The Man With The Golden Gun
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I was watching this just now and i can honestly say that this is one good Bond film. It has all the ingredients: A cool villain, great locations some good humour such as Bond shutting Nick Nack in that suitcase and Nick Nack ranting and raving as Bond is doing this,Good Bond girls such as Mary Goodnight and Anders(Goodnight's ditzyness adds the the humour) ,
The return of Sheriff JW Pepper who is on holiday with his wife. Pepper has great banter with Bond but he seems to be really racist in this.
The Producers of the film seem to be cashing in on the martial arts craze which was at the time with a scene at a martial arts school which I like.
I also have a feeling that the gangster Scaramanga duels with in the PTS is the same guy in DAF ("I didn't know there was a pool down there!"). He doesn't have a name in DAF he is listed as Slumber Inc Attendant , but he is named Rodney in TMWTGG. What are everyone's thoughts on this?
However I do have one issue with the film. I think the theme song is terrible, really horrible to listen to, If only they used that other version from Alice Cooper, I think that version sounds cooler.
What does everyone else think of TMWTGG?
The return of Sheriff JW Pepper who is on holiday with his wife. Pepper has great banter with Bond but he seems to be really racist in this.
The Producers of the film seem to be cashing in on the martial arts craze which was at the time with a scene at a martial arts school which I like.
I also have a feeling that the gangster Scaramanga duels with in the PTS is the same guy in DAF ("I didn't know there was a pool down there!"). He doesn't have a name in DAF he is listed as Slumber Inc Attendant , but he is named Rodney in TMWTGG. What are everyone's thoughts on this?
However I do have one issue with the film. I think the theme song is terrible, really horrible to listen to, If only they used that other version from Alice Cooper, I think that version sounds cooler.
What does everyone else think of TMWTGG?
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I've always thought that Marc Lawrence was playing the same guy in both films.
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Then we immediately go from her tragic death to Mary Goodnight being an absolute goof and Sheriff Pepper being Sheriff Pepper. I was fine with him in LALD, but he is so out of place in Thailand and it takes you out of the serious mood that the scene before had just set.
The film has good moments. I still like Moore in it, Maud Adams is solid, Christopher Lee is amazing, and I love the scenery of it all. I just feel like it could have been better.
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From there on, Bond went modern - with fancier cars, computers,cruise missiles, satellites, electronic watches (I know in LALD he wore Pulsar) and stuff.
I can easily forgive it some camp moments - many of them have been mentioned.
I love the locations in Asia, you can feel the hot and humid climate, the girls (and Britt is a feast for my eyes :x ) the villain - the music minus the annoying title tune.
There is a lot to love in that movie
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1. The script just can't decide whether it wants Roger to be Sean or Roger to be Roger. It's vey uneven. And Goodnight is the most vapidly-written Bond woman - a real climb down given how independent and capable the Bond women of the 1960s were.
2. The ending is just kinda lame. And one guard minding the store and ogling Goodnight while he's at it? What happened to all those minions like Blofed used to have in the good old days?
3. The slide whistle.
4. The fight at the Kung Fu school. Two schoolgirls pushing Bond out of the way and taking on all those Kung Fu fighters? That's just not Bond to me, he should be in the thick of it.
On the plus side though, I think the music is great, and Sir Rog is always a joy to watch. And it's a Bond film! :007)
I too found the death of Scaramanga to be a little unspectacular
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I agree with your reasons as to why TMWTGG is such a disappointment. It definitely had promise, and I concur that Lee is a real highlight, although I think he could have been used better. AVTAK is my least favorite Roger Moore Bond film, and TMWTGG is next.
Bond is sent out to redeem himself by taking on the top pistolshot, under what pretext I can't recall. It's a bit like the Spang brothers in the novel DAF, in that Scaramanga - not a suave Englishman like Lee but a hard-bitten American if I recall, or Cuban, is built up to be this big deal, but not much is made of it. It's mostly set around Jamaica, with Bond pretending to be a similar bad guy to ingratiate himself with Scaramanga, much like the plot of the film LTK in that respect. Leiter shows up a couple of times.
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In the novel Scramanga was Cuban rather British and was a top assassin for Cuban Intelligence after working as a free lance killer in the US. The plot was a joint effort by Cuba/The Soviet Union and several American mobsters to mess with sugar crops bound for the US, and cause sugar from Cuba to go up in price resulting more money for the economy of the Communist world.
As for the film version, the change of the villains plot was likely due the fact that the energy crisis was a more relatable topic for people of the 1970's rather than the sugar crop plot of the novel. Scarmanga was also changed slightly to create a bigger threat to Bond than he was in the novel, director Guy Hamilton says in the BTS feature on the DVD than Scramanga in the novel was just another low rent thug when compared to Goldfinger or Blofeld hence why he was changed in the film.
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The high's
- First and foremost it is Christopher Lee, who is more 'Bond' in his manners than Moore ever was. Great character and actor.
- Locations. I love asia (hardly surprising) and the locations are great. I will visit Hong Kong next month and hope to visit the Bottom up club. Or at least Hay Phat's residence (which is in HK, not Bangkok)
- I liked Ms Anders a lot, also a nice characyer that was underused.
- Great car stunt, ruined by looney toons tune, but still well done. No CGI!
Low's
- Miss Goodnight was quite rubbish. Unbelievable as a secret agent.
- Never liked Nick nack. Made the movie more cartoonish
- Never liked Sherrif Pepper much either. And he was worse here than in LALD.
- Moore's fighting scenes were ludricous
all in all, sort of a guilty pleasure. But certainly not a favourite.
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Unfortunately, the Bottoms Up has moved some years ago.
The entire little street does not exist anymore, it made place for a huge shopping centre (iSquare).
You can find the Bottoms Up now in Wanchai (HK island), 1st floor, parts of the old interior have survived.
There is an elderly "lady" who can tell you about her time when George Lazenby visited them on a daily basis.
And just for the record: My wife was with me when I went to there
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In the basement of the IFC (the building which can seen prominently in The Dark Knight), there is a famous Dim Sum restaurant (Tim-Ho-Wan). You can't miss it - people are lining up in front.
Take a number, line up (can take an hour - but well worth it!) and enjoy a Michelin-awarded DimSum for extremely cheap!
Careful, they only accept cash!
Enjoy!
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Its odd to think that this film is not popular among some bond fans.......yet it has the the most coveted of all collectables the golden gun.
PS. Bondtoys if you are reading this, I clicked on the link to your website and it appears there is a problem (I have used Safari and Firefox on a mac, but still get the same problem.)
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