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Post by ck100 on Jun 10, 2018 3:56:19 GMT
Any fans of the James Bond movie "Octopussy"? How has it held up after 35 years?
Not the best of the Roger Moore Bond movies, but certain not the worst either. I think most people rank it in the middle when ranking Moore's films. I do like Kamal Khan as the villian (love the backgammon scene) as well as Steve Berkoff as the mad Russian general and Moore has the best chemistry with Maud Adams as Octopussy. While we get our share of silly moments in the film (Tarzan yell), we do get some fun action (the airplane stuff at the end).
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Post by ck100 on Jun 10, 2018 15:10:00 GMT
Since this thread got lost in the shuffle, I'll ask again. Any fans of "Octopussy"? How has it held up after 35 years?
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jun 10, 2018 15:13:04 GMT
The 1980s was a trying time for OO7. This is one I don't revisit unless it's a part of a marathon. |
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Post by ck100 on Jun 10, 2018 15:15:24 GMT
The 1980s was a trying time for OO7. This is one I don't revisit unless it's a part of a marathon. But there were good movies like For Your Eyes Only and Licence to Kill. |
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Post by Raimo47 on Jun 10, 2018 16:02:53 GMT
It's one of my favorite Bond movies.
Top 5
1. Licence to Kill
2. The Living Daylights
3. Octopussy
4. Live and Let Die
5. Moonraker
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 10, 2018 16:17:16 GMT
Octopussy (1983) holds a special place in my heart, it was my first ever 007 movie. Never Say Never Again was my second. I don't mind it at all, but it doesn't stand out for me like The Spy Who Loved Me or even Live and Let Die, as far as the Moore 007's go. It lacks that memorable scene, and the baddies are just awright. Octopussy herself should have been far more dangerous, with a name like that. 
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Post by ravi02 on Jun 10, 2018 16:28:50 GMT
I wouldn't call it one of the best Bond films, but also not one of the worst. I give it points for being the only 007 adventure set in India and the first half set there is quite fun. Overall, an entertaining enough diversion.
This should have been Moore's final film as 007.
7/10
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Post by johnspartan on Jun 10, 2018 16:30:20 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.
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Post by alpha128 on Jun 10, 2018 18:41:22 GMT
But there were good movies like For Your Eyes Only and Licence to Kill. I agree with this statement. "For Your Eyes Only" is my favorite Roger Moore Bond film, while "Licence to Kill" is my favorite Timothy Dalton Bond film. In general, I prefer the more "realistic" Bond films. As an aside, I first saw "Licence to Kill" in a British theater with a British audience. When I got back to the States I saw it again with an American audience. The scene where Bond jolts awake in Sanchez's home and finds himself staring at a large ceramic fish got a big laugh in the British theater, but no laugh at all in America. As for Octopussy, it's in the middle ground of Moore's films. I think his worst are "Live and Let Die", "The Man with the Golden Gun", "Moonraker", and "A View to a Kill". His best are "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "For Your Eyes Only". |
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Post by politicidal on Jun 10, 2018 18:42:47 GMT
It's tonally uneven but entertaining enough like most of Roger Moore's Bond entries.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 10, 2018 19:06:08 GMT
One of the earlier Bond titles that I remember seeing. For that reason alone I rank it fairly highly. I also remember the proposed Atari 2600 video game that was never released but showed up in all the video game magazines at the time. It was highly anticipated but then the video game crash happened.
I was always partial to the Moore films. I enjoy all of them, the humor is great. He could pull off suave, violent, serious, and humor in the same film better than any other Bond.
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Post by wmcclain on Jun 10, 2018 19:53:05 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 11, 2018 2:37:50 GMT
Im a huge Bond fan and I do love Octopussy. Not one of my favorites though. I rank it #18 out of the 24 films but its still a fun, entertaining film. 9/10
One big flaw: Bond dressing up as a clown.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jun 11, 2018 2:40:28 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. I think this is the first time I seen Octopussy as someones favorite Bond. Thats cool. |
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Post by azzajones on Jun 11, 2018 3:10:25 GMT
A decent enough Bond film with good enough action pieces and interesting characters, neither the best nor worst Bond film.
I dislike the "fill her up" and wish they had cut from the film, simply have Bond fly off in his plane.
A issue I've with the film is after 009 crashes into the embassy dressed as a clown, surely MI6 would've investigated where 009 could've got dressed up as a clown, i.e. circuses & carnivals, and they should've had a lead on the Octopussy circus sooner.
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Post by johnspartan on Jun 11, 2018 3:37:45 GMT
I love the flying saw blade weapon, too.  |
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Post by Nalkarj 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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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jun 11, 2018 13:17:48 GMT
One of my favorite Bonds, easily. Moore was maybe getting a bit too old by this point, but he was still able to pull it off. I thought the humor worked and wasn't too over-the-top as it had been in Moonraker and would be again in A View to a Kill. Louis Jordan, Kamal Khan, and Steven Berkoff made a great trio of villains, Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn were wowzers as the Bond girls, and it was nice to see Walter Gotell's General Gogol get a bit of expanded screen time in this one. Not to mention Q getting some field work in!
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Post by darksidebeadle on Jun 11, 2018 13:20:33 GMT
It was a good year for Bond with seeing this and never say never again I The cinema, a few months apart. I enjoyed them both but preferred Connery
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jun 11, 2018 14:57:36 GMT
A middling outing for Moore, which makes it an unremarkable movie all around.
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