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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 438894" data-attributes="member: 8">Octopussy (1983)[ATTACH=full]58832[/ATTACH]After a relatively professional mission in For Your Eyes Only, the Third Bond returns armed with his trademark raised-eyebrow humour and zero suspense.While Moonraker mostly stays on the right side of camp and OTT spectacle (supported by its sci-fi theme) Octopussy cranks it up a few notches and lands on the other side with a painful thud.The examples have already been described in many other reviews so I won&#039;t even bother to mention them here.Bond girl Octopussy (Maud Adams) is wasted in this story which makes the film&#039;s title all the more embarrassing. This would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce a female character as the main villain, and that shouldn&#039;t even stop her from bedding her nemesis.Instead we get two male villains and as a result the plot doesn&#039;t make much sense.Dissecting this plot I&#039;m actually very much on board with General Orlov&#039;s diabolical scheme to increase Russia&#039;s military power, and the fear of nuclear warfare was a huge issue in the 1980s.Sometimes I read online comments like &quot;the 1980s was so simple and peaceful&quot;. Oh, please, it was a mess.Btw, it was only at the end of the film that I realised that Orlov (in an hysterical performance by Steven Berkoff) was supposed to be Russian, not German.But what does prince Kamal Kahn have to gain by an occupied Europe, his market for the jewellery smuggling?Also, for Orlov to use the Indian smugglers to get the bomb where he wants it to be seems rather convoluted.Actually, for most part of the film I had no idea what the jewellery scam was all about.The assassination mission by Octopussy&#039;s sisterhood of acrobats is a throwback to Pussy Galore&#039;s Flying Circus in Goldfinger, but that&#039;s fine. Overall, a disappointment in this rewatching-reappreciating-reevaluating-reranking Bond Binge (netflix will remove them all next week, why does this always happen to me?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 438894, member: 8"] Octopussy (1983) [ATTACH type="full"]58832[/ATTACH] After a relatively professional mission in [I]For Your Eyes Only[/I], the Third Bond returns armed with his trademark raised-eyebrow humour and zero suspense. While [I]Moonraker[/I] mostly stays on the right side of camp and OTT spectacle (supported by its sci-fi theme) [I]Octopussy[/I] cranks it up a few notches and lands on the other side with a painful thud. The examples have already been described in many other reviews so I won't even bother to mention them here. Bond girl Octopussy (Maud Adams) is wasted in this story which makes the film's title all the more embarrassing. This would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce a female character as the main villain, and that shouldn't even stop her from bedding her nemesis. Instead we get two male villains and as a result the plot doesn't make much sense. Dissecting this plot I'm actually very much on board with General Orlov's diabolical scheme to increase Russia's military power, and the fear of nuclear warfare was a huge issue in the 1980s. Sometimes I read online comments like "the 1980s was so simple and peaceful". Oh, please, it was a mess. Btw, it was only at the end of the film that I realised that Orlov (in an hysterical performance by Steven Berkoff) was supposed to be Russian, not German. But what does prince Kamal Kahn have to gain by an occupied Europe, his market for the jewellery smuggling? Also, for Orlov to use the Indian smugglers to get the bomb where he wants it to be seems rather convoluted. Actually, for most part of the film I had no idea what the jewellery scam was all about. The assassination mission by Octopussy's sisterhood of acrobats is a throwback to Pussy Galore's Flying Circus in [I]Goldfinger[/I], but that's fine. Overall, a disappointment in this rewatching-reappreciating-reevaluating-reranking Bond Binge (netflix will remove them all next week, why does this always happen to me?) [/QUOTE]

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