Is Diamonds are Forever underrated?
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RynoII — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 11:50 AM)
I think it may be the best funniest Bond movie in the series. It is lacking on action and budget, but the plot is better than usual. Even Connery said in an interview that he thought that DAF was the best script of them all, before he made the movie.
I think that he has good chemistry with Tiffany Case, and Wint and Kidd are two of the best villains of the series perhaps, but in the case of comedy more that is.
So is it perhaps one of the best, funniest Bond movies? -
j_w_pepper — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 12:02 PM)
It is one of the funniest in the dialogue division, definitely. Wint and Kidd are great (though mainly for the dialogue, once again). That doesn't compensate for all the other shortcomings. Not saying all of the remainder is bad, but comedy alone doesn't make a good Bond movie. So I guess it deserves being down there in the bottom five.
Ceterum censeo OCTOPUSSY esse delendam. -
RynoII — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 01:12 PM)
I don't understand why people are against Blofeld as a woman. The disguise makes sense, cause Blofeld wanted to leave the hotel undetected, and agents were less likely to look to the women to find him. So it made sense enough.
It's much better than Bond disguising himself as a Japanese man, and for some reasons fans accept that better. Why? -
TheSharkFromJaws — 9 years ago(November 11, 2016 01:28 PM)
It's just stupid. Bond "becoming" (I put quotes around that because he doesn't really become one at all, they just give him fake eyebrows and flatten his hair) Japanese is stupid too.
People accept neither but neither have much of an impact with the rest of their respective movies. I've never seen anyone say/post "DAF is superb in all aspects, but Blofeld dressing as a woman makes it a bad movie". Likewise with YOLT.