Ohmss has a reputation of being the “best eva!” in certain circles, EON for years would watch OHMSS before production begins to try to figure out how to recapture that magic, they use scenes from it to test actors. Similar to how scenes FRWL are used in testing.Count_Lippe wrote:They say Lazenby was very cocky and self-confident though, I don't think he was nervous. He also handled himself well in the fight scenes and the filmmakers were impressed by this. But he didn't have the same screen presence as Connery and Moore.
Lazenby was sort of a poor man's version of 007, and the movie OHMSS is overrated. Some fans say it's their favourite Bond movie, but I believe it could have been a much better film. In broad terms it's a well-made film but there is a lot of stuff in it that don't quite work.
If OHMSS had stared Sean Connery as it was originally intended it might of been one of the strongest bond movies ever. Connery was interested in making that movie and wanted a bigger partnership with cubby and saltzman. It was supposed to be a 1967 film but EON wasn’t ready to produce it making YOLT instead, probably trying to rush out a picture to combat CR , another movie Connery was interested in making but not without cubby and saltzman. But they weren’t interested in making Connery any better offer than he currently had and his performance shows his disinterest in YOLT.
Lazenby benefited from one of the rare times EON actually spent years prepping a film, with a story Connery was interested in marking, strangely a story lazenby himself doesn’t think was really any good even though many though years later his acting reputation was boosted by it.
Imho if Craig had quit 2007 he’d have the reputation of a acting god too good for bond, which he is in his own mind. And if he had left I think the production would not have become a vanity project for babs and Craig, so the movies might have become better without trying to retread old bond story points.
IMHO If some of those rabid fans in 2006 had known about bad Bourne rip off, mommy M and brofeld and remaking stories they would not be pleased to see Craig continue. They thought they were entering a new golden age of bond with thought out well produced films departing from the cubby mass market cannery churning out movies, instead what we got is movies without the preproduction foot work cubby had done rushing into production unprepared trying to steal edgy angles from other franchises except executing them poorly.
Craig era is going to be know for only one movie with the rest being unremarkable, basically wasting 13 years of possibly moving bond forward .
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