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TND was lazy and dull and it ended abruptly! Very lame! DAD still wins though!
DAF is my guilty pleasure Bond pic, but even I must admit that the rig battle is pretty underwhelming stuff, even more so than SP's London coda. Bond climaxes should be about more than generic shoot-em-ups.
The music certainly helps give it that "sense of urgency", but I always laugh at Stamper's faces and cheesy dialogue ("I owe you an unpleasant death, Mr Bond").
I've always liked the shot of the explosion in the ship though as well as that of it passing over Broz/Yeoh underwater.
The Man with the Golden Gurn
NEIN! Foah Cahvah! And Kaufmahn!
I know...and if the ship has blown,the chain is attached to ?
Embarrassing!!
DAD is terrible from beginning to end, so the poor 3rd act is bridged by an equally terrible 1st and 2nd, therefore it’s the worst by a long way.
TND is pretty generic action that fizzles rather than explodes, and isn’t that dissimilar to the weak DAF climax with its stealth boat, but without the superior Wint & Kidd epilogue to redeem it. However, as weak as it is, nothing beats how utterly abysmal an experience was of having to endure DAD with its CGI ice castle and burning plane, robot suit, and Moneypenny using the simulation VR glasses.
I agree that SPECTREs third act is pretty dull as well, and I don’t like the London climax nor the Blofeld reveal in the dessert. But for me, SPECTRE and DAF are superior to DAD, which will always rank at the bottom.
I admit I used to enjoy that fight when I was a teenager as I never noticed the blatant overacting. Now though yeah, besides the music, it's pretty crap.
I HATE growing up sometimes.
To be fair Roger was never entirely convincing in his fight scenes either. This one always makes me laugh watching the two of them grunt (Roger) and gurn (Sandor). I suppose it has a great payoff line though.
I've always loved that line. Stamper as a whole is a bit of a cheesy character, but he's an example of properly executed, intentional cheese.
All of Jill St. John's expressions and lines in this scene are hilariously bad.
For all of Connery's charm in this, I don't believe him as a credible spy. I see him in that tux and I just think "ageing waiter".
I've always loved this fight. Rog seems a bit more sprightly here than in other outings, and is practicing his new found high kick which he employs at the pyramids later too.
St. John is totally overdoing it, but watching this clip makes me realize how much I miss Connery and Barry. Different league to what we have these days. So darn smooth.
I honestly can’t see anything wrong with Jill St John’s performance in that excerpt, unless you’re referring to the “eek”, which I find amusing not hilariously bad? It’s not as hilariously bad as anything that spills forth from Halle Berry’s lips in DAD or her terrible cocky posturing.
And come on, Connery is great here. You’re trying to tell me you seriously consider any of Brosnan’s serious attempts at acting as a spy believable above Connery’s?
Even his dialogue is good here: “I’ll be the judge of that. That’s rather potent. Not the cork, your after-shave. Strong enough to bury anything.” Bond then adds, “But the wine is quite excellent. Although, for such a grand meal I had rather expected a claret.” Wint takes 007’s bait: “Of course. Unfortunately, our cellars are rather poorly stocked with clarets.” Bond rebukes, “Mouton Rothschild is a claret. And I’ve smelled that aftershave before and both times I’ve smelled a rat!”
Cue action.
... a superb dry delivery and a masterclass in subtle acting. The man’s a legend... a god. Brosnan can only dream of delivering lines like these with such dry aplomb. I can just picture Brosnan having a go at the very same scene; he’d tilt his head, smirk a lot, and in that light-wispy voice of his he’d carry as much threat as a Cocker Spaniel in his delivery. I mean, I could say the same for Brosnan: I see him in a tux and all I think is lightweight ham that’s better suited for TV work.
I do like that scene,well until he puts the bomb between Wint's legs...the way Kidd is set on fire is always cut from ITV no matter what time the film is on,i only ever saw that happen when i got my old special edition DVD ,i was gobsmacked.
As for the Moore fight, some of it is alright but there's surely no excuse for that laughable jump-hug he executes before he tries to strangle Sandor. At some points Sir Roger looks plain geriatric, and I think that pull-up kick he performs is the worst of all the ones there's been in the series. I did like Roger's initial elbow strike and his last few moves in the fight, but he hit like a grandpa in the rest of it.
The fight outside the pyramids against Ivan and Boris was much better in my opinion, where Bond's blows actually looked believably threatening. The Jaws fight on the train is also done perfectly; these two are perhaps the only Roger fights other than the one with the yo-yo assassins in OP and the Golden Gate fight in AVTAK that I can't complain about. The rest of them look a bit too acted-out and unbelievable, in my opinion, whether it's the blows being unconvincing or the speed of the fight just being under par.
You dont like the fight on the Golden Gate Bridge vs Zorin?
Wint going out with his tails between his legs is one of the most hilarious moments in all of Bondom. Could never be filmed now, of course.
Forgot that one; it's done pretty convincingly. The MR plane one isn't too bad either, except there's a bit of the cartoonish "spinning away several metres" in response to each punch.
It does make me laugh,and Bruce's face is a classic piece of acting...that whole scene is better than the oil-rig bore fest.
(Although i do like Bond under the rig and all the bullets pinging around and little smoke clouds,that was very clever and adds realism.)
Oh ,and seeing Wint & Kidd's faces in the portholes as the ship departs always gave me an eerie shiver - still does ,PK !!
If we are to objectively judge Moore's fights then he will always come up short. Rog was a lover, not a fighter. However, I still think some of his best work is in TSWLM (particularly at the pyramids) and in MR (the Chang fight). I've also always enjoyed his encounter at Saida's in TMWTGG and at Kananga's lair in LALD (Rog was pretty mobile in his first film).
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So true. A shame.
There should be a rule against cutting films on tv. Unforgivable. Just show it at a more adult oriented hour.