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Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: TB
Settings: DN
Action: DN
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamor: TB
Ally: DN
Henchman: TB
Title Credits: Thunderball
Main Villain: Dr No
Main Bond Girl: Dr No
Overall Plot: Thunderball
Dialogue: Dr No
Score: Thunderball
Settings: Dr No
Action: Dr No
Humour: Thunderball
Minor Characters: Thunderball
Glamour: Thunderball
Ally: Dr No
Henchman: Thunderball
Yes, when i got to the 'Henchman', i automatically thought of Fiona Volpe.
Title Credits: TB
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: TB
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: TB
Settings: DN
Action: TB
Humor: TB
Cinematography: TB
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamor: TB
Ally: DN
Henchman: TB
A pretty even match-up it seems
TB wins nine categories, while DN wins seven. There was one tie.
Here are the particulars:
Title Track: 11-6 TB
Title Credits: 14-3 TB
Main Villain: 16-0 DN
Main Bond Girl: 10-7 DN
Overall Plot: 11-6 DN
Dialogue: 12-5 DN
Score: 16-0 TB
Settings: 12-5 TB
Action: 14-3 TB
Humor: 11-6 TB
Cinematography: 15-1 TB
Benign Bizarre: 15-1 DN
Suspense: 8-8 Tie
Minor Characters: 12-4 DN
Glamor: 17-0 TB
Ally: 17-0 DN
Henchman: 12-4 TB
As for overall point totals, TB racks up 153 points, while DN hauls in 129.
All in all, a rather close battle, but Largo and Volpe manage to toss Julius No into the shark pool. Alas poor Julius, we knew him well.
Our next round is for the Brosnaphiles, as we'll pit TND against TWINE. Watch this space!
PTS: TND
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain*: TND
Main Bond Girl#: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TWINE
Settings: TND
Action: TWINE
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen$: TWINE
*Elektra King for TWINE
#Christmas Jones and Wai Lin
$Renard for TWINE
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TWINE
Dialogue: TWINE
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humor: TWINE
Cinematography: TWINE
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TWINE
Dialogue: TND (I can't look over "he knew how to hurt me"
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humor: TWINE
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TWINE
Title Track: The World Is Not Enough
Title Credits: The World Is Not Enough
Main Villain: The World Is Not Enough
Main Bond Girl: Tomorrow Never Dies
Overall Plot: The World Is Not Enough
Dialogue: The World Is Not Enough
Score: Tomorrow Never Dies
Settings: Tomorrow Never Dies
Action: The World Is Not Enough
Humor: The World Is Not Enough
Cinematography: The World Is Not Enough
Benign Bizarre: The World Is Not Enough
Suspense: The World Is Not Enough
Minor Characters: Tomorrow Never Dies
Glamor: Tomorrow Never Dies
Henchmen: Tomorrow Never Dies
I think. I don't really know. They're such evenly matched, poor films in my opinion.
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TWINE
Dialogue: TWINE
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TWINE, though TND is pure action in the finale.
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
@Samuel001, don't lie, you know you love them both and you find them vying for first place on your favorites list. ;-)
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TND
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humour: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TND
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
Title credits: The World Is Not Enough
Main villain: The World Is Not Enough
Main girl: Tomorrow Never Dies
Overall Plot: The World Is Not Enough
Dialogue: Tomorrow Never Dies
Score: Tomorrow Never Dies
Settings: Tomorrow Never Dies
Action: Tomorrow Never Dies
Humour: Tomorrow Never Dies
Cinematography: Tomorrow Never Dies
Bengin Bizarre: The World Is Not Enough
Suspense: The World Is Not Enough
Minor Characters: The World Is Not Enough
Glamour: Tomorrow Never Dies
Henchmen: Tomorrow Never Dies
TND wins which is strange because although it's fun I prefer TWINE, which is one of my favourites.
And here's DN vs TB because I missed it.
Title Track: TB
Title credits: TB
Main villain: DN
Bond girl: DN
Plot: TB
Dialouge: TB
Score: TB
Settings: DN
Action: TB
Humour: TB
Cinematography: TB
Suspense: DN
Benign Bizzare: DN
Minor characters: DN
Glamor: TB
Ally: DN
Henchman: DN
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TND
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humour: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
That was an easy win for TND...
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TWINE
Dialogue: TWINE
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humor: TWINE
Cinematography: TWINE
Benign Bizarre: TND
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
PTS: TWINE. Really the only tough call here. I do love the "White Knight" sequence but Pierce is so much better in the banker's office and at MI6 in TWINE. Yes it's the longest PTS but it's brilliant from start to finish.
Title Track: The World Is Not Enough. TND is an awful song, whereas TWINE is one of the better of the whole lot. Not YKMM level quality, but I can see it being top ten.
Title credits: The World Is Not Enough. I also prefer the oil imagery to the technology imagery of TND.
Main villain: The World Is Not Enough. Whether you go with Renard or Elektra, both are miles above the awful Carver.
Main girl: Tomorrow Never Dies. Denise Richards is sexier but at least Wai Lin is a believable character portrayed by a fantastic actress.
Overall Plot: The World Is Not Enough. Easily. "I'm going to start WWIII to make my news company the best ever" is a shit plot. Though TWINE sometimes faltered in its execution, at least its' intent was a very interesting, even compelling plot.
Dialogue: The World Is Not Enough. Despite several horrible one-liners and Denise Richards, Zukovsky and Bond both have some great lines here, and nothing in TWINE is as bad as "Delicious." or pretty much anything that came out of Stamper's mouth.
Score: Tomorrow Never Dies. Very faithful to Barry. Kind of a testament to how bad a film TND is when the composer gave the best performance in it.
Settings: The World Is Not Enough. I like the imagery better.
Action: Tomorrow Never Dies. Finally TND gets a point other than the score. As much as I love the PTS of TWINE, and the showdown at the plutonium mine, buzzsaw helicopters and the awful ski sequence drag the film down. I don't like how TND is a start-to-finish shootout but at least it (sort of) wasn't stupid.
Humour: The World Is Not Enough. The scenes with Moneypenny are fantastic as are many of Bond's one liners other than the ones he has with Christmas Jones.
Cinematography: The World Is Not Enough. I think Apted is the better of the two directors and, as I said in "Settings", I like the imagery a lot more.
Bengin Bizarre: The World Is Not Enough. Renard is enough to tip this in TWINE's favour.
Suspense: The World Is Not Enough. TWINE was my first ever Bond film and the torture sequence to this day sends chills down my spine.
Minor Characters: The World Is Not Enough. Zukovsky, Lachaise, and as shit as he is, even Bullion is memorable. All TND has going for it is Kaufman and even he can't cancel out how bad Jack Wade is.
Glamour: The World Is Not Enough. Yet again, imagery.
Henchmen: Tomorrow Never Dies. I really, really didn't want to give this one to TND because Stamper is possibly the worst henchman in the entire series, but Kaufman is absolutely fantastic. In TWINE, Bullion is awful and Gabor does nothing except get knocked out, and later shot by Bond.
13-4 for TWINE. Yup. Makes sense.
Title Track: The World Is Not Enough
Title Credits: The World Is Not Enough
Main Villain: The World Is Not Enough
Main Bond Girl: Tomorrow Never Dies
Overall Plot: The World Is Not Enough
Dialogue: The World Is Not Enough
Score: Tomorrow Never Dies
Settings: Tomorrow Never Dies
Action: Tomorrow Never Dies
Humour: Tomorrow Never Dies
Cinematography: The World Is Not Enough
Benign Bizarre: The World Is Not Enough
Minor Characters: Tomorrow Never Dies
Glamour: Tomorrow Never Dies
Henchmen: Tomorrow Never Dies
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TWINE
Humour: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TND
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TWINE
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
11-6 for TND. Solid win.
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humour: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TND
Suspense: TND
Minor Characters: TWINE
Glamor: TWINE
Henchmen: TND
11-6 win for TND
Agreed completely. Although I would go so far as to say that TWINE's PTS is DRAMATICALLY overrated. The only good bits are the section dealing with the "Swiss banker" and the conclusion with Cigar Girl. The rest is plot convolution and a deadly dull boat chase. It's pretty bad when you're simultaneously nodding off and shaking your head in confusion before the film proper has even started.
PTS: TND (Both epic- but TND sees Bond tearing up the place in a jet, plus the final line of dialogue is the icing on the cake)
Title Track: TND (Not much better than TWINE- I like both but they fall a bit flat)
Title Credits: TND (There's more going on in this one. Bonus points for the babe wearing the diamond necklace)
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND (Wai Lin gets more to do, and she's badass)
Overall Plot: TWINE (Elektra's motives leave Carver looking rather "pathetic")
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND (Surrender is all over the place, and the music we hear when Bond arrives at CMGN is awesome)
Settings: TND
Action: TND (Thrilling PTS, car park chase, halo jump, stealth boat shoot 'em up. It's all there)
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TWINE
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE (The pipeline scene with M is good)
Minor Characters: TWINE (Zukovsky, Mr. Bullion)
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND (Stamper and Dr. Kaufman > Bullion and Gabor)
*Gadgets: TND (Thought I'd add this category for fun. I like TWINE's flash-bang P99/specs and piton watch, but TND wins for the car/phone)
No surprise here. TND takes the round.
I was probably being unnecessarily diplomatic. I'd agree with this.
Title Track: TWINE (Garbage's contribution isn't fantastic but is underrated.)
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TND (Pryce had fun with it.)
Main Bond Girl: TND (Not a big fan of Wai Lin but Denise Richards... just no.)
Overall Plot: TWINE (It had potential to be one of the best. Seriously.)
Dialogue: TWINE
Score: TWINE
Settings: TND (Some beautiful locations here.)
Action: TWINE (The action scenes of both are lacking but TWINE has a slight edge.)
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TWINE
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TWINE (I really like Gupta but Paris Carver ruins it.)
Glamor: TWINE
Henchmen: TWINE (Since Renard is the henchman I have to go with TWINE.)
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TND
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TND
Dialogue: TND
Score: TND
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humor: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TND
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
Title Track: TWINE
Title Credits: TWINE
Main Villain: TMND
Main Bond Girl: TWINE
Overall Plot: TMND
Dialogue: TWINE
Score: TWINE
Settings: TWINE
Action: TMND
Humor: TWINE
Cinematography: TWINE
Benign Bizarre: TMND
Suspense: TMND
Minor Characters: TWINE
Glamor: TMND
Henchmen: TMND
TWINE and TMND are my 2th and 3th favorite Bond movie. Sometimes i also feel it the other way around and TMND be 2th. For me chacter develop/chacters and humor go to Twine because it be thing take over from my 1th Bond movie Goldeneye. Also explain the succes of Casino Royale. Skyfall problem of course be that there try to remake points of Twine and TMND again and those classic elements there try to let comeback and that stupid choose for going to digital earlier be a problem.
Title Track: TND
Title Credits: TND
Main Villain: TWINE
Main Bond Girl: TND
Overall Plot: TWINE
Dialogue: TND
Score: TWINE
Settings: TND
Action: TND
Humour: TND
Cinematography: TND
Benign Bizarre: TWINE
Suspense: TWINE
Minor Characters: TND
Glamor: TND
Henchmen: TND
TND= 11; TWINE= 6. Yep. Consistent with my rankings.
TND wins the categories count 10-7.
PTS: 12-6 TWINE
Title Track: 17-2 TWINE
Title Credits: 15-4 TWINE
Main Villain: 10-9 TWINE
Main Bond Girl: 18-1 TND
Overall Plot: 11-8 TWINE
Dialogue: 11-8 TND
Score: 15-4 TND
Settings: 17-2 TND
Action: 14-5 TND
Humor: 13-6 TND
Cinematography: 11-8 TND
Benign Bizarre: 13-6 TWINE
Suspense: 16-2 TWINE
Minor Characters: 12-7 TND
Glamor: 16-3 TND
Henchmen: 16-3 TND
In terms of overall points, TND brings home 160 votes, while TWINE garners 141.
Moving right along, our next pairing will pit DAF against MR. I'll format the contest in the next post.