The Film
- The movie has some of the series' best fistfights.
- The fight on the beach in the teaser.
- "This never happened to the other fellow."
- Back to Bond, when he fights Draco's henchmen in the hotel.
- And then later when he breaks free of four of them right outside Draco's office: within seconds they're left banging at a locked door while Bond is crouched in Draco's office, ready to throw a mook's knife at him.
- Draco's cool-as-ice greeting to Bond, who is just about to throw the knife, also qualifies.Marc-Ange Draco: Do not kill me, Mr. Bond. At least, not until we've had a drink.
- The nerve-shredding safecracking sequence. It's badass to begin with, but gets elevated to awesome status when Bond not only swipes the documents he was looking for, but also steals the poor guy's stash of Playboys. John Barry's motif for the heist sets the mood.
- Bond finding himself in an allergy clinic on top of a mountain filled with beautiful women and seducing two of them without getting rumbled.... Well, by them, anyway.
- Unlike the other portrayals of Blofeld on film, Savalas is no Non-Action Big Bad. When Bond escapes Piz Gloria on skis, Blofeld’s immediate reaction is to actively give chase with his men on skis before calling in a car full of mooks, rejoining the hunt well into the morning and eventually burying Bond and Tracy in an avalanche.
- The bobsled chase at the end. You don't usually hear the phrase "epic bobsled chase" but that's what this is.
- Blofeld gets one after his bobsled goes over a bump while he has a grenade in his mouth, causing it to fall into the bottom of his bobsled. After a brief moment of panic, he manages to snag the grenade just in time and throw it into the track. The frantic music calling back to Bond's first fight in the film makes it even better. And then it's immediately followed up with a moment for James. He manages to jump ship just before he can be blown up, and his tumble down the hill turns into a shortcut, as he is able to skip a hairpin bend and end up ahead of Blofeld, allowing him to board his sled.
- After a intense fistfight aboard the bobsled, which looks like it's about to topple over at any moment, Bond manages to ensnare Blofeld in a broken tree, winning the fight. He probably would have kept on going if the steering wires didn't break. Lazenby really doesn't get as much appreciation as he should.
- Bond's first escape from Piz Gloria. Climbing his way out of the cable car machinery room by swinging along the cable, skiing down the slopes while being chased by Blofeld's men, skiing with only one ski after the other one breaks and then finding Tracy in civilization, which leads to her own CMOA. John Barry's "Piz Gloria Escape" is one of his greatest, too.
- And picking just one moment for Fallen Princess Tracy? Cannot be done.
- Tracy's fight with Grunther, The Dragon. ending with her causing him to fall down the stairs with an ornamental ring stuck to his head and then stabbing him through a spiked wall decoration, to the point where when her father arrives to save her, all she needs is a ride home. The whole fight is an excellent example of Tracy: rather than hiding or being held barely struggling by a mook or the Big Bad like many distressed damsels, she fights back and has no qualms about killing to get out. This trait has been displayed in other Bond girls, but they were often secret agents themselves. Tracy was just a Mafia Princess who didn't take shit.
- Tracy's true moment of awesome is during the car chase scene. For the entire sequence, racing along icy mountain roads with a car load of mooks shooting at her, then ending up in a race/demolition derby with cars flying all over the place... and people still shooting at her, she's got an expression on her face that she's having the time of her life.
- The best bit of that car chase is when one car makes a 180 degree flip... and the driver makes slightly annoyed expression at Bond and Tracy.
- "Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn..." Nope. Tracy quoting James Ellroy Flecker to distract Blofeld's attention from Draco's fast-approaching helicopters is her TRUE Moment Of Awesome. She judges his egotism perfectly (he even joins in!), outsmarting him with nothing more than poetry. THAT's cool.
- And Tracy lures Blofeld to the top floor of Piz Gloria - the one with all full-length glass windows - to maximize the chance that he will be killed in the initial onslaught...placing herself in increased danger as well...
- And last, but certainly not least, the very fact that Tracy was - and to this day still is - the only Bond Girl to EVER legitimately be counted as Mrs. James Bond. Even if it was for a brief while...
- Moreover, most Bond Girls tend to fall head over heels for James, but Tracy was the only woman in James Bond's life prior to the series reboot (which is in a separate continuity) to do the opposite.
- The film mostly avoids using the Bond theme, but uses it perfectly in the climax. Draco's helicopters launch their assualt on Piz Gloria, Bond jumps out, getting into a gunfight with mooks. He slides across a curling rink, mowing them down, just as the Bond theme kicks in. Yes.
