5. Quirky Forms Of Transport
In days gone by, Bond films would have at least one amusing and/or exciting mode of transport that made me run out of the cinema demanding my mum buy me a jetpac, rocket-powered bike, lunar rover, autogyro, robot panther, 18-wheel tanker trailer or submarine that looked like a crocodile. Take
Scaramanga's flying car which is really the basest of designs - they stick an engine and a wing on top of a car. Looks great as Christopher Lee taxis to take-off, but looks suspiciously like a toy when they show it swooping through the skies. My favourite, by a country airmile, is A View to A Kill's airship. Not because it's amazingly cool to have one with your name on the side, not because Grace Jones drops a bloke out of it (well, a dummy that looks a little bit like a bloke), not because it inflates in about 20 seconds (in reality, they take hours),and not because it gets blown up with dynamite (seriously, was Wiley Coyote involved in arming the villians?). No, I love it because they use it to sneak up and capture Bond's love interest, Stacey Sutton. Just think about that for a minute, someone sneaking up on you...in an airship. Any airship that can do that is quite phenomenal. http://youtu.be/HmQnEyiGdGQ