Most small scale Bond film?

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• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff

  July 2020

  I think FRWL is the "smallest scale" film.
• PPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  Licence To Kill is often said to look like lower budgeted movie and I agree. When you compare it to The Living Daylights or the other 1980's movies, it really does look it was made with a much smaller budget. The way its filmed it a bit on the bland side, and some have said the usage of the locations in the USA and Mexico looks pretty uninspiring when compared to the other exotic locations James Bond has visited before and after. Still I enjoy the film, despite the lower budget showing on camera.
• Sir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  PPK 7.65mm wrote:

  Licence To Kill is often said to look like lower budgeted movie and I agree. When you compare it to The Living Daylights or the other 1980's movies, it really does look it was made with a much smaller budget. The way its filmed it a bit on the bland side, and some have said the usage of the locations in the USA and Mexico looks pretty uninspiring when compared to the other exotic locations James Bond has visited before and after. Still I enjoy the film, despite the lower budget showing on camera.

  LTK definitely gets my vote. Small-time villain, small-time locations.

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• CoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  Technically speaking it must be FRWL. But no Bond movie looks like a made-for-TV effort, some of the special effects are ropey, but in the grand scale of things most of the budget appears on screen and every movie looks good even if the movie is less than perfect.

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• SpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  I'd agree with FRWL, both in terms of the relatively limited locations and the scope of the plot, which focuses on a single codebreaking device (the Lektor) and a SPECTRE threat to a single person (Bond). Golden Gun eventually develops a larger-scale plot in its third act of Scaramanga selling the Solex to the highest bidder, which does effectively increase the stakes and scale of the film.

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• Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  LALD gets my vote, and I don't understand why some mention LTK instead. Most of LALD feels like a TV movie isn scope . no huge temples and truck chases there ...
• hehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,112MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  Skyfall is mostly a small scale film,in terms of locations. It is largely set in the UK.

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• Matt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,610MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  hehadlotsofguts wrote:

  Skyfall is mostly a small scale film,in terms of locations. It is largely set in the UK.

  
  Very true, but the PTS is bigger than anything in TMWTGG.

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• Charmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  TMWTGG feels smaller-scale that FRWL to me. The latter has a certain grandeur, particularly in the scenes in Istanbul and the Orient Express train journey across Europe, with sweeping scenery, expansive photography and great user of extras to give the backgrounds a large-scale feel to them.
  
  By contrast, TMWTGG seems almost to avoid much of the scenery, while the finale, with its largely unimpressive solar power plant guarded by a single guard, is IMO a pale shadow of the similar set-up in Dr No's lair twelve years earlier.

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• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  July 2020

  agreed {[] I always felt Golden Gun
  Was done on a small scale.

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