POLL: You Only Live Twice vs. OHMSS

[Count_Lippe]

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[Dr. No]

I love Connery's Bond even in the bad (not so great) movies that said OHMSS is probably the better movie, many small issues with YOLT along with Connery was ready to leave and it showed.

[John P. Drake]

You Only Live Twice. Clearly. Come on, who dumps the iconic missile silo for an emoist Romeo and Juliette drama mixed with a couple of action sequences?

[commander0077again]

So shorry, but Cmdr 077 will have to sit on the fence. How can I choose between Peking Duck and Russian caviar? They are both iconic ... OHMSS presenting the novel as screenplay holding close to the original themes of Bond as bigger-than-life with the novel's character's humanity. In short, a very agreeable blend of the former Bond movies with a more human Bond. Although the human Bond peeks through in scenes in Thunderball : when he tells Domino of her brother's death, Bond has to put on his sunglasses to hide his emotion. In real life this would be a very strange experience! YOLT, on the other hand, has little of the novel, but is great fun as over-the-top 007, personifying the super Bond, with those total scenes of Bond-grandeur that's missing from the latter films, such as: the ama girls running to the ocean with the Legend, John Barry spirit in the music (oops, that's a bit over the top description!) Bond's marriage when he sees Kissy Suzuki for the first time.... A great Blofeld, who has more good lines you can shake a PPK at. Tiger Tanaka's silly dubbing. YOLT theme with the cascading violins is probably the most memorable of them all, I use it now and then when a Bond girl gets within range. So again, so verrry shorry, I can't choose a favorite between these two! Btw, a recent exposition of the grosses of the original films in U.S. dollars today shows : 1. Thunderball (around $800 million) 2. Goldfinger 3. Live and Let Die 4. YOLT and 5th, one of the Craigs, I forget the title. All of them made around $700 million. The article mentions YOLT as the "quintessential Bond."

[carl stromberg]

I like them both, but if someone chained me to a chair and forced me choose or watch a press conference with Craig, B.Broccoli and Mendes I would choose OHMSS.

[commander0077again]

I like them both, but if someone chained me to a chair and forced me choose or watch a press conference with Craig, B.Broccoli and Mendes I would choose OHMSS.

My apologies again for being such a coward
It just occurred to me that Adolpho Celi would have made a fine Blofeld.

[Count_Lippe]

I voted YOLT.

I really like the space race theme in YOLT since it was very much up-to-date at the time, but maybe the producers should have kept the film a bit less like a comic book. Blofelds hidden rocket base is truly awesome though.

OHMSS has too many problems in my opinion to be truly enjoyable, even though the locations, some of the action scenes and Barry's score are top notch.

I don't like the cast (Rigg, Savalas) and the film's drama and romance feel hollow. This should have been a Bond film with some genuine depth, but it works mostly as an action film.

Lazenby could have been a pretty good 007 in the early 70s though if he hadn't quit.

[John P. Drake]

I don't like and the film's drama and romance feel hollow.

You said it best, Count Lippe. That's the very same issue I have with the film.

[Count_Lippe]

You said it best, Count Lippe.

Thanks John.

[Powder Puff]

For You Only Live Twice because it has Sean Connery in it. Both are classics.

I'd have to sit on the fence in a best Blofeld poll between Pleasance and Savalas.