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In that respect I'd put GF before that as FRWL is more of a straight thriller.
I think TLD harks back to the 60's while still retaining a modern Bond and still being very 'Flemingesque'
TLD is just the best Bond film ever made :-) It just has everything:
Great story
best Bond
great action
serious but not overly violent tone
great score
interesting locations
great actors
suspense
plot twists
best PTS
great pacing
no obvious plot holes, no bad writing or dialouge...
The film shows a more serious tone and moves away from the Moore era, however, still respects the tradition by keeping some of the gadgets, cars, Q and some of the rather lighthearted moments. It still feels very much like a traditional Bond film of the 60s with just a few extras installed.... :-)
Last time I watched it I did wonder, as the pipeline to the west had been perfected and Bond used it to get Koskov out (with Q and everyone waiting at the other end) why no one thought to let poor old Saunders in on it? His area, his plan and he knew nothing about it?
Poor sod.
Couldn't have said it better myself! :)
Still not sure about it but I thought that Bond as well as Saunders only knew a certain fraction of the whole plan. The pipeline part was so top secret that only few including Bond were informed. Saunders arranged the rest. However, I agree that it is not perfectly explained in the film.
TWINE Drop the act, it’s over?
TLD Felix and the girls
QOS “Cancel his credit cards”
AVTAK Bond makes quiche
TMTWMTGWTGG “NICK NACK! TABASCO!”
GE Ladies first goldeneye car chase
DAD Bond has sex with hinx
YOLT Helicopter magnet picks up a car
LALD M asks Bond, “How British am I?”
What does this list show? The weirdest scenes in the franchise?
1. Death of Tracy (OHMSS)
2. The Sniper Was a Woman (TLD)
3. Orient Express (FRWL)
4. Archangelsk (GE)
5. Tanker Truck Chase (LTK)
6. Swiss Banker (TWINE)
7. Dinner with Scaramanga (TMWTGG)
8. Escape from Piz Gloria (OHMSS)
9. Sincere Condolences (TB)
10. Funhouse Horrors (TMWTGG)
-"Bond... James Bond."/Bond's first introduction (DN)
-Bond vs. Donald Grant on the Orient Express (FRWL)
-Escape from Piz Gloria (OHMSS)
-"The Name's Bond... James Bond."/Bond shoots Mr. White, ending of CR (CR)
-Shanghai Sequence (SF)
-Night at the Pyramids (TSWLM)
-Tracy's Death (OHMSS)
-CR PTS (CR)
-GE PTS (GE)
-Bond kicks the car (FYEO)
Some, but not all, honorable mentions (so many amazing scenes):
Mr. White's final scene (SP), Laser scene (GF), Bond kills Professor Dent (DN), Dinner with Dr. No (DN), Golden Girl (GF), Volcano Lair Shootout (YOLT), Bond vs. Scaramanga (TMWTGG), LTK climax (LTK), TLD PTS (TLD), FYEO PTS (FYEO), Centrifuge (MR), Bond breaks into Osato Chemicals (YOLT), Bond vs. Oddjob (GF), Bond discovers Alec is Janus (GE), Motorcyle chase (TND), I never left (QOS), Battle at Skyfall (SF), TSWLM PTS (TSWLM), GF PTS (GF), Bond escapes the crocodile farm (LALD), Blofeld's first scene (FRWL), Golfing with Goldfinger (GF), Bond runs from Fiona (TB), Bond on the run in the village (OHMSS), Bond vs. Franks (DAF), Sword fight (DAD), Boat chase on the Thames (TWINE), Desmond Llewelyn's last scene as Q (TWINE), Bond vs. Hinx (SP), Bond meets Severine (SF), Night at the Opera (QOS), Airport mayhem (CR), Bond chases Mollaka (CR), Bond and Zorin at the City Hall (AVTAK), "It's all in the wrist"/Bond beats Khan at the casino (OP), Train sequence in OP (OP), etc. etc. (too many good ones to list off).
EDIT: Saw I posted here years ago! Oh well; here are more to add to that anyway.
60s-80s
GF: The PTS
GF: Bond meets Jill
GF: The laser table
TB: SPECTRE meeting
OHMSS: Dinner with the Piz Gloria girls
OHMSS: Bond proposes to Tracy
OHMSS: Tracy with Blofeld, "Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn..."
OHMSS: Death of Tracy
TLD: The sniper was a woman
TLD: Bond interrogates Pushkin
Honorable mentions: Bond meets Sylvia Trench (DN), Dent receives his orders (DN), Dent gets his six (DN), dinner with Doctor No (DN), brandy with Smithers and M (GF), Bond beds Fiona (TB), Draco's birthday/falling in love montage (OHMSS), Bond meets Solitaire (LALD), Kananga interrogates Bond (LALD), Jaws kills Fekkesh at the Pyramids (TSWLM), the centrifuge scene (MR), Bond lured to pyramid (MR), flight into space (MR), Bond confronts Orlov (OP), Zorin and Bond discuss horses (AVTAK), Zorin's airship speech (AVTAK), Zorin drops in on Bond and Stacey in City Hall (AVTAK), May Day's revenge (AVTAK), finding Leiter (LTK), licence revoked (LTK), preparing Sanchez's assassination (LTK), reuniting with Pam in Sanchez's pool (LTK)
90s-present
GE: Bond in Q Branch
GE: Bond meets Janus
TND: Bond turns the tables on Kaufman
TWINE: Bond at the banker's in Bilbao
TWINE: One last screw
CR: Dinner jackets and dinner jackets
CR: Bond introduces himself to Mr. White
QOS: Vespers on Virgin Airlines
SF: The enquiry scene
SF: Bond meets the new M
Honorable mentions: dealing with Valentin (GE), spa time with Xenia (GE), the lost art of interrogation (GE), Carver addresses his golden retrievers (TND), Bond learns a new tongue (TND), Bond awaits Carver (TND), infiltrating the printing press (TND), trading Gupta for Lin (TND), Q's goodbye (TWINE), ice with Elektra (TWINE), confronting Renard in the bunker (TWINE), Bond meets Vesper (CR), Le Chiffre interrogates Bond (CR), a night at the opera (QOS), wine with Mathis (QOS), escaping the hotel (QOS), "I never left" (QOS), anything in Shanghai/Macau (SF)
"Bond, James Bond" - DN
"You've had your six" - DN
Bond and Grant on the train - FRWL
Beach scene intro - OHMSS
Bond and the crocs seguing into boat chase - LALD
Bond at the pyramids - TSWLM
Lotus chase and dip into the Ocean sprouting fins - TSWLM
Dam jump and entire PTS - GE
Bond on the crane - CR
Bond in Shanghai - SF
1-OHMSS "I love you, I know I'll never find another girl like you"
2-TLD The sniper was a woman scene
3-Skyfall's Tennyson scene
4-Moonraker centrifuge scene
5-TLD Saunders's death and subsequent chase after ballon guy
6-Octopussy Twins pursuit of 009
7-Casino Royale defibrilator scene
8-Specter Hinx-Bond fight
9-TLD Pushkin interrogation
10-Mooraker Corrine Dufour being chased by Drax's killer dogs
Runner-up:
"Welcome to Scotland"
1 The PTS of CR.
2 The torture scene in CR.
3 The final scene of CR.
4 The Tosca sequence from QOS.
5 Bond's escape from MI6 at the hotel in La Paz in QOS.
6 Bond confronting Yusef and dropping the necklace at the end of QOS.
7 The Shanghai sequence from SF.
8 The helicopter attack during the finale of SF.
9 The final scene of SF.
10 The train fight in SP.
2. CR ending (more a moment than scene I guess)
3. Bond vs Red Grant
4. CR PTS
5. TLD defection sequence
6. Bond and Tracy in the stable
7. TLD hotel room scene
8. Bond consoling Tracy at the bullfight and the "All the Time in the World" montage
9. Xenia killing the general in GE
10.GF PTS
FYEO--Bond running up steps, shooting and killing Locque
TB--Bond and Domino underwater
TSWLM--Mojaba Club scenes with Bond, XXX and Max Kalba
CR--Bond striding to Casino Royale
CR--Bond gets poisoned
DN--Bond shoots Dent
MR--Centrifuge chamber
YOLT--Bond's "death, burial at sea and resurrection"
TMWTGG--Bond duels Scaramanga
It never ceases to amaze what some people consider great moments.
But unlike Tosca I guess that's what makes this series for everyone.
The music in the YOLT scene is beautiful which does help a lot.
2. Bond comforts Vesper in the shower. (CR)
3. Jaws attacks Manuela at Carvival. (MR) The lack of music, with only street sounds, adds to the suspense, here, as Jaws is revealed under the costume. Great scene. Too bad it's in the worst Bond film of all time.
4. Patrice falls to his death, Bond sees Severine, and then finds the chip. The lighting and Newman's "Modigliani" track are perfect. (SF)
5. The ski base jump. What's left to say? (TSWLM)
6. Bond and Camille venture through the desert. I love Arnold's Flamenco-inspired score here. (QoS)
7. Bond meets Plenty O'Toole, who is soon after thrown out a window. "I didn't know there was a pool down there." This is actually a sequence of scenes, but it still gets mad props. (DAF)
8.Bond wins the DB5 from Dimitrios. I just love the little knock on the table: "Aces win." (CR)
9. The bungee jump. (GE)
10. Bond kills a snake and then meets Rosie Carver. In any other scene or film, George Martin's score would be ludicrous, but it works here. (LALD)
2. DN. Bond's intro in the casino. What can one say, Connery just nails it and it's an iconic introduction to our favourite spy.
3. DN. Killing Dent. A cold blooded scene with Connery really being Fleming's Bond
4. FRWL. The gypsy camp. The whole sequence reeks of atmosphere and is straight out of the novel. Great action and the wonderful Barry music.
5. FRWL. Epilogue with Klebb. Cracking end to the film with Klebb's last attempt to kill Bond and get the Lecter. She is seriously scary in this scene!
6. TLD. Bond confronts Pushkin. The scene that had me hooked on Dalton. Brilliantly written and played. Dalton's Bond is pure Fleming.
7. OHMSS. The entire film after Bond escapes Piz Gloria. The film doesn't put a foot wrong from this moment on. The escape/Bond being rescued by Tracy/the stockcar bit/the wonderful scene in the stable/the assault on Piz Gloria/the toboggan chase and that ending. Just wow.
8. FYEO. Bond kills Loque. A satisfying bit of revenge for Bond. A seriously intense scene and Moore has never been meaner.
9. OP. Bond confronts General Orlov. A brilliantly well written and acted scene. Moore is just dynamite here and the brief shoot out is also class.
10. CR. Meeting Vesper. The scene that for me Daniel Craig was a Bond to be reckoned with. Great acting from both parties with nice dialogue. Even the blatant Omega reference can't ruin it.
That was bloody hard to choose just 10!
Thank God I missed that scene...no wonder they beat 10 bells out of eachother in SP !!
In other words................................kinky.
Thanks @GoldenGun
I had fun writing it. And so many other great moments could be added.
I don't care how historic a scene is. For example, Bond lighting up a cigarette and saying "Bond James Bond" wouldn't even be in the top 200 scenes. Lighting up a cigarette and talking with it in your mouth isn't sexy anymore, it's just silly.
Some people who know me, and that I like the darker Bond films (i.e. LTK and Craig era) might be surprised that I have some funny scenes in the top 10 like OP's circus scene or AVTAK golden gate bridge finale.
2. MR - space finale
3. DAF - oil rig/satellite
4. GE - satellite station
5. TMWTGG - Bond Island/Solex plant
6. LALD - boat chase
7. LALD - bus/plane chase
8. MR - Rio cable car
9. TLD - Russian airbase/plane
10. TLD - Aston Martin chase
The oil rig as one of the best scenes? This is defintely controversial.
Can hardly be topped.