The move to motion pictures meant driving something a bit more current than a 1931 Le Mans racer, and over the course of 25 films, there's been plenty of four-wheel action. At the start, long before James Bond went from page to screen, he drove a Blower Bentley, the equivalent in 1953 of tooling about today in a Toyota GT-One.
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I was purely talking about Guy Hamilton's three 70s Bond films.The sports car is as intrinsic to 007's character as a vodka martini or that license to kill. Those movies have some exceptional action sequences, indeed. Oh, I was never talking about TSWLM and Moonraker. Not the best Bond climax, but having a giant boat split off one half of it and ending up in a huge practical explosion is just something that I love. It's so impressive to me that I honestly can forgive the sometime poor pacing of the sequence. But just imagine the sheer amount of work they put into having actual people do this choreography underwater and make it make any kind of sense. The argument against the underwater scenes is one that likely every Bond fan has heard at some point, but I really think it doesn't apply too much to the underwater battle. I have to somewhat disagree on Thunderball, though.
I'll be curious to read what you think of NTTD once you've seen it :) YOLT does it brilliantly, but TSWLM perfected it imo. I'm a sucker for the „Bond and a group of allies fight an army of bad guys“ trope. I do still think the Goldfinger chase beats out some of the chase sequences in the three films I was talking about, though (DAF, LALD and TMWTGG). Bullitt was indeed the forefather of the extraordinary car chases to follow. Right, I agree on most of what you've said. But TSWLM's finale is fantastic (2nd only to YOLT), and even though it's silly Moonraker's space station battle is a fun spectacle too. It was an underwhelming finale, which is probably why they really upped their game for YOLT.Īnd getting back to the 70s, yes DAF (dull), LALD (laughable) and THMWTGG (tense but too simple) have relatively weak finales. And then just a quick struggle on a speedboat to finish the film. Unavoidably things move slowly underwater, and the battle feels slow and low tension. I thought the underwater scenes really dragged personally. The Craig films have really disappointed on this aspect (well, didn't see the last film yet so fingers crossed).Īs for Thunderball. I will grant you that the epic volcano battle in YOLT remains the greatest finale of the Bond franchise. Of course the modern car chase was not really invented until Bullitt, so anything before that is bound to suffer by comparison. The Goldfinger Aston Martin scene is a lot of fun, but not really a virtuoso driving exhibition.
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