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Actually, as a very young child I saw the last third of OHMSS and I was happy seeing Tracy was dead... because it meant Bond would remain available for Bond girls in the future. One can be so cruel as a child. I had only seen half of TB and half of LALD before.
Yes, Bond, in a semi-delirious state, and covered head to toe with wounds, demands to see Domino, who is in equally bad shape in another hospital room. After much demurring, the medical staff finally agree and Bond shambles into Domino's room, waking her and then collapsing at her bedside. Domino gazes fondly down upon Bond, and then falls asleep.
Do you mean Domino? Or am I the one mixing the two endings? In any case, it would work so well for Craig's Bond.
Yep. My mistake. Corrected. Just finished reading LALD tuther day and Solitaire must still be on my mind.
I think that they used something along those lines in a foreign title for Thunderball!
You can work on whatever you want. I kind of got past that snarky small aleck phase when I was 17. Now I like to treat people like adults. But I don't know how old you are so I won't judge.
Touche
DN isn't very good but is because of the music, DAF is too cheesy, and I really hate that winking fish in LTK.
I though like TMWTGG, it seems to be very much in tone with the whole movie. The ending of FYEO isn't, but I can't help to find it very funny.
No, you actually raise an interesting point there that I'd never even considered before, so thanks for that @rocketgun83.
Still getting my head around quite how Bond got Nick Nack to the top of the mast in TMWTGG, but there we go then.
Cinematically the best ending is OMHSS, but my favourite has to be Casino Royale, especially since it was the first Bond film I saw, so therefore the first time I experienced the 'Bond, James Bond' line.
And aside from my personal reasons, it's just so damn awesome.
The ending of OHMSS was always going to be the best due to its emotional content and shere guts to do so. No happy ending for a change. For me that is were CR failed, the story ends unhappy but the movie did exchange the drama for action and awesomeness. It seems to me EON had learned not enough since the OTT ending of DAD. The final part of CR makes the movie for me good instead of great. Campbell & EON dropped the ball seriously.
As for FYEO's ending, I didn't consider it mockery at all, rather a bit of harmless, playful parody.
For me, the most annoying/worst endings of Bond films are:
FRWL - the horrible back projection; otherwise a truly great Bond film
LTK - I like the happy ending in the pool but the winking fish was very stupid and annoyingly campy and did not fit this film for a second, including in a happy ending
TWINE - the Christmas line was a groaner, for sure; not good, and I was so sick of her character (although Bond getting the babe at the end is a good thing, I hated the dialog)
OHMSS - I don't like this film at all, but the wedding thru Tracy's death was well handled and yes, she dies in the book ... but I still don't like the ending because it is such a horrible downer, terrible way to end a film. They could have started DAF with her death and made that into a better film (and should have changed a good bit of DAF if that had been done, of course)
Personally, I just laugh at FYEO and don't mind it one bit. that is one of my favorite Bond films.
I find the ending of AVTAK stupid but it doesn't bother me so much, probably just because it's Roger and we don't really see them (thank goodness).
Nic Nac getting tied up high on the mast is pretty stupid, too, but he annoyed me a lot the entire film, so the ending didn't really bother me.
DAD's actual ending was blah, but not horrible (diamonds in Jinx's navel). I do not include the Moneypenny scene as part of the ending (although it did not bother me at all; I thought it was just amusing, and I always liked Samantha's Moneypenny).
People have mentioned the awful Die Another Day and View to a Kill endings. Have to wholeheartedly agree on that. It's a pity that some of the James Bond actors last scenes witnessed are so stupid and embarrassing. (Moore 85, Brosnan 2002 as mentioned)
As before the winking fish from License to Kill was ill advised and unnecessary. After all the raw material and seriousness that came before, it's as if they decided to put a red nose on top or insert a little feel good factor right at the end - and it fails drastically. Real shame in retrospect that Tim Dalton had to leave the franchise in that manner
Also no time for Goldfinger (both as a film and the end itself) as Bond and Auric have a mid-air battle that last for a few seconds, the viewer gets to take in very little, before said Bond and Blackman fall to earth moments later with the "This is no time to be rescued". Poor film, poor ending
I think that you should have visited the UK and you would have found that a lot of people, right and left as you like to divide the world, had a strong dislike of Thatcher and her politics and what they actually meant for a lot of people. Which was not positive at all. There was a lot of hate towards her person and goverment.
The UK also has a two party system, currently 3, which are both rather on the right as well with their ideology.
The UK unlike the US still has its unofficial classes and even more so during the Thatcher years.
The fact that EON dared to do a thing like Thatcher looking a bit silly has for me a more political message than anything else.
A lot of people loathe whoever is in charge, yet enough people loved Thatcher to ensure her continued reelection. That is the bottom line. And the notion that the UK even has a "right" is laughable in the extreme. Then again, when you live in Sweden, Trotskii looks like a foaming righty, I suppose.
When I lived there I did ask why they voted for her, the general consencus was that there was not much choice anyhow. Just as the average Brit would say today labour or conservative what is the actual difference?-
And Trotski was even for the Communist Goverment run by Lenin a thorn in his side, not as much in a political sense but when it came to power.
I love the FYEO ending because of its rare political statements in its long history.
They are both and work both well enough as Roger Moore vehicle and/or cold war spy thriller.
Margaret Thatcher was a nasty, snobby, evil woman and there are plenty of reasons people hate her. Hillsborough, her pro Apartheid views, etc. And then there are all the communities she destroyed in the north when she closed down mines.
Coincidentally, I found this on Youtube today. The always brilliant Ricky Tomlinson slagging her off.