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When James Bond 007 had an 'off' moment.....
This thread is just to discuss the certain times in certain films when 007 does something totally daft. I will give you 2 examples.
LALD: Bond decides to follow Kananga's car in a 'supposedly' everyday cab into Harlem,as the proverbial 'cueball',chatting to the 'supposedly' everyday cab driver,thinking he is going 'uptown i believe'.
He then gets out of the cab,saying to the driver 'they must have gone inside' and pays - only to walk into the 'Fillet of Soul' etc etc.
MR: Bond is in Venice to 'spy' on Drax Laboratories and find out what is going on etc,gets into a scrap with some Drax hoodlums and promptly turns his Gondola into a hovercraft to bomb around in - not very secret and again very laxidazy.
Does anyone have any 'why did he just do that ' or 'Bond should know better ' moments to discuss
LALD: Bond decides to follow Kananga's car in a 'supposedly' everyday cab into Harlem,as the proverbial 'cueball',chatting to the 'supposedly' everyday cab driver,thinking he is going 'uptown i believe'.
He then gets out of the cab,saying to the driver 'they must have gone inside' and pays - only to walk into the 'Fillet of Soul' etc etc.
MR: Bond is in Venice to 'spy' on Drax Laboratories and find out what is going on etc,gets into a scrap with some Drax hoodlums and promptly turns his Gondola into a hovercraft to bomb around in - not very secret and again very laxidazy.
Does anyone have any 'why did he just do that ' or 'Bond should know better ' moments to discuss
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-Sleeping with Jinx after she ripped off Ursula
-Not killing Jinx
QoS- In Bregenz when Bond finds out his credit cards are cancelled, he tells the woman at the service desk that she will be getting a phone call. He tells her to say he is head to Cairo. Why??
If you talk about my woman like that again, we're going to have some problems. >:/
Being a cheeky git cos mi6 know he won't be heading to cairo
this nasty habit of surviving.
James Bond: You know what
they say about the fittest.
Bond certainly had a off day physically when he blurted that out, always find that line hilarious.
Haha I prefer m , she loves James for real.......... Although in skyfall he may have his heart broken again ;(
Vesper DID love him for real. :-/
AND yusef? Nar u can't love two people , and even bond called her a bitch :D
Bond leaping out of bed and taking his shoe to a poor defenseless spider in Doctor No, and beating the living daylights out of it to outrageous sound effects
Bond emerging from some water with a plastic duck on his head
Bond flying around on 'Little Nellie' gyrocopter
James Bond taking a beating from two women in Diamonds are Forever
James Bond sitting in the bath and having a shave
Bond was prepared to take on an entire army of martial artists by himself in The Man with the Golden Gun (stand back girls I'll handle this)
James Bond going into outer space, Moonraker
James Bond!, Swinging through the trees like an Idiot and doing tarzan yells, Octopussy
Having a shower with a girl half his age and saying a most unsavory line with it
Looking like a drowned rat at a Casino Table in License to Kill
Bond having trouble fighting off a 120lb woman in a steam room, Goldeneye
Hanging from the torn edges of a giant poster in Tomorrow Never Dies, while half way down the outside of a tall building
Fixing his tie underwater on the River Thames, The World Is Not Enough
Being able to hold his breath longer than is feasibly possible in the same release
The entire closing moments with Christmas Jones in Istanbul, 'It's getting redder' etc
Sniffing shoes in Die Another Day
The awful chemistry with the awful Berry, same movie
Picking diamonds out of said awful Berry's navel, end of above Bond film
The entire 'genitals violation' scene, Casino Royale
Leaping off giant cranes and doing totally inplausible stunts in above film
Bond emerging from the sea, a la Honey Rider in Doctor No. I thought it was bad enough with Jinx in the last release, but by god, that was cringeworthy
He must have gotten a blackout. Luckily so, cause otherwise the boat chase wouldn´t have happened.
If that is your idea of a quick list, I'd love to see your long one when you have time. Those are great examples, Baltimore_007. I especially concur with the plastic duck on his head, anything with Christmas Jones, taking on the martial artists gang in TMWTGG, and him taking a beating from the 2 gals in DAF. (Must say I liked the tie straightening moment in TWINE, though.) :D
I want to add something that has always bugged me: dropping the gun in TMWTGG.
I brought this to the fore many times before but not sure we ever got a definite answer, Moore (Bond) is about 60 feet up on some maintenance, drops his gun, it falls a long way to the ground, several seconds before it hits the bottom, all he has on is a white shirt. It is very dark from where he is, we cannot see the bottom or much at all for that matter..
Lo and behold seconds later Bond is at the very bottom, dressed in a suit, firearm back in possession, and waiting patiently for Scaramanga to appear, it's all a bit confusing..
Jokes.
There's also been plenty of moments when Bond could've just shot the bad guy but instead stopped for a chat.
Ah condoms ... perhaps he had a vasectomy; wouldn't surprise me. But the other issue with that is transmitted diseases. Well, the reality is unsavory ... but Bond is not reality. Thank goodness.
Yes, as in darn near every suspenseful movie there seems to be too much chatting when the actual killing of the villain could have happened. But then, there the film would end; not satisfying as a viewer most of the time. But sometimes it is annoyingly clear that someone, anyone, especially Bond should just shut up and shoot already.
Here we go...Vesper was in love with what she thought Yusef was. His whole life was a fraud, a tool set up to get her to love him and then fall into Quantum's hands when he was "kidnapped". Yusef in reality was a double dealing coward. Bond saying "the bitch is dead" is him being his stubborn guarded self. He doesn't want to admit that he let her in (stripped him of his armor), and he also doesn't want to admit that she gave her life to help him live. This develops in QoS, where by the end of the film Bond realizes that she truly was helping him, and now he is ready to accept that gift and move on from her.
Well put. She did love him and he did love her. And now we can all move on to more drama and many other Bond girls ... but that background is key to Bond.
Yes, let´s keep it like that. There are two real love stories in the Bond films. I don´t like them but accept that they shape his character. But no more of it, please!
That was Brosnan's idea, and was very Bondish.
No, that was very Brosnanish.
It is here that there lies the issue.
It's just misdirection.