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I love how the pod people go right for "Moonraker" as their anti-Skyfall. Not "For Your Eyes Only", "From Russia With Love", "The Living Daylights", or even "Licence To Kill". Nope, "Moonraker" is your so-called "big gun" against the previous films. Ha. , ...or poor Michel Lonsdale having to ask why Bond killed the python in order to give us the worst joke in the whole series of films . . Please, remind us ..  bruce
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shouldn't that read "princiPAL photography is delayed"? huh?
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, ...or poor Michel Lonsdale having to ask why Bond killed the python in order to give us the worst joke in the whole series of films . Please, remind us ..  bruce Sharn't. Oh, c'mon!
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Jul 13, 2014 - 10:54 PM
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Richard-W
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Richard-W, you are full of shit and, to my eyes, have the least interesting and most pretentious-sounding opinions on the Bond franchise I have ever in my life had the misfortune of reading. At least your enthusiasm for film music doesn't diminish your finer qualities. nuts-score, you are full of shit and, to my eyes, have the least interesting and most shallow opinions on the Bond franchise I have ever in my life had the misfortune of reading. At least your enthusiasm for film music doesn't diminish your mediocrity. Story Teller: The Spy Who Loved Me is a wonderful Bond film. It's a fun ride from start to finish. It was a huge hit and is beloved the world round. So I certainly wouldn't take Richard's word on this one. A lot of people who know better than you share the view that The Spy Who Loved Me is an awful Bond film, unexciting, boring, woodenly acted, unfunny and stupid, stupid, stupid. It's like the children's version for retarded adults. A lot of know how bad it is, but no one wants to get attacked personally by expressing the opinion.
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Jul 14, 2014 - 6:33 AM
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Jim Phelps
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I made a passing quip on Twitter at the expense of Tom Mankiewics (basically asking "Did anyone in the 70s actually look forward to a movie like The Man with the Golden Gun?") and Tom's cousin Ben (who is apparently a film correspondent) or something replied with a "Not at all". With the largely lightweight content of the Bond films, should they have gone in another direction in 1973 and embraced a more "relevant" tone for the Moore era? Would a faithful adaptation of Live and Let Die jump-started the franchise that belonged to a genre that was downright unpopular when portrayed in a heroic light? Could Roger have played Bond with a dark, burned-out, and cynical attitude? Probably not, but most any other actor could. For the silly, escapist second half of the 1970s Rog's Bond many have been just right, but for the gritty, burned-out early 1970s Bond is horribly out of step. Camp and over-the-top silliness amid Watergate and an ineffective British government was irrelevant in an era where political corruption, paranoia, and wiretapping ruled the day. Moore's effete 007 is at odds with films like The Conversation, The Parallax View, and Three Days of the Condor all of which reflected the mistrust of government agencies and the paranoid atmosphere that existed during the early 1970s. Should the Bond films have latched onto the grittiness of those times?
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Jul 14, 2014 - 7:58 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Yeah, that damn slide whistle. lol What Bond needed circa '73-'74 was Jerry Fielding, Roy Budd, or Michael Small providing icy grittiness and the actor playing Bond being the ruthless son of a bitch he is in the novels. Roger Moore was so much more suited as Lord Brett Sinclair, a role that he *owned*. Bond was comic book-y as soon as Goldfinger but no one complains about the Connery era (which I love, for better or worse) until DAF, which really got the comedy ball rolling. As for this hatred of the Craig era, I enjoyed CR, thought QoS was excellent--I'm not a big shot intellectual and Bond expert like many here at FSM so I'm not sure what I was supposed to hate about that film.* Skyfall started out promising but then completely fell to pieces when he arrived at the nightclub and the lizard thing happened. Also, that actress in the nightclub--Berenice Marlohe-- killed the momentum with her first utterance. I don't know who she is but my God was she awful. The very definition of anti-charisma. The movie only got worse from there. *One thing I know, that title tune was putrid.
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