Octopussy

What I disliked was not having more days to relax and watch James Bond movies

well packaged

We decided to watch all the Bond movies in order of release. Unfortunately, not all of them stream free with Prime, particularly the Moore movies. Still, the rental fee was not excessive ($3.99) and well worth the cost to watch this movie. While Moore's portrayal of Bond was a bit uneven at the beginning, he gace the role his unique interpretation. The last movies in his sequence are his best performances.

Predictable yes but I recommend it anyway just for the different locations it was filmed at.

"James Bond Will Return in Octopussy," read the tag at the end of For Your Eyes Only. Not knowing my Fleming at the time, I remember saying, "Is that a joke?" But by the time Octopussy was released in the summer of 1983, I was a big Bond fan with high expectations for the 13th James Bond film. I'll never forget that, after the movie on the way out of the theater, a young girl spontaneously shouted to anyone within earshot, "Great flick!" Had I been as inebriated as she was, I might have yelled the same thing because I just love Octopussy. In fact, I think it's one of the most underrated Bond films. James Bond Goes to India. And why shouldn't he? It's not often pointed out that Octopussy was as much a reaction to the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark as Moonraker was to the success Star Wars. Some bash these films for this, saying Bond films should always lead and never follow. I say [no]. For me, genre mixing in the James Bond films is not a sin and can result in a gre!at film. Okay, I too cringe at the Tarzan yell and the "Sit-taaa!," but how about that killer pre-titles sequence with the AcroStar mini-jet? It's certainly one of the best pre-titles sequences of the series. And what about the action on the circus train? the Sotheby's auction? the helicopter gliding past the Taj Mahal to a very evocative John Barry score? Bond's backgammon game with Kamal Kahn is definitely one of the better casino face-offs. Magda spiraling off Bond's balcony by her slowly unraveling silk dress is, to quote a recently deceased news baron, "Delicious." And how about that no-nonsense, no-quip, high-speed, balls-to-the walls car chase on the autobahn? Great flick! Then there are the moments of wonderful detail. The hitchhiking Bond getting snubbed by a carload of obnoxious teenagers. Kamal's car not turning over on the first try as he and Globina try to escape their own ticking nuke. Magda's hairdryer interfering with Bond's earpiece gadget. And letÕs not forge!t the woman beating Bond to the pay phone as he rushes to prevent Armageddon. Yes, Connery's Bond would just yank that chatty woman from the phone booth and call in the marines. But Moore's Bond is not powered by his masculinity, he's powered by his Englishness. He could never do something so rude! So instead, he steals her car. I remember that getting a big hand in the theater. And as for Roger Moore; hey, I don't dismiss Roger Moore the way some old thinkers do. I even like Moonraker -- a lot! Octopussy is one of Moore's best performances as Bond. He has that old pro's grace about him that Connery had in Diamonds Are Forever and NSNA. (It's interesting that Moore didn't have this quality in his next film, A View to a Kill. Maybe it's hard to relax around Grace Jones?) So there you go. It was true in the summer of 1983, and it's still true today: Octopussy is a great flick!

dvd works great fantastic movie!!

Good story

There are a lot of James Bond movies and all of them are worth watching.

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Un classique des James Bond qu'on a plaisir à revoir en édition remasterisée.

Another great blu-ray package, and one of the 9 Bond blu-rays to not hit the North American market until 2012. Roger Moore stars as Bond for the 6th time in this 13th entry in the series. Louis Jourdan plays lead villain Prince Kamal Khan, while Maud Adams stars in the title role as the lead Bond-girl, who heads a major smuggling ring, staffed by a bevy of beauties enlisted with her Octupussy sisterhood. Adams also played opposite Moore's Bond as Bond-girl Andrea Anders, mistress to villain Scaramanga, in 1974's "The Man With The Golden Gun". She is utterly ravishing in both films, but plays a much larger role in Octopussy. Lots of good action in this cold war thriller released in 1983, in which Bond must thwart the machinations of renegade Soviet forces and Kamal Khan's villainy. The action is centred in India and Germany for the most part. One of Roger Moore's tougher efforts I thought. He handles the punch-ups fairly well, which hasn't always been a strength of his Bond.

FINALMENTE escono gli 007 mancanti in HD, seppur con packaging differente dai precedenti.Deluso dalla non esaltante qualità del BD di "La spia che mi amava", ho approcciato con diffidenza questo titolo: a torto, devo riconoscere!Il video è da riferimento (tenuto conto dell'età): il master in ottimo stato di conservazione ha generato un quadro preciso e nitido, privo di aberrazioni e difetti macroscopici, con un livello del nero ottimale ed un croma p-e-r-f-e-t-t-o, specie nelle sequenze policrome girate in India.Definizione razor e tagliente come pochi altri titoli di questa serie, tanto da esaltare anche le rughe del nostro Roger Moore... o farci riconoscere le differenti facce delle sue controfigure.. ;-)Audio italiano multicanale altresì ottimo per definizione e dinamica, con simpatici panning orizzontali e verticali (il missile nella sequenza di apertura, i vari car-chase, le sequenze sul treno e quella finale sull'aereo). Veramente una piacevole sorpresa!Extra (sottotitolati tutti, anche il commento tecnico mentre NON lo e' questa volta quello di Moore, vai a capire perché) ottimi e abbondanti, come da tradizione, anche se sono quelli della versione 2 DVD.Acquisto obbligato per il - finora - miglior BD di 007 con Roger Moore, almeno come qualità A/V, specie poi a questo prezzo... un must.

Enjoyment,meaning,pride,real good item