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[Daddy Bond]

I'm sorry to say I like the music in GE.

But, it was my first Bond movie EVER - so I had absolutely nothing to compare it with.

[DaveBond21]

No gunbarrel at the start of QOS would be an irritation to me. I like to see the dots at the beginning of my Bonds...

[Qwerty]

I'm sorry to say I like the music in GE.

Why be sorry? There are some very solid tracks on the soundtrack for that one.

[Daddy Bond]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

[HH007]

I'm sorry to say I like the music in GE.

Why be sorry? There are some very solid tracks on the soundtrack for that one.

I also liked the music in GE. It beat the crap out of the music in FYEO, which aside from the title song, has one of the worst soundtracks of any Bond movie.

[The Dove]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

I've kind of felt the same way about the boat chase sequence in Live And Let Die, Daddy Bond. Not that its a bad sequence, but the fact its intercut with so many scenes of Sherrif Pepper just slows the whole pace down..

[Daddy Bond]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

I've kind of felt the same way about the boat chase sequence in Live And Let Die, Daddy Bond. Not that its a bad sequence, but the fact its intercut with so many scenes of Sherrif Pepper just slows the whole pace down..

You're absolutely correct about the LALD boat chase. I have a collection of my favorite Bond scenes recorded on my computer and I cut the boat chase down and did several edits so that it makes the chase have a faster pace.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

I've kind of felt the same way about the boat chase sequence in Live And Let Die, Daddy Bond. Not that its a bad sequence, but the fact its intercut with so many scenes of Sherrif Pepper just slows the whole pace down..

You're absolutely correct about the LALD boat chase. I have a collection of my favorite Bond scenes recorded on my computer and I cut the boat chase down and did several edits so that it makes the chase have a faster pace.

I feel the same way about the Thames boat chase in TWINE; there are some little moments (including the Brozza-boat's excursion on land) that competely bog down the chase for me. If I had a decent editing system, I'd take that flabby chase sequence and trim it down into a short, suspenceful cat-and-mouse attack on water; alas, however, I do not, and so, when the boring parts hit, I must shut my eyes and sing "la-la-la-la-la" in the hopes that it will go away.

Fortunately enough for me, it does.

[Daddy Bond]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

I've kind of felt the same way about the boat chase sequence in Live And Let Die, Daddy Bond. Not that its a bad sequence, but the fact its intercut with so many scenes of Sherrif Pepper just slows the whole pace down..

You're absolutely correct about the LALD boat chase. I have a collection of my favorite Bond scenes recorded on my computer and I cut the boat chase down and did several edits so that it makes the chase have a faster pace.

I feel the same way about the Thames boat chase in TWINE; there are some little moments (including the Brozza-boat's excursion on land) that competely bog down the chase for me. If I had a decent editing system, I'd take that flabby chase sequence and trim it down into a short, suspenceful cat-and-mouse attack on water; alas, however, I do not, and so, when the boring parts hit, I must shut my eyes and sing "la-la-la-la-la" in the hopes that it will go away.

Fortunately enough for me, it does.

Bond's flying through the air and grabbing the rope at the very end kindof irritates me to. One more over the top stunt from the Pierce era. I REALLY like great stunts, but this one always seems sort of surreal in that it doesn't seem like it could really work physically.

[DaveBond21]

Here's an irritant probably mentioned by someone else. The underwater sequences in Thunderball REALLY drag on. I dread every time they go in the water as it takes WAY too long watching everyone slowly swim from one place to another, and do stuff that takes way too long.

I've kind of felt the same way about the boat chase sequence in Live And Let Die, Daddy Bond. Not that its a bad sequence, but the fact its intercut with so many scenes of Sherrif Pepper just slows the whole pace down..

You're absolutely correct about the LALD boat chase. I have a collection of my favorite Bond scenes recorded on my computer and I cut the boat chase down and did several edits so that it makes the chase have a faster pace.

Yes, I agree with both. We have to remember that with Thunderball, underwater scenes of any kind were rare and so to have a battle filmed underwater was groundbreaking at the time, and very impressive to cinema audiences. And once you've got underwater cameras you might as well use them, hence the length of that battle, which does indeed drag.

The problem with the LALD boat chase is that it indeed does have those annoying intercuts featuring Sheriff Pepper. Again, it was quite a ground-breaking chase, and also came at a time (the early 70's) when car chases were becoming more and more popular in movies.

[Daddy Bond]

And of course, a major irritation is Pepper himself. I could do without him in either LALD or TMWTGG! Whose idea was it to bring him back for another one???????

[DaveBond21]

And of course, a major irritation is Pepper himself. I could do without him in either LALD or TMWTGG! Whose idea was it to bring him back for another one???????

He was a popular character at the time. I don't mind the character but he doesn't belong in a James Bond movie. However, that chase spawned an entire decade of car chase movies, and a franchise in itself - The Smokey & the Bandit films.

[Double-0-Seven]

That's funny because i've heard criticism of the Brosnan era overplaying the Bond theme. Now it's not enough!

That criticism is usually referring to David Arnold. He used the Bond theme quite a bit in the three films that he scored in the Brosnan era.

I'm sorry to say I like the music in GE.

But, it was my first Bond movie EVER - so I had absolutely nothing to compare it with.

There's no reason to be sorry for liking it. The music itself is excellent. Some of Serra's tracks are very beautiful sounding. The only problem is that some are a little too beautiful sounding for GoldenEye. They really slow the pace of the film down. I believe that Eric Serra wrote a good score, but it doesn't work with the film.

[Piz Gloria 1969]

Bruce Lee should've directed a Bond (he was getting more and more keen on directing by each film , not like he'd do martial arts films until he was 50/60 yrs old....)

At least there would be no dead meat/bogged down scenes & action scenes would be razor sharp & to the point

Edited by Piz Gloria 1969, 15 March 2008 - 11:16 PM.

[sharpshooter]

I have irritations with some of the blatantly obvious mistakes in the films. Such as the Thunderball underwater scenes, and the open/closed DBS door in CR.

[Daddy Bond]

I have irritations with some of the blatantly obvious mistakes in the films. Such as the Thunderball underwater scenes, and the open/closed DBS door in CR.

Were there other underwater mistakes in TB other than the change of goggles?

[Colossus]

I think he means that there is too much of it!

[Daddy Bond]

I think he means that there is too much of it!

Ah, okay, I'm with you on that. There is too much of it.

[Golden Claw]

Halle Berry, Denise Richards and Tanya Roberts. Ok, these are major irritations.

Rodge and Barbara Bach's acting in TSWLM.

Extra long chase scenes in LALD.

Rodge in FYEO, Octopussy and AVTAK.

Unnecessary explosions and shoot-outs in TWINE.

Forced comedy in TMWTGG.

[sark]

When Bond wrecks Tilly Masterson's car. He get's no information out of her, he doesn't even really try. I'd at least expect him to pull over and interrogate her. Then he just lets her go.
It makes me wonder if he just wrecked her car in hopes of getting in her pants.

[Daddy Bond]

Halle Berry, Denise Richards and Tanya Roberts. Ok, these are major irritations.

Rodge and Barbara Bach's acting in TSWLM.

Extra long chase scenes in LALD.

Rodge in FYEO, Octopussy and AVTAK.

Unnecessary explosions and shoot-outs in TWINE.

Forced comedy in TMWTGG.

Regarding the acting in TSWLM, true, not the greatest, yet, I so like the film (my favorite Bond film of all time), I hardly notice when I'm watching it. I try to convince myself that Bach's wooden delivery of her lines is because she is struggling (as a Russian) with the English language.

[bondrules]

The cover of DAD...halle berry side by side with PB....a she-007? I don

[bondrules]

And of course, a major irritation is Pepper himself. I could do without him in either LALD or TMWTGG! Whose idea was it to bring him back for another one???????

I feel he should have not been in any movie for that matter....what a useless piece of garbage, he still gets on my nerves

[Double-0-Seven]

[quote name='bondrules' post='859790' date='11 April 2008 - 19:51']The cover of DAD...halle berry side by side with PB....a she-007? I don

[Mr. Blofeld]

[quote name='Double-0-Seven' post='859804' date='11 April 2008 - 20:49'][quote name='bondrules' post='859790' date='11 April 2008 - 19:51']The cover of DAD...halle berry side by side with PB....a she-007? I don

[Aris007]

Biggest irritation is that Sherrif Pepper acted in two Bond films while he shouldn't have apperared in neither of them. Also ''Captain Hook'' in LALD just can't be a bad guy.

[bondrules]

another thing that bothered me throughout the PB era was his over the top dose of pheromones....when he was upset he looked like he wanted rough sex with everyone, even his male counterparts...he gave the character some ambiguity that I wasn't fond of

Edited by bondrules, 12 April 2008 - 01:24 PM.

[bondrules]

Also Connery got lazy in his last 2 films, he just wasn't that good.

Roger Moore never lost his touch (Mr. Campy), but what bothered me was that he should have exited with Moonraker...he just looked too old in FYEO, which is my favorite Moore flick, and one of my top picks (even though I am not crazy about Roger's interpretation of the JB character)

[HH007]

another thing that bothered me throughout the PB era was his over the top dose of pheromones....when he was upset he looked like he wanted rough sex with everyone, even his male counterparts...he gave the character some ambiguity that I wasn't fond of

[Aris007]

One of the biggest 'small' irritations was in TWINE, when Brosnan found Renard in the factory. He forgot to ask him about the colour of his shoes.JUST PULL THE TRIGGER!
Also in Goldfinger how did Oddjob see the neck of Masterson while it was pitch-dark and she was running on the woods?