Bond Movie A vs. Bond Movie B (Diamonds Are Forever vs. The World Is Not Enough)

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  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    Live And Let Die

    The Man With The Golden Gun is quite sloppy and insipid. IMHO :)
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    LALD but I love them both.
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    The Man With The Golden Gun is my favourite Bond film, so...
    12. Live And Let Die
    11. Thunderball
    10. Quantum Of Solace
    9. Goldeneye
    8. Casino Royale
    7. For Your Eyes Only
    6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    5. Dr. No
    4. Octopussy
    3. From Russia With Love
    2. The Spy Who Loved Me
    1. The Man WIth The Golden Gun
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    TMWTGG!!!
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    LALD 14-5, LALD's favor.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    LALD 14-5, LALD's favor.

    Looks like a Hulk smash on TMWTGG, so far. ;-)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    DarthDimi wrote:
    LALD 14-5, LALD's favor.

    Looks like a Hulk smash on TMWTGG, so far. ;-)

    Fewer mouths to feed when doing a TMWTGG fanclub meeting !!
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    Ah the two entries before Moore truly found his footing. LALD easily.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    edited April 2012 Posts: 3,262
    I'll go against the tide again this round and vote for TMWTGG. A minority opinion I know. While Jane Seymour beats Britt Ekland and Wings beats Lulu, I otherwise find most of TMWTGG improves upon LALD IMHO. John Barry is back. Bond's back in a tuxedo and at the gaming tables. For the first time since OHMSS, he got his briefing from M and flirtation with Miss Moneypenny back at the London office. The locations(Macao, Hong Kong, Thailand, Phuket) are far more exotic than in either of the previous 2 Bond films. Miss Andrea easily beats Rosie in the secondary Bond girl category. J.W. Pepper is equally brilliant in both. And Scaramanga is a strong contender for my favorite Bond villain.
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited April 2012 Posts: 2,629
    I'll taking ass grabbing over honky slapping.

    TMWTGG
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    LALD - Jane Seymour.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    I'll go against the tide again this round and vote for TMWTGG. A minority opinion I know. While Jane Seymour beats Britt Ekland and Wings beats Lulu, I otherwise find most of TMWTGG improves upon LALD IMHO. John Barry is back. Bond's back in a tuxedo and at the gaming tables. For the first time since OHMSS, he got his briefing from M and flirtation with Miss Moneypenny back at the London office. The locations(Macao, Hong Kong, Thailand, Phuket) are far more exotic than in either of the previous 2 Bond films. Miss Andrea easily beats Rosie in the secondary Bond girl category. J.W. Pepper is equally brilliant in both. And Scaramanga is a strong contender for my favorite Bond villain.

    All good points! I guess it's close for me, but I am going with LALD because it was a great, successful transition to Roger as Bond; and I like various parts of it (and of course the better Bond theme song).
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    Moore is great in both films, but I have to say LALD. I don't like the stereotypes but the girl, the theme song and the henchmen make it beat TMWTGG for me.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    LALD wins for me.
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    Live and Let Die is my favorite Bond release, you do the math

    Although Golden Gun would be in my top five though, they are both very good Bond movies that keep the interest and Moore does a fine job in both, but LALD wins here
  • I have an inexplicable soft spot for both films. Even though I know some of Moore's later outings (in particular TSWLM, FYEO and Octopussy) are probably far superior in terms of quality, there is a heartwarming, almost cosy, re-watchable factor for me, when it comes to LALD and TMWTGG.

    I'll have to plump for LALD. I think the impact of a fresh-faced Roger Moore, (after the relatively messy DAF), in his debut film, helped prove that there was life after Connery; a thing we take for granted now, but that was by no means certain before LALD took the box office by storm.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    21-6 in LALD's favor.
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    Live & Let Die this time. GG has its strong points but, as a whole, feels tired and sluggish.
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    Live and Let Die.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    I'll go against the tide again this round and vote for TMWTGG. A minority opinion I know. While Jane Seymour beats Britt Ekland and Wings beats Lulu, I otherwise find most of TMWTGG improves upon LALD IMHO. John Barry is back. Bond's back in a tuxedo and at the gaming tables. For the first time since OHMSS, he got his briefing from M and flirtation with Miss Moneypenny back at the London office. The locations(Macao, Hong Kong, Thailand, Phuket) are far more exotic than in either of the previous 2 Bond films. Miss Andrea easily beats Rosie in the secondary Bond girl category. J.W. Pepper is equally brilliant in both. And Scaramanga is a strong contender for my favorite Bond villain.

    All good points!

    Thanks. I forgot to mention that Q was back for his first appearances in the Moore era, another plus in TMWTGG's favor.

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    The Man With The Golden Gun.

    Live and Let Die just doesn't do it for me for some reason. I can't even put a finger on why. Though, the book is relatively good. Slow, but good. (like TMWTGG)
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    23-7. LALD is really beating out TMWTGG;
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    And it continues. LALD.
  • LALD. Better music, better Moore performance, no fake nipples, kung-fu teenagers or JW Pepper. Oh, and Solitaire :D
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    JW Pepper wasn't in LALD?
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Wow, he dominated an entire action sequence!
  • QsAssistantQsAssistant All those moments lost in time... like tears in rain
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    =))
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    25-7, LALD.
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    25-7, LALD.

    Yeah, we'll go ahead and end this one, thanks again for the score @Agent007391, it's heavily appreciated! I was very interested to see what everybody thought between these two. I thought we'd have a little higher voting percentage for TMWTGG, but I guess not! Anyway, good to see the votes for the bigger winner, LALD!

    All right, let's keep it moving here, and this time it'll be a Connery face-off between:

    You Only Live Twice vs. Diamonds Are Forever
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    Diamonds Are Forever
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