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1. For Your Eyes Only
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. Live and Let Die
4. Octopussy
5. The Man with the Golden Gun
6. A View to a Kill
7. Moonraker
1. The Man with The Golden Gun
2. Live and Let Die
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. Moonraker
6. Octopussy
7. A View To A Kill
In terms of films qualities:
1. For Your Eyes Only
2. Moonraker
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. Live and Let Die
5. The Man with The Golden Gun
6. Octopussy
7. A View To A Kill
Guess my next Bond movie will be SP on January 1. My backwards Bondathon begins then; after watching OHMSS as a holiday treat, I'm holding off on watching any others until then.
It's his last two I find very boring.
-"Fill her up, please!", "SIT!", body bag scare, etc.; basically his comedy gold in OP. Has some silly stuff that really worked for me.
-Interactions with Khan in OP; really good chemistry.
-Some scene standouts in OP: Casino scene, bidding for the egg, revenge for 009, stopping the bomb.
-Intense interactions with Zorin in AVTAK.
-Near-death scenes in AVTAK (underwater with the car, in the mines); he did a really good job in these scenes in particular.
Ah, also the watch check scene in OP, whilst Bond is disguised as a gorilla. So daft, but I canne help but laugh.
This could be said about several Bond films.
@bondjames Yeah, a film is missing between QoS and Sf. I suck at ranking things, so I've got Connery, Moore and Dalton basically tied in first place, then Brosnan and then Craig. I think Craig is damn good, but as cool as he is, I overall prefer the more overt, playful charm of Brosnan. And for me, Craig stumbled a bit with Skyfall, coming across as disengaged, while Brosnan was always "on" in his performances. My preference between them could be reversed depending on Bond 25, though. Of course you dislike his performance in Sp, but I personally hope he continues to inject a more humorous, playful vibe into the role of Bond, even if Bond 25 turns out to be a more serious, dramatic entry than Sp.
I at least hope the producers inject B25 with some serious supporting charisma and edge (which was sorely missing in SP imho). That will really help me enjoy the film, which more than anything I'd like to do.
Brosnan definitely wasn't as bad as some make him out to be. He had some really crappy films though and he overdid it a bit. When he underplayed, he was very good. I think he just lacked confidence, which he finally found in DAD.
I'd say the thing with Barry is that he would usually aim for the "heart" of a scene through extensive use of long-lined melodies, but that would come at the cost of that which you call inmediacy and vibrancy. His music would capture the pace and spirit of the scene, but wouldn't follow the action too closely. Most of the time this was a perfectly acceptable and welcome tradeoff, since what Barry would come up would be spectacular. On some ocassions, however, it could feel slightly off. Personally, I don't think AVTAK has that problem, but in the sci-fi film The Black Hole, there's a cue (called "Laser" in the album) that plays when a woman is rescued from being lobotomized, and while it works reasonably well, it comes across as slightly stiff, inflexible, and not completely successful in capturing the tone of the scene. It sounds too cheerful and doesn't follow the action closely enough-- doesn't swing from conveying optimism to danger and back to optimism, as it should.
Ironically, as you may know, Barry once referred to his Bond music as "million-dollar Mickey Mouse music," when his scores, at least compared with the work of other famous composers --say, John Williams--, don't feature much Mickey Mousing at all.
That's not a problem during the Paris Eiffel sequence though. That is spot on.
I haven't seen this film but will seek it out. I'm always down for a Barry score.
My no. 1 film is FYEO, but otherwise I would agree would your list.
Film performance:
TMWTGG
LALD
TSWLM
OP
MR
FYEO (not all that much of a fan of the serious weary Rog although objectively it's a good performance from him)
AVTAK
In terms of film preference:
TSWLM
LALD
OP
FYEO*
TMWTGG*
MR*
AVTAK
*really touch choice between these three. Love them all for different reasons.
PS: I forgot to mention during my earlier commentary on AVTAK: Moore was a much better actor than he gave himself credit for. It's clear in the office briefing scene in this film. He was very good with subtle expressions to convey mood and demeanour. He never had to overdo it, which I appreciate.
Interesting take. I feel like Brosnan had loads of confidence in TND; that Bond performance is one of the breeziest and coolest in the whole series IMO, and really helps carry the movie.
Brosnan had good moments for sure but I sometimes had issues with his execution in certain moments, usually high drama or emotional ones as some have brought up. He'd either overplay the scene to an overt degree, or over express with his mouth in a way that was more theatre than film performance wise. And I think that's really the thing about Brosnan that has held me back a bit: he brought a sort of overt, showy and lively style of acting that you'd more commonly see on stage to the big screen, and sometimes that doesn't translate well. I know some have made the same comment about Dalton, where his theatre side overwhelmed the screen and made him look overdramatic in his execution of the performance.