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Totally agree here @GBF :-).
You like her naked :-)?
I used to like it a lot more too; I'm not sure what happened. Every viewing has made it weaker for me, and it's #17 in my list right now; used to be in my Top 10.
For me it's also Connery's portrayal as 007 in YOLT. It's just so...wooden, so staccato. As if he's merely raking up his lines without any emotion and without a jovial bit of improvisation.
Part of it is because I never liked Roald Dahl's dialogue from the screenplay. In many ways it sounds like the worst screenplays of Neal Purvis & Robert Wade. Also director Lewis Gilbert to me wasn't a dominant director like Terence Young or Guy Hamilton. Gilbert's biggest luck with TSWLM to me is that people didn't see it as a remake of YOLT, because it came after the bad TMWTGG and an almost 3-year gap.
Just compare it with Maibaum's dialogue from TB. Especially the feisty, tense dialgue between Bond and Fiona Volpe! Man, this is stuff you wanna hear!:
And it was completely absent in YOLT. It was the first of three 'subway films' (referring to these ridiculous little transportation trains). It's just one giant, big, exposition of production design. And it shows. There's no soul! The Bond girls, although looking exotically Japanese, they come across like flat pancakes. Even Aki's death looked rather fake and a sheer example of bad acting skills.
Then there's Kissy: "It's going downnn.....into the volcano!!" Ughhh, girl, you sound like you are having an orgasm dear Kissy Suzuki.
YOLT is the prime example of the Bond franchise in decline. The only thing EON wanted is to make it even bigger than TB. Man, how on Earth can you do that without sacrificing other aspects of filmmaking, like good screenplays, feisty dialogue and believable characters. You just can't.
I even think that Connery looked more 'fresh' in DAF than in YOLT. There's a slight air of "Glad to be back" in that film.
And, well, I already knew that AVTK is a guilty pleasure...
three above TND ;-)
Never Say Never Again (Not rated)
Die Another Day 20/23
The Man With The Golden Gun 10/23 (10/24) > For this game: 8/10
A View To A Kill 5/23 (5/24) > For this game: 3/10
Diamonds Are Forever 12/23 (12/24)
Tomorrow Never Dies 3/23 > For this game: 5/10
Moonraker 19/23
You Only Live Twice 15/23
The World Is Not Enough 2/23
Next one 146 points or more, then i don't need feel quilty i give Twine no points.
Thunderball i hope.. If it be QOS then [-( and if Spectre then.. =))
Yes didn't get close to the top 10 as i hoped but it did very well
I also want to express my appreciation to GG for organizing this poll - it's really interesting and suspenseful the way it's done. Good idea!
I have a feeling that my personal favourite, QOS, is next for the chop, but maybe it can hang on and beat LALD...
The thing I like best about Gustav's poll so far is that we are on track for every Bond actor and every decade to feature in the top 10.