Acceptable vs. Unacceptable...
Smoke_13
Kitchener Ont CanadaPosts: 285MI6 Agent
This idea popped into my head while writing on another thread and joking about what I deemed to be "Over-the-top garbage." In some Bond films. ie- The double take pigeon in Moonraker, running on the crocodiles backs in LALD, Yet there are also other impossibilities in Bond films that I not only accept, but I find that I completely embrace.
So I invite the board to respond with several once sentence posts that look like this....
"In my Bond films I find ___________ acceptable, but seeing ______________ is completely unacceptable."
I'll start things off...
"In my Bond films I find "seeing a man with silver teeth bite through a chain completely acceptable," but seeing "Bond surf on a snow mobile ski with Beach Boy music playing in the background" completely unacceptable"
Hope you have fun with it
So I invite the board to respond with several once sentence posts that look like this....
"In my Bond films I find ___________ acceptable, but seeing ______________ is completely unacceptable."
I'll start things off...
"In my Bond films I find "seeing a man with silver teeth bite through a chain completely acceptable," but seeing "Bond surf on a snow mobile ski with Beach Boy music playing in the background" completely unacceptable"
Hope you have fun with it
Comments
I find it acceptable in DAD that Bond escapes the Icarus blast in the little rocket car and hangs of a n icy wall, i find it unacceptable that two minutes later he rides a CGI wave the size of a skyscraper back to safety.
In my Bond films I find running on the backs of crocodiles in LALD acceptable, but seeing a double taking pigeon in Moonraker is completely unacceptable.
In my Bond films I find it acceptable that Bond would kill an unarmed man in cold blood but I find it unacceptable that his female boss would spend most of her time psychoanalysing 007, rather than just giving him his assignments.
Dido
In my Bond films I find a spaceship that eats other spaceships acceptable, but seeing Mayday in a thong unacceptable.
In my Bond films I find a living man with a bullet in his head unacceptable, but a man who can get shot several times and lives with voodoo unacceptable.
Edit-my mistake. ;% I looked over at the TWINE thread, and you do mean unacceptable.
In my Bond films I find Kamal Khan doing the "go outside and get him" gag acceptable but I find the "go get him" gag by Max Zorin in AVTAK two years later unnacceptable.
In my Bond films I find the appalling cameo by Madonna in DAD unacceptable and the godawful mess that is the theme to Die Another Day unacceptable...... oh no hang on that is right actually!!!
In my Bond films I find the ever changing face of Blofeld acceptable but Rog's ever more bouffant hair do as the films progressed unnacceptable.
This is fun!
...classic.
In my Bond films I find a young Roger Moore seducing every woman in sight acceptable. But I find a 16 year old figure skater throwing herself at a flabby 60 year old Moore in FYEO completely unacceptable.
In my Bond films I find Goldfingers special effects unacceptable.
"Better make that two."
For me:
-- A slide whistle is acceptable; a Tarzan yell is unacceptable.
-- A tarantula clearly crawling on a pane of glass is acceptable; a CGI tsunami-sized wave is unacceptable.
-- A constant stream of Sony Vaio laptop and Sony Ericsson phone product placements is acceptable; a single British Airways billboard is unacceptable.
I find it acceptable Denise Richards being a nuclear scientist; I find it unacceptable Halle Berry being a CIA agent.
I find it acceptable that Connery would express fear and would throwup in DN; I find it unacceptable that Lazenby would express the level of fear that he did during the crowd scene in OHMSS.
I find it acceptable that Bond would fall in love with Tracey; I find it unacceptable that Bond would seemingly fall in love in three of the past four films.
Sorry JFF!
Bond crashing an automobile off of a multi-story carpark into a rental car agency in TND.
Unacceptable
Bond shooting and exploding an embassy in Madagascar in CR!
He shot the gas tanks didn't he?
Yes, he did. Because we all know that embassies are fully equipped with highly-explosive fuel drums.
Maybe if Bond spied two propane tanks, or maybe if Bond was obviously in a 'vehicle maintenance' yard, it would make sense. For me, it's one of those new cheap 'plot' (or non-plot) devices. If you need an explosion, set some oil drums or something explosive in the 'back room'. Make the audience do the thinking, rather than the writer. Sure, we can come up with some excuse as to why it's there, but I don't like it. It's something that drives me crazy, and something I view as a lazy writer's ploy to thinly stretch action to fit into the story. Just one of my little quirks.
I find a bodygaurd with a metal claw that is so obviously a $10 add on to the actors existing hand completely unacceptable.
I believe you but is there a reference to this anywhere?
"Better make that two."
Fiona Volpe: Some men don't like to be driven.
Bond: No, some men don't like to be taken for a ride.
A boat that drives through the city streets of London England for what seems to be about 8 city blocks is completely unacceptable. (TWINE)
Joel
A BMW that can be remotely-driven by the use of a simple touchpad at extremely high speeds
Unacceptable
An Aston Martin that can become invisible through the use of fiberoptics.