AJB live commentary on TSWLM

caractacus potts

sluggsy and horror!

Number24

Timestamp: "something" happens to the helicopter

Higgins

When seeing TSWlM the first time in the cinema, I was 100% sure that Atlantis was not a model.
But I was 13....

Shady Tree

Stromberg evidently regards his helicopter pilots as disposable as Blofeld in the FYEO PTS

Higgins

Number24 wrote:

Timestamp: "something" happens to the helicopter

You are 30 seconds too far ahead

Number24

Timestamp: Bond enters the tent in the desert

Barbel

Edward de Souza, like Caroline Munro a veteran of Hammer horror films

caractacus potts

gratuitous harem scene!

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

Stromberg evidently regards his helicopter pilots as disposable as Blofeld in the FYEO PTS

Yeah. How do they hire so many henchmen when they're not just considered 'expendable' but are considered 'expendable with prejudice'?

What's the hiring process to be a henchman, by the way? What are the intangibles that come along with the paychecks?

See the first Austin Powers movie! )

Barbel

The silhouette of Bond in Eqypt is when I first really began to accept Moore as Bond

Higgins

Timestamp: Bond accepts the rose

Shady Tree

I find this whole Egyptian-sequence, old-Cambridge-chums, colonial snobbery and harem stuff very dated and smug... but this was the age of the British smutty sex comedy...

Barbel

Ah, this is the dubbed actress

caractacus potts

Higgins wrote:

Timestamp: Bond accepts the rose

I am officially now in sync with your timestamps, H

Higgins

Safari Suit! :x

Number24

I like the house in Kairo. I think it's a real house.

Higgins

Wait until,you see Jaws GF

Shady Tree

I always felt sorry for Felicca. This routine is obviously a callback to Fiona's death in TB but it's a bit confused here... does she sacrifice herself for Bond? is Sandor wanting to kill her so she doesn't give information?

Barbel

MGW & wife in the audience

Number24

Moore could play ruthless if he tried. I think the tie scene is very good

Barbel

Anyone know who's doing the narrator's voice? Sometimes it sounds like Charles Gray, other times it doesn't.

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

Barbel: as a pacifist, did that tie slap scene bother Moore to do?

I've never read that it did

Number24

The name escapes me. The villan in Marathon Man

Barbel

In the commentary they say that they had to use a cardboard cut out of Moore for one shot in the pyramids scene. However, it later asked for too much money so had to be let go.

Barbel

Number24 wrote:

The name escapes me. The villan in Marathon Man

It is definitely not Sir Laurence Olivier.

Higgins

Gymkata wrote:

Number24 wrote:

Moore could play ruthless if he tried. I think the tie scene is very good

He was amazing with the similar scene in FYEO.

Dalton would have wept from anger.
And that is exactly my beef with him

Barbel

Moore does well in the fight, intercut with a double

Barbel

Score nominated for Best Score, lost to “Star Wars”

Higgins

Obviously the Seiko placement was all organised by Seiko UK and not by Seiko Japan

Barbel

This guy turned up in OP!