Favourite Action Set-Pieces

DieAnotherDay

What Action Set-Pieces are you most impressed by out of the Bond films and look forward to each time you re-watch the films? I have a good few so I'll whittle them down to my top 5

5 - Parking Lot/R.C car chase (TND
4 - Ski Sequence (FYEO)
3 - Boat Chase (LALD)
2 - Parkour Chase (CR)
1 - Tank Chase (GE)

ZorinIndustries

Skyfall- Not necessarily a chase, but once "Boom Boom" starts playing up until that helicopter crashes into Skyfl lodge, that explosion gives me the chills

ChromeJob

Seems a lot of people don't like the LALD boat chase, but I've always loved it. J.W. Pepper's comedic stuff is a nice variation on the action and thrills/spills.

I guess my fav action set piece has always been the fight with Grant in FRWL. It's fast, furious, bloody, and deadly serious. The battle at the gypsy camp is cool too, with all the mayhem, Bond running through and turning the tide in little ways, and then Grant shooting the guy about to off Bond, leaving Bond thinking, "WTH?"

always shaken

Has to be when Roger Moore ski off the side of a
mountain ,and his parachute is the Union flag and Bond theme
kicked in magic
Saw it at cinema ,and whole audiance went ape
still gives me goose bumps today

LastRatStanding

always shaken wrote:

Has to be when Roger Moore ski off the side of a
mountain ,and his parachute is the Union flag and Bond theme
kicked in magic
Saw it at cinema ,and whole audiance went ape
still gives me goose bumps today

I was I was old enough to have seen that scene in the cinema! Great moment.

As for me my favourite action scene is probably the tanker chase in Licence To Kill! There are many others like the Goldfinger car chase at Goldfingers warehouse, the OHMSS ski / car chase, TSWLM Car chase underwater, TLD PTS, Goldeneye Tank chase and Casino Royale PTS! All really good!

chrisisall

ChromeJob wrote:

Seems a lot of people don't like the LALD boat chase, but I've always loved it. J.W. Pepper's comedic stuff is a nice variation on the action and thrills/spills.

I loved it and still do!
Also:
Mustang chase in DAF
TWINE PTS
Wai Lin home base battle in TND
Truck chase in LTK
Bond/Grant fight in FRWL
Parkour chase in CR
TLD PTS & Necros fight

Blackleiter

So many to chose from, but here are a few:

FRWL - fight with Grant
YOLT - fight with Sumo wrestler and battle on the docks
OHMSS - ski chase
TWINE - pre-title sequence
CR - construction site chase

Charmed & Dangerous

I agree - too many to choose from but here are a few more...

OHMSS - pre-credits fight sequence
Thunderball - underwater battle
QoS - per-credits car chase
Goldeneye - the fight and shoot out before the tank chase
TND - pre-credit sequence capturing the plane

Funny how often the pre-credit sequences contain the best action scenes in the whole movie...

ChromeJob

Well, for all out savage fight, don't leave out Connery's to the death PTS struggle with Bob Simmons in THUNDERBALL. Ending with a neck breaking crunch, no less.

Blackleiter

Good one!

ChromeJob wrote:

Well, for all out savage fight, don't leave out Connery's to the death PTS struggle with Bob Simmons in THUNDERBALL. Ending with a neck breaking crunch, no less.

Unknown007

The pre title sequence for Octopussy with the Acrostar Jet flying from the horseback through the hanger and lands for gas at a petrol station.

James Suzuki

Let me think.....
FYEO Citroen chase
The Skyfall PT
TWINE boat chase
Qos bell tower chase
Qos car chase
GE tank chase
DAD sword fight
OP train fight
CR airport tanker scene
LTK tanker chase

jade1988

ok im having trouble remembering something, its technically a set piece. in one of the movies james is taken on a boat im not sure if he is kidnapped or rescued but he notices one of the men wearing a symbol.. i think its a pin that he recognises.. i want to know what the image was.. if it makes it any easier it was pearce brosnan

Silhouette Man

I'm working on an article on the snake pit action set pieces James Bond gets involved with in the films - it will appear on The Bondologist Blog in due course. I find this very fascinarting subject-matter!

Silhouette Man

Guy Hamilton's James Bond films were all basically aq string of set pieces stitched loosely together with characters and exotic locations - Fleming fans (post-Goldfinger) of course neeed not apply here!