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A Film of Highs and Lows

posted 8 years ago by nihilistdude2000
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Some of the moments were definitely cringeworthy (the Beach Boys scene may have been the worst moment I've seen in Bond history), but there were a lot of scenes that held my interest as well. The story was a bit more engaging to me then some of the other Moore Bond films, and Walken as the villain is up there as one of the biggest names to play a Bond villian and I enjoyed watching him in the role, for the most part. Tonya Roberts is a horrible actress but she certainly looked good in the film. Finally, though Moore was probably too old at this point to play a super spy, I had come to really appreciate how he had developed the character over the course of 7 films and appreciated his witty and gentlemanly version of Bond. So for me the film was uneven - it had a lot to enjoy, and a lot make me shake my head. Kept me fairly entertained though.

[–] Wuchak (8156) 6 years ago

The Bond films from the 70s and 80s had a sense of humor, as well as a sense of the absurd, at least until "Licence to Kill" (1989). Even some of the 60's installments had these elements (e.g. "You Only Live Twice" and Oddjob's hat in "Goldfinger"). The Beach Boys sequence was amusing but you have to lighten up to enjoy it. Bond films, after all, aren't exactly realistic; they're escapist fantasy/adventure fare. Remember several scenes in exotic places, like the Egyptian desert (in "The Spy Who Loved Me") or a derelict vessel in the waters near Hong Kong ("The Man with the Golden Gun"), where Bond would unexpectedly enter some curious secret hideout and run into Moneypenny, M and Q functioning as if it were just another day at the office? Why Sure!