I had never seen The Man with the Golden Gun other than in bits and pieces over my life. Never sat down to watch it beginning to end. I had seen the opening, the funny spinny car jump in an AMC, but not the whole kit and kaboodle.
I noticed right off, this viewing, the belly dancer dressing room scene (Pinewood Studios?) where the dressing table mirror got bumped. And I could see the film crew. So that was kinda fun.
I was very jealous of the Portuguese in Macao and his gunsmith workshop. Very nicely set up. You gotta watch the whole scene to drink it all in. This sample is inadequate.
On the whole, production values felt kinda low. The 50 years since this movie... A person with an iPhone can shoot a better one, it seems, the tech has improved that much. HiDef from a film from this era feels like bad videotaped news productions.
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Funny, we watched that just tonight.
I agree about the quality - it felt almost but not quite hokey, not just the grainy film but some of the bad acting, especially by the LA Sheriff and Goodnight... she was atrocious and stupid to boot!
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