For Your Eyes Only

I really like this one. It has it's flaws but so do a lot of films. I'm not really a fan of the precredit sequence. It starts out well enough. It's nice to see the filmmakers keep up with the continuity of the series by having Bond laying flowers on Tracy's grave. However it soon goes all sorts of wrong. "I'll buy you a delicatessen. In stainless steel." Seriously!?!

I understand that it was a way to get the silliness over with and get on with a more serious story. In a way this was Roger Moore's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. That film had elements of humor but for the most part it was realistic. Well, as realistic as it gets in a Bond film.

Two words: Sheena Easton.

One problem is that Bill Conti's score kind of dates the film much in the same way that bad fashion dates the 70s films.

The same thing always happens to me when I play Minesweeper. Not really. I got pretty good at it but that was a very long time ago.

Carol Bouquet, in my opinion, is one of the most beautiful women to appear in a Bond movie. Not only her hair but those eyes. Wow. However, she isn't the world's best actress. I have to be fair here. Andy Warhol liked her. Is that a good or bad thing?

Remember when louvers on a car were cool? Neither do I.

The Citroen 2CV has to be one of the goofiest cars ever and that is saying quite a lot because all Citroens are goofy.

Rockford!

Yes Q, we are looking for Warren Zevon.

I want to drive the Zamboni!

Sleigh Ride!

Don't you love it when you come back to your hotel room and there is a crazy woman in the shower?

The Biathlon is not quite what I thought it was. Did they just pull two random sports out of a hat?

The music in the ski chase sounds like the soundtrack to The Saturday Sports Show.

That wino really gets around.

I went to Bond movie and a hockey game broke out.

Melina really knows her melons.

I can't decide if I like it or not when they incorporate the theme song into the score. Discuss.

Seriously!? Bond can't tell the difference between Liverpool and Manchester accents?

Speed Buggy, no!!!

Wait just a cotton picking minute. Let me get this straight: The good guys are the bad guys and the other way around?

Locque has bad karma.

At the time there was a bit of a controversy about Bond killing Locque in cold blood. Sean Connery could probably get away with it. Roger Moore was a totally different Bond, for better or worse.

I really didn't mind the scene. It was in keeping with the tone of the film. Had it been Moonraker or The Spy Who Loved Me then it would have been out of place.

The ocean is a big place but sometimes it can feel very claustrophobic.

Just how many guys in this movie look like Demetri Martin?

Who ever heard of a temperamental Olympic athlete?

Rock climbing, Joel.

It's always pigeons.

If Maggie Thatcher has All Bran for breakfast then why does she always seem so constipated?

Yet another controversy with this film had to do with the poster. Personally I liked it. It was the first Bond poster that didn't try to cram all of the elements of the movie onto it. It was very simple, effective, and evocative. And memorable.

There was also a bit of confusion as to who exactly the model was that posed for the picture. Three women claimed to be the one. As it turns out it was Joyce Bartle. I had never heard of her either until I read it in People. Go figure.

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