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Bond Movie A vs. Bond Movie B (Diamonds Are Forever vs. The World Is Not Enough)

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  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    A View to a Kill wins for me. Aside from pure nostalgia, I love the soundtrack, Max Zorin is one of th best main villains, Roger Moore is in superb, top-notch form, and the climax/finale is oen of the most intense, edge-of-your-seat Bond finales to date.
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    Good lord, these matchups are becoming awful.

    AVTAK for not having parasailing CGI on the Seine.
  • RogueThunderballRogueThunderball
    Posts: 306
    DAD,because I do enjoy it a little more, but mostly because nobody else will vote for it.
  • ChuckChuck
    Posts: 212
    A View to a Kill

    I actually enjoy AVTAK and don't rank it amongst the worst in the series, although I don't have it in the upper echelon either. It falls somewhere in the middle, whereas DAD is one of the worst in the series by a healthy margin.
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    A View To a Kill! It's really not that bad. The fire truck scene was too comical for my taste, but overall it's a decent movie, while DAD is with no doubt the worst in the series, at least according to my ranking.
  • AussieBondAussieBond
    Posts: 185
    A View to a Kill
  • VolanteVolante
    Posts: 774
    AVTAK.
  • actonsteveactonsteve
    Posts: 1,492
    AVTAK for simply the airship approaching the Golden Gate bridge scene - music, camera angles, everything produces a, and I hesitate to use this word apart from its english language context not its surfer one, awesome scene.

    DAD made me want to give up on Bond forever.
  • 0iker00iker0
    Posts: 501
    AVTAK is not as bad as some say. And I won't talk about DAD...
  • WVPoefWVPoef
    Posts: 147
    AVTAK wins

    List of ratings.
    AVTAK - 18
    DAD - 22
  • Jones_The_BondJones_The_Bond
    Posts: 344
    AVTAK by rather a long way. For all its well-documented faults, it still has a charming Moore, a decent villain, a SUPERB score (seriously, Barry in this film is sublime) and little flashes of the old magic from the seasoned Bond team.

    Die Another Day is about as far from 'classic' Bond, as it is possible to go.

    I'd go for Sir Rog's final bow, over Brosnan's, any day of the week.

  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited April 2012 Posts: 11,189
    Oh common! This is an easy one

    DAD I mean AVTAK

    AVTAK may have felt sleepy but at least it has Christopher Walken in it.

    :)) at Moore parasailing on the Seine




    Vs

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 23,528
    AVTAK

    It has the John Barry score.
  • identigraphidentigraph
    Posts: 1,052
    AVTAK all the way.
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
    Posts: 1,778
    AVTAK easily.
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    AVTAK it has Roger Moore. O:-)
  • 007RogerMoore007RogerMoore
    Posts: 1,082
    I don't wanna vote. This one is extremely hard.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,894
    AVTAK vs DAD. =))

    I'm going to pick DAD. It may not be one of the best films in the series, but it does have 1 o2 two things in it's favour. AVTAK however, is the worst film in the series, and has nothing going for it.
  • actonsteveactonsteve
    Posts: 1,492
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Oh common! This is an easy one

    DAD I mean AVTAK

    AVTAK may have felt sleepy but at least it has Christopher Walken in it.

    :)) at Moore parasailing on the Seine




    Vs



    I will take the Beach boys music in AVTAK a thousand times over the cgi tsunami any day of the week.

    They actually went to Iceland and Switzerland to film that. They made the effort. In DAD they stuck Pierce in front of a green screen, put him in a harness and told him to grimace alot.

    It was awful. As a Bond fan on first viewing I was hanging my head in shame. Cubby Broccoli would have paid for a second unit to go to Greenland, Spitzbergen, the Antarctic and done it for real.

    Under Tamahori it was grubby green screen time. But hey, says Lee - you have to get with the kids..


  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    You're right @actonsteve BUT the redeeming feature of the second clip (IMO) is Arnold's music.

    According to the directors commentary the idea came from Tamahori after he'd seen a chunk of glacier fall off. I suppose it wasn't a bad idea in principle but in practice :-&
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    AVTAK, which brings the score 14-2 in AVTAK's favor. Sorry, DAD, but you're probably gonna lose.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited April 2012 Posts: 12,459
    Hate this pair up, but really it's nearly a tie for me (I don't like either).
    I'll go with AVTAK.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,690
    Close call, 2 good films... AVTAK wins thanks to the wonderful Barry score.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    16-2, and AVTAK will probably be our winner, unless some DAD-lovers start throwing votes in soon.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    Posts: 3,494
    Any official Bond film beats DAD. AVTAK in a romp.
  • 002002
    Posts: 581
    A View To A Kill
    - it is actually quite good- i still like Die Another Day...lets say that both films are better than Qantum of Solace...
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    edited April 2012 Posts: 3,494
    maybe in your feeble opinion...let's stick to the subject.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    18-2 Do I even need to say that AVTAK is winning?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,350
    A View to a Kill.
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    Posts: 3,262
    RogueThunderball wrote:
    DAD,because I do enjoy it a little more, but mostly because nobody else will vote for it.

    O ye of little faith. I'll make it 3 votes for DAD since aside from Jinx, I find it quite entertaining for the first 1/2 to 2/3 up until it turns from a movie into a CGI videogame after Bond learns of Miranda's treachery.
    002 wrote:
    i still like Die Another Day...lets say that both films are better than Qantum of Solace...

    Agree there.

    Die Another Day

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