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Title Track: Dr. No (Seems like blasphemy to vote for anything over the classic Bond theme)
Title Credits: Dr. No (Something unique about the flashing shapes and colors before years of girls and guns)
Main Villain: Dr. No (One of the classics)
Main Bond Girl: Dr. No
Overall Plot: Dr. No
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: LTK
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK (I know it's considered one of the most humorless Bond movies, but thinking about it, Wayne Newton's antics, Bond's interactions with Q, a lot of the one-liners . . . LTK is darker but still has some of the funniest comic relief of the series)
Cinematography: LTK
Benign Bizarre: Dr. No
Suspense: Dr. No
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: Dr. No
Ally: LTK (I've been thinking this for a while, but really this category should be "allies." Plural. Felix Leiter & Puss Feller & Quarrel vs. Felix Leiter & Sharkey & Q. Q as an active ally is the tie-breaker for me here.)
License to Kill: 9
Dr. No: 8
As close to a tie as you can get. Not just by final scores, but by the split decision I had to make in a lot of the categories. Never realized how closely the two films matched when weighed by the elements before.
Title Track: Dr. No (close one....... jk)
Title Credits: Dr. No
Main Villain: Dr. No
Main Bond Girl: Dr. No (not even close, but I do like Pam)
Overall Plot: Dr. No
Dialogue: Licence to Kill
Score: Dr. No (Norman's score fits the locales and beats "Die Hard again" any day)
Settings: Dr. No
Action: Licence to Kill
Humor: Dr. No
Cinematography: Dr. No
Benign Bizarre: Dr. No
Suspense: Dr. No
Minor Characters: Dr. No (actually close here)
Glamour: Dr. No
Ally: Dr. No
15-2 Good lord. I like LTK quite a bit. I think the films are somewhat similar in their "low key"-ness and DN just edges it in about every category. That's my justification for the beating, although I do prefer DN.
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: DN (I do love Sanchez, but Dr. No outclasses him)
Main Bond Girl: LTK (Pam's awesome)
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: DN
Score: LTK
Settings: DN (Gorgeous settings)
Action: LTK (Lot more action I'd say)
Humor: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN (Dude with metal hands, nuff said)
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: DN (Three Blind Mice, Prof. Dent, yea)
Glamour: DN
Ally: LTK (Sharkey FTW!)
9-8 License to Kill
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: DN
Action: LTK
Humor: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK (professor Joe Butcher!)
Glamour: DN
Ally: DN
DN - 9
LTK - 7
But I prefer LTK overall...
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK (Pam's the best of the whole franchise, IMO)
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: DN
Score: LTK
Settings: DN
Action: LTK
Humor: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN (kind of by default, really)
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: DN
Ally: LTK
11-6 in favor of Licence to Kill
Kind of surprised that it was that close, actually, but LTK still wins it pretty easily, seeing as how it's my favorite film in the franchise.
Title Track: LTK (I'm in the minority here who really like this theme in general)
Title Credits: LTK (DN playing snake with the gun barrel dots is cool though)
Main Villain: LTK (I am loyal to Franz)
Main Bond Girl: LTK (Honey is prettier and has a more fleshed out background, but Bond girls who can handle their own are more appealing to me)
Overall Plot: TIE (seriously cannot decide between the two)
Dialogue: DN (tough decision, but Bond's banter with No beats his conversation with M at Hemingway House)
Score: LTK
Settings: DN (even though I'd love to go to Florida and Mexico, I'll move to the Bahamas one day...)
Action: LTK (fishing for planes, water skiing behind planes, jumping onto vehicles from planes- when it comes to action, it's plane to see why LTK soars above DN)
Humor: LTK (we gave her a nice honeymooooooooooooooooon)
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: DN (redshirts tracking Bond and co. at Crab Key, spider scene, Mr Jones reaching for his gun, dragonsh)
Minor Characters: DN (Dent, Taro, Jones, 3 Blind Mice all great, but I do like Dario & Prof. Joe, bless his heart)
Glamour: DN (No's lair springs to mind- you were wondering what it cost?)
Ally: LTK
LTK: 9 / DN: 6 / 1 tie
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: DN
Action: LTK
Humor: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: DN
Ally: DN
Wow, a tie at 8-8.
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: DN
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: LTK
Settings: DN
Action: LTK
Humor: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Glamour: DN
Ally: DN
8-8
PTS: GE
Title Track: GE
Title Credits: GE
Main Villain: SF (close one)
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialogue: GE (close one)
Score: SF (not exactly a titan, but Serra's score remains Serra's score)
Settings: SF
Action: GE
Humor: SF
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: GE
Minor Characters: GE
Glamour: GE
Ally: SF
A 10-7 victory for GoldenEye! A bit wider than I'd have thought, since they're at 5 and 6 on the old Bond ranking, but a close fight nonetheless.
Your votes now, please (and mods, please update the title, as ever).
Title Track: GE
Title Credits: GE
Main Villain: GE
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialogue: GE
Score: GE
Settings: SF
Action: GE
Humor: GE
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: GE
Minor Characters: GE
Glamour: GE
Ally: SF
13 to 4 for GE
Title Track: SF
Title Credits: SF
Main Villain: SF
Main Bond Girl: SF
Overall Plot: SF
Dialogue: SF
Score: SF
Settings: SF
Action: SF
Humor: SF
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: SF
Minor Characters: SF
Glamour: SF
Ally: SF
A 17-0 thumping for SF.
Title Track: Skyfall
Title Credits: Skyfall
Main Villain: Skyfall
Main Bond Girl: GoldenEye
Overall Plot: Skyfall
Dialogue: Skyfall
Score: Skyfall
Settings: Skyfall
Action: Skyfall
Humor: Skyfall
Cinematography: Skyfall
Benign Bizarre: Skyfall
Suspense: Skyfall
Minor Characters: Skyfall
Glamour: Skyfall
Ally: Skyfall
Or thereabouts.
Title Track: GE
Title Credits: GE
Main Villain: GE
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialogue: SF
Score: GE
Settings: SF
Action: GE
Humor: GE
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: GE
Minor Characters: GE
Glamour: GE
Ally: GE
13-4 in favor of GoldenEye
@WillyGalore 17-0, really? Come on. I can think of at least one category which GE definetely wins in by far: action (bungee jump, tank chase, archive shootout, the finale, nothing in SF is on the same level). To each his own I guess. Anyway
PTS: GE
Title Track: SF
Title Credits: GE
Main villain: SF (love Sean Bean but Silva was just brilliant, only Sanchez beats him imo)
Main Bond girl: (again, assuming it's Moneypenny not Severine representing SF here) GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialouge: GE (very close but I think GE just about edges it)
Score: SF (not a fan of either)
Settings: SF
Action: GE (by a mile)
Humour: SF
Cinematography: SF
Bizarre: GE
Suspense: GE
Minor characters: GE
Glamour: SF
Ally: SF
GE just edges it.
Title Track: GE
Title Credits: SF
Main Villain: SF
Main Bond Girl: SF
Overall Plot: SF
Dialogue: SF
Score: SF
Settings: SF
Action: SF
Humor: SF
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: SF
Minor Characters: SF
Glamour: SF
Ally: SF
16-1 in favor of Skyfall
Who is that? Samuel? Or George?
What if it's Samuel-George?
http://www.bfna.org/person/samuel-george
Him? What a person!
Title Track: SF
Title Credits: SF
Main Villain: GE (very very close)
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: SF
Dialogue: SF
Score: SF
Settings: SF
Action: SF
Humor: GE
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: GE
Suspense: SF
Minor Characters: SF
Glamour: SF
Ally: SF
SF - 12, GE - 5
Kind of a blowout, but I love both of these - both in my Top 5.
PTS: GoldenEye
Title Track: GoldenEye
Title Credits: GoldenEye
Main Villain: Skyfall
Main Bond Girl: GoldenEye
Overall Plot: GoldenEye
Dialogue: GoldenEye
Score: Skyfall (I'm slowly warming up to GoldenEye's score though, but the starting point was chilly enough to let Skyfall get away with it)
Settings: Skyfall
Action: GoldenEye
Humor: Skyfall
Cinematography: Skyfall
Benign Bizarre: Skyfall
Suspense: Skyfall
Minor Characters: GoldenEye
Glamour: Skyfall
Ally: GoldenEye
GoldenEye: 9
Skyfall: 8
Title Track: GoldenEye
Title Credits: GoldenEye
Main Villain: GoldenEye
Main Bond Girl: GoldenEye
Overall Plot: GoldenEye
Dialogue: GoldenEye
Score: GoldenEye
Settings: GoldenEye
Action: GoldenEye
Humor: GoldenEye
Cinematography: GoldenEye
Benign Bizarre: Skyfall
Suspense: GoldenEye
Minor Characters: GoldenEye
Glamour: GoldenEye
Ally: GoldenEye
GoldenEye: 17
Skyfall: 1
PTS: GoldenEye
Title Track: Skyfall
Title Credits: GoldenEye
Main Villain: GoldenEye (close)
Main Bond Girl: GoldenEye
Overall Plot: GoldenEye
Dialogue: Skyfall
Score: GoldenEye
Settings: Skyfall (close)
Action: GoldenEye
Humor: GoldenEye (close)
Cinematography: Skyfall
Benign Bizarre: GoldenEye
Suspense: GoldenEye
Minor Characters: GoldenEye
Glamour: Skyfall
Ally: Skyfall
11-6 in favor of childhood favorite GoldenEye.
Title Track: GE
Title Credits: SF
Main Villain: GE
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialogue: SF
Score: SF
Settings: SF
Action: GE
Humor: GE
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: GE
Suspense: GE
Minor Characters: GE
Glamour: SF
Ally: SF
SF - 7 GE - 10
Title Track: SF
Title Credits: GE
Main Villain: GE
Main Bond Girl: GE
Overall Plot: GE
Dialogue: GE
Score: GE
Settings: GE
Action: GE
Humor: GE
Cinematography: GE
Benign Bizarre: GE
Suspense: GE
Minor Characters: GE
Glamour: GE
Ally: GE
SF - GE = 1-16
For all those who are voting 17-0 or 17-1 to GE, try to look past your nostalgia for Goldeneye and look at things objectively. I love Goldeneye too and prefer it to Skyfall but there is stuff SF does better (I don't see how anyone could say GE has better cinematography for example).
Same goes for the people giving landslide victories to SF. You might not like the Brosnan era but try to look past that and look at things objectively. There is stuff GE does better (I don't see how anyone could say that SF has better action for example).
Isn't the point of this thread about bias anyway?
While I enjoy GE as a good 007 installment I gladly walk away when SF is around. SF is vastly overrated visually it looks nice but is nothing special. Whereas GE imho has everything that I want in a 007 movie.
SF is the2nd attempt in which Craig does not get a better movie as his 1st. I am not full of confidence when it comes to the next one.