Bonds Dumbass moments!
jabba1110
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Thought this may be a bit of a fun topic! What are Bonds most stupidest mistakes in the films?
I always found it funny how completely useless he is in Goldfinger.
1. He gets two women killed with his carelessness (And one just to get laid)
2. He stupidly falls for a mirror trick planted by oddjob while driving his car out of the base
3. He nearly ends up being blown to bits by spending to much time contemplating which wires to cut on the bomb in fort knox (He didn't even cut the wire in the end!)
I always found it funny how completely useless he is in Goldfinger.
1. He gets two women killed with his carelessness (And one just to get laid)
2. He stupidly falls for a mirror trick planted by oddjob while driving his car out of the base
3. He nearly ends up being blown to bits by spending to much time contemplating which wires to cut on the bomb in fort knox (He didn't even cut the wire in the end!)
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Roger Moore 1927-2017
But generally Connery's driving was pretty lousy. He was suffering from leadfree-foot desease, a severe muscular weakness that prevents the right foot putting adequate pressure onto the accelerator pedal. You can see it first in Dr. No where he cannot put some distance between him in a nimble sportscar and a 3-ton pre-war hearse - and that on a twisty mountain road! Thank god some road-building equipment was standing in the way, or the James Bond series of films would have been a short one.
By the time they filmed Goldfinger his condition has gotten worse. He can't even outrun three Mercedes Pontons which combined have less horsepower than his Aston Martin! When you add that the car is outfitted with smoke screen, oil slick, bulletproof glass and rear screen, even ejector seat and machine guns, this is a truly remarkable achievement of the Mercedes drivers! Used all those gadgets, and he ends up captured like before!
Oh, how I wish they had cut all this stupid Aston Martin gadget stuff! Goldfinger would have been a far better film!
The scene where he turns down the chance to nob the ice skater in FYEO, that's pretty dumb. Mind you, so was she.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I never realized it, but you're right about Bond never carrying spare ammo. After all, how hard is it to carry an extra magazine for a PPK? It's a pretty small, light magazine, even fully loaded.
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when he throws Mathis in the garbage dump-
not really dumb as in 'dumb' but had i been there i would of called him a dumbass for doing something like that.
his phone,so why not just shoot him to start with and nick the holdall.
I disagree with this one. Ideally, Bond did want to capture the bomber. However, when it became obvious that this wasn't possible because the bomber was going to receive sanctuary at the embassy, Bond decided it was better to kill him instead of letting him go free.
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I disagree. While he was shadowing the bomber and also when Bond was chasing him, Bond had a reasonable chance to capture him. If he let the bomber go during the scene in the backyard of the embassy, the bomber would be protected because of the armed guards and the political asylm system. At that point Bond had to kill him or loose him for along time, perhaps forever.
Wouldn`t you say Bond was aiming for Jaws` head and hitting the teeth? So it`s a silly scene, but not a dumb desecision on Bond`s part.
Yes that part made no sense. They randomly show up, then they just leave. But that still doesnt bug me as much as the horrid slide whistle during the car jump. They turned an interesting stunt into a roadrunner cartoon.
A few more of mine:
1. Connery's one piece baby blue short shorts jumper in GF
2. Connery doing the "making out with myself" thing in DAF
3. Kananga inflating and exploding at the end of LALD
4. The bird doing a double take in MR
5. A love scene between Grace Jones and an elderly Roger Moore in AVTAK
6. Moore's bell bottoms in his later gun barrel scene
6. Pretty much all of DAD