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#1 Genrewriter

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:21 PM

...But rather mundane or serious moments in the series that for whatever reason strike you as amusing.

For example: In License to Kill a crowd of reporters surrounds the van Sanchez is being taken away in. In the middle of the usual barrage of bland questions, one offscreen reporter throws this beauty out-"Are you really Columbian?"

This has always cracked me up for two major reasons. First off, the question itself is so hilariously odd that it's believable that a reporter would ask it. Trust me, this is the same profession thatr in southern California treats a light drizzle of rain as though it were the end of the world. Second, I'd love to know whether or not it was in the script or just an ad-lib from an extra. This is the sort of thing we need on commenatary tracks. Making the moment even more enjoyable is Robert Davi's little glance back as the doors close, followed by a sigh of annoyance.

Another bit from the same film is something I made a thread about a year or two back but it's funny enough to warrant repeating. Ever notice how the guys working for Sanchez seem to be fairly capable? Well, he must have a better head for hiiring employees because Krest's guys are some of the least seaworthy chaps I've ever seen in a movie. They just amuse the hell out of me-not recognizing a manta ray, etc.

Anyone got anything else? :)

#2 Jim

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:35 PM

...But rather mundane or serious moments in the series that for whatever reason strike you as amusing.

For example:  In License to Kill a crowd of reporters surrounds the van Sanchez is being taken away in.  In the middle of the usual barrage of bland questions, one offscreen reporter throws this beauty out-"Are you really Columbian?"

 


Yeah, it's a fantastically stupid moment. Given that he's apparently Ithsmusian; Ithsmusios? Ithi? Oh, who cares - rampagingly inadequate film.

The reporters at "The Palace" in DUD is similar - the poor cow and her "twenty-four/seven" line - Christ it's pathetic.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:36 PM

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER - Wint and Kint driving away from the pipeline where they've bunged Bond. Why does this amuse me? Because the way they're chortling is just pure Beavis and Butt-Head. And that had to be unintentional in 1971.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 07:59 PM

A View to a Kill; (arguably all of it but in particular...) Acille Auberigine (the Bond series' first genuine vegetable) and his monumentally mystifying "butterfly" conversation - makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me want to mash rabbits. More laughable than funny and a genuinely pitiable moment.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 08:06 PM

A View to a Kill; (arguably all of it but in particular...) Acille Auberigine (the Bond series' first genuine vegetable) and his monumentally mystifying "butterfly" conversation - makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me want to mash rabbits. More laughable than funny and a genuinely pitiable moment.

 


Oh I'm with you on that one...that line is just plain frightening depending on how you look at it. I laugh my :) off at it though.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 09:43 PM

Any scene where Roger Moore is required to run. Either the use of a stuntman to perfomr this 'feat' for him, or the sight of his utter incapability of actually being able to do it. My favourite is in MWTGG when he has to run from the karate school.

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Posted 17 September 2005 - 10:39 PM

Bit in FYEO with the guy who gets an arrow in the back and then does a bellyflop in the pool as a result. Made funnier by the fact that he resembles my neighbour.

Well, I thought it was quite funny.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 12:33 AM

Made funnier by the fact that he resembles my neighbour.

 




thats awesome.

also, top go along with MTM's post, i would submit brosnan running in DAD. the first time i saw it i laughed out loud.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 12:37 AM

When Tee Hee barely taps Roger Moore in Live and Let Die, and he falls over, and then Whisper carries him out. The way Moore's body position is just cracks me up.

The way Moore supposedly kills his two assassins in Harlem cracks me up, too. How in the hell did he kill them anyway? Were they just playing dead so they wouldn't have to be in the rest of the movie? If so, good call!

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 12:47 AM

Bronan's facial expressions in Tomorrow Never Dies before he undresses Paris. He reminds me of my dog, or one of the cats after a sniff of one another's butts.

#11 hrabb04

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 12:55 AM

Johnboy, you observe the strangest things.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 01:27 AM

The way Moore supposedly kills his two assassins in Harlem cracks me up, too.  How in the hell did he kill them anyway?  Were they just playing dead so they wouldn't have to be in the rest of the movie?  If so, good call!

 

That always bothered me too. Kananga/Big talks about "killing one of the brothers up in Harlem" and I had to think back to where that was. What finishing school did he recruit them from if they can't take those little blows.

On unintentional funny things, I find a lot of Mie Hama's line readings in YOLT kind of funny. When she says things like "It's going down, into the volcano" she sounds just like the kid brother on the old Speed Racer cartoon. Maybe she was the character's voice.

#13 Qwerty

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 02:37 AM

Jinx running in Die Another Day. It's a tad odd looking at times.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:07 AM

I always laugh at the guy during the tank chase in GoldenEye who jumps off the bridge in to the water to avoid getting hit by Ouromov's car. Maybe that is supposed to be funny, I don't know.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 03:11 AM

There's this one chap in GoldenEye who gets shot during the pre-titles. His face looks like it's pushing out in all directions as he runs/falls. Rather funny. Possibly disturbing.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 07:59 PM

I'd call pretty much every instance in Goldeneye when a character is shot to be unintentionally funny. I think the stunt guys overdid it a bit in the beginning with throwing themselves back and flailing wildly, especially when there wre no blood squibs and the angle made it impossible to to obscure the fact with smoke from the barrel of the gun.

Another bit of action from Jinx-Am I the only one who giggles at the rather overdone way she walks off of the beach in her first scene? Seriously, it's a wonder Halle Berry didn't blow out both of her hips walking like that. :)

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 08:38 PM

Another bit of action from Jinx-Am I the only one who giggles at the rather overdone way she walks off of the beach in her first scene?  Seriously, it's a wonder Halle Berry didn't blow out both of her hips walking like that. :)

 


Haha.. yeah. I agree with this.

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 08:53 PM

Baron Samedi getting his head shot off and looking up at the wound in LALD.

Probably supposed to be funny anyway, but still. Nice effects for the time.

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Goldfinger being sucked out of the plane. Oddjob being electrocuted.

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Jaws' constant near-death experiences. Even the serious ones.

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Dalton jumping over the wall, gun in hand, in front of a child in TLD.

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"He disagreed with something that ate him" - LTK

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Brosnan running.

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"General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov. Head of Space Division" - GE

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Brosnan's acting of realisation in TWINE.

Renard: "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive"
Bond: " HUH?!"

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The entirety of Die Another Day from Jinx's introduction onwards.

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The Admiral who falls out of the closet in GE. The expression says it all:

"One amazing night, mate!"

#19 ComplimentsOfSharky

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Posted 18 September 2005 - 11:19 PM

Jinx running in Die Another Day. It's a tad odd looking at times.

 


how about Jinx, period?

#20 Qwerty

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Posted 19 September 2005 - 12:03 AM

Jinx running in Die Another Day. It's a tad odd looking at times.

 


how about Jinx, period?

 


The character wasn't unintentionally funny all the time, occassionally annoying though.

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Posted 19 September 2005 - 12:05 AM

touche

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 09:20 PM

Stealth boat captain, TND. He's just rubbish.

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 09:39 PM

Bond catching up to a falling plane in the GoldenEye pretitles sequence.

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 10:05 PM

Tomorrow Never Dies (pre-title)

Russian General: "That much plutonium will make Chernobyl look like picnic."

That one gets me everytime.

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Posted 21 September 2005 - 03:10 PM

Bond catching up to a falling plane in the GoldenEye pretitles sequence.

 

That really drags that movie down for me. It's like they didn't know when to leave well enough alone.

People complain about the back projection in the Connery films and OHMSS and then you get this in the modern era. It reminds me of a discarded idea from back in the Moore days.

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Posted 21 September 2005 - 10:20 PM

"They feast."

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Bond and Wai Lin kissing. It really, really doesn't look like they're enjoying themselves.

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Bond running around on the volcano in YOLT. It just really, REALLY looked like it was made out of plastic and plywood.


In the middle of the usual barrage of bland questions, one offscreen reporter throws this beauty out-"Are you really Columbian?"


That one always struck me as odd, too. It's like - you have one question to ask Pablo Escobar, and you go, "WHAT HIGH SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO?" wtf?

Edited by TortillaFactory, 21 September 2005 - 10:24 PM.


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Posted 23 September 2005 - 12:58 AM

Just thought of another Jinx moment that makes me chuckle. It's right when she exits the clinic and starts shooting at Zao as he heads for the helicopter. Halle Berry walks out in an odd T-1000 type of way that gives yet another reason why she just doesn't work as an action hero. You could believe Michelle Yeoh as an incredible fighting machine-she could probably beat the snot out of a person for real so that helps. With Halle Berry it just looks like a real bad imitation of a tough government operative.

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Posted 23 September 2005 - 01:40 AM

"They feast."

 


LOL. :)

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Posted 23 September 2005 - 10:04 AM

Halle Berry walks out in an odd T-1000 type of way...

 


What about Pierce Brosnan's running? Now that's what I call T-1000.

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Posted 23 September 2005 - 10:25 AM

Halle Berry walks out in an odd T-1000 type of way...

 


What about Pierce Brosnan's running? Now that's what I call T-1000.

 


Right - why is he pushing up his hands so high during running? Looks very strange.

But I also got a good one in "DR.NO": During the climax when Bond hits a worker in order to find out where Honey is, another worker runs through the corridor and strangely and unnecessarily jumps over his fellow worker in front of Bond. Although it