TWINE " I thought Christmas only came once a year"
Oh the entire cinema groaned (not in sympathy)
Yes, the reaction was more of a tired and not particularly enthusiastic acknowledgement that there was going to be such a line and that the line was delivered. Then people got up out of their seats and went home, neither shaken or stirred by the precedings.
Really funny jokes (as opposed to excruciating puns) are fairly thin on the ground in Bond films, but I love the tuk tuk chase in Octopussy, with its nods to all the most clichéd aspects of Indian culture and its in-joke about Vijay Armitraj's background. The dénouement is unusually good too, with Bond using the money he won from Kamal Khan to make his escape.
Just one off the top of my head is in Goldfinger. Bond is in the jail cell and starts pacing towards the door and starts to wink at his guard.
He slides under the opening with the goofiest of smiles. The Korean guard takes the bait and pays the price.
Bonus points for the visual gag a few minutes later when Bond is back in his cell...watched over by 5 guards, studying his every move.
You have arrived at a propitious moment, coincident with your country's one indisputable contribution to western civilisation: afternoon tea. May I press you to a cucumber sandwich?
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I probably shouldn't though.
Just one off the top of my head is in Goldfinger. Bond is in the jail cell and starts pacing towards the door and starts to wink at his guard.
He slides under the opening with the goofiest of smiles. The Korean guard takes the bait and pays the price.
Bonus points for the visual gag a few minutes later when Bond is back in his cell...watched over by 5 guards, studying his every move.
1) Bond's exasperated "Just push every damn button will you!" to the moronic Goodnight.
2) Carver mocking Wai Lin with the martial arts routine. To me, that is the single funniest moment of the entire series.
'It looks very difficult'
*Shoots the clay pigeon perfectly while barely looking*
' Why no it isn't, it it?'
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"Noooooo!"
Love how Robert Rietty delivers that.
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
Female patient to Bond:What's happened? What's going on?
Bond (sarcastically): I don't know! Could it be the front door bell?
Pat Fearing: NO! It most certainly could not!
Bond (cheerily): Oh hello!
Pat Fearing: Haven't you had enough exercise for one evening?
Bond: Funny you should say that!
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
" I don't listen to hip hop!"