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| The action-surrounded pair of firm, tanned female legs wearing a bikini bottom backwards, with Roger Moore's 007 centered, make up this effective poster for John Glen's For Your Eyes Only |
SPOILER Bond villain par excellence, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is killed by getting dumped into a chimney in the title sequence. The story thereafter circles around the sinking of a British ship.
- Maybe, it could be added with some confused doubt, because the link between the ship, the wacky action and kitschy love scenes are never more than precarious.
For Your Eyes Only is the 12th film in the Bond franchise, written by Richard Maibaum (Zarak (1956)) and Michael G. Wilson (The Living Daylights (1983)), based on two short stories from Ian Fleming's (Moonraker (1955)) For Your Eyes Only (1960) story collection, and directed by debuting John Glen (The Point Men (2001)), who had previously served as editor on 3 Bond pictures.
Roger Moore (Paper Orchid (1949)) does fine as the gold-lined spy, whom he portrays for his fifth time here, but the film nearly works as a Bond spoof in itself, - it is that silly. Charles Dance (Your Highness (2011)) is a minor villain, and the funny final scene has British prime minister Margaret Thatcher talking to a parrot.
For Your Eyes Only is funny and features lots of well-made action, (as well as down-played, dull sets, as regular Bond art director Ken Adams wasn't available and was replaced by Peter Lamont.) It is a lesser entry in the series.
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Watch the title sequence for the film here
Cost: 28 mil. $
Box office: 195.3 mil. $
= Huge hit (returned 6.97 times the cost)
[For Your Eyes Only premiered 24 June (London, UK) and runs 127 minutes. The creators attempted to get Bond back to basics and a more reality-based story after the wild fantasy of preceding film Moonraker (1979). Shooting took place in Greece, Italy, the UK, including London, and in the Bahamas from September 1980 - February 1981. A 23 year-old stunt man was killed during filming of the bobsleigh chase. The film opened #3 to a 6.8 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 54.8 mil. $ (28.1 % of the total gross). It set a new opening day record in the UK and became the second-highest grossing Bond picture overall, following Moonraker's 210.3 mil. $. Bill Conti and Mick Leeson's title song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar, lost to Arthur's Theme from Arthur. It was nominated for the equivalent Golden Globe. Glen returned with the next Bond film, Octopussy (1983), also Moore's next film. For Your Eyes Only is fresh at 72 % with a 6.5/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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