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The Most Hated Bond Endings

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  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
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    chrisisall wrote:
    ReneMathis wrote:
    The robot dog shower scene monstrosity in AVTAK. "Oh James"??? Oh No.
    I forgot how bad that was...
    LOL I never noticed this part until one viewing when I had the volume up higher than usual:

    'Whoop- I've dropped the soap'
    'I'll get it!'
    'That-- is not the soap.'

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  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    FRWL is defiantly bad but one that I never liked is GE. It just ends to abruptly. Kinda like TB.

    I used to think that Bond being with a woman was essential to a Bond ending. But Daniel Craig has had the best endings in the series. All 3 made me want to stand up and cheer. The ending to Skyfall (Bond finally meeting Moneypenny, walking into M's classic office) reduced to me to a giddy fanboy. Oh what a moment!

    The interesting thing about TB is that there is almost no dialogue for the final quarter of that film. Just visuals and action.

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
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    Master_Dahark wrote:
    I could even put my opinion in the controversial opinion thread, but here goes: save for maybe Dr. No, I don't really like any of the Connery movie endings!

    But my least favorite must be TMWTGG, most notably for that AWFUL little song at the end, and the fact that Moore totally implies that he killed Nick-Nack-- which I would have found awesome-- only to show him safe and sound in that cage.

    'Oh James, you didn't.....?'
    'Oh yes I bloody well did!'

    To me, that sounds like he tossed his midget ass overboard

    That wretched song most definitely is not a help. Outside of that I rather like Gun's ending.

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    ReneMathis wrote:
    The robot dog shower scene monstrosity in AVTAK. "Oh James"??? Oh No.

    Definitely a high cheese factor in that one.

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    The ending of AVTAK has two elements that make it worth our time:
    Q and Barry's smooth rendition of the AVTAK main theme.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,117
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    FRWL is defiantly bad but one that I never liked is GE. It just ends to abruptly. Kinda like TB.

    I used to think that Bond being with a woman was essential to a Bond ending. But Daniel Craig has had the best endings in the series. All 3 made me want to stand up and cheer. The ending to Skyfall (Bond finally meeting Moneypenny, walking into M's classic office) reduced to me to a giddy fanboy. Oh what a moment!

    The interesting thing about TB is that there is almost no dialogue for the final quarter of that film. Just visuals and action.

    I actually love it, the last part including the very final scene. It is to the point, no cheesy dialogues between Bond and Domino, she is just swept away, literally.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    And that may for another thread, but how to make Bond end up with the girl AND not repeat the GF ending variation we have been having since... well, very often.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Ludovico wrote:
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    FRWL is defiantly bad but one that I never liked is GE. It just ends to abruptly. Kinda like TB.

    I used to think that Bond being with a woman was essential to a Bond ending. But Daniel Craig has had the best endings in the series. All 3 made me want to stand up and cheer. The ending to Skyfall (Bond finally meeting Moneypenny, walking into M's classic office) reduced to me to a giddy fanboy. Oh what a moment!

    The interesting thing about TB is that there is almost no dialogue for the final quarter of that film. Just visuals and action.

    I actually love it, the last part including the very final scene. It is to the point, no cheesy dialogues between Bond and Domino, she is just swept away, literally.

    I like it, too. It's certainly unique in all of Bond.

  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    The ending of TB does feel somewhat rushed, but it's not the worst IMO.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    pachazo wrote:
    TMWTGG is too strange for words and not in a good way.
    I always liked the endings of Moore's first two! =D>
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    TMWTGG had already lobotomized itself early on, so I didn't mind further silliness toward the end. Ditto with AVTAK. In a ten car pile-up the late addition of another car is business as usual.
    Though TB ends with the girl-on-a-raft cliche, it does feature a terrific gagdet and, depending on which version you watch, one of Barry's most sweeping renditions of the Bond theme (not the guitar version). Fleming's original ending is one of his best and moodiest, but it would have been far too downbeat following the post-Goldfinger Bond boom. Perhaps it could be used in the Craig era...
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Revelator wrote:
    TMWTGG had already lobotomized itself early on, so I didn't mind further silliness toward the end. Ditto with AVTAK. In a ten car pile-up the late addition of another car is business as usual.
    Though TB ends with the girl-on-a-raft cliche, it does feature a terrific gagdet and, depending on which version you watch, one of Barry's most sweeping renditions of the Bond theme (not the guitar version). Fleming's original ending is one of his best and moodiest, but it would have been far too downbeat following the post-Goldfinger Bond boom. Perhaps it could be used in the Craig era...

    Yes, and HELL yes.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Ludovico wrote:
    Revelator wrote:
    TMWTGG had already lobotomized itself early on, so I didn't mind further silliness toward the end. Ditto with AVTAK. In a ten car pile-up the late addition of another car is business as usual.
    Though TB ends with the girl-on-a-raft cliche, it does feature a terrific gagdet and, depending on which version you watch, one of Barry's most sweeping renditions of the Bond theme (not the guitar version). Fleming's original ending is one of his best and moodiest, but it would have been far too downbeat following the post-Goldfinger Bond boom. Perhaps it could be used in the Craig era...

    Yes, and HELL yes.

    I third what Ludovico has bolded.

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,795
    Revelator wrote:
    TMWTGG had already lobotomized itself early on, so I didn't mind further silliness toward the end.
    For that remark you are hereby sentenced to watch CR '67 (minus the musical score) every day for one week.
    =))
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
    Posts: 1,778
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    Ludovico wrote:
    Revelator wrote:
    TMWTGG had already lobotomized itself early on, so I didn't mind further silliness toward the end. Ditto with AVTAK. In a ten car pile-up the late addition of another car is business as usual.
    Though TB ends with the girl-on-a-raft cliche, it does feature a terrific gagdet and, depending on which version you watch, one of Barry's most sweeping renditions of the Bond theme (not the guitar version). Fleming's original ending is one of his best and moodiest, but it would have been far too downbeat following the post-Goldfinger Bond boom. Perhaps it could be used in the Craig era...

    Yes, and HELL yes.

    I third what Ludovico has bolded.

    What was the ending?
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Reading is fundamental.
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
    edited January 2014 Posts: 1,778
    chrisisall wrote:
    Reading is fundamental.

    I absolutly agree but seeing as how I don't have a copy of Thunderball lying around I'd be happy to read your answer.

    But I understand it was a stupid request. After all why would anyone ask a question about James Bond on a James Bond message board? Madness.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    I absolutly agree but seeing as how I don't have a copy of Thunderball lying around I'd be happy to read your answer.

    Expecting a BOND fan to have Fleming novels, I must be silly. ;)
    Excuse my madness, please. [-O<

    Sorry, I can't resist. I'm a bad man... :-<
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    A few of my most hated:

    Dr. No- the ending music is horrendous and makes your ears practically bleed! Of course, the entire movie's soundtrack does that, so by the end of the movie you've become used to it.

    Goldfinger- WAY too quick; I mean seriously, it's as if the entire Air Force One climax was tacked onto the end merely to conclude that Goldfinger met his demise and Bond was triumphant in saving the girl. Personally, I would been more than fine if the movie ended with Bond boarding Air Force One, the jet flying off into the distance, and Goldfinger's ending whereabouts left to our imagination.

    Diamonds Are Forever- was that really the best way to dispatch of Wint and Kidd? I would have preferred some brutal battle of fisticuffs instead of a food fight gone wrong, with an incredibly embarassing "tails between his legs" pun tacked on to the end
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited January 2014 Posts: 17,795
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    I'd be happy to read your answer.
    Bond ended up in Hospital from his ordeal, unconscious.
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
    edited January 2014 Posts: 1,778
    chrisisall wrote:
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    I'd be happy to read your answer.
    Bond ended up in Hospital from his ordeal, unconscious.

    Now was that so hard? It's much easier to give a good-natured answer than to be smart ass. Just my philosophy.

    And no I don't have all the Fleming novels. Just CR, LALD, and OHMSS. I do have other things to do once in a while.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,795
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    Now was that so hard? It's much easier to give a good-natured answer than to be smart ass.
    Seriously, 'smart ass' is my way, and I maybe have to look to that.
    Anyway, I loved the ending in the novel, but it wouldn't have worked back in the 60's as a crowd-pleasing ending.
  • Matt007Matt007
    Posts: 1,314
    Skyfall has the best, punch the air ending.

    Worst. FRWL is perplexing. The shot of the film in the river is enough. We don't need the matte lined waving goodbye/doing a shadow dog from bond.
  • SuperheroSithSuperheroSith SE London
    Posts: 578
    Matt007 wrote:
    Skyfall has the best, punch the air ending.

    Worst. FRWL is perplexing. The shot of the film in the river is enough. We don't need the matte lined waving goodbye/doing a shadow dog from bond.

    http://annyas.com/screenshots/images/1963/from-russia-with-love-end-title.jpg

    This has to be the weirdest thing Connery has done. Besides turning Japanese, of course.
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
    Posts: 4,409
    Bond films typically have terrible endings. By endings I mean usually the last couple of minutes before the credits roll.

    There was no template of such during the Connery years on how Bond films should end (despite them all ending with Bond in a boat). But since then the films have all had default screensaver type endings, ie; Bond and the girl, couple of terrible pun etc.

    Here are a few examples:

    LTK - Bond has been out for revenge the whole film and after finally killing Sanchez looks exhausted, relieved and slightly beat. Suddenly we cut to a huge party scene in Sanchez's villa, Bond is on the phone to Felix talking about going fishing. Really?! Felix's wife just got killed and Bond hunted down the man responsible and that's all the film has got? Tonally it's such an odd shift for the film to take.

    TWINE - After stopping Renard and Electra somehow M is safely back in London and Pierce is in Turkey dropping some Roger Moore worthy puns.

    The best endings of the Bond series are OHMSS, CR and SF, mainly because they are willing to be different and those endings better suit the stories those films tell opposed to the usual cookie-cutter ending.
  • delticminerdelticminer
    Posts: 115
    I actually like the Licence to Kill ending, the strange tonal shift that it is, and from when Bond jumps into the pool until just before the fish winks it's a wonderful ending.

    Most of the Roger Moore endings are pretty bad, TMWTGG and AVTAK (cringe) sticking out from the crowd (although I like the endings to TSWLM and Moonraker, even though they more or less sum up the reasons why I hate Roger Moore's Bond)

    TWINE is a film of two sides in my opinion, and the ending definitely falls into the 'bad' side. Christmas, it seems, only does come once a year...
  • boldfingerboldfinger
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    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    one that I never liked is GE. It just ends to abruptly. Kinda like TB.
    I like the ending of GE quite a lot as far as the scene itself is cocerned, but the song played over it is the single worst thing that ever happened to a Bond ending.

  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited January 2014 Posts: 4,516
    QOS real end (I Never Left) be the best ending of Daniel Craig era. The Hotel ending i am not realy big fan from like TMND stealboath end of TMND. Skyfall (Home Alone / London skyfall) close to match with Goldeneye, exept the flaws like ice scene, M death and Eve. That part be my third favorite after QOS real end . Submarine from Twine be my 4th favorite.

    5/8 TMND Stealth Boat
    6/8 QOS Hotel Fire
    7/8 Casino Royale
    8/8 Die Another Day (From Laser Fight to the end..)

    I not like the Bond James Bond qoute at the end of CR because of the set up of the movie. The sinknig house also not be one of the best things. Because i not give much about the set up of the movie/Vesper i don't care about her death.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote:
    I'd be happy to read your answer.
    Bond ended up in Hospital from his ordeal, unconscious.

    Now was that so hard? It's much easier to give a good-natured answer than to be smart ass. Just my philosophy.

    And he gets up asking for Domino and joining her, long story short (and my memory may be faulty at some point). It would make for a great ending. The ending of LALD too, with M allowing Bond "Passionate Leave".
  • GerardGerard
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    SuperheroSith wrote:
    This has to be the weirdest thing Connery has done. Besides turning Japanese, of course.

    You obviously haven't seen Zardoz.

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