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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    All middling entries, but AVTAK and DAF.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,514
    AVTAK over MR easily, though my appreciation for both films have come a long way.

    TND over DAF more easily. TND has flaws, but DAF’s problems bother me way more.
  • infoviseinfovise Ireland
    Posts: 114
    AVTAK over MR

    DAF over TND
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    Posts: 4,599
    Moonraker and DAF in an absolute massacre.

    Both are my personal favorites
  • ShakenNotStirredShakenNotStirred
    Posts: 1,399
    AVTAK and DAF for me!
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    I would always put MR at the bottom with DAD. AVTAK is way down there too. I think though I now rate MR higher than AVTAK.

    As for DAF vs TND, that’s a fairly close one, but I think DAF.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,163
    Moonraker and A View To A Kill are right next to each other in my ranking's. Despite being on the lower end of my ranking, they're both great films and a lot of fun to watch.

    MR over AVTAK.

    TND over DAF

    The second pairing are slightly further afield of each other, but again both are highly rewatchable. TND is almost non-stop action. DAF is full of wonderful dialogue and bizarre and memorable characters.
  • Major_BoothroydMajor_Boothroyd Republic of Isthmus
    Posts: 2,722
    MR - I've grown to really enjoy this film and of Roger's I prefer if to AVTAK, OP & TMWTGG. The score, the cinematography, Bernard lee's swansong, the PTS parachute stunt, the last time Roger Moore looks in great shape, the haunting death of Corrine filmed as if it was a Dario Argento scene, the tense centrifuge sequence with a good performance from Moore, an excellent villain with some top class banter with Bond. People say it's silly, but remove Jaws and the Bondola sequence and it's not that bad at all. TSWLM has plenty of goofy moments too (many of them including Jaws as well)

    TND while not a huge fan of TND, it wins over DAF which is near the bottom for me.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,198
    Moonraker, give me epic globetrotting over abandoned American mines anyday.

    Diamonds Are Forever, I prefer snobby Sean and hilarious Charles Gray over generic shoot ‘em ups.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    Posts: 7,532
    MR, as it's more fun than AVTAK.
    and
    DAF, cos, ....well that's obvious!!
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    My appreciation for MR has grown over the years, and despite the duo of Connery/Gray having a grand old time, it has to TND.
  • DwayneDwayne New York City
    Posts: 2,861
    MR. While neither movie ranks highly with me, at least MR attempted to provide an epic Bond movie, and I’ve always liked Michael Lonsdale’s Hugo Drax.

    DAF. Jill St. John in a bikini, witty dialogue, John Barry’s score ……. but mostly Ms. St. John 😉. For some reason, I’ve gone off TND, although I’m sure I liked it back in 1997. These days I actually find TWINE to be the better movie.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
    Posts: 3,000
    MR over AVTAK

    TND over DAF

    Both are absolute blowouts.
  • 2Wint2Kidd2Wint2Kidd
    Posts: 698
    AVTAK over MR. Two of my least favourites, but at least AVTAK has interesting quirky villains rather than boring, goofy ones.
    Despite DAF being a bit of a guilty pleasure, TND is a fun middle of the road Bond film, which is highly re-watchable and better made.
  • RoadphillRoadphill United Kingdom
    Posts: 984
    AVTAK for me. I do enjoy Moonraker, but it just went a little too far into fantasy territory for me. There is a fine line in Bond when it comes to these sort of films. TSWLM stayed on the right side, but MR crossed it. And although AVTAK is far from a series defining classic, it does have Zorin, who is my favourite villain of the whole lot.

    Second one, I will go for TND. Again, just a middling film. But it does have great action, and a good villain. DAF seems like a parody of earlier Connery stuff. He doesn't look bothered, the whole production looks lacklustre. It's the one Connery film that I have always disliked. It's a bottom dweller, for me.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    AVTAK
    &
    TND
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 4,043
    MR
    DAF
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    Posts: 4,343
    barryt007 wrote: »
    AVTAK
    &
    TND

    Yes.
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
    Posts: 3,370
    MR and DAF
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited September 2019 Posts: 9,074
    No movie of the series has made greater progress in growing in my appreciation than MR, and it still manages to blast AVTAK away. (Small consolation: AVTAK is on the verge of surpassing OP and turn the latter into my least favourite Moore film.)

    DAF is still good fun for the dialogue...masking an illogical story with plot holes bigger than a meteor crater, but TND is clearly the better movie for me - apart from the local patriot factor.

    So MR and TND it is, without doubt.
  • Ottofuse8Ottofuse8
    Posts: 832
    AVTAK
    TND
  • Max_The_ParrotMax_The_Parrot ATAC to St Cyril’s
    edited October 2019 Posts: 2,426
    Thunderfinger wrote: »

    MR vs AVTAK
    Well, I wouldn’t mind snuggling up with either on a Saturday night, but Moonraker is the kind of fun I’m looking for! 😝


    DAF vs TND
    I’ll take Brosnan if I may!

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Any more?
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    I watched DAF last night for the first time in like a decade. Oh yeah. Better than TND. Better that MR and AVTAK too.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    MR beats AVTAK 17-13

    DAF vs TND 15-15, our third tie.

    Round 115:

    LTK vs GE

    and

    TWINE vs DAD
  • Mathis1Mathis1
    Posts: 7,532
    LTK destroys GE
    and
    Well it will have to be TWINE I suppose.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,163
    LTK over GE

    DAD over TWINE
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Benny wrote: »
    LTK over GE

    DAD over TWINE

    Same here. Both comfortable wins.
  • 00Agent00Agent Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.
    Posts: 5,185
    GE a serious pounding
    TWINE solid
  • infoviseinfovise Ireland
    Posts: 114
    GE - very close

    TWINE - easy pick for me

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