Bond Movie A vs. Bond Movie B (Diamonds Are Forever vs. The World Is Not Enough)

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Has to be Thunderball for me. It has a better villain with a better scheme, a better more vicious fem fatal, and above all Sean is the better Bond. Easy choice really...
    Total agreement, easy choice.
  • edited February 2013 Posts: 1,817
    This is a hard one because both are excellent movies. Thunderball is a great epic and classical episode of the golden age; Skyfall is a superb chapter in the revisionist era. But the former is 5th in my ranking and the latter 4th. So Skyfall for me.
    Perhaps in a couple of years, after the excitement of SF passes, the positions will change; on the other hand, it could happen that my appreciation for it will increase. I don't know. For now it is like this.
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    Let the Skyfall.
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    Skyfall cause its simply the best Bond film ever made. Thunderball drags in places.
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    Skyfall
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    SKYFALL wins this match.
    12. Thunderball
    11. GoldenEye
    10. Quantum Of Solace
    9. For Your Eyes Only
    8. Casino Royale
    7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    6. Dr. No
    5. Octopussy
    4. The Man With The Golden Gun
    3. The Spy Who Loved Me
    2. Skyfall
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited February 2013 Posts: 14,018
    chrisisall wrote:
    Has to be Thunderball for me. It has a better villain with a better scheme, a better more vicious fem fatal, and above all Sean is the better Bond. Easy choice really...
    Total agreement, easy choice.

    Better make that 3. TB is the better film in every way. It has all the elements in all the right places and there's no artsy fartsy delusions. It just is what it is, a Bond film, one that drags a bit here and there.
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    Thunderball, for me, is the second worst Connery film in the official series, so my vote goes to Skyfall without a doubt!
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    Thunderball wins it for me.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Skyfall
  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
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    Skyfall wins. I don't think it's quite as perfect as some people do but it's enough to beat Thunderball. I prefer Connery over Craig and TB's soundtrack is better (nobody beats Barry) but TB is bloated, drags on at such a slow pace sometimes and has some not so stellar acting from the supporting cast.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Thunderball easily. Connery is on top top top top top top top top top form. Seeing him sexually harass Pat so casually brings a smile to my face and Fiona...dear sweet Lord Fiona is just mesmerizing.
  • Skyfall all the way. Thunderball has some great moments, but gets tedious with all the underwater shenanigans in the final act
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited February 2013 Posts: 13,356
    Thunderball - but it's close! Both top tier films.
  • doubleoego wrote:
    Thunderball easily. Connery is on top top top top top top top top top form. Seeing him sexually harass Pat so casually brings a smile to my face and Fiona...dear sweet Lord Fiona is just mesmerizing.

    Could not agree with you more, Fiona really does it for me. As for the underwater sequences being tedious at the end @Rogertheclown, I disagree. They are only slow because they are under water. The scale and scope of that fight was a great attempt to capture what Fleming wrote in the book, and I think its one of the best action sequences in the series. That's something I wish newer Bond movies had more of, you know the commando vs the henchmen battle like you get in GF and TB and OHMSS.
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    Skyfall.

    Thunderball is definitely Connery's best, but the film has pacing issues, and the underwater sequences can be underwhelming.
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    Thunderball.
    Skyfall has a bit stupid plot.
  • jka12002jka12002 Banned
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    doubleoego wrote:
    Thunderball easily. Connery is on top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top top form.

    Right got it.
  • edited February 2013 Posts: 1,497
    chrisisall wrote:
    Has to be Thunderball for me. It has a better villain with a better scheme, a better more vicious fem fatal, and above all Sean is the better Bond. Easy choice really...
    Total agreement, easy choice.

    Better make that 3. TB is the better film in every way. It has all the elements in all the right places and there's no artsy fartsy delusions. It just is what it is, a Bond film, one that drags a bit here and there.

    Add me into the hat for this as well. TB is not my favorite Connery film, but all of the Connery Bonds from the 60's set the bar so high. Skyfall perhaps is more ambitious in it's theme's. But just because a film is filled with more metaphors and subtexts, doesn't automatically give it the upper hand. TB maintains the Bond tropes and accels with flying colours at that. <b>TB</b>
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    Oh, that's hard. I maybe need to see Skyfall a few more times to properly asses it. Thunderball is classic Connery, though the early underwater bits do drag, I think the climatic battle is great. And it does have my favourite Bond girl in Claudine Auger.
    Thunderball
  • 002002
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    Skyfall
  • 'Skyfall', though I do miss witty, masterfully skilled lines like these ones from Fiona Volpe:

    "But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, the one where he has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue..."
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    He strikes,

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    Thunderball!!!!!!!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited February 2013 Posts: 28,694
    'Skyfall', though I do miss witty, masterfully skilled lines like these ones from Fiona Volpe:

    "But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, the one where he has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue..."

    A great line. Bond should have replied that "It worked on my last mission" referring to Ms. Galore. :))

    But it must be said that Skyfall has some immaculate dialogue, some of the best in the series.
  • edited February 2013 Posts: 12,837
    Probably Skyfall although I'm not sure where I last ranked TB so I might be contradicting myself.

    Both are good anyway.
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    Thunderball is better in every aspect.
  • edited February 2013 Posts: 31
    Skyfall was way better than Thunderball, Thunderball was just a bad remake of the concept of Goldfinger!
    0iker0 wrote:
    SKYFALL wins this match.
    12. Thunderball
    11. GoldenEye
    10. Quantum Of Solace
    9. For Your Eyes Only
    8. Casino Royale
    7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    6. Dr. No
    5. Octopussy
    4. The Man With The Golden Gun
    3. The Spy Who Loved Me
    2. Skyfall

    how is on your majesties secret service not on the worst part of your list?
    it was boring and retarted! George Lazenby is a terrible actor!!!

    Mod edit: another double post by this member this evening corrected.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,295
    warnertt wrote:
    how is on your majesties secret service not on the worst part of your list?
    it was boring and retarted! George Lazenby is a terrible actor!!!

    Anyone ever tell you that you're working from a very limited phrase book?
  • thank you
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    warnertt wrote:
    how is on your majesties secret service not on the worst part of your list?
    it was boring and retarted! George Lazenby is a terrible actor!!!

    Mod edit: another double post by this member this evening corrected.

    Roger Ebert over here... Could you expand your vocabulary a little?
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