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Title track: TLD
Titles: TLD
Main villain: TLD
Main Bond Girl: SP
Henchman: SP
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: SP
Score: TLD
Settings: SP
Action: TLD
Humour: TLD
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: SP
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
TLD: 9
SP: 9
The worst title song and worst title (shiver me timbers ... the octopus) in SP, but great minor characters (Mr. White,Q) and very nice cinematography.
The 9:9 does not represent that I think TLD is the better movie for sure, even with it's flaws. I love both PTS actually but I rate SP slightly higher. Will be interesting to see how it ages (if at all).
I tried but honestly couldn't find one category where SP would be better.
Having said this, please know that OHMSS TLD GE and now SP too are for me the four perfect Bond film experiences.
It's almost a tie really between those 4.
It s just a game, with set and somewhat arbitrary rules.
Title track: TLD (underrated song)
Titles: TLD (not the greatest, but not offensive either)
Main villain: SP (with reluctance. both are weak)
Main Bond Girl: SP (Bond and Kara are the better couple though)
Henchman: TLD (Necros had a personality)
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD (obviously)
Settings: SP
Action: TLD (it's just filled with so many great sequences)
Humour: TLD (Bond and Saunders, Georgi, Bond in the bathroom, Bond telling Kara to drive up the ramp and into the plane)
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD (easily)
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD (ok, so both are uncomfortable with one liners, but Dalton has better material overall to work with, some of which he excels at)
TLD - 13
SP - 5
Kara : "Take me on the wheel"
Me : "Oh,just piss off,airhead"
If you mash up SF with TLD you get this:
Saunders: Take the bloody shot!!
Bond: (shoots)
Kara: gets shot falls to her death from the window drowning in a puddle of rainwater from the other day.
Saunders: KGB agent down.
Bond: walking to the window staring out at the lights of a passing tram, it starts raining.
Kara: lying in the puddle of rainwater getting washed away by the rain.
Daniel Kleinman's SF titles with Kara getting pulled down by a shadowy hand, a-ha's The Living Daylights theme beginning to play.
As long as that hand keeps her head underwater and drowns the dopey cow ;)
"She's all yours...just drop her over the side when you've finished"....
Title track: TLD
Titles: TDL
Main villain: SP
Main Bond Girl: SP
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: SP
Action: TLD
Humour: TLD
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamour: TLD
Bond performance: TLD
SP 4
TLD 14
Think I have been generous to SP there
PTS: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Title track: <font color="#00FF00>SP</font>
Titles: <font color="#00FF00>SP</font>
Main villain: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Main Bond Girl: <font color="#FF0000>TIE</font>
Henchman: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Plot: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Dialogue: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Score: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Settings: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Action: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Humour: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Cinematography: <font color="#00FF00>SP</font>
Benign Bizarre: <font color="#00FF00>SP</font>
Suspense: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Minor Characters: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Glamour: <font color="#00FF00>SP</font>
Bond performance: <font color="#0000FF>TLD</font>
Spectre : <font color="#00FF00>5</font>
The Living Daylights : <font color="#0000FF>12</font>
Tie : <font color="#FF0000>1</font>
The Living Daylights takes an easy win.
Title track: TLD
Titles: TDL
Main villain: TLD
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humour: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamour: TLD
Bond performance: TLD
SP 0
TLD 18
One of the best Bond films versus the worst. Easy decisions all around.
Title track: SP
Titles: SP
Main villain: SP
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
TLD 11-7 Spectre
Title track: AVTAK
Titles: AVTAK
Main villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: SP
Henchman: SP
Plot: SP
Dialogue: SP
Score: AVTAK
Settings: SP
Action: SP
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP
Suspense: SP
Minor Characters: SP
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: SP
Title track: TLD
Titles: TLD
Main villain: SP
Main Bond Girl: SP
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: SP
Score: TLD
Settings: SP
Action: TLD
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: SP
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
SP 9
TLD 9
Title track: TLD
Titles: SP
Main villain: TLD
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: SP
Score: TLD
Settings: SP
Action: TLD
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
12-6 to TLD
Title track: TLD
Titles: SP
Main villain: TLD (Even if I classed Whitaker as the big bad, I still would have given it to TLD)
Main Bond Girl: SP (Close. Great character (Kara) up against good actress (Seydox). But my penis has spoken)
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: SP
Score: TLD (Duh)
Settings: TLD (both the same, but Glen and Mills done a good job framing them)
Action: TLD
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP (a weak aspect of the Glen directed films)
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: SP (Mr. White for the win)
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
SP 8
TLD 10
Close, yet the result reflects my ranking.
Title Track: Spectre - I like a-ha, but their theme doesn't really exude Bond. I have it on the lower end of my scale (though Barry makes amazing work of it throughout the score, I cannot factor that in here fairly since it has to be a direct comparison).
Title Credits: Spectre - The Living Daylights title sequence is part of an era of deficient creativity that goes up until Goldeneye.
Main Villain: Spectre - Waltz takes this one with Blofeld for performing the scripted role well over the collage of makeshift villains in The Living Daylights. This quality is probably most responsible for keeping The Living Daylights from being a mainstream classic Bond film.
Main Bond Girl: Spectre - This is a decisive win for Swann. There really is no contest for me. Kara is a step up from Stacy (A View to a Kill) in terms of acting, but at the expense of some attractiveness.
Henchman: The Living Daylights - Necros is better than Hinx for a few reasons: He is more successful, more talented, and more evasive than Hinx to sustain his character until the climax. Hinx is more physically imposing, but Necros takes the psychological factor. It's pretty close; kudos to Necros for being one of the few henchman more formidable than Hinx.
Plot: The Living Daylights - Cold War thriller vs. a generic surveillance flick. The Living Daylights has all of the ingredients we like as Bond fans, even if it doesn't deliver on every single end. It's good.
Dialogue: The Living Daylights - Witty, with an effective shift in tone.
Score: The Living Daylights - The best of Barry (right up there with OHMSS). This may have been his most expansive work for any single film of Bond with a much greater variety in themes and motifs spread across the whole picture.
Settings: The Living Daylights - A vast amount of locales visited without feeling forced to be included.
Action: The Living Daylights - Palpable thrills all throughout in a wide variety of situation. Spectre delivers greatly in some characteristics, but falls flat in others.
Humor: The Living Daylights - I actually think it's more humorous by a wide margin. The jokes in Spectre feel like forced, scripted quips. The Living Daylights isn't a funny Bond film, but I like the type of sarcastic humor that Dalton was given. They obviously went with that to a greater extent with Craig when he started as Bond, only to give way to the contrived humor in his latest outing.
Cinematography: Spectre - This is pretty close actually. I like the way The Living Daylights was shot, but it is lacking some of the gorgeous frames of the landscapes.
Benign Bizarre: The Living Daylights - I always give this category to the film I prefer since its the most subjective quality imo. Glad I insisted you brought that cello.
Suspense: The Living Daylights - The first half of the movie just may be the most suspenseful of the entire franchise. The second half isn't bad either, but certainly dips after a very ambitious start.
Minor Characters: The Living Daylights - One of the largest ensemble of characters in all of the Bond franchise that do a job ranging from adequate to thrilling. Top credit belongs to John Rhys-Davies.
Glamour: The Living Daylights - The suit fits Bond again for the first time in a while. The character and the settings play up well together.
Bond Performance: The Living Daylights - Dalton's finest work in the franchise. He brings a steady, consistent presence to the character that I fell is lacking in his follow-up to this role. It would be interesting to consider Dalton's best vs. Craig's best, but this is clearly not the comparison for that!
The Living Daylights: 13
Spectre: 5
This is the most decisive victory I have given a film in this topic to date (I only started with Moonraker). It feels wholly justified, especially given I hold The Living Daylights in my top 6-8 range across repeated marathons for years now.
Eon could afford to look back at some of their past efforts for considering future direction. Plot-driven storytelling with real world relevance has always played very well with fans in general.
PTS: SP (just due to the roof top walk being too cool))
Title track: TLD
Titles: SP
Main villain: SP
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Henchman: TLD
Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humour: SP
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: SP
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: TLD
TLD: 11
SP: 7
Tut tut *wags finger n shakes head*...
Anyhow, it's time for our next game now, as Spectre trudges on to fight Licence to Kill!
PTS: SP
Title track: SP
Titles: SP (LTK's title track and title sequence are a bad mismatch with the actual movie)
Main villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK (always had a soft spot for Pam)
Henchman: SP
Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: SP
Action: LTK (not even close)
Humour: LTK ("Launder it.")
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: SP (take that, Lupe)
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: LTK (Dalton can play to his strengths more here)
10-8 for Licence to Kill! Another surprisingly close outing against Dalton, but that's enough from me. Let's see your scores!
PTS: SP
Title track: LTK
Titles: SP
Main villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Henchman: SP
Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: SP
Action: LTK
Humour: LTK
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: SP
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: LTK
11-7 for Licence to Kill!
Title track: LTK
Titles: LTK
Main villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Henchman: LTK
Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: SP
Action: LTK
Humour: LTK
Cinematography: LTK
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: LTK
Bond performance: LTK
Only because Rome is my favourite city in the world and it faces a fictional city, SP grabs a point.
Title track: LTK
Titles: LTK
Main villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Henchman: LTK
Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: LTK
Action: LTK
Humour: LTK
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: LTK
Bond performance: LTK
LTK - 17
SP - 1
This is the easiest one of the whole contest. The best Bond film (LTK) versus the worst (SP). No contest on this one, although SP should fare better against the Brosnan films.
Title track: LTK
Titles: SP
Main villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Henchman: LTK
Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: SP
Action: LTK
Humour: LTK
Cinematography: SP
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: SP
Bond performance: LTK
LTK - 13
SP - 5