tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post4227217266625156851..comments2024-03-21T07:40:06.414+00:00Comments on Exploding Helicopter: Tomorrow Never DiesExploding Helicopterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16045345937871417288noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-46287378306011609042016-10-28T06:22:32.185+01:002016-10-28T06:22:32.185+01:00I would have thought that you would really liked a...I would have thought that you would really liked a helicopter exploding over downtown Saigon.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10279381744016262697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-41769093226068533062011-10-09T21:47:53.927+01:002011-10-09T21:47:53.927+01:00Yes, we're trying to get round to The Spy Who ...Yes, we're trying to get round to The Spy Who Loved Me. And also You Only Live Twice where I think there are at least 4 exploding helicopters.Exploding Helicopterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16045345937871417288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-16671688389140724052011-10-08T23:19:18.233+01:002011-10-08T23:19:18.233+01:00Invisible car - Die Another Day. Yes. Utter, utter...Invisible car - Die Another Day. Yes. Utter, utter crap. The last truly great Bond for me was probably License to Kill. GoldenEye is also good, but I can't help but think how much better it could have been had Dalton stayed on as 007. I'm thinking mostly of the betrayal of a best friend aspect; he would have been superb in the beach scene before the climax. Broz is a bit smaltzy by comparison.<br /><br />You know there's a brief helicopter explosion in The Spy Who Loved Me, right? It helps that the scorching hot Caroline Munro is the pilot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-65806226830034825142011-10-08T18:23:35.225+01:002011-10-08T18:23:35.225+01:00Like the Connery and Moore era's, the Brosnan ...Like the Connery and Moore era's, the Brosnan era also ran out of steam at the same time as going relentlessly down a blind alley. Can't remember the film but the one with the invisible car and surfing on a car bonnet was just totally ridiculous and killed this reboot. <br /><br />Good points about the John Gardiner Bond novels. I've read a few of them and the script writers and producers could have done far worse than use those for source material. They were good books and could have worked as films.Exploding Helicopterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16045345937871417288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-55798526209621018782011-10-08T17:24:04.828+01:002011-10-08T17:24:04.828+01:00I started reviewing the Bond films on my site and ...I started reviewing the Bond films on my site and got sidetracked. I really need to get around to finishing that project.<br /><br />As far as TND goes, I hated it at first. I wasn't fond of Michelle Yeoh's character. It's always bothered me when they try to shoehorn a female equivalent to Bond into these movies, because they're even less believable than eyebrow arching Roger Moore as badass killer. At least Yeoh, an established martial arts movie star, has some credibility on her as a lady 007 (unlike the epic hole of suckitude that is Halle Berry). I also originally thought the Stamper character was quite underwhelming as the modern day version of an Oddjob. Then for some reason I mellowed and did a complete 180 on the film. Maybe as DTV Connoisseur points out, the subsequent Brosnan films were even worse by comparison (not Pierce's fault, more the fault of those knucklehead writers they brought in, Purvis and Wade) and I unconsciously realized TND wasn't *that* bad?<br /><br />Since I'm a sad Bond connoisseur, I can share two useless tidbits you didn't ask for. 1. The screenwriter Bruce Feirstein did indeed intend Elliot Carver to be a send-up of real life media moguls. He used both Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch as the inspiration for the character. 2. And probably more interesting to you, the rooftop motorcycle chase and subsequent helicopter 'splosion has its origins in John Gardner's James Bond novel SeaFire. Instead of the Vietnamese village, Bond is chased over the ramps and rooftops of some Roman ruins, but the sequence is in essence the same (sans the dummy of Wai Lin handcuffed to the obvious Bond stunt double). Though the filmmakers swore up and down they would never adapt a non-Fleming 007 novel to the screen, they sure did liberally lift elements from the continuation authors' books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3282768023983893032.post-66713609852930940392011-10-08T16:25:18.175+01:002011-10-08T16:25:18.175+01:00It seems like all the Brosnan films after Golden E...It seems like all the Brosnan films after Golden Eye were living off the momentum of that success, and slowly losing steam. I agree about the missed opportunity of the early exploding helicopter. It's a Bond movie, they should just go for it-- it's not like they won't just eventually anyway.Direct to Video Connoisseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02310858965138247572noreply@blogger.com