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That massive, painful-and-pissed-off grin he throws Bond's way as soon as he stabs him is so good.
Well, I would start a thread about incompetent henchmen since it is my username but apparently we DO already have one.
What was Marc Forster's exact reasoning for positioning the gunbarrel at the end. Like, why? Mendes thought that the gunbarrel didn't fit with his opening shot and I don't agree with his decision but I at least understand why he did it.
As for the GB, after CR, very sadly, all was fair game.
Cubby for sure turned in his grave concerning the GB.
I'm sure Cubby, nor his spirit, cared that much about where the gunbarrel was. Having said that, it didn't make that much sense for it to be at the end of Quantum or Skyfall. It was in the perfect spot in Spectre, and it was unbelievable in Casino.
Then he does another jump just as Kriegler gets out of the car for another shot, and his skis hit Kriegler's crossbow which disarms him (Kriegler also has to duck to avoid being hit by the skis). Typical Roger Moore moment where he gets himself out of trouble with obscene stunts/gadgets, but I love it all the same. The stuntwork in the ski chase is brilliant.
Yes the ski chase is brilliant, but I still don't like to think that the whole reason Bond survives is more or less a dumb miscommunication between the villains. If Kriegler or Locque just told the goon not to do anything, Kriegler would have had the perfect shot at Bond.
Firstly, the room is directly below where he is standing, so how can he see inside the room and how can he throw a grenade so that it lands in the middle of the room?
Next, he then smashes through the window, so how did the grenade even get in the room?
Or have I misunderstood something about this scene?
MI6 are just as evil as SPECTRE.
You did misunderstand the scene. It was an exercise, and the agents Bond dispatches were supposed to play dead until the show was over.
That's how I've always read it. Otherwise wouldn't Bond be dead Draggers?
I guess so; it just looked so realistic I guess.
Well the whole point is that you think 'Oh no Bond's dead' at the end. If they'd had the red paint as in TLD any tension in the sequence (and there's not much - cheers Lani Hall) would have been gone immediately.
Well that's true of course; it needed to look as realistic as possible to convince the viewer.
Watching said PTS for NSNA today it's not very good. I've always enjoyed the film, but as far as PTS go, this one isn't really on the list.
That happens all the time in movies, though. The intention was to get a thug to rough Bond up, that's it. It's a credit to Bond's skill (or his plot armour) that he times his leap at the same time as the thug's.
You are right that it does indeed happen all the time, another example I can think of is in LALD when Whisper singlehandedly bungles the attempt of killing Bond by snake by interrupting him whilst he is shaving. Bond had no idea of the snake.
I think Havelock didn't report back that he had seen wreckage before he was killed. Although not sure how finding Havelock's killer (which is what Bond is sent to do) gets them anywhere. Ok you arrest Gonzalez and he squeals and says 'Kristatos hired me' so you nick Kristatos who, after being water boarded, finally coughs the valuable information 'I was hoping to find the ATAC and flog it to the Russians.'
You're still no better off, with the ATAC at the bottom of the sea somewhere.
In addition the quality of the MI6 cryptographers is disturbing given they can't even crack Havelock's code in his notebook.
And there was I thinking FYEO was a reasonably solid story but youve exposed it as having as much coherence as SP which gets slated for it so thanks for that @Scaramanga12!
Is there any Bond film where the plot holds together all the way through?
I suppose DN and FRWL hold up well enough. And I think the main plotline of LALD, TMWTGG and TSWLM are relatively coherent at least to the rest of Moore.
Is there even any indication that MI6 have searched Havelock's boat?
IIRC M briefs Frost that Bond will be send to Iceland as well. We're meant to understand Bond has had a similar briefing before. It isn't shown, but the whole point of that scene is to 'mislead'the public at first that she's talking to Bond, before showing she talks to Frost.