Tag: Forced Quip
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How’s that for Japanese efficiency?
Tiger Tanaka’s dispatch of Bond and Aki’s pursuers in You Only Live Twice is very satisfying. Instead of sending backup in the form of another car, he instead sends a helicopter to magnetically pick up the pursuers’ car and fantastically… Read More →
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She always did enjoy a good squeeze
Bond’s quip from GoldenEye is one of those classics that lands somewhere between perfectly timed and slightly cheeky for the moment. Coming after a brutal fight with Xenia Onatopp, it feels like Bond blows off adrenaline with this dark joke,… Read More →
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Play it again, Sam
This line from Moonraker stands as one of James Bond’s more strained forced quips. It arrives after a lengthy and brutal fight between Bond and a ninja at one of Drax’s labs, culminating in a surprisingly brutal death as the… Read More →
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Where’s Goldfinger? Playing his golden harp
This quip from Goldfinger has to be the most forced quip that ever quipped. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good line, but contextually I just don’t buy it. In the chaos of a plane crashing, it strains credibility that… Read More →
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The things we do for frequent-flier mileage
This line from GoldenEye stands out as one of the few Forced Quips in Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond, and it’s a particularly blatant example. Bond delivers the line at an odd moment, immediately after surviving a genuinely terrifying… Read More →
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It certainly gives you a new slant
This forced quip from The Man with the Golden Gun is Bond’s response to discovering MI6’s partially sunken ship headquarters in Hong Kong. Despite the hand-waving explanation that the slanted offices are “quite practical” due to real estate costs, there’s… Read More →
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Oh, I’m sure they’re perfectly rounded
In The World Is Not Enough, after Bond is asked by “Cigar Girl” Giulietta da Vinci if he would like to check her “figures” before retrieving money from the Swiss bank, Bond responds with this weak sexual innuendo and the… Read More →
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…an inflated opinion of himself
Bond’s final quip “inflated opinion of himself” in Live and Let Die after Kananga’s explosive demise isn’t one of my favorites. I realize it’s meant to be clever, but the odd phrasing feels forced and disconnected from how people actually… Read More →
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One of their aircraft is missing
This line from From Russia With Love might be the weakest quip of all the James Bond movies. It falls flat as uninspired, humorless, and completely unworthy of the thrilling helicopter takedown that precedes it. After such an impressive display… Read More →
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He had no head for heights
Another forced quip from Bond, this time in For Your Eyes Only after he kicks Emile Locque and his car off a cliff. Apparently “head for heights” describes someone who is not afraid of heights. But even so, using it… Read More →