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- better villain
- better sets
- better cinematography
- better climax and PTS
- better performance by Moore (I'd say his best)
Also Miss Anders blows Solitaire and Rosie out of the water.
I agree about Moore's performance.
I think LALD is superior to TMWTGG, but the acting in Gun is far better overall.
Here's something else controversial: Mary Goodnight was not miscast and even her character was not that bad. The issue was with the tone of the movie. Had she been a ditz in an overall more serious movie, she might have been accepted better.
I have to agree with Mission Impossible, its now that it's finally seen as a great American spy franchise on its own than a poor man's James Bond.
The franchise started with success since the beginning other wise we wouldn't have had Mi: 2 and 3 but its till 4th protocol that it became a boom maybe when Tom leaves the part and stays just as a producer will help to cast the next ethan hunt.
Maud blows Gloria out of the water as well - agreed.
TMWTGG is also much more colourful imho, with better, more exotic settings.
They both feature incredible chase sequences (if one forgives the slide whistle though) and superb but quite different scores.
Yes to better villain, but not by too much, since Kotto gives a very good performance as Kananga. Very very menacing after he reveals himself to be Mr. Big.
Probably yes to sets and cinematography but I did not feel like this made TMWTGG a better film.
Yes to the climax - specifically the duel and cat-and-mouse game between Bond and Scaramanga. But not if you factor in the retrieval of the Solex, contrived explosion shtick, Moore's unconvincing acting and the embarrassing fight with Nick Nack. What a chore to sit through. At least Kananga's explosion was done in two seconds.
PTS is a bit better, but they are both bottom of the pile anyway.
And actually, LALD is one of Moore's best performances. TMWTGG Moore definitely his most unconvincing, and completely at odds with the film at some point, particularly during the aforementioned jokey stuff at the end.
Must disagree that Miss Anders blows Solitaire out of the water. I do prefer Solitaire. Most things are better than Rosie. Except Goodnight (worst Moore Bond girl).
Mind you, just my opinion.
2. The USA has never been used well in a Bond film. Every time they film in America it looks cheap, flat, and lifeless. Vegas looked small, tired and trashy in DaF; neither Harlem nor the Bayou had sweat or soul in LaLD. GF's Miami and Kentucky scenes could have been shot anywhere, ditto VtaK's California and CR's Miami. LtK captures the Keys a little better, but still . . . for all the times they've gone back, they've never really "got" the USA.
Hitch showed many times (most notably in North By Northwest, which almost seems European in flavour despite being filmed in New York) and Vertigo (San Fran) what can be achieved if they put their backs into it.
Not so much controversial as certifiable.
'Our asylums of full of people who think they are Napoleon...or that Halle Berry in DAD isn't an abomination.'
I'll grant you that she looks pretty good coming out of the water in slo-mo but her performance goes rapidly downhill once she sets foot on the beach.
-I really like DAF, the only films that came before it that I enjoy more are FRWL, GF and OHMSS (maybe DN).
-TSWLM is perhaps my second favourite Moore film, but LALD, TMWTGG and OP are all almost as good.
-I love the opening to QoS. The music, editing and camerawork just before the action kicks in are all superb.
Yeah, she's ok in the action scenes but other than that she's a totally forgettable Bond girl.
I still find her barely watchable, though. I've seen interviews with her and she seems like a lovely person so it's nothing against her personally, but whenever she's onscreen in TND, I just cringe.
Take that, community!
Interesting fact: Jinx does not actually say that in the film.She actually says '' YOUR Mama! ''.I think its actually quite racist to think she says the former just cos shes a tough african american woman.
Incorrectly remembering something isn't racist; everyone says those stupid "yo mama" jokes, so that's how some people recall the line.
The Thin Skin Generation as I call it.
I must say they brought other aspects in, like better pacing, probably better action sequences, and interesting stories, but I too missed that OTT and almost 'wierd' (as you note) element that characterized earlier Bond films. Skyfall to a degree brought some of it back to me (MI6 underground HQ) but only slightly.
MR was the end of an era in many ways.
I'll say this though - some of Glen's films are predictable in their approach.