The most cringeworthy Bond moment
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Reading other posts there are lots of lists about silly/unbelievable/cringeworthy moments in the series.........but they never seem to include mine.......
Without a doubt there have been some shockers like, the beach boys in AVTAK and Tarzan in OP. The worst ever though never gets a mention. It happened while I was in the cinema watching one of the Brosnan pre-title sequences when he pushes the ejector seat in his MIG to propell the bad guy upwards.....who then crashes straight through the ubdercarriage of the MIG above him....and lands up sitting down in it!
The rest of the cinema were laughing, I was sat with my head in my hands wondering where did it all go wrong? (I came to the conclusion that it's Roger Moore's fault.
Without a doubt there have been some shockers like, the beach boys in AVTAK and Tarzan in OP. The worst ever though never gets a mention. It happened while I was in the cinema watching one of the Brosnan pre-title sequences when he pushes the ejector seat in his MIG to propell the bad guy upwards.....who then crashes straight through the ubdercarriage of the MIG above him....and lands up sitting down in it!
The rest of the cinema were laughing, I was sat with my head in my hands wondering where did it all go wrong? (I came to the conclusion that it's Roger Moore's fault.
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Ha HA HA
Which causes the MIG to blow up.
(Backseat drivers
I would go for the Tarzan yell in Octopussy as my most cringeworthy moment. Also, the St Marks Square gondola scene in MR.
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It's more than a moment but how about nearly all of Telly Savalas as Blofeld.
He can't beat Donal Pleasance though .... what horrible casting! I'd like to know who came up with the notion that Blofeld should be totally bald.... it was a cliche in 1967 and 1969 and looks even worse after the Mike Myers "Dr. Evil" really lampooned it to death.
Sorry, prehaps I digressed too much, but in addition to the posts above, I never much liked the UK flag as a parachute! It's disrespectful.
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But for me the most cringeworthy moment is in TMWTGG where the two junior high Chinese girls defeat an entire martial arts school, then inexplicably drive off and forget to pick up Bond. Guess I just have to accept that entire Bond film was aiming for a more "light-hearted" approach.
"Better make that two."
The first time I saw it, I was like WTF !
Donald Pleasence's casting as Blofeld in YOLT, was a last minute change. Orignally a Czech actor, Jan Werich was cast, but he was forced to drop out due to illness. Mr Plesence replaced him but one critic at the time noted his "boiled egg cracking" like appearance.
That was digressing! - For me the Tarzan and Barbera Woodhouse "sit!" moments in OCT for character comedy. - The Beach Boys in AVTAK, and the Whistle sound effect used over the car somersalt in TMWGG. - Ruining two otherwise excellent action sequences! X-(
But making Bond Japanese was pretty stupid.
Makes me laugh every time, though
There was a prolonged period, during this film series, where I cringed a lot. Or perhaps it was just one very long cringe
My top contenders: spiral jump slide whistle, the pigeon, lovestruck Jaws, scoring hockey goals with goons, Tarzan yell, Q in Union Flag balloon, Beach Boys, car split in two by collision in Paris, City Hall Fire ("Jaaaaameees! Don't leeeeaaaavvveee meeee!!!"), fire truck ladder bit, 'salt corrosion' via laser beam, Aston Martin on frozen lake (still in shed), wheelie-poppin' big rig, Q-Boat launching onto Thames through MI6 HQ's outer wall, CGI para-surfing.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
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"Better make that two."
I'm afraid to ask
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
"Better make that two."
Off the top of my head mine include:
FRWL: I think my mouth is too big speak
YOLT: Bond a chinese person
DAF: Most of this film
LALD: Sheriff Pepper, Death scene of Kananga
TMWTGG: Sheriff Pepper, Car jump music
TSWLM: Some of the special effects
MR : Gondola scene
OP: Balloon scene with Q
AVTAK: Beach boys
DAD: Invisible car
The worst for me though has to be Jaws falling in love in MR
TBH I think most of the Roger Moore films will contain at least one of these moments.
MR - Corinne's "I never learned to read" line. How bad a day did the writer have when he had to go with that to end the seduction scene?
To be honest, most Bond films have a cringe moment or two; in DAD it lasted for the second hour of the movie.
He definitely was Japanese...which makes it that much more believable. :v
The volcano moment in that movie was pretty bad too.
I think one of the most cringeworthy moments for me is when RM's Bond forces himself upon Octopussy.
From Thunderball:
"Tell him Paula's dead."
"Okay."
It looks bad in writing, but it's made worse by the delivery. Trust me, this is a gem.
In fairness to Christopher Wood, he didn't write that - it was an on-set improvisation which he was very unhappy about. (His line was, "What list?", which survives in the novelisation).
He did, however, write the double taking pigeon, which is the most cringeworthy moment in the series for me, because it's silly, it compounds the horror of the Bondola, and it's badly done.
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Mind you, he almost gets away with it -imagine how camp it would have been if Roger was wearing it! :v