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Hmm.. I've always held For Your Eyes Only as the best Moore, and on occasion the best Bond piece so far (on those days I grow tired of From Russia with Love).
Maybe it's the emphasis on mundanity after the preceding half a dozen megalomania movies... The villain has a private army - of four goons. The most advanced agent technology employed is a crossbow. There are no fictional vehicles employed, and the real-world ones are employed in a real-world manner. Only one of those is a gee-whiz type (the beach crawlers). The British Empire is engaged in something befitting the scope of said Empire as of the early 1980s for a change. And the Soviets fly an actual Soviet chopper!
I rather hope Casino Royale will excel in all those points as well, when I finally get around to seeing it. (But no Soviet choppers, I take it?)
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I'm pretty sure there was one when the woman's body was found on the beach. Just some civvie model though.
Probably a bit easier to get your hands on Soviet choppers now than in the '80s anyway...
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IIRC, For Your Eyes Only was the one that followed Moonraker, which was arguably the most OBAH TEH TOPP of them all. You know, huge space station, seven space shuttles, gigantic laser battles, Jaws, hover gondolas...
FYEO had the "Wet Nellie" Lotus from "The Spy Who Loved Me", but all it really did in that film was explode as a cheap joke. Otherwise, the movie was refreshingly grounded in harder spy stuff, save for the trademork Moore-era silliness. Parrot Thatcher, anyone?
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I'm going to see Casino Royale when it opens here in Japan on Dec 2. I've seen every Bond movie on initial release from 1968 (my dad took me to a double feature of "Thunderball and You Only Live Twice) until the recent Brosnans and read a bunch of the novels when I was a kid. For years, I've been saying that Bond should be a sadistic, cold-blooded bastard. I didn't much like Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan, since they were too friendly or lightweight or simply not tough enough. They didn't seem like they had it in them to snap someone's neck and enjoy it. I sort of liked Timothy Dalton, but the movies themselves were crap. From what I've heard, David Craig is the most like early Bond, so I'm hoping for the best.
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