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Post by MooseNugget on Nov 9, 2017 1:46:42 GMT
How many of you seen this? I was extremely disappointed by it. David Niven is one of my favorite actors ever and here's the chance to see the man who was supposed to be James Bond. Peter Seller and Woody Allen are in this. And there's several other actors I liked. Oh yeah and Olsen Wells is a villein.
The story is such a mess. It's hard to tell what's going on. In a vacuum these scenes are funny. But this doesn't work as a movie.
I understand what happened. They lost Sellers but to tried to keep him in the movie to use his name value. I think there must have been 5 directors as well. So trying to make a coherent story must have been impossible.
I like the into them and the song played during the credits. The music is good. The sets look great. Sometimes the comedy worked. There's too much they're trying to do in the final fight like introducing characters just to get cameos or reintroducing characters that we don't care about.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 15, 2017 18:26:55 GMT
No but I've heard stories. Mainly how it's a mess and tonally all over the place. I think Ebert called it the most self indulgent movie ever made.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 17, 2017 23:12:12 GMT
I've seen it. It's fun. Nothing great about it. Sometimes it goes over the top to the detriment of the humor.
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 18, 2017 10:43:12 GMT
Basically it's not a Bond movie so i never bothered with it.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 18, 2017 22:10:24 GMT
A combination of what taylorfirst1 and politicidal said for me: It's not great by any stretch of the imagination (to the contrary), but it's fun exactly because it's so bloated and self-indulgent. Certainly not bad. It was the late, great film critic Ken Hanke's favorite "Bond film," by the way (he was not a fan of the franchise).
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