The film marks the debut of the white pussycat and its master, SPECTRE commander Blofeld. But not for them their usual aim of global domination; this time it's personal: to avenge the death of Dr No by killing Bond nastily; to distribute image-damaging porno pics of him in bed with a Russian Mata Hari - and all after duping him into giving them a decoding machine. The bait is Romanova , a simple KGB clerk who's as innocent as she's lovely. Best remembered are the frenzied fight between Grant and Bond on board the Orient Express, Klebb's poisoned dagger in her granny shoes, and Grant's watch-cum-garrotte. The film introduces four more elements of the 007 formula: Q branch gadgetry, ...
Advantages: wide variety of related courses, can learn Russian from scratch Disadvantages: none
I studied BA Russian and Soviet Studies at Portsmouth University from 1988 to 1990. Unfortunately, I did not complete the four year course, due to getting married and then having a baby a year later.
The course was the reason I chose to go to Portsmouth, moving 210 miles from my home in Lincoln. I have been interested in the USSR and the Russian language since following the successes of the Soviet team (especially the gymnasts) at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
I became fascinated with the Cyrillic alphabet and wanted to learn the language. I had an opportunity to do this with a short night school course as a teenager, which whetted my appetite to study it further.
One of the advantages of the course at Portsmouth was that you could learn the language ab initio. The other parts of the course sounded fascinating too, as it included ...
KarenUK 22.12.2000
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Advantages: good story and acting, nice scenery,some funny bits Disadvantages: Dated now, predictable ending
It is quite strange how we came to watch this film as we watched a music video on a TV show quite some time ago and I was socked to see Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas singing and dancing along in it only to be told by hubby that this is the film which it was from. Since then I have been looking out fir the film as hubby was shocked that I had never see it. To my surprise it was on one of the older movie channel ion sky recently so we recorded it and finally got around to watching it.
As I have said this film was on the TV so it is a FILM ONLY review.
Joan Wilder is a romance novelist and she wishes that she could have some excitement n her life just like some of the characters which she writes about. Thing take a turn for her when she gets a phone call from her sister who is living in Colombia and has been kidnapped as her now ...
