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Stronger villain, more chemistry between Bond and the lead girl, more exciting final battle. Plus, I tend to prefer 1970s Sir Rog to 1980s Sir Rog and prefer when he's in the more fantastical outings that play to his strengths.
I agree with 100% with PrinceKamalKhan. FYEO was just kind of a bore and is at the bottom of my Bond list.
but it has to be FYEO.
Carole Bouquet at 23. Be still my beating heart...
TSWLM was basically YOLT on the sea. I found the plot in FYEO to be much more orginal.
The thing with FYEO is that the plot was utterly pointless in the long run. Bond destroys the ATAC - the Maguffin of the story - and no one seemed that bothered by it.
But that was the point of the film. That the entire Cold War was pointless. It was just two egos squaring up to each other over nothing.
Yes, the Cold War was pointless, but it's result, should it have gone south, would have been more of a problem than anything before it. Had something happened to anger the superpowers, we wouldn't be here anymore.
At least in the case of FRWL the Lecktor (or Spektor) seemed a bit more valuble to the British.
Don't get me wrong I like FYEO I just think plot-wise Spy had more at stake.
Well, the Lektor could decipher Soviet cyphers - the ATAC seemed to control the entire British polaris fleet so draw your own conclusions,
Although why someone designed something so easily accessible and extraordinarily dangerous I dont know.
It's called a Mcguffin - a term coined by the great Alfred Hitchcock. It doesn't matter ;)
I suppose Bond cared more about getting it (and the government cared more about receiving it) though in FRWL.
I think Roger Moore is a little more in his element though in Spy. He doesn't crack many jokes in FYEO, which some would say is a good thing. I think his humor is one of his strengths and he should play to it, which he does well in Spy. The humor is left to the auxililary characters in FYEO: hockey goons, parrots, Blofeld, etc., which falls flat. I also like Lewis Gilberts grander production in SPY vs. John Glen's in FYEO, and there are better used and picturesque locations in SPY. This is tough...I used to really dislike FYEO, but I'm warming up to it...but I think Spy is just a grander Bond experience. So SPY it is.
I'd say the opposite. Remember Whitehall went into shock when the ATAC went missing.
The Lektor was useful but the defence of the realm didnt rest on it like the ATAC.
Fair enough but Bond didn't destroy the Lecktor in FRWL did he.
He didnt need to - he got it back in a home run (despite Klebb). At the Meteora Gogol flanked by armed guards was walking towards him with his arms outstretched..
True but neither him nor Gogol seemed to care much did they ;) Gogol was happy going back to his mistress and Bond was happy to go back with Melina.
Of course they cared. Just because they are relaxing at the end doesnt mean they take the job seriously.
What a strange thing to say...
:-O
Haha, all I meant is that Gogol didn't seem that bothered about losing a potentially vital piece of hardware. He just laughed it off - randy old bugger.
FYEO
TSWLM: 7 votes
FYEO: 9 votes
The battle continues!
FYEO gave blofeld a crappy death, so it gets of to a bad start. Some of it is ok I guess, but alot of it bored me. So thats why I chose TSWLM.