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Agreed. Plus there is the underwater scene with the JIM diver and the subsequent keelhauling sequence plus Bond being stalked by Locke and Claus in Cortina and Locke's car perched atop the cliff.
Actually, FYEO may be one of the most suspenseful Bond films of the all.
No question about it.
PTS: Die Another Day
Title Track: Moonraker (..if anyone picked DAD..)
Title Credits: Moonraker
Main Villain: Moonraker
Main Bond Girl: Moonraker
Overall Plot: Moonraker
Dialogue: Moonraker
Score: Moonraker
Settings: Moonraker
Action: Die Another Day
Humor: Moonraker
Cinematography: Moonraker
Benign Bizarre: Die Another Day
Suspense: Die Another Day
Minor Characters: Die Another Day
Glamor: Moonraker
Ally: Die Another Day
11-6 in favor of Moonraker. Interesting (For all its flaws I quite like DAD) as they are side by side in my rankings.
Now for the current "battle."
PTS: Licence to Kill (not even close)
Title Track: For Your Eyes Only
Title Credits: Licence to Kill
Main Villain: Licence to Kill
Main Bond Girl: For Your Eyes Only
Overall Plot: For Your Eyes Only
Dialogue: Licence to Kill
Score: Licence to Kill
Settings: For Your Eyes Only
Action: Licence to Kill
Humour: For Your Eyes Only
Cinematography: For Your Eyes Only
Benign Bizarre: Licence to Kill
Suspense: For Your Eyes Only
Minor Characters: Licence to Kill
Glamor: For Your Eyes Only
Ally: For Your Eyes Only
9-8 for FYEO.
Title Track: FYEO (I dislike both, but at least FYEO is more acclaimed)
Title Credits: FYEO
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK (again, both are not my favorites but I'll stay with Kamen as it is more traditional)
Settings: LTK
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK (Bless your heart!)
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: FYEO
LTK - 12
FYEO - 5
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: FYEO
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamor: LTK
Ally: FYEO
LTK - 13
FYEO - 4
Now that you mention it, yes, I'd definitely agree! Kristatos' torture of Bond and Melina is also a very suspenseful scene- a first time viewer would be left wondering how Bond would devise a method of escape, since no handy-dandy Q gadget is available at his disposal.
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: FYEO
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamor: LTK
Ally: LTK
FYEO : 4
LTK : 13
Ow,that was a pasting,but it's about right.
Title Track: LTK - I don't mind FYEO, but the full length version of LTK is a fave of mine.
Title Credits: FYEO - LTK is pretty generic. At least FYEO had a water theme and the first and only time (IIRC) the artist was seen.
Main Villain: LTK - Kristatos was bland. Sanchez was more interesting, he had a sense of humour and a code of loyalty.
Main Bond Girl: LTK - I like Melina- she could hold her own, but Pam is more my type.
Overall Plot: FYEO - Back to pure espionage. Get the McGuffin before the enemy. Add in a revenge plot for the Bond girl.
Dialogue: LTK - 'I love James so much' beats 'put your clothes on for icecream'. Just.
Score: FYEO - Love the Conti post-disco score. Pretty underrated here, I think.
Settings: FYEO - Spain, Cortina, Greece- can you get more exotic than this?
Action: FYEO - Helicopter PTS, 2CV chase, skiing, JIM diver fight. It's all there. LTK probably has more action, but FYEO has more variety of action.
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK - Dario, Krest, Killifer, Sharkey > Bibi, Kriegler, Luigi.
Glamor: LTK
Ally: LTK - Hedison's Felix just edges Topol's Columbo.
FYEO: 7
LTK: 10
Interesting score. I favour FYEO ever so slightly. Both are top films.
PTS: LTK
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: FYEO
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: LTK
FYEO : 4
LTK : 13
Title Track: LTK (FYEO has always underwhelmed me)
Title Credits: FYEO (I'm not a fan of either, nor am I a fan of how Sheena Easton is shown in the credits, but LTK has the most copypasted titles in the series)
Main Villain: LTK (Kristatos is a great villain. He gets way too much flack when he was really a groundbreaking villain for the series. But Sanchez is the best villain in the whole series, so obviously he trumps here.)
Main Bond Girl: FYEO (Most beautiful Bond girl ever IMO.)
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: FYEO (I concede that LTK is too American-ized in its' first half)
Score: LTK (Conti's is possibly the worst Bond score ever.)
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK (The tanker chase alone takes the win, nevermind the seaplane sequence)
Humor: FYEO
Cinematography: LTK
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: FYEO
Minor Characters: LTK (Bibi makes FYEO lose here)
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: FYEO (Columbo is possibly the best ally ever.)
9-8 for LTK. Well-fought, FYEO.
Title Track: FYEO
Title Credits: FYEO (LTK's are pretty poor in my view).
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK (I like Melina the character but I think Boquet is a tad wooden).
Overall Plot: FYEO (a more Fleming-esque espionage story).
Dialogue: FYEO (Nice that they used a line directly from the LALD novel)
Score: FYEO (yes its dated but I think its soothing and easy to listen to - especially some of the more romantic tracks).
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK
Humor: FYEO
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: FYEO (the keel-hauling sequence, Moore being shot at on the ski slope and the rock climbing scene...not to mention him killing Loque).
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: FYEO
12-5 FYEO.
LALD - Like
TMWTGG - Not like (as much)
TSWLM - Like
MR - Not like (as much)
FYEO - Like
OP - Like
AVTAK - Not like
Title Track: LTK (Just barely wins this one, simply for the fact that LTK get's stuck in your head, FYEO doesn't for me)
Title Credits: FYEO (As others said, LTK's is bland)
Main Villain: LTK (Sanchez, nuff said)
Main Bond Girl: LTK (Pam is one of the best while imo, Melina is not)
Overall Plot: FYEO
Dialogue: FYEO
Score: FYEO
Settings: FYEO
Action: FYEO
Humor: FYEO
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: FYEO
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: LTK
12-6 For Your Eyes Only (Honestly I think FYEO is probably a mid ranking Bond film, and while I like bits of LTK it would probably be pretty low on my list.
Most exciting scene in the franchise.
Title Track - License to Kill
Title Credits - License to Kill
Main Villain - License to Kill
Main Bond Girl - For Your Eyes Only
Overall Plot - For Your Eyes Only
Dialog - For Your Eyes Only
Score - For Your Eyes Only
Settings - For Your Eyes Only
Action - For Your Eyes Only
Humor - For Your Eyes Only
Cinematog - For Your Eyes Only
Benign Bizarre - License to Kill
Suspense - For Your Eyes Only
Minor Characters - For Your Eyes Only
Glamor - License to Kill
Ally - License to Kill
FYEO wins by 11 - 6
Title Track: License to Kill
Title Credits: License to Kill
Main Villain: For Your Eyes Only
Main Bond Girl: For Your Eyes Only
Overall Plot: For Your Eyes Only
Dialogue: License to Kill
Score: License to Kill
Settings: For Your Eyes Only
Action: License to Kill (Tough call. Bond's winter sports getaway in FYEO and water skiing getaway in LTK both immediately come to mind as awesome action scenes.)
Humor: License to Kill
Cinematography: For Your Eyes Only
Benign Bizarre: For Your Eyes Only
Suspense: For Your Eyes Only (Another tough call. All of LTK is basically suspense thriller with Bond's mind games with Sanchez, but FYEO has scenes that are more suspenseful on an individual basis.)
Minor Characters: For Your Eyes Only
Glamor: For Your Eyes Only
Ally: License to Kill (Only because Q can be considered an ally in this one, since he shows up in the field, and Q trumps about any other possible ally.)
License to Kill - 8
For Your Eyes Only - 9
These were some especially tough calls. Neither movie cracks my list of favorites or worsts. Both are solid entries. I'd say LTK has aged better, while FYEO has more of the classic Bondian elements, so FYEO takes this one by a hair.
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: FYEO (Yes, just go ahead and sue me!)
Settings: FYEO
Action: LTK
Humor: FYEO
Cinematography: FYEO
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: FYEO
Glamor: FYEO
Ally: FYEO (Does Bond even have a proper ally in LTK?)
LTK: 11
FYEO: 6
:-?
Agreed. The main ally is the one that usually gets killed (ala Kerim, Tibbet, Quarrel).
Draco, Tanaka, Colombo, Wade... ;-)
Corinne Dufour, Vijay, Saunders, Mathis....
Lt. Hip, Captain Carter, Quarrell Jr, Mathis (works for my argument too) ;-)
Valentin Zukovsky, Paula Caplan...
Allies are always a grey area, unlike villains and Bond girls. I think the role of the ally has somewhat been reduced since the earlier films. I still, for the life of me, can't distinguish a true ally in Die Another Day. Some say Raoul, for the very little scenes he has? Kincaide was even't introduced until very late in Skyfall.
I think in some films Bond just doesn't really have an ally or at least not one who serves much purpose.