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Try Pepto-Bismol before viewing.
Repeated viewings are easier so medication is no longer required, but that first time certainly was a stomach churner in both cases.
SP is like a fancy French restaurant talking the same basic ingredients as a cheeseburger (aka, the formula), spreading them out on a plate with some garnish, and trying to pass it off as something original and artistic. And then they went and threw some horseradish on top to ruin it for no reason (aka, Brofeld).
You could just as easily use the beginning of the film, from the PTS to Bond taking the hit on Pushkin, to exemplify great characterization through. We get to learn everything about how Bond is in that section of the film, his principles (not killing Kara, his ability to think and not act on Pushkin's hit) and why he doesn't let his job turn him completely cold. Great stuff.
Just saying you could at times. Bond unfortunately has spent more time portraying a man very simple in characterization with an emphasis on thrills than a deep and human character, but when the movies actually get serious (DN, FRWL, TB, OHMSS, CR, QoS, etc) there are represented some of the best character building I've seen in any films. It's the mark of a great film and script that can tell you who Bond is without any dialogue needed, as he's not a very verbose man, with actions speaking for him beyond it all. But it's the films above that make this series special, because they make an effort to treat Bond as the complex and contrary man he was in the books.
Thank you. Finally, someone who gets it. Bond movies are not about Bond's emotional journey.
Oh yes, I agree with that as well, but as you say, it has become indulgent. Movies like OHMSS are special because they are one-offs. When attempts at adding emotional depth get drawn out over several films, it grows tired and starts feeling like a soap-opera. At this point it's just beating a dead horse.
I remember in my high school film class, after a year of Kurosawa and Kubrick and Wenders and Lynch (and so on and so on), we were shown a film in the action genre—sort of a year-end celebratory freebie. Our teacher considered GoldenEye, but ultimately showed us something else—naturally leaving me disappointed to no end.
I actually like the Icarus, but Jinx could have been better played by another actress, or an office chair. Literally anything would have been better.
I don't see it having quite the same appeal, but whatever floats your boat.
They're both fine until they start talking. Once that starts, then there's problems. I'd personally rather converse with the office chair.
@Some_Kind_Of_Hero
That was a marvellous post, sir. :D I had a good time reading it and besides that, I think I completely agree with you.
I'd like to fold that up, put it in my car and take 'er on holiday. The chair looks pretty nice too; good back support.
-TND (a thrill ride from start to finish)
-DAD (laughing through most of it)
-SF (I don't get the 'angst' argument I hear often. Bardem's Silva gives it an old school camp)
-TWINE (not really a fan, but Christmas raises the fun factor)
-CR (it's a lot of fun until the romance kicks in. Then it honestly becomes a 'drag')
-QoS (not really 'fun' per se. More 'intense')
-SP (don't see the 'fun' in this at all. Just strange).
I didn't rank GE because it's still a Cubby release to me (the last one while he was alive). If I did it would be top of this list.
"You can sit on it, but you can't take it with you."
"They're right in front of you, and can open very large doors."
;)
But I'm not the one who's lost his mojo I guarantee. :)
Agreed Mathis. To me it would have been a better movie if C was the one rounded up in London you could still do the helicopter chase and stuff. Leave it up in the air if Blofeld survived the blast in the desert. Then reveal him in the next film as the villain.
I felt like the London climax was tacked on and felt contrived to me.