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Post by louise on Jun 12, 2018 7:25:24 GMT
NOt one of my favourites, but I quite like it. remember going to see it at the cinema in Falmouth, where I was on holiday with my husband.
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Post by faustus5 on Jun 12, 2018 10:56:05 GMT
Not a very good film, but I have fond memories of it for the most unique of reasons. Before it came out, my friends and I were playtesting the pen and paper James Bond role playing game and the Octopussy adventure module in particular. So as the lead tester of my group and gamemaster, I had a copy of the script as well as the RPG adaptation of the movie--again, before it was even showing in theaters.
Then after we had played the role playing game version of the movie, we all went to see it. Some of my friends, in the character of the spies they had created in the game, had chosen to do some of the very things Bond did in the movie, which lead to squeals of delight as they watched it play out. I can't imagine what some of the audience members were thinking when one guy pointed at the screen and declared, "Hey, that's what I did, too!". Made it more fun than it would have been otherwise.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jun 12, 2018 14:47:02 GMT
I had (and gamemastered) the Octopussy module of the James Bond 007 Roleplaying Game back in the day...
In fact, it's still in my closet.
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Post by James Bond on Jun 12, 2018 16:40:35 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! The only good thing in the movie, imo. And this is my favourite shot of her,
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Post by faustus5 on Jun 12, 2018 17:50:17 GMT
I had (and gamemastered) the Octopussy module of the James Bond 007 Roleplaying Game back in the day... In fact, it's still in my closet. Did you play The Man with the Golden Gun?
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Jun 13, 2018 2:44:07 GMT
I have that one, I think. Never got around to playing it with anyone, though...
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jun 13, 2018 4:32:16 GMT
I didn't care for it. I actually liked Moore's Bond movies, but this was one of the weakest ones. Took the campiness to the next level. Didn't even fancy the soundtrack.
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