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We're long overdue at least one of these, methinks
I have a real soft spot for wintersport-action in Bond as I grew up with skiing & snowboarding each Christmas thanks to my Austrian side of the family. Anyway, to answer your query:
1. FYEO (Bogner at his creative best, and so well edited)
2. OHMSS (The most epic, and most beautifully captured of all)
3. AVTAK (Underrated PTS & very well done from a technical point of, er, view :>)
4. TSWLM (Classic, sure, but it's more about the base jump, really)
5. TWINE (Contrived and boring. How not to do an action sequence on ski’s…)
I agree, skiing seems quintessential Bond in a way, probably because it's quite Fleming - the Kitzbuhel connection.
Yes, Fleming spent quite a lot of time in Kitzbühel, Tyrol, before the war.
He stayed with & was friends with a certain Count Charles Seilern, who resided there. It's also here that he met Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, a British secret service officer whom Fleming used as inspiration for Bond.
2. OHMSS... true classic.
3. TSWLM... a true classic also with my favorite Bond tune, Bond ´77!
4. TWINE... enjoyable scene in an upsetting film.
5. AVTAK... good action in many ways but that f....g Beach Boys!
2. OHMSS
3. TSWLM
4. AVTAK
5. TWINE
I really like all of them actually =) A bit dissapointed there was no skiing in SPECTRE...
2. The Spy Who Loved me. Quintessential Bond, marred only by Hamlishe's obsession with The Bee Gees (nothing against them, but his fixation put a permanent date stamp on the movie).
3. For Your Eyes Only. Not as artful as OHMSS, but probably the most thrilling sequence of the bunch. The motorbikes were deliciously outrageous.
4. The World Is Not Enough. Tightly filmed action. Fantastic, punchy soundtrack. Lacked originality.
5. A View To A Kill. As my esteemed fellow bond fan has already pointed out, I just can't get past the vaudeville touch of shoehorning the Beach Boys in there.
(SPECTRE Spoiler):
Here's mine-
1. FYEO(marvellous, marvellous)
2. TSWLM (thrilling)
3. OHMSS (love it. Perhaps a tad too much rear projection)
4. AVTAK (good. Some nice stunts)
5. TWINE (a borefest)
2. FYEO (marred somewhat by Bill Conti’s score and the silly ending where Kriegler apparently can’t shoot Bond from twenty feet away, but amazing nonetheless)
3. TSWLM (solid chase and a lot of fun, punctuated by the best end to any setpiece in Bond history)
4. AVTAK (so much fun and well choreographed, and I even sort of like the Beach Boys song playing over it – sue me, AVTAK was my first Bond movie so I can’t help but feel affectionate)
5. TWINE (not bad, but feels a little “meh” – the only ski chase in the series that I don’t find particularly exciting or engaging)
My exact ranking.
2) OHMSS: Impressive camera work, both on the ground and in the air!
3) TSWLM: The stunt at the end of an already cool chase is the real thing. What a performance!
4) AVTAK: Yeah... Barry helps a great deal. Not much going on though. And the projection shots are too obvious.
5) TWINE: Unexciting and with a constant emphasis on being "slow". Ski chases are about speed. But neither the camera work, the editing or Arnold's music drives that point home.
2) FYEO : I must say I applauded that one in the theater I saw it in. Especially right after the big jump (and just before Conti's "Runaway")
3) TSWLM : Yes, of course, it's all about the base jump, but not only : first use of acrobatic skiing in a movie, if I'm not mistaken.
4) AVTAK : Too bad it was destroyed by the use of "California Girls". After the slide whistle, another example of how you can ruin a great scene with bad use of music.
5) TWINE
2. OHMSS
3.TSWLM
4.TWINE
5.AVTAK
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. A View to a KIll
5. The World is Not Enough
2.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3.For your Eyes Only
4. A View to a Kill (Well, the Beach Boys song was proper--It is a Roger Moore Bond film after all)
5. The World is Not Enough
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. A View to a Kill (John Barry: Snow Job)
4. The World is Not Enough
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. A View to a Kill (Beach Boys: California Dreaming)
2. "He had lots of guts!"
3. "The opposite sex would never survive it."
4. "See you back at the lodge."
5. "Call me James. It's five days to Alaska."
2. FYEO
3. TSWLM
4. AVTAK
5. TWINE
2.TSWLM
3. FYEO
4. AVTAK (weak scene redeemed by Barry's score)
5. TWINE
I prefer ohmss. It feels like bond is in the wild.
Me 2. That Was what i wanted the most in the movie (actionwise at least)
Surprised they didn't work in skiing somehow. Or at least Q snowboarding...
2.TWINE.
3.FYEO.
4.TSWLM.
5.AVTAK.
Or how about Q whispers to Bond when the goons arrive that he left a pair of skis for him in the ski rack outside the clinic?
Then cue a ski chase with gadget laden skis (don't ask me what they are. Maybe Bond jumps of a cliff and instead of having a parachute the skis start rotating and become helicopter rotors? What do you mean I've lost the plot?)
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. A View to a Kill
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. The World Is Not Enough
2. FYEO
3. TSWLM PTS
4. AVTAK -despite the bad audio joke I thought it pretty thrilling
5. TWINE
1.OHMSS
2.TSWLM
3.FYEO
4.TWINE
5.AVTAK.