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[urhash]

Okay, we all probably have this. You watch a movie, see something that wasn't meant to be funny but it totally cracks you up, while the rest of the people sitting next to you wonder what's so damn funny.

What's your favorite unintentionally funny Bond scene?

I'll start off:

In FRWL, when the bulgars invade the gypsy camp and Krilencu hops in front of the truck, eyes wide open as he fires a shot and then hops away... lol.

[ChandlerBing]

Chris Walken makes me laugh in most anything he does--A View To A Kill, no exception. He's so [censored]ing out there, you can't help but laugh..

[Double-Oh-Zero]

I found myself rolling on the floor while watching May Day start to get her freak on with a terrified Roger.

Crackers, the entire film is pretty funny in itself. Unintentionally, of course.

Oh, alright. I always seem to chuckle at any scene involving Whisper.

[Qwerty]

Well as this scene revolves around death though, Xenia slaughtering the people at Severnaya, and indeed anything that Walken does as Zorin.

[Tanger]

...Xenia slaughtering the people at Severnaya...

What the hell is wrong with you?!

J/K, Ouromov's reaction in that scene is priceless!

[Qwerty]

Have you looked at the expression on her face? She's insane.

As is Ouromov's, as you mention.

[Tanger]

Yeah well she gets pleasure (in more ways than one:D) by killing.

[Agent 76]

Have you looked at the expression on her face? She's insane.

that's why I love her...

[Qwerty]

Yeah well she gets pleasure (in more ways than one:D) by killing.

Making her always hilarious to watch. Ouromov is genuinely frightened after her orgasmic screams. She takes true pride in her work.

[Gabe Vieira]

Come on guys, do you realy think that Ouromov never tried to get a piece of that fine... uh... Georgian?

[ChandlerBing]

Watch any Roger Moore Bond movie and wonder who the hell that guy is playing Bond, who doesn't look remotely like Roger Moore.

Just to be fair, spot Bob Simmons doubling for Sean Connery. Hint, Bob is quite a bit shorter than Sean.

[Simon Bermuda]

Bond in that ridiculous light-blue one-piece terry-towelling getup near the beginning of GF. I assume it was intended to be a stylish item of attire. Connery just about gets away with it - but only just. On Moore it would have looked doubly hilarious.

Edited by Simon Bermuda, 02 May 2004 - 11:38 PM.

[ChandlerBing]

Roger would not have been able to fit into it.

[Loomis]

Gosh, I'd give a million quid to see Moore in that dreadful sky blue romper suit thing. If I had a million quid.

My vote for most unintentionally funny scene: the bit in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE where Connery gets all angry about being filmed via a two-way mirror. "Must have taken a pretty sick collection of minds to come up with a stunt like that." Doubly amusing when you consider that Bond is a coldhearted killer and seducer! What a hypocrite!

[Simon Bermuda]

And when I also add to this list any scene in which Bond is wearing a safari suit, I'm sure you'll know which 007 I'm talking about.

[SnakeEyes]

At the risk of sounding stale: all of TWINE and most of DAD.

However, to show i'm a good sport i'll pick a scene from my favourate film TLD: The whole Felix scene, makes me laugh every time at the crapness of Felix.

[ChandlerBing]

To be fair, some of Dalton's line readings in TLD. It's not Shakespeare, Tim, lighten up...just a tad.

[Loomis]

Yes, I like Dalton, but I must admit that he made ridiculously heavy weather of James Bond at times. On occasion, his eyes seemed to pop out of his head when delivering a simple line like "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred."

[Simon Bermuda]

Dalton tended to look uncomfortable when called upon to deliver a quip.

Whereas Moore often looked mildly embarrassed introducing himself as "Bond, James Bond."

There's a line in OHMSS - I can't remember it exactly, where Bond says: "But Blofeld's something of a must with me, sir", or words to that effect. It's not the greatest piece of dialogue, and Lazenby delivers it so badly it always makes me wince. I wouldn't even like to hear Connery use that line. It's just wrong, somehow.

And also in OHMSS, there's the 'romantic montage', and that ludicrous, supposedly 'cool' shot where Lazenby comes sliding across the ice like some kind of human cannonball, firing his machine-gun...

Edited by Simon Bermuda, 03 May 2004 - 12:41 AM.

[urhash]

Could Dalton have said "Bond, James Bond" any faster in the Gibraltar scene?

[SnakeEyes]

Unitentionally funny: "Dellah"

That's Dalton at his...well it's good acting, but it's only Bond Tim...calm down!

[mccartney007]

How about when Denise Richards as Christmas Jones says something to the effect of "He's no nuclear scientist."

[Genrewriter]

How about when Denise Richards as Christmas Jones says something to the effect of "He's no nuclear scientist."

Ah yes, talk about the pot and the kettle!

There are many lines that given how the following scenes turn out are unintentionally hilarious.

"An effective liason officer...." from TMWTGG for instance. I'd like to think that M was just in a bad mood and had the office send out the wrong officer that time out.

[Mister Asterix]

When I first saw For Your Eyes Only, at the moment Rog is scaling the rock up to St. Cyril and guard is knocking out his piton someone in the audeince yelled out,

[ChandlerBing]

I don't know why but in TLD when Timothy Dalton utters the line, "I dropped the gun in the river" staring at Kara like he wants to rip her throat out, I just burst out laughing. Their whole relationship in the movie was like that though. He just was always pissed at her.

[Loomis]

There's this really odd bit in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, with Bond and Kara driving away from Bratislava, and Bond makes a crack about an "atmospheric anomaly" or something, and it just falls totally flat. Kara doesn't react at all. I wonder whether the filmmakers deliberately had 007 making a joke that went down like a lead balloon - if so, why? Maybe it just somehow came out that way. Anyhow, Bond just seems a total dork at that moment.

[ChandlerBing]

Any scene with Klaus Maria Brandeur in NSNA....he's just a strange guy, I guess. Sometimes, I wondered if Klaus was coming onto Connery.

[Loomis]

Sometimes, I wondered if Klaus was coming onto Connery.

Eh? I don't know where you get that from (see GOLDENEYE for a film in which the main male villain often appears to be coming on to 007). And I think Brandauer gives a brilliant performance.

[ChandlerBing]

Was Alec looking at James' bum when he wasn't looking?

[Loomis]

Was Alec looking at James' bum when he wasn't looking?

I'm sure he was. I discuss the gay aspects of GOLDENEYE on the following thread: http://debrief.comma...opic=15104&st=0.