007 – The Spy Who Loved Me Review

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I now want an underwater car. That would make

Rush Hour so much better. Yeah, exactly. In case

you couldn't tell, we're going to be talking

about The Spy Who Loved Me, which is the 10th

film in the Bond franchise. Again, I had only

seen bits and pieces of this. I had never seen

it all the way through. On the rewatch absolutely

loved it thought it was great. I Don't know any

when did you first catch up with this one? I'm

right there with you I think I saw bits and pieces

of it I remember when golden I came out and jaws

was in that movie my friend had us watch the

bits and pieces of jaws in this but I never watched

the entire thing I don't think I watched the

The first time I watched it was earlier this

year. Yeah, so this is my first real experience

with The Spy Who Loved Me, and I'm right there

with you. I was very happy with that experience.

Yeah. Now, before we started recording the episode

today for this week's Shaganon Start Spotlight,

you had pointed out to me that Jaws is actually

in two Bond films. He started out in Moonraker,

and he's also back here in Spy Who Loved Me.

Because I have never, like... Think I've seen

maybe like half of one of the space scenes in

Moonraker. I have never actively watched Moonraker

whatsoever So I didn't even know that he was

in that. Yeah, it's the other way. He wasn't

Moonraker comes after this but yeah, he returns.

Oh Oops, that's okay. Yeah, it's hey, they all

run together. Believe me. There's so many of

them but yeah, he the director of this figure

he would be a huge hit with the fans so they

actually reshot the last scene and we see him

escaping from the lair that's exploding and they

brought him back for the next movie because he

thought right and he was a big hit and people

loved him so they brought him back for Moonraker.

Okay so this okay so he premiered here and then

he went on okay now the way that you were explaining

it to me off air I thought Moonraker was before

In the beginning of the film, Great Britain and

Russia both have nuclear subs that have gone

missing. In Soviet Russia, Colonel Gogol the

KGB decides to send his best agent Anya Amasova

to look into the Russian disappearance, while

MI6 Commander M elects to send Agent 007 James

Bond to search for the British sub. Bond is in

a cabin in the Austrian Alps when he is contacted

by M, and he quickly gears up and leaves for

London, and while he's on his way there, he's

attacked by some Russian agents, and he escapes

them by sailing off a cliff and parachuting the

safety. Meanwhile, when Agent Amasova reports

to Colonel Gogol, he informs her that her lover

was killed while on an assignment, and though

she is almost overcome with emotion, Anya assures

her commander she will put the mission first.

Bond then meets with Amp to discuss their sub's

disappearance and produces a transparent reproduction

of the sub's route, which suggests that others

may have stolen the information as well. Amp

then orders 007 to Cairo to follow up on a lead.

Meanwhile, Carl Stromberg, a man so wealthy that

he lives on a submersible island called Atlantis,

meets with two scientists who have developed

a new sub -tracking system for him. Stromberg

then sees the two men off on a helicopter and

then detonates the bomb hidden inside. After

dealing with those loose ends, Stromberg meets

with two assassins, Sandor and the mute giant

Jaws, and orders them to Cairo to obtain the

plans for the tracking device. When Bond arrives

in Cairo, a local informant directs him to the

businessman named Fakesh, who is also looking

to buy the sub -tracking system. When he goes

to Fakesh's home, 007 finds that he isn't there

and tries to seduce the info out of Fakesh's

lady friend. Sandor arrives and tries to shoot

Bond, but fails, and 007 gives chase, eventually

corning Sandor on a rooftop. Bond dangles the

assassin off the roof, threatening to drop him

if he doesn't talk, and after Sandor confesses

that Fekesh is at the Giza Pyramids, Bond lets

him fall to his death while uttering one of my

all -time favourite 007 lines. What a helpful

chap. When Bon arrives at the Pyramids, he finds

Agent Amasova meeting with Fakesh. However, Fakesh

runs when he sees the hulking jaws lurking about.

However, he is quickly cornered and killed by

the giant. With no viable leads, Bond and Anya

separately go to meet with Max Kelba, a local

nightclub owner who has the blueprints for the

tracking device. In the midst of the negotiations,

Kelba steps away to take a phone call and is

assassinated by a disguised Jaws. The silent

killer takes the microfilm and drives off to

some ruins in the desert with the two secret

agents stowed away in the back of his ride. After

arriving, Bond and Anya chase Jaws through the

ruins, eventually taking back the microfilm and

escaping back to civilization in the killer's

ride. They board a boat and head down the Nile,

and as they travel through the night, Bond examines

the microfilm before Anya knocks him out and

takes the film. When he awakes the next day,

Bond goes to meet with them at another set of

ruins, finding Colonel Gogle and Anya waiting

there as well. The microfilm is examined and

found to be missing key components, but Bond

notices a partially hidden logo that identifies

Stromberg's involvement. Bond and Anya are ordered

to investigate Stromberg and head for the island

of Sardinia where he is said to live. Traveling

by train, the two are assailed by Jaws once again,

but after a brief but intense struggle, Bond

tosses the giant killer out of the train. Arriving

in Sardinia, the two agents are taken to meet

Stromberg on Atlantis by the villain's secretary.

Posing as a marine biologist, Bond meets with

Stromberg, who tells Bond of his love of the

sea, and shows him a scale model of an underwater

city that he is building. When Bond reunites

with Anya, he takes note of a model of Stromberg's

newest supertanker, and back in Stromberg's office,

he meets with Jaws, who confirms the two are

really secret agents. Stromberg then orders for

both of them to be killed. After getting back

to Shorn taking off and his Lotus as Sprit, 007

remarks that there was something weird about

the ship model just before he and Almasova are

attacked by Jaws and a host of goons. After running

those villains off the road, Stromberg's secretary

shows up in an attack helicopter and Bond drives

his car off the road into the ocean. However,

once underwater, Bond flips the switch, and the

car turns into a sub. After destroying the copter

with a heat -seeking missile, Bond and Anya travel

back to Atlantis to investigate, but don't really

find anything of value. They are assaulted by

a squadron of frogmen, but they escape after

Bond uses his car's defenses to deal with them.

Once they get back to the hotel, Bond contacts

M about the supertanker and is told that, despite

it being put out to sea almost a year ago, it's

never been deported anywhere in the world. And

while planning their next move, Bond lights one

of Anya's cigarettes, but Anya notices the lighter

is from where Bond was attacked earlier in the

film and realizes that Bond was the one to kill

her lover. Bond protests that it was in self

-defense, but Anya swears vengeance, but is going

to wait until the mission is over to deal with

him. The two then head on board an American sub

to keep tabs of Stromberg's supertanker, but

the sub is soon swallowed by the ship, which

is really a disguised subduck with the Russian

and British subs inside. Bond and Anya are separated

from the crew and are brought before Strongbird,

who decides to tell him his plan. STUPID! YOU'RE

SO STUPID! Which is to start a global nuclear

war with the subs' missiles and rule over the

remaining population in an underwater kingdom.

You know, that old chestnut. Strongbird then

takes Anya back to Atlantis and the captured

subs depart for their part of the plan. Bond

soon escapes and frees the rest of the captured

subcruise and takes control of the supertanker,

using the tanker's sub tracking system to switch

the targeting coordinates of the nuclear subs

so they annihilate each other. With the tanker

sinking as a result of the prisoner's escape,

Bond and the company board the American sub and

take off for Atlantis to finish the job. Bond

takes off ahead of the sub on a jet ski in order

to rescue Anya from Stromberg. After boarding

the floating city ship, Bon makes his way to

Stromberg's dining room where the villain tries

to shoot Bon with a hidden harpoon gun, but Bon

gets to drop on him with his own weapon and kills

him. Jaws then makes a reappearance, but Bond

makes short work of him and drops the mellow

-toothed mauler into a shark tank. Not that this

slows Jaws down, as he bites the shark to death

and then makes his getaway. As the American sub

begins its attack, Bond and Anya get to an escape

pod and make it back to the surface. As Bond

relaxes, Anya pulls a gun and seems like she's

going to take her revenge, but she just shoots

a cork off a bottle of bubbly instead. Their

own personal cold war begins to heat up as Anya

and Bond make love to each other, and not long

after the two agents are by the respective commanders

and Bond ends the film as only he can. Tom, what

do you think you're doing? Keeping the British

end up, sir. The Spy Who Loved Me opened on July

7th, 1977, taking in almost $185 million at the

box office during its run. Lewis Gilbert directed

the film and would return two years later to

direct 1979's Moonraker. Roger Moore headlined

the film, making his third appearance as Bond.

The cast also included Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova,

Kurt Juergens as Karl Stromberg, Richard Kiel

as the gigantic henchman Jaws, and Walter Gotel

as General Gogol. Once again, no retro reviews

to be found for this one, but I did find that

many fans and critics alike think very highly

of the film. Bond himself, Roger Moore, has said

it's his favourite film, and many consider it

to be the best performance he gave in the role

of 007. The film currently holds a fresh rating

of 78 % on RottenTomatoes .com. A critic for

RealReviews .com loved the film, saying that

with this film, Roger Moore's performance starts

to unearth a personality for Bond, and that despite

the cliched plot, the film deserves its popularity.

and Nick Rogers of Sweet101 .com thought the

film gave the franchise a well -deserved shot

in the arm. As for trivia about the film, did

you know that this was the first Bond picture

where the climactic fight is not between the

lead villain but the main henchman? Jaws was

so popular with producer Albert Broccoli that

they reshot the final fight so that he escapes

at the end to menace 007 in Moonraker. Also,

the title and the appearance of Jaws and Sandor

are the only elements carried over from the novel

the film was based on, making The Spy Who Loved

Me the first completely original Bond film. Now,

you may not know this, but The Spy Who Loved

Me made the Lotus Esprit so popular that at the

time customers had to be on a three -year waiting

list to get one. And Sir Steven Spielberg was

on the list of directors for this film, but he

had to bow out to do this little arthouse film

you may have heard of called Jaws. The Spy Who

Loved Me, much like Goldfinger, is one of my

favourite Bond films, and I hold it up as a definitive

example of the franchise. It's got megalomaniacal

villains, grandiose plots of world domination,

and a henchman that you can't help but be a fan

of. Seriously, Jaws is like my favourite henchman

of all. Sorry, Grace Jones. This has been Just

the Facts for The Spy Who Loved Me. I'm GT from

Saskatoon. Now, back to TFG1 Mike and M -Wire.

Thank you as always, JT from Saskatoon for the

Just the Facts, for the spy who loved me. Alright,

let's talk about the cast. I'm really liking

Roger Moore by this point, as Bond. I think he's

finally fit himself into the role. Whereas, Live

and Let Die, he was kind of learning and kind

of doing his comedy bits thing. and everything

else um whereas man with the golden gun you know

he was he was finally you know settling into

the shoes of the character and here it's just

yeah i completely agree i think this is when

he knows what he wants to be as bond um uh live

and let die and a man with a golden gun they

happen so close together together you see you

see him Increase his ability, but this is where

I think he nails it I think this is his best

performance as Bond where he has the humor right

in the right moments But yeah, I love this is

if you're going to start with a Roger Moore movie.

I think this is the one to start with You know

We have Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova agent triple

X and that's what I like about this film is you

have MI6 versus the KTB and This is almost like

a couple weeks ago when we were doing That film

that she'll never be named on this podcast ever

again with that lazy B When we're talking about

that, you know, I was talking about how I don't

think James should have been married Now if this

like if if the agent triple X character was you

know somehow that Okay, you know somehow that

per you know at that time in bonds life of this

was the person I could so believe them being

married even though Roger Moore is you know older

than dirt Just the way that the two of them interact

in this, I could so believe them, at least in

a dating relationship or something like that.

Yeah, they do have pretty good chemistry for

the most part. I think Barbara Batch's performance

is a little stilted, but I do buy them as a couple

and I enjoy their little rivalry that turns into

a love affair. Yeah. And then you have curd who

is actually billed as Kurt Juergens as Carl Stromberg

Who is the main villain megalomaniac planning

to trigger World War three and destroy the world

and recreate a new civilization underwater? So

essentially this is the 1970s version of Sequest

DSV I'll have to take your word on that. You've

never seen Sequest DSV. I have not It's on Netflix.

You got to go check it out at some point. It's

pretty awesome short -lived NBC show with Oh,

what's his name? God Bridges that bridges no

no no no no don't even go there God what's his

stupid name the guy that was? Frank Castle's

father in 2004's Punisher. Oh, OK. I know what

you're talking. I can't think of his name either,

but I know what you're talking about. Yeah. So

you've got Kurt Juergens as Carl Stromberg. What

do you think of Carl as the main villain here?

He's OK. I enjoy his character. His performance

is fine. more like everything about everything

that surrounds Stromberg, more than Stromberg

himself. Right. We'll get into that with the

highlights. But I think he's fine. He's a typical

evil character. He kind of reminds me a little

bit of Blofeld and his execution and how he kills

all of his assistants when they don't live up

to his expectations. Yeah. Yeah. Roy Schneider

is who I was talking about Captain Nathan Bridger

in Sequest DSV Roy Schneider, so Yeah Yeah, I

like Stromberg I like to I like his cold -heartedness

Essentially towards everyone around him outside

of jaws One thing did you notice he's supposed

to have webhands had you ever noticed that at

all? Didn't yeah, I didn't either and until I

went back and I went over some synopsis of the

movie I'm like he was supposed to have webhands.

I never picked up on that I don't know if it's

something they didn't include or if it was just

not really mentioned all that much But he's supposed

he was supposed to have webhands which would

make his overall plot I think make more sense,

but yeah, that's something they didn't really

make evident in the movie Yeah Yeah, I mean that's

not I didn't notice it at all I would have to

go back and rewatch it and really look at his

scenes to see if they did that with the actor

But I didn't notice it at all and you have Richard

Kiel as Jaws Stromberg's seemingly indestructible

juggernaut of a henchman affected with giganticism

and having a set of metal teeth He is essentially

Jaws is essentially Juggernaut and Colossus from

the X -Men combined into one. Yeah, I guess that's

a good way to look at it. I always consider him.

He's like Frankenstein and Dracula put in the

one. Yeah, both of those combination. Yeah, that

was. I'll get to that. That made no damn sense

to me. We'll get to that. Overall, I really like

Jaws. I thought it was a cool performance. I

didn't know. Because I hadn't seen this film

up until, obviously, before we recorded this

week. But I had not seen this film before. And

I knew of Jaws. I just didn't know which Bond

film he was in. I knew it was one of them. But

I just wasn't sure which one. And I really do

like him in this. I thought it was great. Yeah.

I think my first experience with Richard Kael

as an actor was with Happy Gilmore. But I love

him as Jaws as well. Who was he? Oh, um, the

huge dude in Happy Gilmore. Oh Really? Yeah,

the guy's like, oh my god Makes you appreciate

that character even more in that movie. I Didn't

even know that I now have to go get a picture

of jaws and a picture of that character and put

them Side -by -side and put them on Facebook.

Oh my god. I did not know that Wow did not know

that all right, so you got Carolyn Monroe as

Naomi Stromberg's personal pilot and would -be

assassin Monroe's casting was inspired by an

advertisement campaign she had made Well, that's

an interesting way to get a role. Yeah, especially

what happens to her character Yeah You've got

Walter Gotel as general I assume the head of

the KGB and Anya's boss. Gotel's debut in the

role he had previously appeared in from Russia

with Love and would reprise the role of Gogol

in the subsequent five films. Of course Bernard

Lee is back as a... When the hell outside of

GoldenEye does M change? I could be wrong but

I think it's coming up. Living Daylights maybe?

I forget. I think so. I know he does get recast

but I don't... I could be wrong. but I thought

it was either in one of the Roger Moore's last

movies or maybe when Dalton comes in. I think

it's when Dalton comes in because that's why

I asked you at like when we started this whole

thing was like is Bernard Lee M throughout the

majority up until GoldenEye because watching

all of these different films I don't remember

him not I don't remember Bernard Lee not being

M again listeners if if he is not M And the ones

that we're not covering, let us know, or I don't

know, do you know? I mean, is he aiming all of

them up until Dolphin? Honestly, I don't know

off the top of my head. I thought he got recast

at least with a license to kill. because I just

remember that character being someone different.

But and in this, and despite he loved me, he's

kind of he's not seen as much as he's kind of

appears a little bit, but he is kind of only

a small part of it. Most of it's from the other

guy, the minister of defense, Jeffrey Keene as

Frederick Ray. He is the one that's mostly seen

in this movie while M is only a small part of

it. So. Yeah. I... Yeah, I don't know. And Lois

Maxwell is back as Moneypenny. She's getting

up there, isn't she? Yeah, they tried to replace

her last movie, and they ended up keeping her

in, but she doesn't get replaced until... She

doesn't get replaced until Dalton comes in, so...

Yeah. And of course, as always, Desmond Welland's

back as Q. Was there ever, up to this point,

even with the ones we're not covering again,

you might not remember off the top of your head,

was there ever ones that Q was not in? I mean,

obviously, you know, he wasn't in Doctor No.

He jeez, I don't know off the top of my head

and there was a few movies. He's only in 17 17

of the 23. Yeah, I can't think honestly top of

my head Which once he was not in was he may he

was in live and let die was the end man with

a golden gun? Yes, he was he was credited with

it He was in He was in it he was in all of the

Connery's he was in on her majesty's secret service.

Yeah, he wasn't a doctor No, he didn't come in

into the one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I knew that he

didn't come in from Russia would love I honestly

don't know if the top man I know there's a couple

Roger Moore that he's not and I can't Think of

them off the top of my head to be honest. I know

he's in for your eyes only I think I know he's

in Because he's he actually takes a bigger role

in that movie, but yeah, I honestly there's a

few in there he's not in but i couldn't name

them off the top of my head i'm i'm looking at

his filmography now and it doesn't look like

it doesn't look like he's not in it looks like

he's in a mall obviously okay 17 to the 20 so

or well 17 to the 23 if the The World is Not

Enough was what, the 19th film? Yeah, because

the 20th one was... Was Die Another Day. So obviously

he's not in Die Another Day, he's not in Casino

Royale, he's not in Quantum, he's not in Skyfall,

so that's four right there. It's driving me nuts.

And Dr. No, so that's five. So there's one more

he's not in. that we can't think of. Yeah, that's

gonna drive me nuts. So yeah, but he's back in

this and of course he supplies Bond with a unique

vehicle such as gadgets, most notably the Lotus

Espirit that converts into a submarine in this

movie. Very, very awesome. You also have Jeffrey

Keane as Frederick Gray, the British Minister

of Defense. George Baker as Captain Benson. Wait,

no, that was George Bray in the other film. Captain

Benson, a British naval officer. You have Edward

de Souza as Sheikah Hosen, bonds contact in Egypt.

and Shane Remner as the U .S. Submarine Captain,

Commander Carter. Overall, the casting in this

is pretty damn good, for the most part. The villain

is good, obviously. You know, Roger Moore as

Bond again. You know, you got Jaws in here. There

really isn't any, like, part of the cast where

it's like, oh god, this person's on the screen

again. Yeah, I think overall it's very strong

and don't think there's a really a weak weak

character all that much weak actor I think they

all bring something and I think there's a huge

this cast is pretty large But I don't think there's

anyone that I kind of groaned at or thought was

kind of miscast at all Yeah, and of course We

have to talk about the theme song which had one

line in it that Has to do with the film I I did

not know that beforehand. I mean, I've heard

the song before But You know until I heard it

again watching this movie I did not know that

it tied it like because normally, you know You

get stuff like live and let die view to a kill

man with the golden gun Goldeneye tomorrow never

dies, etc, etc, etc and the songs tie in to the

title of the film nobody does it better that's

not a song title that ties into the film but

there's a line in the song of the spy who loved

me or whatever else so i see why they went with

that song and and it really does it's such a

powerful and emotional song and again i think

that goes back to why i think that triple x and

bond could be Whether it's married whether it's

a couple whether it's you know something long

-term as far as their relationship Yeah, and

I did find out the the movie that he was not

in Q. It was in it was live -and -let -die I

could have sworn he was but he wasn't so Did

we say he was in it last week? I don't remember.

I don't or a couple weeks ago. I don't believe

so. But he's I mean, they talk about Q gadgets,

but I don't think he's actually in it. I forget.

I always thought he was. But if you're, you know,

anyways, but we solved that mystery. So you're

welcome very much. But yeah, I love the song,

too. I think if you're going to rank the bond

songs, it's one of the best. Yeah, it's really

well respected. A lot of people love it. And

I completely agree. It doesn't completely portray

wonder percent towards the movie, but I didn't

really mind because I love the overall imagery

of the Title secrets and I feel it really went

together with the song. So it's one of my one

of my favorites I would say in the top five or

so Very interesting stuff about the soundtrack

to this movie is that it was composed by Marvin

Hamlisch or Hamlish I don't know it's uh who

filled in for veteran John Barry who was unavailable

to work in the United Kingdom because of tax

reasons wow he must have had the same tax agent

as Wesley Snipes The soundtrack, in comparison

to other Bond films of the time, is more disco

-oriented and included a new disco rendition

of the James Bond theme, entitled Bond 77. In

addition, Hamlisch incorporated into his score

several pieces of classical music. For instance,

while feeding a duplicitous secretary to a shark,

Stromberg plays Bach's Air on the G -string.

that was famous for accompanying disaster -prone

characters. He then plays opening string section

of the second movement of Mozart's piano concerto

number 21. At his hideout, Atlantis arises from

the sea. I think the music in this movie really

fits it. Even the song, you know, it really does...

you know, lend to the film, even though it's

only one line in the song that has to do with

the overall title of the movie. But no, the music

in this was pretty good. I didn't really have

any issues with it. Yeah, I never would have.

If you ever told me, I never would have known

it wasn't John Berry. Usually, sometimes when

they change who's doing the score, it becomes

really evident. But I think it fit really well.

It really enhanced everything. And it was never

overused. So yeah, overall, the song and the

score as a whole were great. Yeah. All right.

Some highlights for me my first one was just

overall just really loving just watching it again

much like last week with man with the golden

gun I just I loved watching this. I thought it

was great and Jaws is deadly obviously I thought

that the train sequence was well done The The

beginning I'm trying to think of it. It's before

the car chase. So Okay Oh, no, I know I know

where it is it's when they're on the train and

they're in the separate cars and She doesn't

realize until it's too late that jaws is in her

closet. Yeah. Yeah that that scene And then of

course, you know, you get another really good

car chase and of course the sub car I love that

thing. That is pretty sweet. And it looked real.

I don't know. I couldn't tell if it was a model

or if it was an actual subcard, but it was pretty

badass. It's pretty cool. It was. It really was.

You know, I really love that. What I love about

that. is as they're, you know, normally I'm not

someone who likes underwater scenes and I've

said this before, it doesn't matter what it is.

It doesn't matter if it's Bond, it doesn't matter

if it's Batman, whatever it is. I don't like

underwater scenes in live action. I don't mind

them so much in animation. But in live action,

they're just not my thing. But this one played

out very well. I thought it was very well done

and I love how as they're going along, she starts

using all the gadgets in the car. She starts

pressing buttons, and then by the time all the

bad guys are gone, he's like, how did you know

how to use that? I stole the plans to this model

two years ago. Yeah, that was pretty cool. I

did like that little piece they threw in there.

That was great. Yeah, that was awesome. What

highlights do you have for this one? One thing

I forgot to mention, we went over the man with

the golden gun, but we talked about with Live

and Let Die how that was... putting Bond into

black exploitation. And during the Moore era,

often what they do is they take what's popular

at the time and kind of fit it into the Bond

world. And the man with the golden gun, they

had a lot of martial arts elements because Enter

the Dragon just came out and that was becoming

really popular. And this, I think, The Spy Who

Loved Me kind of stands on its own. I don't feel

like there's much outside influence in it. I

think it's Bond being Bond. To me, this feels

like Roger Moore's Golden Eye. It's it has everything

you want in the Bond movie. It's a set standard

Great villain an awesome layer the Legion of

Doom like underwater layer was fantastic It was

it was unbelievable. It was larger than life,

but I loved it I think this starts on one of

the best high notes ever the opening stunt where

he goes off of the cliff in parachutes is pretty

fantastic the fact it's an actual practical stunt

is Amazing if you watch it closely You'll see

that it was very dangerous because a ski comes

down and almost hitches parachute And that could

have been a huge problem, but I love that moment

to me. It's the best stunt in all Bond movies

is that one moment So that's where the reference

in dead comes from. Oh my god Can't believe I

did not catch that. But again, I hadn't seen

this movie before. But yeah, no, I love that

scene. I think that scene is awesome. I only

have one issue with the skiing scene in the beginning

of the film. And that'll kind of transition us

into low lights here is how the hell are these

bad guys skiing and shooting at the same time?

They're talented, I guess. But OK, like when

I was in. I might have been too young for this,

but when I was six, my aunt and uncle had a condo

up in New Hampshire. Because I lived in Massachusetts,

we would always go up there during the wintertime

and they would ski and snowboard and everything

else. Well, my mom wanted to teach me how to

ski. And for those of you who don't know, I was

born with a mild case of cerebral palsy that

affects my right hand and right foot. the time

back in the 80s they're like I don't know if

it's like this today as well too for kids but

kids are like we don't give them poles you just

you know you just do it you know you have your

parents help you and no poles for you or whatever

else and it's like seriously so I did not learn

how to ski but it you know Every time I see people

skiing, it's, you know, pull this or pull, you

know, you have to have ski poles to balance yourself.

And it really makes no sense to me how these

bad guys can be skiing while holding guns and

not at least holding one ski pole to balance

themselves. I know it's a nitpick, but it really

irked the hell out of me, and it's going to happen

again next week, too. Honestly, I've never gone

skiing, so I really can't say out of experience,

but I figure there are so many other ridiculous

things that, personally, it's never something

that even came up when I was watching it. I just

kind of accepted it immediately. But then again,

I have to say I watched the I watched spy who

loved me and a view to a kill out of order I

watched that first so it might be my emotion

coming out of that film as well The only other

thing I wrote down as a low -light was His entire

plot was to have an underwater city really Yeah

Yeah, it is kind of Ridiculous. It's like he

had a mission and he was going all out for it.

He wanted he didn't just want you know to control

the world, he pretty much wanted to end it. It

was ridiculous. In the long run, you're like,

well, how is this really going to work? But it

was a little bit ridiculous, to say the least.

Yeah, it was. What did you not like about Spy

Who Loved Me? what i did like about it was how

this is the first time like the license to kill

actually comes back to bond where he kills someone

and there's actually a repercussion towards it

but i wish that repercussion was a little bit

more because of the relationship between him

and triple ax it it there will conflict wasn't

a result of him killing her husband. It was more

of a result of the KGB and MI6 conflict. And

I think she kind of just got over the death of

her husband way too quickly. And I think part

of that was we talked about the cast, and they're

pretty strong. And I don't think Barbara Batch

is bad. I think she's just, at times, she's limited.

And it becomes, it's evident in those moments.

I like her character overall, and I think she

looks great. But she's one of the lower lich,

I think. When she's compared to everyone else

in the film, she's not nearly as good. Does she

even find out that it was Bond? I don't even

I don't even remember seeing that, that she found

out. Yeah, she does. She does discover that.

But it and you see at the end where she the mission's

over and you think she might kill Bond. But the

end they end up, you know, consummating the relationship

a little bit more. And Bond does one does it

for England, I guess they could say. But but

yeah, she does find out. But I didn't really

have any lowlights. We mentioned the ridiculous

plot and everything. Every error that was there,

every misstep, I forgave because there was so

much fun and it didn't take itself too seriously.

So I didn't take things like being able to ski

and shoot or having a plot that in the end is

kind of ridiculous. It didn't hurt my enjoyment

of the movie. Roger Moore's best Bond movie,

honestly, and it's one that I'm thankful for

when I go back to the Bond era, because there

are a lot of movies I don't like, but this one

I enjoy going back to. Yeah. I mean, yeah, this

is most definitely one that I would go back to

as well. So I really, really enjoyed it. I thought

it was great. I thought, you know, the plot was

a little... And I can also kind of see where...

Dr. Evil got his idea for his underwater sub

to Yeah, I love going back and watching these

because all those parodies are making so much

more sense now. Yeah exactly And plus, you know

the spy who loved me the spy who shagged me.

I mean, it's you know a direct this is more direct

than some of the other ones well austin powers

in gold member i guess you know gold member gold

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kind of already done it but final thoughts on

spy who loved me. That's a movie I love I think

it's a highlight of Roger Morris career as bond.

It's his goldfinger It's one that holds up really

well all the action beats all the gadgets. It's

grandiose, it's huge, has a big scope to it,

and it has a great henchman angel. It's one of

the best henchmen ever. If you're a little hesitant

to watch a Roger Moore film, if you've never

seen one before, if you honestly have never watched

a Bond movie, I would say this is a good one

to start with. It has a lot of what you would

expect for a Bond movie, a lot of things you

hear about, and honestly, it's one of my top

five Bond movies of all time. Yeah, I can...

Can agree with that I I really really enjoyed

it I wasn't sure about this one going in because

I didn't like I said I had never seen it before

and I almost almost skipped it Completely just

what just watching in general just because of

time constraints or anything else But I did you

know eventually go back and watch it and I I

really like it I thought that the something we

didn't really talk about but the I think it's

in the beginning scene, is it? I'm trying to

remember where it is. I think it's that pre -title

sequence when he's skiing and he parachutes.

I don't know. It's somewhere in this movie where

the British flag pops up. Yeah, it's that opening

stunt. Yeah, it's that opening stunt. The British

flag pops up on an iceberg and it's that ice

boat. And I really liked that. I thought that

was great. I thought that was a really, again,

a unique way of having a bond vehicle without

really having a bond vehicle, because obviously

they don't use it so much. It's just in that

one scene. If no one has seen the Lotus in this,

the car... You gotta see it Because that whole

scene again And it makes so much sense though

Now that I think about it You got Jaws in this

movie With the metal teeth Oh and the other thing

really quick before I mention that One thing

I didn't like about Jaws was The whole Dracula

angle That was a little strange for me Like He's

going to kill them by biting them But not really

do it I didn't really get that But The thing

with the car At the end of the scene when it's

essentially damaged and he's like, oh are we

gonna have enough to get up exactly as it's surfacing

It's surfacing in front of a beach of people

and I was half expecting done done done done

Because the way that the people looking at it

like oh my what the is that and and then obviously

It you know the wheels are out and it drives

up and it drives off, but the whole time it was

surfacing, I was thinking, wow, that's a Bond

Jaws moment if I ever saw one. Yeah, and they

have a little thing where the shark tank in Jaws

goes into the shark tank and it takes a bite

out of an actual shark. I mean, that kind of

tells you all you need to know about this movie.

A guy named Jaws bites a shark. and it's yeah

and it works somehow but it works yeah all right

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