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Post by Salzmank on Jun 11, 2018 11:55:28 GMT
It's my favorite Bond movie, period. It still holds up. Great premise, great Bond girls, great villain, exotic locations, great stunts, and Roger Moore with the machine gun sliding down the banister is iconic. Also the most outrageous title of all Bond movies. It’s not my favorite—that goes to Connery and From Russia with Love—but I do think it’s one of the best Moores. I love the surreal mystery that opens it up (spy killed while dressed as circus clown, carrying fake Fabergé egg?), and I love that adventurous/Kipling-esque feel to it; it has the good humor and high adventure feel that befits co-writer George MacDonald Fraser. I think it’s actually superior to the Fraser-penned Three Musketeers trilogy (’73, ’74, ’89), which are all well-written but leadenly paced by director Richard Lester. Anyway, enough on Fraser, but I think that he’s a major reason why I like this entry so much. Great to see Louis Jourdan in this too. Has anyone here seen the Dracula miniseries he starred in? I think it’s probably the best adaptation of them all. |
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