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I watched each Bond film in order again recently, due to being at home during the pandemic
As much as I enjoyed each movie Octopussy just annoyed me. Aside from some casual racism for me its the movie that should have killed the franchise dead with its silliness.
Somewhere in there I believed there was a decent adventure attempting to get out so I created the All Time High cut
Using the blu ray as my source I set about deleting and rejigging the movie to offer a less comedic take without removing the humour so important to Bond completely.
Trims include
- “Sounds like a load of Bull” which just never landed for me
- Veejay playing the Bond theme is now just a generic tune
- References to Vejay being a tennis pro and any swiping of villains with his tennis racket are GONE!
- “That should keep you in curries for a few weeks” GONE
- This is a company car street chase trimmed mainly removing locals being told to look right look left as if at a tennis match. It wasn’t funny in 1983 either
- Bond ogling his co worker’s breasts on camera - removed
- Jungle chase re-edited to remove Tarzan, Siiiit! and Hiss Off. It comes across quite tense without these!
- Train chase massively re-edited to remove the gorilla suit and to make the hanging off the train the main focus
- Slight trims throughout to remove shots or phrases that make MI6’s top agent look like a lusty uncle
