AJB live commentary on THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Music “Body Double”
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Fantastic introduction to Renard. It was correct to cut his earlier scene.

    I didn't know about this. What was the cut scene?

    Regardless, yes...it's is a good intro. It's full of promise that is never quite fulfilled.

    His intro reminds me of Trevelyan's reintroduction to Bond in the graveyard of monuments in GE. He's similarly sententious, appearing out of the shadows.
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    I don’t get the bit with the blue trainers...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I don’t get the bit with the blue trainers...

    Hommage to green trainers :D
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    I don’t get the bit with the blue trainers...

    Training shoes were unavailable in certain areas, so highly prized.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Oh dear God, Richards' acting is awful
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    I feel this part of the movie is a bit slow. Reminds me of how John Glen's films sometimes sagged at about this point.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    Oh dear God, Richards' acting is awful

    Have you been focussing on her acting?

    I have not :D
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Music “Khazakstanian Nuclear Installation”
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    I don’t get the bit with the blue trainers...

    Hommage to green trainers :D

    Oh... is THAT where it all started?

    I actually don’t mind Denise Richards as Jones. But then, I had seen Starship Troopers before TWINE!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Scully box in total use here. Carlyle comes up to maybe Brosnan's chest.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    I have no problem with Denise Richard's role or performance in this film. Don't see why you can't be a nuclear scientist and look like Lara Croft. Her attitude initially parallels Holly Goodhead's... and she plays it fine. Plus she's damned hot!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:

    Apted thought that it wasn't a good enough introduction.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    The entire underground sequence drags and slows the movie down unnecessarily
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Scully.. Oh an Apple box? Yup.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Shady Tree wrote:
    I have no problem with Denise Richard's role or performance in this film. Don't see why you can't be a nuclear scientist and look like Lara Croft. Her attitude initially parallels Holly Goodhead's... and she plays it fine. Plus she's damned hot!

    Lara Croft (computer game - not Angelina Jolie) was very popular back then and there is certainly a connection between both
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Brosnan gives a strong performance of Bond's revulsion of Renard.

    I find the shoot-out here a little underwhelming. Perhaps it's just that the setting feels too much like the studio set it is.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Music “Going Down - The Bunker”
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Perhaps the best "Bond... James Bond" ever!!!
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Brosnan gives a strong performance of Bond's revulsion of Renard.

    I find the shoot-out here a little underwhelming. Perhaps it's just that the setting just feels too much like the studio set it is.

    The pacing is shot to whack. Slow slow quick quick slow, for Me it’s the explosions and the music that keep it ticking nicely...
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Machine that SHOULD go ping... The locator card....

    The wall screen reminds me of the Tracy Brothers Comm portraits in classic Thunderbirds.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,068Chief of Staff
    Tanner is 100% correct. M should not go out there.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    It's all the Denise Richard's moments that hold me to this sequence. :x
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    I'm behind, I think. Can we have a timestamp?
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    No others are far ahead

    Timestamp: Electra on the laptop
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  • The Spy Who Never DiesThe Spy Who Never Dies UKPosts: 644MI6 Agent
    saved by the bell!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,012MI6 Agent
    Then I'm about right.

    Brosnan plays well when matched with an actor of Sophie Marceau's calibre.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Brosnan is great in the Stockholm Syndrome scene
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,818MI6 Agent
    Marceau sells the scene where she slaps Bond well.
    First time I saw that, she had me doubting Bonds instincts.... till he speaks to M.

    Talking of M, helicopter shot, Goldfinger homage? Feels like it.

    Did we really have computer monitors that big?!
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