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Humour is just right? Jaws dropping a rock on his foot, the music as the smashed up van drives away, Jaws catching a bullitt with his teeth....Im sorry but its a tad parody and detracts from an otherwise good film.
Didn't he do exactly that the film before with the slide whistle in MWTGG?
Now that was overrated.
Two years later I saw MR and it turned me into the Bond fan I am today and I never saw TSWLM until it premiered on the ABC network in 1980. Although I'd heard a lot of good things about it, it never did live up to it for me and it still hasn't to this day.
I can't remember who won that ballgame, but I often ponder whether if I'd have gone to see TSWLM that day how it would've changed some of my feelings on it and the series.
But the car stunt is still brilliant and makes the whole F&tF movie franchises look like CGI fakes.
Absolutely. I love that car chase in TMWTGG and don't mind the slide whistle either. Criticism of it is overrated imho.
A minor moment that is excusable and amusing.
Possibly the fact it's my very first film I ever saw on the big screen when I was 5 years old and kicked off my love of Bond from a cinematic position, I'd already heard a number of the Barry scores previously.
I don't really think it was to TLD that Bond got this good again. Yes it's essentially YOLT but Rog really hits his stride here.
No I'm not the biggest fan of his suave playboy routine version of Bond and much prefer Connery & Craig's take on the character but after feeling rather awkward in LALD & MWTGG trying to get his take on Bond he really arrives from the PTS onwards.
If you want suave playboy Bond with an ease with one liners, ticking the boxes in all the right ways, I don't think he was ever better, maybe his portrayal in MR is on a par but it all started here and after MR he's starting to look too old and awkward for me.
If only it had been blessed with a Barry score it might have been higher on my rankings, although it still has one of the best title themes of the series and some great Hamlisch cues, Bond 77 is dated but still a toe tapper and the Tanker theme is great.
If it had faults and as much as I don't rate MR, Jurgens Stromberg might be replicated by Lonsdale in MR but his Drax is undoubtedly more memorable and charismatic.
MR also has Barry's sublime score, his best of the 70's Bond era, I just don't find MR has memorable and have always preferred SWLM.
Yep it's up near the top for me so not overrated in my view, can see why it's Sir Rog's favourite as well.
With that said it is possible look back on most of the films and play could have, would have or should have but to answer question, no it is not overrated at all.