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Thunderball
/10
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay -8 (concealing the Vulcan mainly)
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 9 (at the time the plot was very innovative)
5. Action - 9
6. Main Villain - 8
7. Main Bond Girl - 7
8. Bond - 10
9. Sets - 9 (the SPECTRE briefing room - wow!)
10. Music - 10
11. Cinematography - 10
12. Fleming - 9
/5
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 3
16. Pace - 3
17. Editing - 4
18. Tilt - 5
120/150
80%
Remember the first twelve categories are out of 10, and the latter six are out of 5
I expectedThunderball to be higher
These are my personal ratings -
Casino Royale - 92.66%
Dr No - 87.3%
The Living Daylights - 86.66%
Goldfinger - 86%
Skyfall - 84.6%
Thunderball - 80%
GoldenEye - 74.66%
Moonraker - 73.3%
A View To A Kill - 66%
Diamonds Are Forever - 62.66%
The Man With The Golden Gun - 62%
and my rankings -
23. Diamonds Are Forever
22. The Man With The Golden Gun
20. Moonraker
19. A View To A Kill
15. GoldenEye
11. Goldfinger
9. Skyfall
8. Dr No
7. The Living Daylights
5. Thunderball
3. Casino Royale
/10
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay - 8
3. Script - 10 (loads of memorable dialogue here!)
4. Plot - 10 (simple yet incredibly thrilling, and goodness knows how many movies have used this same idea, so it must be a keeper!)
5. Action - 8 (Bond's stealth mission at Palmyra and the Disco Volante battle deserve special mention here)
6. Main Villain - 8 (could be considered slightly dull at times, but I've always liked Largo; he has that certain reserved menace that only a Bond villain can possess)
7. Main Bond Girl - 9
8. Bond - 10 (probably Connery's best performance along with FRWL)
9. Sets - 8
10. Music - 8
11. Cinematography - 10 (stunning location work!)
12. Fleming - N/A
/5
13. Supporting Cast - 2 (some rather forgettable side characters except for Fiona Volpe and perhaps Vargas)
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 4
16. Pace - 2 (not awful, but a bit tedious in places like the Vulcan capturing and all the bomb transportation; anything underwater becomes slow as well, obviously)
17. Editing - 2 (a little off in many places)
18. Tilt - 1 (there's nothing particularly nostalgic or reminiscent for me about TB)
112/140
80%
My Ratings (from the ones I've participated in so far) :
Thunderball- 80%
A View to a Kill- 78%
Dr. No- 66%
/10
1. Direction - 9
2. Screenplay - 8
3. Script - 10
4. Plot - 9
5. Action - 8
6. Main Villain - 9
7. Main Bond Girl - 9
8. Bond - 10 (perhaps Connery's best performance)
9. Sets - 8
10. Music - 9
11. Cinematography - 9
12. Fleming - 9
/5
13. Supporting Cast - 5
14. Main Titles - 3
15. Plausibility - 4
16. Pace - 3
17. Editing - 3
18. Tilt - 4
129/150
86%
/10
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay - 7
3. Script - 8
4. Plot - 8
5. Action - 6
6. Main Villain - 5
7. Main Bond Girl - 7
8. Bond - 9
9. Sets - 9
10. Music - 6
11. Cinematography - 9
12. Fleming - 8
/5
13. Supporting Cast - 3
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 3
16. Pace - 2
17. Editing - 3
18. Tilt - 3
108/150
GoldenEye- 97%
SkyFall- 85%
Thunderball- 80%
The Living Daylights- 79%
A View to a Kill- 78%
Casino Royale- 78%
The Man with the Golden Gun- 71%
Diamonds Are Forever- 70%
Dr. No- 66%
Moonraker- 61%
Goldfinger- 55%
/10
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay - 9
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 10
5. Action - 6
6. Main Villain - 6
7. Main Bond Girl - 5
8. Bond - 7
9. Sets - 7
10. Music - 10
11. Cinematography - 9
12. Fleming - 9
/5
13. Supporting Cast - 3
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 3
16. Pace - 1
17. Editing - 2
18. Tilt - 2
110/150
73.3%
1. Direction - 7
2. Screenplay - 7
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 9
5. Action - 7
6. Main Villain - 8
7. Main Bond Girl - 8
8. Bond - 9
9. Sets - 7
10. Music - 9
11. Cinematography - 8
12. Fleming - 8
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 3
15. Plausibility - 5
16. Pace - 3
17. Editing - 2
18. Tilt - 4
117/150
78%
CR 92%
TB 78%
GE 76%
TMWTGG 73%
AVTAK 70%
GF 70%
TLD 67%
DAF 62%
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay - 9
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 9
5. Action - 9
6. Main Villain - 8
7. Main Bond Girl - 7
8. Bond - 10
9. Sets - 10
10. Music - 10
11. Cinematography - 10
12. Fleming - 9
13. Supporting Cast - 5
14. Main Titles - 5
15. Plausibility - 5
16. Pace - 3
17. Editing - 4
18. Tilt - 5
1. Direction - 9
2. Screenplay - 9
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 10
5. Action - 9
6. Main Villain - 9
7. Main Bond Girl - 9
8. Bond - 9
9. Sets - 10
10. Music - 10
11. Cinematography - 10
12. Fleming - 10
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 5
16. Pace - 4
17. Editing - 4
18. Tilt - 5
139/150 = 92.7%
He is my favorite singer and I love Thunderball, but it doesn't really fit...
1. Direction - 6/10
2. Screenplay - 5/10
3. Script - 4/10
4. Plot - 4/10
5. Action - 3/10
6. Main Villain - 6/10 (Hide Blofeld 9 Largo 3 )
7. Main Bond Girl - 4 (Domino 6 Fiona 2)
8. Bond - 6/10
9. Sets - 5/10
10. Music - 3/10
11. Cinematography - 6/10
12. Fleming - 3/10
13. Supporting Cast - 2.5 (5/10)
14. Main Titles - 2 (4/10)
15. Plausibility - 3 (6/10)
16. Pace - 1 (2/10) (:|
17. Editing - 1 (2/10)
18. Tilt - 2.5 (5/10)
The movie to slow, way to long screenplay (Same time as LTK), thanks to the very to long water scene's and very bad action. Very bad editing. Music is even sometimes worse then previous movie GF and it not quite with TB. The parts i like the moost be hide Blofeld like i did in FRWL, some other elements used later in OHMSS and Twine and QOS. The humor from the movie saved a litle bit thanks to Q followd by Bond, M and Moneypenny. A reasen why i dislike Vesper have possible also something to do with Fiona from Thunderball. One of my not favorite chacters of series. I also whas not big fan of Jack Lord, but mabey this have changed if there ask him back for GF and TB. I dislike this Felix.
In Everything or Nothing there talk about Fleming death but also about the warning to Fleming that he take to work over form some of Kevin McClory idea's, but not lissen. So it end Draw. McClory get his money/credits for TB movie and aloud to make NSNA and Fleming who whas very il get his last pleasure.
The only Bond movie who get 5/10 from me. Top 23: 23/23
Well done 00Beast! It'll be interesting how your rating compare with your rankings.
I'll be rounding this 'un up at the weekend.....
So far nothing is too far out of the ordinary between my rankings and these ratings, except for TLD being over AVTAK, which is not the case in my rankings- I prefer AVTAK a good ways over TLD in my rankings! Also, I enjoy TMWTGG more than CR, so that one is off as well. It's interesting how the ratings put things into a different perspective, yet still remains mostly consistent with my opinions.
@royale65: Do you have any idea yet as to what the next movie will be?
Must have chosen it just for me! I'm honored! ;)
This will be interesting... ;)
I don't think my computer will calculate minus percentages ;-)
I have overlooked this thread it seems. ;-)
TB is the first Bond film I've ever watched in full... Expect a lot of praise.
Thunderball
1. Direction - 8
2. Screenplay - 8
3. Script - 8
4. Plot - 8
5. Action - 7
6. Main Villain - 7
7. Main Bond Girl - 6
8. Bond - 9
9. Sets - 9
10. Music - 9
11. Cinematography - 9
12. Fleming - 8
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 3
15. Plausibility - 3
16. Pace - 4
17. Editing - 4
18. Tilt - 5
119/150
79 %
In my own ratings I expected TB to be much higher than my piddling 80%. Did you expect your own % of TB to be higher?
2. Screenplay - 8
3. Script - 9
4. Plot - 8
5. Action - 9
6. Main Villain - 6
7. Main Bond Girl - 10
8. Bond - 9
9. Sets - 10
10. Music - 8
11. Cinematography - 10
12. Fleming - 9
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 3
15. Plausibility - 4
16. Pace - 3
17. Editing - 4
18. Tilt - 4
127/150 = 84.7%
A little higher than I expected, but no complaints here.
2. Screenplay - 7
3. Script - 7
4. Plot - 7
5. Action - 4
6. Main Villain - 7
7. Main Bond Girl - 6
8. Bond - 7
9. Sets - 8
10. Music - 9
11. Cinematography - 8
12. Fleming - 9
13. Supporting Cast - 4
14. Main Titles - 4
15. Plausibility - 3
16. Pace - 1
17. Editing - 2
18. Tilt - 2
103/150 = 68.6%
Yeah, that's about right for me.
Not necessarily. I think the result is satisfying enough. ;-)