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It's sudden death. We can only vote for Surrender or If There was a Man.
Indeed, a great deal of Bond fans like Surrender....I don't know many who don't. I really don't get this rip-off thing though, isn't Barry's Sound the Bond Sound, I've not even heard Zimmer's Score, but it's looking like Zimmer would add Barry's style to his score, that's respecting the Bond sound which is Barry's sound and not ripping-off Barry.
I stand corrected: It's Surrender, then.
Correct answer
Eh, unless my calculations are wrong so far its
12 to 5 in favour of ITWAM.Hardly neck and neck!
I think your calculations are a bit wrong! It's 18-12 to If There Was A Man by my tallying, so it does look like it's going to be The Pretenders for the win!
From our previous round If You Asked Me To by Patti Labelle received 9 votes and Eric Serra with Experience of Love received 1 vote
It's time to switch back to the Klebbie side. For this one is a unique category.
Over the years the Bond films have pushed the envelope with great stunts and sequences. Most times they have a satisfying conclusion, but occasionally a clunker of a quip or a sound effect or music choice has undermined the whole sequence or stunt. It's time to look at those scenes/stunts that have been undermined! The nominees are:
So there you have the nominees! What does our esteemed academy think. Which was the worst undermining of a scene/stunt?
These 5 are all to be regretted, IMO, but the Tarzan yell somehow fits into the sequence, in AVTAK it does less harm and it's only a PTS, the 'this never happened' quip also has a little funny side to it, and the sequence in GF still is quite tense and well done.
The other examples are daft. But they don't undermine the actual series itself.
I would love to see the conversations in 1974 and 1983 behind the scenes in which they deemed it appropriate to add the slide whistle and Tarzan yell.
This wins for me basically because its an incredible stunt that is turned into a cartoonish joke.
GF was the 3th movie and i don't mind it there whant to remember 007 is a trademark like the gunbarrel.
Possible poster creater was disapointed with Skyfall and Spectre not having atleast one O in it and are very happy with No Time To Die. Stil it look like not be enough from them with using big 007 on background on posters and sliding on screen in Game Day tv Spot.
The only other terrible one (in my opinion) is the Beach Boys. When I saw that in the cinema my heart sank, it absolutely sank. But the slide whistle is worse.
I’m not fussed about OP’s Tarzan yell, and I’ve seen GF and OHMSS too many times for me to imagine these scenes done any differently anyway, so I’m happy with them.
The slide whistle, though, is a cinematic crime
It really irks me that it's included on the soundtrack as well, as "Lets Go Get Em" is a pretty great cue otherwise.
I actually quite like "This never happened to the other fella", myself.
That leaves me with the choice of California Girls from AVTAK. I go right back to my first viewing in the cinema, May 25, 1985. It was a twin cinema and when the song came up, I was wondering if the soundtrack to another film was played by accident over AVTAK. No, to my horror, John Barry was being replaced by a cheap cover of California Girls. They couldn't have at least paid for the Beach Boys or the David Lee Roth cover that was a huge hit earlier that year?
It sets the tone early, though, that AVTAK was going to be an uneven mix of graphic and realistic scenes with silly comedy that makes it a hard watch to this day.
The only other real options are Tarzan and California Girls (I suspect thedove had to think quite hard to come up with any other candidates! :) ) and those two are both quite fun I think. I've never understood why folks get so upset about California Girls in particular.
For me, I have to go with the majority and choose the slide whistle. There again, a perfect stunt, ruined by a sound effect that made it look fake. And again, interrupting a perfect John Barry track. Second place goes, of course, to the Tarzan Yell : Come on, 007, when you're being chased by mooks, the first thing to do is to stay discreet. Didn't they teach you anything in spy school ?