What exactly is wrong with Dr Holly Goodhead?

broadshoulderbroadshoulder Acton, London, UKPosts: 1,363MI6 Agent
A much misunderstood companion.

I see in the opinion polls she never scores very highly with only Stacey,Christmas and Jinx doing worse. To be honest, Holly rates highly with me. Shes there to counterbalance Bond. She has that little bit of gravitas too countermand his jokes. She also is pretty proficient, handles herself in a fight and takes part in the laser battle.

She also has technical knowledge and is able to pilot the Moonraker to the space station. At the end when he is chasing the globes its her which puts the shuttle on the right trajectory

So she injects the tiniest bit of seriousness in a silly film.
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  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    A forgettable character in a truly awful film.

    Even more controversial - I actually like Stacy! I know she squeals a lot but I still prefer her to Dr G.
  • BIG TAMBIG TAM Wrexham, North Wales, UK.Posts: 773MI6 Agent
    I like Holly Goodhead & love Lois Chiles. I was most smitten with her after MOONRAKER & her previous film, DEATH ON THE NILE - I was a very impressionable lad aged 11! I always wanted to meet a woman who looked like her. Didn't quite work out that way, though.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I too always found Dr Goodhead very sexy. -{ and like Stag I think
    Stacy was also very sexy, but as in Fifty Shades of Grey, she'd have to
    Be gagged most of the time. :D
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  • AwesomeshizzAwesomeshizz Posts: 26MI6 Agent
    She was a terrible actress, and was like everything else in the film and worse version on anya from the spy who loved me.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Ah! Anya, another of my favourites. ;) maybe I have a thing for bad actresses ? :))
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  • SpoffSpoff Posts: 244MI6 Agent
    I re-watched Moonraker on Monday night, I found her to be very good to be honest.

    Far better than Anya in TSWLM.
  • broadshoulderbroadshoulder Acton, London, UKPosts: 1,363MI6 Agent
    edited February 2015
    BIG TAM wrote:
    I like Holly Goodhead & love Lois Chiles. I was most smitten with her after MOONRAKER & her previous film, DEATH ON THE NILE - I was a very impressionable lad aged 11! I always wanted to meet a woman who looked like her. Didn't quite work out that way, though.

    I liked her at exactly ten.I used to watch her play Holly Harwood in Dallas where she took on JR. She was good in Death on theNile. I hear she teaches drama at Houston university nowadays.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depopTa6ksM
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The old Dallas was a great show -{
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  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,118MI6 Agent
    I liked Holly Goodhead and though she was mighty fine :x Anya is also another of my favourites. Stacey I could take or leave*

    *who am I kidding..!? Especially in that Zorin boiler suit :D
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    I've always found her a so-so Bond Girl. But she has one of the best Lines in the Franchise -

    'Your Powers of Observation do you Credit, Mr Bond!'
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  • Absolutely_CartAbsolutely_Cart NJ/NYC, United StatesPosts: 1,740MI6 Agent
    Goodhead was less misogynistic than the other 'Bond Girls' of her era.

    Solitaire's entire talents were contingent on her being a virgin.
    Goodnight was just a ditzy blonde bikini girl.
    Stacy Sutton was 35+ years younger than Roger Moore.
  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,118MI6 Agent
    I've always found her a so-so Bond Girl. But she has one of the best Lines in the Franchise -

    'Your Powers of Observation do you Credit, Mr Bond!'

    Agree {[]
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  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    BIG TAM wrote:
    I like Holly Goodhead & love Lois Chiles. I was most smitten with her after MOONRAKER & her previous film, DEATH ON THE NILE - I was a very impressionable lad aged 11! I always wanted to meet a woman who looked like her. Didn't quite work out that way, though.

    I hope you didn't end up meeting a woman who looked liked Jaws!
  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    Personally I never cared for Maud Adams (she's on on Sunday in OP) & would prefer anyone - even Grace Jones - to her. Not that I would have had a snowballs chance in hell anyway.

    I don't think MR gave Dr G the chance to shine.
  • Absolutely_CartAbsolutely_Cart NJ/NYC, United StatesPosts: 1,740MI6 Agent
    At least Maud Adams/Octopussy was believable because she was close to Moore's age
  • Gala BrandGala Brand Posts: 1,172MI6 Agent
    Dr. Goodhead was supposed to be the feminist anti-Bond girl. The Vasser graduate Phd astronaut CIA agent. But she was still named Holly Goodhead. It was another example of the Bond franchise not knowing where to go in the 70s.

    The movie did make a bunch of dough, though.
  • broadshoulderbroadshoulder Acton, London, UKPosts: 1,363MI6 Agent
    Gala Brand wrote:
    Dr. Goodhead was supposed to be the feminist anti-Bond girl. The Vasser graduate Phd astronaut CIA agent. But she was still named Holly Goodhead. It was another example of the Bond franchise not knowing where to go in the 70s.

    The movie did make a bunch of dough, though.

    Actually, I didn't like her name one bit. I preferred Gala Brand :)) :)) :x
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    stag wrote:
    A forgettable character in a truly awful film.

    That sums it up for me, too. Chiles is an attractive woman, but her portrayal of Goodnight is boring and doesn't really stand out in any way. Although I believe the script doesn't give her much to work with, Childs could have put a bit more life into the character if she had tried harder or was a better actress.
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  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,118MI6 Agent
    Gala Brand wrote:
    Dr. Goodhead was supposed to be the feminist anti-Bond girl. The Vasser graduate Phd astronaut CIA agent. But she was still named Holly Goodhead. It was another example of the Bond franchise not knowing where to go in the 70s.

    The movie did make a bunch of dough, though.

    Actually, I didn't like her name one bit. I preferred Gala Brand :)) :)) :x

    What's wrong with the name Holly..? ?:) :)
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  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    She's just a boring character. And this is from someone who likes moonraker. She's not memorable.
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    I like Dr Holly Goodhead but then I love Moonraker, daft as it is.
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  • thegreatgallingthegreatgalling Posts: 180MI6 Agent
    She is a little wooden. :p
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    She competes against Bond rather than complements him and is played by an actress of limited range, little charm, and slightly-better-than-average looks. It's the reason you will never see these words together anywhere else: "Lois Chiles Film Festival."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Chiles is an attractive woman, but her portrayal of Goodnight is boring

    Got your night head on, BL? :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Thegreatgalling wrote :
    " She's a little wooden" :p

    She certainly gave me wood ! :p
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    :# ....
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    That's rather bad Taste, even by my Standards :))
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  • broadshoulderbroadshoulder Acton, London, UKPosts: 1,363MI6 Agent
    Gassy Man wrote:
    She competes against Bond rather than complements him and is played by an actress of limited range, little charm, and slightly-better-than-average looks. It's the reason you will never see these words together anywhere else: "Lois Chiles Film Festival."

    She's written competitive at the beginning (not in the Jinx league) but the seventies Bond girls were written like that. The screenwriters thought they were doing her a service. They thought it different to write her as a CIA operative rather like Anya who was 007's equal in the KGB. She even has the American equivalent of Q items like he has.

    The difference was humour. WhereMoore went overboard with his humour Holly pulls back from that and gives us the gravitas the film desperately needs.
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  • Absolutely_CartAbsolutely_Cart NJ/NYC, United StatesPosts: 1,740MI6 Agent
    Gala Brand wrote:
    Dr. Goodhead was supposed to be the feminist anti-Bond girl. The Vasser graduate Phd astronaut CIA agent. But she was still named Holly Goodhead. It was another example of the Bond franchise not knowing where to go in the 70s.

    Agree. They wanted to rethink one convention and keep the other. Better a good Goodhead than a bad Goodnight though.
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    I'd rather have Good Head then a Bad Night though ;)
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