What's your favourite Bond film of all time?

I would break down the Bond films like this

Excellent

From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
The Living Daylights
GoldenEye
Casino Royale
Skyfall

Very Good
Dr. No
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
The Spy Who Loved Me
Tomorrow Never Dies

Good
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
The World Is Not Enough
License To Kill

Not Great
Live and Let Die
A View To A Kill
Quantum of Solace

Awful
Diamonds Are Forever
The Man With The Golden Gun
Moonraker
Die Another Day

Random thoughts:

A lot of people associate the camp silliness and stupid humuor with Roger Moore's era but it actually started with Connery's Diamonds Are Forever. I really hate that movie because you can almost forgive Moore because he's never going to win any awards for best Bond, but it is really depressing watching Connery who was so great in the earlier movies, wade through that garbage.

I actually really like On Her Majesty's Secret Service's plot but I just can't get past Lazenby. He's just not Bond. Great to see Diana Rigg in that movie though. Connery and Rigg would have been a dream pairing back in the 60s.

The 70s were not a good decade for Bond. Five movies were released and only one, The Spy Who Loved Me, was watchable. That one was actually pretty good, features a cool scene at the pyramids during a light show and the famous parachuting off a cliff stunt. Great theme song too. I think Cubby Broccoli was smoking something strong for the rest of the decade because of the rubbish and seriously bizarre stuff that made it into the Bond scripts, and were so far removed from the 60s they may as well have been a different franchise. I actually think Moore was well capable of pulling of seriousness but was let down by the scripts. Moonraker is horrible, but there is a sequence were Bond is tortured using severe G forces in a centrifuge. When the ordeal is over, he is genuinely shook up by the experience and is a rare moment of true vulnerability from Moore's Bond. I really wish we had seen more of that.

For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy are two guilty pleasures for me, probably because I actually like Moore's Bond when the scripts aren't like leftovers from the Carry On series. For Your Eyes Only is a welcome return to basics after the extravagance of Moonraker, and features some fairly tense moments. It does have Bibi though - probably the most annoying and ill-advised character ever in the series. I mean WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING?? How do we deal with our aging Bond? Have a teenage girl fall for him ??!?? One of the reasons I like Octopussy is Maud Adams in the title role. She was much closer to Moore's age than his other Bond girls. I can actually buy that those two have a relationship.

The Living Daylights is a really fantastic, and often underrated, epic cold war thriller. I really love it.

Like Moore, I feel that Brosnan was let down by the scripts, especially in his later movies. His movies get progressively worse but he was a very fine Bond and deserved more.

And even Craig can't escape without a bad movie to his name, Quantum of Solace, or as one UK critic said, Quantum of Bollocks. His other two are outstanding through.

wendell borton wrote: »

A view to a kill, Christopher Walken is the best bond villain.

One of my favorites too but it has to be Goldfinger as my number one. Bowler hats that can cut off heads of statutes is where it's at.

Am I the only who prefers the bond soundtracks over the films?