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  • Mathis1Mathis1
    edited May 2022 Posts: 6,816
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I still only have this on DVD. I should upgrade.

    Get the 4k bluray. Its stunning!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Another scene I like is Bond and M debriefing to the OHMSS theme.
    Fiennes has some amazing facial expressions here.
    He really looks good as M in this one. Again I love his classic haircut.
    I think he's a marvelous M.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,625
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Another scene I like is Bond and M debriefing to the OHMSS theme.
    Fiennes has some amazing facial expressions here.
    He really looks good as M in this one. Again I love his classic haircut.
    I think he's a marvelous M.

    A highlight for me as well. A nice OHMSS callback for hard-core fans.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    It's been some time since I've posted on this thread, nearly a month.
    Giving Bond a breather, yet suddenly felt the urge to watch this one again.
    I'll admit I'm obsessed with preset television picture settings. On my rather modest set the MOVIES setting does appear to look most true to the cinematic experience for this particular film.
    Anytime I see a Bond on the big screen (especially on 35mm) I fixate on ho the film looks: colors, contrast, etc.
    I am envious of those seeing the classic Bonds in 4K in the cinema. I wish my area would screen some 007 adventures.

    Here we go............an apparently unpopular scene I happen to love:
    Bond and Blofeld.

    I really like the dynamic here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Craig is pretty funny in the Blofeld scene.

    A testimony to your greatness!!!

    Blofeld isn't buying Bond's bulls**t.
    He's great at pushing Bond's buttons.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I still only have this on DVD. I should upgrade.

    Get the 4k bluray. Its stunning!

    I'll have to!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    I really do look at this as THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) of Bond films.

    It's so different from what's expected of the character and formula it could be seen as outright wrong. Yet, it has so many classic elements and traditional moments it feels right.

    I could never see Humphrey Bogart's Philip Marlowe going to the grocery to buy cat food, not having the correct brand and trying to trick his cat into eating what he does buy. Elliot Gould pulls it off and it's great.
    Daniel Craig slicing apples for his child is in a similar vein. Connery would never been seen in that situation, yet Craig makes it work.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Again I love Craig's overcoat in these Norway scenes.
    This is great stuff here.

    Bond slices apples for Mathilde, and when she leaves the room intends to make scrambled eggs for himself.
    His selfish, devilish plan is thwarted soon as they have to leave.
    Hence the reason he later dies. Lack of protein.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Dwayne wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Another scene I like is Bond and M debriefing to the OHMSS theme.
    Fiennes has some amazing facial expressions here.
    He really looks good as M in this one. Again I love his classic haircut.
    I think he's a marvelous M.

    A highlight for me as well. A nice OHMSS callback for hard-core fans.

    I love it!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    My favorite Craig era car chase. This is pretty exciting. Miles above the chase in Rome, IMO.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited May 2022 Posts: 15,818
    Another of the franchise's greatest moments, IMO- Logan Ash gets his.

    " I had a brother. His name was Felix Leiter."

    Great scene.

    Reminds me of:

    "And that's for 009!" .
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Safin is pretty creepy. I really like his villain's lair. The WWII era references remind me of Fleming.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    This section as Bond and Nomi sneak into Safin's domain is classic Bond.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Valdo gets his nose busted. LOL
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    I also quite enjoy the dialogue between Bond and Safin. Although I do feel this film could've been shortened by at least 20 minutes, it's nice the film takes it's time with the dialogue scenes.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    " I just want to be a little............tidier."

    Love it!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    I'm thoroughly enthralled.

    Yay! Mathilde is safe! :)
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Bond removes his sweater and now is dressed like Jaws.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Here we go...........Bond gets shot, is poisoned and is exhausted.

    If he had simply cooked scrambled eggs instead of slicing lame, boring apples he wouldn't be hip deep in s**t right now.

    Now it's time to pay a heavy price, 007.

    You're screwed.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Bond looks as bloody and defeated as Christopher Reeve in SUPERMAN II after being beaten up by the late Pepper Martin.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    COME ON BOND! GET THE HELL OF THAT RIGG!!!!!!!!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    I still say the missiles blew him into the sea where he then swam to an island populated exclusively by women. He regains his mojo, decides not to be a family man, and thus lives the playboy life of 007 as played by Roger Moore.

    That's what we'll get in the next era....................

    Superb Bond film!

    Adieu, Craig. You were amazing! :D
  • BirdlesonBirdleson Moderator
    Posts: 2,161
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I LIKE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The greatest line in cinema history.

    Right after

    MR WHITE OF COURSE!!!!

    Hate the "Mr. White!", love the animals one.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,818
    Birdleson wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I LIKE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The greatest line in cinema history.

    Right after

    MR WHITE OF COURSE!!!!

    Hate the "Mr. White!", love the animals one.

    Haha! Yeah the Mr. White line is pretty odd.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    After several days without watching movies, some more NSNA.

    I find the shark scene to be pretty exciting, but have you noticed the jarring cuts and the awful reverse motion effects? They kind of spoil it.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited May 2022 Posts: 1,009
    Fatima Blush had to be one of the cartooniest villains seen on the silver screen at the time, and it's a such a perfect fit for this kind of movie. I can't see Bárbara Carrera as the formal and collected Octopussy (I’ve recently read she was considered for the part).
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    Posts: 1,009
    Bernie Casey was as good as Felix Leiter as David Hedison and Jeffrey Wright were. He and Connery have such a chemistry one can see they're not only colleagues, but best friends.

    Using exclusively Connery's Bond as a reference, I'd dare to compare his Felix to Tanaka.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited May 2022 Posts: 1,009
    Bond's French villa is as stunning as some villains' lairs on the main series.

    That, and, holy crap, is Kim Basinger a walking microwave oven or what? She's not hot: she directly burns you on sight. That said, if we are to take this type of movies, she looked even better on Batman.
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited May 2022 Posts: 1,009
    Look, I'm a great admirer of Lorenzo Semple Jr's work, but I really hope the idea of all young ladies drooling and unshamedly hitting on Bond wasn't his: By the fifth of sixth awful flirtatious line, the gag gets VERY repetitive (and the seventh is a gal that looks at Connery more with murderous rather than lascivious desire. 01:01:23 on the BluRay edition to check the magnitude of the tragedy).
  • bigladiesmanbigladiesman
    edited May 2022 Posts: 1,009
    I passed 1K posts here, at last. And this particular one it's about one of my other passions: retrogaming.

    Man, the arcade scene is a feast for any Atari (a Warner Communications company) fan. Centipede, Gravitar, Namco's Dig Dug, and, last but not least, that awesome Domination, which AFAIK was really programmed by Atari personnel (I presume it was a dummy game, like the one on Superman III, anyone of you guys knows more about it?).

    I think changing the classic baccarat or chemin de fer scenes for, respectively, a backgammon game - I know Cubby and Roger loved it - and a Tempest-like video game - shameless but wonderful product placement - were brilliant ideas from both EON and Taliafilms that 1983.

    And because it takes two to tango and one is sleepy, I leave you gentlemen until next time.

    https://youtu.be/PETt_LyYr7o
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