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Friday, 15 February 2013

The crappiest James Bond moments

In the interest of 'equal time', I am now going to slag off my favourite movie franchise.....



  • the last few minutes of Goldfinger (Did they run out of money? The tropical island looks like they are in the local botanical gardens. You can see the wires on Goldfinger's plummetting Gulfstream jet.)
  • Bond slapping his female colleague, Dink, on the bottom with the comment, "Run along, Dink... Man talk!"
  • Roger Moore looking tired in A View to a Kill
  • protracted underwater scenes in Thunderball
  • in You Only Live Twice some of the space scenes look like an episode of Thunderbirds (thank God for John Barry's score)
  • when Blofeld's white pussy goes apeshit (clawing desperately at Donald Pleasance) because of the explosions sounding off on the Pinewood set (volcano/rocket base), You Only Live Twice
  • Bond and Tracey prancing around like some demented shampoo commercial to the strains of Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time in the World" in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
  • all of Octopussy

I am sure you have others.

My favourite James Bond scenes

  • "Ninja training camp" in Nimeji Castle, You Only Live Twice, as an 11 year old, this was very cool.
  • Aerial shot of Bond fighting henchmen on Kobe docks rooftop in You Only Live Twice
  • Bond entering Tokyo subway in You Only Live Twice, meeting Tanaka in his private train.
  • Lincoln Continental and hoodlum getting crushed in Goldfinger.
  • Bond playing golf with Auric Goldfinger.
  • Jill St John with the brat in "Circus Circus" in Diamonds are Forever, "Blow up yer pants!"
  • Bond looking absolutely rooted before Diana Rigg skates up to him in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
  • In Dr No Bond leaves the dead would-be assassin sitting in the rear seat of his conertible. He turns to the Government House guard with the line, "See he doesn't get away".
  • Entering Dr No's underwater lair (early Ken Adam Bond production design, refined and maxed up in You Only Live Twice.)
  • Bond meeting Honey Rider on the beach in Dr No (this is a no brainer).
  • Bond with jetpack in the start of Thunderball (the rest of the film is a bit of a bore, surprisingly - the remake Never Say Never Again was infinitely better)
  • "Welcome back Mr Bond, I hope we can expect more gratuitous sex and violence" from Never Say Never Again.
  • Bond on the Orient Express talking wine with Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love
  • Aston Martin showing its stuff in the Swiss Alps (Goldfinger, of course)
  • Bond in the old DB5 with M (finger poised on the red gear shift button) in Skyfall
  • all the opening titles (even the new ones)
  • the excitement generated in the end credits before: "The End of ..... but James Bond will return in ......"