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Title Track: CR - Rock and seductive
Title Credits: SF
Main Villain: SF
Main Bond Girl: SF (I consider Severine the main Bond Girl. Why? She led Bond to Silva. Vesper is brillant, but Severine is the sexy and dangerous good ol Bond girl)
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: CR
Score: SF
Settings: SF
Action: CR
Humor: SF
Cinematography: SF -
*Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: CR
CR :7- SF:8 . This exercise is all wrong because I have CR as my favorite Bond film, while SF is currently at 4 behind FRWL and GF. :P
PTS: CR, prefer CR
Title Track: SF, prefer SF
Title Credits: SF, prefer CR
Main Villain: SF, prefer SF
Main Bond Girl: SF, prefer CR
Overall Plot: CR, prefer CR
Dialogue: SF, prefer SF
Score: SF, prefer CR
Settings: SF, prefer SF
Action: SF, prefer CR
Humor: SF, prefer SF
Cinematography: SF, prefer SF
Benign Bizarre: SF, prefer SF
Suspense: CR, prefer CR
Minor Characters: CR, prefer CR
Achieved elements best- CR: 4, SF: 11
Preferred- CR: 8, SF: 7.
I only preferred the less-traditional elements of CR 4-to-15.
This test is extremely accurate; I do take CR just barely over SF.
Title Track: CR
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: CR
Main Bond Girl: CR
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: SF
Score: CR
Settings: SF
Action: CR
Humor: SF
Cinematography: SF
*Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: CR
That's way CR is my 2nd favorite and SF my 4th.
The results are:
PTS: CR 12, SF 3
Title Track: CR 6, SF 9
Title Credits: CR 12, SF 3
Main Villain: CR 1, SF 14
Main Bond Girl: CR 10, SF 5
Overall Plot: CR 13, SF 2
Dialogue: CR 6, SF 9
Score: CR 7, SF 8
Settings: CR 5, SF 10
Action: CR 11, SF 4
Humor: CR 0, SF 15
Cinematography: CR 0, SF 15
Benign Bizarre: CR 0, SF 15
Suspense: CR 12, SF 3
Minor Characters: CR 7, SF 8
Total: CR 102, SF 123
If I have the energy, I'll tote 'em up once the thread is spent.
That's a good idea, given people may decide to edit their answers and whatnot. I can tally them up, if you decide you don't want to do so.
Skyfall wins eight categories, Casino Royale wins seven.
Skyfall gets 119 total votes, Casino Royale gets 106.
As I expected, these are two evenly matched Bond films. And our next match, between License to Kill and The Living Daylights, could produce similar results. So without further adoo, awaaaaay we go!
PTS: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
*Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
*In case there's any doubt, for the purposes of this game, Pam Bouvier, not Lupe Lamora, is considered the main Bond girl.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
*Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
I'm afraid this is quite a strange result for me.. I'd really put TLD and LTK evenly matched, but it seems TLD dominates LTK on the elements listed here! it seems ranking and comparing Bond movies never ceases to amaze me!
Title Track: The Living Daylights
Main villain: Licence To Kill
Main girl: The Living Daylights*
Overall plot: Licence To Kill
Dialogue: Licence To Kill
Score: The Living Daylights
Settings: The Living Daylights
Action: The Living Daylights*
Humour: The Living Daylights
Benign Bizarre: Licence To Kill
Suspense: Licence To Kill
Cinematography: The Living Daylights
Minor characters: Licence To Kill
*This was very, very close. I really like Pam, she's a stronger character and she's fitter than Kara but I think Bond cared more about Kara. One of the few times where Bonds relationship with the girl has felt real.
*I think the Dalton films have by far the best action in the series and again it was really close. LTK had the plane fishing, TLD had the truck stunt. LTK had the tanker chase, TLD had the cargo net fight. It was close but I think the cargo net fight is the best stunt in film history so TLD wins. Both have brilliant action though and what's amazing is that the stunts were done for real. If they made these films today half of it would be CGI.
TLD wins overall but I prefer LTK because of Sanchez. Both are fantastic films though and for me they're the high point of the series. I don't think any Bond film will beat these two in my eyes. We've had some good one's before and since but the Dalton films will always be my favourites.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: TLD
No surprise for me. I prefer TLD by a wide margin over LTK.
Title Track: Casino Royale (YKMN of of the best)
Title Credits: Skyfall (I really liked it)
Main Villain: Casino Royale
Main Bond Girl: Casino Royale
Overall Plot: Casino Royale
Dialogue: Skyfall (every exchange between Bond and M truly amusing)
Score: Casino Royale
Settings: Skyfall (what can beat Scotland?)
Action: Casino Royale
Humor: Skyfall
Cinematography: Skyfall
Benign Bizarre: Casino Royale
Suspense: Casino Royale
Minor Characters: Skyfall (Mallory carries the day here)
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
*Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: LTK (Tough one this because I love the tanker truck sequence and the cargo plane scene).
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: LTK
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
Title Track: Licence To Kill
Title Credits: Licence To Kill
Main Villain: Licence To Kill
Main Bond Girl: The Living Daylights
Overall Plot: The Living Daylights
Dialogue: The Living Daylights
Score: The Living Daylights
Settings: The Living Daylights
Action: Licence To Kill
Humor: Licence To Kill
Cinematography: The Living Daylights
Benign Bizarre: Licence To Kill
Suspense: The Living Daylights
Minor Characters: The Living Daylights
Could we also include our favourite film for Bond, Sadism, Gadgets and Snobbery?
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
TLD by a nose.
You've missed out PTS @chrisisall
Title Track: CR
Title Credits: CR
Main Villain: SF
Main Bond Girl: CR
Overall Plot: CR
Dialogue: SF
Score: CR
Settings: SF
Action: CR
Humour: SF
Cinematography: SF
Benign Bizarre: SF
Suspense: CR
Minor Characters: CR
PTS: TLD
Title Track: LTK
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humour: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
PTS: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humour: TLD
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: TLD
A landslide victory for The Living Daylights
PTS: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: LTK
Humor: TLD. Bond only has one pun in LTK.
Cinematography: LTK. I really like a lot of the camera work in it tbh.
*Benign Bizarre: I guess Sanchez's choice in furniture gives this one to LTK. Neither film really has it, they're the two most grounded Bond films ever.
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: TLD
10-5 for TLD. Strange as they're my #2 and #4.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: LTK
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK, on the back of "launder it"
Cinematography: TLD. Threw it a bone since it's behind.
*Benign Bizarre: LTK. Once again, neither has much.
Suspense: LTK
Minor Characters: LTK
LTK takes 8-7.
Title Track: Licence To Kill
Title Credits: Licence To Kill
Main Villain: Licence To Kill
Main Bond Girl: Licence To Kill
Overall Plot: The Living Daylights
Dialogue: The Living Daylights
Score: The Living Daylights
Settings: The Living Daylights
Action: Licence To Kill
Humour: Licence To Kill
Cinematography: The Living Daylights
Benign Bizare: Licence To Kill
Suspense: The Living Daylights
Minor Characters - Licence To Kill
Skyfall wins eight categories, Casino Royale wins seven.
Skyfall gets 119 total votes, Casino Royale gets 106.
As I expected, these are two evenly matched Bond films. And our next match, between License to Kill and The Living Daylights, could produce similar results. So without further adoo, awaaaaay we go!
PTS: TLD
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: LTK
Main Villain: LTK
*Main Bond Girl: TLD
But the villains--including Professor Joe--are a very humorous bunch. Not that I'm trying to influence anybody, of course, but the humor is for the entire film, not just Bond himself.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: TLD
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: LTK
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: LTK
Sanchez's iguana, Professor Joe, Sanchez's Aztec-styled drug compound, the statue that stares at Bond when he awakes, all qualify as Benign Bizarre.
In TLD, you've got the carnival setting, and the balloons, just off of the top of my head. The cello case escape could possibly be classed as BB as well.
PTS :: The Living Daylights
Title Track :: The Living Daylights
Title Credits :: The Living Daylights
Main Villain :: Licence To Kill
Main Bond Girl :: The Living Daylights
Overall Plot :: The Living Daylights
Dialogue :: The Living Daylights
Score :: The Living Daylights
Settings :: The Living Daylights
Action :: Licence To Kill
Humour :: The Living Daylights
Cinematography :: The Living Daylights
Benign Bizarre :: Licence To Kill
Suspense :: The Living Daylights
Minor Characters :: The Living Daylights
12 - 3 for The Living Daylights.
It's been a few months since I've watched The Living Daylights. It's been a few months since I watched any Bond film, but especially The Living Daylights. And that's something I shall have to rectify...
Maybe not quite benign bizzare, but David Hedison's acting is really campy in the first few scenes, like straight out of the Rockford Files, or better yet, his performance in LALD. LTK is a benign bizzare experience in that it is played up as a much tougher, grittier, and violent Bond film, but there are a number of campy and strange things going on that give a bizzare effect.
True. It's almost stereophonic. Gritty and tough on the one hand, and on the other it plays like DAF. DAF is exactly the opposite. People consider it a campy jokefest, but it has moments of horrific brutality that would make Franz Sanchez sweat.
Title Track: TLD
Title Credits: TLD
Main Villain: LTK
Main Bond Girl: TLD
Overall Plot: LTK
Dialogue: TLD
Score: TLD
Settings: TLD
Action: TLD
Humor: LTK
Cinematography: TLD
Benign Bizarre: LTK
Suspense: TLD
Minor Characters: LTK