Some Movies Pts. 5 of Many (The James Bond Version)

Reviewing 3 different bond movies, spanning different time periods with 3 different bond actors.

Live or Let Die aka Butter Hook.

A bond movie directed by Guy Hamilton in 1973, it starred Roger Moore as James Bond trying to uncover some sort of evil plot by a gang of black people. Looking deep into its film I saw the civil rights movement and the importance of banging chicks whenever you get the chance, even if they have a gun on you. Watching it made me appreciate even the crap that comes out of Hollywood, compared to this movie it is really high rated. Here is something to rant about, a script not even amateurs filmmakers would use. Whoever wrote the thing needs to be institutionalized, which would be Tom Mankiewicz. The only reason they probably hired him was because he had experience with the Bond, when he wrote the screenplay for Diamonds are Forever. An example:

Solitaire: [Kananga has just died from the gas pellet shoved in his mouth] Where's Kananga?
James Bond: He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.

Now, I can see how it could be out of date because it is quite old and only having a 7 million dollar budget to go one. But that script is just pure corny, but as I found out, a corny script comes with a standard Bond movie. If you want a comedy, watch this.

Die Another Day aka Read This!

A beautiful modern day action movie. The invincible hero that runs around with guns and martial arts and disarms the bad villains while banging the chicks, while spewing forth sexual innuendos to no end. This was better than Live or Let Die, but the budget was about 130 million more than the older movie, so I will give it that. And it was the first Bond movie ever to have a torture scene in the intro sequence where Bond is actually getting tortured, to show that he is not actually a God, just a really lucky and obnoxious person. Directed by a standard action director, the guy who directed the sequel to XXX, that Ice Cube starred in. The story wasn't actually a book first, just the characters were adapted from Ian Fleming, and then the writers made up their own story. The plot of this story told me that I shouldn't trust people from North Korea. Bond , Pierce Brosnan, has to save the world from evil Koreans who have undergone plastic surgery and are trying to fry South Korea with a giant mirror that directs sunlight into a huge death ray that incinerates stuff on earth. And he does it, with great effect. Oh, and here are some great lines in the movie.

Jinx: Wait, don't pull it out. I'm not finished with it yet.
James Bond: See? It's a perfect fit.
Jinx: Uh-hm. Leave it in.
James Bond: It's gotta come out sooner or later.
Jinx: No, leave it in, please. Few more minutes?
James Bond: We really have to get these back.
Jinx: Still the good guys, huh?
James Bond: I'm still not quite sure how good you are.
Jinx: I am so good.
James Bond: Especially when you're bad.

They're talking about diamonds. Get your mind out of the gutter. Another thing, Halle Berry can't act.

GoldFinger aka Sean Connery is Bond

My favorite out of the 3 Bond movies we watched, classic and it had the original Bond acting, thanks to good 'ole Sean Connery. And to Richard M something, the guy who wrote the screenplay, he has written over 10 Bond movie screenplays, something I admire and respect. Compared to the other movies, the things that made this movie stand out were the movies ability to clearly state the plot and for it to absolutely realistic. I'm sorry, but a giant mirror in outer space with the ability to incinerate miles at a time is a bit out of my range. And I was able to understand the plot, it was actually stimulating, I respected the villain in this movie because he had some brains, unlike the black tribal peoples of the other Bond movie. It still had those corny lines, but those are standard with any Bond movie, so I let it pass, and the action scenes could have used some work. The slow and fast action of the chase scenes made me sick, and the strings you could see when they showed outside shots of the plane, oops. And here are some lines from the movie.

[after knocking a lamp into a bathtub to electrocute a bad guy]
James Bond: Shocking! Positively shocking!

I wish I could make up those lines.