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Post by el woospo on Jan 4, 2014 5:56:33 GMT -5
An old(ish) topic but fuck it lets go....
What is both your favourite Bond film and your favourite Bond stunt?
I love the simplicity of Dr No, before it went all gadgets and the like and Goldfinger is fucking awesome. Octopussy will always have a place in my heart as it was the first Bond I saw and taped of the telly so it got many viewings... horse truck to aeroplane? Fuck yeah!
As for stunt, 360 barrel roll car jump is the first that springs to mind (forget which film...), back in the days before the world went CG fucked... more when I think of them...
GO!
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Artie Fufkin
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Post by Artie Fufkin on Jan 4, 2014 10:31:01 GMT -5
The Man with the Golden Gun was the 360 barrel roll loon, featuring a 3rd nippled Dracula, which is one of my favourite films as is Live and Let Die. Early bond I tend to favour Moore over connery as the Edinburgh twat has grated on my nerves for far too long in his quest to promote Scottishness while he suns his fuckin arse in 'merica. I need to watch Niven & Sellers in Casino Royale again too.
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Jan 4, 2014 12:40:15 GMT -5
Sorry, Artie, but as much as I love Moore (who doesn't?), Connery is still the only Bond for me. I enjoy all the movies for what they are and for various reasons (I'm still not convinced about Craig, though, he's not suave enough to be Bond for me) but in terms of my favorite Connery-Bond, it has got to be From Russia with Love; it's the Bond in what a Bond spy-movie ought to be.
For Moore-Bond, that's tougher, because of love how fun Live and Let Die is, but I have this big soft-spot for The Man with the Golden Gun.
Lazenby did only one movie, so it's like, whatever. I thought it was okay but many people think it's the perfect Bond movie.
Dalton never did win me over as his movies were trying to be too much like its peers at the time (Die Hard) but as they go, it's probably License to Kill before Living Daylights.
Brosnon, of course, it had to be GoldenEye, but I did enjoy The World is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never Dies, as well. Furthermore, Die Another Day was fun; silly, yes, but fun.
Craig's go like this Skyfall, Casino Royale, and Quantum. That's all that needs to be said about that, really.
The set-pieces all go to the Moore movies; that's when they really hit their stride. As mentioned in the shoutbox, my favorite stunt is from the intro of The Spy Who Loved Me. Second to that is the skydiving from Moonraker.
On a side note: when Craig's tenure is up, Fassbender should be Bond. Nothing more perfect than that.
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Post by arcticdouche on Jan 4, 2014 19:52:10 GMT -5
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Post by el woospo on Jan 5, 2014 9:47:31 GMT -5
wahay! good input, it has loosened my brain a little, been ages since I watched any, I do not count the Craig films as I see nothing 'Bond' about them.
I live a small boat ride away from Scaramangas hideout! haha, next day off trip sorted!
I can never remember anything about Lazenby, I remember 'not getting' what I was watching when I was about 10, it was a Bond film but with some dude I had never seen before but the events of the film, cannot remember (maybe ski jump parachute jump at the start?)...
I always liked Dalton and just thought he got screwed by being in shitty Bond films rather being a shitty Bond.
My favorite line is still from Live and let Die when Moore introduces himself in Harlem (I think...) and is answered with 'Names is for tombstones baby'.
I want to say fav 'stunt' is the mad scuba action set piece in Thunderball, it is seriously an insane scene and as a professional scuba diver with a background in film it blows my mind how much of an intense ache in the bollocks to put on film it must have been. Parts of it look silly, other parts badarse (harpoon to the eyeball?!?)... I feel like a Bond binge but alas I have no Bond...
scuba shite starts after 4:30 but its all great
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Post by Artie Fufkin on Jan 5, 2014 13:34:24 GMT -5
Nae worries Palps, each to their own I suppose, I wouldn't disregard any of SHHawns bond films, it's more a personal thing for me with his blatent attempts to appear to be still Scottish whilst living the 'mercan dream. Him and that cunt brian cox as well, swan off to the states to make movies and never come back AND still think they can be a voice for a nation they know fuck all about. I was thinking about a thread in shooting the shit concerning the upcoming independance vote in Scotland but I think it will be pointless as as far as I know only Woosp and myself are the only remaining Jocks till Mr Cowie arrives in time. To get back on topic, I would agree with Goldeneye for Brosnon and I do have a soft spot for Dalton but they weren't very good, as for Craig it's a hard battle between Casino and Skyfall for me as the fuckable Eva Green is smokin in CS but Naomi Harris would get it the latter (but they did kill off Dame Judy Dench, who would defo get it )
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Post by Mctenzington on Jan 5, 2014 18:39:51 GMT -5
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is my favorite.
Maligned because it didn't fit in with the kitsch trajectory of Bond during it's release, it's the most beautiful and human film in the series.
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Jan 5, 2014 23:56:37 GMT -5
Now, beyond the major stunts, favorite fight sequence has to be from GoldenEye at the climax, between Brosnon and Bean. That's how the fights should be, in my book. Short, brutal, and raw; none of that hit/block/parry/blow/repeat-until-someone-gets-tired shit.
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Post by charlesdexterward on Jan 6, 2014 10:35:52 GMT -5
OHMSS. But YOLT has my favourite stunts in it.
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Post by el woospo on Jan 8, 2014 7:31:44 GMT -5
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Post by Lab Rat on Jan 9, 2014 6:44:41 GMT -5
...so asked the interwebs which Bond film has the highest body count... I'm starting to wonder the same thing about Jonny Quest's Race Bannon. My youngest boy pointed out that he kills loads of people, directly and indirectly, in every episode. Anyway, on to Bond. Dr. No has all I can ask for in a bond film. Like Woosp notes, they did go a bit 'Get Smart' after that. That said, my favorite exchange is from Goldfinger (Bond:You expect me to talk? Goldfinger:No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die. There is nothing you can talk to me about that I don't already know.) For a Bond embodiment I just can't go past old Shorn, as my wife calls him. Smug but not quite smarmy. Oh, before I forget.
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Jan 19, 2014 5:50:16 GMT -5
...so asked the interwebs which Bond film has the highest body count... I'm starting to wonder the same thing about Jonny Quest's Race Bannon. My youngest boy pointed out that he kills loads of people, directly and indirectly, in every episode. Anyway, on to Bond. Dr. No has all I can ask for in a bond film. Like Woosp notes, they did go a bit 'Get Smart' after that. That said, my favorite exchange is from Goldfinger (Bond:You expect me to talk? Goldfinger:No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die. There is nothing you can talk to me about that I don't already know.) For a Bond embodiment I just can't go past old Shorn, as my wife calls him. Smug but not quite smarmy... I like Sean's Bond for a very similar reason, Labs, and it's embodied in an exchange, also, in Dr. No. Sean and Ursula have just woken up after getting drugged in Dr. No's lair, they're dressed and invited down for dinner with the Doctor, Sean grabs her hand while following the assistant down to the dining area. Ursula: Why, your hands are sweaty. Sean: Of course. I'm scared, too. That's perfect Bond, for me. A cold-blooded killer that's calm and collected in every situation but is just as terrified as anybody ought to be in those circumstances. It's all a front; he's scared and uncertain but he knows how to control it. I don't think anybody has done it better, or as well, as him since.
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