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[O.H.M.S.S.]

i saw the casino royale that had david niven in it a few weeks ago. pretty funny.

I've still never seen that movie. I don't feel like I need to.

Well, it is not a serious Bond movie, so it should not be judged as one. But still it's a fun 60's movie with a great Burt Bacharach soundtrack and David Niven is always great to watch.

[Cruiserweight]

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[DaveBond21]

I watched Goldfinger last night. Always good fun.

[Double-0-7]

Believe it or not, Die Another Day.

Credit goes to Zencat's iconic thread titled 'best Bond ever?' that I believe was heavily influenced by the fun of 003's opening night extravaganza.

[DaveBond21]

Believe it or not, Die Another Day.

Credit goes to Zencat's iconic thread titled 'best Bond ever?' that I believe was heavily influenced by the fun of 003's opening night extravaganza.

Was it better this time around?

[DR76]

I just finished watching THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I did when I first saw it 10 years ago. I even managed to tolerate the submarine sequence.

[elizabeth]

saw peter sellers in casino royale again yesterday.

[jaguar007]

I just finished watching THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I did when I first saw it 10 years ago. I even managed to tolerate the submarine sequence.

funny, I finished watching TWINE last night about 5 minutes before your post saying you watched it. Still one of my least favorites, but I had not seen in 4 or 5 years so I thought I would give it a go.

[007luvchild2]

I saw For Your Eyes only a month ago while grading exams.

[AMC Hornet]

Thursday night I watched DAF. today I watched TMWTGG. I do this every year - saving my favorites for the lead-in to Christmas. Soon I'll have a few friends over and we'll watch OHMSS on my son's 32" flat screen. That will be like the first and only time I ever saw it on the big screen.

[O.H.M.S.S.]

I watched Casino Royale 1967 this weekend and I still can't decide what to do with it, is it a Bond film or what? I mean James Bond as we know him from the other movies is only mentioned. But I like David Niven, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Vladek Sheybal so much, they are some of my favourite actors. Still, if I would rate it as a Bond movie it would get a pretty low score. As a crazy sixties farce it's score would increase of course.

[jrcjohnny99]

Die Another Day

Latest in my run of seeing the Bond movies in order...
For me, this one is strictly a game of two halves.
I think the first half of the movie is great and ranks right at the top of the Brosnan era; but the second half is hugely dissapointing and is among the most uninvolving of all Bond movies.
Arnolds score is solid but Madonna's theme song is the worst of the series.
Brosnan is pretty strong in this one and he seems incredibly confortable.
Berry is mis-cast and mis-used but Toby Stephens is terrific.
A missed opportunity to create one genuine classic from Brosnan's time.

[Judo chop]

A VIEW TO A KILL

Fun. Not bad, really. Not at all. The mines sequence is lacking in spectacle despite being - correct me if I'm wrong - the biggest indoor set at the time, and the bomb sequence is lacking the suspence that Glen and Rog squeezed from the previous film's bomb sequence, but things pickup nicely once Stacey is nicely picked up.

And what an awesome theme song. The score, particularly while it incorporates Duran-Duran's work, carries the extra weight that Roger's tired legs no longer can.

I believe this is, all in all, Roger Moore's most serious Bond film. And I've got half a mind to say it's John Glen's best Bond work. (I have to revisit TLD sometime soon to confirm that.)

[DR76]

A VIEW TO A KILL

Fun. Not bad, really. Not at all. The mines sequence is lacking in spectacle despite being - correct me if I'm wrong - the biggest indoor set at the time, and the bomb sequence is lacking the suspence that Glen and Rog squeezed from the previous film's bomb sequence, but things pickup nicely once Stacey is nicely picked up.

And what an awesome theme song. The score, particularly while it incorporates Duran-Duran's work, carries the extra weight that Roger's tired legs no longer can.

I believe this is, all in all, Roger Moore's most serious Bond film. And I've got half a mind to say it's John Glen's best Bond work. (I have to revisit TLD sometime soon to confirm that.)

I just watched this about a week before THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. I don't agree that it's Moore's most serious film or John Glen's best. However, you could be saying this in jest. I hope so.

But I did enjoy A VIEW TO A KILL. It's basically a remake of GOLDFINGER, but with less plot holes.

[Judo chop]

I just watched this about a week before THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. I don't agree that it's Moore's most serious film or John Glen's best. However, you could be saying this in jest. I hope so.

Nothing here in jest. Tonally, AVTAK is Roger’s most serious Bond film. And I’m being just as serious as it.

But I did enjoy A VIEW TO A KILL. It's basically a remake of GOLDFINGER, but with less plot holes.

Plot holes bother some people more than others. And they bother those other people only some of the time, depending on the circumstances. Sometimes, and for some people, plot holes and/or plot leaps are part of the charm.

[O.H.M.S.S.]

A VIEW TO A KILL

Fun. Not bad, really. Not at all. The mines sequence is lacking in spectacle despite being - correct me if I'm wrong - the biggest indoor set at the time, and the bomb sequence is lacking the suspence that Glen and Rog squeezed from the previous film's bomb sequence, but things pickup nicely once Stacey is nicely picked up.

And what an awesome theme song. The score, particularly while it incorporates Duran-Duran's work, carries the extra weight that Roger's tired legs no longer can.

I believe this is, all in all, Roger Moore's most serious Bond film. And I've got half a mind to say it's John Glen's best Bond work. (I have to revisit TLD sometime soon to confirm that.)

Plus, you've got to love Zorin and Scarpine, unforgettable villains!

[Judo chop]

Plus, you've got to love Zorin and Scarpine, unforgettable villains!

I do like Zorin (and at some particular moments I love him), but Scarpine seems quite at home in the forgettable bin.

What does Scarpine bring to the table that cause him to be otherwise?

[dinovelvet]

What does Scarpine bring to the table that cause him to be otherwise?

Well he has a scar. Though I don't think we ever find out if he has a pine.

[Judo chop]

What does Scarpine bring to the table that cause him to be otherwise?

Well he has a scar. Though I don't think we ever find out if he has a pine.

But we're all pining to find out if he does. And when we realize that we never will find out, it leaves a scar.

And then, and only then, it comes to us that that WE...

are Scarpine.

Ooooh.

Deeeeeep.

[Zorin Industries]

A VIEW TO A KILL

Fun. Not bad, really. Not at all. The mines sequence is lacking in spectacle despite being - correct me if I'm wrong - the biggest indoor set at the time, and the bomb sequence is lacking the suspence that Glen and Rog squeezed from the previous film's bomb sequence, but things pickup nicely once Stacey is nicely picked up.

And what an awesome theme song. The score, particularly while it incorporates Duran-Duran's work, carries the extra weight that Roger's tired legs no longer can.

I believe this is, all in all, Roger Moore's most serious Bond film. And I've got half a mind to say it's John Glen's best Bond work. (I have to revisit TLD sometime soon to confirm that.)

Well that's you on my Christmas card list!

[Gustav Graves]

+ Great Bond title song!
+ Henchwoman MayDay is the best since Fiona Volpe
+ Max Zorin is the best Bond villain to date
+ Ascot scenes and Horse racing
+ Godfrey Tibbet's death
+ Fight on the Golden Gate Bridge
+ Throwing a KGB-agent in the oil rig pump

- Roger Moore as James Bond-007 is lifeless and old
- Scarpene is forgettable
- Plot is a weak spin-off from Goldfinger
- Screenplay lacks originality compared to OP and FYEO
- Stacey Sutton is one of the worst Bond girls
- USA scenes lack something...bit bland
- Fire truck chase is silly and too much 'Die Hard'
- Aubergene sucks (Aubergene is French for 'egg plant')

[DaveBond21]

AVTAK is near the bottom of my list, but of course, I still really enjoy it.

I must say the mine scenes are a let-down but only in comparison to those in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which we'd seen just the year before.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

AVTAK is near the bottom of my list, but of course, I still really enjoy it.

I must say the mine scenes are a let-down but only in comparison to those in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom which we'd seen just the year before.

I'd recommend Peter Hunt's Gold(1974) to you, DaveBond21. Roger Moore made it 11 years before AVTAK with John Glen serving as editor and 2nd unit director. There are mine scenes there which I believe influenced them on AVTAK. Who knows? It may have influenced Spielberg on the 2nd Indiana Jones film also.

Here are the first 9 minutes and 8 seconds of it-

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Cruiserweight]

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[O.H.M.S.S.]

What does Scarpine bring to the table that cause him to be otherwise?

Well he has a scar. Though I don't think we ever find out if he has a pine.

But we're all pining to find out if he does. And when we realize that we never will find out, it leaves a scar.

And then, and only then, it comes to us that that WE...

are Scarpine.

Ooooh.

Deeeeeep.

I like Scarpine for the fact that he does look pretty dangerous, he is low profile, but he looks pretty tough, I guess that if he would have fought Bond, pity that didn't happen, it would have been an interesting fight. The character, to me, is somewhat mysterious, yet dangerously unpredictable. I like Patrick Bauchau's performance (he's a countryman of mine which isn't the only reason why I like him, mind you).

[Judo chop]

I like Scarpine for the fact that he does look pretty dangerous, he is low profile, but he looks pretty tough... The character is somewhat mysterious

I see that as another way of saying that he amounts to his looks. Which I'm sure is a valuable asset for a bodyguard/henchman, intimidation being a requisite for the job, but it’s not reason enough for me to gush over him as a character.

yet dangerously unpredictable.

He's unpredictable because he doesn't do anything. ie. You don't know what he's going to do next because he hasn't done anything yet. A truly unpredictable henchman would have been great, but he kinda has to prove he's unpredictable first, y'know? In fact, that's something I really want to see in the next CraigBond - a truly unpredictable henchman.

However, I'm not sure that AVTAK was the place for a loose-canon henchman, since that slot should have already been filled with Zorin, the genetically-deranged psychopath. Sadly, like the rest of the film, he too falls short of inspired. Good, but not all he could have been.

[The Dove]

Watched Octopussy and Diamonds Are Forever, during the last couple of days..

[Mr. Somerset]

DAD. Actually watched all 4 Pierce films this week. I'm now feeling TWINE is the weakest.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

DAD. Actually watched all 4 Pierce films this week. I'm now feeling TWINE is the weakest.

Absolutely agree there. TWINE is an attempt to do an OHMSS/CR type Bond film for Pierce but sadly fails to live up to its promise.

[Mr. Somerset]

I actually enjoyed DAD immensely, which is usually my least fave film. TWINE just doesn't hold up...even though Maria Grazia is my favorite Bond girl in the PB era.