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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I‘d say that Greene and Kristatos are similarly boring.....
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:

    Greene was creepy, Kristatos was just boring.

    Greene would give Elvis' hairpiece to be creepy. Just boring.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Wonderful music, wonderful skiing action.
    Probably the best ski chase ever in a movie!
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    Another classic Thesp who has thankfully kept busy, Charles Dance.
    Although he doesn’t get a lot to do here, he does stoic wonderfully!

    He has recently been Lord Mountbatten in The Crown.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    I don't like Conti's music here at all.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    I have to agree with Higgins (unfortunately :v )
    Kristatos is probably the mot boring Bond villan ever.

    bond-and-elektra.jpg

    Greene was creepy, Kristatos was just boring.

    Kristatos makes for a good 'red herring' initially, but when he's supposed to be an out and out villain later on he's still a bit too Norman Normal.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Barbel wrote:
    I don't like Conti's music here at all.


    Whaaaaat?

    It‘s building up the action and then explodes
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    Sounds like the conductor at he top o£ the ski jump is another Reitty dub!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The piano music remonds me a lot of The Untuchables
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    I don't like Conti's music here at all.

    It's as if for an episode of 'The Sweeney'...

    but then we get the marvellous 'Runaway'...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Went down all those slopes - not the bob track :D
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    I like the music, but I can see Barbel’s point..... the high notes are very like BBC Sports Ski Sunday!
    Must be all the pro skiing and winter sports influences..
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    I don't like Conti's music here at all.

    I know it's not necessarily a popular opinion, but I do enjoy the 'Ski...Shoot...Jump' cue on the expanded soundtrack release. But it is certainly nothing compared to the energetic, disco-fueled glory of 'Runaway' which comes directly after it in the film.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I so long for seing Bond on skiis again ....
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:

    Kristatos makes for a good 'red herring' initially, but when he's supposed to be an out and out villain later on he's still a bit too Norman Normal.

    It's a tone thing- he's being directed to contrast with his predecessors (Drax, Scaramanga etc) even in full villain mode. Blame Glen, not Glover, if you disagree. Glover could certainly have played it "big" in a different film.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Number24 wrote:
    The piano music remonds me a lot of The Untuchables

    Right! I know what you mean ;)
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Tragically, a stuntman was killed during the bob sequence. This was widely reported at the time but is scarcely mentioned since in Eon-approved merchandise (books/commentaries)
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    I lov ow the Lotus angrily bumps over even the Smallest lumps of ice and snow.
    That could not have been comfortable!
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    No engine in the motorbike
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The hockey attack is unconvincing and ends silly
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,817MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:

    Kristatos makes for a good 'red herring' initially, but when he's supposed to be an out and out villain later on he's still a bit too Norman Normal.

    It's a tone thing- he's being directed to contrast with his predecessors (Drax, Scaramanga etc) even in full villain mode. Blame Glen, not Glover, if you disagree. Glover could certainly have played it "big" in a different film.

    Yes, he is full scale Baddie in The Last Cruisade.... for that matter, he does conniving brilliantly as General Veers in ESB. He should have been the ground commander in Jedi too.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:

    Kristatos makes for a good 'red herring' initially, but when he's supposed to be an out and out villain later on he's still a bit too Norman Normal.

    It's a tone thing- he's being directed to contrast with his predecessors (Drax, Scaramanga etc) even in full villain mode. Blame Glen, not Glover, if you disagree. Glover could certainly have played it "big" in a different film.

    That's true, but I think they could have given him a bit more of an edge, even in the realistic mode. Though I do love his later, "Ah, leave him.." when one of his lackeys is knocked overboard and left as prey for the sharks...
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Wonderful how the music takes us from Cortina to Korfu
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I was just reminded of a scene in Deadpool :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    The music is much better here
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Carole Bouquet is lovely and natural in the shopping scene...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Casino scene- hello Topol (soon), and hello to the late Cassandra Harris, one of the best things in this movie.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Yes, gorgeous!
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I like how they take the time to soak up the location flavor
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Timestamp

    Casino
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