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At least he "knew it was ridiculous and didn't care" ;)
Woah now. . . steady on, mate.
These are my thoughts re. DAF too. I absolutely love that film (which will be a controversial opinion).
Edit: DAF is toying with a top ten for me. In that ranking message/link we all got a few days ago I put it inside the top ten, just because of how much I enjoy it.
Your views are interesting, but I really disagree with some of the things you're coming up with.
How is that broken glass a joke? It's called suspense. Bond slugs Franks and knocks him out and it's over. This builds the tension and at the same time adds to it when Franks picks up the broken glass to attack with it.
Same for the spray to the face, why is that a joke? He avoids being struck with a hook
(now why was that there?) and uses what he can to overcome Franks. Bond is always improvising things to gain the upper hand on an opponent. Think the spray to the face in the TMWTGG dressing room fight or throwing the maggots in the guard's face in LTK as 2 examples of doing this.
Other reactions to what others have posted on this: Franks didn't fall 3 feet and even if he did if you hit the right way you're screwed.
The Grant comparison is good, but that film had the advantage of seeing Grant in action. True we didn't know Franks' badass credentials, but they said he killed a guard on the way up to London, so he wasn't some wimp either. And knowing Joe Robinson who played Franks was a judo champ and tough guy in real life only adds to it.
The joke in question is obviously the overtly silly "who is your floor?" line. Connery is not even able to say it with a straight face although he is in a tense, potentialy life threatening situation.
The broken glass is obviously necesarry for this to be a suspensful fight in the first place. But that is not the point. The question raised is "could he [Hamilton] not have come up with anything better?". Personaly I feel bad whenever I have to see Bond look like a clumsy fool.
This. It's by far and away the nadir of the Connery era, and one of the bottom 3 of the series for me.
It's slow, strangely paced. Charles Gray was far better suited to the somewhat camp portrayal of Henderson in YOLT than Blofeld. His relationship with Bond is so ridiculously genial, after what happened in OHMSS, it's eye rolling. The finale is weak, the side characters, apart from Wint and Kidd are poor. The film looks cheap and tawdry, especially in comparison with the beautiful cinematography of the previous two, far better films. Connery looks ready for the knackers yard. As great as he was it was a blessing in disguise that Mankeiwitz(I think I spelt that right) and Cubby couldn't convince him to come back for LALD.
The only thing I really like about it is another great soundtrack from John Barry.
Indeed.
I really don't understand the hate for Broz. His era was patchy, but Craig's has been too. He was an excellent Bond in my opinion, it's just unfortunate that his last two films where weak.
I'm not saying it's great. But at least it's ice hockey.
It's all in the tone of the scene and the acting. The actor playing Franks looks menacing and thuggish enough. I can see him killing someone with his bare hands. No problem here. But there's little if any suspense. The broken glass is taken as a oops moment, not built up as a suspenseful. I understand Bond can and should be using whatever he can find to get the upper hand, but it still comes up as a pie in the face moment.
Speaking of Mankie... eh... witz... something...? Wasn't this the first Bond film he worked on? And he left after Moonraker, am I right? I'd argue no other screen writer has had a bigger influence on the style and tone on the Bond films he worked on as him. (Maibaum is obviously much more important to the franchise overall, but he didn't have the same influence on tone specifically.) And for the worse I feel, unfortunately. It is not a coincidence that his era is my least favorite in the Bond canon. His style of humor is neither appropriate for Bond, nor very funny in my opinion. The actual good jokes are far between and outnumbered by the bad or out right cringy ones. Although I understand this was different times, I still can't rap my head around why the producers thought this was the way to go after Majesty. If I was gonna be very harsh and slightly provocative, I'd say classic Bond didn't end with Connery, but rather with the appointment of Mankiewitz (or whatever the correct spelling is...). Ouch...
What message/link is this? First I hear of it.
Didn't you get it? It was sent by the user named @Mister_JBN, and was really just about a poll over at jamesbond.nl, where you can vote for your top ten Bond films.
That's strange. Here's the voting link from the message: https://jamesbond.nl/top-2018/
I don't personally find Connery engaged in YOLT in the slightest. He was just reciting his lines rather than speaking them in character, in my opinion. He looked a bit more lively in DAF and enjoying himself more than in his previous entry. That's how I see it.
I never thought Hamilton was that great myself.
People mention Connery enjoying himself in DAF and I agree, but it shows too much in the film.
Connery’s pretty good in DAF but his appearance makes him look like a lounge lizard. Hard to believe he’s the same man we saw in DN FRWL and GF.