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This film has a very mean spirit to it.
Bond is horrible to everyone, Britt Eckland is an unfunny joke, M is too grumpy, Moneypenny was bad tempered and the only half sympathetic ally is subject to domestic violence and eventually dies.
Probably the cruelest Bond film.
Damn Lee was good.
Some great shots of the islands as Bond flies in too.
I think that line was for the audiences benefit. Shame it's like something you would hear in a Scooby Doo cartoon.
I think it feels needlessly cruel. Especially next to the cartoony moments in other parts of the film.
It's more crude than interesting to me.
Boom...Lee is down.
Luckily the mannequin's gun had bullets in it.
Agreed, horrible line. Moore in general is just given a weaker part to play in this movie. He's not like in the other ones.
Oh the (unfunny) highjinx.
Ok I'm cringing again
They do like that line in Bond.
Ok as crude as that line maybe I do like how Moore delivers it.
Overall not a good film. Cruel and muddled in tone with some unfunny farcical comedic characters and situations. But there are moments of greatness here and there. Thailand is photographed well and Lee and Moore shine when they are given good material.
You can certainly sense the washed out feeling this film has and it's not surprising really that the film underperformed when it first came out. It feels tired, bitter and angry but tries to force laughs.
Yeah. The Maud Adams arm-twisting scene is a shallow attempt at turning Moore into Connery, and then they give him a bunch of dickish lines and actions to make him seem tough. Instead he seems out-of-character once you've seen his other movies.
Doesn't help that there's only half a plot in this movie and almost everything that was wrong with Live and Let Die comes back for another one (unsurprising as it's Hamilton again). Agreed with Goodnight being insufferable. Worst Bond girl in the Moore era, even worse than Stacey Sutton.
John Barry's score is still good but I find it the weakest of all the ones he's done. Christopher Lee's about the only standout redeeming factor. Not enough, unfortunately; I still think this is by far the worst of Moore's seven outings. It hardly even feels like a finished movie to me.
"Goodnight? Goodnight?"
"Good night, Sir!"
They're the two weakest of Moore's but I rank AVTAK higher as it actually feels like a finished movie and doesn't have a good chunk that feels slapped in for cheap laughs to take up time. Plus Barry's music is better there which contributes to the atmosphere, as do the high stakes set up in that one. For this one I only notice the atmosphere in Scaramanga's funhouse, and you forget about whatever stakes exist after there's twenty minutes of irrelevant dojo karate and boating. Not to mention that while Sir Roger's aged considerably, I prefer his Bond there by far. Also, Bond's got a better sidekick, there's a slightly less insufferable Bond girl, the movie's still clearly influenced by the times but not so overtly, time isn't wasted mulling over minor plot points, etc. AVTAK's clearly better to me.
Only thing I can think of where TMWTGG is outright better is the ending. I'm not even sure if Christopher Lee is a better villain than Christopher Walken, but I do know that both go a long way to save their films.
...except the chase through Paris and the dire fire engine chase ;)
I agree with you on the score and kind of on Moore's Bond aswell. The Moore of MWTGG would have probably left Stacey to die in the city hall fire after saving himself.
lol
That's a pretty bad scene as well but we already knew that Zorin was framing Bond for the fire/murder so he would've had to get away from the police anyway. Hai Fat's karate school came out of nowhere to take up time, and they even managed to slip in a boat chase, a kid selling a wooden elephant and Sheriff Pepper as a tourist to take up even more time. None of which made sense. Pepper buying a car in Thailand made even less sense. X_X
He would've twisted Stacey's arm for pointing the gun at him and then threatened to break it unless she told him what Zorin's cheque was for.
I'm so glad Hamilton wasn't directing AVTAK because I can scarcely imagine Tanya Robert's screeching in such a scene.
He's quite pompous in Golden Gun I think.
I don't really want to see Moore doing a Connery Bond. I want to see Moore doing his Bond.
His leeriness and aggressiveness in GG though I feel almost goes too far. Connery wasn't quite as bad tempered as this.
Connery's Bond, or Richard Maibaum's Bond, could certainly get rough with the ladies. Are you forgetting how he slapped Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 movie From Russia with Love?
Moore could lead and command but he didn't have the rough streak. As such it's harder to imagine him being sent to kill someone.