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I recently watched through them with my son, and I just could not get into Thunderball at all. Since no one asked, here's my favorite from each actor: Connery: From Russia with Love, by far. Lazenby: OHMSS by default but it was far better than I thought it would have been. Moore: The Spy who Loved Me, with For Your Eyes Only drawing a close second. Dalton: License to Kill. Brosnan: Goldeneye, by far. Craig: Casino Royale AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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Basebf555 posted:But I marvel at the ridiculously inept car chase opening every single time because it's just so so bad. I know the behind the scenes reasons for why it turned out that way but it really is a sight to behold. You absolutely cannot follow any of the action at all and because the movie jumps into the scene with nothing to establish what's what, you can't even tell which car Bond is driving half the time. I think it's gotta be the unquestioned worst car chase to ever appear in a blockbuster film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYC_CBNtiM For anyone who wants to rewatch. Edit: Basebf555 posted:Hey you're entitled to your opinion but man I just don't get it. I see no redeeming qualities in that scene. I think you'll find that this is the internet, therefore my opinion is the only valid one and you should be ashamed to differ from mine. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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Aug 14, 2019 16:36
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I'm still waiting for "Property of a Lady" and "007 in New York" to be used.
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Aug 21, 2019 12:53
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peekaboo gangster posted:Now now, let's not lift up Another Way to Die like that. It belongs in the dungeon with the other no good, very bad songs, thank you very much! This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6D0iim7wU (if it doesn't queue up automatically, skip to :30)
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Aug 21, 2019 18:51
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Timby posted:The World is Not Enough is basically the quintessential "greatest hits" Bond film. I mean, Brosnan himself is a "greatest hits" Bond, but you've got a boat chase, a ski chase, a killer theme song, a charismatic villain (Robert Carlyle is the only person who is giving a gently caress in that movie), pretty women, a nuclear threat ... it ticks all the boxes. I really liked Sophie Marceau in that movie. I'd easily put her up there with my favorite bond Villains, and outside of Vesper, she's probably the best love interest Bond has had as well.
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sean10mm posted:The funny thing about Moore is that he could do menacing just fine, but didn't want to, and the movies rarely asked him.to. The tie flip in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and him killing Drax were really the only time he seemed to be the menacing killer he was with Loque, which is kind of a shame because he really was great. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Timby posted:I still want to know what Danny Boyle's idea for the story was. Craig loved it, it's Broccoli and Wilson who flipped poo poo over it. I thought it was that he wanted to kill off Bond at the end.
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Dec 4, 2019 17:23
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Another old person giving a +1 to the choice. The only one of hers that I know the name of is Bad Guy but it has a cool bass line and doesn't sound like most of the other stuff I'm hearing from what my kids listening to, so I'm in. We all know music peaked in (date you were in high school and college) but so long as it's better than that sleepy rear end Sam Smith song I'm good.
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Lobok posted:Who was the youngest before Eilish? Tom Jones is way before my time and seems like someone who's always been old but Thunderball was released when he was 25. Sheena Easton was 22 with For Your Eyes Only, Sam Smith was 23 for his. I got bored at work. code:AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jan 17, 2020 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:Naturally, it's the best one. I think out of all of them I like "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Live and Let Die", as those are the two that stand on their own as not just theme songs, but legitimately good songs.
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Colostomy Bag posted:So worst Bond song? Hell I know sorta the most off the top of my head and am missing some but my pick goes to Octopussy. Die another day was pretty awful. The full list, since I had it in an earlier post: code:This is kind of unofficial because they didn't use it in the opening titles, but Surrender by KD Lang is great. I do like Sheryl Crow's, but I think this has it beat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRc4vrap5Ec Edit: I always thought this was a perfect Bond song too, even though it was never used as one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gutsi1uT4 AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Basebf555 posted:This is the second time I've seen someone praise the opening chase in Quantum of Solace and I just don't get it. I mean, there are legitimate excuses for it because of the writer's strike at the time but still. It's a completely incoherent scene where half the time I can't tell if I'm seeing Bond's car of the pursuer's cars. I'm pretty sure I defended it already, but I like it. The pacing is pretty frantic but I have no issues figuring out which car is chasing which. I love the transition from swelling music and establishing shots to the engines just screaming and the cut immediately into the chaos of the chase. Is it a perfect car chase? No, I've seen much better. But I've seen a hell of a lot worse. Edit: haha, we had pretty much the same discussion a year ago. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3887841&pagenumber=4&perpage=40#post497498476
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The goldeneye score isn't completely terrible. This isn't bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcUgh9GrOQ This is awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwkQP6q1QQ But on the other hand I think the Death of Largo (the chase music in Thunderball) was terrible too.
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Darko posted:YOLT has the space theme which is one of the most definitive Bond themes. Austin Powers and Incredibles riff in it quite well too. The Propellerheads song "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" uses this at 5:00 as a transition, it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O1_0hikl-A Trivia for this song: Both the morse code at the beginning of the song and the bass in the second half of the song are spelling out the O-H-M-S-S AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Oct 20, 2020 |
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Zeta Acosta posted:i really dont like craig bond It is easily the best Connery movie. I really like Casino Royale and would consider it my favorite, but I'd say From Russia with Love is as close to a tie as I can get for first place.
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Aidan_702 posted:Can we at least all agree Goldeneye is still the best theme? As far as Bond themes go, yeah, but as far as actual songs go, I think Nobody Does it Better makes the best one with Live and Let Die as a close second. Edit: Earlier in the thread I made a list of all of the themes, so here's some derail fodder (they are sorted by age of singer, FYI): code:AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Gargamel Gibson posted:What's the context here? Why is Bond looking down "just too good"? Look at the guy sweeping behind Bond.
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Nov 18, 2021 15:52
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Basebf555 posted:I've always wanted to know what was going on in that guy's mind. Like, you're there on set as an extra and your thing is you're supposed to sweep the floor. Does the guy think that he's not really supposed to sweep for some reason, and they'll make it look like he was really sweeping later with movie magic? Because what he's doing is actually harder than really sweeping, so I'm not sure why he went out of his way to do it like that. If I had to guess he was told not to really sweep because he'd be kicking up dust.
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Basebf555 posted:It's nuts to me that Rickman was making his film debut in Die Hard. It's like a baseball playing toiling in the minor leagues for 15 years, then winning the MVP when he finally gets his first shot in the majors. It's impossibly great. That's nuts, I had no idea it was his first movie. Payndz posted:What's great about the McClane/Hans scene is that Hans is so good at improvising that McClane is genuinely taken in at first; look how his reaction goes from smug "I gotcha" to "wait, what the gently caress, is this guy having a panic attack?" as Hans does his don't-kill-me routine. (Remember that McClane hasn't seen Hans' face before, only the back of his head.) It takes a while before he decides that his initial instincts were correct. Even then, he never actually catches Hans out in a lie. I posted about this recently in the Irrational Movie Moments thread, but apparently he knew Hans wasn't Bill Clay because of the watch he was wearing, which was explained in a deleted scene. (The terrorists all had the same fancy watch)
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Gaius Marius posted:I don't think the franchise is in any worse hands with Bezos instead of Broccoli. They haven't put out a good product in a while anyways and have spent the time since NTTD dragging their feet instead of shooting a loving film. God willing someone at Amazon takes it as a pet project and we get some quality films, otherwise I always have the YRF films. I'm in the same frame of mind as this. Reacher is dumb fun, Fallout was enjoyable, Mr. and Mrs. Smith was actually really good. I didn't see it but I've heard Saltburn was very good, unfortunately that's the end of good movies that I've seen them make, but Spectre, No Time to Die, and even Skyfall were just okay, so I'm not going to assume it's going to be complete poo poo, but hoping that it's at least at the same level we're at already which isn't that high of a bar. Give me a Bond movie set in the 50's, or a 00 series continuing Lashana Lynch's character, I'm at least tentatively in. In fairness I thought the same about the Lord of the Rings getting bought by them and  so I'm not holding my breath either.
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