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I remember when it was playing in the theaters back in the summer of 1983 (the theater I saw it has since been torn down)
I really liked the movie from beginning to end.
I liked the villians especially Kamal Khan he had some great one liners: spend the money quickly, Mr. Bond" "Mr. Bond is a rare species soon to become extinct" Great.
I thought that Octopussy's #2 Kristina Wayborn was smoking! Her exit from Bond's hotel suite was creative and the way she drove off with Khan...she was too hot and cool at the same time.
The tiger hunt was fun, the scene with him hanging with those dead bodies then was dumped....was quite funny and only Moore could have pulled it off.
The chase on the train with the knife thrower...
My date could not stop laughing at him in the gorilla suit and when he went to check his watch, I totally lost it and joined her in laughing.
Then the fight on the plane with Khan and Gobinda...I thought these two villians died some classy deaths. Both of them.
I unfortunately do not own a DVD (or VHS) of Octopussy but this trip down memory lane makes me want to run out and buy my own just for my library.
Being quick, as this for me is where Moore just got into silly season.
For your Eyes Only was a great success, Moore was serious, there was moments of Fleming, he played it straight for the most part, he seemed credible as a Government killer etc. Two years later and the one that followed, while having moments of a serious attitude, was for the most part just Moore hamming it up and well, it wasn't James Bond for the most part, people have criticized before the Clown set-up, Gorilla suit, Crocodile 'disguise', Tarzan Yell, if this is James Bond then I'm Lincoln's Grandfather
some genuine moments of humor are evident here and there, usually from Moore's end. Maud Adams does a good job of it, as does Jourdan as Kamal Khan. Rita Coolidge put forth a nice soundtrack and the pre credits sequence was one of the most enthralling up to the time of release
Moore was clearly unsuitable for the part of 007 by 1983 but returned two years later for his Bond swansong in a most often forgettable departure
Octopussy gets a 6.5/10 this end
OP was always in the middle of the pack for me, but the more I watch OP, the more I'm enjoying it. Sure, it has the standard Moore silliness, but when you get past it, you have a great Cold War storyline, two plots that merge well together and some brilliant acting from the two main villians. Even with the jungle chase and the circus, there still is the seriousness of Bond trying to stop the dirty bomb from going off at the US Air Force base which is suspenseful to literary the last second. Moore does display the Fleming ruthlessness when he kills Mishka and Grishka. I've always considered FYEO as my favorite Moore film, but I think OP may have passed it for now.
This really should have been Moore's departure.
Apart from the clown thing though, i thought it was alright. But its no where near as great as licence to kill.
I don't really see the problem with the clown suit. Bond arrives at the circus being chased by the German police, and US airforce troops. He needs to gain access to the big top in order to stop the atomic bomb exploding. In order to do this he needs a disguise of some kind.
Circus...clown...clown...circus. Works for me. It also gives us some great tension as he still has to convince everyone of who he is, and what's going to happen. A very underrated scene.
That's a really good point. There were so few sophisticated action stars in the '80s.
"A paid assassin for what I am" means "compared to me, you're just a paid assassin." It's Octopussy trying her best get the moral high ground.
Agreed. That line is just poorly written/acted.
It's also often overlooked that Bond in clown suit alludes to the beginning of the movie. Agent 009, also dressed as a clown!, falls dead on the steps of the British Embassy with the egg after being chased by Mishka and Gobinda. This scene sets up some great foreshadowing for Bond later on in the same disguise. The opening death scene leaves such a striking impression, that later on when Bond is in the exact same scenario, we ask, will this be the same fate for Bond? Of course not, it's Bond so we no he'll prevail, but these parallel scenes nicely set-up some tension.
Polarizing is a good way to describe both of these films. OP and LTK are IMO, the two most underated films of the franchise.