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Number24

The night scenes look better than day scenes IMO. Not so flat

Barbel

Bond finds out for whom the bell tolls.

Higgins

100% Rubber shark! )

Shady Tree

Killifer's "Whoooah!" seems a bit light, given his situation

Barbel

Brown at his coldest and harshest as M

Higgins

Wheren‘t sideburns totally outdated back then already?

Shady Tree

Opening shot over M's shoulder, as he's stroking the cat... briefly situated him as a surrogate Blofeld figure...

Shady Tree

Opening shot over M's shoulder, as he's stroking the cat... briefly situates him as a surrogate Blofeld figure...

Number24

In the scene were the guard falls into the electric eel the rail is clearly sawed over )
But Killfer's deatrh is a highlight.

Higgins

Hair getting thin on Dalton‘s head when he goes up the stairs

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

Barbel wrote:

...and more almost-straight Fleming.

(One of the things I like about this film)

Executed with all the panache of a student film. Guy Hamilton wept.

Disagree, thought it was done ok.

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

The actor playing Sharkey...he's decent, but his 'yelling' voice is overused. I remember him in LAST ACTION HERO as Slater's boss, always screaming at him at the same register.

Underrated movie, must watch it again soon.

Higgins

And Dalton weeps.....
Looks like a schoolboy who‘s gotten his sweets taken away

Shady Tree

Barbel wrote:

Brown at his coldest and harshest as M

Dalton's approach is what makes it possible for Robert Brown to play such a dramatic scene. A change from his 'old cronies' type of scenes with Roger, Geoffrey Keen at al.

Barbel

Funny how James turns up at the Wavekrest (more Fleming) at exactly the right moment. I know, I know... because movie.

Number24

Dalton was the toughest Bond efore Craig. A wolf to Connery's panther :007)

Higgins

Shady Tree wrote:

Barbel wrote:

Brown at his coldest and harshest as M

Dalton's approach is what makes it possible for Robert Brown to play such a dramatic scene. A change from his 'old cronies' type of scenes with Roger, Geoffrey Keen at al.

Dalton‘s overacting totally ruins it then

Barbel

Gymkata wrote:

Indeed, Dance would have made for a heck of a Bond villain.

He has a very minor villain part in FYEO

Shady Tree

Krest looks permanently harried and is beset by problems... I love that aspect of the characterisation.

Higgins

Number24 wrote:

Dalton was the toughest Bond efore Craig. A wolf to Connery's panter :007)

Cry Wolf

Number24

I think I've caught the same manterey 2-3 times out on the fjord. )

Higgins

Gymkata wrote:

I think he did a much better job of acting in TLD.

No!

Barbel

Number24 wrote:

I think I've caught the same manterey 2-3 times out on the fjord. ) ) )

I didn't know they went that far north!

Shady Tree

Love the darkness of the scene between Talisa and Tim.

Barbel

Best action scene in the movie?

Number24

Barbel wrote:

Number24 wrote:

I think I've caught the same manterey 2-3 times out on the fjord. ) ) )

I didn't know they went that far north!

It's what we call "skate" here, it's a sort of ray.

Higgins

You mean the barefoot jetski?

Imo it‘s horrible and pathetic!

Barbel

No, the whole sequence

Higgins

+1

Shady Tree

Gymkata wrote:

Higgins wrote:

Shady Tree wrote:

Dalton's approach is what makes it possible for Robert Brown to play such a dramatic scene. A change from his 'old cronies' type of scenes with Roger, Geoffrey Keen at al.

Dalton‘s overacting totally ruins it then

I must agree. Dalton in INTENSE LOOK AT HOW INTENSE I AM OH GOD I'M SO INTENSE mode is kinda laughable. I think he did a much better job of acting in TLD.

It's solely because of his serious dramatic approach that this film was able to go to places the series hadn't been before, including the performances of all the orbital characters sharing scenes with him... If his performance is 'big', well... he was a Shakesperean actor!