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Oh yes ;)
Only one more film in the Craig era to go, then onto Brozza. Been fun going back and forth from latest to oldest.
Thus far I've viewed , SP, DN, SF,FRWL,QOS.
2019 Bondathon ranking ;
1. FRWL
2. DN
3. SF
4. SP
5. QOS
As a follow-up to the first Connery/Hamilton team-up, it is vastly inferior in almost every way. Exceptions are the exquisite music, and the henchmen. Wint and Kidd are my favourites in the entire series. Their theme music is also up there with that for Oddjob, maybe even better. It has a beautiful and hauting tinge to it, giving an ominous foreboding at the same time. I enjoy every scene they are in.
The Franks fight is a good one, and the ascent on the Whyte House is atmospheric and Bondian in spades.
The finale is just a terrible and boring mess, though.
This was the last of the older Bond films (pre-80s) that I got to see. The neighbouring town held a cinema screening sometime in the latter half of the 80s, and me and a pal went to see it. I believe it was the only one he hadn t seen as well. It had been several years since I saw OHMSS, so that angle didn t bother me at the time.
The film also gives geography lessons. I stand corrected. Nairobi is in South Africa obviously, not Kenya.
Really? What is his or her name?
What a babe.
Since LTK I have gone off track. TND should’ve been next but my son was with me and fancied his own personal favourite - FYEO. So I polished that off and yesterday watched SF in tribute to Albert Finney.
This ranking business may change - I really struggle to put the films in any order. So for now...
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Skyfall
From Russia With Love
Live And Let Die
Dr No
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale
GoldenEye
The Man With The Golden Gun
For Your Eyes Only
Licence To Kill
Almost certainly TND will be next.
I first saw this in the summer of 83. It was the fourth Bond film I saw and the first on home video, with three younger cousins.
This watch was a bad one. It feel like a major step down in the series, the only highlight being the crocodile farm sequence, which I remember Norwegian tv show Filmmagasinet showed at the time of release. The first boring film in this new Bondathon. I hope and think TMWTGG fares better next weekend.
Oh I think so ;)
Maybe my best view ever, enjoyed every minute of it, except the Pepper scenes, corkscrew not included.
The theme song is terrible, but the rest of the score is magnificent as Barry usually is.
Moneypenny has a tremendously hideous blouse here, never noticed that before.
In this film, Moore is as badass and as much of a bastard as Bond has ever been.Moore plays it perfectly.
Love Mary Goodnight, I wish they had kept her around. Having her in the Moneypenny role in SF would have made more sense. Her breaking out of the trunk in the flying car is such a great scene.
There are some great new exotic locations in this one as well. Good location scouting.
Same here!
New Hamilton ranking:
1 GOLDFINGER
2 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (+2)
3 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (-1)
4 LIVE AND LET DIE (-1)
Up next, the short story director John Glen, the only one to finish off two eras.
It has a great pts, marred by Blofeld s blabbering. The main titles are fine, nothing outstanding. There are several great scenes. The killing of Gonzalez and the subsequent car chase. Killing Loque. The sequence aboard the sunken st George. (When the JIM suit henchman appears, you hear echoes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE theme. Never noticed that before.) The ascent on St Cyril, maybe the most tense scene in the series.
I like the scaled back climax. Nice end credits, best since LALD.
The score is really a mixed bag. Much brilliance, but the funky score throughout the prolonged action scenes is abysmal.
The main villain may be bland, but the henchman gallery is terrific. Melina is an iconic Bond girl.
Next up: OCTOPUSSY.
I know it factors in for many here.
Objectivity is key, but so is subjectively!
It was nice seeing it entering your top ten. I am pretty sure it will drop out of my top five.
Dang. I wish I enjoyed it just half that much. It hasn’t gelled for me for years now.
It didn't for me either before, but as I've got older it's become a go-to film. I just love it!
I didn t get to see this during its initial run in 1983, so I settled with the comic book adaptation from Marvel, and NSNA that year. However, the next year the cinema in the neighbouring town had a rerun, so me and a pal went there. I found it underwhelming, and that has been the case until now. This was my best viewing ever.
The pts shows a Bond with real bravado. I love it. The main titles and theme song are both rather uninspired. The film itself is a really mixed bag, if only some of the silliest gags had been cut out, the film would be excellent. There is enough excellence there just the same, with some similarities to GF, DAF and FYEO. Barry s score is magnificent, especially during the calmer suspense scenes. Maybe his last truly great score. The villains and henchmen are all very strong. The action scenes are many and impressive. Love the Alien reference. I realized that if Q had taken the first watch instead of Vijay, he would have been the sacrificial lamb with" no more problems". Never noticed before that the Meyer twins have a resemblance to Gary Oldman. The Soviet chairman is clearly meant to be Brezhnev, who died during filming.
Next: FROM A VIEW TO A KILL
I always thought that about Q as well. Damned lucky he took the later shift. Q's far too senior to be doing fieldwork.
At this time in his scoring career, Barry has developed a more melancholy and romantic sound, shying away from the traditional brassy elements. More fitting to Moore's aged Bond.
I tolerate it, because I like to see dear ol' Desmond, but it does irk me.
Still Q has been going out in the field since TB, so I guess it's part of the Bondian trope these days.
Let's have a closer look, shall we?
TB - SPECTRE has stolen nukes! Bond has the best lead, so it was appropriate for M to send Q out to support him. Either that, or Q likes water sports.
YOLT - this is the big one. Of course Q's going to be there, supporting 007.
OHMSS -less gadgets, less Q. Back at base.
DAF - I wonder if Desmond went to Las Vegas? But what was the point of him going out in the field?
TMWTGG - Joined M to see the Solex. As a gadg man, I suppose this makes sense.
Spy/MR - The whole gang was out, on these two occasions. Pretty big stake I guess. Who's manning MI6 in London though?
FYEO - Filming difficulties due to the death of Bernard Lee. I'll let this one pass.
OP - One of the most egregious instance of Q in the field.
AVTAK - Mostly London based, apart from the climax, naturally. I swear that Q was just using his snooper to have a quick ogle at Ms. Sutton's voluptuous fun bags.
TLD - I guess Bond needed someone he trusted to help him defect Koskov, under the radar?
LTK - By this stage of their relationship Bond and Q have formed a paternal thing. Hence why Q drops everything to help out his boy.
I wouldn't call it a reappraisal, more of an appreciation of everything I do like about TMWTGG. And there is a lot to like. Firstly, Roger Moore at his finest. His era to me is split into 3 (by director) and under Guy Hamilton he is so natural, and so himself. Look at his smoking his cigar while Hip is doing recon at Hai Fats! It's genuinely funny in places - stupid but funny. I've never been a fan of Hamilton's direction, but he certainly adds a certain colour and quirky-ness to his films that make them unique and strangely like-able.
1. The Man with the Golden Gun
2. Thunderball
3. You Only Live Twice
4. Skyfall
5. Quantum of Solace
6. Spectre
Live And Let Die is a confident debut and arguably the most interesting – if not the best – film of Moore’s entire tenure. His ease in the role is remarkable and vital.
Of course, the basics are the same: the unflinching confidence in the face of certain death, the irrepressible to desire to seduce any female (save Moneypenny) who crosses his path and the perfect one-liners. But Moore posed a refreshingly different take on the character, one that accentuated Bond’s “gentleman spy” mystique, partly necessitated by the fact that he wasn’t as brawny or tough as his predecessor. Where Connery might have wrestled a nest of killer crocodiles, Moore instead tricks the hungry animals into alignment and then runs across their backs.
Putting Guy Hamilton back in the director’s chair was a sound move, he had made Goldfinger, the most assured and dynamic of all 007 movies, and with a direct and fine-tuned script from old-hand Tom Mankiewicz, they did what they had to do — hit the ground running - while still keeping a lot of Fleming's general story. This is good quality Bond, managing to reinterpret the classic moves — action, deduction, seduction — for a more modern idiom without breaking the mould. The film, with its rich Caribbean locations and crazy-spooky asides, manages to be more playful than before — Moore’s chosen approach — without tipping into the painful parody of his later films.
Let's not forget that all the Villains in LALD are also among the best in the series.
I love LALD!
Now that I think of it, FYEO would also benefit from losing the current PTS and beginning with the St Georges's sinking. I can't stand Blofeld's cackling although we do that that crazy line.
The other film that would benefit from a different PTS is OP. Lose the acrostar and have the assassination of 009 as the PTS