I vegged last night and watched The Lost Boys and Point Break. At around midnight, the Boy decided to take advantage of my placid, drooling state and flipped to From Russia With Love. Four hours of SpikeTV must have created a short term tolerance and I gave in with only some halfhearted spastics.
I enjoyed it, but I was startled to discover how closely it's mirrored by The Last Crusade:
-Great speed boat chase
-Scene on a train (no zeppelins, sorry) where Bond asks an enemy for his ticket
-Underground escape scene where our hero and his chica outrun a horde of rats and emerge above ground via a sewer into a bustling city
-Seaside chase--Bond in a car, enemy in the air; Bond gets out of the car and takes the helicopter down from the ground with a shotgun (apparently forgetting his Charlemagne)
-Slavic looking babe who plays for the other side but who just can't resist the Scottish charmer
-makeout scene in Venice
Oh, and just in case you weren't already convinced that Speilberg has a massive hard-on for 007--the badass antagonist is none other than Quint from Jaws.
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