Diamonds are Forever

"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
10/19/2014 at 15:08 • Filed to: None

There's a Bond marathon on ActionMax, so of course I'll watch them all (except the Pierce Brosnan ones - he was the worst). !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! contains one of the biggest errors ever in a major studio picture. Skip to 3:30 if you don't want to watch the whole scene.

I heard the director interviewed by Richard Hammond. They only noticed the error when the were in post production. This was Sean Connery's last Bond picture, and he wasn't interested in reshooting the scene. They had to release it as-is.

DISCUSSION (19)

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 15:12

I liked Pierce Brosnan. Though I do think he was ultimately the reason they switched the formula with Daniel Craig...Brosnan's Bond was probably the most stereotypically played one.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 15:17

Bond (Brosnan): And your name is?

Bad Guy: Mr. Kill!

Bond: Now there's a name to die for.

Five minutes. You didn't have five minutes in rewrite to fix that? And Brosnan said the line! It is also true, I've heard, that Brosnan is notoriously difficult to work with.

desertdog5051 > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 15:36

Only Bond could pull that off. That's amazing what he can do. :)

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 15:39

Okay, so that isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of Pierce Brosnan. But is it any worse than Pussy Galore? The answer is yes, but not by a ton.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 15:49

And I would like to go on record here as saying Timothy Dalton was a better Bond than most of them, especially Brosnan and George Lazenby. I watched both Dalton movies again a few months back, and they were thoroughly entertaining.

More trivia - On Her Majesty's Secret Service was so poorly received they basically had to back a truck full of money into Sean Connery's driveway to get him to come back.

I will also say that Ydris Elba should be the next Bond.

Steve in Manhattan > desertdog5051
10/19/2014 at 15:52

There is a comic book somewhere that needs to be a movie. I don't know the title, but the concept is that Bond had all that unprotected sex, and the children that resulted all get together to confront an aging, retired Bond. Now there's your movie.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 15:55

The Dalton movies never bothered me. Lazenby, meh.

Elba should be in everything, he's fantastic. Plus the outrage over a *gasp* black James Bond would be something to behold...from the sort of people who would call him African-American even though he's British.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 15:58

"Stereotypically" is the right word. Second most cliche was Roger Moore, at least to me.

More useless trivia in my head. The Aston Martin flipover in Casino Royale achieved the most rollovers ever in a movie. At least that's what they claimed on that Richard Hammond special . If you haven't seen it, you should seek it out. Hammond drives the submarine Lotus!

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 16:07

I rewatched Luther last year - astonishingly good television. Everyone I've told to watch it thanks me. It's a shame Pacific Rim was such a stinker, but that's down to the script, not the actors.

ttyymmnn > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 16:27

Probably not an error as much as a problem with continuity, which could be pretty much the same thing. There is another scene in that film where Bond is driving the moon rover. After he drives out of the frame you see one of the rover's wheels roll back into the frame.

Steve in Manhattan > ttyymmnn
10/19/2014 at 16:36

Wow - I never noticed that, and I'm usually the guy that points that stuff out.

For example - we were watching Behind the Candelabra . Mercedes 450SLC pulls into frame, the year flashed onscreen is "1974". I paused it, turned to my girlfriend and said "the wheels on that Mercedes did not appear on a car in this country until 1982."

I'm lucky she stays with me.

ttyymmnn > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 16:42

Back in the VHS days my friend and I watched that movie about 50 times, usually while drinking copious amounts of beer. I've got most of the dialog memorized.

Steve in Manhattan > ttyymmnn
10/19/2014 at 17:04

Even Bambi and ... the other one? Similarly, I can usually cough up all the lines in The Shining before they come out of Nicholson's mouth.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 17:27

Holy crap - I'd forgotten how bad the cars are in The Man With the Golden Gun - a two-door Matador and a Hornet (that does a corkscrew jump). All the Hong Kong police cars are AMC Ambassadors.

Oh, and the Matador turns into an airplane.

Sweet Trav > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
10/19/2014 at 18:15

I hate Daniel Craig's Bond. Connery and Dalton are the best.

Sweet Trav > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 18:17

Connery, Dalton, Moore, Craig, Brosnan, Lazenby. James Bonds - ranked.

Steve in Manhattan > Sweet Trav
10/19/2014 at 18:24

Other than possibly swapping Craig and Moore, I agree with you. Just checked, but the Dalton films are not on Netflix streaming.

ttyymmnn > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2014 at 18:29

Kinja'd!!!

Thumper.

Steve in Manhattan > ttyymmnn
10/19/2014 at 18:39

The Spy Who Loved Me is on now ... just waiting for the Lotus to show up.