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Seem to be missing the obvious the modern Bond audience is then. No wonder nothing gets a chance...
"Vodka Martini."
"Shaken or stirred?"
"Does it look like I give a damn?"
Bond drunk on the plane.
I expected that to happen after Bond and Vesper separate after first meeting on the train. Thankfully it didn't, I was so greatful. It gave me so much hope for a turnaround of direction in regards to humour in the films, something that's coming along nicely.
"Well I missed." (knocks guy off bike)
"Tell her Slate was a dead end."
"Here. She's seasick." ("she's just dead" nod)
"I'm not going to dwell in the past. You shouldn't either."
"I really think you people should find a better place to meet."
"I do hope so..."
"We're teachers on sbbatical...and we just won the lottery."
"Im sure they do"
"He wanted you, so I gave him the car as collateral."
"You and I had a mutual friend"
plus others at aren't as obvious:
"Get in" "(beat) All right..."
"You wouldn't know anything about that?" "Wish I could help."
Then the lines from others.
And Im sure there are a few more Bond ones. If that's not enough chuckling in a Bond movie...
I can already see the post Craig backlash coming.
I would say that is the same ratio as Moonraker
"Not socially. His name's Jaws, he kills people. "
"The thought had occurred to me."
"I fell out of an airplane without a parachute"
"Why did you break up the encounter with my pet python?
"I discovered it had a crush on me."
"Heartbroken Mr. Drax!"
"I think he's attempting re-entry, sir."
"You missed, Mr. Bond."
"Did I? "
"Well, the trouble is there's never a 70-year-old around when you need one. "
"Play it again, Sam. "
"Very novel, Q. Must get them in the stores for Christmas"
"Where's Drax?
Oh, he had to fly."
"Bang on time! "
And countless more...
And you can't honestly be saying that MR and QOS are as funny as each other... MR blows QOS out of the earth's orbit in terms of humour.
The one liners were ok and MR has a fair share of amusing dialogue.
The problem with MR tended to be the physical humour, sight gags, pratfalls, gurning, comedy characterisations and sound effects that worried Bond fans.
Didn't worry me at all - loved all those things.
And "Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't still be helpful."
I'd rather have subtle humour like this than Moore's Tarzan yell or Brosnan's one-liner about Christmas (although "I don't know any Doctor jokes" was amusing.)
But can you imagine the stunt without the slidewhistle ? I can't ! Sorry Dimi but I just love the hilarious sound effects in the Moore films. You laugh WITH the film and WITH Moore and not AT the film or AT Moore. You just have a very pleasant and entertaining 2 hours with Sir Rog !
Agreed. The homor in MR kills QOS in a "it's so bad it's funny" kind of way.
Many of those lines are actually very similar in tone to the QOS lines I listed. And the others, like "he had to fly" and "it had a crush on me" are of the weakest in Moore's era (the former on face value and the latter because of the groan inducing and belabored setup all just for that decidedly weak punch line).
Lord knows I love Moore's Bond, but I can't shake he feeling people like XXX and Goodhead must be infuriated trying to talk to him. Every time you ask him a question, he restponds with a quip. Every. Damn. Time. ;)
No, the humour in QoS is subtle. MR, as much as I love it, the humour derails it half way through. They take it too far. They go overboard. The double taking pigeon, Jaws in love, Chinese manservants falling through pianos...
The humour in QoS is for adults, the humour in MR is for kids.
Atleast the 'kiddie' humour in MR was funny... Unlike the QOS 'grown-ups' humour that was terribly unfunny, boring, unmemorable and dull... If they want to do adult humour it's fine... but atleast make it funny... QOS fails on every level in the humour department... I hope they strongly rectify the mess in SF...
did you study comedy and timing at the conservatori too?
sorry @DaltonCraig
I prefer my humor in Bond to be subtle - maybe the occasional one liner..
Roger Moore abused the humor gag way way too much in his films.... especially in Moonraker - where his awful puns equally matched the idiocy of every action piece's ending - "can't take ourselves too seriously, so lets end with a dumb joke."
people talk about Fleming rolling in his grave over the torture scene in CR..... well, he must've been rolling in his gave and on fire after he saw the hatchet job they did to Moonraker - really quite sad.
but hey, if you like humor as the equilivant of getting slapped in the face with a giant tuna every 2 minutes - no one is saying you shouldn't ;) ... then just leave the humor discussion in CR and QOS to some of us who enjoyed it.
Well, I am glad he is. The audience is cringing.
I have never seen anyone cringe while watching MR. Everytime I watch the film with someone it's always a pleasure, a fun 2 hours, a pure entertaining, epic spectacle.
thats like excusing a grown 400lbs man running up an down the street naked...
glad he's having fun - because no one watching is.
I thought the best lines of the film came more from Lonsdale than Moore himself more often than not, 'Can I press you to a cucumber sandwich', 'Look after Mister Bond, see that some harm comes to him', and 'You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season' etc
However for however childish it appears, it does represent a fine two hours spent and is one of my favorite Bonds ever, in simply there is so much to get involved in
Said it before I never really found Craig amusing, there were one or two moments of hilarity, but that came mainly from the cringeworthy LeChiffre/Testicles bit, i.e. it was so bad it was good
Ouch !