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[JasonD]

Favorites:
1. Casino Royale - The whole Bond and Mollaka free-running chase.

2. Moonraker - The Sky Diving fight

3. Goldeneye - The motorbike to airplane escape.


Least Favorites:

1. Die Another Day - Where Bond was surfing those CGI waves while escaping Grave's mirror beam thing.

2. Licence To Kill - Not really much, but not that much really impressed me compared to the other movies, i. e. jumping from the car to the truck near the end.

3. A View To A Kill - Bond driving the 'half-car' is too unrealistic for me.

[Milovy]

Best-

#1 above all - opening ski jump and parachute, The Spy Who Loved Me
The Aston Martin flipping into the air, Casino Royale
Cargo plane fight, The Living Daylights

Worst-

Anything in Die Another Day
Corkscrew car jump, The Man With the Golden Gun (I know it looks cool, but it was just so obviously unrealistic and a stunt for stunt's sake)
The umpteenth iteration of "Bond jumping/clinging onto a moving vehicle" from License to Kill - one time is good for a yawn, but when you keep repeating it, it actually becomes something BAD.

Edited by Milovy, 29 April 2007 - 01:10 AM.

[Qwerty]

Keep the votes coming in everyone!

[Daddy Bond]

FAVORITES

#1 - TSWLM Ski Jump
#2 - CR Jump from Crane to Crane (I liked it for the realism)
#3 - Truck Chase in LTK

LEAST FAVORITES

#1 - DAD Ice Sled sequency (is this really a stunt at all since it's CGI)
#2 - Ski chase seqencey in TWINE (just boring IMO)
#3 - Plane going down sequence (including the helicopter) in DAD (again, this is not really a stunt is it?)

[The Richmond Spy]

BEST

1) TSWLM pre-titles jump- I always think of how they could've avoided actually doing this stunt and how so many films would've, but NOT Bond! Hearing how Rick Sylvester was concerned with the weather and how even Cubby told him not to do it if he didn't feel comfortable...he had the perfect reason not to do it...but he did! Looks 10 times better today than 30 years ago because of there being no CGI.

2) TMWTGG jump- If you can ignore the horrible sound effects for this one, the feat is actually quite impressive. If you pause the film when the car is completely upside down it really doesn't look like he is going to make it.

3) CR Mollaka chase- The part where Bond jumps down to chase Mollaka and has a ton of rough landings can make you forget about DAD's CGI surfing scene pretty quickly.

4) MR pre-titles mid-air fight- The two stuntmen do a fantastic job!

5) Cargo plane fight in TLD- I feel the same with this as I do with the MR one, but it gets voted higher since the guys in this one get to cling to something.

WORST

1) DAD CGI surfing from Icarus- What can I say that hasn't already been said?

[Qwerty]

Going to bump this back up in an effort to get it going once more.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Best

1. TSWLM Parachute scene; no ifs, ands, or buts, it's the top.
2. CR Crane jump sequence; lots of realistic hits. Oof!
3. QOS Opening car chase; it's damned awesome, and that dive off the cliff! Makes for one of the best Bond openings, as well.


Worst

3. LTK Tanker on two wheels; makes me face-palm when I watch it.
2. TMWTGG Car barrel roll; done for the sake of the stunt, and ruined by that cheesy sound effect.
1. DAD Paragliding on the ice; probably doesn't count (as it was done with CGI), but it's damned awful, nonetheless.

[danielcraigisjamesbond007]

Best:
1) Parkour chase in Casino Royale. One word? WOW!
2) Live and Let Die's boat chase. Excellent!
3) Tank chase in GoldenEye.


Worst:
1) Anything in Diamonds Are Forever. Tired, stupid and yawn-inducing.
2) EVERYTHING in Quantum of Solace. Uninspired, boring, and edited too quickly to enjoy the stunts.
3) Just about everything in Die Another Day (with the possible exception of the hovercraft chase).

[O.H.M.S.S.]

FAVOURITES

1 - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
2 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
3 - Licence to Kill (1989)
4 - The Living Daylights (1987)
5 - Casino Royale (2006)
6 - Thunderball (1965)
7 - GoldenEye (1995)
8 - Quantum of Solace (2008)
9 - You Only Live Twice (1967)
10 - Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

LEAST FAVOURITES

1 - Casino Royale (1967)
2 - Die Another Day (2002)
3 - A View to a Kill (1985)

Edited by O.H.M.S.S., 13 July 2009 - 12:56 PM.

[staveoffzombies]

My favorites:

1. Goldeneye - The opening bungie-jumping scene is my favorite stunt in the entire series. Driving the bike off the cliff is pretty cool as well, despite the implausibility of how it all turns out.

2. Moonraker - The incredible sky-diving scene. The tension in remarkable.

3. Casino Royale - The parkour sequence...probably the best chase scene in the series.

4. The Spy Who Loved Me - The ski-jump in the PTS. An absolute classic.

5. Octopussy - Bond hanging on to Kamal Kahn's airplane.

6. The Living Daylights - Bond and Necros battling on the hanging cargo net.

7. A View To a Kill - The Eiffel Tower parachute jump.

I just realized I'm a sucker for aerial stunts.

Least favorites:

1. A View to a Kill - The whole firetruck sequence...just too silly.

2. Diamonds are Forever - The moonbuggy sequence...again...too silly and so slow moving.

Hmm...can't really think of any more stunts I actively dislike...aside from the CGI ones, but they don't count.

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

Top 5 (bit of a heights theme with mine!):
1. Free-running chase in Casino Royale
2. Golden Gate Bridge fight in A View To A Kill
3. Moonraker skydive
4. Octopussy plane fight
5. Goldeneye bungee-jump

[db007]

Best stunt - Parachute jump in The Spy Who Loved Me
Worst stunt - Bond leaping into a pilot-less plane in Goldeneye.