I picture Paul slouching down in his seat.
Hence my surprise that you're good with its origin point here.
Who knew what was to come, and "Jive Talkin'" was a fun song. The problem isn't with Disco as a genre, it's that it just overwhelmed the radio and so much of it was so bad.
Ah...that was probably around '78 off the top of my head. By mid-'79, they were already warming up for the Dark Phoenix saga. That was when I picked up my first random issues of the book, though I didn't get into it until the immediate aftermath of Jean's death. I picked up the funeral issue and subsequently found a copy of the death issue still on a stand.
Okay, looking over the Fandom Wiki, it looks like the book began it's decline with #110, with the following Magneto storyline being kind of mediocre. That was followed by the Savage Land and Moses Magnum stories, which were just awful. Starting with #120, the quality began drifting upward, though it fluctuated a lot, the Arcade storyline being particularly bad, but the Proteus storyline was pretty good, as was the Hellfire Club. Then we got into the Dark Phoenix Saga, which was definitely a big improvement, despite the weird editorial stuff that resulted in last-minute changes. Then, starting with Kitty Pryde joining the team, they were off on another Golden Age for a while.
They scoff at judges and lawyers.
They haven't met Shannon.
Christopher Lee lying with his hands on his torso? I would've thought that was a gimme.
See? Kicking myself. Ouch. I guess I didn't recognize him from that angle.
I will note that I described it as the most mediocre, not the worst; and by "to date," I meant in 50th Anniversaryland. The worst to date in 50A would have to be DAF.
Nah, I'm not arguing. Some things you like just because you were at a certain age.
I read that he neglected to lobby for it in a timely manner.
Ah.
Hot damn--Poitier as any Bond villain would've been pure awesome!
Seriously. There's another guy who's a Pulp character come to life.
There are much better ones than this. "Nobody Does It Better" and "Live and Let Die" are the top of my list.
"Live and Let Die" is definitely at the top of my list, but I don't care for "Nobody Does It Better."
It's a bit extreme...Bond's been persuasive in other situations without threatening to snipe a guy in the groin at close range.
Well, the thing is, would he have really done it? He knew the guy would crack easily.
That was setup for the fake third nipple.
Oh, okay, that makes sense. I guess I just assumed that Bond did that himself.
I neglected to quote the final punchline, when Bond's returning to Hip after having seen Fat. While removing the nipple and tossing it in the bushes: "I think he found me quite titillating."
They had a knack for that in those days. Plenty O'Toole comes to mind.
Yeah, they probably don't do that anymore. Politically incorrect, I'm sure.
I held back on going off on a rant about it, but I imagine that his early Bond films being written by these guys informed Moore's inability to take the character seriously. I've seen Moore in dramatic roles, he could've been a great straight-faced Bond. I'm probably repeating myself from the DAF review a few years back.
I enjoyed the somewhat lighthearted, High Adventure spirit of that era-- and they didn't let us forget that Bond was deadly serious beneath his charm, as with those two scenes noted above.
Resisting the urge to post a screencap, while wondering if it would be a rules violation...
I think it should be a violation of the laws of physics.
There's even a shallow drinking in that clip!
Yes, I saw. Somewhat awkwardly set up, but that's okay.
Except Bond was in the martial arts togs that the school put him in, so he probably didn't have anything on him.
That's what I was thinking. But, of course, the writers are in control, so it could have been done.
Well, I got that much.
But he doesn't seem the type to leave the country, let alone journey to Thailand-- to say nothing of the preposterousness of him being there at the same time and place as Bond.
I'm not quite that far along yet.
Enjoy your youth while it lasts.
Clearly Marvin Hamlisch took note when scoring the most impressive Bond stunt ever:
That's how you do it! There must've been standing ovations in the theater.
That is definitely very impressive.
Don't get me going--nowadays kids wouldn't even appreciate that somebody really did that. Defying gravity comes too cheaply with CGI. I read that the show Top Gear tried to replicate the stunt, and failed...though the stunt company involved in devising the stunt toured with it in the '70s.
True. I love what CGI and AI is able to accomplish, but they are, like most things, a double-edged sword.
I thought you'd appreciate the freebie! That was the first thing that came up on a general search of the tail number.
Looks like the airplane database is back among the living, though.
It's a very impressive-looking locale.
I love it, and I wouldn't mind seeing it in person myself.
The film even gave us a good implied rationalization for why the dummy had a loaded gun...in the teaser they showed Nick Nack taunting Scaramanga about finding a weapon. In fact, it just occurred to me that maybe it was meant to be another firing dummy, though we didn't see it being used in that fashion.
They must have hired Chekhov as a consultant.
I read, I think from an account by Moore, that afterward some of her body hair was singed.
Still better than the Sumo.
I've long thought the same thing, having watched FI well before seeing TMWTGG.
Google searches deny everything, but I'm having a hard time buying it.
