Worst PTS sequence?

DieAnotherDay

Although there is none I truly despise I'd have to say TMWTGG is my least favourite. It just doesn't excite me at all anymore and seems to be there just so the finale of the film is given a little more substance.

Thunderpussy

For me the PTS of LALD is pretty weak, I know it's needed to set up the story, it just seems
a little lack luster. Same with TMWTGG, not that they're bad just not as impressive or
Imaginative as some of the others.

Napoleon Plural

I'd go with TMWTGG, at least LALD has an eerie, otherworldly flavour and segues into Wings' brilliant song, it establishes Bond's world before he appears in it, rather as did Dr No.

LTK also sucks in my view, though the last Batman paid homage to it, or rather did it better.

Peppermill

It might not be the worst action wise but I think the PTS of TWINE is just too long. The original idea was to end the PTS after 007 escapes from the window in Bilbao, I would have liked that better.

DieAnotherDay

Peppermill wrote:

It might not be the worst action wise but I think the PTS of TWINE is just too long. The original idea was to end the PTS after 007 escapes from the window in Bilbao, I would have liked that better.

Yeah, I think all of Brosnan's PTS were slightly too long but they were always action packed.

Jarvio

I'd honestly say Moonraker. I know that the free-falling was impressive, and I respect it for that, but Jaws flapping his arms to circus music and surviving that fall just ruins it for me.

Or maybe QOS actually... Or DAF... One of those three anyway!

Thunderpussy

I agree about the pts of LTK, ( I love the film by the way ) When I first watched it
I thought they had started to run out of ideas. Bond flapping about, for me anyway
Just looks embarrassing. It's one of those (Face in palm momments ),although I'd
love to have My face in Pam. )

BIG TAM

Even though they don't feature Bond, I've always liked the openings to LALD & TMWTGG. The latter's funhouse stalking is to my mind better then the eventual Bond/Scaramanga face-off which drags a bit.

Never been too keen on YOLT. Space stuff & music good but Bond being flung into the wall & shot feels too contrived at trying to fool the audience. Hard to believe I'm typing this about Bond whose plots are scant on logic most of the time anyway, but this one really doesn't make any sense.

AVTAK. Good ski stuff ruined by California Girls. And it's not even the original Beach Boys version!

LTK. Terrific film marred by a substandard opening. Worse given how good the previous Dalton opener was. But I do like the parachuting into the wedding ceremony bit.

DieAnotherDay

FYEO is another weak PTS in my opinion, It just feels so disconnected to the actual film. It doesn't connect to the eventual plot in anyway but instead just feels like a random assassination of a criminal (Blofeld presumably)...it almost seems like a joke.

Sir Hillary Bray

Dr. No.

Seriously, my vote would go to LALD. Just a little too flimsy, even with the nice dissolve from a dying Baines to the fantastic theme song, as Nap mentions.

Blackleiter

DieAnotherDay wrote:

Although there is none I truly despise I'd have to say TMWTGG is my least favourite. It just doesn't excite me at all anymore and seems to be there just so the finale of the film is given a little more substance.

TMWTGG gets my vote, too.

Firemass

LALD- Diplomats dying is fairly boring and not featuring Bond was a mistake. At least TMWTGG is more entertaining with the house of mirrors.

FRWL- The whole "realistic Bond mask" idea is such a joke.

FYEO - Helicopter stunts and gasworks location were great but the corny dialog and soundtrack really bring this one down.

OHMSS - Bond in a cigarette advert. Suicide scene makes little sense taken out of context of the main storyline. Tracy's head never even dips underwater yet she somehow almost drowned?! Who were the henchmen anyway? This clunker gets my vote.

DieAnotherDay

Firemass wrote:

LALD- Diplomats dying is fairly boring and not featuring Bond was a mistake. At least TMWTGG is more entertaining with the house of mirrors.

FRWL- The whole "realistic Bond mask" idea is such a joke.

FYEO - Helicopter stunts and gasworks location were great but the corny dialog and soundtrack really bring this one down.

OHMSS - Bond in a cigarette advert. Suicide scene makes little sense taken out of context of the main storyline. Tracy's head never even dips underwater yet she somehow almost drowned?! Who were the henchmen anyway? This clunker gets my vote.

OHMSS PTS is a bit of a mess but I just admire the way it was shot. So mysterious & different from anything the Bond series had seen before

Blackleiter

DieAnotherDay wrote:

Firemass wrote:

LALD- Diplomats dying is fairly boring and not featuring Bond was a mistake. At least TMWTGG is more entertaining with the house of mirrors.

FRWL- The whole "realistic Bond mask" idea is such a joke.

FYEO - Helicopter stunts and gasworks location were great but the corny dialog and soundtrack really bring this one down.

OHMSS - Bond in a cigarette advert. Suicide scene makes little sense taken out of context of the main storyline. Tracy's head never even dips underwater yet she somehow almost drowned?! Who were the henchmen anyway? This clunker gets my vote.

OHMSS PTS is a bit of a mess but I just admire the way it was shot. So mysterious & different from anything the Bond series had seen before

I agree, I have always enjoyed the PTS from OHMSS. I thought it was a good way to introduce the "new" Bond.

Thunderpussy

I thought it was a brilliant way to introduce a new Bond, showing the cigarette case and lighter.
After all the Suicide starts the novel, with a great fist fight thrown in to show how the new guy
could handle the action scenes.

Napoleon Plural

Sir Hillary Bray wrote:

Dr. No.

Seriously, my vote would go to LALD. Just a little too flimsy, even with the nice dissolve from a dying Baines to the fantastic theme song, as Nap mentions.

"Ooh, you don't get around me that easily..."

Charmed & Dangerous

Thunderpussy wrote:

I thought it was a brilliant way to introduce a new Bond, showing the cigarette case and lighter.
After all the Suicide starts the novel, with a great fist fight thrown in to show how the new guy
could handle the action scenes.

+1.

One of the best PTSs and the way it introduced Bond, part of a slow reveal, was used again to introduce both Dalton and Brosnan.

The OHMSS PTS cinematography, music, setting and a standout fight sequence make it one of my two or three favourite PTSs along with Goldfinger, TSWLM, and TND.

Firemass

Thunderpussy wrote:

After all the Suicide starts the novel, with a great fist fight thrown in to show how the new guy
could handle the action scenes.

I recall the suicide attempt coming after her embarrassing loss at the casino.

Brilliant way to show cigarettes maybe, but doesn't do much to introduce a new Bond. Filthy habit...

Sir Hillary Bray

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Sir Hillary Bray wrote:

Dr. No.

Seriously, my vote would go to LALD. Just a little too flimsy, even with the nice dissolve from a dying Baines to the fantastic theme song, as Nap mentions.

"Ooh, you don't get around me that easily..."

You disappoint me, Dr. Plural. B-)

superado

Thunderpussy wrote:

For me the PTS of LALD is pretty weak, I know it's needed to set up the story, it just seems
a little lack luster. Same with TMWTGG, not that they're bad just not as impressive or
Imaginative as some of the others.

Yes, with these two movies that have a new Bond, following Connery and with the purpose of the PTS to give audiences a jump-start and taste of what big things are yet to come in the movie, they really needed to ask themselves what they were thinking?

MooseWithFleas

Thunderpussy wrote:

For me the PTS of LALD is pretty weak, I know it's needed to set up the story, it just seems
a little lack luster. Same with TMWTGG, not that they're bad just not as impressive or
Imaginative as some of the others.

Agreed that LALD is a little weak. That being said it leads into a great title sequence and it seems like they want to hold off on introducing Moore until the right moment. It pays off in the end, but if you're judging the PTS by its merits alone, then it is one of the weaker efforts.

Diamonds are Forever is probably my least favorite, but that goes for many aspects of the movie. I don't think campy Connery works because of his established persona in the first five films (though one can argue that YOLT starts to get a little campy). In addition, it is just a bad successor in style to OHMSS. Completely takes any emotion out of what happened at the end of OHMSS if you are watching the two in succession.

AVTAK was a huge missed opportunity for me as well. Snowboarding was pretty unknown at that point and so having Moore use a skimobile's track as a snowboard was very cool and yet they managed to make it incredibly silly because of the California Girls song.

chrisisall

LALD's was a little weak, TMWTGG's was really good IMO, but MR's was the worst for me.

hehadlotsofguts

I liked the titles of MR. good song as well. I like the asian themes in YOLT's title sequence

ZorinIndustries

I'd say LALD. I understand it sets up the film perfectly, but without Bond, a PTS is not a PTS.

Gassy Man

It wasn't the worst, but the sequence in the overrated Goldeneye drew jitters in the packed theater when Pierce Brosnan is trying to catch up with the falling plane. The closeup with him obviously in a studio is where people laughed, and I had to sink in my chair a bit.

I didn't mind the Moore sequences because they were consistent with his type of Bond, though A View to a Kill felt flimsy and cobbled together from previous Bonds . . .the faux Beach Boys music also did not help.

Connery's return in Diamonds are Forever doesn't strike me as a high point in the pre-titles sequences, though it gets better for me when he dispatches "Blofeld."

But I would have to agree that the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

chrisisall

Gassy Man wrote:

the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

Respect waning here...

Blackleiter

chrisisall wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

Respect waning here...

Uh oh! Looks like I might be in trouble according to your esteem meter, because I agree with Gassy on this one.

chrisisall

Blackleiter wrote:

chrisisall wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

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Blackleiter

chrisisall wrote:

Blackleiter wrote:

chrisisall wrote:

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Gassy Man

chrisisall wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

Respect waning here...

Haha, well, I'm not saying I hate it, just that it's my least favorite.

Gassy Man

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Blackleiter wrote:

chrisisall wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

the sequence in The Man with the Golden Gun is probably my least favorite.

Respect waning here...

Uh oh! Looks like I might be in trouble according to your esteem meter, because I agree with Gassy on this one.