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[zencat]

I think the worst unintentional comedic moment is Lupe's "I love James, so much."

It's just a terrble fail on every level and really needed to rethought from the script to the shot selection. It's gets an uninetional laugh, and not a kind laugh at that. I always die for that poor actress whenever I see it.

[A Kristatos]

Pierce Brosnan's painface.

!!!




I love his pain grunts as well. "ARRRRRRHHH. URRRRHHHHHH MMMMURGHHHHH!!!!"

For your consideration...

Well done Shark! But Brosnan grunts are even more pronounced during the helicopter sequence of the "Tomorrow Never Dies" PTS. I always thought he sounded like Rowan Atkinson's portrayal of Mr. Bean while he's mumbling! This comes out best when Brosnan has the string around his neck.

Also, honorable mentions go to his grunting while he falling down the Millenium Dome during the TWINE PTS, and during his final fight with Renard towards the end of TWINE.

[Major Tallon]

I'm amused by the appearance of the elderly grey-haired woman, wearing sunglasses (at night!), a garish yellow dress, and even more garish red lipstick, seated to Largo's left in the Nassau casino.

[elizabeth]

Broz's smile just disappearing instantly when the guy chasing him fell off a cliff and launched his parachute in TWINE.

[hilly]

The Living Daylights

"Read all about it! Famous Russian General defects!"
Aside from the Dick Van Dyke cockney accent and the hilariously cliched newspaper seller lingo, I've often wondered how a Russian General can become famous in London...and indeed who would give that much of a that they'd stop and buy a newspaper to find out more!

[A Kristatos]

Even though AVTAK has grown on me over the past few years, I still love this "gem":

After Stacy explains to Bond why she got her degree in Geology in order to take over her father's company, Bond then asks her what happened next.

ZORIN!!!!!!!

You gotta love the way her voice inflects lower and the way her facial expression changes when she "screams" Zorin! Each time I watch this scene I expect Stacy to start pounding her fists on the table throwing a tantrum!

And to think this came just fifteen seconds or so after Bond brings out his quiche dish!

Edited by A Kristatos, 07 August 2010 - 10:53 PM.

[DaveBond21]

Broz's smile just disappearing instantly when the guy chasing him fell off a cliff and launched his parachute in TWINE.

That's an intentional comedy moment, elizabeth. This thread is about those moments that are supposed to be serious but make you laugh.

[Colossus]

Yeah let it never be said that among his criticisms, he didnt have humor.

[hilly]

AVTAK- The fight in the microchip warehouse. Rog's tracky bottoms and Patrick Macnee in black leather..wrong in so many ways..

[col_007]

AVTAK- The fight in the microchip warehouse. Rog's tracky bottoms and Patrick Macnee in black leather..wrong in so many ways..

I always thought that fight in the microchip warehouse was meant to be funny ???

[hilly]

AVTAK- The fight in the microchip warehouse. Rog's tracky bottoms and Patrick Macnee in black leather..wrong in so many ways..

I always thought that fight in the microchip warehouse was meant to be funny ???

There are moments that are meant to be funny, however I don't think Bond in chavvy leisure gear and Sir Godfrey dressed as a gimp are supposed to be...

[Aris007]

I just noticed one, I don't know if this has been mentioned before.

In CR, when M and Villiers storm out of the conference room with M yelling, you can see a sign saying "SILENCE PLEASE" as they get round the corner!

[DaveBond21]

AVTAK- The fight in the microchip warehouse. Rog's tracky bottoms and Patrick Macnee in black leather..wrong in so many ways..

Good point. The clothes are unintentionally funny. Although, of course, the bit where one of the goons ended up on a conveyor belt while a box is assembled around his prostrate body, was a comedy moment.

[col_007]

When Bond nods at the guy who's trying to ram the Citroën 2CV6 in For Your Eyes Only

[LastBroadcast]

I noticed the 'HANDLE LIKE EGGS' writing (or something similiar) on the nuclear missiles while watching Thunderball on Blu-ray yesterday, never seen that before!

Edited by LastBroadcast, 07 September 2010 - 10:04 AM.

[DamnCoffee]

I watched For Your Eyes Only on sunday. Well, let's just say my sides were hurting...

[Goodnight]

The bit in DAD when Bond and M are reunited, as Bond is debating with M He says with a slightly raised voice,

"The same person who set me up then has set me up again so I'm going arfda him"


I love that when Brosnan raises his voice you can clearly hear the Irish in his accent, not that I have anything against the Irish, as I'm part Irish on my mums side. But it just doesn't suit Bond.

[Rayliottaasbond]

Connery has always been able to bring it on a consistent basis, but in From Russia With Love there was a moment that was shockingly bad and hilarious at the same time.

BOND (without emotion): "I have some, some bad news. *sharply turns and in a robotic fashion says* Your fathers dead"
and the son (without taking even a second to take it all in) quickly replies "Who did it?" (without seeming to give a )

Terrible performance from both men, but absolutely frikkin hilarious, especially the speed of Connery's turn.

Edited by Rayliottaasbond, 09 September 2010 - 02:52 AM.

[Guy Haines]

The bit in DAD when Bond and M are reunited, as Bond is debating with M He says with a slightly raised voice,

"The same person who set me up then has set me up again so I'm going arfda him"


I love that when Brosnan raises his voice you can clearly hear the Irish in his accent, not that I have anything against the Irish, as I'm part Irish on my mums side. But it just doesn't suit Bond.

Pierce Brosnan's accent did occasionally veer one way and then the other as Bond. Remember that scene in TND when he arrives at the US base and the professor is explaining about the stolen GSP device? Pierce's replies sounded transatlantic-going-on-North-American at times. Which wouldn't have been so bad if he hadn't been in Royal Navy uniform!

In fairness, Pierce Brosnan wasn't alone in this. His opponent in GE, Sean Bean, slipped ever so briefly into broad Yorkshire when he shouted "Ram 'im" during the tank/train battle. And Timothy Dalton's line in LTK - "things were about to turn nasty" - that pronounciation of "nasty" sounded broad northern to me. Perhaps Professor Higgins from "My Fair Lady" should have been on hand to advise?

Connery has always been able to bring it on a consistent basis, but in From Russia With Love there was a moment that was shockingly bad and hilarious at the same time.

BOND (without emotion): "I have some, some bad news. *sharply turns and in a robotic fashion says* Your fathers dead"
and the son (without taking even a second to take it all in) quickly replies "Who did it?" (without seeming to give a )

Terrible performance from both men, but absolutely frikkin hilarious, especially the speed of Connery's turn.

"Who did it?" does sound an odd reaction, unless sonny boy had been expecting someone to take a pot shot at dad for years. As you might when your dad runs the local branch of MI6.

[hilly]

Never Say Never Again. Following the motorbike/car chase, Bond is cornered in the tunnel by what appear to be several members of Village People, clad in leather and studs and waving chains....

[Guy Haines]

Watching YOLT for the umpteenth time on ITV1, which I thoroughly enjoyed by the way, reminded me of one unintentional comic moment - the launch of the Soviet space capsule. The launch footage was of a Gemini/Titan II stack taking off from Cape Canaveral - complete with palm trees in the foreground. You could not mistake the launch pad for somewhere in Russia (or rather, Kazakhstan).

Later on, we have the launch of the second US spacecraft, which looked nothing like a Gemini/Titan II combination. I can only assume that somewhere in the editing stage somebody got these two pieces of stock footage in the wrong order.

[DamnCoffee]

Connery has always been able to bring it on a consistent basis, but in From Russia With Love there was a moment that was shockingly bad and hilarious at the same time.

BOND (without emotion): "I have some, some bad news. *sharply turns and in a robotic fashion says* Your fathers dead"
and the son (without taking even a second to take it all in) quickly replies "Who did it?" (without seeming to give a )

Terrible performance from both men, but absolutely frikkin hilarious, especially the speed of Connery's turn.

LMFAO!

There's a bit I found hilarious in Blood Stone, during Bond interrogating on a rooftop in Istanbul...

Bad Guy (His name escapes me) Please. Don't kill me. I'm no use to you anymore!
Bond: Ya got that right! *throws off building*

[Goodnight]

The bit in AVTAK when Bond is on the racehorse and he then goes completely off course, jumps a fence and goes through some trees. I know it's supposed to look tense because he is escaping, but he just looks like a goon that's never sat on a horse before.

[Attempting Re-entry]

The bit in Octopussy when Bond says to some guy on the train, "I am British Secret Service".

I dunno what it is, but something about Rog's delivery just makes me laugh.

[copperhead1]

In Dr. No, I always crack up at the frenzied black male dancer @ Pussfeller's club....it looks like he's having an upright seizure!

Also, from the same movie, I laugh at the way Pussfeller (the Aliigator Wrestler) falls backwards into the Red Stripe beer boxes, and then the look that Quarrel throws him as they're both getting up, as if to say: "Nice job, Mr. Alligator Wrestler!"

Edited by copperhead1, 07 March 2011 - 05:34 PM.

[Binyamin]

during the helicopter sequence of the "Tomorrow Never Dies" PTS.

There's a helicopter sequence in the TND PTS?

[Matt_13]

Pierce Brosnan's painface.

We have a winner. Just reading this made me laugh.

[mttvolcano]

Casino Royale, in the casino with the elderly Asian woman looking up...apparently the makeup artists forgot to do some stuff, or maybe it's her own job to blow her nose!

[Mr. Blofeld]

When Bond nods at the guy who's trying to ram the Citroën 2CV6 in For Your Eyes Only

Um... that was intentional.

[Agent Sidewinder]

Bond in TB whacking the fire alarm with his elbow after discovering Derval's body, nonchalantly as you like. Always gets a chuckle out of me.

The guy announcing the gorilla woman in DAF ("....born in Nairobi, South Africa...."), only because he sounds like every announcer from Hanna-Barbara cartoons of the 60s and 70s. It's the same guy, Don Messick.

In FYEO, when Bond and Melina are in the wreck of the St. George's, I swear there's one dead sailor in there who's still sat at his workstation. Now that's job dedication.