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Absolutely agree with everything.
I now have The Experience of Love stuck in my head and I'm humming it in an obnoxious whispery tone.
Controversial opinion: well not really an opinion, but curiosity- would If There Was A Man have worked as the main title track to TLD? Especially after the dialogue in the PTS.
Interesting thought- but am glad it turned out as it did.
As I've said before, I have not problem whatsoever with the much lambasted scratching "Ladies First". I credit Serra with being a little daring, and its playful nature fits the scene and sexual flirtatiousness of Famke's Onatopp. She uses sex as a weapon after all.
Anyway, came here for something else entirely.
Gave Moonraker a rewatch and astonishingly enough I had a better time than with my last viewing of The Spy Who Loved Me.
Rog is great in both, but I like both villain and Bond girl better. The soundtrack is one of Barry's best and definitely an improvement over Spy's. The cinematography and set design are pretty much on par, but Moonraker does look a tad better I think.
At the moment, my favourite Moore outings are two of his most despised: The Man with the Golden Gun and Moonraker.
DAD gets a lot of flack, but TWINE is the most frustrating of Brosnan's films for me because I can picture what it could have been.
I like the gunbarrel music, title theme, and the Goldeneye Overture, but the rest is genuinely terrible.
I love all of it. Favourite non-Barry Bond soundtrack.
As soon as Bautista (who was very charismatic in the role), was cast, it was a step backwards. A further step into the Moore-territory.
I'd much rather see Bond battle "real" and desperate men, like Slate and Obanno (and his henchman).
It's my opinion that Bond, whether SC vs Grant, or DC vs the above, seems in real danger against real men. When Bond is against Hans, Jaws, Bautista-types, we know he's a-ok and we watch the tropes play out like a WWE fight.
Fighting Slate is fresh.
It wasn't quite mocking so much as it was criticism in jest. Realism bores me. I want escapism. Though I do immensely enjoy SC vs Grant.
The fight with Slate I find so unremarkable that I have little memory of it, much like the entirety of QOS. The CR stairwell fight is a good one, but whenever Craig-Bond begins "ruminating on the ugliness of the business" it detracts from the film for me. I like when Bond seems to be enjoying the adrenaline rush of his job, not when he's brooding about it. I do realize that this is the antithesis of Fleming's Bond, but I guess that's why I have more fun with the entries that stray farther from the source material. That said, in my last ranking of the films, I did have CR as high as 4th.
My controversial counter opinion: Hinx is far more believable as a menace and far more menacing than Jaws. So I'm very happy with him. Also glad he was not another poor man's Grant.
The Hinx fight, although well shot and choreographed, takes me out of the film a little. It's a little too WWE for my tastes.
I like to see the desperate battle with two "real" men-- drives the tension up. Both are getting cracked, bones smashed and they both bleed.
The Hinx fight, with no blood, was a cartoon battle compared to the earlier DC films. Hinx was the dominating force, unharmed, even by fire (twice), knocking the crap out of the hero, but, it was too one way, there was no tension; we all know Bond would somehow win.
But, in the earlier films, the fights were such a desperate struggle; there was an equal amount of give and take. They were well staged/performed, violent and visceral, and even as Bond was the victor, he was pretty mashed up, despite his best efforts.
I don't have to see another unshakeable henchmen in Bond again (I love my Odd-Jobs and Jaws', but they're too much of another era to be believable in the present day)
I'd lay a sizeable wager they didn't applaud after that?
Perfect for a Bond film. But they should mix it up over time, sure.