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Kind of shame he wasn't given more scenes to be included in, because Sydow did a pretty decent job as Ernst. Sometimes I felt he was a little cheesy and difficult to take seriously, but then again, so was Charles Gray, hahaha.
He was probably the best one, but I also liked Pleasence and Von Sydow. Grey and the FYEO guy are the only Blofelds I don't like.
The problem with Pleasance is that we don't see him until the last twenty minutes or so, and he has little time to make an impact, and because of his corny delivery of lines such as "Goodbye, Meesta Bond!", we just don't have a lot to go on. As for Gray, I thought he did a remarkable job.....when he acted the part seriously. During those excessive campy moments, however, he ruins the character. The one from FYEO did a decent job with the lines he was given, and it's a just a shame we didn't get to see his face like we did with the prior three. He might have been memorable had he gotten a few more minutes with his face shown and if he had been given a less cheesy death, which for such a powerful character, really comes off as stupid. Savalas was a terrific Blofeld, and it's just a shame he had to be in such a crock of a Bond movie to deliver his great performance.
I agree, the soundtrack really doesn't do the movie any justice. It really does sound like someone threw in a fake substitute for Bond music and hoped we wouldn't notice.
The NSNA soundtrack is even worse than GE. It sounds like a 70's American police show. Awful stuff. Legrand usually did a lot better than this.
Upon watching NSNA for the first time last year I actually put on GE afterwards to cleanse myself.
I actually quite enjoy the title song for NSNA, or at least somewhat. It's the best part of the soundtrack, for sure. Everything else just sounds overly dated and corny.
I think the opening sequence is better than most of the so-called 'action' in any Bond film from the previous ten years, excluding Majesty's.
The score does let the film down, but I enjoy some of the Jazz cues.
I like it a lot and prefer it to any of Moore's films.
This might be the best Bond film of the 80's.
The Clown Suit was a disguise to stop a bomb. The Tarzan yell was stupid, but Never Say Never Again had it's share of dumb moments. Like Bond Playing video games or suddenly losing his clothes when jumping off a castle.
And Rowan Atkinson is just so bloody awful!
I love Connery's performance though and the motorcycle chase, plus Rowan Atkinson among other things.
I love the scene with Connery and Atkinson when Smallfaucet yells out for Bond in the large crowd, and Connery calls him out on "shouting his name across the harbor", to which Smallfaucet didn't even realize he did it. Incredibly hilarious, and certainly one of the better scenes in the movie in regards to humor.
Possibly, yes. The big thing that bugs me is not that it is "unofficial", but rather it is the same storyline from Thunderball, and thus ruins the continuity of the series, even if you do not treat it as an actual Bond movie. If they had stuck with an original idea with Connery's return, then I believe something much better could have been made.
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I don't think so, not at all. If we are talking about the villains and the soundtrack, DAF blows NSNA out of the water! As far as locations and Bond are concerned, they're both somewhat equal, but at least on the locations, DAF wins for the awesome Vegas shots and the sets of Whyte's penthouse, the oil rig, and the actual house used for Willard Whyte's summer house. As for Bond, Connery did a good job with both in terms of acting, but because he was more physically fit in NSNA, I'll give this point in favor of NSNA. As for plot, pacing, and action, those goes to DAF also. All in all, DAF whoops NSNA.
Bond driving a Moon Buggy is much more appealing than Bond Playing Cylon warrior laser tag.