The worst moments

MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
in The James Bond Films
What are the worst moments in the films? Here are just a couple of things I don't like:

- The awful effects used for the final Disco Volante scenes of Thunderball
- Ending to Diamonds Are Forever - Blofeld's demise seems very unsatysifying
- Slide Whistle in The Man With The Golden Gun
- Ending of the skydiving scene in Moonraker
- Gondala chase and double take pigeon in Moonraker
- Jaws falling in love in Moonraker
- Too many things to mention in Die Another Day
- Quantum of Solace - the whole thing is just a mess
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  • DevilMayCare007DevilMayCare007 Posts: 196MI6 Agent
    Tarzan yell in Octopussy
    Top 10 Bond Films
    1. Thunderball 2. FRWL 3. Casino Royale 4. TLD 5. OHMSS 6. SkyFall 7. GF 8. TSWLM 9. GE 10. FYEO
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,102Chief of Staff
    "Fetch my shoes"- DN
  • JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,241MI6 Agent
    Slide whistle in TMWTGG because it ruined a potentially great moment
    1 - LALD, 2 - AVTAK, 3 - LTK, 4 - OP, 5 - NTTD, 6 - FYEO, 7 - SF, 8 - DN, 9 - DAF, 10 - TSWLM, 11 - OHMSS, 12 - TMWTGG, 13 - GE, 14 - MR, 15 - TLD, 16 - YOLT, 17 - GF, 18 - DAD, 19 - TWINE, 20 - SP, 21 - TND, 22 - FRWL, 23 - TB, 24 - CR, 25 - QOS

    1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia, PAPosts: 754MI6 Agent
    Jaws falls in love is one of my favorite moments in the series :D

    I cannot forgive the slide whistle or California Girls though. If you've seen rescores on YT, it makes both scenes so much more powerful. I love the campy tone of those films, but moments like that need to be played straight and suspenseful to emphasize the impressiveness of what is happening on the screen.

    Bambi and Thumper is most embarrassing for me as a Bond fan.
  • FiremassFiremass AlaskaPosts: 1,910MI6 Agent
    DevilMayCare007 wrote:
    Tarzan yell in Octopussy

    H TERESA K on her Amazon review of Octopussy DVD states:

    "It does contain the best scene from the entire series. Bond swings from a vine and gives this terrific Tarzan yell."

    Great to find somebody out there who loves the tarzan yell! :))
    My current 10 favorite:

    1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
  • broadshoulderbroadshoulder Acton, London, UKPosts: 1,363MI6 Agent
    The Goldeneye PTS
    The TND shoot 'em up climax
    The Christmas Jones scene in TWINE
    Apart from the scenes in Cuba - the whole of DAD
    1. For Your Eyes Only 2. The Living Daylights 3 From Russia with Love 4. Casino Royale 5. OHMSS 6. Skyfall
  • SpoffSpoff Posts: 244MI6 Agent
    Any of the Roger Moore "love scenes" :#

    I literally cannot watch them any more, I have to glance away at most of them.
  • PeppermillPeppermill DelftPosts: 2,860MI6 Agent
    Kananga's demise in LALD. Apart from the terrible effects; he was swimming in shark infested waters. They should have been able to think of something better.
    1. Ohmss 2. Frwl 3. Op 4. Tswlm 5. Tld 6. Ge 7. Yolt 8. Lald 9. Cr 10. Ltk 11. Dn 12. Gf 13. Qos 14. Mr 15. Tmwtgg 16. Fyeo 17. Twine 18. Sf 19. Tb 20 Tnd 21. Spectre 22 Daf 23. Avtak 24. Dad
  • DevilMayCare007DevilMayCare007 Posts: 196MI6 Agent
    Firemass wrote:
    DevilMayCare007 wrote:
    Tarzan yell in Octopussy

    H TERESA K on her Amazon review of Octopussy DVD states:

    "It does contain the best scene from the entire series. Bond swings from a vine and gives this terrific Tarzan yell."

    Great to find somebody out there who loves the tarzan yell! :))
    :)) :))
    Top 10 Bond Films
    1. Thunderball 2. FRWL 3. Casino Royale 4. TLD 5. OHMSS 6. SkyFall 7. GF 8. TSWLM 9. GE 10. FYEO
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    edited March 2015
    The CGI Windsurfing Scene in DAD.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    'You earn't it, you keep it, old Buddy'

    That's a Key Scene right there -{

    That's a great scene!
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Bloody Hell :o

    I thought the Thread Title was ' Key Moments' :#

    Thats what happens when you mis-read something.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) I did think you'd lost the plot there, AOS. :)) as that's a terrific scene. :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I agree -{

    It's been a long Day :)) I've edited that Post now.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Ah!!!! :# you've picked on another brilliant scene !! :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I've just always found that Scene a bit insulting to the long History that the Series has had with using real Stunt men doing real Stunts, in often dangerous Situations.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    You're right of course, I love the Bond stunts and what makes them
    All the more exciting is knowing that some brave stuntman is actually
    Doing it for real.
    With the Windsurfing scene in DAD, you feel nothing as it's pretty obvious
    You're watching a cartoon. Terrible. :#
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    "Fetch my shoes"- DN

    That's absolutely one of the worst moments in Connery's tenure. :#
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I agree :#
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    M dressing Bond down so well in Goldeneye . . . and then ruining it by saying "Do come back alive."
    Bond "flying" to catch the falling airplane in Goldeneye.
    Boris in Goldeneye.
    Goldeneye.
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.
    Nearly all of A View to a Kill.
    Priscilla Barnes in Licence to Kill.
    Taliso Soto in Licence to Kill.
    Cary Lowell in Licence to Kill.
    Any time Plenty O'Toole speaks in Diamonds are Forever.
    Quick zooms and related campy fight music in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
    Connery in Frankensteinian yellowface in Your Only Live Twice.
    Yellowface in general in Dr. No (Dr. No, Miss Taro), though I can sorta reconcile that with how many of the characters in the novel are bi-racial).
    The obviousness of the glass plate in the spider scene in Dr. No. (I normally forgive questionable special effects, but this was such a low-tech thing to muff up.)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,102Chief of Staff
    Gassy Man wrote:
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.

    :o I love that scene!
  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Gassy Man wrote:
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.

    :o I love that scene!

    :o :o :o :o :o :o
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  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    You're right of course, I love the Bond stunts and what makes them
    All the more exciting is knowing that some brave stuntman is actually
    Doing it for real.
    With the Windsurfing scene in DAD, you feel nothing as it's pretty obvious
    You're watching a cartoon. Terrible. :#

    Completely agree. Bond is famous for its stunts, using CGI instead is insulting. What makes it worst is that people in editing saw it and thought, "Yes, that looks great".
    1.LTK 2.AVTAK 3.OP 4.FYEO 5.TND 6.LALD 7.GE 8.GF 9.TSWLM 10.SPECTRE 11.SF 12.MR 13.YOLT 14.TLD 15.CR (06) 16.TMWTGG 17.TB 18.FRWL 19.TWINE 20.OHMSS 21.DAF 22.DAD 23.QoS 24.NSNA 25.DN 26.CR (67)
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Gassy Man wrote:
    M dressing Bond down so well in Goldeneye . . . and then ruining it by saying "Do come back alive."
    Bond "flying" to catch the falling airplane in Goldeneye.
    Boris in Goldeneye.
    Goldeneye.
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.
    Nearly all of A View to a Kill.
    Priscilla Barnes in Licence to Kill.
    Taliso Soto in Licence to Kill.
    Cary Lowell in Licence to Kill.
    Any time Plenty O'Toole speaks in Diamonds are Forever.
    Quick zooms and related campy fight music in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
    Connery in Frankensteinian yellowface in Your Only Live Twice.
    Yellowface in general in Dr. No (Dr. No, Miss Taro), though I can sorta reconcile that with how many of the characters in the novel are bi-racial).
    The obviousness of the glass plate in the spider scene in Dr. No. (I normally forgive questionable special effects, but this was such a low-tech thing to muff up.)

    Not a fan of Goldeneye, I see. :))

    I disagree about Priscilla Barnes and especially Carey Lowell in LTK, but you are absolutely right about Talisa Soto. (Too bad, because she is absolutely gorgeous!)
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,912Chief of Staff
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    "Fetch my shoes"- DN

    That's absolutely one of the worst moments in Connery's tenure. :#

    How 'bout the woman turned into a gorilla in DAF. . .?
    Vox clamantis in deserto
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    MilleniumForce wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Gassy Man wrote:
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.

    :o I love that scene!

    :o :o :o :o :o :o
    With all due respect, gentlemen, he plays it too campily. And I like Vincent Schiavelli and the idea of Kaufman. It's the interpretation that makes me cringe.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Perhaps Dr Kaufman was Camp? ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Gassy Man wrote:
    M dressing Bond down so well in Goldeneye . . . and then ruining it by saying "Do come back alive."
    Bond "flying" to catch the falling airplane in Goldeneye.
    Boris in Goldeneye.
    Goldeneye.
    Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies.
    Nearly all of A View to a Kill.
    Priscilla Barnes in Licence to Kill.
    Taliso Soto in Licence to Kill.
    Cary Lowell in Licence to Kill.
    Any time Plenty O'Toole speaks in Diamonds are Forever.
    Quick zooms and related campy fight music in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
    Connery in Frankensteinian yellowface in Your Only Live Twice.
    Yellowface in general in Dr. No (Dr. No, Miss Taro), though I can sorta reconcile that with how many of the characters in the novel are bi-racial).
    The obviousness of the glass plate in the spider scene in Dr. No. (I normally forgive questionable special effects, but this was such a low-tech thing to muff up.)

    Not a fan of Goldeneye, I see. :))

    I disagree about Priscilla Barnes and especially Carey Lowell in LTK, but you are absolutely right about Talisa Soto. (Too bad, because she is absolutely gorgeous!)
    I'm not very fair to Goldeneye -- there are parts I really like, such as the bathhouse confrontation, and Brosnan nails it (for his version) when he does the Bond, James Bond line for the first time. I like the Bond girl, too.

    Priscilla Barnes's mannerisms and inflections always grate on me like fingernails on the chalkboard -- she's so abrasive, she could play Hillary Clinton. That's not a political commentary but a Hillary Clinton one. I like Carey Lowell and enjoyed her in Law and Order, but her Ms. Kennedy just seemed to "in your face" and unappealing -- a friend used to call her "that horse." Taliso Soto is better seen but not heard.
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Perhaps Dr Kaufman was Camp? ;)
    Haha, he was. I thought tonally it wasn't right for the scene, where Bond is supposed to be grieving over the death of Paris. To me, it should have been played straight, menacing. My girlfriend at the time rolled her eyes and said to me in the theater, "Dr. Kaufman. Dr. Coffin. I get it."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,102Chief of Staff
    Gassy Man wrote:
    Taliso Soto is better seen but not heard.

    :)) very true!
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