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I thought it was sillier in DAF but I love the sadistic enjoyment on Roger's face as he picks Blofeld up and drops him in the smoke stack.
QoS is not brilliant and the Tosca sequence is nowhere near as impressive as people make out. People like to think it's something resembling an auteur at work when it's basically a standard action scene in slo-mo backed by an opera track. Don't get me wrong, it's cool, but ultimately it's bordering on pretentious. There are many Moore era sequences that kick it's ass.
Yes, granted, I guess there's not a whole lot in it. I'm actually writing a piece on the ending of DAF the film and novel that you may find of interest...
Splendid. I look forward to reading it.
I think you're giving Tosca short shrift here. The sequence is about much more than the slo-mo and the actual music of Tosca. It is about the glamour of the setting; Arnold's really quite terrific cue; Bond's method of obtaining a Quantum receiver and then contemptuously breaking the bathroom door handle; the brilliant audacity of Quantum's meeting in the middle of an opera; Bond's crashing of said meeting and his icy line, "I really think you need to find another place to meet."; and Mr. White's equally wonderful line, "Well, I guess Tosca's not for everybody."
QOS hardly melts my butter, but the Tosca sequence never fails to thrill me.
Agreed. And now that I understand the 'stainless steel' comment, and am convinced that he'd totally lost his mind, I really like his little bye-bye.
Hell If I had killed James Bond's wife and He's got me at his mercy, I'd probably say random stuff too.
IMO.
I ma talking about the scene before that one where Bond observes the Quantum meeting
While I don't necessarily consider it brilliant (or even good), I don't think it's the antichrist that many people make it out to be. Same goes for another way to die.
On my first viewing, I remember that as being the most impressive moment in the film.
Yep, heartily agree @RC7. The Tosca scene is overrated drivel. I don't hate it, but it's not the most amazing thing in a Bond movie.
Also, please learn to use the edit function @Dragonpol, you triple posted on the previous page within a few minutes of each other. Thanks.
I refuse to believe anyone has ever watched MR and thought 'Bond hasn't had astronaut training, this is completely unrealistic'.
Sorry about that. I've still not mastered that one, but I will try to!
What training? He just sits there. Once they light up a spacecraft there's nothing you can do to affect it - you're a passenger for the duration.
Even Holly does very little as they are on a pre assigned flight path.
Correct. I thought, People's hair hanging down in zero G, this is completely unrealistic.
And why isn't Bond more concerned? "Don't worry, they'll make it. Only 100 miles to Earth". How are they going to make it? Is it equipped with a heat shield so they don't burn up upon entering the atmosphere? Or what about a parachute to prevent them being slammed into the concrete at over 1000 miles an hour?
Or perhaps I'm reading way too much into it, after all this is a film in which Bond drives a gondola through St Mark's Square! ;-)
Indeed MR is a classic Bond movie, its special effects stand up as brilliant even compared to the poor CGI of both DAD & QoB.
If I remember correctly the remark about Jaws surviving is based upon 007's experience of Jaws'survival instincts, if a white shark cannot kill him. I believe in Woods novelisation the remark is meant that way.
I love the gondola on St. Marks place, and of course I would. Great name and a great place to visit(albeit a tad expensive). ;)
Quite. The things people find to carp about...
I phrased it badly. It's the whole concept of Bond going into space, rather than the fact going into space is technically possible, that is ridiculous.
That still doesn't explain how they've been picked up by Colonel Scott though.
Perhaps they never were, since Jaws never came back for an encore.
Next controversy!