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GF started Bond trends, but it lacks the power that FRWL has. FRWL has aged beautifully, and is one of the most reliable of the series. DN is classic for its origin story, its intro to Bond and his world. TB is great, don't get me wrong, but it is more of a popcorn Bond film. I do adore the high stakes feeling though. And YOLT and DAF can go disappear, I have no care for them. YOLT has the great Bond/MP "I love you" scene, the Little Nellie fight, and of course the battle at Blofeld's volcano HQ, but other than that it isn't impressive by any means for me. DAF is a mockery of what it was supposed to be, a revenge tale continuing from OHMSS. But, no Irma Bunt in sight to pay for her actually KILLING TRACY IN THE FIRST PLACE! Instead we get a PTS with Bond getting "Blofeld" and that is all the anger we see from him in that regard. UTTER TRIPE. Tiffany Case is a brainless bimbo who cause 10X more problems than she tries to help, Mr. Wint and Kidd get on my nerves finishing each others sentences, and how about Charles Gray? The all powerful Blofeld who has brought his wrath on Bond all series long in an attempt to kill him is...IN DRAG! Gray is an absolute joke and Blofeld's death an absolute anti-climactic finish to a film that belongs in the trash. The original ending for the film would've been spectacular, but we are left with this garbage. Even Sean can't save the damn thing, and I am sorry that he ever had to be mixed up with Bond post TB. Diamonds may be forever, but the film itself can go rot away out of sight and out of mind.
Its also a shame Wai Lin never made a return :(
I myself have been working on TND today, but have been busy, so I've had to take breaks after watching about twenty minute intervals so far. I'm right up to the scene where Paris comes into Bond's hotel room. I really don't care for Paris, she's quite annoying, but it doesn't taint the movie for me, since she comes and goes rather quickly. The PTS is great, I love the thrill of the missile and the bombs on the plane, and everything following is good as well, especially the wrecking of the Devonshire with the Sea Drill and Carver working on his headlines. Can't wait for what's up-coming, especially the car chase in the hotel parking garage!
I think both the Dalton films are classic, but I think GF, TB, TSWLM, and a little bit GE and CR are the only ones really regarded as classics by alot of people.
However this is all outweighed by the bad. The film takes aaaaaaaages to get going. I appreciate the film is supposed to be a satire, but it isn't very funny. Niven as a introverted Bond who doesn't really "do" women is initially funny but just becomes monotomous, and the inclusion of Woody Allen as the villain just makes the whole thing feel so cheap, complete with an ending which really does feel tacked on.
I'm all the better for seeing it, as I can now claim to have seen all Bond films, and whilst there are some diamonds in it, they are very much in the rough.
I love this movie, it's my #3 Bond and for great reason! Pierce Brosnan rules this movie, the action is kicking and explosive, the locations are well shot, the music is great, the characters are varied and colorful, just everything about this one works out very well.
I watched this just now and I got to say that it's very, very good. Brosnan is doing great (IMO his best performance bar DAD). The action is really good and the movie flows well.
Next week I'll be seeing The Man with the Golden Gun. It'll be nice seeing it again since I don't really remember much of it.
Now, let me tell you all a very interesting story.
I saw the film... in class! That's right, we spent a little over two hours watching MR. Why? Because I recently discovered that MR is a great film to explain physics.
Some examples. I use the PTS to demonstrate free fall, relative velocity, weightlessness (to which we return when discussing the third act), air friction, kinetic energy and potential energy. Jaws knocking on the circus is the ideal example of energy transfer during collisions. Next we have the centrifuge scene. Perfect - and I mean PERFECT - to demonstrate centrifugal and centripetal forces, the kinematics of circular motion and the meaning of G forces. In Venice, the thug who falls in the water when the boat speeds away, helps to remind my students of Newton's first law (inertia). We get to friction (in a very convoluted way I must confess) with the medical stretcher, and some more dynamics involving Newton's second law (F = ma), momentum and the various conservation laws with the little boat chase near the water falls. Lastly, lifting off the Moonrakers effectively demonstrates Newton's third law (action - reaction) and the entire space station act serves as pretty much a complete summary of everything mentioned before.
Now, if I had more time, I could discuss other MR physics as well, but this will do for now. We only have so many lessons, you know. ;-) However, homework involves watching a film of choice (not necessarily MR or even a Bond film at that), and discussing at least 5 physical improbabilities / impossibilities presented in that film, involving our MR physics. ;-)
This is what I call mixing business with pleasure. :P
He also seemed to be more heavy-handed with Anders than was necessary.
Oh it doesn't matter, it's a hopeless case! I try every time to change my opinion about Goldfinger, but alas, it never works. I just need to admit that it is one of my least favorites. There's just nothing to this movie really, except for the first twenty minutes or so and the Fort Knox finale. Everything else is really poorly done and doesn't excite my Bond interests like many of the others in the series. While I love the characters of Goldfinger and Oddjob, Connery's performance is spot-on, and the soundtrack has its good moments, it just can't save GF from the bottom of the barrel.
I watched DN before that, and I really like it. It is entertaining despite not having much humour or many action scenes. Connery is good in it, even though he doesn't hold a candle against Moore IMO. He is not even close.
I also hated the ending. Does the henchman have to come after Bond at the end of every movie? The movie should have been over once the solar complex was destroyed. I know this has happened in the other movies, it just annoyed me in this one. It felt more like a tack-on ending.
Moore is king of every department.
I'm gonna try to explain why I like TMWTGG more than LALD.
LALD is at the lower end of my top 10. So I like it, even though it isn't a favorite. TMWTGG is my favorite movie of all time.
Roger does a great job in both films, IMO he was the ultimate 007 as soon as we see him in the beginning of LALD. He is equally good in both movies, IMO.
This round is a tie.
Goodnight is my favorite Bond girl, so she wins this round (but Solitaire is still hotter). I find Goodnight to be very funny and entertaining. I also prefer an agent to a voodoo girl. TMWTGG wins this round.
Mr. Big/Kananga is a good villian with some great lines ("At any cost, any, Bond must die"). But I don't think he is at the same level as Scaramanga, who in my mind is one of the best villians of the Bond series. And I think that the duel between Bond and Scaramanga is more interesting than the drug affair that is LALD. TMWTGG wins.
Nick Nack is my favorite henchman, but I must say that Tee Hee, Baron Samedi and the others in LALD are quite a good match. But TMWTGG wins this round too.
The secondary Bond girls, Rosie Carver and Miss Anders, are not my favorites, but I like Anders more. She is hotter too. Win for TMWTGG.
I think that TMWTGG is great all the way through, while LALD drags a little from when Bond leaves New York until he and Solitaire leave San Monique. I also think that LALD loses its Bondesque identity a couple of times (briefly, like in the boat chase), while TMWTGG remains solid in this department. And I don't like the "card crap", as Mr. Big says. I just don't think that stuff belongs in a Bond movie.
Another win for TMWTGG.
TMWTGG doesn't have many action scenes, while LALD is rather stocked (or fully loaded, I think is the term). TMWTGG has a great car chase, a good karate and boat chase, a good hand to hand fight and the klimax of course. LALD, on the other hand, has a good boat and bus chase, a great car/airplane chase and a fantastic klimax on San Monique, + the fight with Tee Hee. I also love the crocodile scene.
So this round goes to LALD (with a very slight edge).
All in all, I prefer TMWTGG, as you see.
I think Dr. No has the right balance of action and humour. I wish the contemporary Bond films had the same balance of action, dialogue and humour. Or atleast similar to FRWL.
Although I like DN very much, for my taste it's lacking in both the humour and action departments. I do agree the contemporary films seem to struggle to find the correct balance but I wouldn't hold DN up as a shinning example, I would of thought FRWL and OHMSS are far better examples of doing Bond well.