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But despite his age, despite the endless stuntmen, and the obviously deaf Bond girl (who doesn't hear a blimp sneaking up on them?), the pensioners at MI6. Despite all its faults, I'll take AVTAK purely for Roger Moore. Yes he's too old, but he still gives the part his everything. Of course, it also has a beautiful score from John Barry. Roger's swansong is the better film for me.
In some ways, it's one of the lazier-shot Bond films, with the obvious exception of DAF.
That being said, I'd still take it over DAD.
I like AVTAK in a 'last of the old gang' way, but I'd rather watch Die Another Day.
That seems a strange assertion: there's a whole big action set piece staged at night.
I'm taking DAD over AVTAK!
Okay lets have some fun with this next one.
Would you rather watch Sean's first farewell YOLT or Sean's second farewell DAF
I doubt very much that Connery thought he'd be returning to the role when he wrapped up YOLT but there he was 4 years later back wearing the holster and drinking the martinis!
So my dear community. Which would you rather watch, Connery's first farewell film, or his second?
I love 'em BOTH!
None of this is explicit in the film, of course, but Moore's age is an undercurrent throughout the story anyway, conscious or not, and I like how it turned out in that respect.
As for the question, tough one, but I'd go with YOLT. I've never thought Connery was as bad in it as is sometimes said, and the volcano finale beats almost everything in DAF to me.
I love DAF for what it is, a fun film, with plenty of good humour and silliness. YOLT is a far better movie, with great cinematography, and a beautiful score. Connery at least still looks like a cold blooded killer in YOLT, in DAF he's still good, but looks a little out of shape compared to his earlier adventures.
But I love DAF for the absolutely bizarre humour and it’s almost unnecessary existence…. In the end, if DAF never existed, we wouldn’t be missing out on some great Bond caper…
Yes, YOLT….
I often watch YOLT followed by DAF. The fact that YOLT ends in Japan and the opening pre-title scene in DAF is also in Japan and it's about the hunt for Blofeld, the film really works as a direct follow up, as if ignoring OHMSS, which of course ignores YOLT and Bond and Blofeld having already met.
Yes, I was going to say Connery had 3 farewell Bond movies (4 if you include The Rock!) ;)
YOLT is a better film than DAF, but I would have to go with DAF. It's one of my guilty pleasures - the eerie Hammer Horror early 70's vibe, the creepy Kidd and Wint, Barry's strange sounding score, the Ford Mustang, Las Vegas in its seedy retro setting.
I've never been overly keen on YOLT. By the time Connery goes Japanese and gets married, I'm usually half asleep by then.
But I'd have to go with You Only Live Twice, at least that film tried to be a decent Bond film at least, though Connery's performance (and his Japanese Makeup) really detriments the film everytime I'm watching it, but it's still a decent Bond film in places, it's still managed to be a Bond film in a proper way.
Diamonds Are Forever was just too far from a Bond film, it even made Die Another Day a good Bond film in comparison, I mean, it's plot was really all over the place and doesn't makes sense at times (at least Die Another Day, had an interesting concept with Bond and North Korea thing), then added to it was the cheap effects, bad cinematography (imagine of how they've made Las Vegas and Amsterdam such bland looking places), dull filmmaking, poorly made gags (especially the Plenty O'Toole scenes), inconsistent writing of the characters (Tiffany Case, in particular), just bad writing all around, it's not a Bond film, it's a Bond parody, a caricature, it looked like there's a director who hates the Franchise and tried to made a fun of it with all of his/her mockery in this film, it's just a crazy film in a bad way, it's the worst Bond film in the series, only to be edged out by The Man With The Golden by just a little inch.
Heck, even A View To A Kill and No Time To Die or even Never Say Never Again were all far better than this, again save for The Man With The Golden Gun, the only Bond film that's a little more worse than Diamonds.
TMWTGG is actually one of my favourites of Moore.
But if I'm judging the film based on technicality (technical aspects), those two (DAD & NTTD) are at least better than Diamonds.
TMWTGG is the only Bond film I can't stand, sorry, sure, there's Christopher Lee and Maud Adams, but the negatives overshadowed the positives for me (and that two I've mentioned are the only positives), at least Diamonds had a great song and the portrayal of Bond was decent at least, the way Bond was portrayed in TMWTGG was really unlikeable and very uncomfortable (at least I've never had that feeling while watching Diamonds).
Just based on performance I'd go for DAF. It also has a campiness to it that boarders slightly into 'so bad it's good' territory (well perhaps not that far, but it's a very strange to watch which makes it slightly more watchable compared to YOLT, which personally bores me sometimes).
Yes the scene when Moore gets rough in the hotel room with Maud, and then decides to sleep with her while Goodnight is in the closet is probably the creepiest and unlikeable Bond ever gets in the movies.
No to derail us but when you think that in LALD he tricks a woman to have sex with him, then in TMWTGG he sleeps with one woman while another is in the closet they are both creepy. Moore was able to play it off, but still not very gentlemanly of our leading man.
That's your opinion, of course. I do love TMWTGG, it has a lot going for it, but the screenplay is far from the best, and I say that as a professional screenwriter.
Smoking all those cigars didn't help either