Top Five Worst Bond Ingredients
After the best Bond songs and Bond girls comes something a bit more negative. The Bond movies are rarely masterpieces and there have been instances where one has wondered what on Earth they were thinking of.
- 1. The Moonraker script – When Christopher Wood had finished writing The Spy Who Loved Me he was hired for the next Bond in line, Moonraker. The writer pulled a fast one and virtually copied everything from the last film and only changed locations and names. Guess he took lunch early.
- 2. The visual effects in Die Another Day – The year was 2002 and one had a right to expect more effects-wise from a Bond movie than what you got in Die Another Day. An invisible car? Bond riding a wave? The CGI was not up to the challenge… but the ideas were crappy from the start.
- 3. The combination of Bond and Stacey Sutton – In 1985, when Roger Moore made A View to a Kill, he was 58 and looked increasingly tired. Especially in every sequence with the love interest, Stacey Sutton. Tanya Roberts was decades younger and the combo of a sleepy 007 and a total bimbo was not a pleasant experience.
- 4. Timothy Dalton’s lack of charm – Dalton is a fine actor and his two stints as Bond are good movies, but 007 needs to be deadly charming and Dalton never got it right. When the script demanded of him to admire a woman, he always looked like he was only doing it because he was told to.
- 5. Kananga – Live and Let Die featured the dullest supervillain ever, Kananga. Not even voodoo did much to save Yaphet Kotto’s performance. His demise was also utterly ridiculous.
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Published by Stefan Hedmark 2008-05-04 11:52
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