Favourite Bond Moments - Round 26: NTTD- Part 2: Ranking

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  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    Another very good moment is when Bond emerges from the sea and arrives in Tokyo with all the colourful lights.

    Ready for the next ranking?
    Favourite Bond Moments - Round 9: YOLT - Part 2: Ranking
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1 Bond escapes from Osato Chemicals
    2 Bond enters Osato Chemicals
    3 Aki picks up Bond with the Toyota
    4 Kobe docks
    5 Little Nellie
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    1. Osato Chemicals infiltration + Siamese wodka
    2. Soviet capsule capture
    3. Volcano lair climax
    4. American capsule capture
    5. Fake funeral
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    1. Rooftop fight
    2. Bond escape from Mr Osato lair
    3. Bond's ''wife'' murdered in her sleep
    4. Henderson and ''taxi'' ride.
    5. Meeting Tiger
  • marcmarc Universal Exports
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    1. Volcano lair climax
    2. Little Nellie action sequence
    3. Space capsule hijacking
    4. Magnet helicopter and car
    5. Bond slides into secret service headquarters and meets Tiger
  • Max_The_ParrotMax_The_Parrot ATAC to St Cyril’s
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    Dwayne wrote: »

    @Max_The_Parrot.
    Given that you seem to love Mie Hama, you may want to seek out a Japanese movie called “IronFinger” (1965 aka “100 shots, 100 Kills”). A James Bond like movie, Ms. Hama spends the later third of the film running around in a red bikini (instead of YOLT’s white one).

    @Dwayne thanks for that, I’ve not come across that film before but it definitely sounds like it has great visuals ... so I’ll keep an eye out for it! 😉😊
  • Max_The_ParrotMax_The_Parrot ATAC to St Cyril’s
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    Difficult to pick out and order a top 5 again for a film I enjoy as much as this, but I’m going to go for
    1. Rooftop slow motion fight
    2. Little Nellie sequence (I love the construction of it, and Tiger's reaction to it as well!)
    3. Fight in Blofeld's volcano
    4. Kissy and Bond taking a rest on the side of the volcano .... such amazing visuals (the scenery isn’t bad either)
    5. The meeting with Aki at the sumo contest

    Great film, enjoyed reading everyone’s highlights!
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    1. Brandt eaten by piranhas (awesome set and evil way of an elimination)
    2. Aerial shot of the rooftop fight
    3. Office fight
    4. The lake in the vulcano isn't real and moves!
    5. Bond enjoys a bath next to a Tiger, surrounded by very sexyful beauties

    Honourable mentions: electric magnet, Aki's death, the endless amount of ninjas abseiling. Wasn't almost everyone killed before?! Who cares, it is a great image!)
  • 1. The Reveal of the SPECTRE Volcano Lair
    2. Office Fight
    3. Rooftop Fight
    4. The fight with Hans
    5. The Death of Osato
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    edited December 2020 Posts: 4,378
    It looks like the capture of the space capsule or the kobe docks with the roof top shot will win this round...
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    Tough to narrow this down to just five:
    1. The Kobe Dock fight.
    2. The Ninja Assault on Blofeld’s Lair
    3. Blofeld’s reveal (“…allow me to introduce myself….”)
    4. US Spacecraft gets kidnapped in space
    5. Little Nellie defends her honor

    @Max_The_Parrot. I think that “IronFinger” (1965, director: Jun Fukuda) use to be carried by Criterion – but I can no longer find anything for sale. I bought my copy on the “grey” market last year after seeing it streamed on http://daikaiju.tv/ as part of a birthday celebration for Ms. Hama. You’ll be interested to know that they played Barry’s “Mountains and Sunsets” between the various films and that YOLT was streamed as well.

    ironfingerally.jpg

    You may also wish to seek out “Key of the Keys”( “Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi” (1965) which was then dubbed by Woody Allen as “What’s Up Tiger Llly.” Both versions are Bond Spoofs and the Allen movie is available on DVD.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    The summary of the top 5 moments from YOLT looks the following:
    1. Kobe docks (with the rooftop shot)
    2. Captured US space capsule
    3. Office fight
    4. Volcano lair action
    5. Little Nellie


    With Christmas coming very soon and New Years Eve not far away either,it's time for a Bond movie with Christmas and fireworks in the same scene:

    Favourite Bond Moments - Round 10: TWINE - Part 1: Suggestions and discussion

  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited December 2020 Posts: 4,416
    Bank scene (Pretitle Part 1)
    Boat chase (Pretitle Part 2)
    Devil's breath
    Davidov id switch
    Valentine Casino
    Valentine Factory
    Stil there (Warmflash talks about Renard Bullet)
    Bond meet Christmas Jones
    The bunker
    Pipeline in Turkey (Bond on the run with Christmas Jones and Charles)
    Goodbye Desmond (First: Never Let Them See You Bleed. And the second ? Always have escape plan)
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    1- Bond being proper hard in the bankers office, outnumbered, unfazed, owning the room.
    2- Conversation between Bond and M in the castle. IMO Brosnan and Dench's best scene together.
    3- quickly dispatching the bodyguard in the bar. Very cool.
    4- Bond's response to Electra asking him if he's ever lost somebody. (I always read Bond's little pause as a rare Tracy reference)
    5- "I never miss"
  • edited December 2020 Posts: 6,844
    Missed out on YOLT's ranking there, but 4 of my 5 made the final list anyway.

    For the record, I would have gone:

    1. Volcano lair raid (such a grand set, so many quotable lines, ninjas vs. machine guns, the exploder button!)
    2. The PTS (mostly for the tremendous scene of the American shuttle capture set to Barry's ominous space march, but also for how perfectly Bond's staged death segues into the titles)
    3. Helga fed to piranhas (a shocking moment made all the more chilling by Pleasance's strange manner of speaking and again a terrific set from Ken Adam)
    4. Fight at Kobe dock (more brilliance from Barry backing a very fun chase and shootout around the docks)
    5. Fight in Osato's office (simply a great fight staged inside yet another great set from Ken Adam)

    But now...ah, The World Is Not Enough. What can be said about TWINE that hasn't already been said by others a thousand times before? That titan of filmmaking that rubs shoulders with the likes of GF and OHMSS and on a good day even stands that quarter inch taller... Wait a minute. Nobody says any of that about TWINE. Guess it's time to right some wrongs.

    The 90s was an era of highly inventive and superbly staged action sequences and while some may have thought the plot lost amidst the explosions, this for me is where Brosnan's films really delivered. From the opening Thames chase to the parahawk assault to the bunker shootout to the flying buzzsaw antics of the caviar factory and lopsided submarine finale, the greatest parts of TWINE for me revolve around the film's incredibly fun and well orchestrated action sequences.

    But to point out a few more specific moments that shine, I'd mention:

    -Glaring at the camera after taking out Lachaise's bodyguards in Bilbao
    -Q's final advice before lowering out of frame
    -Bond pausing over the reference of a lost loved one
    -That very cool moment when Bond knifes the thug's tie to the bar, then trades the man's gun for his incoming martini
    -The delayed "Bond...James Bond" while ascending the silo
    -The torture chair and death of Elektra
  • edited December 2020 Posts: 2,010
    1. The scene at the Bank in the opening.
    2. Brosnan hanging from a hot air balloon, and getting subsequently injured after falling.
    3. The little remark Monnypenny makes to Dr. Warmflash after she clears Bond for duty.
    4. The scene where Bond has to calm down Elektra King.
    5. The scene were Bond kills Elektra, then feels remorseful.

    I love TWINE, I recognize it’s not perfect, but I think it’s good.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    Good to have some TWINE fans here. I wouldn't go that far myself but there is still a lot for me to enjoy (well, honestly, I can say this about every Bond movie. I like them all and I love most of them.).

    I like your #2 @007ClassicBondFan. In fact, I love all Brosnan PTS endings and this one with Bond falling on the roof of the dome and "rolling" down is a cool little stunt and a great final image to end this long PTS.

    I completely forgot the Tracy reference, good that already two of you mentioned it!

    I'm a bit surprised that the action scenes are one of the main reasons you like TWINE @Some_Kind_Of_Hero. The action in this film is generelly not celebrated on this forum and I feel (at least for some sequences) the same: The action can't match the usual Bond standard of excitement and creativity for me BUT it's still solid, nonetheless).

    I've also read some negative statements about the The delayed "Bond...James Bond" while ascending the silo before but I'm also a fan. It's cool:)

    An over the top moment I like (and many others don't) is Bond "driving" the boat through a restaurant. It doesn't make sense, sure, but it's is great fun (in a MR way). Brosnan is always stylish while destroying things...

    And you can say about the casting of Denise Richards whatever you want but she looks hot (imo). Her first scene with Bond is burnt in my retina since my first screening of the film as a teenager. Same goes for the moment when she distracts the man at the caviar factory. Denise Richards never looked more attractive than in this movie (imo). Unfortunately the exact opposite happend with several other actresses where I thought that they had a much better look (dressed, hair etc) in other movies (i.e. Gemma Arterton).


  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    Missed out on YOLT's ranking there, but 4 of my 5 made the final list anyway.

    For the record, I would have gone:

    1. Volcano lair raid (such a grand set, so many quotable lines, ninjas vs. machine guns, the exploder button!)
    2. The PTS (mostly for the tremendous scene of the American shuttle capture set to Barry's ominous space march, but also for how perfectly Bond's staged death segues into the titles)
    3. Helga fed to piranhas (a shocking moment made all the more chilling by Pleasance's strange manner of speaking and again a terrific set from Ken Adam)
    4. Fight at Kobe dock (more brilliance from Barry backing a very fun chase and shootout around the docks)
    5. Fight in Osato's office (simply a great fight staged inside yet another great set from Ken Adam)

    Adding your vote to my calculations only changes the places of the volcano lair climax and the office fight. The two favourites stay the same way.

    I'm glad that your also a fan of hungry piranhas eating attractive henchwomen. It's definitely an outstanding setpiece and one of the best death scenes of the series. Classic!

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    I also consider myself a TWINE fan. It was my first Bond film after all. I sometimes find it rather strange too, how easily it is dismissed around some parts, because it has some great stuff in it.

    Such as:
    - Swiss banker
    - Q boat chase
    - Molly Warmflash
    - Access Denied
    - Q's goodbye
    - Casino scene
    - Body Double
    - Kazakhstan
    - In the pipeline
    - Caviar factory
    - Zukovsky's return and demise
    - I never miss
    - Bond racing against his lung capacity
    - and you know what I like that epilogue too, two lame Christmas puns and I can't help but smile.
  • RoadphillRoadphill United Kingdom
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    Tough one this, as TWINE is one of my least favourite in the series.

    Certainly, the moment when Bond shoots Elektra is a standout. Other than that..
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    Noone else finds something to like or even love in TWINE?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Noone else finds something to like or even love in TWINE?

    It has a great title sequence and song.
  • marcmarc Universal Exports
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    - submarine finale
    - pipeline action (with MI6 observing)
    - Bond arrives at Russian ICBM base (as Mr. Davidov)
    - ski chase
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    Noone else finds something to like or even love in TWINE?

    It has a great title sequence and song.

    Thats about all I like in it too! Was a fan of the group 'Garbage' at the time and was delighted they were picked, but I would have preferred they were left to do the song themselves.
    Kleinman does a stylish oil and water title sequence!
  • GoldenGun wrote: »
    I also consider myself a TWINE fan. It was my first Bond film after all. I sometimes find it rather strange too, how easily it is dismissed around some parts, because it has some great stuff in it.

    Such as:
    - Swiss banker
    - Q boat chase
    - Molly Warmflash
    - Access Denied
    - Q's goodbye
    - Casino scene
    - Body Double
    - Kazakhstan
    - In the pipeline
    - Caviar factory
    - Zukovsky's return and demise
    - I never miss
    - Bond racing against his lung capacity
    - and you know what I like that epilogue too, two lame Christmas puns and I can't help but smile.

    These are also some great moments I hadn’t mentioned, @GoldenGun. I too am often perplexed by how easily TWINE tends to be written off.

    Bond reviewing the documents and news footage of Elektra’s kidnapping is a beautiful, quieter moment—one of many that contributes much to character while letting the film breathe between the spectacle. Bond tenderly touching the screen as Elektra cries is a moment that tends to be criticized for some reason but that I think was spot on and played perfectly by Brosnan. Arnold’s music here, as with so many other parts of the film, really gives the scene its emotional heartbeat.

    Though smaller in scale, the pipeline is still a thrilling sequence that forwards plot perhaps more than any of the major set pieces. It’s played purely for the suspense—no winking or comedy here—and Brosnan and Richards sell the urgency well. As the scene unfolds, the audience grows intrigued as to why Bond would want to let the bomb go off. The CGI is tastefully and minimally done as well, and Arnold’s score builds terrifically toward the climactic explosion, which itself plays more impressively than Spectre’s bank-breaking record-setter.

    I also enjoy rather than roll my eyes at the epilogue. Champagne and fireworks, silly innuendo, a throwback to the days of M and Q embarrassingly discovering Bond in action as it were, then a fade out to “James Bond Will Return” and Arnold’s rip-roaring rendition of the Bond theme. What’s not to enjoy here?

    A few others:

    @M_Balje mentioned the briefing with Renard's skull holographically projected. It's a cool visual—another tasteful use of CGI. The scene sets Renard up as a fearful opponent, and yes, Moneypenny ribbing the good doctor is amusing.

    Bond and Elektra playing with ice is another nice moment, as well as the latter act echo of Elektra playing with ice with the insensate Renard.

    And I like the briefcase bomb in the FSB safe house, too: pulling the pieces of Elektra's and Renard's scheme together, dodging the blast, the fake-out of Zukovsky's death, then captured by Bullion and Gabor by the dock.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    edited December 2020 Posts: 4,378
    Great points mentioned recently. Access denied is also a moment I like.
    Favourite Bond moments - Round 10: TWINE - Part 2: Ranking
  • DaltonFanDaltonFan California
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    This is probably OT, but I'm going to say it anyway. One of my favorite moments in the series was the cargo plane fight in The Living Daylights. It was great, and I really loved the fact that while Bond was fighting what's his name in the back of and hanging out of the plane, Kara, who doesn't know how to fly a plane, is the one who is flying the plane. I love Kara. Even though she doesn't really know what the hell is going on for most of the film, she's a plucky woman who roles with the punches.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1 Main title sequence
    2 Bond escapes out the bank window
    3 Dr Jones enters the scene
    4 Renard shows off
    5 X-Ray Specs-so dumb it s funny
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
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    1. Boat chase (Pretitle Part 2)
    2. Bank scene (Pretitle Part 1)
    3. Davidov id switch
    4. The bunker
    5. Valentine Casino

    That was not easy, so much good scenes. Inspecialy because of very high standard of franchise.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
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    I’m one of those rare birds that actually likes TWINE. To me – on balance – it works better than TND (which I always find somewhat generic). Sure, there are some “dear God, what were they thinking” moments in TWINE – which stand out, especially upon repeated viewings, but I still think that its’ Brosnan’s most assured performance as Bond. And Sophie Marceau (and Robbie Coltrane) are treats. Taken as a whole, those elements make up (kind of, anyway) for Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones. Nothing personal Ms. Richards, but……

    As for the top five moments of TWINE:

    1.PTS. I always laugh at Brosnan as he straightens his tie – while under water 😊!
    2.The “Access Denied” scene.
    3.Renard’s Introduction.
    4.The Casino scene – “this is a game I can’t play” (or something like that) as well as the X-Ray glasses.
    5.Q’s Goodbye
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