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Weakest moments in Bond history


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#1 Kingdom Come

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:14 PM

Thread dedicated to your list of Bond scenes/moments which you believe show Bond in his worst light....

1. Thunderball - The speeded up fight on board the boat / underwater sequences.

2. OHMSS - The sub-standard dubing throughout this film, not helped by giving Bond obviously neglected wittisisms AFTER the film wrapped.

3. Moonraker - Jaws' surreal jump from one cable car to another.

4. Octopussy - Tarzan....

5. Tomorrow Never Dies - The fight with Wai Lin; the weakest most uninteresting fight scene in the history of Bond. Smacks of having been added as it would be an easy sequence to shoot [Non time consuming - remember their very short post production time].

#2 DLibrasnow

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:16 PM

The Jaws romance in MOONRAKER.

The last hour and a half of THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH!

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:44 PM

1) AVTAK-Bond snowboarding to "California Girls", May Day, shocked by Zorin's betrayal and ranting "And I thought that creep loved me!", the unbelievably poor editing between shots of Moore and his stunt double during the Paris car/parachute chase

2)DAD-CGI parasurf stunt, Madonna's "acting" performance as Verity

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:45 PM

The Man With the Golden Gun: The "fight" with Nick Nack.

#5 DLibrasnow

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:57 PM

Nick Nack :)

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 06:59 PM

Jaws wing-flapping in MR (And all of his other Wylie Coyote brushing himself off moments from the rest of the film.)

Anything Moore says in Q's lab in Octopussy.

Also from OP "Siiiit!"

Anything scientific comng out of Denise Richards mouth in TWINE.

"Keep your hair on" FYEO

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 07:02 PM

Nick Nack :)

Well, my philosphy is "When in doubt for an idea, just go for the one thing you can always complain about." :) If I ever get to writing my article on TMWTGG the subject will come up quite often. :)

#8 PrinceKamalKhan

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 07:17 PM

Another weak moment in Bond history: all this "Has Brosnan been dumped by MGM/EON for Bond 21 or not?" rumour business.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:20 PM

1) FYEO-Bibi Dahl's cheesey attempt to imitate Tatiana Romanova in FRWL

2) LTK-The Bimini Bar scene. It belonged in a Lethal Weapon flick instead. Pam's immature and clingy jealousy towards Lupe.

3) TND-ditching the first draft screenplay's villainous plot(leveling Hong Kong prior to returning it to Red China) and replacing it with a retread of a YOLT/TSWLM scheme(i.e., trying to trigger WWIII for his own maniacal purposes) instead.

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Posted 12 February 2004 - 10:49 PM

Halle Berry, CGI Bond in DAD, Grace Jones, replacing Bronsan (if it's true), YOLT, and Octopussy

#11 Kingdom Come

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Posted 13 February 2004 - 06:36 PM

The sub sequence at the end of TWINE

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Posted 13 February 2004 - 08:54 PM

1) FYEO-Bibi Dahl's cheesey attempt to imitate Tatiana Romanova in FRWL

You know, I've never really thought of it that way, probably because it's so different from that scene in From Russia With Love. :)

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Posted 14 February 2004 - 01:32 AM

The first hour of Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Posted 15 February 2004 - 12:03 AM

1) AVTAK-Bond snowboarding to "California Girls", May Day, shocked by Zorin's betrayal and ranting "And I thought that creep loved me!", the unbelievably poor editing between shots of Moore and his stunt double during the Paris car/parachute chase

2)DAD-CGI parasurf stunt, Madonna's "acting" performance as Verity

The music may have been inappropriate in the snowboarding AVTAK scene but the actual stunt was great.

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Posted 15 February 2004 - 12:18 AM

the parrot saving the day in FYEO

Bond dressed as a clown... not so much the clown part, but the tear

2 words: Pink Tie

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Posted 15 February 2004 - 01:57 AM

Bond as clown. The Moonraker bit with Jaws falling through the tent... Wait the whole of Moonraker, and the entire 2 hour of DAD

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Posted 15 February 2004 - 02:31 AM

2 words: Pink Tie

LOL! I actually never got too mad over Connery's wardrobe in Diamonds Are Forever, not too mad, mind you. :)

#18 Kingdom Come

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Posted 15 February 2004 - 09:07 AM

Dare I say I like Bond's pink tie in DAF. Shows he's not afraid of his 'feminine side' [yawn!]

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 05:31 PM

The gypsy 'fight' in FRWL

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 08:29 PM

Topic Moved.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 08:40 PM

The entire Roger Moore era of Bond, Die Another Day, and quite a chunk of Diamonds Are Forever...the closest we will ever get to a Joel Schumacher Bond.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 08:42 PM

Some of Halle Berry's lines.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 09:38 PM

1. Elliot Carver mocking Wai Lin's martial arts.
2. The seduction of Jinx after she gets out of the water.
3. Brosnan trying to act sensitive near a dead female.
4. Roger Moore in any fight sequences.
5. Kerim Bay clearly breaking open the blood package on camera.
6. The gangster scene in GF prior to Goldfinger telling them plan.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 09:46 PM

The Chief of Staff in For Your Eyes Only.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 09:59 PM

The slide whistle in TMWTGG.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 10:13 PM

Having John Glen direct too many films.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 10:58 PM

-Almost every line of dialogue in DAD
-Apted's direction in TWINE
-The cop in AVTAK
-Tanya Roberts as Stacy Sutton
-Bond bakes a quiche and falls asleep in a rocking chair

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 11:05 PM

-Almost every line of dialogue in DAD
-Apted's direction in TWINE
-The cop in AVTAK
-Tanya Roberts as Stacy Sutton
-Bond bakes a quiche and falls asleep in a rocking chair

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With that then, the cop in Diamonds Are Forever.

#29 Kingdom Come

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 11:31 PM

- Almost all of FRWL - except Brownjohn's titles.
- All of Thunderball.
- Most of OHMSS. Except the last hour.
- The circus in Octopussy.
- Everything except the cast of AVTAK.
- All of LTK.
- Half of TND.

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Posted 11 December 2004 - 11:43 PM

Which half of Tomorrow Never Dies?