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The Spy Who Loved Me does everything wrong, Henry.
It ended up as something other than how it started.
I can't even get started on the how and what.
As a James Bond film, it's 95% garbage.
The other 5% is in the early scene with Naval Commander Bond confirming that their submarines are being hijacked. The fight on the rooftop is pretty good. The big scene involving the submarine crew's assault on the control room inside the oil tanker is also worthwhile and a lot of fun. The latter scene presented lighting problems that necessitated hiring a special consultant to fix: none other than Stanley Kubrick who did the job on the condition that his name not be revealed. I can't say I like anything else about the film.
So I will praise the photography of Claude Renoir. His aesthetic sensibility, his precise framing and pictorial composition, and the sharpness and clarity of his lensmanship are astonishing. And I don't mean the simple lighting tricks in the pyramid scene neither, which is schoolboy stuff. If The Spy Who Loved Me had nothing else going for it -- and it doesn't -- it can truthfully be said, "it's a Renoir!"
That's a bit harsh Richard.
TSWLM is a masterpiece compared to the much praised 'Skyfall'.
It's fun, slick and a joy to watch.
And as timmer pointed out, the score is so much better than the commercially released album.
waiting almost 40 years now for a score release !!!
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I was a teenager in 1977, and SWLM was such a big deal to me, I barely noticed STAR WARS that year. I went once to see SW, had a decent time, but three times to SWLM because I was obsessed. If I'd had the money and a driver's license, I would have gone again and again. I couldn't get enough of it. I was playing the Marvin Hamlisch LP all the time.
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The Spy Who Loved Me does everything wrong, Henry.
It ended up as something other than how it started.
I can't even get started on the how and what.
As a James Bond film, it's 95% garbage.
The other 5% is in the early scene with Naval Commander Bond confirming that their submarines are being hijacked. The fight on the rooftop is pretty good. The big scene involving the submarine crew's assault on the control room inside the oil tanker is also worthwhile and a lot of fun. The latter scene presented lighting problems that necessitated hiring a special consultant to fix: none other than Stanley Kubrick who did the job on the condition that his name not be revealed. I can't say I like anything else about the film.
So I will praise the photography of Claude Renoir. His aesthetic sensibility, his precise framing and pictorial composition, and the sharpness and clarity of his lensmanship are astonishing. And I don't mean the simple lighting tricks in the pyramid scene neither, which is schoolboy stuff. If The Spy Who Loved Me had nothing else going for it -- and it doesn't -- it can truthfully be said, "it's a Renoir!"
That's a bit harsh Richard.
TSWLM is a masterpiece compared to the much praised 'Skyfall'.
It's fun, slick and a joy to watch.
And as timmer pointed out, the score is so much better than the commercially released album.
waiting almost 40 years now for a score release !!!
At least James Bond is his traditional self, but it's a Bond film in name only. I'd accept the cartoonishness and self-mockery if it were a Inspector Clouseau film. It's more of a Clouseau film anyway. If they had replaced Bond with Clouseau, it would work for me.
Or they could have deleted Jaws and all of Jaws business. Jaws was a torpedo to the series, 100% destructive to believability and sustaining disbelief, he blows it apart. Any sense of risk or danger goes out the window with Jaws. If they had taken out Jaws and the flamboyant comedy, like M having an office in Egypt, sustained some pain in the relationship between Bond and triple X, then ended the film with the siege in the oil tanker, Claude Renoir's beautiful work would have been justified.
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Bond's behavior towards woman has to be seen within the context of that decade. Which such sexism was still very commonplace.
The only time 007's attitude to women actually bothered me was with Live And let Die, where he basically puts a gun against a women's head and calmly threatens to blow her brains out. Later on he tricks Solitaire into having sex with him.
I think I would have found it more palatable if this was done by Connery's Bond, but seeing the debonaire, gentlemanly Roger Moore do this just felt wrong.
Moore's Bond charms women into bed, he doesnt need to con them!
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