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Laz does great. But does he really convince as a sophisticated worldly spy? Not for me.
Of course there are faults, and it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it doesn’t deserve its reputation.
He does for me.
Craig on the other hand, despite his fine acting chops, is the one who doesn’t convince me as a sophisticated bon vivant.
Laz did for me as well.
Controversial option; I've never been sold on Craig as Bond. Good actor - sure, but he has never managed to convince me in the role.
Exactly my thoughts. Good actor, but not refined enough to convince me as James Bond.
I absolutely agree, and my least favourite Barry soundtrack over all.
Agree. All the previous actors have had that extra level of refinement in the looks and/or the way they acted on screen.
It's my least favourite Barry soundtrack too. It's sounds great, but is a bit "boring" compared to Barry's other scores. I even like TMWTGG better.
Completely agree.
Wah, I wouldn’t go that far but good for you mate. Qos love is deeply appreciated
It beats it by the slightest of margins, however; I love them both, QoS just barely bests CR for me.
It's okay in places, the theme is great, Wine with Stacey is nice but little else. It's even got my least favorite action theme.
Seriously, I love Barry, and especially love Bond-Barry (I mentioned a few years ago that, through his music, he seemed to be the one, I felt, knew Bond better than everyone else (save Maibaum and Young), and was the most consistent in his portrayal of the character through his music (does that make sense?)).
But the MR soundtrack puts me to sleep...
My second least favourite soundtrack (but I flipping LOVED it as a 14/15 year old kid), is TLD. But I still find it miles ahead of MR...
I still have a blast with AVTAK's soundtrack, although it is OP-lite (OP the last, great Barry soundtrack, IMO)
That said, if I had to pick a least favorite Barry, it might just be MR. My least favorite Barry rendition of the gunbarrel is probably in MR as well. Still, I'll take that over Newman and Arnold's gunbarrels any day as well.
I'd rank OP over AVTAK, and then TMWTGG and MR. I do like the TLD soundtrack because Dalton was really my Bond growing up, and I love Barry's cameo (the most fitting in the series).
Re: Dalton: when I was a kid I loved him, then not so much in my 20s and up, but I've revisited him and love his risks... If anything, I'd put better fitting suits on the man (especially in L2K)... and I wish he was a little less pissed off about everything.
I recently have my Bond rankings as so:
SC
DC
RM
TD
GL
PB
But I do believe if Tim had one more solid outing, he would have surpassed Moore's 7 outings to Tim's three, as my solid three...
You're a tease...
Some of my favorite pieces of that score are sadly not in the album. The Moonraker hijacking, freefall and Venini Glass cues, among others.
Funny, I find AVTAK to be the more inspired and interesting score of the two. The love theme, the action theme, even the suspense music is more interesting (Tibbett Gets Washed Out and Bond Escapes Roller > The Chase Bomb Theme and 009 Gets the Knife).
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Personally, of the late era Barry scores I rank TMWTGG and AVTAK higher than MR, OP and TLD. I love all of them, however.
I love the MR gunbarrel, but if it's not presumptuous of me to say, I also totally understand why it's your least favorite of Barry's. At least there is nothing generic about its instrumentation, which Arnold and Newman's gunbarrels are somewhat guilty of.
@peter - what do you make of TLD? Personally I could get on board with it being Barry’s best. It’s got so many great cues.
Right now MR and the 80s efforts are not on the play list at the moment...
I think OP thru TLD is really strong, but I wonder if the relative apathy towards the films (not so much TLD) taints perception? I feel the same about the first few. I’m not sure they’re always consistently strong, although the high points are as good as it gets.
If I had to pick a run I’d say YOLT - DAF is almost flawless.
Immensely (and I have a soft spot for OP, AVTAK and TLD as films)... I just think I’m in a stage where nothing beats that classic sound.
Talk to me in six months, and I’ll be back listening to the 80s Barry all over again!!
I love that Barry had given his GB's a different style for Roger than with Sean. Strings as opposed to the electric guitar. I feel it took until OP for Barry to perfect his Roger style gunbarrel. I like the opening chords in the MR gunbarrel. Stands out among the rest. However, AVTAK's opening GB chords pack a but more punch to me.
Actually, I may have just changed my mind here. The Barry GB for TMWTGG might actually be my least favorite of that batch. The melody is played three times as instead of two, and much faster. Fits the film, though.
Tough call. Either way, I'll take any Barry gunbarrel over everything that's been done since he left.
I would’ve done, but (feel free to shoot me down) while some of it is about as good as it gets, I find portions of it tend to plod, much like the film. YOLT feels more complete, at least to me anyway.