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It's just them being adrift on debris that makes me dislike it more than the others
Actually Crockett wasa much better realised character than Daltons so called serious James Bond.
His 1st effort felt like it was written for the likes of Moore or Brosnan. The 2nd movie was just poor. And the winking fish at the end did crown it for being a sh&te adventure. Dalton & Craig seem both do a lot of movies in which they seem to go rogue, I am not sure what book Ian Flemings hero went rogue, or so often,
The ending of TND does look a wee bit strange.
I like all of Moore's endings, they made you leave the theater with a good feeling.
DAD & TWINE had endings with way too much innuendo, should have taken a page on how to do it classy like Moore did.
You are welcome, after all Crockett had 5 seasons and Dalton 240 minutes. And Miami Vice was an actual succes that changed the face of television and filming. I prefer Crockett, Tubbs & Elvis when it comes to drugs stories every day of the week and on sunday twice.
Gee, what an original critique.
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Pity really, as following the best pre titles sequence in the entire series, Brosnan giving his best Bond performance, and lots to get involved in, it degenerates badly towards the very end, culminating in the awful encounter between Bond and Jones in Istanbul
Die Enough Day as the next release, and a Brosnan swansong, was nearly quite as atrocious with the Berry / helicopter / diamonds, but nothing really tops the ending of the last Bond release of the 20th century, for truly nauseating viewing
Never liked the Dr No ending, or Thunderball (Connery had just about reached ridiculous stage by this time), or even Octopussy. The awful winking fish from License to Kill was embarrassing after the hard-edged reality of Dalton that had come before it also. Will include Goldeneye while we're at it, as Bond and Simonova are surprised by Wade and his soldiers
It's a real pity when you've had some James Bond actors who have done a really good job for the most part (Connery 65, Dalton 89, Brosnan 95 as mentioned) and made Fleming proud, only to be spoiled at the very end by stupid, implausible, ridiculous, embarrassing, unnecessary (delete as applicable) endings, that you wish could be erased each time you view, but what's done is done
Also I have to take issue with TB. After all that has happened in a Bond film one of the formuliac elements is to see Bond having a romantic moment with his leading lady at the end. In DN, he is adrift with Honey; FRWL he is in Venice with Tatiana; GF we see him wrapped up in a parachute with Pussy Galore. But TB denies us this romantic interlude. He and Domino get pulled up to a plane from the raft. Sure he may have her in his arms as they fly through the air but come on! That was so un degnified. It just started to show how the producers and pubic was getting overly obscessed with gadgets.
Which has always been my critique, even as I walked out of the door of the cinema at opening night of LTK with my best friend. We both were rather dissapointed by the movie we just saw. TD just had the charm of a death fish and his 2nd movie was a remake of several epsiodes of Miami Vice, who at that time was rather the leading tv show together with Dynasty.
The winking eye at the end was in hindsight the best moment of LTK.
See Craig and Quantum of Solace. Lousy movie - great Bond
I don't consider this gadgetry so much as outrageousness. And I love the outrageousness of the Bond films.
AFAIC, Bond influenced Miami Vice before the vice versa. And given that Bond films always tap into existing cultural trends, I have no problem whatsoever with a Bond film that dealt with the Latin American drug trade in the late 80s. Bottom line, it is a quality film and Bondian in spades.
Very good point.
I used to think that Bond being with a woman was essential to a Bond ending. But Daniel Craig has had the best endings in the series. All 3 made me want to stand up and cheer. The ending to Skyfall (Bond finally meeting Moneypenny, walking into M's classic office) reduced to me to a giddy fanboy. Oh what a moment!
But my least favorite must be TMWTGG, most notably for that AWFUL little song at the end, and the fact that Moore totally implies that he killed Nick-Nack-- which I would have found awesome-- only to show him safe and sound in that cage.
'Oh James, you didn't.....?'
'Oh yes I bloody well did!'
To me, that sounds like he tossed his midget ass overboard
One of the many reasons I have TMWTGG dead last on my list. However, I do really love the end of LALD with Baron Samedi.
You are spot on. I loved all Craig's endings. CR was just so friggin cool (matter of fact that whole movie emits coolness) QoS with him having resolved the issue with Vespers lover and he walks into the snow...having closed this chapter on his life. Great. (movie was kinda so so but the ending rocked)
And of course SF....
OHMSS: I can understand why many find the resurgence of the Bond theme jarring, but to me it's an intentional slap to the viewer, a way of saying "back to business" after the necessity of Tracys's death. Challenging the viewer's grief can sometimes intensify it.
LALD: I also love the Baron's reappearance. It tips the entire film into the realm of the supernatural and surreal, which LALD had been flirting with beforehand. Since it comes at the end, it doesn't wreck the film.
LTK: I don't have much of a problem with the winking fish, since it comes at the every end of the film, when all the drama and conflict has been resolved and wink at the viewer might arrive as relief.
The one ending that I think is genuinely bad: FYEO's. Having Bond interact with an actor playing a real Prime Minister comes off as both campy and awkward, and the gags are too broad. (There's a reason why Fleming didn't describe Bond's meeting with Eisenhower.) Given how good the rest of the film is, it's puzzling how FYEO begins and ends so unsubtly.
That and DAD must surely have the worst endings.
TB and YOLT are also annoying. How many times are we going end with Bond and the girl on a raft? It really started to lose it's charm by this point.
TMWTGG is too strange for words and not in a good way.
AVTAK has always bothered me. They could have come up with a classier send off for Sir Rog. Not that I'd be complaining about being in a shower with Tanya Roberts. Perhaps this was to make up for the May Day scene.
The winking fish in LTK doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is Bond getting his job back without so much as a slap on the wrist. The impact of him going rogue is made irrelevant if there are no consequences for him. I wish the film could have ended with Bond and Pam riding off together in the desert sun.
TWINE has a very disappointing ending. DAD is terrible but so is most of the movie so what can one expect at that point?