"Never Say Never Again" vs. "Octopussy"

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I enjoyed them both at the time they were in the theaters but watching them decades later, NSNA definately gets my vote. I find Octopussy incredibly boring now.

Never Say Never, and the character of Fatima Blush.

Never Say Never Again drags a bit for me, but I find Octopussy to be consistently entertaining. I consider it to be one of Roger Moore's better Bond films, whereas Never is one of Connery's weakest.

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Never say never again
My favorite Connery bond movie
Except perhaps thunderball the original never say never

Let's see... Octopussy had an amazing AcroJet opening sequence, interesting chases in the streets of India and Karl Marx Stadt, two double-O's dressed as clowns, an in-flight, outside-the-fuselage plane fight, and lots of hijinks and gunfire on a circus train.

It also featured Louis Jourdan and Steven Berkoff in a nasty villain two-fer, and taught the masses about Faberge eggs as well as the art of the triple-cross.

Oh yeah, there's also that troupe of physically fit, female ninja acrobats.

Never Say Never Again had a totally forgettable opening sequence, a totally memorable introduction of Kim Basinger, Barbara Carrera making dangerous, feisty Latinas popular 30 years before Sofia Vergara, a very well done motorcycle chase, a pretty good horse chase, a holographic hybrid of Risk and Electronic Battleship, and a decent score for not being able to use the James Bond theme.

I'd say it's easily the inferior of the two movies. Add to that the fact that it was a remake and thus loses points for originality, and its...

Game, Set, and Match: Octopussy.

I don't think N.S.N.A. is better than OCTOPUSSY. I think it's less bad.