Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by user510 (R) on November 26, 2015 at 10:25:29

In Reply to: RE: Rate the Bond actors..... posted by user510 on November 07, 2015 at 13:38:21

Now that I have a DVR 1/2 full of 007 movies, I've been watching one or two per week.

Last night it was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". I enjoyed this movie more than I had remembered from previous viewings long ago. Acting on the part of Lazenby and Rigg was better than I remembered.

I think the Blowfeldt character in this movie was mis-cast. Telly Savalas with his strong New York accent, does have a commanding presence up on the screen....., just not the right presence for arch-villain Blowfeldt.

This movie is from the Fleming novel and likely deserves more respect than I gave it in my opening post.

As to Lazenby, I am tempted to rank him higher than Dalton simply because Lazenby did pull off the suave debonaire thing.

The appropriate thing is to compare Lazenby to Connery in terms of just 'being' Bond. Maybe George did not get by with the same matter-of-fact naturalness of bearing as did Connery. All dressed up in a tux, lazenby appeared somewhat overdressed for the occasions much of the time, but it was kinda working for him. I'd call it a draw when comparing Connery's and Lazenby's fight sequences. Either actor, not real atheletes or martial arts practitioners, seemed to manage to get through the action scenes. About average for stunt work of that period in movie making.

As to the Bond Girls, I'll need to place Dianna Rigg higher up the rung. She played the Contessa with grace.

-Steve