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

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  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond. As the closing credits end on DAD, i'm still waiting to be convinced by Brosnan.
  • edited May 2012 Posts: 11,189
    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond. As the closing credits end on DAD, i'm still waiting to be convinced by Brosnan.

    I'm convinced Brosnan is Bond when he looks down at Alec from the antenna in GE.

    Other instances:
    -walking out of M's office in GE
    -floating elegantly in the water at the spa in GE
    -Getting out the car after bashing Xenia in GE ("sweet dreams")
    -walking to the hotel from the car park in TND
    -Moving around in the office in TWINE
    -Meeting with M in the tunnel in DAD

    Never quite "got that" with Dalts for some reason. Its all to do with how he moved on camera.
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    TLD
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond. As the closing credits end on DAD, i'm still waiting to be convinced by Brosnan.

    I'm convinced Brosnan is Bond when he looks down at Alec from the antenna in GE.

    Other instances:
    -walking out of M's office in GE
    -floating elegantly in the water at the spa in GE
    -Getting out the car after bashing Xenia in GE ("sweet dreams")
    -walking to the hotel from the car park in TND
    -Moving around in the office in TWINE
    -Meeting with M in the tunnel in DAD

    Never quite "got that" with Dalts for some reason. Its all to do with how he moved on camera.

    Brosnan had some ok moments, but I could never point and say that is James Bond. To pick one scene, Dalton has the Pushkin hotel room. The way he moved, the way he looked, the way he owned the screen. Cold, calculating and in complete controll of what was going on around him.

    Brosnan just never got a handle on Bond imo, too much time was wasted making his Bond out to be a tribute to Connery & Moore. Rather him let him figure out how he wanted to play Bond.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    TLD for being a supremely better film.
  • edited May 2012 Posts: 11,189
    BAIN123 wrote:
    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond. As the closing credits end on DAD, i'm still waiting to be convinced by Brosnan.

    I'm convinced Brosnan is Bond when he looks down at Alec from the antenna in GE.

    Other instances:
    -walking out of M's office in GE
    -floating elegantly in the water at the spa in GE
    -Getting out the car after bashing Xenia in GE ("sweet dreams")
    -walking to the hotel from the car park in TND
    -Moving around in the office in TWINE
    -Meeting with M in the tunnel in DAD

    Never quite "got that" with Dalts for some reason. Its all to do with how he moved on camera.

    Brosnan had some ok moments, but I could never point and say that is James Bond. To pick one scene, Dalton has the Pushkin hotel room. The way he moved, the way he looked, the way he owned the screen. Cold, calculating and in complete controll of what was going on around him.

    Brosnan just never got a handle on Bond imo, too much time was wasted making his Bond out to be a tribute to Connery & Moore. Rather him let him figure out how he wanted to play Bond.

    What about the scene with Dr Kaulfman? The little smile he gives to Dr K. Plus the exchange. "You have a doctorate in that too?" "No, no no...this is more like a hobby...but I'm very gifted", "oh I believe you".

    Plus the final line "me too". If that doesn't convince you I don't know what will. THAT is Bond. Showing calm when under pressure and faced with death but also able to kill someone without hesitation.

    Was watching TWINE the other night too. The "I never miss" line is great.


    In agree with the scene with Pushkin in TLD though. Cracking stuff (though the scene with Red Grant and Connery in FRWL or the CR PTS is better in my book :p ).
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    What about the scene with Dr Kaulfman? The little smile he gives to Dr K. Plus the exchange. "You have a doctorate in that too?" "No, no no...this is more like a hobby...but I'm very gifted", "oh I believe you".

    Plus the final line "me too". If that doesn't convince you I don't know what will. THAT is Bond. Showing calm when under pressure and faced with death but also able to kill someone without hesitation.

    Was watching TWINE the other night too. The "I never miss" line is great.

    Well, nothing from his era does, really. Like I said, he had some ok moments (confronting Kauffman, waiting for Paris, the whole printing press scene, escpaing from the bankers office). But they're just that, ok. The 1995 to 2002 era could have been so much better, had the series not been stuck in reverse gear.
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    What about the scene with Dr Kaulfman? The little smile he gives to Dr K. Plus the exchange. "You have a doctorate in that too?" "No, no no...this is more like a hobby...but I'm very gifted", "oh I believe you".

    Plus the final line "me too". If that doesn't convince you I don't know what will. THAT is Bond. Showing calm when under pressure and faced with death but also able to kill someone without hesitation.

    Was watching TWINE the other night too. The "I never miss" line is great.

    Well, nothing from his era does, really. Like I said, he had some ok moments (confronting Kauffman, waiting for Paris, the whole printing press scene, escpaing from the bankers office). But they're just that, ok. The 1995 to 2002 era could have been so much better, had the series not been stuck in reverse gear.

    Agree. HOWEVER I do feel Brozza had some great moments in the part. One thing is certain though - he's much slicker than Dalts is.
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    TLD easily. Although I am one of the few people who actually like TWINE.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    TLD

    I rate TWINE extremely low on my Bond list. TLD, by comparison, I treasure as a solid, satisfyingly exciting Bond film.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited May 2012 Posts: 13,978
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Agree. HOWEVER I do feel Brozza had some great moments in the part. One thing is certain though - he's much slicker than Dalts is.

    That's true. But then that isn't necessarily a good quality.
  • edited May 2012 Posts: 11,189
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Agree. HOWEVER I do feel Brozza had some great moments in the part. One thing is certain though - he's much slicker than Dalts is.

    That's true. But then that isn't necessarily a good quality.

    Well it does help if you're going to be a star. Connery was slick too and he's continually seen as the king!
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    This one's hard, but I supose that TLD gets this one... However, both of them are regular Bond films, not within the best but not the worst either...
    15.The World Is Not Enough
    14. Goldfinger
    13. The Living Daylights
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    This one is easy. Top end stuff against bottom end stuff.
    TLD.
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    TWINE, but not by very much. It could have been so much better if the drama was scrapped though. I prefer the other three Brosnan movies.
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    This one should be a slaughter: The Living Daylights without question!!!!
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
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    TWINE is my 9th favourite Bond film, whereas TLD is my 5th, but I'm going to go against the grain and vote for the underdog.

    TWINE.
  • DB5DB5
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    TLD is the better film by far. Great PTS in Gibraltar, sniper scene is almost directly from Fleming short story, fantastic song, milkman assault on MI6 compound one of the best, Bond car even better than "Goldfinger," and Dalton the best James Bond since Connery in TB.
  • Couple of thoughts-

    1. Goldfinger should have won the last round, it's amazing how some of the younger bunch around here disrespect the film and the music that made the series iconic. How times have changed...

    2. The Living Daylights, easily. Before I state why, it often seems that people vote for a film based on the lead actor rather than the total experience each film brings. I am of the latter species, which is why I have for example OHMSS at #6- the worst Bond actor ever, yet it truly is one of the greatest Bond films ever. So in comparison to TWINE, TLD succeeds far better as a Bond film on many levels. If I may quote from Haserot, the biggest difference is both the script and the plot. Both operate on a storyline based on many levels of deception, but TLD on first and even second viewing keeps the viewer guessing who are the good guys and who aren't. Whereas with TWINE, the minute Bond encounters Renard and he utters the "what's the point of living" bit, it's over for everyone. Even Bond knows Elektra can't be trusted. Why doesn't he then notify M? So she can fool M next, the minute she calls M you know that that's going to happen. Then there's the melodrama of the relationships. Where on one hand we have a fresh faced and generally innocent Kara falling in love with Bond in a genuinely believable sense, in TWINE we have Bond wiping away a computer tear and acting like a lovesick fool to the point of screwing Warmflash and being disrespectful to M so he can be near Elektra. TLD has better villains (which says how underdeveloped Renard truly is), better music (although parts of TWINE's soundtrack are quite good and Bondian on their own), and is just flat out a superior effort that is generally considered a top 10 and in my case, a top 5 effort.
  • edited May 2012 Posts: 3,494
    BAIN123 wrote:
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Agree. HOWEVER I do feel Brozza had some great moments in the part. One thing is certain though - he's much slicker than Dalts is.

    That's true. But then that isn't necessarily a good quality.

    Well it does help if you're going to be a star. Connery was slick too and he's continually seen as the king!

    And he is! :D
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    BAIN123 wrote:
    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond. As the closing credits end on DAD, i'm still waiting to be convinced by Brosnan.

    I'm convinced Brosnan is Bond when he looks down at Alec from the antenna in GE.

    Other instances:
    -walking out of M's office in GE
    -floating elegantly in the water at the spa in GE
    -Getting out the car after bashing Xenia in GE ("sweet dreams")
    -walking to the hotel from the car park in TND
    -Moving around in the office in TWINE
    -Meeting with M in the tunnel in DAD

    Never quite "got that" with Dalts for some reason. Its all to do with how he moved on camera.

    Brosnan had some ok moments, but I could never point and say that is James Bond. To pick one scene, Dalton has the Pushkin hotel room. The way he moved, the way he looked, the way he owned the screen. Cold, calculating and in complete controll of what was going on around him.

    Brosnan just never got a handle on Bond imo, too much time was wasted making his Bond out to be a tribute to Connery & Moore. Rather him let him figure out how he wanted to play Bond.

    What about the scene with Dr Kaulfman? The little smile he gives to Dr K. Plus the exchange. "You have a doctorate in that too?" "No, no no...this is more like a hobby...but I'm very gifted", "oh I believe you".

    Plus the final line "me too". If that doesn't convince you I don't know what will. THAT is Bond. Showing calm when under pressure and faced with death but also able to kill someone without hesitation.

    Was watching TWINE the other night too. The "I never miss" line is great.


    In agree with the scene with Pushkin in TLD though. Cracking stuff (though the scene with Red Grant and Connery in FRWL or the CR PTS is better in my book :p ).

    I think Brosnan and Dalton are brilliant. But Dalton was a tiny bit better imo because he was more original with the part. Brosnan was slick and cool and really convinced me that he was Bond, but DAD let him down and I just prefer Dalton's Bond overall.

    I don't see the fuss about the CR PTS. It has Craig talking quietly, it's shot in black and white for no reason and there's a good fight. That's about it.
  • The CR PTS is particularly impressive to me because it reminds me a lot of Connery's rubout of Professor Dent- cold and efficient. Personally, I disagree with the black/white filming- didn't make much sense to film noir that scene and not the rest of the movie.

    Brosnan had some fine moments, the Kauffman scene is certainly one of those as is the killing of Elektra. But they were too far and few in between and he never seems too comfortable and natural. Dalton was much more convincing in that respect, although there were certainly some things he was not good at.

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    It's weird with Dalton. I think watching him in his two films I prefer him in TLD.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited May 2012 Posts: 6,275
    TLD.

    I gave you every break possible. You had better than a 50-50 chance. You weren't even close.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
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    BAIN123 wrote:
    TLD. It's just the better written, better made film.
    HASEROT wrote:
    The Living Daylights is superior to TWINE on almost every conceivable level..

    Daylights has the better plot
    Daylights has the better girl
    Daylights has the slightly better villain
    Daylights has the better score
    and..
    Daylights has the better Bond


    I appreciate the effort that TWINE put forth, and what it was trying to accomplish and go for... but ultimately it fell flat.. it was an attempt to add more emotional depth and complexity to not only Bond himself, but the plot - neither worked, because they tried to confine it all to the traditional formula... in the end, we get a mishmash of who knows what - and a film that struggles to have an identity... it's still entertaining to watch... but not often.

    IMO, The Living Daylights is the best Bond film between itself and Casino Royale.
    doubleoego wrote:
    TLD because it's the better film. Period.
    TLD.

    By the end of the PTS i'm convinced Dalton is Bond.

    Seconded to all these comments. TLD, easily.


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    Bond: TWINE
    PTS: TWINE
    Title Song: TLD
    Villains: TLD
    Action: Close, but I say TWINE
    Girls: Neither are great, but in terms of looks, TWINE
    Gadgets: TLD
    Locations: TLD

    Oh dip, it's a tie. Well, I'll step out of this one, I can't decide. I rank them both pretty closely.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    The Living Daylights.
  • QsAssistantQsAssistant All those moments lost in time... like tears in rain
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    The World Is Not Enough

    I love both films and TLD is Dalton's best but TWINE is just slightly better.

    To add to the conversation above, Brosnan always felt like Bond to me, from the opening of GE to the end of DAD. Dalton only felt like Bond in TLD. LTK, while still a good one, felt like any action hero from the 80's could of done that role, like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, or Seagal.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    A non contest.
    The Living Daylights by a landslide.
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    The Living Daylights easily.
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