11-14-2020, 11:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2020, 11:41 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Finally got around to watching some Sean Bond. This was has always been a fav because ninjas. Nuf said there. I remember it fairly well. It never struck me as absurd as it does now. It impresses with its magnitude. Some scenes just shine. The sumo match. The helicopter battle. The volcano lair siege. That lair set much have been huge because they didn’t have the effects to fake it that well. The rocket-eating rocket is the only effect that feels cheesy, although some of the exploding helicopter models are dated now.
Through it’s ridiculous plot, Sean also shines. It really all hinges on him. His performance sells it. This was his first attempt at quitting Bond, but he came back, not just once but twice.
Roald Dahl wrote the script and it is the first major deviation from Fleming’s book. Perhaps Dahl’s hand is why this is so absurd. I’ve always thought the original book was one of Fleming’s best - the final showdown between Bond and Blofeld in a garden of death. It’s too small for the bombasticness of Bond now, but in the book it was surreal and poetic. The title came from Bond’s attempt at Japanese poetry.
One of the worst Bond songs bordering on the ‘Far East proto cliche’ melody. And the Bond girls aren’t as sexy - there’s a poor attempt to echo Ursula’s white bikini. Honestly without IMDb, who even remembers the names of the Bond girls from this film?
Sword fights! Good ones too. The sword sequences are really tight. I figure everyone in DOOM has seen it already but I recommend the revisit.
Through it’s ridiculous plot, Sean also shines. It really all hinges on him. His performance sells it. This was his first attempt at quitting Bond, but he came back, not just once but twice.
Roald Dahl wrote the script and it is the first major deviation from Fleming’s book. Perhaps Dahl’s hand is why this is so absurd. I’ve always thought the original book was one of Fleming’s best - the final showdown between Bond and Blofeld in a garden of death. It’s too small for the bombasticness of Bond now, but in the book it was surreal and poetic. The title came from Bond’s attempt at Japanese poetry.
One of the worst Bond songs bordering on the ‘Far East proto cliche’ melody. And the Bond girls aren’t as sexy - there’s a poor attempt to echo Ursula’s white bikini. Honestly without IMDb, who even remembers the names of the Bond girls from this film?
Sword fights! Good ones too. The sword sequences are really tight. I figure everyone in DOOM has seen it already but I recommend the revisit.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
