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Moore is ok but I didn't find him particularly memorable here. There's a rigid-ness to his performance and it feels like he's trying as hard as he can to come off as aggressive and forceful. It doesn't really work despite a few good moments ("so speak or forever hold your piece").
All this is before the truely abysmal "comedy" in the second half. Easily in the bottom 3 for me. Parts of it are ok but others are truly hideous.
As time marches on, I find myself finding thinking that FYEO might eventually
become my favourite Moore Bond, despite the 'fun' elements of some of his others. If ONLY it had a Barry score...
:-\"
Live and Let Die was really funny and serious at the same time for me. It had great solemn scenes like when Tee Hee was about to cut off Bond's fingers but also had really good comedy throughout too.
023. A View to a Kill
022. Moonraker
021. Tomorrow Never Dies
020. Die Another Day
019. Octopussy
018. Diamonds Are Forever
017. Thunderball
016. For Your Eyes Only
015. The Man with the Golden Gun
014. The Living Daylights
013. The World is Not Enough
012. From Russia with Love
011. You Only Live Twice
010. Live and Let Die
009. Quantum of Solace
008. Licence to Kill
007. Dr. No
006. GoldenEye
005. The Spy Who Loved Me
004. Goldfinger
003. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
002. Skyfall
001. Casino Royale
So low?
HULK SMASH!!!
You already knew I didn't like it haha we've had this discussion before.
Sorry for the repetitive smash then. ;)
If it makes you feel better I don't really have a preference of Tomorrow Never Dies or Die Another Day; they're interchangeable.
Most of your critiques ring true to some extent.
I do rank it top 9 mainly because I like the vibe of the film. Its both Bond escapist but with a spooky feel at times too. Its gets my attention. Barry's score is a real plus in terms of generating suspense and creating mood. Barry's score does draw me into several scenes.
And I do like the Guy Hamilton touch. He goes for the eccentric characters and colour - but with much emphasis on danger and suspense too. There is much of the benign bizarre as @perilaguKhan might say.
Hamilton deftly mixes the camp-danger blend, as well as any of the Bond directors I think.
But this film could have been a lot better too. Hamilton I think was much more at ease directing Connery in GF and DAF. And he got a decent performance out of Moore in LALD too.
But Sean was the perfect dangerous foil for the campier more escapist elements that Hamilton likes to bring.
I think Hamilton was trying to keep a lid on Moore's more Saint like tendencies and make him dangerous, but this time with mixed results.
So low??
Hulk will get back to you later.
@Birdleson you must have my favorite ranking from anyone (besides myself). Don't agree 100% obviously but I understand why most of it is the way it is. Also liked the tie between OHMSS and CR - fantastic films. Good list!
Hulk follows no rules. I don't control him; just a friendly FYI.
It was a joke. All good fun here. I was called Maniac Murdock for having Die Another Day in my top 10 several years ago. :))
TOO LOW HULK SMASH!!!
1 CR
2 SF up from 4
3 OHMSS down from 2
4 FRWL down from 3
5 LTK up from 9
6 GF down from 5
7 GE down from 6
8 TLD up from 10
9 DN down from 6
10TSWLM down from 8
11TB
12LALD
13FYEO up from 14
14QOS up from 17
15OP up from 16
16TWINE down from 15
17YOLT down from 13
18TND up from 19
19TMWTGG down from 18
20AVTAK up from 21
21DAF up from 22
22MR down from 20
23DAD
See everyone? He just ruined it for the rest of you!
[-(
But they should have been!
I see it the other way around. During the Brosnan era Babs and Michael were just concerned about keeping the show on the road. Rather than making decent Bond movies, they were focused on making money and not repeating any of the perceived mistakes surrounding the Dalton era.
Only with the decision to ditch Brosnan did they start to show any real interest in the quality of the movies, which had become tired pastiches of themselves (as had happened to an extent during Roger's tenure at its worst - difference being Roger was a legend).
They were after the fact.
After the screening Barbara & Michael look at each other: *facepalm*
Bourne was also going on in the background, which I think must have had an effect on them.
That was there driving influence. It's mentioned in the Casino Royale documentaries I believe.
What I don't understand is if they liked Bourne, and Babs was such a big fan of Dalton (didn't they go out for a while), and MGW had all those years of experience, why did they allow the Brosnan era to drift in the direction that it did?
I guess they sort of toyed with a more 'serious' approach with TWINE, but it was total damp squib of a movie and Brosnan clearly struggled with anything beyond machine guns and pain face.
I disagree about TWINE but most of Die Another Day's failures were because of Tamahori. He was a firm believer in the code-name theory and I guess liked the wacky over the top elements.
:))
That we may never know. Which is a shame too because Die Another Day did have some good ideas. Bond being captured and tortured for 14 months, getting shafted by MI6, Having an MI6 agent work with the villain even the Ice Palace was cool. But when you mix it up with Invisible cars, magic plastic surgery and a sassy NSA agent all goes to hell fast.