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The Portuguese footballer?
I suppose they got this from some survey result.
Agree. Delorean is nowhere near as famous as the DB5.
Or the Batmobile...
In all fairness to OP, NSNA or any of the 007 pictures, the films need to be seen in their totality. Both are honestly mediocre pictures, but man the bad stuff in OP is truly awful.
Even the great PTS in OP gets ruined by some lame comedic bit at the end, the gas station stuff. Ugh.
It was a silly time in the 007 series. They were getting further away from the source material in some ways. However, with Maibaum on the scenes, they still had great flourishes of Fleming, and Moore would rise to the occasion and showed us, especially in FYEO and OP, how much of a cold hearted killer he could be (Locque's murder; shooting soldier's point blank in the head in OP, and Twin One (Mischa?)'s death was brutally violent), or how desperate he could be (defusing the bomb in OP).
I'm briefly interrupting, and delaying watching AVTAK as I will be watching NSNA this evening.
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@peter, Moore did indeed have some great kills in FYEO & OP. Grishkas was particularly brutal (including the dying yell), and there were a few Russian soldiers who went down hard near the train (including the chap who took it right between the eyes).
I have an inkling to watch AVTAK soon as well, although I'm afraid it may disappoint, as is usually the case.
Once again, it may be nostalgia interfering with being critical, but I've come to terms that Connery's earlier exploits can't be repeated, nor should they-- but I do so love the clothes, the cars, the women, the tone of the films...- and now, with this acceptance, I have never enjoyed Moore as much I have at this moment.
Watching AVTAK just recently, there was the usual shock at the "plastic and pulled back" look Roger was displaying. He looked in pain every time he smiled. And why the hell did he take off that distinctive mole of his?
It's also true he lost a bit of the intensity that he showed in his previous two films. Saying that, and with a nod to the wonderful Chris Walken, Moore has quite a few interesting face-offs with Zorin that brings the best out of both actors. Add in Mayday and a fun GF rip-off, I was pleasantly entertained, even when things got to San Fran (up until then, I was actually quite involved with the story, minus a few hiccups here and there (PTS Beach Boys tune)).
Truly cringe-worthy is when he was bedding very, very, very young women, but I kind of shiver (the girl in the PTS, Mayday and Stacey at the end), and move on, pretending I didn't see any of that.
In the end, although Rog is kind of my distant third favorite 007, I do admire and respect him more and more. He had charm and presence to spare, and there's no one who could ever come close to playing it the way he did. He was very quite special.
AVTAK (along with TWINE, my 24 out of 24) is the Bond film I watch the least, and so I'm actually looking forward to it. I'll report back if I get a chance to see it tonight.
Indeed, it's one of the most human moments of Moore's Superbond: when the bomb is deactivated, he's absolutely exhausted, under deep stress and quite angry at the soldiers and police officerd. He has been sweating a lot, as his makeup is falling off and his eyes say "now you're congratulating me, you bastards?", and, maybe, just maybe, "man, I'm getting too old for this".
Roger Moore: he's so consistently good and fun in the role
Timothy Dalton; amazingly dark and Fleming like wish he had more films
Pierce brosnan; perfect in the role, funny and full of action and cool, shame his movies wernt good enough
Season Connery: based on his performance in Goldfinger and frwl he is. by far the best, but when it averages out even though I love him it's about here
Daniel Craig: I think he's great and love his brutality in casino Royale but he's just fine
The worst:
George Lazenby: never again thank god his agent was a duffer
My pleasure my friend,it does work !
Connery was terrible with the press in a similar way to Craig...but they both have given us great Bonds.
'Course I'm an 80s kid and Back to the Future was a major aspect of my childhood that predated my Bond experience by a couple years and is still among my absolute favorite films.
No its not. I'm an 80's kid too and naturally I love BTTF. But half the worlds population has seen a Bond film and the DB5 has been the iconic Bond car since 64. Hence, more generations are familiar with the DB5.