^Marvin Hamlisch did the score for TSWLM, not John Barry.
The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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Whoops, I should’ve remembered that! I need to turn in my movie archivist’s card.
Maybe I'm in a very small minority, but I've grown to love the Bill Conti soundtrack to For Your Eyes Only. Some tracks don't work all that well but a few, like, say during the ski slope chase, the Citroën 2CV road chase and the scuba exploration scene with Bond and Melina Havelock are just....[*Chef's kiss*]
I'd say 50% of that list closely matches my own and 50% is wildly different, but Spectre is in the right place and that's what matters.
Any list where Spectre isn't at or near the bottom is a list I don't want to waste time watching and reading.
Have driven the winding road used for the 2cv chase when I was in corfu which was kinda cool
FYEO is like Goldeneye. It has one or two VERY contemporary sounding tracks (Ladies First in Goldeneye) that might take a listener out of the score that might be looking for Goldfinger Redux 17. But the rest of the score is a flat out home run. (For some reason Barry never gets this kind of grief for Exercise at Gibraltar in Living Daylights.) Even Arnold couldn't have done Come In 007, Your Time Is Up or Caviar Factory if he hadn't done Tomorrow Never Dies first.
Buzzr recently re-ran the episodes of Match Game where he was a panelist and it was between his work on 'The Sting' and 'TSWLM'.
Was he any good as a panelist?
He was entertaining. The first couple of episodes he was finding his footing. By the third episode, after they're back from lunch and had a few drinks, he loosened up and his answers were more in the spirit of the questions.
That’s some interesting BTS info.
I can assure you I’m not in that minority. The score is so ostentatiously ill-judged it actively intrudes on my awareness at times and takes me out of the film. Worst score in the franchise.
OTOH, I do like GoldenEye’s score a lot, which many people deride for reasons I’ve never really understood.
I like that soundtrack, too, though I'll confess a lot of my affection stems from its use in the N64 game.
I like it about as well as most of the Craigs. It has the faults common to all of them, but nothing uniquely bad IMO. Could never see how it was supposed to be night-and-day from Skyfall in terms of quality (aside from the theme songs).
Spectre tried to give us the classic Bond villain, complete with the evil lair, and some fun sight gags (like the couch bit after the building blows up), which I still love the hell out of. The only problem was it was at odds with the more grounded version of Bond we'd gotten in the first three Craig movies.
The theme song is ass, though. It constantly feels like it's building to an explosive chorus, but never gets there. Sam Smith keeps edging the audience for five minutes without a climax.
The theme song is ass, though. It constantly feels like it's building to an explosive chorus, but never gets there. Sam Smith keeps edging the audience for five minutes without a climax.
Worst song in franchise history. Adele’s “Skyfall,” by contrast, is one of its very best. The epic emotional sweep of the thing, man. “Put your hand in my hand and we’ll staaaand.”
Another vote here for the Goldeneye score not being that bad.
Spectre was trying so hard to be Skyfall and failed on pretty much ever level. Waltz couldn't emulate Bardem (hell they even tried to emulate Silva's entrance with the meteorite room) but really it's worst sin is the total lack of drama. The car chase in Rome might as well be a car commercial (so lacking in tension that Bond's able to make a call in the middle of it) and the escape from Blofeld's lair is like watching someone play a first person shooter on rookie level, Bond just walks along shooting everyone with ease. The finale is just drab, and as unbelievable things in Bond films go, I'd say DAD's invisible car is easier to swallow than Bond shooting down a moving helicopter with a PPK at night from a speeding boat. I know he's a good shot and all but...
It isn't without its moments, there's the lovely Lea of course (although it took NTTD to make me truly appreciate how fantastic she is) and despite mostly wasting Bellucci, the scene where she comes home expecting to die is hands down the best bit of the film.
Spectre was trying so hard to be Skyfall and failed on pretty much ever level. Waltz couldn't emulate Bardem (hell they even tried to emulate Silva's entrance with the meteorite room) but really it's worst sin is the total lack of drama. The car chase in Rome might as well be a car commercial (so lacking in tension that Bond's able to make a call in the middle of it) and the escape from Blofeld's lair is like watching someone play a first person shooter on rookie level, Bond just walks along shooting everyone with ease. The finale is just drab, and as unbelievable things in Bond films go, I'd say DAD's invisible car is easier to swallow than Bond shooting down a moving helicopter with a PPK at night from a speeding boat. I know he's a good shot and all but...
It isn't without its moments, there's the lovely Lea of course (although it took NTTD to make me truly appreciate how fantastic she is) and despite mostly wasting Bellucci, the scene where she comes home expecting to die is hands down the best bit of the film.
It always makes me laugh when the car chase is basically "paused" just so the cars can "pose" as they drive by the Vatican.
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