James Bond in Cinema

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Guys & Girls,

Just thinking out loud here

Question:
If you had the choice to see a bond film again in the cinema, which one would it be & why?

Would love to book a screen and show the winner

TwoShedsJackson

Goldfinger. Because it's the best one.

ancapailldorcha

Goldeneye. One of my all time favourites.

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Stupid Poll :P - Can a mod stick in Goldfinger on the list & make it public

Mine would be Goldfinger or Goldeneye

Goldfinger because it has a bit of everything

Goldeneye because The tank scene in Russia :P

Technocentral

TwoShedsJackson wrote: »

Goldfinger. Because it's the best one.

Totally agree, but the OP doesn't even deem it worthy for inclusion whilst shiite like Moonraker is included. :rolleyes:

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Technocentral wrote: »

Totally agree, but the OP doesn't even deem it worthy for inclusion whilst shiite like Moonraker is included. :rolleyes:

See above I thought I added it in, should be the 3rd one on the list

old hippy

OHMSS because it's got the best story, Savalas, Rigg, the best music and such a downbeat ending. There's only one flaw to the movie and we all know who that is.So, perhaps License to Kill. Dalton was criminally underrated and quite gritty (which is now de rigeur with Craig in the role). And you had a terrific villain; Sanchez, who was a druglord - not some kind of mad type who wanted to take over the world. Watch it again & you might re-evaluate the film - it's biggest drawback at the time was that it had to compete that summer with Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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old hippy wrote: »

OHMSS because it's got the best story, Savalas, Rigg, the best music and such a downbeat ending. There's only one flaw to the movie and we all know who that is.So, perhaps License to Kill. Dalton was criminally underrated and quite gritty (which is now de rigeur with Craig in the role). And you had a terrific villain; Sanchez, who was a druglord - not some kind of mad type who wanted to take over the world. Watch it again & you might re-evaluate the film - it's biggest drawback at the time was that it had to compete that summer with Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

I have to say I liked Dalton as Bond, something different. Pity they only kept him for 2 films.

Technocentral

old hippy wrote: »

OHMSS because it's got the best story, Savalas, Rigg, the best music and such a downbeat ending. There's only one flaw to the movie and we all know who that is.So, perhaps License to Kill. Dalton was criminally underrated and quite gritty (which is now de rigeur with Craig in the role). And you had a terrific villain; Sanchez, who was a druglord - not some kind of mad type who wanted to take over the world. Watch it again & you might re-evaluate the film - it's biggest drawback at the time was that it had to compete that summer with Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Not best film but definitely best score, love what Propellerheads did with main theme:

Technocentral

flowrider04 wrote: »

See above I thought I added it in, should be the 3rd one on the list

Too late, Goldfinger's laser has already split you in two.

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Technocentral wrote: »

Too late, Goldfinger's laser has already split you in two.

"Do you expect me to talk" :P

doolox

Such an evil man......

krudler

Licence To Kill, was too young at the time but have seen them from Goldeneye onwards.

Dempsey

flowrider04 wrote: »

Stupid Poll :P - Can a mod stick in Goldfinger on the list & make it public

Mine would be Goldfinger or Goldeneye

Goldfinger because it has a bit of everything

Goldeneye because The tank scene in Russia :P

The bungee jump would look good too!

IncognitoMan

Picked the wrong one I pick licence to kill and I wanted Goldeneye

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Dempsey wrote: »

The bungee jump would look good too!

Yea that too :P

krudler

Dempsey wrote: »

The bungee jump would look good too!

Indeed it did, few gasps from the audience when I saw it. 1995 was a top year for blockbusters if you were a teenager, Goldeneye, Toy Story, Die Hard with A Vengeance, Batman Forever (the 15 year old me liked it) Apollo 13, Jumanji, Crimson Tide to name but a few off the top of me head, that was probably the year I started getting more into films.

tom_thumb

oppening scene to the spy who loved me would have been better appreciated on the big screen

Sad Professor

Goldfinger added to the poll.

don ramo

no skyfall:(:D

gotta be Goldeneye, really brought bond back with a bang to the new younger generation like myself, seen all the bonds 2 or 3 times over, and thats been my favorite since the first time i saw it,

eyescreamcone

I loved the scene in Live and Let Die where Riger Moore ran across the crocodiles to escape.
Slight copy in Skyfall methinks

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Sad Professor wrote: »

Goldfinger added to the poll.

Thanks

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don ramo wrote: »

no skyfall:(:D

gotta be Goldeneye, really brought bond back with a bang to the new younger generation like myself, seen all the bonds 2 or 3 times over, and thats been my favorite since the first time i saw it,

No Skyfall sure you can go see it tomorrow if you really want to

Since I'm part of the younger generation the first Bond film I saw in the cinema was The world is not enough and what a disappointment - Bar the first 15 mins then it went downhill.

I would love to get a showing of a classic bond on the big screen and sure why not help out a good cause aswell

Pierce_1991

How about instead of showing Goldeneye on the big screen you hook up an N64 to a cinema screen and have an epic multiplayer match for charity

Chevolution

Seen them all from the world is not enough so I'd say either Goldeneye because it features some great stunts and action scenes and has a great story, Goldfinger because......well just because!! or license to kill because it finally shows some form of friendship between James and felix and bond is acting on his emotions rather than orders from m.

seligehgit

Goldfinger

saintsaltynuts

A View To A Kill is like a guilty pleasure for me.Love the Duran Duran tune in it too.

deathstarkiller

Has to be a Roger Moore Bond for me. Grew up with him, he's the cheesiest but the most fun.
Live and Let Die or The Spy Who Loved Me.

ricero

saw the man with the golden gun last night and i thought it was great. a really underatted bond movie it would of been cool to see on the big screen especially the car jump

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Just after watching Licence to Kill for the first time in years and loved it

Why did they get rid of Timothy Dalton?

Chevolution

flowrider04 wrote: »

Just after watching Licence to Kill for the first time in years and loved it

Why did they get rid of Timothy Dalton?

He stepped down from the role, after license to kill there was a long legal battle over control of the series, dalton still had one more film to do under his contract but because of the uncertain future of the series he decided to leave. A shame really, I loved his 2 outings as bond.

Dempsey

years ago (10 years ago+) i laughed at a friend of mine when he said dalton was his favourite bond. i still think connery is the best but dalton has gone up alot in my estimation since then.

still think roger moore is the worst!

Chevolution

Dempsey wrote: »

years ago (10 years ago+) i laughed at a friend of mine when he said dalton was his favourite bond. i still think connery is the best but dalton has gone up alot in my estimation since then.

still think roger moore is the worst!

I think a lot of people have a new found appreciation of dalton because he is quite like Daniel Craig IMO.

Moore wasn't great but I'd have to say that lazenby was the worst

corcaigh07

the first 30 minutes-ish of Die Another Day is the best bond film, up until the Invisible car is revealed really. after that is a mess of course.

so my vote is Goldeneye, the first one I watched properly and in the cinema. So many cool moments in that movie, 2 gorgeous bond girls and a terrific fresh Bond in Brosnan. only bit I don't like is where a Meath man says 'for England...' to Sean Bean. (I know it's acting and I'm not a big Republican idiot, that bit just never sits well with me!)

666irishguy

You only live twice. It has everything. That battle inside the dormant volcano with the guys rappelling down would be awesome on the big screen.

delbertgrady

The first one I saw in the cinema was Octopussy, and I've seen most of them in the cinema since. One or two slipped through the net, bizarrely. Regrettably, I did suffer through Die Another Day and Quantum of Solace.

In June and July 2009, the Lighthouse cinema in Dublin showed a few Bond films as part of a mini-season over a period of (I think) several Sunday afternoons. They had lovely new digital prints of Dr. No, From Russia with Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me. It's a pity they didn't just show them all. That would have been great.

johnny_ultimate

corcaigh07 wrote: »

the first 30 minutes-ish of Die Another Day is the best bond film, up until the Invisible car is revealed really. after that is a mess of course.

It's been ten years since I saw it, but if I remember correctly doesn't the film open with Bond surfing a tidal wave or equivalent? Then Madonna shows up.

I was fourteen years old and hated that film from the off. Probably one of the worst films ever made.

old hippy

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

A View To A Kill is like a guilty pleasure for me.Love the Duran Duran tune in it too.

Only for Christopher Walken's villain, Max Zorin. And Grace Jones (who I really fancied back then)

podgemonster

There are four Bonds that I will watch any time!

1. Goldfinger just has everything a classic Bond should have. Bond Car and Gadgets full of tricks, ruthless villian, loads of double crossing, great henchman, smoking Bond Girl and 007 uses his wits over his brawn more often to get out of sticky situations. Classic Bond score too!

2. Goldeneye: I love the relationship between 007 and 006, once comrades now enemies. Glorious action set pieces from the start especially the tank scene. Famke Janssen was a crazy bítch and the gadgets were top notch in this one!

3. License to Kill: As a previous poster said this was a real personal Bond film, the bad guy was just a drug lord. Bond was on a vengenance mission and slowly controlled Sanchez's parania leading him to executed his associates until everything was in ruin.

4. Live and Let Die: Probably the only Bond where Roger Moore looked the right age (he always looked a bit whithered especially in VTAK). Loved the southern american setting, the speedboat chase sequence and the crazy voodoo henchmen. Moore was a more fun Bond but I preferred when things were kept more straight-faced and he doesn't get to ridiculous in his first outting.

Irish Aris

A View To A Kill. First bond movie I saw. And has Grace Jones in!!

corcaigh07

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It's been ten years since I saw it, but if I remember correctly doesn't the film open with Bond surfing a tidal wave or equivalent? Then Madonna shows up.

I was fourteen years old and hated that film from the off. Probably one of the worst films ever made.

Nope! all that crapiness comes later on into the movie. It starts with Bond in South Korea, gets captured, tortured and then released in a swap with the Bald terrorist fella with diamonds in his face. Brosnan wanted a different, more adult Bond movie and up to a point, he was getting it.

Madonna, the over cheesy baddy English actors, the invisible car, the ridiculous over powered weapon(Icarus), that bloody tidal wave that looked worse than Moore's stunts, the unnecessary references to the past (Die Another Day was Bond 20). All terrible cringey moments!

The start of the movie was great, just unfortunately completely overshadowed by the rest of the movie.

Skerries

Peter Sellers was my favourite Bond

krudler

corcaigh07 wrote: »

the first 30 minutes-ish of Die Another Day is the best bond film, up until the Invisible car is revealed really. after that is a mess of course.

so my vote is Goldeneye, the first one I watched properly and in the cinema. So many cool moments in that movie, 2 gorgeous bond girls and a terrific fresh Bond in Brosnan. only bit I don't like is where a Meath man says 'for England...' to Sean Bean. (I know it's acting and I'm not a big Republican idiot, that bit just never sits well with me!)

Die Another Day starts so well, then falls apart once he makes it back to British soil, and to think there was talk of Halle Berry getting her own Jinx spinoff, pfffft. Its a mess of a film, Pierce Brosnan even acknowledges this in Everything Or Nothing the new Bond doc, he's in tears laughing describing the surfing scene.

Grimebox

Casino Royale. I love the somewhat realistic and gritty feel to it. The two kills at the opening scene the tone perfectly. I'm going to have to watch the Timothy Dalton one's though

Mister Jingles

podgemonster wrote: »

4. Live and Let Die: Probably the only Bond where Roger Moore looked the right age (he always looked a bit whithered especially in VTAK). Loved the southern american setting, the speedboat chase sequence and the crazy voodoo henchmen. Moore was a more fun Bond but I preferred when things were kept more straight-faced and he doesn't get to ridiculous in his first outting.

Probably because he was 45 when making Live and Let Die (Craig isn't even 45 yet) and was 58 in A View to a Kill.

podgemonster

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Probably because he was 45 when making Live and Let Die (Craig isn't even 45 yet) and was 58 in A View to a Kill.

Ya i think there's a scene where Grace Jones (still in her 20s) walks into Bonds room strips off and hops on top of him, when Moore turns over and you can't help but notice the sagging wrinkly body and multiple liverspots.

It was ludicrous having a Bond that old. As if the MI6 would have a active agent pushing 60, seducing young women, they weren't the BBC.

Ironman76

My favs would be:

Licence to Kill - My fav bond movie. It was a different direction for Bond based on revenge and Dalton kicks ass. Ill never forget seeing this one in the cinema. This has to be the most underrated Bond movie. The story is class.

Love the end when he sets Sanchez alight with the lighter Felix gave him as a best man gift.

Octopussy - First bond movie I saw in the cinema. Grew up watching the Roger Moore ones mostly and this was a real treat. Think i was about 7 and have enjoyed it ever since. Always felt the Moore bonds were more fun. Also had the best variety of villains.

Goldfinger - This is the iconic one, kinda set the formula for others to follow. I remember recording it off the tv as a kid and watching it over and over.

I remember seeing Goldeneye in the cinema and thinking it was total sh*te, must watch it again based on whats been said.

Duggy747

When I went on my wee Bond marathon the other week I started out with the Dalton films. First time I had seen them in years and I definitely think his Bond has become better accepted with age. He played the cold "I don't give a fùck" persona excellently and his movies had some great stunts.

Out of his 2 films, I preferred The Living Daylights. While I also liked License To Kill I thought this film was more fun and felt far more of a Bond film what with the crazy stunts (fight off the back of the plane) and sequences (Blonde goon attacking the mansion).

License To Kill is the darker and most violent of the Bond films but I just found it dipped in quality and dragged in the middle, making it feel like a more dull film compared to it's predecessor (Truck stunt is still savage, though). This was probably because I watched the 2 of them back-to-back.

I never minded a lot of Moore's film, despite being pretty camp. His movies did have a great assortment of villains and henchmen. I like a View To A Kill because who doesn't like Christopher Walken hamming it up to 11? :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=043WEs_6TAo

Goldeneye wasn't as fun as I had remembered, probably because I had watched the shìte out of that film when it first came out. Anytime I watch it I always notice the similarities in the scenes to the N64 game like the facility where he meets 006 :pac: Still, miles better than the rest of Brosnan's offerings which I always thought were very daft and sterile.

Goldfinger just trounced all over them, though. Great, great movie that's still great fun to watch and has the penultimate theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEsjd1WZuY

Oops, wrong one :pac:

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Just a quick update about a possible Screening

A screening may happen in March 2013 for Charity

The reason for a March Screening;
A) All Bond titles are out of circulation (On Moratorium) until the end of Jan. 2013
B)JDIFF is happening in February
C)Planning - needs a lot of planning

Sleepy

My vote has to be for The Living Daylights. Dalton has always been my favourite Bond and what's not to love about a Bond movie where the Mujahideen are the good guys...

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Sleepy wrote: »

My vote has to be for The Living Daylights. Dalton has always been my favourite Bond and what's not to love about a Bond movie where the Mujahideen are the good guys...

I love the two Dalton films :P