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  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,127
    I love Grant but is he really underrated? If he is shame on everyone underrating him!
  • AceHoleAceHole Belgium, via Britain
    edited December 2014 Posts: 1,731
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I love Grant but is he really underrated? If he is shame on everyone underrating him!

    I think he is underrated in the sense that Oddjob & Jaws always get more mentions than him (generally speaking). Whereas Grant was by far the more cunning and dangerous henchman.

  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,127
    AceHole wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    I love Grant but is he really underrated? If he is shame on everyone underrating him!

    I think he is underrated in the sense that Oddjob & Jaws always get more mentions than him (generally speaking). Whereas Grant was by far the more cunning and dangerous henchman.

    Not to mention the fight he has with Bond blows the other two out of the water.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
    Posts: 1,003
    Been watching a lot of the old Bond films lately.. Oh Her Majestys Secret Service is so incredibly underrated!!
    The title track is also one of my favorites. I know Lazenby was only around for one film but I think it is in the top 10.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited December 2014 Posts: 17,804
    Most underrated movie: Licence To Kill.
    Yes, some funny stuff with the bar fight & the X-ray Polaroid laser, but mainly it's Bond at his badass best, throwing down and very nearly sacrificing his LIFE to avenge the maiming of his friend & the killing of his friend's Wife, (and in effect Tracy's death as well which he could never fully recover from). This was Bond off the hook & daring the end if it came.
    Only QOS comes close for me,

  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,127
    Reading some comments in other threads, I now think the first four movies, with the exception of GF, are cruelly underrated.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Reading some comments in other threads, I now think the first four movies, with the exception of GF, are cruelly underrated.

    I'll agree with you re DN (which actually gets better and better as the years pass) and FRWL which is probably not underrated here but certainly is by the general population.

    It's fashionable to slag off GF these days and whilst I have to say it has dropped off for me in recent years and I now find it quite dull that's just saying it doesn't have rewatchability. Go back to the first couple of times you saw it and it blew you away at the time.

    TB I've never liked. Yes technically it's a tour de force but Fiona apart it's rather plodding. Given its the biggest Bond of all in terms of box office (or has SF surpassed it now?) it is curious it is largely forgotten by the public, which I think is testament to its tediousness.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,127
    I meant that GF is not underrated, I was not commenting on its intrinsic quality. As for TB, I don't think it is forgotten nowadays, but I consider it underrated: you have a more pro active Bond, a better constructed antagonism with the villain (and a love triangle), plenty of investigation, a simple yet large scale and a seemingly plausible plot, there is a lot to love.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,585
    Most Underrated Bond Film: LTK and DAF
    Most Underrated Title Track: DAF
    Most Underrated Title Credits: TWINE
    Most Underrated PTS: TB
    Most Underrated Score: DAF
    Most Underrated Villain: Stromberg (maybe the most insane of the insane Bond villains)
    Most Underrated Ally: Paula (how/why Bond didn't sleep with her is a mystery)
    Most Underrated Bond Girl: Fields
    Most Underrated Minor Character: Dreyfus (Honorable Mention: the nameless cab driver in LALD: "For twenty dollars, I'll take you to a Ku Klux Klan meeting!")
    Most Underrated Henchman: Dario and Vargas (tie)
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    Posts: 9,020
    Most Underrated Bond Film: OHMSS, although not as much as years ago but still too underrated.

    Most Underrated Title Track: Licence To Kill
    Most Underrated Title Credits: Dr.No
    Most Underrated PTS: FYEO
    Most Underrated Score: Skyfall
    Most Underrated Villain: Dominic Greene
    Most Underrated Ally: Wai Linn
    Most Underrated Bond Girl: Pam Bouvier
    Most Underrated Minor Character: Blofeld's cat
    Most Underrated Henchman: Elvis...nah joke :P, that's Stamper
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
    edited September 2015 Posts: 5,080
    Most Underrated Bond Film: Take a punt. *
    Most Underrated Title Track: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
    Most Underrated Title Credits: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
    Most Underrated PTS: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
    Most Underrated Score: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
    Most Underrated Villain: KRISTATOS
    Most Underrated Bond Girl: MELINA HAVELOCK
    Most Underrated Minor Character: So many...
    -DN: Man dancing frantically at Pussfeller's bar
    -DAF: Canal boat tour operator in Amsterdam ("that's why it's called the skinny bridge")
    -DAF: Mrs Whistler
    -DAF: Morton Slumber
    -DAF: Shady Tree
    -DAF: Circus Circus stall holder ("you're a little out of your league, aren't ya sister?)
    -DAF: Klaus Hergersheimer
    -DAF: Moonscape Set Operator
    -DAF: Dentist patient
    -LALD: Mrs Bell
    -LALD: Mr Bleaker
    -LALD: Fillet of Soul barman
    -LALD: Cab driver
    -LALD: Bride
    -LALD: Oyster truck driver
    -LALD: The overly mysterious Oh Cult Voodoo shopkeeper
    -TMWTGG: "oh a surprise!" room service man
    Most Underrated Henchman: MAY DAY
    A View to a Kill
  • dominicgreenedominicgreene The Eternal QOS Defender
    Posts: 1,756
    The most underrated Bond related thing ever: George Lazenby. I can't for the life of me see how people hate his performance, especially considering he's never acted before. People overexaggerate his "terrible" performance immensely.
  • SJK91SJK91
    edited September 2015 Posts: 1,310
    dominicgreene wrote: »
    The most underrated Bond related thing ever: George Lazenby. I can't for the life of me see how people hate his performance, especially considering he's never acted before. People overexaggerate his "terrible" performance immensely.
    Certainly not terrible at all, but rather, uneven.

    Still, when Lazenby was on point (particularly the final scene of the film) he was quite good.
  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
    Posts: 1,130
    Most Underrated Bond Film: Die Another Day. I think its a very good movie for people who just want to have good time watching a movie without thinking too much and i think its still much more of a Bond movie than Quantum of Solace.

    Most Underrated Title Track: A view to kill.
    Most Underrated Title Credits: Die another Day
    Most Underrated PTS:
    Most Underrated Score: GE (ok not all of it works but what does is excellent IMO)
    Most Underrated Villain: Franz Sanchez
    Most Underrated Ally: Pushkin (TLD)
    Most Underrated Bond Girl: Sylvia Trench
    Most Underrated Minor Character: Dr Kauffman
    Most Underrated Henchman: Stamper
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    In what way is the Duran Duran song underrated?
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    Posts: 9,020
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    In what way is the Duran Duran song underrated?

    If there is only one existing Top Bond theme list where AVTAK is not No 1 then it's highly underrated.

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    It ended up no. six in our elimination game. The top five were:

    1 THE JAMES BOND THEME
    2 ON HER MAJESTY S SECRET SERVICE
    3 GOLDFINGER
    4 LIVE AND LET DIE
    5 NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

    Die Another Day ended up last, just because Brosnan was the performer.

  • SzonanaSzonana Mexico
    Posts: 1,130
    [quote="Thunderfinger;488645
    BondJasonBond006 wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    In what way is the Duran Duran song underrated?

    If there is only one existing Top Bond theme list where AVTAK is not No 1 then it's highly underrated.

    In the way that ive seen how often if a Bond movie is generslly hatted then so its the main theme song just like Die Another Day actually i was thinking of saying that one.
    I didnt want to make thid thread about a defense id DAD.

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