Lets get some facts straight:
Connery in OHMSS would've elevated the film to iconic status.
Lazenby, had he stayed for DAF, would've been great - had Peter Hunt returned, as well. It would've been, as a result, a whole different movie - and that would've been only good.
There are worse Bonds than NSNA.
NSNA is a great Bond movie. Not perfect - but not bad, too. Its actually better once you see the fan-edited version that gave the film the EON film by applying the title sequence and the gun-barel, as well as adding music cues from all Bond movies, minus CR.
I suggest all of you whiners, who can't tell the difference between MOONRAKER and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, to check out the fan-edited version of NSNA - and THEN judge it, for what is.
Because what McClory REALLY wanted to do, was an EON Bond without EON. In the end, EON burned him to the ground.
Oh, and another thing - if you wanna blame anyone for the mistakes of NSNA, blame EON and Broccoli. Without Connery, the film would never have seen the light of day, as EON really wanted to KILL the film.
Its a miracle that the man half-produced it, half-edited it, and acted in it, and very well, if I might add.
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silence_you_fools
17 years ago
All the Bond films in general teeter precariously on the edge of Silly....that means that you only have to increase the level of Silly marginally and whole thing goes over the edge.
The Bond films for me are all bitter sweet...I love the serious, suave, cool, gritty, or tongue-cheek parts and feel agony at the campy, silly parts. The bad dialogue, the terrible acting, the silly accents, the weird score editing which goofily splices in bits of incongruous music (eg: The beach boys) or bawdy comedy sound effects (Tarzan) without warning.. the good bits are so cool that you just want to watch it over and over again, performing little filter functions every few minutes when something painful happens. I think it's something about the atmosphere that they generate. It's a Bond Movie..and you can feel it. It blurs the bad and leaves you with an overall impression...and it's one you want to revisit often.
It's a bit like watching The Phantom Menace; Anakin is unbearable, Jar Jar is unbearable, the stupid animated battles and droids are horrible...and yet there are the Jedi and Darth Maul, especially Darth Maul virtually carrying the whole godawful mess with his 10 minutes of screen time....and it makes you watch it again, alternately cringing and marvelling for 2 hours.
That's how I feel about Bond. I watch them all many times but it's a roller coaster of pleasure and pain. NSNA is arguably one that goes very far towards silly and kinda tired, but that doesn't mean others don't. Die Another Day, for example, was an insult to the senses as well as to the brain. The main thing that upsets me about Moonraker isn't that they went into space, it's that they went into space because Star Wars was huge at the time.
That kind of motivation for deciding on plot and visuals just CAN'T be good. It seems tacked on and false and a pale imitation of the thing it was cynically attempting to capitalise on.
On a side note, Batman&Robin isn't just the worst Batman film by a country mile, it's arguably one of the worst films ever made and Joel Schumacher is arguably one of the world's worst "big" directors. A Celebrity Death Match between him and Michael Bay would be cool.
Not having to think does not equate to 'entertaining' just as being provoked into thinking does not equate to 'dull'. Not unless thinking inherently makes your eyelids heavy.
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17 years ago
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BatmanBeyond
17 years ago
Right on. Unofficial a film would only be if it was fan-made. But NSNA was a real production, like any other film production.
Its not an EON Bond, thats all.
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nullaqua
17 years ago
Has anybody noticed this? In the scene where the cruise missile is shown flying, the trees underneath look brown as if it's winter, but a moment later it passes over a beach with children building a sandcastle, as if it's summer!
"I have an appointment with eternity and I don't want to be late"
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