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I agree.
Maybe one of the reasons I have mixed feeling about him.
Still, he was a good follow up to Lee, IMO. Not quite as tough, but still authoritative.
In light of this, how to interpret the fact there is a portrait of Lee in TWINE?
A painter who chose the wrong photo to paint.
If he kills M, he becomes the new M. Those are the rules.
Is that Boyle's great idea, possibly? :))
Very, very true. Let's hope CR67 isn't a big source of inspiration going forward.
Frick me ,that is more than contoversial...dont be a pratt Thundy.
And the rest ? seriously ??? am i entering a twighlight zone here ??
Some of the same jokes and gadgets- Bond "mistakes" a younger woman for Moneypenny, wristwatch tv s and pens that squirt gas or acid. Both joke about "poison pen letters".
Vesper is rich and made her money dubiously. There is the Berlin setting. And Mata Bond who lives in an Indian palace full of servants in hindu costumes. There is more, but I haven t watched them in ages.
And the rest that OP offers ?
The rest is from Goldfinger.
Oh Thundy....what a load of shite...if it is then it is better than GF...and certainly better than that farce i wont mention
You have Pussy Galore s Flying Circus and Ocopussy s Circus. They both work for smugglers, of gold and diamonds respectively, who want to detonate an atomic bomb which is defused at the last moment, provided by communists. Both have strong silent henchmen-Oddjob crushes a golfball with his hand, and Gobinda a pair of dice after Bond outsmarts his cheating boss. Both die in a plane sequence towards the end. Both also have an independent pts, where Bond infiltrates and blows up a baddie base.
Madness !!!
What?
Made me think about Madness doing a Bond theme song!
Sorry old pal,my mistake,i read it wrong last night....too many voddies methinks.
That is indeed controversial or, to use the more conventional term, wrong.
The first half is classic Bond with one of the best PTSs, a first 20 mins of purest Fleming, one of the great fights (admittedly it's Green 4 not Bond), a solid Aston Marin chase, some nice Cold War intrigue in a classic Eastern European setting, and with Dalton smashing it out of the park.
The second half is far less interesting and the film starts to drag a little in the Afghanistan scenes. It peps up with the epic plane sequence but then drops again with the feeble finale with the rather underwhelming and tagged on Whitaker scene.
It's not even close to be honest.
Wasn't it you who said, rightfully so, that Goldeneye suffers from starting the mission half way through. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same case here. I think the first half of TLD is slower than the second, in terms of actual information that has an impact overall.
The pacing does slow here a bit, and so far this is the last time we get a climax with two armies doing battle. Still, the climatic fight on the plane, and destroying of the bridge are high points for me.
Having said that, nothing about Afghanistan works for me. I find it too expansive and lacking in tension.