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  • joshdeese93joshdeese93
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    I find all of the Xenia Onatopp scenes to be very exciting and stimulating.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    My favorite scenes in every film:

    DN: Bond gets shocked by the vent, and the subsequent escape through the water valve system.
    FRWL: MI6 (and Moneypenny) listens to the taped interview
    GF: Bond fights and kills Odd Job
    TB: Bond and Largo skeet shoot
    YOLT: Bond steals the blueprints from Osato
    OHMSS: The first ski chase
    DAF: Bond vs Bambi and Thumper
    LALD: The crocodile escape
    TMWTGG: Goodnight finds herself in a car that flies (a Gremlin, no less!)
    TSWLM: Jaws takes care of business during a Pyramids exhibition
    MR: Jaws is dressed as a Carnival character in Rio
    FYEO: Bond kills Locque
    OP: The twins chase the clown in the post-title sequence
    AVTAK: Zorin's business pitch on board his blimp.
    TLD: The Prater scene, ending with the death of Saunders.
    LTK: Bar fight
    GE: The bungee jump
    TND: The motorcycle/handcuff chase
    TWINE: Bond kills Elektra
    DAD: Gustav Graves skydives, with "London Calling" playing in the bg
    CR: Bond's trip aces :D defeats Dimitrios.
    QoS: Bond and Camille walk through the desert and find a bus ride back to town.
    SF: Bond meets and talks to Severine in the casino.
  • LeonUtrechtLeonUtrecht
    Posts: 30
    My favourite scenes from the series tend to be the lengthier action sequences.

    1. The car chase and the ski chase in For Your Eyes Only are both still great fun to watch after 30 years - greatly helped in both cases by Bill Conti's excellent score. And no - I don't care if the score is corny and somewhat dated now. It just works a treat.

    2. The pre-credits sequence from The Living Daylights. Even its recycling of a punchline from From Russia With Love is excellently done. (The fight to the death with Nekros outside the Hercules plane and the ice chase from the same film also rank high in my list.)

    3. The Thames boat chase in the pre-title sequence of The World Is Not Enough. The best thing from the Brosnan-era.

    Honorable mention should go to the parcours scene in Casino Royale.

    I also like sequences in which the music is deliberately foregrounded to considerable effect. The sequence in Gumbold's office in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, for instance, with John Barry's highly effective score. Or the use of the 'Capsule in Space' theme in the pre-title sequence of You Only Live Twice. Or the variation on the main theme during the rooftop fight at Kobe dock in the same film. Or the Death of Fiona in Thunderball with its clever combination of diegetic (the drums) and extra-diegetic (the variation on Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) music. Or the opera sequence from Quantum of Solace. Or the Big Band music accompanying the sequence in which Jack Petachi is done away with in Never Say Never Again - a vastly underrated score by Michel Legrand.
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  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    All Bond films have something classic in them (well nearly all Bond films):

    DN - "Bond, James Bond".....
    FRWL- Grant/Bond fight (sheer brilliance)
    TB - Bond/Domino chat up, anything between Bond and Fiona
    YOLT - Bond/Samoan fight at Osato's
    OHMSS - pretitles sequence including score at this point
    DAF - Bond climbing outside Whyte's
    LALD - Bond arriving, attempt on his life and being tailed in New York including score
    TMWTGG - Bond/Andrea/Mary in his hotel room at night
    TSWLM - nearly the whole film (and I mean that) except the Liparus tanker bit that goes on a bit
    MR - Bond falling out of plane
    FYEO - ski sequences (and in particular ski jump)
    OP - auction scene
    AVTAK - Eiffel tower
    TLD - pretitles, Austria Koskov escape & Dalton/Pushkin confrontation
    LTK - Bond escaping the Wave Krest at sea
    GE - Bond/Onatopp car chase in Monaco
    TND - pretitles & Kaufmann
    TWINE - nothing - scrap this film please
    DAD - Fencing strare down (I thought they were going to jump each other sexually) and fencing fight
    CR - nearly the whole darn film again save for the Vienna climax
    QoS - pretitles car chase and Bond stare down of Yusef & Canadian at the end
    SF - psyche scene & tied to a chair feel down (up) scene
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  • AntiLocqueBrakesAntiLocqueBrakes The edge
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    I like this twist a little more:

    DN - Blasting Dent
    FRWL- Kerim Bey blasting Krilencu
    GF - Taming Pussy in the barn
    TB - Underwater sea fight
    YOLT - "My name is Ernst Stavro Blofeld"
    OHMSS - PTS beach fight
    DAF - Bambi and Thumper fight
    LALD - Fight with Kananga
    TMWTGG - Funhouse duel with Scaramanga
    TSWLM - Shooting Stromberg 5 too many times
    MR - "Tedious inevitability of an unloved season"
    FYEO - End of Locque
    OP - PTS in Cuba (blowing up the base)
    AVTAK - Golden Gate bridge, end of Zorin
    TLD - Fight with Necros on the plane
    LTK - Sanchez taking out Krest
    GE - Final fight with 006
    TND - Sinking of the Devonshire
    TWINE - Pipeline bomb scene where JB lets it explode
    DAD - Jinx doing the Honey Ryder thing
    CR - Verbal spat with Vesper on the train
    QoS - Air duel with the Bolivian AF pilot
    SF - Hell breaking loose at Skyfall
  • tigers99tigers99
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    For me

    DN - 'You've had your six' - Dent killing/'Bond, James Bond'/Honey Ryder - can I have 3?
    FRWL- Bond and Grant fight
    GF - PTS
    TB - Fight in the PTS
    YOLT - "My name is Ernst Stavro Blofeld"
    OHMSS - Gumbold safe-cracking
    DAF - Scene between Bond and Tiffany with Plenty tied to bottom of swimming pool
    LALD - Crocodile escape
    TMWTGG - Bond slapping Andrea about
    TSWLM - Anya declares she will kill Bond
    MR - Corrine's death
    FYEO - End of Locque
    OP - Defusing the bomb
    AVTAK - Golden Gate bridge fight
    TLD - Bond confronts Pushkin in hotel room
    LTK - 'Don't you want to know why?'
    GE - Final fight with 006
    TND - Car chase
    TWINE - Boat chase
    DAD - Sword fight
    CR - Verbal spat with Vesper on the train
    QoS - Fields found dripping with oil/elevator fight
    SF - Bond at M's flat
  • tigers99tigers99
    edited October 2015 Posts: 582
    But there's so many other scenes that could make that list!
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    GF laser table
    OHMSS escape from Piz Gloria
    FYEO rock climbing scene

    Honourable mention to the skyscraper fight in SF.
  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
    edited October 2015 Posts: 1,130
    Im gonna mention just one by film because if i kept going id never end ok


    Dr No
    Bond's introduction at the casino
    Goldfinger
    Pussy Galore and Bond meeting each other socially
    Thunderball
    Aren't you in the wrong room ?
    Goldeneye
    Bond officially meets xenia at the casino
    Tomorrow never dies
    Bond and Paris love scene
    The world is not enough
    Bilbao's bank meeting.
    Die Another day
    Swordfight scene
    Casino Royale
    Im the money
    Quantum of Solace
    Bond confronts vesper ex boyfriend
    Skyfall
    Bond meets Mallory as the new M






  • DariusDarius UK
    Posts: 354
    DN – “Sit down.” Dent is grilled by the sinister Dr. No.
    FRWL – Bond meets Tanya (still used for screen testing actors to this day).
    GF – “Shocking! Positively shocking.” (tied with “A roll in the hay with Pussy”)
    TB – The death of Fiona.
    YOLT – Little Nellie (tied with “The Wedding” with Barry’s superb music).
    OHMSS – Escape from Piz Gloria (Barry scores another bull’s eye).
    DAF – “I’m just popping out for a while.”
    LALD – “Trespassers will be eaten!”
    TMWTGG – “Lunch with Francisco.”
    TSWLM – Ski jump…
    MR – Bond gets the drop on Jaws.
    FYEO – Hector’s poolside party (tied with ski chase).
    OP – Player’s privilege.
    AVTAK – Bond and Stacey share a quiche.
    TLD – “Get on your knees!”
    LTK – Pam’s concealed weapon (tied with “Watch the birdie, you…!”)
    GE – Bungee jump & PTS.
    TND – Bond waits for Paris.
    TWINE – Boat chase on the Thames.
    DAD – Delictados – Bond meets Raoul.
    CR – “Blood on my hands.” Bond and Vesper in the shower.
    QOS – A night at the opera.
    SF – M quotes Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
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  • Aziz_FekkeshAziz_Fekkesh Royale-les-Eaux
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    -SF's casino scene in it's entirety, best bits are toasting the baddies and the shot of him swaggering up the stairs with the briefcase
    -Getting drunk in QoS
    -SF's inquiry shootout
    -CR's stairwell fight and aftermath

    I'll add one from SP, too:
    -"Stay!", or really the entire clinic scene
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    In terms of moments from DC himself it would be as follows:

    1. The CR PTS
    2. M's death scene
    3. The torture scene in CR
    4. Confronting Yusef
    5. His look when he sees Solange dead

    Other honourable mentions:
    The SPECTRE meeting
    The courtroom shootout
    The train fight with Hinx.
  • tigers99tigers99
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    CR - Stairwell Fight
    - Drinking whiskey after stairwell fight
    - Parkour chase
    - Train with Vesper
    - Vesper's Death
    - Death of an Aston
    - That hand nearly killed me.
    - in the shower with Vesper
    - scenes with Vesper post-Le Chiffre's death
    - PTS
    - TS
    - Bond in M's flat
    - Torture scene

    QoS - Tosca
    - Elevator fight
    - Fields in oil
    - PTS

    SF - PTS
    - TS
    - Bond in M's flat
    - Word association
    - Bond and M outside the Aston in Scotland - 'you know the whole story'
    - Silva's entrance

    SP - PTS
    - TS
    - Torture scene
    - Austria action
    - Train fight
    - Oberhauser's lair
    - Spectre board meeting
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Spectre-tossing away his parachute: "Good evening."
    Spectre- removing his skull mask to give Stefanie a kiss.
    Skyfall-fighting Patrice on top of the train.
    Casino Royale-crane fight.
    Casino Royale-shooting Dryden .
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  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Craig has made 4 excellent Bond film's all with their flaws but all of a very high standard.

    He's been a fantastic Bond and second only to Connery IMO.
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  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    BondJasonBond006 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Craig has made 4 excellent Bond film's all with their flaws but all of a very high standard.

    He's been a fantastic Bond and second only to Connery IMO.

    Thinking about it, CR to SP may be the best 4 consecutive Bond films even. Maybe only rivalled by DN to TB.

    Agreed. The Craig Bonds are all I ever seem to want to watch. I can hardly watch the Brosnan films anymore.

  • dogrowup007dogrowup007
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    I think Daniel Craig, up to now, leaves a great legacy - a real benchmark far all who follow. He brought back the tough, remorseless secret agent going for the kill - for me a crucial aspect of the character (Fleming's Bond is a pretty cold bastard). If he is coming after you, start saying your prayers - same applies for Connery and Dalton (I always have the feeling a civilised conversation and nice smile might save you in the case of Moore and Brosnan).

    Casino Royale is a very intelligent Bond-movie, as it clearly gives Craig in his first Bond-outing the opportunity to shine at key Bond-moments. In the first action scene after the titles, we're introduced to this trained killer, clearly also a bit of a loose canon on deck. Very striking for me to characterise the Craig-Bond, is the moment in the crane-fight-scene, when he runs through a wall. For me, that demonstrated the extreme determination, will power of this relentless hunter.

    In the same movie, we see his vulnerable side (how he comforts Vesper after the staircase-fight, his shock when he can't reanimate Vesper) and his ability to "banter" with his co-star (the first scene of Bond and Vesper).

    In Quantum of Solace, we very much get the same Bond, but without the vulnerability. This is the hunter all the way, in a LTK Dalton-mood, risking being thrown out of MI6 just to get his way.

    For me, Skyfall is for Craig what Goldfinger was for Connery: all elements are present (Q, Moneypenny, a first class villain) and Craig clearly is very much at ease with the character. I love his banter with M (on seeing the 1965 Aston Martin: "I suppose that's completely inconspicuous") and Moneypenny ("Well, you gave it your best shot"). And some humour (running after the subway "He's keen to get home"), which he pulls off very well. In Skyfall, his vulnerability lies in his self-doubt. Unless I'm very much mistaking, there's not another Bond-film where Bond is so in doubt about his ability to continue as a 00. And of course, the death scene of M.

    In Spectre, I find him too well eased in. He's so much at ease that he gets an air of indestructibility (if that's a word). OK, this is a Bond-movie, so we know who's gonna win. But it takes the edge a bit of.

    All in all, with Daniel Craig, I think the franchise got a boost by having a Bond who is an excellent actor. That brings an intensity that was badly needed, imho. However, I find in the first three he is Bond, in Spectre he plays Bond - "look at me, look at all the fun I'm having". So I got his comments, when he said in an interview that he was through with the character. I do however hope he comes back for a final one, but with a new director.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
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    I will say this only once: besides the card game and the torture from CR, the Austria sequence in SPECTRE is the cream of the Craig era. Everything during this sequence is so entertaining, it's a real highlight on every viewing. Everything from Bond meeting Madeline, the humour, the action is all top notch. Craig shines during this bit too, giving a slight tip of his hat to Connery with how cooly he shrugs of those guards. I love the plane chase, despite how much it is often derided on these boards for being too generic, because it is one of the few instance in modern action cinema where you can actually tell what's going. I am amazed by hollywood completely forgot how to shoot action around the dawn of the millenium, and hasn't remembered since. Here, everything is clear. We can see where the vehicles are in relation to one another and they actually hold on shots for longer than half a second so we can actually appreciate the spectacle. I don't want to feel like I'm juddering along inside Bond plane as it speeds down that icy slope. If I did, I'd take up extreme sports. I want to enjoy the sequence, not live it. Well done, SP.
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  • dogrowup007dogrowup007
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    BondJasonBond006 wrote: »
    Anyway, the only actor I felt that he IS Bond is Connery and Dalton I have to say. But that's me, Dalton has always been my favourite.

    We get along on Dalton: a very good Bond who stands the test of time. I keep dreaming about the fine Bond-moments he could have given us, if only he had been offered a few more movies. Such a shame!
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
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    Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »
    I will say this only once: besides the card game and the torture from CR, the Austria sequence in SPECTRE is the cream of the Craig era. Everything during this sequence is so entertaining, it's a real highlight on every viewing. Everything from Bond meeting Madeline, the humour, the action is all top notch. Craig shines during this bit too, giving a slight tip of his hat to Connery with how cooly he shrugs of those guards. I love the plane chase, despite how much it is often derided on these boards for being too generic, because it is one of the few instance in modern action cinema where you can actually tell what's going. I am amazed by hollywood completely forgot how to shoot action around the dawn of the millenium, and hasn't remembered since. Here, everything is clear. We can see where the vehicles are in relation to one another and they actually hold on shots for longer than half a second so we can actually appreciate the spectacle. I don't want to feel like I'm juddering along inside Bond plane as it speeds down that icy slope. If I did, I'd take up extreme sports. I want to enjoy the sequence, not live it. Well done, SP.

    An interesting point of view that I will politely disagree with. Bond's meeting with Madeleine I agree was written well enough, but the banter with Q is a little off, as is the humour. When Craig asks for his 'martini, shaken not stirred' I am left wanting Connery, Dalton or Brosnan back, they all said it far better and in such a Bond way as well.

    The plane chase is decent, but unfortunately it is not conceived very well - when the plane emerges I am left thinking: "What? When? How? And WHY???" It made no sense to me. The humour with Q would, I think, have been best left out of the film. The chase redeems itself somewhat when the wings come off (but James Bond should have expected that, come on), at which point we do feel some sense of genuine urgency.

    I do agree about how the chase is shot. There is enough urgency in the end, I think, without the camera getting Quantum shakes.
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
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    The best moments of the Craig era, IMO:

    15. Final Scenes - Quantum of Solace
    14. Death of Severine - Skyfall
    13. Attack on Skyfall - Skyfall
    12. Stairwell Fight - Casino Royale
    11. Fight with Hinx - Spectre
    10. Opening Tracking Shot - Spectre
    9. Death of Vesper - Casino Royale
    8. Tosca - Quantum of Solace
    7. Helicopter Fight - Spectre
    6. Tennyson - Skyfall
    5. Fight with Patrice - Skyfall
    4. Torture - Casino Royale
    3. Chase in Madagascar - Casino Royale
    2. Death of M - Skyfall
    1. The Name's Bond, James Bond - Casino Royale
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  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    Mine:

    1. Macau hotel room / Casino scene in SF
    2. Post-fight poker table and Shower scene with Vesper in CR
    3. Fight with Slate in QoS
    4. PTS in SP
    5. Train fight in SP
    6. Art museum scene in SF
    7. Turkish beach sequence (especially with the scorpion) in SF
    8. Card game at the Ocean Club in CR
    9. Opera sequence in QoS
    10. Clinic sequence in SP
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