It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Many thanks for helming this for 52 weeks, giving us something to contemplate and get the old brain cells working, making us think about each pairing. Often not as easy is might seem at first.
Great job @goldenswissroyale and thanks.
Hope we can revive this down the track. =D> <:-P
If I remember it right, my first round was one of your first posts on this forum.
Must have been, I was on my best behaviour! 😝
Two questions where you have to pick one of the two possible answers. You can simply vote or also describe why you prefer the one moment/part over the other.
Weekly Bond Poll: Christmas Special
A) Which song/music do you prefer as an (even more) important part and successful ingredient of OHMSS (in other words: which one adds more to the fact that you like/love the movie):
John Barry's main theme (title song) On Her Majesty's Secret Service vs. We Have All The Time In The World (Louis Armstrong)
B) Which snow action moment do you prefer: bobsled run in FYEO (a bob, Bond on skis and the villain on a bike! All in the bobsled run at the same time!) vs. a cello case instead of skis (Bond and Kara change the vehicle and are chased and fired at before they finally cross the border)
Pick your favourite for A and B. Is it an easy pick or do you have to think hard? Maybe you should rewatch all three movies before answering! Merry Christmas to everyone!
B) Also tough, love both films, but I’d say FYEO scenes. I may love TLD way more, but that action sequence in the former is a bit more enjoyable.
B) Oh, FYEO most definitely! Amazing stunts and so exciting.
B) Gotta go with FYEO. I like TLD's cello chase too, but the ski/bobsled/motorcycle chase in FYEO is just plain fun. As @mtm mentions the stunts are terrific and the ideas outlandish, and Conti's "Runaway" zips along with energy and a triumphant spirit. A real highlight of the film.
B) Bobsled run in FYEO. All that action is so fresh and superbly presented on screen.
1/ I'll have to go with We Have All The Time In The World, although I love both. It's just when I hear the Armstrong song I truly become overwhelmed with emotion!
2/ slightly easier choice: FYEO. I don't like the music at all, but the stunts are so well conceived and executed.
Did you realize that you asked a question about breasts? The acronym of the song isn't really appropriate for a christmas special :-?
A)John Barry's main theme (title song) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
B) Cello case instead of skis (Bond and Kara change the vehicle and are chased and fired at before they finally cross the border) The Living Daylights
It's a perfect end to one of my favourite action scenes (from salt corrosion to just a cello).
But I completely understand that the bobsled run gets more votes. The image where we have the bob, Bond on skis and the guy on the bike behind each other is an outstanding action moment: fantastic real stunt work, funny and exciting at the same time.
The first duel isn't decided yet!
A great memory of the song: Way back in 1980 before OHMSS was to be shown on the ABC network, I went to my uncle's house to listen to his OHMSS soundtrack to get ready for the experience and the title theme hit my like a psychedelic experience I wasn't ready for with the synthesizers and such. So I was thrilled to see it with the credits. I had only seen the film a couple of other times and it was perfect and made me an early convert to OHMSS at a time it wasn't popular to like.
The Armstrong song is nice. I like it and it works as a great romantic instrumental theme throughout. It has just never got me on any other level. Don't be outraged, but I have actually skipped it when listening to the OHMSS soundtrack.
Now had Do You Know How Christmas Trees are Grown been in the mix, I'd have gone for it over the other two. Kidding. I played it for a former girlfriend once as one of my favorite Christmas songs and I thought she was going to drop me there and then.
For question 2, I will also go for the TLD cello case as opposed to FYEO for several reasons. Before TLD came out, a friend of mine moaned about the sequence as something out of the Moore era after seeing it in a trailer, but it turned out okay. Not a standout sequence but it's Bond being resourceful and good fun without being too out there and outrageous.
Whereas I've never been an FYEO fan as it seems to be just a greatest hits collection of what worked in previous films as the series turned from FX to stunts, none of which improve on the originals for me and the ski chase is a prime example, save for the gripping ski jump and the build-up, which has nice drama and an actual sense of danger.
OHMSS set the standard, with skiing and the toboggan run. I'll give taking the chase onto the toboggan run as original, but it gets played too much for humor opposed to danger. How the hell the bikers can't shoot Bond with those guns on the bikes is beyond me.
I will agree on the Conti score. I'm a fan whereas most people can't stand it and Runaway adds energy to the sequence.
For the second definitely FYEO, it’s a great sequence with Sir Rog and feels much more substantial an action sequence than the cello chase.
Thanks for resurrecting @goldenswissroyale I look forward to more rounds in the future!
B) Both are among my very favourite sequences of the franchise, at least if the cello chase is viewed as combined with the preceding car chase. If not, the better one is clearly the FYEO Cortina chase. Conti's music here and in many other sequences works almost perfectly.
It's only about the cello part and the part in the bobsled run.
OHMSS main theme wins against We have all the time in the world: 7 : 3
My vote would also go the the main theme: The love scene with Armstrong's song is wonderful but the main theme (specially combined with the ski action) can't be topped.
The FYEO bobsled run wins easily against the action with the cello case in TLD: 8 :2
The whole snow action scene in TLD and FYEO are fantastic (imo). So much great ideas, stunts; the perfect way to entertain me again and again. The cello case used as a sled a great final for the sequence (I hoped for something similar in SP: Why couldn't the chase go on with sled after the plane crashed in the cars??) The last seconds of the TLD snow chase are amazing: All the men behind them on skis and on the snow vehicles shooting before Bond and Kara cross the border with a last good joke.
I probably prefer the TLD snow action to the FYEO snow action (both are awesome!!) but the specific moment in the bobsled run puts such a bright smile on my face that I would also vote for FYEO. @BT3366 said that FYEO only was kind of a "greatest hits collection" of older movies. It's alright to feel this way but this moment still stands out for me and I haven't seen a bob, a guy on skis and a guy on a motorcycle so close behind each other in a bobsled run before. Not before and never again. That's a crazy stunt and it's sad that such cool stunt work is missing in most newer action flicks (apart from the Mission: Impossible films).
That's an interesting view. I don't think it's overused and perfectly applied to the ski chases and part of the car chase. One of my personal favorite moments is when the SPECTRE goons shoot the phone booth and the theme kicks in as Bond runs for Tracy's car. There are other action themes - the beach fight, for instance, and the love theme is used in variations and that's part of Barry's genius is having more than one variation or creating secondary themes and still making them fresh without overdoing it.
Sadly, today's composers can't seem to follow that. They can't make creative use of the theme (possibly as the themes are often done so late in the production) and don't have an action theme but instead go for repetitious music that is instantly forgettable even after multiple listens.
Goldenswissroyale, with this mission completed, can we look forward to future polls?
Just goes to show we're all different! :)