Big Mi6 James Bond film ranking game - A few stats!

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  • peterpeter Toronto
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    My number nine. It used to be higher.

    Saying that, I can't see it ever falling out of the top ten. It was the first James Bond film I saw (it was on television, and I couldn't have been more than five or six). My dad, a Connery-only James Bond fan, told my mum that I didn't have to go to bed at my usual time that evening, and he and I sat side by side as I experienced my first 007 film.

    And the little boy in me marvelled at the PTS. Connery was so incredibly cool and confident. The battle in the study was exhilarating. The escape by jet pack was out of this world, and a car that had water cannons in them stole my heart.

    By the time the PTS was over, I can pretty much say that I became a James Bond fan at that very moment.

    Thunderball will always have a special place in my heart, and I continue to fully enjoy Connery's performance today. He was at the height of his powers, he looked fantastic, and Fiona Volpe has never been bettered as a femme fatale.

    Also, incredibly rich bits of dialogue, like:

    "That gun, looks more fitting for a woman"
    "Do you know much about guns, Mr. Bond?"
    "No, I know a little about women"

    And the battle at the baccarat table, playing with the word spectre.

    And the verbal exchanges Bond has with Fiona.... All just classic...
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,230
    My number #8. Is it a perfect film? No. Is it the best of the Connery's? No. But it's the second Bond film I ever saw, it left a lasting impact on me, and when the PTS is over, exotic flavours mix well with Barry's awesome score. Also, I deeply respect the underwater photography. I don't think any of the underwater stuff is boring at all.
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    Indeed ! TB, despite its faults, is just plain FUN ! As were other faulty Bond films which, when released, were very popular and were FUN - OP, DAF
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,157
    TB is my number 10 entry.
    It used to be much lower down my rankings but over the years has steadily climbed to a more respectable spot. Whilst it has its issues (which are well known) I think it improves on GF. Connery was surely never cooler than he was in TB. From the pts to Shrublands and finally the Bahamas. This Bond is effortlessly in command and dangerous. I love seeing the set-up of the story with Spectre doing what they do. We get to see them in action before Bond is called into action to stop them. The pace can be slower at times, but it doesn't matter. The travelogue from dull and grey London and Paris, to bright and colourful make TB a joy to watch. The Bahamas look so beautiful on screen that any mistakes are easily forgotten or forgiven.
    Largo whilst not as memorable as GF or Blofeld is still a decent villain for Bond to take on, and at least poses a threat to Bond. Fiona remains the femme fatale that all others are measured by, and Domino is equally one of the top tier of Bond girls.
    The underwater scenes are well shot and exciting. They also still hold up well nearly 60 years later!
    I like that the filmmakers didn't try to make a GF pt:2 by bringing the DB5 back for more of the same or producing a new version of Oddjob. They wisely went in a slightly different direction with the gadgets and the villains which 'I think benefits both films.
    The booming John Barry soundtrack also makes the film seem larger than it perhaps is, and the cinematography gives the film an almost epic feel.

    I love :

    The pts
    The Spectre meeting
    The OO briefing / M scene
    Shrublands
    The Casino scene
    Bond and Fiona (especially their byplay)
    Bond when he visits Palmyra / skeet shooting
    The Junkanoo and the death of Fiona
    The end battle
    The skyhook rescue system (so cool!)

    Not a fan of :

    Some of the editing
    Some of the minor characters, what does Pinder really do?
    The sped up climax aboard the yacht.

    I think TB is a very worth top ten Bond film and is always good for a rewatch.
    Some of the best dialogue can be found here as well. Far too many to list.



  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Every Bond actor is represented in the top 8, but at #8 we have one actor leaving the contest, with:

    GOLDENEYE (1995)
    Directed by Martin Campbell

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    "It appears we share the same passions."

    GE obtained Pierce's only gold medal of the contest. It also received one silver medal, one 4th place and two 5th's.

    Six other top 10's were awarded to it, four of those came in 9th. Five more members ranked it inside their top 15.

    Two members, however, gave it a bottom 5 finish, of which the lowest was one penultimate place.

    We discussed the other three Pierce entries a while ago, all of them towards the lower end of our ranking, this one though is an entry he can always count on.

    GE scored a total of 135 points.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited August 28 Posts: 24,230
    It's my #2. I honestly think that Pierce's introductory film is not just his best, but one of the best made Bonds ever. It's got good awesome thriller vibes, not nearly relying on the silliness that ran rampant in past Bonds. The cast is capital-g Great. The music, while heavily debated, fits the mood of the film very well. The dialogues rock; this film is replete with superb one-liners. And GE still holds up today. Campbell did an amazing job with this one. I was there when it premiered and it's been a favourite of mine since.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,062
    About right. I'm among those who have it on #9. Close enough. One of two Brosnan films that I like...instead of just sit through, the other being TND.
  • R1s1ngs0nR1s1ngs0n France
    edited August 28 Posts: 2,158
    As much as I’m not surprised to see GE making the top 10, I am also ‘relieved’ to see it hasn’t cracked the top 5.
    More than any other movie in the franchise, it’s a film for which I never understood the outpouring of love and accolades.
    Trevelyan lacks the grandeur or menace other classic Bond villains possess, while Xenia and Boris are two of the most ridiculous, over the top hench(wo)men, whose rightful place is in an Austin Powers movie.
    And Brosnan… always liked him in other roles, but I could never stand his interpretation of 007. The pretty boy, smug attitude was toned down a bit in subsequent films, but here it’s on full display and I don’t find it the least appealing or charming.
    A good title song and a wonderful title sequence, I’d give it that.
    #22 for me.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 28 Posts: 16,545
    #13 for me. I watched this one again a couple of weeks ago, and although I'm really familiar with it due to it coming out at the height of my Bondmania (I think it was five trips to the cinema), and there being so much expectation and hype around it, I really enjoyed it. I realised that unlike, say, TND (which is maybe more of a favourite of mine) it's doing some really quite sophisticated stuff, in that it's reinventing what a Bond movie is, but in such a subtle way that you barely notice and it feels like every Bond movie you've ever seen. It struck me that something like playing the tank chase for laughs, but not in an overt way, is a really elegant directorial decision, and everything that Campbell does here is impeccably judged. I enjoyed the Glen movies but we could have done with someone of his calibre in the 80s just to step the movies up a bit.
    BB & MGW come straight out of the gate on their first solo flight with an enormous hit; they showed they really knew what they were doing. And Brosnan is pretty note-perfect: yes, as he's admitted he's basically playing it somewhere between Sean and Roger so it's not exactly a portrayal which will go down in history, but what works works, and he owns the movie. He has much more charisma and screen presence than his predecessor, and this film rightly made him a star and moved him into the big time properly.
    The stunts are all superb and eye-popping, Tina Turner's song is big and brash and just what we needed, and hiring Danny Kleinman was a masterstroke which just keeps giving to this day. Much like the rest of the film, he gave us the Bond titles sort of how we remember them rather than how they were: just that bit better.

    One tidbit I only learned relatively recently which GG's graphic above reminded me of: motorbike stunt legend Eddie Kidd plays Bond in the opening titles!
  • edited August 28 Posts: 7,527
    Yep, I'm the one who has GE in penultimate position! I've never liked it, and coming after Daltons superb two, it was a huge comedown. Brossa will never be my idea of Bond, wooden, stiff ("stiff assed Brit!" is about the most honest line in the movie!) and I echo @R1s1ngs0n comment, a smugness that really grates, he appears lost and fades into the background when in the company of better actors like Judi Dench and Robbie Coltrane, even Michael Kitchen excellent Tanner acts him off the screen. GE has probably the most annoying set of characters in one Bond film, from that silly bitch in the opening evaluation, to Sean Bean (who I've always liked outside of here) and his daft Noel Coward accent, to Famke Jannsens slap happy, sub par Fatima Blush character ( Barbara Carrera does it far better!) to that irritating twat Boris, and the most annoying character in the series, so bad they brought him back, Jack Wades CIA buffoon! Gottfried John starts out well in the pts, looks great in uniform and sinister, but later they turn him into a hip flask swigging idiot, a shame! Then there's Eric Serras weird score, and he inflicts that awful end title song on us. Director Martin Campbell tries his hardest to keep things moving along, but that first section at the Satellite Control centre is so dull ( and with some dodgy Derek Meddings model work, he's done way better in the past, sad that this was his final film!) it's just a chore to get through. Cinematographer Phil Meheaux hides everything in the dark! Any positives?, well Daniel Kleinman does a stunning titles sequence, some of the action is good and Izabella Scorupco is lovely, though the accent is a bit wobbly and even she has that cringey beach scene with Brossa, with its terrible dialogue! Phew, glad to get that off my chest 😂
    Top 10?, never even come near my top 20!
  • Posts: 4,258
    4 for me! Always been one of my favourites. Love Brosnan’s performance in this one - confident, charismatic. Natalya’s a great Bond girl (she’s given quite a lot of screen time and individual work to do in this plot before crossing paths with Bond, which is cool). Alec Travelyan’s one of my favourite Bond villains, even despite the fact Bean is too young for the part, and Onatop is a cool henchwoman.

    Cool action sequences - the PTS jumps, the final fight with Travelyan (very gritty and up there with the Grant/Bond fight in FRWL for me), and of course the tank chase!

    The story works. As others have said it feels like an updated Bond movie but tweaks things in ever so slight ways. Ie. Instead of the usual Moneypenny/Bond scene with Moneypenny swooning over him we get a more scrappy version, one who rolls her eyes at the idea of dressing up for Bond, claiming ‘he’s never had her etc. It’s still playful and even flirtatious but it’s a different spin. Same for M of course now being played by Dench - a character much more businesslike, and a bit scornful of Bond even. Again, you still get the usual ‘come back alive’ which shows that level of trust in Bond, but it adds a good element of conflict without going the full Robert Brown M route.

    The score is a bit ‘industrial’ which works better at certain times than others.

    All in all, this is one of those films in the franchise that really reinvented Bond for the present day. Always been one I revisit.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 28 Posts: 16,545
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ( and with some dodgy Derek Meddings model work, he's done way better in the past, sad that this was his final film!)

    I've been very down on Meddings' work on this film and I think there is indeed some dreadful stuff, but watching it again there are some really standout shots which are better than anything CG could do: the shot of the Tiger's ejection module in the air firing its parachutes is superb, and the shot of Bond and Natalia's plane crashing into the lake really does look like the real thing, you wouldn't know. and the MIGs taking off looks completely convincing.
    007HallY wrote: »
    The score is a bit ‘industrial’ which works better at certain times than others.

    Yeah, I'm not down on the score and I think it works well quite often (I think the gunbarrel is genuinely one of the best ever!), but I was watching it and wondering if the 'Run Jump shoot' track was intended for the sequence they use it on in Bond's escape from the archives- you can feel the sound mixer actually having trouble and having to mix the sound effects down for the music slightly, as the melody is using a low cello sound which I think clashes a bit with the effects.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    #1 for me, now and forever, and the film I've seen most in my life. If I could grab a tally of viewings of this one magically out of thin air, I wouldn't be surprised seeing that number is close to 1,000. It's perfectly nostalgic to me and the most entertaining Bond film ever.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    #1 for me, now and forever
    No substitutes.

    Did you know there were TLD and LTK props reused in GE? Isthmus casino chips in Monaco, and TLD's opium sack bomb timer becomes a keypad lock on Q's workshop door when Bond walks in.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    #1 for me, now and forever
    No substitutes.

    Did you know there were TLD and LTK props reused in GE? Isthmus casino chips in Monaco, and TLD's opium sack bomb timer becomes a keypad lock on Q's workshop door when Bond walks in.

    I genuinely never knew this but I appreciate you sharing it! I gotta keep this in the back of my mind when I do my Bondathon in November.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Good to see some folks who enjoy GE the way I do. ;-)
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I genuinely never knew this but I appreciate you sharing it! I gotta keep this in the back of my mind when I do my Bondathon in November.
    My pleasure! There's always something new to learn, no matter how many viewings.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    I genuinely never knew this but I appreciate you sharing it! I gotta keep this in the back of my mind when I do my Bondathon in November.
    My pleasure! There's always something new to learn, no matter how many viewings.

    That's so accurate. I've seen some of these installments close to 500 times, if not more, and I'm sure I don't know even 25% of all the production trivia, easter eggs, etc.

    I remember the one year a few of us here watched about 400 Bond films each, and I was amazed at just how many actors I noticed appearing in numerous installments, background characters I had spotted countless times and never realized they were a part of other films, like the GE computer salesman working alongside Professor Dr. Metz in the lab in DAF.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited August 28 Posts: 14,635
    @Creasy47 Mere minutes ago I discovered that the 'Hotel Splendide' from CR is the name of a film starring Daniel Craig! I wasn't even looking up anything Bond-related but ended up there.
  • Vinther1991Vinther1991 Denmark
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    I have GoldenEye at #5. Pierce Brosnan used to be my least favorite James Bond when I first fell in love with the franchise in the late 90s, and he continued to be so until around 2008-2010, but has since grown a lot on me and he has now become my favorite James Bond. He is classy, charming, witty, sophisticated, confident, polite (okay not that much, but more than other Bonds), looks great and is not overly masculine/macho. That is the kind of man I want to be. I mean, who wants to be Timothy Dalton? Or worse: Daniel Craig? They are both much more serious, which is probably why I used to prefer them. But I like that Brosnan has a bit more humor to him, without turning into slapstick like Roger Moore.

    Even back when I wasn't a fan of Brosnan, I was still a huge fan of GoldenEye though, that was really the one Bond film of that era that ticked all the boxes for me. It really feels like a classic, and so it did back in the 90s already. Like Brosnan himself, it strikes the right balance between the seriousness of the Dalton era and the campy fun of the Moore era. What is gone is the cheap feel of the John Glen era, GoldenEye feels like a premium production.
    It has a fantastic list of characters, Travelyan, Onatopp, Boris, Natalya, Zukovsky, Ourumov, Dench's M are all some of the best in the series. Only one that misses the mark for me is Jack Wade.

    The film is packed with iconic scenes, the PTS with the bungie jump, the casino scene, the theft of GoldenEye, the reintroduction of Trevelyan in the Statue par, the archives scene, the train sequence and the whole climax. There are so many brilliant aesthetics choices. I also love Tina Turner's song.

    It is not all perfect though. The tank chase, while quite fun, is a little too much, Bond is a bit out of character here, being very reckless, risking the lives of civilians and the police. Some plot points are a little too convoluted, the PTS makes little sense when you start to think about it and the attempt of disposing of Bond and Natalya by putting them in a helicopter set to fire rockets at itself is just mind boggling. The soundtrack is also a bit hit and miss. There are tracks that are absolutely fire and others that are completely off.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    QBranch wrote: »
    @Creasy47 Mere minutes ago I discovered that the 'Hotel Splendide' from CR is the name of a film starring Daniel Craig! I wasn't even looking up anything Bond-related but ended up there.

    What're the odds of that? That's gold - now here's me adding it to my Watchlist just for that slight connection and to say I've seen another one of Craig's films haha.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    #9 for me, it's a good Bond film, but it's still a blurry direction whether it would be in my Top Five.

    Of course, the action is great (although a bit OTT, Bond driving the Tank is on par with Bond driving the semi truck wheelie on one side), the plot is great, there's tense and danger, the Russian Cold War feel is very felt throughout the film, it's a style that most James Bond Dynamite comics have, the acting of the main characters were great (Sean Bean, Famke Janssen, and Izabella Scorupco), Robbie Coltrane and his character, Zukovsky is great too, I liked the few backstory that was shared between him and Bond.

    The things I disliked about it are the editing, I don't liked the transition from PTS to the Title Sequence, well, most of the transitions from one scene to another, fading and such, very dated and a bit corny for a Bond film, the acting of whoever played the role of General Ourumov, he's not good in the role, I must admit, he's very comical to be taken seriously, and his accent was all over the place and silly (much worse than Barbara Bach's Anya who's very much tied with this).

    Boris Grishenko (for how good Alan Cummings is) the character was weird, I don't know why he's acting like that, some were even having theories that he's an autistic of some sorts, I don't know, his character was so all over the place too, he's annoying and irritating and his actions were somewhat blurry (Why did he hated Natalya all of a sudden? Sure, he's a villain but what's the reason for his bullying of her? I don't get it).

    Natalya Simonova is a realistic character, I'm going to give her that, she got some agency and capable of survival, a strong willed and determined woman, but she's always complaining and didn't cooperated with Bond until she's held hostage, although I got it, she had trust issues, but Bond already showed the most obvious to her that he's fighting them and even tied with her in the bombing of the helicopter and saved her life many times, and she's always criticizing Bond (that beach scene is the most example), I don't get the reason behind that attitude of her.

    Jack Wade is always, ridiculous, Felix Leiter should've been here instead.

    The score is decent, at least better than the one in FYEO, but it's a bit awkward, especially the race scene between Bond and Xenia at the beginning, it's awful.

    Brosnan was decent in his first outing as Bond, a bit smug, and still almost playing Remington Steele in a Bond film, the hairstyle was bad, just bad, thankfully his hairstyle got better in his subsequent outings, and so his suits, looked very cheap, especially the neck tie, he looked more like a low class broker.

    Those are what I could say about this film, it's in my Top Ten, so that's the highest I could give for this.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    #1 for me, now and forever
    No substitutes.

    Did you know there were TLD and LTK props reused in GE? Isthmus casino chips in Monaco, and TLD's opium sack bomb timer becomes a keypad lock on Q's workshop door when Bond walks in.

    Ah that's very cool- will look out for that! I remember seeing that sack bomb timer lying around in the Q Branch-themed queueing area at the Licence To Thrill ride in London :D
  • Posts: 4,258
    SIS_HQ wrote: »

    Of course, the action is great (although a bit OTT, Bond driving the Tank is on par with Bond driving the semi truck wheelie on one side),

    See, I think the genius of the tank chase is it's a ridiculous scene but done in a straightforward way stylistically. We don't get any slide whistles or 'wink wink' moments in the filmmaking such as a change in music or double taking pigeons. It's just the Bond theme and some cool (and often humorous) stunts.

    For me it's actually the perfect Bond action scene. It's humorous, but gripping. It's one of those big, cool moments that bridges two quite tense scenes as well.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Count me in for the GE fanclub as well.

    Pierce is a suave and elegant Bond, born to wear a suit and I just love that!

    The other characters are all eccentric and unforgettable. Especially Famke is brilliant, but I love them all to be honest. I find Mishkin is often forgotten, so I'll quickly mention him here, I quite like Tchécky Karyo in several films, this one included.

    There's a superb post-Industrial, après-Cold War vibe to this film, thanks to, in no small part, the shadowy cinematography and Éric Serra's wildly underrated score. The latter is one of my favourites of the entire series.

    The stunts, the dialogue, the story, the title song and title sequence are all great too. Number 5 for me.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 28 Posts: 16,545
    I remember being really surprised watching the tank chase in the cinema: we'd seen clips galore of it in all the promotion and the trailers and all that, so I knew it was coming, and what would happen in a large amount of it (although they did keep the statue under wraps, which was good). But I didn't expect to be laughing out loud during all of it- it was so gloriously big and silly that it was irresistible. What I really love are those shots of Natalya looking out of the back of the car, basically loving James Bond as much as we all do- he's doing all of this for a woman he's barely met, basically because he said he would help her. As you say, it's not wink-wink silly, but it's incredibly funny regardless, and is a brilliant bit of character information about what Bond is like and what he'll do. The film is really well put-together, and very well directed: Campbell knows exactly how to pitch it.

    It's also quite funny really because it's a chase which doesn't have an end- there's no resolution, just a sort of full stop. The baddies get away, and then it turns out Bond has been sort of surreptitiously tailing them... in a tank. It's a Bond film- don't think about it too much! :D


    Actually, speaking of GE: I finally got it a few weeks ago. I've never liked the Omega Seamaster he wears in it, it just didn't do anything for me. Then suddenly it clicked- I just started liking it! So I'm now the proud owner of a blue Seamaster (a bit of a later model so closer to the one in CR than GE) and I absolutely love it!

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    mtm wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    #1 for me, now and forever
    No substitutes.

    Did you know there were TLD and LTK props reused in GE? Isthmus casino chips in Monaco, and TLD's opium sack bomb timer becomes a keypad lock on Q's workshop door when Bond walks in.

    Ah that's very cool- will look out for that! I remember seeing that sack bomb timer lying around in the Q Branch-themed queueing area at the Licence To Thrill ride in London :D
    Nice - sounds like you had a...blast!

    Love the cold war vibe - I miss the military angle in these films. I keep thinking of Brosnan crouching down in the bush in that blue Brioni suit holding the AK. The missile train is so cool. You could feature one of these in a future film, showing the missile firing from the train. Check out Kim Jong Un's train firing a missile on YouTube, it's scary stuff.
  • edited August 28 Posts: 4,258
    mtm wrote: »
    I remember being really surprised watching the tank chase in the cinema: we'd seen clips galore of it in all the promotion and the trailers and all that, so I knew it was coming, and what would happen in a large amount of it (although they did keep the statue under wraps, which was good). But I didn't expect to be laughing out loud during all of it- it was so gloriously big and silly that it was irresistible. What I really love are those shots of Natalya looking out of the back of the car, basically loving James Bond as much as we all do- he's doing all of this for a woman he's barely met, basically because he said he would help her. As you say, it's not wink-wink silly, but it's incredibly funny regardless, and is a brilliant bit of character information about what Bond is like and what he'll do. The film is really well put-together, and very well directed: Campbell knows exactly how to pitch it.

    It's also quite funny really because it's a chase which doesn't have an end- there's no resolution, just a sort of full stop. The baddies get away, and then it turns out Bond has been sort of surreptitiously tailing them... in a tank. It's a Bond film- don't think about it too much! :D


    It's just such a Bond thing to do. Instead of stealthily finding a way to follow them he decides to commandeer a whole tank and smash through the middle of a major city.

    But yeah, it's all glorious nonsense, and really well done. Sometimes when a Bond film goes too far with the comedy of those sorts of scenes (again, slide whistle in TMWTGG territory) it takes the audience out of the film. With the tank chase you go along with it.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited August 28 Posts: 7,183
    mtm wrote: »
    Actually, speaking of GE: I finally got it a few weeks ago. I've never liked the Omega Seamaster he wears in it, it just didn't do anything for me. Then suddenly it clicked- I just started liking it! So I'm now the proud owner of a blue Seamaster (a bit of a later model so closer to the one in CR than GE) and I absolutely love it!

    Congrats on your purchase, mate. That's definitely a fine watch to own. If I'm not mistaken, the GE one was actually a quartz. They turned to automatic from TND onwards.

    QBranch wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    #1 for me, now and forever
    No substitutes.

    Did you know there were TLD and LTK props reused in GE? Isthmus casino chips in Monaco, and TLD's opium sack bomb timer becomes a keypad lock on Q's workshop door when Bond walks in.

    Ah that's very cool- will look out for that! I remember seeing that sack bomb timer lying around in the Q Branch-themed queueing area at the Licence To Thrill ride in London :D
    Nice - sounds like you had a...blast!

    Love the cold war vibe - I miss the military angle in these films. I keep thinking of Brosnan crouching down in the bush in that blue Brioni suit holding the AK. The missile train is so cool. You could feature one of these in a future film, showing the missile firing from the train. Check out Kim Jong Un's train firing a missile on YouTube, it's scary stuff.

    Oh man, I love those Brioni suits. They're so stylish.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    I think this was my 21st.

    There are many elements I really admire about this film, but as a whole, I just don't get that punch in the gut that I want from a Bond film. Brosnan's second film really scratches that itch for me, at least for two thirds of it (I can't stand the third act and find it one of the worst, but, up until then, Brosnan just seems so relaxed and assured, and fun, and funny).
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