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You're a fan of taking things literally, so as 'galore' tends to mean an abundance of things in plural, do we think it suggests she has many pussies? Or does it perhaps mean that she's a fan of many of them?
Yes, I'm not sure why Plenty has her name because it's not a great joke as played in the film. You're also uncertain about it because you think it's parody of the Pussy scene even though it doesn't really play that way, and that's fine too. We both think it's linked to the Pussy meaning, so that's all good.
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Overthinking is not the Guy Hamilton way!
"Just roll with it," seems to be the best path to intellectually surviving these films. And I'm not complaining. Let's just say that MR and DAD make way more sense to me than anything in the Hamilton trilogy. Is that controversial, though? I'm not even sure 'bout that. ;-)
You know, for all their excesses, I find MR and DAD to be mostly logically constructed movies. In my opinion, it's really the ones that take themselves more seriously that open themselves up to plothole nitpicks or whatever. "Hang on, this doesn't really make sense" comes to my mind more often on a FRWL or CR than on a MR or DAD. Moonraker is like Disneyland, where you pay a big price going in, accepting the world on offer, and something like Casino Royale is more like a carnival where you repeatedly have to pay small amounts of (intellectual) capital....
Well, there's always TWINE to easily back this up. ;-)
Yes! Absolutely. Excellent way of phrasing things too. "MR is like Disneyland." I'm going to commit that one to memory. :-D
Indeed, and a lot of these types of jokes such as adorn the sillier James Bond films are designed to be read more than one way so different parts of the audience can still enjoy them. They are put in so that they work on more than one level though of course there is often one main intended interpretation of the joke. Ultimately of course, it's left to the individual viewer's discretion as to what it means. The double entendre is probably the simplest from of this kind of thing and the Bond films are littered with examples of this type of humour.
It is original, perfectly matches the mood of the film it's in, uses a Fleming title but doesn't overuse it, and does not overly rely upon the Bond theme or another song (GF).
I don't think it's the best Bond song, but it's a great one and the one genuinely great thing about the film.
Here’s mine: I don’t really like McCartney’s LALD song. Like “Band on the Run”, it feels very schizophrenic with the changing of modes throughout the song that just made it hard for me to get into. It’s not a good rock tune. It’s just the typical McCartney whimsical noise.
A superb Bond song. One of my favorites. My controversial opinion: DAF is a masterpiece Bond film and a excellent sequel to OHMSS.
Yeah, sequel isn't the right word. But I'd say it's a decent follow up. I'm satisfied with Bond pursuing Blofeld in the PTS as a revenge for Tracy. At the same time, it also works for those who wanted to forget OHMSS at the time.
But what’s done is done.
I don't think that would be too controversial: I feel like most would agree it's one of the best.
I agree on two points... I find GF to be a very irritating song with ridiculous lyrics, and Moonraker is definitely my favorite of the three. I wish that one was 30 minutes long. It's lovely.
I do tend to agree on that one: I think they're great songs but I'm not a fan of her voice. Moonraker is okay because she's not being too strident in it: I think I'd have preferred Sinatra or Mathis to have sung it though.
As it stands, it feels less fresh because it's Bassey...again.
Another controversial opinion: TB may be a better song than GF.
Are they that different, though? My feeling is that Barry wanted to go for a different tune, but was then told to give us a GF². I like them both. GF is sexy, TB is powerful, but both are quite similar in many regards, at least in my opinion. ;-)
I agree.It’s my favourite Bond song as well.
TB is a GF 2, and that's why I don't like it.
At least he gave us three entirely different and absolutely brilliant theme songs after that.
YOLT and OHMSS I agree on. DAF...well I suppose the actual song is solid, if you discount the singing and the lyrics