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Me too. It's also the soundtrack I listen to most.
Both are iconic and glorious entries into the Bondian oeuvre. Both have similar styles/tones to them, i.e. not quite as "gritty"* as the Terence Young directed films. And YOLT is the natural progression to the gadgets and spectacle in GF. All in all, both top notch pieces of entertainment. Also they feature, two of my fav implementations of the theme songs. Plus, you know, Sir Ken Adam RIP.
If anyone else has a double feature to me to try out, feel free to suggest it. Although, FRWL, GF, YOLT, the Craig films, Spy, OHMSS, TWINE and GG are off limits, due to me only just watching them in the past month.
*I've included the word "gritty" just to annoy @NicNac
So, Bond's penis saved the American economy, and Kissy saved the world! And on that bombshell...
That was my train of thought, too.
I wasn't planning on doing a Bondathon, but it's increasingly becoming one. After watching SP a few nights ago, I decided to pop in the film it reminds me the most of, ironically from the Brosnan era, and that's TND.
I've always enjoyed this film as the action spectacle it is. It's pure exhilaration from start to finish with a series of lavish action set pieces.
It starts off brilliantly with a superb pretitles sequence that could have come right out of the Moore era (TSWLM/OP combo imho), and then moves at a very fast clip on to the Devonshire sinking by the Stealth boat, Bond messing with Carver in Hamburg, Bond in Vietnam, and of course, the stealth boat finale.
This time around, while I still enjoyed it, I found it less appealing than on the last watch. The reason being, I noticed more clearly that nearly every major scene is a direct repeat of a scene in a previous Bond film. Heavily influenced by Gilbert (TSWLM in particular), but also Glen's FYEO (the Devonshire sinking reminds me of the St. Georges sinking in that film, and the dive to retrieve the ATAC, with subsequent capture by Kristatos' men also reminds me of the Devonshire diving incident here). Bond in naval gear, GPS tracking, brushing up on Danish rather than Swiss, stealth boat finale (TSWLM again) etc. I realize that previous Bond films have taken ideas from their predecessors, but most often they improve on them or try to hide the cribbing more - that's really not the case here, where everything is too obviously copied. Moreover, the scale seems 'smaller' than Gilbert's best, and without the lavish cinematography of his films, which doesn't help.
The finale is also a bit weak, as has been noted by others here. It's just one big shooting fest. Moreover, this is the film where Bond is seen on several occassions twirling a machine gun around with one hand - Bond as Arnie, in other words.
Brosnan is in fine form at the start, and imbues his Bond with a sense of urgency and youthful vigour befitting the crisis to be resolved. He doesn't have Moore's gravitas though, and given the film is very similar to TSWLM, I notice that very clearly. I like Pryce's Elliot Carver (I realize I'm in the minority here) and always have. He's eccentric, megalomaniacal, and very OTT. I'm not that impressed with Michelle Yeoh's Wai Lin, but that's really only because I found her very action oriented without much glamorous allure - she's ok. Teri Hatcher is useless, and shouldn't have been in this film (rumoured Monica Belluci would have aced it, as she did in SP). Vincent Schiavelli, Gotz Otto & Ricky Jay are all excellent henchman/villains.
At the end of it all, I much prefer this film to SP, which is what it reminds me the most of. They both try to do the same thing, which is essentially pastiche, but I think TND is much more successful at it, because the action was and is far superior.
It also remains a derivative and very predictable film, and that is its biggest flaw imho. It never once surpasses Gilbert's best work, but rather seems like a 'lite' homage in nearly every scene. Still, entertaining fun enough.
The only thing to point out is that Connery really doesn't look the same in the 6 year gap. I mean he was 34 during TB and 40 during DAF and I know people age, but the difference is very striking.
I agree, Conti's score makes it almost unwatchable at times.
Funny, its because of Conti's score that I have a hard time getting into FYEO. However, the gunbarrel theme is among the best of the series, but the music during the ski chase and the Citroen chase really turns me off.
In fact, I think very highly of Hamlisch's work on that film. I like the LTK score by Kamen as well.
Nicely done @DaltonCraig007
Ive seen those as a double feature and its a great but a little odd experience because it feels like you haven't changed the film. It feels like a very long Bond flick but just the actors change.
I really enjoy both films very much and i confirmed that i do love both actirs very much Daniel and Pierce.
I loved how in Spectre Daniel finally had fun and showed his sense of humor, because of spectre now i apreciate his other 3 films much more and with Pierce it's definitely his most confident performance as Both and he tottaly feels like he is James Bond and helps the audience to believe it.
Man do I love these 2 films, close to 10 times I've made this double feature in 2016. Pierce Brosnan is the man, what a total legend. The action, the villains, the locations, the soundtracks... Pure entertainment for 4 hours.
Licence to Kill
Oh dear. This is the first time I have ever watched LTK and had it actually bother me at all. The things I handwaved in the past now stand as genuine flaws/issues. It's still in my top ten, but it's dropped a couple, more due to other films going above it.
From today...
GoldenEye
I still stand by Brosnan being wooden in this one. But, the plot is perfect - perhaps the best of any Bond film - and I still love Serra's score. Ladies First even made sense for me as it went on. And we all know why this film is brilliant.
Live and Let Die
So in the Ultimate Edition sets, LALD comes in the same box as GoldenEye. I decided just through that happenstance to put it on. I never watch this one unless I'm going through all of them, and it turns out there's a reason for it... this film stinks. It is awful, front to back. There is not a worse trifecta - not even close - than DAF/LALD/TMWTGG. Three clunkers in a row. This is the least bad of the three, but it's still real, real bad. Bottom five for sure.