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I hope my #25 comes along soon, since it's the only PTS that has no redeeming qualities whatsoever imo.
What's your #25? 😏
Plus, the Bond theme as Connery approaches Marie, still gets my blood pumping. Barry was a genius...
Just checked it for you, DAF ended up 18th in your list.
For me it was 21, I actually don't dislike it at all. Just like the film that follows. But, also much like the film that follows, it's better not to watch it after OHMSS. As a separate entity, as I suppose it was intended anyway, I have quite a lot of fun with it.
As for CR67, as a non-native speaker, it took me years to 'get it'. Now that I do, I think it's, well, okay, I suppose. Always did like Mathis though. Love that line about the Scottish accent later on.
Thanks @GoldenGun !! 😂 😂 😂….
And you’re doing a tremendous job with this. Greatly appreciative!!!
It would already be ranked at the bottom without being the film after OHMSS. Being the first scene after Tracy's death makes it even worth (but to be fair: When I watch DAF, I know that this has a much lighter tone and I'm still in the mood for this one sometimes BUT the PTS is as disappointing as the boring oil rig bit.)
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973)
featuring a fake country, a fake funeral and a fake snake.
Two top 10's for LALD, one 6th and one 10th place. Three more top halfs and two more top 20's were counted.
All the rest didn't come further than the bottom four, including five penultimate places and two last places.
LALD ended up with 63 points.
Perhaps my only complaint is that it feels a bit too fast with the murders happening in such quick succession without much context. Maybe that and the obvious rubber snake at the end. It’s not quite as memorable for me as my favourite PTS’s but it’s still solid.
Like there's the UN Convention, the killing of men in two different places and scenes, it's a bit convoluted to me, I know it's a set up to the plot, but it's a bit messy in terms of execution.
I think TMWTGG (for all of the faults with that film), handled this idea much better, with a great set up to the villain, the great introduction, showing how dangerous Scaramanga was, because you know he's going to be the main villain of the film, it's not as convoluted as the one here in LALD, where it's so confusing, the one in TMWTGG is more straightforward.
I like the idea of the three agents being killed before the credits, and Bond getting his mission after them (my favourite M scene btw), but there's just something about the look and feel of this PTS, and indeed the entire film, that doesn't work for me.
Perhaps it's the locations, the cinematography or both, but I'm not this film's biggest fan, alas.
Thats a pity @GoldenGun, it will always be a favourite of mine! Rog makes a great debut ( and I love the way he delivers the "Bond....James Bond!" line, much better than Connery in DAF!) LALD has one of the strongest set of villains, a belter of a theme song, exciting set pieces, and one of the best final shots of the series!
Well, TMWGG has a better plot than LALD. It is a fact.
*sigh*
Well, LALD has a better plot than TMWTGG. That is my opinion.
LALD is two hours of car chases, boat chases, etc. It's fine but TMWGG had better plot.
But maybe that's also why it's one of the very few PTS that kind of lose some their impact upon repeated viewings, since the mystery is no longer present.
On a side note, one of the reasons why Hamilton's Bond films have always been so rewatchable for me, was his undeniable penchant for staging memorable and often funnily macabre death scenes.
Golden girl, Tilly's death, Dr. Tynan's scorpion, Plenty, Wint & Kidd, Rosie's scarecrow, Kananga's balloon, Rodney, Andrea... just to name a few.
I know the intention of making it mysterious, but the execution of it, it's kinda bit messy, and I have a feeling that I don't understand what's happening? The killings? What that's all about? And it's a three different scenes, jumping from one scene to another, and I don't understand, I even had a thought that: "are they connected?", because, again, it's so confusing.
A man killed in UN, a man killed in a funeral march then suddenly they're all cheering, then a man poisoned by a snake in a cult island, those scenes came off as confusing to me.
Especially for a first time watcher, and even now, it's just weird and odd.
It's convoluted in the way that it's not coherent, not clear of what's happening, and very confusing, it felt overstuffed.
I'm not a fan of this PTS, but what you're describing - wondering what is happening, whether the killings are connected and not really understanding what's going on - is kind of what a mystery is supposed to be like, no?
I see it to myself as more of confusion than a mystery, because the scenes are all over the place, they're just kinda happened.
TMWTGG also had the mystery regarding Scaramanga but it's done well regarding the execution, so then OHMSS, the scenes that hooked me when I saw them, and knowing more about, they're executed interestingly, unlike LALD which was a bit messed up and all over the place.
The voodoo stuff is a bit out of place for me and the fake snake takes away any danger.
However, I still like this PTS. Only DAF is really disappointing, imo.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE(1967)
featuring Peking duck, not Russian caviar.
Two top 10's were noted for YOLT, one 8th and one 10th place.
Eight participants rated it between 11 and 20, and another eight participants ranked it outside the top 20 with one penultimate place as its worst rating.
In total YOLT ended up with 69 points.
I do liked the premise about the whole space hijacking scene with the UN meeting, I wished the PTS just stopped there, because it they've put a flaw in it by adding that scene with Connery sleeping with that Asian girl and making a dated (albeit) a racist and sexist remark, for me, that scene doesn't makes sense and never adds anything but (again) to put a flaw on that PTS, the PTS would've been better without that, it just made things confusing instead of retaining the mystery and great build up to the plot.
Had the PTS just revolved around that space hijacking, it might've been higher in my rankings.
That said, it's okay, kinda mediocre, but not as bad as the previous entries being shown here and FYEO (which is still yet to feature in this game).