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Got to say, while For Your Eyes Only is a very good Bond adventure, and for once - Moore actually takes things seriously - I could never place it in the top three. Second best seems a bit of a nonsense, with all due respect to @Perdogg
It's one of the best James Bond releases of the 1980s, but I think that's about all I'll allow it right now. Enjoyed Moonraker, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun more, for Roger Moore Bond adventures
It's good, but I don't think it's that good. It's let down by the comedic opening and closing scenes - which don't really fit with the dark tone of the rest of the movie. And I happen to love Conti's score. I don't want Barry to do every film. I like to hear it mixed up every now and then, and Conti's slightly disco score was great.
Also, Conti composed the best gunbarrel piece in the entire series!
Controversial ... hmmm.
I'm happy that in Skyfall, Moneypenny and Bond's level of intimacy was left ambiguous; I prefer it that way.
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There has been some complaints about the PTS, but I read in the "Battle for Bond" the PTS was a message from EON that they were done with Blofeld. I do not think the faux Maggie was no worse than "Christmas comes twice a year" bit. The music is dated, but the song at the pool (written by Conti's wife) is hilarious.
I wish that EON took the scripting approach to the new movies - clean, clear, and concise story with the right amount of toughness and why not a bit of humour?
That's how I feel. Didn't they even shoot more to the scene that made it seem like something did happen, but then they cut it because they wanted it to seem ambiguous? It should only be seen that it didn't happen.
She was barely on screen enough to make a difference. This was part of the problem with SF, it was very ambivalent towards women and sexuality.
That's what I think too. Even Fleming himself could only say that he "supposed" they could have had a brief affair, so if he didn't know...there was no evidence on screen to say it did...it is a bit ambiguous to be sure but it leans more towards nothing happened based on all of this.
Aside from your clueless comment about humor in SF, for which there was a ton of great humor reminiscent of Connery in tone and delivery and a sight gag that it made sense to have in comparison to Jaws, Bondolas, winking pigeons, etc, you've made some good points in this FYEO quote. The PTS absolutely was a message to McGlory that they didn't need Blofeld to continue their success, and it was done in such a way that he and everyone who knew the character knew it was him without saying so, and legally he could do nothing about it, which had to have driven him crazy :))
Poor Janet Brown really takes a beating around here for aping Thatcher and doing a great job of doing so. People who don't understand it miss the point there or maybe just didn't like the concept- Frederick Gray would invariably do or say something to irk Bond, and at the end Bond would always find a way to make him pay for it. Just par for the course 1977-1981, personally I found those moments humorous and don't mind them a bit. The Jones line was however typical of the pathetic attempts at comedy by P&W in TWINE save Zukovsky, and fell flat on it's face.
At one time I think I had FYEO ranked #2 behind OHMSS. Now it is #12. But mid-pack Bond is still dam' good entertainment, IMO.
After TB I'd agree that Connery just didn't give a crap but his first 4 movies and he often cites this in related interviews, Connery went for a performance that made it look easy and natural. I like Dalton, he's a great Bond but in both his performances I saw Dalton acting lithe you've essentially said. With Connery he became and was Bond. Connery knows how to and did work his butt off the difference is he made it look easy which is an accomplishment in itself.
I thought it was the other way round, that they shot more to make it ambiguous. I do think it never happened either, however I remember an interview with Lois Maxwell saying that she and Connery played the role as if they had a liaison in the past, but this had ended.
-While I appreciate more LTK than I did at first, I still don't consider it a very good Bond movie.
-The PTS of TWINE is not that great, partially because it is overlong.
-QOS, although flawed, is still a solid movie.
-Onatop is a caricature of a femme fatale and overall a poor Bond girl.
I don't like TWINE's PTS at all. Once you get beyond the scenes with Lachaise it deteriorates badly. As you say, it's too long; additionally, it is convoluted and the boat chase is generic Brosnan Bond action. Overall, it's vastly overrated.
I'm also a bit iffy on Xenia. I don't dislike her as I used to, but still think she's a bit grotesque--she goes beyond the Benign Bizarre. The S&M scene with Farrell is one of the worst in series history, and that from a guy who loves GE.
I should clarify that I like NSNA only slightly better than OP. I don't fault anyone who reaches the opposite conclusion.
You've basically just summed up all the reasons I think NSNA is so unfairly dismissed by a lot of people.
*Diamonds Are Forever is one of the worst Bond films in the series. Although it has a wonderful script, the story, direction, special effects and in some cases acting are all below par.
*Guy Hamilton is the weakest of the directors.
*A View To A Kill is not nearly as bad as some make it out to be.
*Timothy Dalton is the only actor to date to play James Bond closest to that of Ian Fleming's James Bond. Possibly the best actor to play OO7.
*O.H.M.S.S IS a top three Bond film.
*GoldenEye is hugely overrated.
Die Another Day had one of the most promising PTS, but of course, the rest is history with the tsunami surfing, invisible car, the DNA lab, and the robot suit. Rosmund Pike was wasted in this travesty.
Skyfall was so blatantly influenced by The Dark Knight series. In fact, this is no secret, I think is it controversial that any one disputes this. I guess I will be called a chiroptophobia along with sexist and craig-hater.
Maybe GE is the best of Brosnan Bonds, but I do find it overrated myself, although maybe not hugely. I never thought Bond seemed that much in danger except when he fights 006 at the end, and even then, he is James Bond, the best of the 00, so Trevelyan could only have been the second best. And Onatop is a caricature. Overall, I love the movie, I adored it when it was first released, but it has weaknesses.
I say this based on the fact a lot of Bond fans I have met tend to feel the opposite. I've always thought her to be one of the least good looking, even in The Avengers as Emma Peel, the catsuit just wasn't enough I'm afraid. I always thought she had a slightly weathered smoker's face and her nose is distractingly upturned. I'd rank most Bond girls above her in terms of looks. I'd lump her in with Ekland as being wildly overrated.
I don't dispute that but since I've only seen the first of the Dark Knight series, it's nothing that bothers me. You're right; it's not controversial to make that observation. However, if a lot of originality was required for Bond films, we wouldn't have any Bond films.
I don't dispute the Skyfall/TDK comparison and feel it's a valid criticism. I certainly don't think it qualifies you as a Craig hater either. It's just endemic to Hollywood, there's just not a lot of originality period to be found. The amount of remakes of different movies done some years ago is proof of that.