# The James Bond Film Festival. Part 9: The Man with the Golden Gun **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294 "2003-08-11T01:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/21 "2003-08-12T15:16:50Z")
This is a good Bond movie. It isn’t great, but is far from the bottom level ones. It does have the best line in the whole series. **"Speak now or forever hold your piece."** 🙂 I agree that the slide whistle was terrible for the car stunt. Horrifying choice. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/22 "2003-08-12T17:49:12Z")
I love Bond in the dojo, when he kicks the ninja out instead of fighting him. When the second guy comes in, he _knows_ it’s a trick you can pull only once. Then he just jumps out the window. 😃 **Robot Arm** , if they’d stopped the car to pick Bond up, they couldn’t have the gratuitous boat chase and team-up with the Sheriff! Mary Goodnight is one of the worst Bond girls. No way anyone that ditzy becomes an Intelligence agent (pun intended). ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/23 "2003-08-12T18:29:42Z")
So, can we agree that if this was a Connery (or Dalton, or Brosan) film, it would have been less campy, such that: Mary Goodnight would have been somewhat capable (such as not backing into the Solar Engine controls and then freaking out about it…) The Redneck Sheriff would not have been in it (Bond would have just carjacked the Hornet anyway) Less painful sound effects (and yes, I do mean the whistle as the car jumps over the ruined bridge - that effect really did seem completely out of place) Or, maybe we can’t agree… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/24 "2003-08-12T19:18:59Z")
Nick Nack with his shirt off and that spear prancing around while kicking the Sumo wrestlers was worth purchasing the DVD. Pretty much every car was an AMC - Bond’s Hornet, the Matador Coupe - plane thing, every police car was a Matador sedan… “Speak now or forever hold your piece” - another line that went sailing over my head until recently. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/25 "2003-08-16T22:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Goodnight bonks a henchman (“Chula”, Chan Yiu Lam) on the head and he falls into a vat of liquid helium. \*\* Actually, the character is named Kra and played by 6’ something Sonny Caldinez, also known for playing Ice Warriors in _Doctor Who_. I actually like the theme song for this one, although others have called it rather middling or average. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/26 "2003-08-18T19:29:36Z")
The car-to-plane kit – wasn’t that something you could actually buy? I remember reading an article about it back around that time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/27 "2003-08-19T01:16:50Z")
I know that “converti-cars” were made, but I think they were much earlier. Also, they were purpose-built cars. The AMC in the film would have been entirely too heavy. ---
**Author:** ![patchbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dc4da7/32.png) [@patchbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/patchbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294/28 "2003-08-19T19:27:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > \*\*The car-to-plane kit – wasn’t that something you could actually buy? I remember reading an article about it back around that time. \*\* Yes, but IIRC, they had a habit of coming apart and killing people, so they didn’t go anywhere. Other than down, that is. –Patch [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-james-bond-film-festival-part-9-the-man-with-the-golden-gun/194294.md?page=1)