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Your least favorite Bond fights
There are a lot of great action scenes in the Bond movies, but which ones do you find the worst? Here is a list of the ones I was disappointed with:
Bond vs Rosa Klebb- too short, ended poorly
Bond vs Goldfinger- too short, very disappointing after wiating for an epic climax with one of Bond's best adversaries
Bond vs Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd- would have liked to have seen something more in line with the novel; I hate Tiffany Case's uselessness, especially when she throws the cake (dreadfully pitiful), and I loathe Wint's expression when Bond straps the bomb to his tie.
Bond vs Kananga- too short, very anti-climatic, cheesy death
Bond vs Jaws in Atlantis- way too short, not enough fighting, too much cheesiness; I expected something better, especially from one of Bond's best henchmen
Bond vs Jaws on Cable Cars- need I explain?
Bond vs Sanchez- a bit boring, and too short (seems to be a recurring theme here!)
Bond vs Renard- just plain horrid
Bond vs Rosa Klebb- too short, ended poorly
Bond vs Goldfinger- too short, very disappointing after wiating for an epic climax with one of Bond's best adversaries
Bond vs Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd- would have liked to have seen something more in line with the novel; I hate Tiffany Case's uselessness, especially when she throws the cake (dreadfully pitiful), and I loathe Wint's expression when Bond straps the bomb to his tie.
Bond vs Kananga- too short, very anti-climatic, cheesy death
Bond vs Jaws in Atlantis- way too short, not enough fighting, too much cheesiness; I expected something better, especially from one of Bond's best henchmen
Bond vs Jaws on Cable Cars- need I explain?
Bond vs Sanchez- a bit boring, and too short (seems to be a recurring theme here!)
Bond vs Renard- just plain horrid
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Scaramanga's for all the build-up also seems uneventful to me.
Agreed! It is just a little disappointing. Personally, I think it would have been better if Bond and Scaramanga engaged in a fist fight, and then Bond could kill him with his own Golden Gun, you know, something ironic like that. If you think about it, Bond is constantly using his enemies' own weapons against them. He killed Red Grant with his watch, killed Oddjob partly using his hat, Wint and Kidd using their flaming sishkabobs and bomb dessert, Tee Hee by making his mechanical arm malfunction, dropped Jaws into the shark tank using his metal teeth and a magnet, etc.
yes i agree with @Samuel001 about Scaramanga
i dont have many least favourie but here i would put vs Kananga too
i dont have many least favourie but here i would put vs Kananga too
Definately! Way too short for a main villain fight, boring, stiff, and exceptionally cheesy at the end.
The Brad Whitaker fight must have also just been tacked on at the end of The Living Daylights, just an awful ending to a great film.
Agreed! It's as if the directors remembered, "Oh, wait a minute! We forgot about Whitaker. Okay, we'll just let him shoot up his war-themed fun house in a failed attempt to kill Bond." Should have been more thought out.
The cable car scene over Rio with Kiel also, wasn't really a fight as such, merely leaping about to very bad background scenery, the best fight scene arguably was with Chang in Venice. I would of liked to have seen him have a proper tussle with Mayday, Ms Jones would most likely have whipped his backside but it would of been something to see
Also in The Spy who loved Me there was some little action at the Pyramids, not the best or worst for Moore fights, although can be painful viewing sometimes. If you watch closely whenever Moore is confronted with some bad guys or hand to hand combat he usually pulls a face, see Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only for classic examples
Just to keep things fair Brosnan had an awful sort of battle in the steam room with Onatopp in Goldeneye, it was all a bit embarrassing for all concerned
Lazenby on the beach too for OHMSS teaser, not that bad a battle, but I took issue with Bond and rivals fighting on the shore and next second about half a mile out in the ocean, although Lazenby redeemed himself with a classic fight with one of Draco's henchmen in a hotel room
Okay, I disagree about Brosnan's acting, but I agree that the sub fight with Renard is definitely one of the worst. We MI6 members have had many a discussion about this terrible fight!
I don't mean his acting all around, but usually when a scene needs a great acting job we get pain face galore and miss out on a vulnerable Bond both mentally and physically. Come to think of it, one of Pierce's best acting moments would be the intimate time Bond and Natalya spend together before the big climax of GE. Pierce CAN act, but sometimes the scripts and scenes he acts in don't offer too much in the way of showing it. I too hold too much against him, but I'm only human.
after all the buildup the fight was so one sided in Bond's favor. Made me yearn for the old Red Grant days...
Mr Kil
Stupid with the CGI lasers Bullshytt.
Scaramanga
Kinda anti climatic and zzzz
I've mentioned this before but won't add any Youtube things to it, people know full well this scene offers some cringeworthy scenes and unintentional humor. 'You zeem very conzerned abot Meester Carfers beeznis' -, 'He vants to know why', 'Put him in ze chair, maybe we play leetle number on zis head' etc, a few genuine laugh out moments during that bit whenever I see it. Even Rickman was more convincing in Die Hard
Brosnan was still capable for hand to hand combat in his second outing, but instead of some tangible hard men we get three of four rotund, out of condition old men trying to beat up on Brosnan, who makes a bit of a meal of it even, before laying the last one out with an ashtray that just conveniently happens to be laying around. 'Stumper?, er Stumper?, er, (crash). Tomorrow Never Dies for me is a very poor release but it does have one or two redeeming qualities such as what took place here
- Bond vs. Scaramanga... even though it's the better part of the movie, it's an anticlimactic showdown - as the PTS almost gives away how Bond will defeat Scaramanga.
- Bond in AVTAK... Rog was getting up there in years - and his fist fighting wasn't too good when fresh into the role, now at age 58, it just looks like a man moving in slow motion.
- Bond vs Renard... for a man who is supposed to feel no pain, Renard sure does react to a lot of abuse - very anticlimactic... and if you watch the scene closely, where he and Bond have eachother by the throat, Renard never really clasps his hands around Bond's neck, his thumbs are a mile away from Bond's throat - it's quite silly, and I am shocked Apted didn't catch this when filming.. i've seen professional wrestlers do better lol.
- Bond vs Graves... the first image i get, is Bond being electrocuted by Star Wars style force lightning.... such a terrible low in the series... I remember before seeing the film, a lot was made up of Brosnan being more physical this time around - and after seeing it, I thought his physicality was no different really, except for maybe the sword fight.. but if we are talking fist fights - then i saw no improvement... the fight at the end of Goldeneye still stands as the apex of Brosnan's fighting skill.
they fell into the typical trap of constantly trying to one up themselves..