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  Slammerworm

  1 year ago

  Roger Moore was good in this one. He still can't carry off a fight scene for toffee, but he seems a lot more likeable, and genuinely appears 'involved' in the general plot. The main title theme was a good one, too. Not at all to one's own personal taste in music, but in context as a Bond theme, one of the best. Unfortunately, like Bond in the bad blue-screen shots which assault the pre-credit sequence's believability, we're off downhill from there. Jaws wasn't scary enough. What was wrong with doing a wee in-joke like introducing him bit-by-bit, a la the shark in the Spielberg movie? Way scarier than seeing him all at once. Barbara Bach sure was one hot tamale to look at, but acting was all too evidently beyond her capability. Then again, maybe she simply thought that essaying 'Russian' was equal to 'talking zombie with a well dodgy accent'. Evidently the director did. Same old 'mad scientist/would-be dictator with a superweapon and a secret base' plot from back in the day, too. We got a little of that dear 'ol Bond Film Racism as well, with the painful 'Lawrence Of Arabia' references and white people painted brown dancing in a bizzare 'Dervish' manner at an Egyptian nightspot which apparently hosts only Caucasian guests. Listen out for the toe-curlingly approximated 'Moslem singing' just before you get there, too. Oh, and towards the end, note the evil submarine crew in the campy red uniforms. They just can't get enough of that pink blusher and lipstick. Oh well, it's Stromberg's operation and if he wants his sub crew to look like the Pet Shop Boys, then nobody's going to argue. One reads the books, goes scanning the blogsites and emerges with the widely-held opinion that this was the best Moore Bond movie. Heven't seen them all, but yes, that is true so far. Moore was good, but little else about it was.
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  Tampa Real Estate Agents

  2 months ago

  This is one great movie and I love watching it again and again.
  
  Thanks for bringing it up.
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