TSWLM preliminary stuff

I re-watched The Spy Who Loved Me, a.k.a. The Most Triumphant Example of the James Bond Formula, Like, Ever, last night.  We're still a loooooooooooong way off from the review, but here are some preliminary notes.

• Jaws > Oddjob.  Jaws is f*cking terrifying.  Oddjob was a fat short guy with a silly hat.  I was watching The Spy Who Loved Me with a friend who'd never seen it before; she was horrified (in a good way) to find that both of her sarcastic comments ("oh, he's going to bite through the chain?" "He's going to eat the shark, isn't he?") came true. 
• The scene where Bond tells Anya that he killed her lover is Moore's best scene in the role. I already knew this, but it's good to have confirmation of these sorts of things.
• The scene where Anya is introduced is amazingly clever, with the film poking fun at the series' own preconceptions about the roles of men and women and dear God I sound like a feminist now.
• My friend made a "Wrecking Ball" joke during the scene where Bond rides the security camera on the Liparus.  Miley ain't going to look that good at 49, just sayin'.  
• ...does the dye in Anya's slavegirl outfit start coming out after she gets soaked?  Look at where she was sitting right after the "Let's get out of these wet clothes" line.
• The knockoff-From Russia With Love-train-fight was gratuitous and didn't live up to the original, but it was, I think, important to have Bond fight Jaws hand-to-hand and not get to escape via some goofy gimmick.  
• The bit after the Liparus is sunk, when Bond is back on the USS Wayne. Anya's been taken to Atlantis and the US Navy has orders to destroy it. Bond is done; he can wipe his hands of the whole thing and fly back to London, his mission complete. But he goes back to save the girl, a girl who has promised to kill him and who is being guarded by Jaws (see above). And this far along in history, we're supposed to think, "oh, he's James Bond, he always saves the girl," well, no.  There is no other film where Bond goes this far out of his way to save the girl. Given his characterization over the last three films, especially with respect to women, this is where he finally breaks out of that shell he's been hiding in since his wife's death. Not that I believe this was in any way deliberate, mind you, but it's still there.