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Title Track: Thunderball
Title Credits: Thunderball
Main Villain: Thunderball
Main Bond Girl: Thunderball
Overall Plot: Thunderball
Dialogue: Thunderball
Score: Thunderball
Settings: Thunderball
Action: The Living Daylights
Humor: Thunderball
Cinematography: Thunderball
Benign Bizarre: Thunderball
Suspense: Thunderball
Minor Characters: Thunderball
Glamor: Thunderball
Ally: The Living Daylights
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TB
Dialogue: TB
Score: TB
Settings: TB
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TB
Glamor: TB
Ally: TB
12-5 for TB. That is a surprise, as I actually prefer TLD.
Title Track: TB
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TB
Overall Plot: TB
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TB
Settings: TB
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TB
Ally: TLD
TB: 11 / TLD: 5 ...... that's about right actually.
Title Track: TB
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TLD
Ally: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TB
Ally: TB (Felix vs. Felix, Kamran Shah is under minor characters)
I see that TLD has trumped TB, which is surprising as both films are neck and neck in me rankings.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: TLD
Main Bond Girl: TB
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TB
Ally: TB
A blow out for me,
13-4 The Living Daylights. I'm obviously not a huge fan of Thunderball, probably one of my least fav of the series while The Living Daylights, I'd rank quite up there.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD (only just here, have to say)
Main Villain: TLD (Koskov vs Largo? Why does this exist)
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TLD
Ally: TLD
The Living Daylights 17
Thunderball 0
The only category Thunderball could win is 'Lullaby Value', but otherwise The Living Daylights trumps it. My number 1 Bond film versus a low mid-table at best film? Come on...
PTS: TLD (TLD is one of the best; jetpack and water cannon hurt TB)
Title Track: TB (TB may be my fav, but TLD is underrated, too)
Title Credits: TB (TB's are superb; TLD's are derivative and unmemorable)
Main Villain: TB (not a strong suit for either film)
Main Bond Girl: TLD (Kara underrated; Domino overrated)
Overall Plot: TB (as another poster said, TLD's plot is convoluted)
Dialogue: TLD (flip a coin here)
Score: TLD (TLD is my 3rd favorite Bond score, and TB may be No. 4)
Settings: TLD (Nassau works well, but Afghanistan is almost as good as SW in OHMSS)
Action: TLD (fairly easy call)
Humor: TLD (TLD with a fairly big edge)
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB (the older films usually win this category)
Suspense: TLD (the huge set piece in Afghanistan takes it over the Battle of Miami)
Minor Characters: TLD (Kutze is the only one in TB I rate)
Glamor: TB (a fairly easy call)
Ally: TLD (Nutter is much better than Terry, but Saunders and Shah give TLD the edge)
What about a Henchman category? Necros versus Vargas?
The parrot in the background as Necros and another chap fight to the death at Blades.
Much of Barry's scoring in TB.
The Shrublands skullduggery and the fellow with the bandages on his face.
The quick cutaway sequences to marine life in the TB underwater fights.
The Junkanoo sequence in TB.
The SPECTRE conference in TB.
Whitaker meeting his Waterloo in TLD.
Necros' balloons and jambox playing Where Has Everybody Gone in TLD.
Those are off of the top of my head. If I watched the films right now, I'm sure I could find much more.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TLD
Ally: TLD
TLD wins by a mile.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TLD
Ally: TLD
14-3 TLD
Thunderball is my least favourite of the bond films and TLD is in my top 5.
The best henchman in the series IMO versus a boring, underdeveloped character? I think it would just increase TLD's lead.
True, but it should still be a category. And I'm primarily to blame because I am the one who originated the concept upon which this thread is based.
Title Track: TB
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TB
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TB
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TLD
Suspense: TB
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TB
Ally: TLD
TLD: 8 TB: 9
Quite close actually
PTS: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: Blofeld! (TB)
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD (My favorite Bond score with FYEO)
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD (One of the good things of TB)
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TLD
Ally: TLD
TT - The Living Daylights
TC - Thunderball
Main Villain - Thunderball
MBG - Thunderball
OP - The Living Daylights
Dialog - The Living Daylights
Score - Thunderball
Settings - Thunderball
Action - The Living Daylights
Humor - Thunderball
Cinema - Thunderball
BB - Thunderball
Suspense - The Living Daylights
Minor - The Living Daylights
Glamor - Thunderball
Ally - The Living Daylights
Other missing categories:James Bond performance and preferred film on an overall basis. The PTS needs to be dropped for the next round featuring DN, so trade that for one of these if that one is returning.
Title Track: TB
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TB
Overall Plot: TB
Dialogue: TB
Score: TB
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Glamor: TB
Ally: TLD
TB - 12
TLD - 5
It doesn't show but I appreciate both almost equally, TB just a little more.
Title Track: TB
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: TB
Main Bond Girl: TB
Overall Plot: TB
Dialogue: TB
Score: TB
Settings: TB
Action: TB
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: TB
Suspense: TB
Minor Characters: TB
Glamor: TB
Ally: TB
Connery's epic 007 tale versus Daltons 1st is not a big contest for me at all.
PTS: CR
Title Track: OHMSS (terrible choice, #s 2 and 3)
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: OHMSS
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS (terrible choice, they're #s 1 and 2)
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: OHMSS (couldn't let the one liners cost it twice)
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS
Action: CR (Lazenby's great, but CR has the parkour chase and the car flip to beat the ski chase)
Humor: CR (Lazenby is awful at the one-liners)
Cinematography: CR (OHMSS is great, but the black and white and the torture scenes seal it)
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: OHMSS
Glamour: CR (Bahamas and the titular hotel do it)
Ally: CR (one of the best Felixes against Draco...tough choice but default to Felix)
PTS: CR*
Title Track: OHMSS* (this is literally the best instrumental vs. the best vocal track)
Title Credits: CR*
Main Villain: OHMSS
Main Bond Girl: CR*
Overall Plot: CR*
Dialogue: OHMSS
Score: OHMSS*
Settings: OHMSS*
Action: CR
Humor: CR
Cinematography: CR
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: CR*
Minor Characters: CR
Glamour: CR
Ally: OHMSS
10-7 for CR. Both masterpieces.
PTS: CR
Title Track: OHMSS
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: OHMSS
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: OHMSS
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS
Action: CR (although Laz's fights/ski scene don't make the decision any easier)
Humor: CR
Cinematography: CR (near tie, here)
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: OHMSS
Glamour: CR
Ally: CR (Draco is great, but CR has Felix and Mathis)
OHMSS: 8
CR: 9
And the outcome is perfectly satisfactory.
PTS: CR (both very unique, but CR's is just too cool)
Title Track: OHMSS (it cannot be beaten; even though You Know My Name is my favorite vocal track in the series, the power of Barry's instrumentals prevails)
Title Credits: CR (have to give it to CR - it was unique and is still fun to watch; credit to the flashbacks of Connery's first five films in OHMSS's credits though)
Main Villain: OHMSS (Telly Savalas is the best Blofeld IMO; Le Chiffre was still solid)
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS (just barely; Teresa and Vesper are my favorite Bond girls)
Overall Plot: CR (close one, but CR has my favorite plot in the whole series)
Dialogue: CR ("That last hand nearly killed me"; I find CR to be more quotable by a bit)
Score: OHMSS (my favorite soundtrack in the series)
Settings: OHMSS (very hard one, but the Swiss Alps was the tiebreaker for me)
Action: CR (OHMSS was the best at its time, but CR's action is simply incredible)
Humor: CR (Both are two of the most serious Bond films, but the humor in CR stands out more to me)
Cinematography: OHMSS (Geez, another really close one, but I'll give OHMSS the edge)
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS (The whole hypnotizing sequences earn OHMSS this one easily)
Suspense: CR (most suspenseful Bond film, many examples highlighted by the poisoning scene; village scene in OHMSS deserves credit though)
Minor Characters: CR (another close one, but Mathis and Felix give CR the win)
Glamour: CR (just epic throughout; the most impressive Bond film to me)
Ally: CR (have to go with 'ol Felix Leiter even though I liked Draco; Jeffrey Wright was my favorite actor to play him)
Casino Royale = 10
On Her Majesty's Secret Service = 7
These films are so incredible. Craig is my favorite Bond, and Lazenby is my third favorite. There's so many great things about these two Bond films, and they'll likely always be in my Top 5 (CR #1, OHMSS #3).
If I just liked From Russia with Love more we'd have like the exact same Bond taste haha. Good ratings here too.
Title Track: CR
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: OHMSS
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS
Overall Plot: OHMSS
Dialogue: CR
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS
Action: CR
Humor: CR
Cinematography: OHMSS
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: CR
Glamour: OHMSS
Ally: OHMSS
OHMSS - 9
CR - 8
Needless to say that some of these categories could have easily gone the other way. This one was so close that it's hard to justify the final outcome.
My Top 4 in order are Casino Royale, Skyfall, OHMSS, and Goldfinger. It's actually kind of funny because FRWL is 12 on my list, and I noticed SF is right around there for you.
OHMSS vs CR
PTS: CR (Considerably)
Title Track: OHMSS (John Barry's instrumental has stood the test of time)
Title Credits: OHMSS
Main Villain: OHMSS (best of the Blofeld's)
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS (poor Eva)
Overall Plot: CR (slightly more realistic)
Dialogue: CR (Craig's debut lines > George's debut/ending lines)
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS (less jet hopping)
Action: CR (Close, but the African rundown puts CR over)
Humor: OHMSS
Cinematography: CR
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS (psychedelic Blofeld caps this off)
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: CR
Glamour: CR
Ally: CR (Mathis was really the trustworthy one)
An excellent battle, but CR wins 9-8
PTS: OHMSS
Title Track: OHMSS (John Barry is the best EON ever had)
Title Credits: OHMSS
Main Villain: OHMSS (best of the Blofeld's)
Main Bond Girl: OHMSS
Overall Plot: OHMSS
Dialogue: OHMSS
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS (less jet hopping)
Action: OHMSS (the sinking house stupid action where acting would have been better)
Humor: OHMSS
Cinematography: OHMSS
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: OHMSS
Minor Characters: CR
Glamour: OHMSS
Ally: CR (Mathis)
OHMSS wins 15-2, the other fella just does not cut the mustard
Title Track: CR
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: OHMSS
Main Bond Girl: CR
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: OHMSS (couldn't let the one liners cost it twice)
Score: OHMSS
Settings: OHMSS
Action: CR ski chase)
Humor: CR (Lazenby is awful at the one-liners)
Cinematography: OHMSS
Benign Bizarre: OHMSS
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: OHMSS
Glamour:
Ally: OHMSS