Favourite Action Set-Pieces

DieAnotherDayDieAnotherDay Glasgow, ScotlandPosts: 460MI6 Agent
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What Action Set-Pieces are you most impressed by out of the Bond films and look forward to each time you re-watch the films? I have a good few so I'll whittle them down to my top 5

5 - Parking Lot/R.C car chase (TND
4 - Ski Sequence (FYEO)
3 - Boat Chase (LALD)
2 - Parkour Chase (CR)
1 - Tank Chase (GE)
....and the best he ever managed was a sermon on the mount.

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  • ZorinIndustriesZorinIndustries United StatesPosts: 837MI6 Agent
    Skyfall- Not necessarily a chase, but once "Boom Boom" starts playing up until that helicopter crashes into Skyfl lodge, that explosion gives me the chills
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  • ChromeJobChromeJob Durham, NC USAPosts: 149MI6 Agent
    Seems a lot of people don't like the LALD boat chase, but I've always loved it. J.W. Pepper's comedic stuff is a nice variation on the action and thrills/spills.

    I guess my fav action set piece has always been the fight with Grant in FRWL. It's fast, furious, bloody, and deadly serious. The battle at the gypsy camp is cool too, with all the mayhem, Bond running through and turning the tide in little ways, and then Grant shooting the guy about to off Bond, leaving Bond thinking, "WTH?"
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    Has to be when Roger Moore ski off the side of a
    mountain ,and his parachute is the Union flag and Bond theme
    kicked in magic
    Saw it at cinema ,and whole audiance went ape
    still gives me goose bumps today
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • LastRatStandingLastRatStanding ScotlandPosts: 296MI6 Agent
    always shaken wrote:
    Has to be when Roger Moore ski off the side of a
    mountain ,and his parachute is the Union flag and Bond theme
    kicked in magic
    Saw it at cinema ,and whole audiance went ape
    still gives me goose bumps today

    I was I was old enough to have seen that scene in the cinema! Great moment.

    As for me my favourite action scene is probably the tanker chase in Licence To Kill! There are many others like the Goldfinger car chase at Goldfingers warehouse, the OHMSS ski / car chase, TSWLM Car chase underwater, TLD PTS, Goldeneye Tank chase and Casino Royale PTS! All really good!
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    ChromeJob wrote:
    Seems a lot of people don't like the LALD boat chase, but I've always loved it. J.W. Pepper's comedic stuff is a nice variation on the action and thrills/spills.
    I loved it and still do!
    Also:
    Mustang chase in DAF
    TWINE PTS
    Wai Lin home base battle in TND
    Truck chase in LTK
    Bond/Grant fight in FRWL
    Parkour chase in CR
    TLD PTS & Necros fight
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    So many to chose from, but here are a few:

    FRWL - fight with Grant
    YOLT - fight with Sumo wrestler and battle on the docks
    OHMSS - ski chase
    TWINE - pre-title sequence
    CR - construction site chase
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    I agree - too many to choose from but here are a few more...

    OHMSS - pre-credits fight sequence
    Thunderball - underwater battle
    QoS - per-credits car chase
    Goldeneye - the fight and shoot out before the tank chase
    TND - pre-credit sequence capturing the plane

    Funny how often the pre-credit sequences contain the best action scenes in the whole movie...
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  • ChromeJobChromeJob Durham, NC USAPosts: 149MI6 Agent
    Well, for all out savage fight, don't leave out Connery's to the death PTS struggle with Bob Simmons in THUNDERBALL. Ending with a neck breaking crunch, no less.
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Good one!
    ChromeJob wrote:
    Well, for all out savage fight, don't leave out Connery's to the death PTS struggle with Bob Simmons in THUNDERBALL. Ending with a neck breaking crunch, no less.
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • Unknown007Unknown007 Posts: 201MI6 Agent
    The pre title sequence for Octopussy with the Acrostar Jet flying from the horseback through the hanger and lands for gas at a petrol station.
  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent
    Let me think.....
    FYEO Citroen chase
    The Skyfall PT
    TWINE boat chase
    Qos bell tower chase
    Qos car chase
    GE tank chase
    DAD sword fight
    OP train fight
    CR airport tanker scene
    LTK tanker chase
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  • jade1988jade1988 Posts: 2MI6 Agent
    ok im having trouble remembering something, its technically a set piece. in one of the movies james is taken on a boat im not sure if he is kidnapped or rescued but he notices one of the men wearing a symbol.. i think its a pin that he recognises.. i want to know what the image was.. if it makes it any easier it was pearce brosnan
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I'm working on an article on the snake pit action set pieces James Bond gets involved with in the films - it will appear on The Bondologist Blog in due course. I find this very fascinarting subject-matter!
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Guy Hamilton's James Bond films were all basically aq string of set pieces stitched loosely together with characters and exotic locations - Fleming fans (post-Goldfinger) of course neeed not apply here!
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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