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Title Credits: AVTAK
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: AVTAK
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: AVTAK
Action: AVTAK (Is there any memorable action scene in DN?)
Humour: DN
Cinematography: AVTAK
Benign Bizarre: AVTAK
Suspense: AVTAK (For Zorin and Mayday alone)
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: AVTAK (I take AVTAK's French castle scenes over DN's dinner scene)
Bond Performance: DN
AVTAK 12 : DN 5
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: AVTAK
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: AVTAK
Dialogue: AVTAK
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: AVTAK
Suspense: AVTAK
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN 7
AVTAK 9
Not that much of a shock,i do like AVTAK,it is more re-watchable and entertaining.
I’ll give you the score, but the action goes to DN because AVTAK has such an obvious use of stuntmen and it actually isn’t trying the hide that.
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: DN
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: DN
Settings: DN
Action: DN
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
Dr 17- AVTK -0
I love AVTAK title track, but not over the Bond theme. And while Barry is the master, the music from Dr No I find more evocative of Jamaica and love that too. Action is both good and too cartoony in AVTAK so I couldn’t give it there either. I was never a fan of Grace Jones so no, plus their sex scene gives the creeps. I tried though, I did.
Title Credits: AVTAK
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: AVTAK
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: AVTAK
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: AVTAK
Action: AVTAK
Humour: AVTAK
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: AVTAK
Glamour: AVTAK
Bond Performance: DN
DN 5
AVTAK 12
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: AVTAK
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN - 12
AVTAK - 5
Except it isn't the Bond Theme, but that badly edited medley.
Title Credits: DN (AVTAK is in the middle of Binder's fallow period)
Main Villain: AVTAK (very close. Zorin is a memorable, cold and menacing villain. DN would win this in iconic terms, but in plot terms and screen time Zorin triumphs. Walken is having a blast and he doesn't have a weak scene.)
Main Bond Girl: DN (Honey is iconic. Stacey Sutton is forgettable - when she's not annoying.)
Henchman: AVTAK (Grace Jones is a top shelf Bond heavy)
Overall Plot: DN (After the Paris opening AVTAK's plot drags for large chunks of the film. Even though the ending picks things up a bit.)
Dialogue: DN (For Doctor No and Bond's dialogue alone. AVTAK has some comedy clangers.)
Score: AVTAK (Wonderful. One of my favourite Bond soundtracks - Snow Job, Stacey meets Bond and Golden Gate Fight are amazing series highlights.)
Settings: AVTAK (Jamaica in DN is so magical and sets up Bond exoticism so well. It's an eternal favourite. But I'm giving this to AVTAK because it uses the Eiffel Tower so well and a good race beside and on top of the Seine. But the kicker is I truly love San Francisco as a cinematic city - and as a place to visit!)
Action: AVTAK (the PTS action is good, the Paris car chase and final act has some good action sequences.)
Humour: DN (AVTAK's humour is pretty ordinary. DN has the deadpan and dark humour down pat)
Cinematography: DN (love the way Jamaica is captured.)
Benign Bizarre: AVTAK (close but butterfly death, steroid babies, carwash deaths, Grace Jones)
Suspense: DN (AVTAK has some good individual suspense scenes mainly the Paris chase and the finale but it has large chunks that pall.)
Minor Characters: DN (I like Macnee and Fullerton but I prefer Quarrel and Felix Leiter)
Glamour: DN (62' Bond glamour beats '85 bond glamour)
Bond Performance: DN (Connery at his finest beats Moore at his oldest)
DN - 10
AVTAK - 7
DN is easily top ten Bond for me so these categories flatter AVTAK which is hovering in the bottom third of Bond films for me. But it has some excellent elements when split up like this. The locations, the villains, title song and it has one of my favourite soundtracks ever.
Oh!
I meant to pick AVTAK. I knew something was off about my score. Amending now, thank you very much.
Title Credits: AVTAK
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK
Humour: AVTAK
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: AVTAK
Suspense: AVTAK
Minor Characters: AVTAK
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
10-7 AVTAK
But not just the Bond Theme. If it was just the Bond Theme as recorded it’d be perfect. But the other Two sections don’t link well with it and it is really poorly edited together.
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: AVTAK
Action: AVTAK
Humour: AVTAK
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: AVTAK
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN 9
AVTAK 8
Title Credits: AVTAK - Like the luminous colours.
Main Villain: AVTAK - So tight as Wiseman is fabulous but Walken shades it thanks to more screentime.
Main Bond Girl: DN - Honey not my favourite but she's iconic and more importantly keeps her trap shut instead of screeching all the time.
Henchman: AVTAK - Grace is pretty iconic even if we are denied a final showdown with her and Bond.
Overall Plot: DN - DN nice and simple detective story that must have been fabulously thrilling at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. AVTAK is just a retread of GF with story threads (the microchip, the horse drugging) that don't really go anywhere.
Dialogue: AVTAK - Love the stuff with Rog and Macnee and also Rog and Walken's sparring.
Score: AVTAK - Two words for those suggesting DN has a better score: 'He's Dangerous'. Probably only the Bond theme and OHMSS main theme are better.
Settings: DN - DN gives a great sense of being in Jamaica whereas AVTAK operates like a Japanese tour group whisking you from tourist site to tourist site with just enough time to take a few pics and buy a miniature Eiffel Tower or Golden Gate Bridge.
Action: AVTAK - The PTS very underrated due to a terrible musical decision, the taxi chase is very inventive by Julienne (despite the poor stunt doubling) and the finale on the bridge is pretty good.
Humour: DN - Some subtle one liners that hit the mark beautifully far better than the sub JW schtick of the police captain.
Cinematography: DN - Looks fabulous on bluray whilst AVTAK looks like a TV travel show.
Benign Bizarre: DN - The metal hands, the tarantula room, cigarette cyanide all add up to a rather creepy film at times.
Suspense: AVTAK - Despite us knowing that Bond will save the day the countdown does get pretty tense.
Minor Characters: DN - Quarrel, Leiter, Pussfeller, Miss Taro comfortably beat the bland Chuck Lee, Scarpine, Mortner and the hammy Abuergine.
Glamour: DN - Thr casino scene alone beats anything in AVTAK, notably Rog driving a crappy hire car along the freeway listening to the local radio.
Bond Performance: DN - Unsurpassble.
9 DN
8 AVTAK
Worryingly close. I guess AVTAK must be just less than the sum of its parts as I would say they are miles apart.
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: DN
Settings: DN
Action: DN
Humour: AVTAK
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN 15
AVTAK 2
DN is one of my top five favorites, AVTAK is one of the worst for me.
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN: 13
AVTAK: 4
Title Credits: AVTAK - DN is a bit too simple (though I do like the dots) so I prefer the very 80s colorful style with the day-glo effects
Main Villain: AVTAK - Zorin is hands down the greatest Bond villain and one of my all-time favorite movie villains ever, just behind Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber and maybe John Malkovich's Mitch Leary
Main Bond Girl: DN - no surprise here (Jaaaaames, Jaaaames....)
Henchman: AVTAK - May Day is as freaky a creation as they come, and the film is all the better for it; I think she compliments the psychotic Zorin extremely well - they're the most bizarre villainous duo in the series!
Overall Plot: AVTAK - I dig the whole feel of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 but "rocket toppling" and the radioactive water (?) that Dr. No is playing around with just doesn't thrill me as much as Zorin's plan of flooding Silicon Valley and cornering the microchip market
Dialogue: AVTAK - this is close but whenever you have Sir Roger delivering dialogue it's always a gem!
Score: AVTAK - no surprise here (Barry dances into the fire!!)
Settings: DN - love the Jamaican locale!
Action: AVTAK - no surprise here
Humour: AVTAK - ignoring the lame inclusion of those keystone cops, Roger's films always have great humor, here especially between 007 and Tibbett!
Cinematography: DN - great 60s cinematography by Ted Moore and I love how he captures the tropical beauty of Jamaica and the dangers of espionage
Benign Bizarre: DN - tarantulas, dragons on wheels, metal hands, 3 blind mice, sisters Rose and Lily
Suspense: DN - I want to call this a tie because I find the Golden Gate finale very suspenseful but I think DN has more moments of suspense evenly spread out; AVTAK focuses more on action whereas DN more on suspense; in some places in DN the suspense is so thick you could cut it with a knife - great suspense atmosphere, like in a Hitchcock film
Minor Characters: AVTAK - for Tibbett alone!
Glamour: DN - there's certainly plenty of glamour at the Chateau de Chantilly in France, but on the whole AVTAK isn't one of the more glamorous Bond films
Bond Performance: DN - no surprise here (though Sir Rog never gave a bad Bond performance, just his age was really showing here)
AVTAK: 10
DN: 7
For the record, when I started watching the Bond films back in the summer of 2001 I started at the beginning with DN (on VHS of course) so I have a special affinity for the film. I was pretty much hooked right from the beginning after just seeing DN. What followed (GF, YOLT) only made me a more die-hard fan! AVTAK is actually a film that I've liked less and less with each rewatch. It really bogs down in San Fran with those keystone cops and that corny firetruck chase. There's nothing worse than a boring action scene and that's exactly what that is. I get more enjoyment out of people talking in the film than I do out of that "exciting" action scene. But Walken and Jones still totally make the film for me, along with Barry's score and that Golden Gate finale!
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: DN
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN: 14
AVTAK: 3
Good God. I didn't expect DN to dish out the hurt this much. Still, DN is a classic.
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: DN
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: DN
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: DN
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN: 15
AVTAK: 2
Title Credits: DN
Main Villain: AVTAK (Zorin has more to do)
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK (As per villain. Dent's scenes are excellent)
Overall Plot: AVTAK
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN: 12
AVTAK: 5
Title Credits: AVTAK. Contemporary, smoother, more stylish.
Main Villain: DN. His power, the control he has over subordinates, otherworldliness, creepiness.
Main Bond Girl: DN. 'Nuff said.
Henchman: DN. This was tough. May Day makes a strong presence...in more ways than one. And I find her a hot black woman. But DN's hench men and women are very colorful characters, sometimes subtle, but still lethal--more Flemingesque in my view. Also interesting to me regarding this matchup: Grace Jones was born in Jamaica.
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: DN. More memorable for me...I immediately think of the "spider theme"...and there are others.
Settings: DN. Without a doubt. And even though I love my country to bits (the U.S.), I firmly believe America is a dull place for Bond to be--he deserves more exotic or more rugged settings. Still, I love Paris.
Action: AVTAK
Humor: AVTAK
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: DN
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN - 13
AVTAK - 4
It would indeed be a turn of events if TMWTGG got a critical re-appraisal a la OHMSS. Doubtful, but who knows?
Title Track: DN (c'mon, it's the Bond theme!)
Title Credits: DN ('60s beats '80s)
Main Villain: AVTAK
Main Bond Girl: DN
Henchman: AVTAK
Overall Plot: DN
Dialogue: DN
Score: AVTAK
Settings: DN
Action: AVTAK (the PTS indeed is underrated--Glen knew how to edit an action scene)
Humour: DN
Cinematography: DN
Benign Bizarre: DN
Suspense: DN
Minor Characters: AVTAK (Sir Godfrey)
Glamour: DN
Bond Performance: DN
DN: 12
AVTAK: 5