Post by drystyx on Sept 4, 2021 5:08:54 GMT
It's the greatest of the 007 films in my ratings, and from what I've seen from across the spectrum in life and on line, it is acknowledged by a plurality of people as the best Bond film.
A good reason for that is because it stands alone as a classic story, one that works even if it wasn't a Bond film. The idea of a man seeking revenge against the man who killed her lover, only to find that the man doesn't warrant that revenge.
Bond is all man, in every detail and characteristic, defender of women, lustful of beauty, the ideal macho man, and XXX is the total woman. A total beauty, with deadly female charm. They're a more positive pair of Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne. In the animal kingdom, it is natural for the total woman to always maintain the advantage of the total man.
Add to that the greatest elements of classic Bond, this movie has it all: beautiful women, exotic and beautiful scenery, wit, humor, high adventure, every dangerous milieu imaginable of ocean, desert, snow, mountains, underwater, even space when one considers the height of the ski lift. These exotic sceneries are sorely missing in the dull modern Bond films. Octopussy was probably the last classic Bond film. After that, they became hum drum dull bits of Hollywood self indulgence, total formula movies.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 10/10
A good reason for that is because it stands alone as a classic story, one that works even if it wasn't a Bond film. The idea of a man seeking revenge against the man who killed her lover, only to find that the man doesn't warrant that revenge.
Bond is all man, in every detail and characteristic, defender of women, lustful of beauty, the ideal macho man, and XXX is the total woman. A total beauty, with deadly female charm. They're a more positive pair of Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne. In the animal kingdom, it is natural for the total woman to always maintain the advantage of the total man.
Add to that the greatest elements of classic Bond, this movie has it all: beautiful women, exotic and beautiful scenery, wit, humor, high adventure, every dangerous milieu imaginable of ocean, desert, snow, mountains, underwater, even space when one considers the height of the ski lift. These exotic sceneries are sorely missing in the dull modern Bond films. Octopussy was probably the last classic Bond film. After that, they became hum drum dull bits of Hollywood self indulgence, total formula movies.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 10/10