"Bond 23"

You know I love me some over the top villians and the Moore years have a certain fondness in my heart as they were the first Bonds I got into. But I really would much rather see Derek Flint or Matt Helm or Austin Powers go against them than Bond. Doctor No and Goldfinger are about as over the top as I want my bond villians.
 
When debating which Moore film is the worst it's really debating shades of crap.

I haven't seen any of them in a while but I do recall not hating FYEO...
 
FYEO is probably Moore's best. There are elements of some of the other films that aren't bad (parts of Live and Let Die are ok, and his version of YOLT -- a.k.a. TSWLM -- is entertaining if totally recycled), but there's too much slapstick comedy and the guy exudes ZERO sexual charisma.
 
I love the girl in FYEO, even if her voice is dubbed. But they all are, or almost all.

I like The Living Daylights, but it has the same stupid quips left over from Moore.
 
Carole Bouquet's voice is dubbed in that?! I had no idea!


And The Living Daylights is probably one of my top 5 Bond films. That was the first one I saw in a theater. And yeah, it had quips, but I liked Dalton's edge. Plus, I'll confess, the Aston-Martin Vantage Volante from that film is SEXY.
 
Solo4114 said:
And The Living Daylights is probably one of my top 5 Bond films. That was the first one I saw in a theater. And yeah, it had quips, but I liked Dalton's edge. Plus, I'll confess, the Aston-Martin Vantage Volante from that film is SEXY.
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The Living Daylights is a good film IMHO. The only thing that really bugged me about it was near the end all Bond seems to say is "It's a bomb!" in some way or another. In college we used to make it part of a drinking game. :)
 
Oh yeah! I remember that scene. He does it two or three times. I know two of them the girl says "Where are you going?!" and he says "To defuse a bomb!" and then the second time "To drop a bomb!" And he says the lines exactly the same and the word "bomb" is done in this very...clipped way.

Actually, that'd make a good drinking game. :)
 
terryr said:
And many others, like Ursula Andress. Either they didn't speak english, or 'didn't sound sexy enough'.
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Hands down the best though was Gert Fröbe. Michael Collins' voice matches him so well and is very believable. I never knew until I was much older.
 
I knew they dubbed a lot of the early stuff, but I didn't know that Carole Bouquet's voice was dubbed. That surprised me.
 
Nikki van der Zyl

Nikki van der Zyl might not be a name you recognise, nor even one appearing in the credits of the films, but nevertheless she played a very important part!

From the very first Bond film, Dr No, Nikki was engaged to dub some of the Bond girls ... Ursula Andress (also dubbed in Casino Royale), Eunice Gayson, Shirley Eaton, Claudine Auger, Kissy Suzuki, Jane Seymour, Caroline Munro as well as many supporting actresses in the films.

Nikki worked on scores of other films too including Battle of Britain, The Ipcress File, A Tale of Two Cities, One Million Years BC, Prudence and the Pill, The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein Created Woman, Call Me Bwana.... and she also performed some stunt work in Carry On Cleo and Carry On Don't Lose Your Head!!

Her TV includes shows UFO, The Saint, The Persuaders and Interpol Calling.

During the production of Goldfinger, Nikki was voice coach to Gert Frobe and spent many hours on the set with him - and fortunately caught much of that time on her little stills camera.
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Why were they dubbed? - CBn Forums

Carole BOUQUET was dubbed in the english version of FYEO.
And I don't understand why, because :
1°)she'a a great actress (I'm french, and Carole BOUQUET succeeds very well in cinema in France)
2°)she speaks english fluently (with an accent, of course, but in the film, she was greek, so it'd not have been strange to hear her real voice with an accent!)
You can hear the real voice of CArole BOUQUET in the french version of FYEO, on the DVD of the film.
She dubbed herself... quite well, actually.
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Wait a second. ADR work is different (in my mind) from being "dubbed." When someone's voice is "dubbed", to me, that's like the Nikki van der Zyl bit -- it was someone else's voice in the actor's or actress' mouth. Re-recording your own dialogue because you weren't loud enough, because your accent was particularly strong that day, because the cat ate the original audio tracks or whatever isn't quite the same thing.

Also, I don't think Dr. Jane Medicine Quinn's voice was dubbed. I find that VERY hard to believe. And I always thought that Eunice Gayson was the one who actually dubbed Ursula Andress.
 
Her voice was in other peoples mouths. Call it what you will.

I find it funny Bouquet was dubbed, then dubbed herself for the french version. At least she could sound like herself.
 
Ah, ok, I misunderstood the bit about Bouquet. To hear her in english-language interviews, the only thing I can think of is that her accent was a bit too thick in the early 80s (I saw a late-80s interview and she speaks perfectly, just accented somewhat, so I guess it improved), or the boom mic just wasn't picking her up effectively or whatever. Who knows.

Anyway, she's STILL absolutely stunning.
 
I just hope when they finally decide to reintroduce Q in the Bond movies, they dispense with John Cleese and go with this guy instead:
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I can just imagine him telling Bond "I never joke about my work, 007!"
 
That's James "Captain Slow" May...and if campy Bond movies ever return (Which they shouldn't) I couldn't think of a better Q, myself.

Great choice, Kalkamel.

-Nick
 
Rumor has it that Ralph Fiennes will be the villain.......sounds wonderful

he is an amazing actor and played some great villains in the past.......lord voldemort, francis dolarhyde in red dragon, and amon goeth in schindler's list



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