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You Only Live Twice
Moonraker
As I've said before, the first half of Moonraker is Top 5 Bond worthy, but the film just collapses once it gets to the cable car fight. One of the biggest missed opportunities in the entire series if you ask me.
MR
YOLT
Agreed on Connery's performance. Terrible, terrible performance in which you can tell his enthusiasm is completely gone. Put that against the overall dullness that the movie seems to carry, and YOLT is one of the most boring Bonds ever. The fight with Osato's driver and the ending battle are the only real treats in the entire movie.
Agreed also! Moonraker is pretty solid until Bond gets to Rio. The cheesy puns, including Jaws, come in fast, overwhelming you with disappointment, because like you said, there's a missed opportunity.
2.) The Spy Who Loved Me
3.) Moonraker
YOLT
MR
- MR
- TSWLM
Ditto
Arguably the slickest Bond formula film of all. Gilbert truly found his muse in Roger Moore. Rog was in his element in Gilbert's Superhero Comic Book version of James Bond's world, unlike Sean Connery, who seemed a little embarrassed to be there. A PTS that is among the highlights of the series, one of the most iconic evil henchmen, and a more grand and epic feel make this one of the most unforgettable rides in James Bond's storied history.
2. Moonraker
When I was a schoolboy in the mid-1980s and my schoolfriends and I were going through our Bond phase, it was a self-evident truth that Moonraker was the greatest Bond film of all. Any attempt to disagree might make you the object of ridicule. Now that I'm no longer 11 years old, I don't put it on quite the same pedestal, but it's still a lot of fun.
3. You Only Live Twice
Beautiful scenery and one of John Barry's best scores. Connery is great even when he's phoning it in.
I love all of Lewis Gilbert's Bond films. My only serious misgiving is that many people, including many Bond fans, seem to have latched on to Gilbert's style as definitive for the entire James Bond movie franchise. If it isn't an extravagant sci-fi comedy in the Gilbert style, then it isn't really Bond, or so the reasoning seems to go. While I thoroughly enjoy these films, I don't want all the Bond films to be just like them.
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. You Only Live Twice
2. TSWLM (outrageousness played outrageously)
3. MR (outrageousness played out.)
2. YOLT
3. MR
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. Moonraker
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Moonraker
2) MR - Way out there at times but entertaining on the whole.
3) YOLT - Great beginning and great end but boy does it drag in the middle.
2) YOLT
3) MR
but, just on Gilbert's direction;
1) Spy
2) MR
3) YOLT.
I find Gilbert to be a pacy, extioc and imaginative director.
2.YOLT
3.MR
2. YOLT
3. MR
2. MR
3. YOLT
2 - You Only live twice
3 - Moonraker
Quite. I could see Gilbert doing A View To A Kill, better than Glen's staid direction I would imagine.