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Interesting.Besides looks i cant understand why Bond would fall in love with Vesper as she was very annoying.
And i love the '' He had lots of guts! '' line! One of Bonds best one liners and brillaintly delivered by Lazenby.
By set up you mean the wedding? Yes I agree.
Yes I do.
Also I think the parkour should have been the PTS. That would have made for a nice fake-out. This incompetent agent stumbles around, speaking to someone on the radio, but we can't hear the voice of who he is speaking to. Then once the bad guy sees him and starts running, pan up and Bond is overlooking the whole thing. This guy is the real agent 007! This would also cut out all the "Bond gets his license" backstory at the start of the film.
My opinion is that you don't need to understand the specifics of the card game. I don't. But I understand the broader strokes and the artistry. Its the music, the cinematography, the shots and the acting that come together through the movements of the film to tell a story that needs only be comprehended tacitly. The card game is just the subject matter, and in my eyes is not important.
I still think that the simpler game lends itself more to film.
I always felt had Brosnan starred in CR, the parkour scene would have been the PTS (Bond would have been wearing something a bit more stylish as well), and the Bond getting his 00 status would have been dropped.
I agree about Baccarat as well. Texas hold'em dates the movie, as it was very 2006. Just like the Domination game dates NSNA. Baccarat is timeless.
Also Craig's attire bugs me in the parkour scene.
Yeah, dad dancing at its best!
I agree with this.I think GE while a perfectly fine Bond film is overrated by many fans and critics.It is in fact pretty much as silly as DAD but the latter gets criticised as being the '' worst '' of the Brosnan era.The video game of GE was just SO good and i beleive nostalgia for the game makes fans view the film through rose tinted glasses.
LTK is a far superior Bond film but is seen as the one which nearly killed the franchise due to its less than stellar box office, being the last to feature Dalton which makes many beleive that he was '' fired '' from the role and being the one which caused the six year gap in between films.
Cary Lowell, Talisa Soto, Everitt McGill, Frank McRae, Priscilla Barnes and occasionally David Hedison are all quite bad.
Reminds me of Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. :))
Also Dirty Love. Worst Bond soundtrack song ever?
Yeah that was pretty bad. I don't think it's the worst soundtrack. I enjoy Kamen's work but the isolated bar/party music was pretty bad. Kinda like the Asian Bath music from AVTAK which I swear was also used in Death Wish 2 or at least something very similar sounding. :))
Amusing anecdote from Jon Burlingame's phenomenal book "The Music of James Bond" (which every James Bond fan worth his or her salt really must have on the shelf): the music for that scene was performed with a koto by an ethnic instrument specialist and was entirely improvised. They told him to go in the recording booth and just start playing. As this was at the end of an exhausting day, they fell asleep in the recording booth and after 20 minutes of improvisation the player asked over the intercom if they had enough for what they needed. 20 minutes of improvised koto. I expect that to show up in full on an expanded release of A View to a Kill's score some day. ;)
I think Dirty Love is supposed to be cheesy.Lets not forget it plays in a dive bar where thugs regulary hang out.It suits the scene.
"Dirty, dirty love!"
I can see where the GE criticisms come from, but the characters, the direction, and Campbell's direction of the characters makes it a great watch
LTK has a couple of shockers in 'Dirty Love' - indicative of cheesy 80s soft rock and 'if you asked me to' annoys me too. 'The experience of love' in GE is a shocker as is 'Make it last all night' from FYEO.