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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,330
    5. Connery playing kissy with himself. Really!?! :-L

    4. Not enough Plenty!

    3. Dr. Metz (Seriously they guy is just a jerk the whole time.)

    2. Cai! Cai...CAIRO!

    1. Everything about Blofeld.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,459
    Oh, to limit it to 5 ...

    5 - Sean's not so fine performance; spotty at best, not fit; I think of it as Bond MacLite
    4 - Tiffany, who got a good deal more annoying as the film wore on
    3 - the stupid moon buggy chase
    2 - Bambi and Thumper supposedly able to give Bond a semi decent tussle before he shoves them underwater and they come up sputtering like little school girls
    1 - Blofeld in drag
  • ThighsOfXeniaThighsOfXenia
    Posts: 1,595
    5. The diarrhea tub in PTS
    4. Bambi and Thumper
    3. Dr. Metz
    2. Plot
    1. Willard Whyte
  • JamesDaltonBondJamesDaltonBond
    Posts: 10
    5. Connery looked a little "fat & greasy"
    4. Plenty O'Toole should have been utilized more.
    3. Charles Gray playing Blofeld. He was the first to pull a Joe Don Baker.
    2. The diarrhea tub
    1. Bambi & Thumper
  • SoundofthesinnersSoundofthesinners
    Posts: 3,236
    Did we skip the 5 best moments in OHMSS, or am I losing it?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Soundofthesinners wrote:
    Did we skip the 5 best moments in OHMSS, or am I losing it?

    We did that for Bond list #12, as @Dimi pointed out. Look there for our thoughts.


    I will watch DAF either tonight or tomorrow and give my best/worst moments then. This is one I have dreaded revisiting like the plague...
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    edited June 2013 Posts: 5,634
    #5 Charles Gray's Blofeld (especially the dressing up nonsense)

    #4 Lana Wood. One of the least memorable (if not damn irritating) Bond girls ever

    #3 The Tiffany Case character, in that, going from a savvy diamond smuggler and all round competent individual to an inept bikini-clad air-head, by end of movie

    #2 Sean Connery himself. at 40 years of age, we have seen older Bonds, and there was scope there to have maybe done something, even though he was well past his supreme best, but it was a performance to forget. Just didn't look interested

    #1 The non return of George Lazenby, and with it, a revenge angle for the death of Tracy. Instead, some bizarre plot about making a laser satellite from diamonds. Lame all round
  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
    Posts: 7,314
    royale65 wrote:
    2. Apewoman!!!
    Yes. What was the deal with that anyway? Was this an actual part of the casino or did they make this up specifically for the film? It makes me a little uncomfortable. I know it wasn't meant to be racist as she is supposed to be "de-evolving" or whatnot but I can see how turning a black woman into a gorilla would rub some people the wrong way. You certainly couldn't get away with it in 2013.
  • SoundofthesinnersSoundofthesinners
    edited June 2013 Posts: 3,236
    5. Elephants playing slots

    4. Tiffany Case's drop of 50 IQ points

    3. Overweight, apathetic, even-worse-toupeed Connery

    2. Blofeld in drag

    1. No Lazenby

    And for OHMSS, since I missed last time around

    6. Fight with Olympe

    5. Telly Savalas as Blofeld

    4. The escape from Piz Gloria

    3. The proposal

    2. The wedding

    1. Tracy's death
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Just five?

    5. The pitiful back projection when the Chinese missile base blows up.
    4. The limp excuse for a climax on the oil rig.
    3. Being almost single handedly responsible (along with YOLT) for cementing every Austin Powers cliche (guys in boiler suits, space weapons, easily escapable and convoluted deaths rather than just shooting Bond) in the public conciousness.
    2. Pissing all over the character of Blofeld (even though I do enjoy Charles Gray).
    1. Pissing from an even greater height over the great work done by Peter Hunt in OHMSS by not even mentioning Tracy and giving us a feeble by the numbers effort rather than Bond out for revenge.
  • Dragonpol2Dragonpol2 The Crazy World of Daniel Dragonpol
    Posts: 145
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    Just five?

    5. The pitiful back projection when the Chinese missile base blows up.
    4. The limp excuse for a climax on the oil rig.
    3. Being almost single handedly responsible (along with YOLT) for cementing every Austin Powers cliche (guys in boiler suits, space weapons, easily escapable and convoluted deaths rather than just shooting Bond) in the public conciousness.
    2. Pissing all over the character of Blofeld (even though I do enjoy Charles Gray).
    1. Pissing from an even greater height over the great work done by Peter Hunt in OHMSS by not even mentioning Tracy and giving us a feeble by the numbers effort rather than Bond out for revenge.

    Well said @TheWizardOfIce. Did you miss me?!

    It seems that we hold the same views on dear old YOLT and DAF, then.
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    Seeing not as a sequel from OHMSS (in which case I would point as worst thing not having the proper sequel, disregarding Tracy's death, not having Hunt, Lazenby, Savalas, ecc) these are my complains:

    5. Irregular performance by Connery (sometimes good but other times lazy and stupid, eg. Bond "kissing" himself")
    4. Tiffany's tranformation from smart smuggler to what we get at the end...
    3. Bad effects of the missiles burning
    2. Lame final battle
    1. The Circus Circus sequence (the gorilla, the elephant, the whole thing is just not right!)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    LIST 1: The 007 most intelligent Bond girls
    LIST 2: Your 007 favourite OT sequences by Maurice Binder
    LIST 3: Your 007 most annoying moments in a Bond film
    LIST 4: Rank the Aston Martin cars from the Bonds
    LIST 5: 007's 007 coolest moments
    LIST 6: Rank the non-Barry/Arnold scores
    LIST 7: Your 007 most sexy moments in the Bonds
    LIST 8: The 6 best moments of Bond in London
    LIST 9: The 007 best uses of the Bond Theme
    LIST 10: The 5 worst faces made by the Bonds
    LIST 11: Your top 10 PTS
    LIST 12: The 6 best scenes in OHMSS
    LIST 13: David Arnold's 6 finest moments in the Bonds
    LIST 14: The five nicest folks who ever played a part in a Bond film.
    LIST 15: Ranking the Glen directed Bonds.
    LIST 16: Rank the Blofelds (including NSNA and FYEO)
    LIST 17: The 5 worst moments in DN.
    LIST 18: The 5 best moments in DN.
    LIST 19: The 5 worst moments in FRWL.
    LIST 20: The 5 best moments in FRWL.
    LIST 21: The 5 worst moments in GF.
    LIST 22: The 5 best moments in GF.
    LIST 23: The 5 worst moments in TB.
    LIST 24: The 5 best moments in TB.
    LIST 25: The 5 worst moments in CR67.
    LIST 26: The 5 best moments in CR67.
    LIST 27: The 5 worst moments in YOLT.
    LIST 28: The 5 best moments in YOLT.
    LIST 29: The 5 best moments in OHMSS.
    LIST 30: The 5 worst moments in DAF.

    <font color=orange size=5><b>LIST 31</b></font>

    <font color=green size=6> <b>The 5 best moments in DAF.</b></font>
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    5 - Somehow, that Klaus Hergesheimer scene always puts a smile on my face. "G section."
    4 - Walking over to Marie, to ask her. ;-) It works for me. ^^
    3 - The wrong pussy + Blofeld preparing the 'lift' + Barry's wonderful play on the DAF theme.
    2 - I didn't know there was a pool down there.
    1 - "I got a brother!" - "Small world."
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,422
    5. Coffin scene - there is no escape!
    4. Taking the hovercraft to Amsterdam - Barry's "Bond theme" is so epic.
    3. Bond and M - it is like they've never been apart. "sorry about your liver sir.."
    2. Bond's and Tiffany's introduction - "well, as long as the collars and cuffs match.."
    1. Bond vs Frank
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,330
    5. Vegas Car Chase.
    4. BURT SAXBY!?! Tell him he's fired!
    3. Mister Wint and Mister Kidd.
    2. Fight with Peter Franks.
    1. John Barry's score.
  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
    Posts: 7,314
    5) Bond meets Blofeld (and his double) in the Whyte House - As much as I don't like Gray's Blofeld I think that this scene works very well. Wrong pussy indeed!

    4) Bond in the burning coffin - I never much cared for the resolution to Bond's predicament but it is one of the few moments in the film where there is actual tension and Bond fears for his life.

    3) M and (Connery) Bond reunited - What great interplay between the two actors here. So many great lines. "We do function in your absence Commander!"

    2) Bond meets Tiffany - Again, so many great lines here. Also Jill St. John for the win.

    1) Elevator fight with Peter Franks - Connery's second best fight scene in the entire series.


  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,459
    1) Barry's excellent music - entire score and lovely theme song
    2) Bond meets Tiffany; good lines indeed (especially "collars and cuffs")
    3) Peter Franks fight in the elevator
    4) Wint and Kidd (priceless, very well played and unusual villains)
    5) Hovercraft in Amsterdam
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    I'm sure people have more to say about DAF... ;-)
  • SoundofthesinnersSoundofthesinners
    Posts: 3,236
    5. Klaus Hergescheimer!

    4. Bond and M

    3. Wint and Kidd

    2. Tiffany's introduction (seriously, it was actually really good and had me wondering why everybody hated her...then the end of the movie happened)

    1. Bond vs. Franks
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
    Posts: 2,630
    Did we skip 5 worst for OHMSS? If we did, good because there is no worst part...

    Anyways,

    5. Wint and Kidd

    4. Tiffany's introduction... Shame she became a bimbo at the end

    3. Peter Franks vs. the REAL Peter Franks

    2. "I gotta brudda"... "Small World."

    1. "BURT SAXBY?!? Tell him he's fired" The look on Connery's face was absolutely priceless.
  • Dr_YesDr_Yes
    Posts: 169
    1. Bond offers Moneypenny a tulip (sweet)
    2. "One of nature's finest killers, Mr. Wint." "One is never too old to learn from a master, Mr. Kidd." (among other Wint & Kidd exchanges)
    3. Bond-Franks slugfest in the elevator
    4. "If you have any personal business..."
    5. "I was just walking my rat..."
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    AgentJamesBond007 wrote:
    Did we skip 5 worst for OHMSS? If we did, good because there is no worst part...

    Anyways,

    5. Wint and Kidd

    4. Tiffany's introduction... Shame she became a bimbo at the end

    3. Peter Franks vs. the REAL Peter Franks

    2. "I gotta brudda"... "Small World."

    1. "BURT SAXBY?!? Tell him he's fired" The look on Connery's face was absolutely priceless.

    @AgentJamesBond007: that was list 12 ;-)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited June 2013 Posts: 28,694
    DarthDimi wrote:
    AgentJamesBond007 wrote:
    Did we skip 5 worst for OHMSS? If we did, good because there is no worst part...

    Anyways,

    5. Wint and Kidd

    4. Tiffany's introduction... Shame she became a bimbo at the end

    3. Peter Franks vs. the REAL Peter Franks

    2. "I gotta brudda"... "Small World."

    1. "BURT SAXBY?!? Tell him he's fired" The look on Connery's face was absolutely priceless.

    @AgentJamesBond007: that was list 12 ;-)

    Which is incorrectly listed as the "6 best scenes in OHMSS".
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    LIST 1: The 007 most intelligent Bond girls
    LIST 2: Your 007 favourite OT sequences by Maurice Binder
    LIST 3: Your 007 most annoying moments in a Bond film
    LIST 4: Rank the Aston Martin cars from the Bonds
    LIST 5: 007's 007 coolest moments
    LIST 6: Rank the non-Barry/Arnold scores
    LIST 7: Your 007 most sexy moments in the Bonds
    LIST 8: The 6 best moments of Bond in London
    LIST 9: The 007 best uses of the Bond Theme
    LIST 10: The 5 worst faces made by the Bonds
    LIST 11: Your top 10 PTS
    LIST 12: The 6 best scenes in OHMSS
    LIST 13: David Arnold's 6 finest moments in the Bonds
    LIST 14: The five nicest folks who ever played a part in a Bond film.
    LIST 15: Ranking the Glen directed Bonds.
    LIST 16: Rank the Blofelds (including NSNA and FYEO)
    LIST 17: The 5 worst moments in DN.
    LIST 18: The 5 best moments in DN.
    LIST 19: The 5 worst moments in FRWL.
    LIST 20: The 5 best moments in FRWL.
    LIST 21: The 5 worst moments in GF.
    LIST 22: The 5 best moments in GF.
    LIST 23: The 5 worst moments in TB.
    LIST 24: The 5 best moments in TB.
    LIST 25: The 5 worst moments in CR67.
    LIST 26: The 5 best moments in CR67.
    LIST 27: The 5 worst moments in YOLT.
    LIST 28: The 5 best moments in YOLT.
    LIST 29: The 5 best moments in OHMSS.
    LIST 30: The 5 worst moments in DAF.
    LIST 31: The 5 best moments in DAF.

    <font color=orange size=5><b>LIST 32</b></font>

    <font color=green size=6> <b>The 5 worst moments in LALD.</b></font>
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,547
    5 - The two men who escort Bond out of the Fillet of Soul are terrible brawlers. There was never any threat.

    4 - Bond deceiving Solitaire. This is one bit of sexual abuse for which I blame Bond.

    3 - Secret agent? On WHOSE side? One peppered scene too many.

    2 - I have a few existential issues concerning Baron Samedi. ;-) Dude dead or what?

    1 - Pretty much everything with Rosie in it. :|
  • daltondalton
    Posts: 1,631
    5) Rosie Carver

    4) Roger Moore's introduction as Bond. It's not a bad scene, per se, but compared to the rather cool pre-title sequences that debuted the other actors or, in the case of Connery, the excellent introduction of the "Bond, James Bond" line, Moore's significantly is lacking by comparison.

    3) Kananga's death. A bit over the top and not at all convincing.

    2) The airport chase

    1) Bond using a stacked deck of tarot cards against Solitaire
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,330
    5. Rosie Carver's screaming.
    4. silly noise killing the UN Agent.
    3. Baron Samedi on the train at the end.
    2. JW Pepper.
    1. Mr. Big's death.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited June 2013 Posts: 12,459
    5. Showing exact same footage from the Harlem funeral/jazz scene twice in the film
    4. Bond being fooled by the revolving furniture set ... twice
    3. Baron Samedi living and laughing it up at the end.
    2. ROSIE - crigeworthy character all around
    1. Kanaga's ridiculous demise (silly and undercut an excellent performance by Yaphet)
  • SoundofthesinnersSoundofthesinners
    edited June 2013 Posts: 3,236
    5. Rosie Carver

    4. Faking the cards for Solitaire

    3. "Names is for tombstones, baby."/"Take this honky out back and waste him."

    2. The drive through Harlem, or as my dad put it, "Every black person in the world is in on it!"

    1. Kananga exploding

    "3. Bambi and Thumper apparently able to kick Bond's butt for a while, before he plunges them underwater and holds them both there easily with one hand each (eh?? this was a fight?)" @4EverBonded this is from DAF.
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