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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    If only Bach was a better actress!

    Bach is wooden though I do like her and it kind of fits her character.

    Her acting, and accent never bothered me. She's supposed to be icy and aloof.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Jaws is right out of a 'Good' Universal or Hammer Horror film.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    If only Bach was a better actress!

    Bach is wooden though I do like her and it kind of fits her character.

    Her acting, and accent never bothered me. She's supposed to be icy and aloof.

    That's one way of putting it I suppose!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Jaws is right out of a 'Good' Universal or Hammer Horror film.

    He would have made a great Frankenstein Monster.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Sir Roger is brilliant in this certainly more restrained than a few of his later films.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Locations and sets are consistently brilliant, films like TND dropped the ball in that regard.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    'Egyptian Builders' great line.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Bond just does not panic for one second lol
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Was the "egyptian builders" dropped from some of the TSWLM prints?
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    I really dislike this scene with the van smashing over the dunes to Hamlischs silly score!
    Just seems a step too far! Theres even a silly sound effect at the end!
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    I really dislike this scene with the van smashing over the dunes to Hamlischs silly score!
    Just seems a step too far! Theres even a silly sound effect at the end!

    yeah. this part of the score seems very "looney toonish."
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I still haven't got a copy of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Great film. Need to remedy that.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    Was the "egyptian builders" dropped from some of the TSWLM prints?

    I think it was. Not 100% certain, though.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I still haven't got a copy of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Great film. Need to remedy that.

    You should!
    I wonder was Maurice Jarre ever considered for composer
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I still haven't got a copy of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Great film. Need to remedy that.

    You should!
    I wonder was Maurice Jarre ever considered for composer

    Would've done a great Bond score. I wonder that myself.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    If only Bach was a better actress!

    Bach is wooden though I do like her and it kind of fits her character.

    Her acting, and accent never bothered me. She's supposed to be icy and aloof.

    That's one way of putting it I suppose!!

    From imdb:
    Barbara Bach was cast only four days before principal photography began, and auditioned hoping to secure just a role in this movie, not the female lead.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    The Lawrence theme works ok more so than the Magnificent Seven (Magnificent 007) theme in MR.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    The Lawrence theme works ok more so than the Magnificent Seven (Magnificent 007) theme in MR.

    Magnificent Seven. Another movie with a brilliant score.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I still haven't got a copy of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Great film. Need to remedy that.

    I bought it in 4K its astonishing one of the best films I have ever scene in that format. David Lean was a genius.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Dwayne wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    If only Bach was a better actress!

    Bach is wooden though I do like her and it kind of fits her character.

    Her acting, and accent never bothered me. She's supposed to be icy and aloof.

    That's one way of putting it I suppose!!

    From imdb:
    Barbara Bach was cast only four days before principal photography began, and auditioned hoping to secure just a role in this movie, not the female lead.

    Interesting, its a bit like Maryam D'Abo, who was helping auditions for Bond actors, and then was Picked as leading lady for TLD
    ( I put this in as a tribute to our late dear colleague barry007!)
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    I like that Q Branch is always on the road developing gadgets lol
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Train scenes in Bond films are always good.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    Dwayne wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    If only Bach was a better actress!

    Bach is wooden though I do like her and it kind of fits her character.

    Her acting, and accent never bothered me. She's supposed to be icy and aloof.

    That's one way of putting it I suppose!!

    From imdb:
    Barbara Bach was cast only four days before principal photography began, and auditioned hoping to secure just a role in this movie, not the female lead.

    Interesting, its a bit like Maryam D'Abo, who was helping auditions for Bond actors, and then was Picked as leading lady for TLD
    ( I put this in as a tribute to our late dear colleague barry007!)

    I think Maryam ran into Barbara Broccoli afterwards, had a different hairstyle and Barbara suggested her for the lead.
    Another one of my favorite Bond girls alongside Bach.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Good use of silver/steel and reflective surfaces throughout this film.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Train fight, though not a great one, i suppose because Kiel is rather lumbering, and so big it was hard to do much, or to double him!
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    The Lawrence theme works ok more so than the Magnificent Seven (Magnificent 007) theme in MR.

    Don't forget the earlier use of "Laura's theme" (from Dr. Zhivago - another Lean film).
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Jaws' hand is bigger than Bond's face.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    This film really fly's by great pacing, been a while since I watched it all the way through.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Bond gets the lotus,
    That was a neat idea that we don't hear Q explaining to Bond its hidden assets!
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    BTW: According to imdb Jaws’ dentures were designed by Katharina Kubrick (Kubrick's stepdaughter).
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