Am I being hypocritical on A View To A Kill?
ironpony
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I like some elements of the movie such as the villains and the Bond girl was kind of of good, kind of not, and it did have some really good stand out moments.
But the problem that bothers me is that it feels like a complete rehash of Goldfinger. Not only is the villain's plan strikingly similar, but they make it even more blatantly obvious by having discuss his plan with a bunch of shareholders, in a room with a model of the whole thing, and one of the shareholders wants out, after hearing the plan, so the villain has him killed. And instead of Bond overhearing Operation Grand Slam, he hears Operation Main Strike. Way too much like Goldfinger I feel.
The movie even copies things from other Bond movies such as the villain using the exact same line to his henchman he did one Bond movie ago, "Go Get Him... Go!" Just like in Octopussy, as if the movie bankrupt of having more new ideas.
However, I feel maybe I am being hypocritical on this one perhaps, because other Bond movies copy other ones, such as TSWLM and MR copying a lot of elements out of YOLT, right down to the henchwoman being killed off for failure or betrayal in each movie... And yet I like TSWLM and MR a lot better than YOLT and feel they surpass it, yet I am completely bothered by AVTAK copying so much out of Goldfinger and the one Octopussy line, which came off as blatantly copied.
So am I being double standard-ish about my opinion on AVTAK perhaps?
But the problem that bothers me is that it feels like a complete rehash of Goldfinger. Not only is the villain's plan strikingly similar, but they make it even more blatantly obvious by having discuss his plan with a bunch of shareholders, in a room with a model of the whole thing, and one of the shareholders wants out, after hearing the plan, so the villain has him killed. And instead of Bond overhearing Operation Grand Slam, he hears Operation Main Strike. Way too much like Goldfinger I feel.
The movie even copies things from other Bond movies such as the villain using the exact same line to his henchman he did one Bond movie ago, "Go Get Him... Go!" Just like in Octopussy, as if the movie bankrupt of having more new ideas.
However, I feel maybe I am being hypocritical on this one perhaps, because other Bond movies copy other ones, such as TSWLM and MR copying a lot of elements out of YOLT, right down to the henchwoman being killed off for failure or betrayal in each movie... And yet I like TSWLM and MR a lot better than YOLT and feel they surpass it, yet I am completely bothered by AVTAK copying so much out of Goldfinger and the one Octopussy line, which came off as blatantly copied.
So am I being double standard-ish about my opinion on AVTAK perhaps?
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