It's far and above one of the two best Brosnan films.
The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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I think Jonathan Pryce is a very good actor but I really dislike his performance on this film, even if I agree that the concept of the character as villain is a very good one.
Yeah Pryce is a little too hammy, even for Bond.
It's really too bad EON couldn't snag Hopkins.
And why would you ever hire Ricky Jay and then cut out his card throwing?
It's really too bad EON couldn't snag Hopkins.
And why would you ever hire Ricky Jay and then cut out his card throwing?
I don't get that being cut, either. It's the one chance Gupta has to be a badass and it was left on the cutting room floor.
I just could never digest the logic of it.
You hire the guy because he's known all over the world because he can do one very specific thing. You film a scene of him doing that one thing. And then you cut it. WTF?
You hire the guy because he's known all over the world because he can do one very specific thing. You film a scene of him doing that one thing. And then you cut it. WTF?
I know many Bond films have deleted scenes that rightfully belonged in the final edit of the movie but that is a standout for so many reasons, not the least of which is that Ricky Jay was hired BECAUSE he can do cool things with a deck of cards.
DAD is Brosnan’s second best for me. TND and TWINE are bottom two of the entire series.
So I just had a 1968 episode of Green Acres on in the background, about a runaway kid at the Douglas farm, and I had the feeling that I'd seen the kid someplace before. I never would have placed him in a million years, but browsing his IMDb credits, I discovered where I knew him from:
BLOW IT OUT YOUR PANTS!!!
Who's she, your mother!?!
Our forum is rather poorly stocked with Clarets.
Baja!?! I haven't got anything in Baja!
"The stiff... umm, the deceased back there. Your brother, Mr. Franks?"
"Yes it was."
"I got a brudder."
"Small world."
"Yes it was."
"I got a brudder."
"Small world."
I didn't know there was a pool down there.
Not at all. Made one for the grandkids for Christmas.
Well, if we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years.
Sorry, Old Boy
Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!
Wait, wrong movie...
Wait, wrong movie...
In a serious vein, can we all sit back and appreciate how Telly Savalas owned the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in this film? He may be the only film Blofeld without a European accent but it somehow works for him and Savalas has the gravitas and physical menace to be more than a match for James Bond, something he wasn't in YOLT and would never again be in any Bond cinematic timeline.
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