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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    "Leave it to me..............."

    Kim Fortune steps up to the plate!
    Assumes full responsibility for saving the day................

    and gets shot.

    He doesn't last long in
    MOONRAKER
    either.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love Bond climbing aboard the camera several feet above the water.
    007 keeps his cool after the mechanism stops leaving him dangling only feet feom the explosive.
    Had this been the Craig era, the bomb might've exploded then and there, killing him off.
    The film would've ended with the Minister of Defence, M, Major Boothroyd, Major Amasova and General Gogol toasting the legend that was James Bond.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The pacing does reduce a tad during the climactic battle.
    Doesn't bother me, though.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Kicking: Impossible
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    "Leave it to me..............."

    Kim Fortune steps up to the plate!
    Assumes full responsibility for saving the day................

    and gets shot.

    He doesn't last long in
    MOONRAKER
    either.

    More like Kim Misfortune.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 15,801
    Love the use of the Bond Theme during the Atlantis sequence here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Hmm..................may have to clean my Blu-ray as it paused briefly during the end titles.
    Life's full of small challenges.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    "Leave it to me..............."

    Kim Fortune steps up to the plate!
    Assumes full responsibility for saving the day................

    and gets shot.

    He doesn't last long in
    MOONRAKER
    either.

    More like Kim Misfortune.

    HAHA! :D
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    I imagine nobody seeing this film on the screen this year laughed during the LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in joke?

    There wasnt a titter!!
    Though someone did laugh at the 'Close Encounters' door code at the 'Moonraker' showing!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Now I'm thuroughly enthralled and riveted watching for the millionth time

    CASINO ROYALE.

    The stairwell fight is coming.

    Just felt like looking at the PTS and am sitting through the entire film again.
    Part of it is nostalgia for a different time. 2006 was an exciting year to be a Bond fan.
    Certainly there had been Craig haters but my hunch was this to become a classic.

    This fight is right up there alongside Red Grant.

    Le Chiffre looks stressed. I love the bit about Bond changing shirts.


  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Arnold's score during the shower scene reminds me of John Barry.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love Craig's gutted look as he loses to Le Chiffre.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    The suspence as Bond is poisoned is superb. SImple yet so classic.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Mads has the best facial expressions.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Mr Fukutu has the best reaction shot.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond's Aston Martin got destroyed.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond is rescued by Mr White...........of course.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond is freaking out as Mendel tells him the funds are being taken out of his account.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I'm loving the battle in Venice this time.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    This one really hit the spot. Timeless masterpiece.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Timeless indeed. Cant wait to see CR on the big screen again in a couple of weeks!
  • BirdlesonBirdleson Moderator
    edited August 2022 Posts: 2,161
    I do love that Logan Ash is such a genuine fan of Bond. I so wish I could go back in time and watch this movie without having had the entire thing laid out for me beforehand. I think I really would’ve enjoyed much of it, not having the fact that he was going to die picking at the back of my brain and pissing me off the whole time.
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Sadly, I dosed off or tuned out for a moment during the NTTD 3rd act.
    Heck. I missed the unintentionally hilarious bad CGI scene where Bond gets obliterated.
    Oh well. Could've been worse. Could've been the para surfing bit.

    That is bad! Having watched it again, that para surfing sequence is really jaw droppingly bad, that Babs and Co. were happy to allow that scene go out is baffling!!

    There was too much CGI in NTTD. The producers forgot why DC gained and earned so much respect from CR onward by focusing on a more down to earth approach. At most we got a sinking building in that movie.

    I still feel ripped off after watching DAD. The surfing scene was just the tip of the iceberg.
  • dramaticscenesofQOSdramaticscenesofQOS
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Another superb write up @Mathis1.
    Yeah DAD remains my least favorite Bond film sadly.
    In fact I might say the early 2000s could be my least favorite era in cinema history.

    Thanks mate! I watched it on T.V., and had to chuckle, as the channel cut off the film as Madonnas theme started again for the end credits! Even they couldn't stomach to listen to it again!! 🤣

    I can recall Star Magazine having a little blurb about Madonna doing the title song for TLD. Obviously it never happened, but I could have pictured '80's era Madonna doing a Bond theme back then. By the time of DAD it was too late IMO. I think her song was even more inappropriate for Bond than THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE.

    At least The Experience of Love had some emotion to it. DAD was gimmicky and unoriginal in a time when European techno was in its golden age. At the very least they could have used ATB in his rendition of Push the Limits which had some Bourne style tones to it.

    The Experience of Love was even more sad after the fact that none of Brosnan's subsequent Bond movies really lived up in terms of quality as the series went in auto-pilot repeating the GF formula.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Suddenly in the mood for THE SPY WHO LOVED ME again.

    Love the scene in Q's lab.
    Bring tears to your eyes.

    Oratory.

    Going for the Blu-ray this time. An amazing transfer.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Roger Moore's outfit perfectly matches the interior of the train compartment he's in.

    Richard Kiel's outfit clashes.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Stromberg puts Bond on the spot testing his knowledge. Great little moment.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I like Roger's outfit during the confession to killing Sergei scene.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Shane Rimmer is one of my favorite re-occurring Bond actors. I remembered being pleasantly surprised to see him in BATMAN BEGINS, my favorite of that trilogy.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond has one hour, 50 minutes spent on assembling wet nellie.

    Had Daniel Craig played Bond in this epic, he'd have arrived just in time for it to be blown to bits. Bond, Stromberg, Anya and Jaws would've all died here. Maybe not Jaws.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Another marvelous viewing!
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