AJB live commentary on DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Can clearly see Lana’s nipple not sure you could back in the cinema in 1971?

    Only an adolescent boy would notice that. So, Yes.

    Just keeping abreast of things... the joys of DVD. :D
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Bruce Cabot as Saxby- the hero of the original "King Kong"

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    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    The stuff at the petrol station is another example of how this movie is prepared to relax enough to just have fun. Moore's movies needed a woman character as feisty as Tiffany.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Oh, excellent C&D! :)) :)) :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Klaus Hergescheimer, possibly the same guy Ed Bishop played in YOLT? I like to think so
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Up to this point the film has broadly followed Fleming’s novel (Blofeld excepted) but from now on it goes its own way (until the end)
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Ed Bishop UFO
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    I always feel a slight kinship with Klaus Hergesheimer, just because both our surnames end with 'heimer'.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    The Marvelous Ed Bishop! Veteran of Capt Scarlet and UFO.

    Furst does a great job as the permanently frustrated Metz.

    Finally..... Machine that goes ping! The satellite radar gyroscope
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Connery and Klaus are every bit as good as Morecambe and Wise.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Moon Buggy Ride” Barry quarrelled with Hamilton over this cue and lost (Hamilton wanted comedy, Barry wanted tension). Barry’s version can be found on the 2003 remaster, after the main score, in “Additional And Alternate Cues”
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    I love the moon buggy sequences
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The moon buggy chase is just daft .... :#
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The way the astronaut attempts to apprehend the sprinting Bond in slow mo is hilarious.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Moon Buggy Ride” Barry quarrelled with Hamilton over this cue and lost (Hamilton wanted comedy, Barry wanted tension). Barry’s version can be found on the 2003 remaster, after the main score, in “Additional And Alternate Cues”

    It's a great piece -one of my favourites.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Moon Buggy Ride” Barry quarrelled with Hamilton over this cue and lost (Hamilton wanted comedy, Barry wanted tension). Barry’s version can be found on the 2003 remaster, after the main score, in “Additional And Alternate Cues”

    I didn't realise that Barry's moon buggy concept was part of the Additional and Alternate Cues track. I must check that out.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    No, great fun
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The buggy goes along in a leasurely speed while the cars somehow crash around it. Rubbish.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The way the astronaut attempts to apprehend the sprinting Bond in slow mo is hilarious.

    My explanation for this has always been that space suits are not designed for Earth gravity, and therefore they are heavy and cumbersome things in our gravity conditions, hence why these astronauts don't move with the speed and dexterity one normally expects of a human being.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The casual totalling of 'tin can' 70s cars amidst the dunes is a delight. Barry's score really captures the sense of light fun, here
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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    I remember reading somewhere that Guy Hamilton wanted a lighter touch to DAF after the seriousness of OHMSS
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    The Las Vegas Police Chief is a forerunner to JW Pepper.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Random moon buggy tire bouncing along...where did that come from?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The way the astronaut attempts to apprehend the sprinting Bond in slow mo is hilarious.

    My explanation for this has always been that space suits are not designed for Earth gravity, and therefore they are heavy and cumbersome things in our gravity conditions, hence why these astronauts don't move with the speed and dexterity one normally expects of a human being.

    Makes sense... but it just looks delightfully daft.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    I remember reading somewhere that Guy Hamilton wanted a lighter touch to DAF after the seriousness of OHMSS

    Yes, although sometimes too light (and in TMWTGG too)
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Police Captain would reappear in LALD
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Random moon buggy tire bouncing along...where did that come from?

    A mistake they kept in
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    The casual totalling of 'tin can' 70s cars amidst the dunes is a delight. Barry's score really captures the sense of light fun, here

    I am getting childhood flashbacks of The Dukes Of Hazard..
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Tiffany: James, watch out for that man with green trainers!
    (Thump.)
    James: What?
    Tiffany: Never mind...
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Would have been great to have had a fun car chase like this one in SPECTRE
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
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