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The Money penny role is not an easy one to pull off..... take a look at Caroline Bliss....bad.
PAH!!! is what I say to you.
Maxwell/Bond
Bliss
In fairness to Bliss though she didn't really get that much to play around with. #
Anyway...topic
Bliss
Like the famous saying goes - Watch a Moore outing a day to keep the Brosnan mess away !!
Get that elephant statue away, boy! Sheriff Pepper's a Democrat!
...I am finding that I am fond of these "squirmiest endings", so I think the squirmier the better!
Brozzer and Christmas at the end of TWINE is squirmy yecchy as well.
But Rog and Broz were the male model Bonds. Randiness was their stock in trade.
The other 4 brought more testosterone to the proceedings and less yecch.
I think in the simplest terms it's merely endings we take issue with-
I saw Doctor No a few hours ago and never really liked the way Connery and Honey are drifting out at sea in a little boat and then all of a sudden a great battleship comes up with army personnel filled to the rafters, I just found it all a bit silly
Other examples in no particular order for me-
Brosnan and Richards- 'Christmas in Turkey', the fireworks, 'It's getting redder', - 'I thought it only came once a year', - I felt I wanted to scream when I first saw it
Moore and Roberts in the shower - 'That is not the soap' - The least said the better
Moonraker as mentioned doubtless - 'I think he's attempting re-entry sir'
Dalton and Lowell at the Sanchez residence - winking fish etc
Goldeneye - Brosnan and Scorupco get down to it and next second all those silly marines stand up and Wade appears from nowhere
Die Another Day - Christ, the horrible Berry character and Brosnan picking diamonds out her navel, I wanted to murder someone
I think that'll do for now, but there at least, are some fine examples of 'squeamish endings' or however you want to see them as
DAD has just dumb dialogue at the end.
TWINE has the squirmiest ending for me because Bond is crude (an orgasm joke, really?). MR's "reentry" pun is far more clever.
On the flip side, while a mediocre film, QoS has one of the best endings (with bonus points for not ending near/on water!).
But squirmiest for me was: TWINE (geez! too much cheese! I was really sick of her character by then anyway) and DAD (just yuk)
Robot Chicken helped me appreciate it more...
Elliot carver mockingly doing kung fu is a squirmfest.
anyway the endings that make me squirm are.....
FRWL: Horrible back projection and Connery wave...
TMWTGG: How did M get the number to Scaramanga's boat?
MR: Need I say more...?
the rest I can handle.
I think that's just Monty Norman's score. Easily my second least favorite Bond score behind Serra's GE score.
They could of had Pike survive as the Bond girl ally and killed off the Berry character as an adversary of sorts but they got it all wrong in the end, it was just the culmination of a near disaster of a Bond film
'Looks like we're going down together' etc, I always find some anxiety with the final 10 minutes of it, and with the rest of the film too, If I can be honest
And pleasing also to see some other users taking issue with the end of Doctor No, I didn't like what they did with it, pity really as it spoils an overall very good first release