I'm a James Bond Virgin

the purple tin

I always liked Live and Let Die with Roger Moore. A great speedboat chase, the redneck sheriff, Baron Samedi and the lovely Jane Seymour..

Sal Butamol

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Live and Let Die
The Spy Who Loved Me
For Your Eyes Only
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Skyfall

Have never fully liked You only live twice and Thunderball (bit too Dr. Evil Austin Powers for me), Diamonds is crap, likewise with Moonraker and Man with Golden Gun from Moore, Octopussy is fun but silly at times, Dalton is closest to the Bond from the books and did Craig before Craig, Brosnans run has aged the worst, he was good but all of them were ****e bar his debut, I walked out of Die another Day, didn't like Quantum and Spectre just made a complete balls of Blofeld which is unforgivable

Skerries

then you have the original outing of James Bond

Heres Johnny

Watch Austin Powers as well, rips into a lot of bond scenes, villains and bond girls.

The villains and bond girls make the movies as much as the actor playing bond.
Ursula Andreas will always be the original and best in my view.
The older movies are just as good and nonsensical as the new ones, some gems in there.

pumpkin4life

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Live and Let Die
The Spy Who Loved Me
For Your Eyes Only
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Skyfall

Have never fully liked You only live twice and Thunderball (bit too Dr. Evil Austin Powers for me), Diamonds is crap, likewise with Moonraker and Man with Golden Gun from Moore, Octopussy is fun but silly at times, Dalton is closest to the Bond from the books and did Craig before Craig, Brosnans run has aged the worst, he was good but all of them were ****e bar his debut, I walked out of Die another Day, didn't like Quantum and Spectre just made a complete balls of Blofeld which is unforgivable

I like Diamonds and Moonraker in a so bad, they end up good fun kind of way.

I think Dalton was massively underrated (The Living Daylights is fùcking great and some Miami Vice shìte aside, License to Kill is a good film as well), and Brosnan was a terrible Bond, even if Goldeneye is a class film. At least Roger's bad stretch was so over the top and silly, you could go with it.

Craig's great, but bar Casino Royale, all the other movies he's been in are terrible. Skyfall is a trainwreck in the second half. Spectre is maybe my least favorite Bond film.

Why the fùck is it 150 minutes long?

The real underrated jewel is On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It's a pure artsy fartsy version of a Bond film, and its like none of the others, but it's superb all the same. The ending is a genuinely sad cluster**** alright.

Though From Russia With Love is my favorite one.

Arthur Daley

Going through them one by one you find dips and peaks after 1970. The 70s were very dicey for Bond, after the non stop success of the 60s. Diamonds was poor, but Live and Let Die and the introduction of Moore revived the whole show. But then Man with the Golden Gun is poor again, but The Spy Who Loved Me is one of my favourites for sure. Then Moonraker is terrible, probably the worst for me. This streak of ups and downs continues into the 80s, so the Bond films were under serious threat by the time Dalton had finished and Brosnan took over. The Brosnan era at least revived the whole series and modernised it, as the audiences became more sophisticated also, and what impressed in the 1960s or 70s in terms of locations, and stunts doesn't impress a well travelled audience today.

Wedwood

Each Bond belonged to a different era and often don't compare well for that reason.


Connery - Was the original, so virtually everyone that followed was compared. His Bond movies (like everyone else's were mainly good, but 1 or two duds as well)


Lazenby - 1 movie, hated for years, subsequently re-evaluated decades later


Moore - His movies deliberately lighter/playful in tone. His lighter brand of wink to the audience action movies became the template for the likes of Indiana Jones, including more recently seen in the Marvel movies.

Dalton - Craig prototype

Brosnan - like Moore, currently out of vogue.


Craig - Bond for the current 'gritty' generation

Sal Butamol

Brosnan isn't out of vogue, the films were just plain old ****e and embarrassing.

Had he better scripts and stories he could have been great.

Mushy

Wife told me she got my birthday present, one that I've been plaguing her for years at every Christmas and birthday.

I could not figure it out at all, then read this thread, said I want to re-watch them all, then the Bingo moment occurred. Full box set incoming, can't wait to get cracking on them.

McLoughlin

I think its best to watch them all in order and you can see how the times and era they were made in shaped them and how they have dated.

RichT

Mushy wrote: »

Wife told me she got my birthday present, one that I've been plaguing her for years at every Christmas and birthday.

I could not figure it out at all, then read this thread, said I want to re-watch them all, then the Bingo moment occurred. Full box set incoming, can't wait to get cracking on them.

........... Or this

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

God be with the days of the 'Bond Season' on Network 2. Bond films twice or three times a week. Idale.

Faith+1

Sal Butamol wrote: »

Brosnans run has aged the worst, he was good but all of them were ****e bar his debut, I walked out of Die another Day

I'll never forget the scene where he was using a plane door and parachute to ride a wave which lifted him over the cliff edge.

Everyone in the cinema was breaking their sh*te laughing. I knew then and there that Brosnan was finished as bond.

the purple tin

RichT wrote: »

........... Or this

Perfect for undercover missions, never mind the big 007 plastered across them :pac:

Sal Butamol

Faith+1 wrote: »

I'll never forget the scene where he was using a plane door and parachute to ride a wave which lifted him over the cliff edge.

Everyone in the cinema was breaking their sh*te laughing. I knew then and there that Brosnan was finished as bond.

That's the scene where I got up and walked out

SimonTemplar

Faith+1 wrote: »

I'll never forget the scene where he was using a plane door and parachute to ride a wave which lifted him over the cliff edge.

Everyone in the cinema was breaking their sh*te laughing. I knew then and there that Brosnan was finished as bond.

An absolute low point of the whole series. I feel sorry for Brosnan in a way. To go from a brilliant movie like GoldenEye which at least had one foot grounded in the real world, to this with its cartoon physics and painfully bad effects.

I can just picture Brosnan on a green screen stage with the director yelling instructions to move his arms left and right. Embarrassing.

BailMeOut

From The Guardian today.

James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies ranked!

the purple tin

BailMeOut wrote: »

From The Guardian today.

James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies ranked!

They make a good point; Henry Kissinger is a tailor-made Bond villain.

Kolido

BailMeOut wrote: »

From The Guardian today.

James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies ranked!

The Living Daylights is ranked criminally low on that list and the top movie is one of my least favourite Bond movies.

SimonTemplar

BailMeOut wrote: »

From The Guardian today.

James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies ranked!

That list is rubbish. I know such things are subjective but I wouldn't advise anyone to judge the series based on that article.

Dades

BailMeOut wrote: »

From The Guardian today.

James Bond on film – 007's best and worst movies ranked!

What a bunch of sh*t. That must be clickbait - there's no other way someone could have Octopussy three places ahead of OHMSS.

And Licence To Kill sixteen places behind SPECTRE? Give me a break. LTK is 10 times better a Bond movie than that stylised, bloated effort.

/deep breaths