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I would have added LTKs speargunning the seaplane to escape the underwater villains. One of the best and exciting escapes from Bond!
Not quite, I voted for FYEO. ;)
Anyway, it's done and dusted.
For me the OHMSS escape is the most daring (and scary) of the ones offered. Using your pockets as (no doubt) slippery gloves to safe yourself by climbing a moving cable is scary as can be to me, considering the drop.
LALD should get an honourable mention though, as the fascinating escape from Dr. No, albeit not on the list. Then again, Bond has some increadably daring escapes!
But what's missing is LTK. The underwater-to-water skiing-to-seaplane is one of the best escape scenes in the series.
I'd actually have to vote for LALD, but with so many votes already there I go with GE because I like how it's combined with the triangulation which is successful, but not completely. OHMSS provides several minutes of an enjoyable scene, TLD has one of my favourite fight scenes, and FYEO.. great adventure
True. That would have been a serious competitor.
The only argument I can find against its inclusion here, is that Bond was technically never captured to begin with.
That might be another competition: most stylish escape! ;-)
Yeah, it could easily be :)
Tricking a young and impressionable person half your age into sex is okay if they say they liked it afterwards? Let's just say we operate in different moral worlds!
That is wonderful. It's weird though: it's such a good idea that I sort of feel like it should make more of an impression than it does in the movie. It should be one of the iconic Bond moments but somehow it isn't... is it the direction or editing or music or something?
Same, but the LALD scene is also right up there.
Brosnan did always look unflappable even when escaping. He is up there with Moore in my opinion.
While that is a fun and creative escape, let's be honest, it's more about luck than anything else. The crocs just line up in the right position to allow Bond to escape and it's rather, as someone else said, effortless without a wrinkle in his clothes or a hair out of place and less dangerous than it should've seemed. Is it because of that behind-the-scenes outtake where Ross Kananga's shoe get nipped by one of the crocs that helps? What I really liked in that scene is when Bond tries to use the magnet watch to get to the canoe that's tethered. That would've been a copout, but also, how would a canoe have helped Bond against crocs? Also factor in the Batman '66 scenario of the villains leaving before knowing the heroes are dead.
I'd take the OHMSS escape behind my pick. Bond is thrown in a freezing location, no gadgets and just ingenuity. The editing really helps here as Bond has to struggle to try and escape here.
My vote is for FYEO, a film I don't even like that much. It's the overall danger of that scenario. Not just Bond, but his companion tied together and pulled over razor-sharp coral with sharks in the water attracted to the blood. There's also the potential of drowning if that doesn't get them first or being run down by Kristatos and his minions' boat. It's Bond having to again use no gadgets, just ingenuity and resourcefulness to get them out of it. Moore Bond actually gets injured and has a tough time. The only downside is the too convenient air tanks at the archeological sight, but that's minor as the tough work was behind them.
I think when you're talking Batman villains, you have to acknowledge that Blofeld was perhaps not thinking hugely clearly when he locked the commando-fit secret agent in a room with a massive open hole in the wall and a cable leading through it! :) Bond didn't have to be very ingenious to figure out how to escape from there :D
Plus I think that one's always slightly compromised by the shot at the end when he see him on the pylon on top of the cable car and how he's made an absolutely impossible jump to where he ends up!
Yes, the end of the OHMSS sequence is a bit a downer. Absoultely impossible. (Yes, a lot in Bond movies wouldn't work in reality but OHMSS has a Special tension because it feels much more real in general...and this cut is distracting. Anyway, a great escape Scene and I think it would deserve to win here.
Nevertheless, the croc scene is my personal favourite of These five moments. I love this LALD moment. The moment when the first croc walks on his Little Island we can really feel the danger and the stunt is awesome because they always used real animals.
I love all shark scenes in the Bond movies but the one in FYEO isn't as exciting (for me) as it should be. Maybe because the Bondgirl couldn't be filmed under water...and the unbelievable ending doesn't help: Bleeding Bond and and Melina are never harmed by sharks but the henchman (not bleeding) is killed immediately.
I like the score during the prison fight in TLD but it has no chance compared to LALD and OHMSS.
Did I understand it right? You mean the GE escape out of the train? It is a good scene but can't win here.
Yeah, the buzzsaw watch is at least really cool (I love a gadget where the form of the object actually suits the new purpose Q has given it: the bezel becomes a rotating saw blade- genius!). The laser watch is just a laser stuck onto something, it's pretty dull (and stealing a gadget from NSNA isn't a strong move). Plus it has a weirdly stretchy laser beam!
:)
Yeah, I think the Wavekrest escape is easily the best escape in the series. The components of the getaway are set up clearly and elegantly, but you would never be able to see it coming. And Kamen really shines in this moment.
But rather than moan and not vote, I'll say LALD is a solid second. Like LTK, it offers a satisfying and surprising solution to the question mark the viewer has over his head.
Yeah that's a good point. I think half of the value of Bond (and a proper moment where the Bond theme kicks in) is that he thinks laterally in an action situation and sees a way where no-one else would: a harpoon becomes a water-ski, a tank becomes a pursuit vehicle in a a city, a plane with no wings can become a large skidoo, crocodiles become stepping stones, a passenger in a jet's ejector seat can become a missile to take out an enemy jet etc. I like it when he does something unexpected and crazy and makes it work. Which is why some of the ones on the list don't appeal quite as much: in OHMSS for example how else is he going to escape other than through the huge great hole in the wall? :D It's not very inventive.
This sequence is the counter-example for those who disparage Glen as director.
The man knows how to put together an action sequence, because of all of his Bond experience in the '60s. And the underwater scenes do not drag.
(And I really like, AVTAK aside, how Glen brought more Fleming back to Bond.)