glass factory that evening by just jumping a chapter on the Bluray. Omitting the godawful Gondola sequence!
Still a massively entertaining Bond epic despite all the silliness 👍
Michael Lonsdales Drax is an overlooked villain. Love his droll delivery of lines, and he has some great ones.
Enjoyed this so much, I watched The Making of Documentary, with narration by Patrick Macnee.
Best parts are the genius ideas of Derek Meddings to get certain effects, usin g salt as a smoke trail on a rocket, and best of all, when the space station was destroyed in the film, Derek and co brought the model of it into a room.....and blasted it with a shotgun! Brilliant!
Yeah, the use of salt for the smoke trails was genius.
The effects in this film are quite stunning. One of the best looking Bond film's with all the money up there on screen. A real Bond epic. I really wonder if the series would have survived without Moore.
What else to be said. My annual viewing great as always! BEST BOND MOVIE! No question. Love everything about it. A shout out this time for Michael Reeds cinematography. Beautiful, from the pts beach scrap, to the majestic helicopter flight to Piz Gloria, and the bobsled chase gets a lot of praise, but I must say the stock car sequence is thrillingly staged.
I was thinking this time, at the devastating finale, would it have been better to finish the movie with Louis Armstrong's theme, or would that have been too much of a downer? Still, they were brave enough to go with that ending, if only they could of went that extra step!
I wouldn't say it's in my top 5 of Bond movies but definitely in the top 10 and a good movie with just some pacing issues in the second half.
It was better this time, somehow... although Roger Moore played Bond as a real a--hole.
Such a good film
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Curious to see where it places in my reranking. I've purposely avoided it so as not to spoil my viewing of Skyfall in concert.
For a long time this languished really low, but have somehow come to appreciate it a bit more. Yes, the humour tends to be sub par, (bringing back Sherriff Pepper was a mistake!) but there are nuggets of quality, most of them when Christopher Lee is on screen (though I would have loved to have seen Jack Palance in the role!).
I don't even mind Bond not appearing in the pts ( though I will not be pleased if rumours come true that 007 doesn't appear in NTTD pts!). The opening has a sense of the macabre about it...and who doesn't like Marc Lawrence returning (he should have been given a regular cameo as a thug!). Action wise this falls way short, apart from the fight scene in the dancers dressing room,(a lot tougher than most of Moore's scraps, guys having head smashed into walls and mirrors!)
Cast wise, Moore is really good, and his scenes with Lee are a standout, Maud and Britt look lovely, with Maud more alluring,
Production wise, it looks great, some really excellent visual moments. But you can't help feeling it could have been a lot better. They should have brought in a new Director, and kept the energy crisis stuff out of it. Anyway, not a bad viewing!
Agreed the idea of an assassin going after 007 is interesting enough to be a 2 hour film that the energy stuff really is not needed
You could argue it was the 'nadir' of the series, but for me Moore's performance rises it above certain other entries..
Well, surprise surprise, I actually enjoyed this viewing of my least favourite Craig Bond movie. It seemed pacier than usual, though I still think there's a lot wrong with it, I seem to be warming to Skyfall a lot more. The action is still poor, but it didnt seem as gloomy as my viewings of it up to now have been. (I will still never forget coming away from the cinema feeling very let down when I saw it first!)
Be interesting to see my next watch whether it still holds up!
What a bloody masterpiece this film is!
Doesn't put a foot wrong and delivers on every aspect in spades. Acting, script, direction and that wonderful score.
The only problem is no future Bond film will come close to this, including NTTD. It's that good.
If you don't like this are you really a Bond fan..? 😉
Just joking which is why I put the winking face there 😁
@Birdleson glad to hear it! As good as YOLT is I find GE consistently stronger across the board myself. A sure-fire Top 10 my whole life as a Bond fan thus far.