007 Movie Tournament Game Match 7

[HenriDeadMort]

(How to play)Dr.No won
Thunderball VS Goldeneye

[HenriDeadMort]

Thunderball is awful, only Bad movie of the 20

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by HenriDeadMort

Thunderball is awful, only Bad movie of the 20

Anyway...Goldeneye, easily. Thunderball is a lot of fun and very iconic, but it's let down by the lethargic pace.

[albertbj]

No contest. I really like Goldeneye, but Thunderball is my absolute favorite of the series. Favorite Bond theme, too (maybe we should have that tournament when this one's over).

[DR Herbert West]

Thunderball

[HenriDeadMort]

Originally Posted by albertbj

Favorite Bond theme (maybe we should have that tournament when this one's over).

Great Idea!!!

[scifisuperfan]

just put goldeneye out of his misery because if its going up against Dr. No it will lose cause everyone here seem to love Zardoz above anything else, meaning above "movie quality".

007 Zardoz will win!!!

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by scifisuperfan

007 Zardoz will win!!!

Correct.

[scifisuperfan]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Correct.

[Show spoiler]

When James Bond needed to go undercover to a distant future to find a magic ball that can send him back to the past or was it a Glass Pyramid??



Im confused!!

[Danny_Ocean_1999]

You never can get used to seeing Sean Connery in a Diaper.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by scifisuperfan

When James Bond needed to go undercover to a distant future to find a magic ball that can send him back to the past or was it a Glass Pyramid??

[Show spoiler]

Im confused!!

So am I.

[HenriDeadMort]

Originally Posted by scifisuperfan

I've wanted to watch Zardoz for quite some time now, is it any good?

[EvaDK]

Goldeneye for the win.

The best of Brosnan's run. We get to see a 00 team-up, a hilarious baddie in Famke Janssen, one of the best 007 prologues, Judi Dench cast as M, a character played by Sean Bean dies (always a bonus), the DB5 returns and the tank chase in Skt. Petersburg is very well executed. Some of the Russian accents sound rather terrible though.

Thunderball, while not one of the worst films in the series, doesn't hold up that well on repeated viewings. As Creasy says, it suffers somewhat from a drawn out pace, especially after the first act. The cinematography is sometimes confusing in the many underwater scenes. It really suffered back when we only had VHS and DVD. I really like the storyline of the film, especially in how threatening and effective SPECTRE is depicted. Probably the best SPECTRE has ever looked in the entire series. The films problems lie in the execution.

Had Thunderball been competing with any of the other Brosnan films, I might have given the win to Thunderball.

PS: Never Say Never Again is nowhere as good as Thunderball; in this non-official/Eon remake they turned the comedic tone up to 11 and allowed Sean Connery to play around in a sort of self referential way, just for the fun of it. It's fun in its own way just like an Austin Powers film is fun, but they aren't the real deal.

[MJD64]

Damn, this is a tough one for me.

I've had a mixed response to GOLDENEYE since first seeing it opening weekend back in 1995 - it's such a blend of good and bad. Sean Bean's Alex Trevelyan is the best Bond villain in the Brosnan era by miles, and I've always been partial to the lovely Izabella Scorupco's spirited Natalya; one of the most underrated heroines in the series. Gorgeous as she is, Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp - with her overreliance on risible orgasmic noises - is obnoxiously OTT, and Alan Cumming's overwrought computer nerd belongs in a different movie entirely...and I still don't know what's up with that Minnie Driver cameo.

Props to Phil Meheux's lensing - this is one of the most eye-catching entries in the whole series - and he imbues many sequences with a dark-hued beauty. The Eric Serra score has some lovely and haunting cues (Bond pulling up to the casino at night) and some real groaners (that car chase betwen Bond and Onatopp). To his credit, director Martin Campbell brings real panache and kineticism to the action sequences and shoot-outs, and that lengthy fight scene between Bond and Trevelyan is one of the best in the series. Still, despite the hot-footing of the action, the movie feels overly familiar and rather meh, and I've never been especially partial to Brosnan's Bond.

Connery's my favorite Bond but THUNDERBALL is undeniably draggy, talky and overlong, and the action, when it does come, often lacks punch - especially in that elaborate underwater climax. Adolfo Celi's Largo is merely ok, and though Lucianna Paluzzi's Fiona Volpe is glorious, Claudine Auger's wan Domino does the film no favors. It feels like sacrilege to prefer a Brosnan Bond film to a John Barry-scored, '60s Bond film with Connery still in his prime, but I gotta give it to GOLDENEYE - warts and all - in this round.

[SuperFlyHighGuy]

Originally Posted by MJD64

Damn, this is a tough one for me.

I've had a mixed response to GOLDENEYE since first seeing it opening weekend back in 1995 - it's such a blend of good and bad. Sean Bean's Alex Trevelyan is the best Bond villain in the Brosnan era by miles, and I've always been partial to the lovely Izabella Scorupco's spirited Natalya; one of the most underrated heroines in the series. Gorgeous as she is, Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp - with her overreliance on risible orgasmic noises - is obnoxiously OTT, and Alan Cumming's overwrought computer nerd belongs in a different movie entirely...and I still don't know what's up with that Minnie Driver cameo.

Props to Phil Meheux's lensing - this is one of the most eye-catching entries in the whole series - and he imbues many sequences with a dark-hued beauty. The Eric Serra score has some lovely and haunting cues (Bond pulling up to the casino at night) and some real groaners (that car chase betwen Bond and Onatopp). To his credit, director Martin Campbell brings real panache and kineticism to the action sequences and shoot-outs, and that lengthy fight scene between Bond and Trevelyan is one of the best in the series. Still, despite the hot-footing of the action, the movie feels overly familiar and rather meh, and I've never been especially partial to Brosnan's Bond.

Connery's my favorite Bond but THUNDERBALL is undeniably draggy, talky and overlong, and the action, when it does come, often lacks punch - especially in that elaborate underwater climax. Adolfo Celi's Largo is merely ok, and though Lucianna Paluzzi's Fiona Volpe is glorious, Claudine Auger's wan Domino does the film no favors. It feels like sacrilege to prefer a Brosnan Bond film to a John Barry-scored, '60s Bond film with Connery still in his prime, but I gotta give it to GOLDENEYE - warts and all - in this round.

You said everything I was thinking. Connery is my favorite, Brosnan my least, but Thunderball just drags so I'll painfully give this round to Goldeneye.

[Winslow Leach]

Thunderball. Classic Connery.

[AKORIS]

A good match up-- THUNDERBALL is great and upper tier Connery but...

GOLDENEYE is far and away Brosnan's best.

[jayman3]

[trainreck]

Goldeneye!

[GrouchoFan]

THUNDERBALL!!!!

It's everything a James Bond movie should be...and more!! (Climax is too long and confusing.)

The Jetpack!! The Aston-Martin! Silhouettes of naked women swimming around the opening titles! John Barry score! SPECTRE meetings with Blofeld's face still hidden! LUCIANNA PALLUZZI, still my all-time fave Bond-girl! A meeting with all the other Double-Os and Bond walking in late! Felix Leiter #3! Hijacked nuclear bombs and the world held for ransom! Ridiculous underwater gadgets! Overcranked background plates during the final boat chase! Won an Oscar for Visual Effects! SEAN CONNERY!!! And one more mention, LUCIANNA PALLUZZI! Talk about visual effects !

GOLDENEYE is good, but a bit overrated in my opinion. At least Brosnan is younger than Roger Moore, and plays it straighter than Remington Steele, but he's still too skinny. The Aston-Martin was nice touch, but honestly, I was thinking about this movie last night, and it took me five minutes to remember who the big bad guy was. Oh, yeah, Sean Bean. Don't like traitorous Double-Os as villains, they should be accented foreigners with unusual physical attributes. Still, it was good to have Bond back in action.