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I disagree with @Benny .
The “person” reflected in the mirror is the ghost that haunts all 007 films; she was a past lover of Fleming’s. He told her she was the one and only, but in truth, he just needed a reader to edit his manuscripts before submitting to his publisher.
The problem is, she didn’t just read and edit, but re-wrote long passages from these books, elevating the material.
And now, she’s been damned to return to all Bond sets to oversee the productions.
Which finally leads me to my final point: the Aston flip in DAD wasn’t movie-magic or physics or anything of the like. It was her. The ghost. And everyone on set signed an NDA, not allowed to, or wanting to, discuss what happened on that day of filming…
Yes. Exactly.
She’s there.
She’s everywhere…
But she’s quite decent as a gatekeeper. When Broccoli came up with the brilliant plan of hiring Gavin, Brolin, and other Americans, she actually haunted these actors at every turn until they publicly moved as far away from becoming 007 as they could.
This requires a tie breaker vote, please only vote for the two that are tied!
Does the Klebbie belong to QOS Plane dogfight OR DAF Bond meets Bambi and Thumper? Both are tied with 6 votes a piece!
Bambi and Thumper goes my vote.
........ wait for it ........ DAF!
Plus, Connery's tie. Too short and too pink! :-t
The winner of the Klebbie is Bond meets and beats Bambi and Thumper it received 11 votes to Quantum Air Fight receiving 6 votes.
Lets stay with the Klebbies and give a kick in the shins to worst cue or sound effect added to a scene. The series has many highlights of great cues or effective sound effects. These nominees are times where maybe the best judgement wasn't used.
Here are the nominees:
This is by no means an exhaustive list so please feel free to write in a nominee that you feel has been left off.
Which one deserves the kick in the shins!
California Girls, the TMWTGG slide whistle and OP Tarzan yell are often mentioned in worst moments overall in the series, not just sound. I honestly never noticed the squealing tires on sand until somebody else mentioned it in a book or message board. IF the scene has you gripped it covers such things, whereas with things like California Girls it overwhelms the action and you're groaning at the lameness and not the filmmakers attempt at being cute.
In OP, the problem is Bond swinging on vines. It comes natural that there should be a Tarzan yell if one goes this route in the first place.
The DN "problem" is something that I never really noticed or that at least never irritated me.
The pseudo-Beach Boys music is meant to provide comic relief but ends up being cringy, though in a very cringy PTS doesn't make that much of a difference.
That leaves the slide whistle, which I have hated ever since seeing TMWTGG for the first time. What's worse, apparently it was John Barry himself who inserted it in his score. Shows that even John Barry could do wrong here and there. So this is my Klebbie candidate.
AVTAK is a close second, how fabulous this sequence would have been, had the Bond theme played instead of the Beach Boys hit!