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[freemo]

Nice to see plenty of love for TSWLM.

Been on a 70s Bond kick recently. Watched DAF about two weeks ago and GOLDEN GUN last night. Might have to give SPY a look this weekend.

[BoogieBond]

Was deciding between TB and TSWLM and "Spy" Wins. Just through a couple more memorable actions sequences.

[RedshirtWilly]

There's so many I liked... Goldfinger, OHMSS, LALD, LTK, GoldenEye, Casino Royale...

I would have to go with GoldenEye... it was the first Bond film I watched, quite balanced, and just for sentimental value I would have to go with that (plus the 64 game defined my childhood!)

[Conlazmoodalbrocra]

For some years I've placed Goldeneye at the top of my list. It's still there, but the two Dalton movies and Casino Royale are close behind. Of course, it's always difficult to pick the best of the best, in anything!

[Chief of SIS]

It's interesting to see what movies don't have a single vote. Right now it's DAD, AVTAK, MR, and LALD of the official films. I think I'm only surprised that LALD is in there.

[TCK]

It's interesting to see what movies don't have a single vote. Right now it's DAD, AVTAK, MR, and LALD of the official films. I think I'm only surprised that LALD is in there.

Well, we're here to discuss James Bond, not The Saint, aren't we ?

[occhile007]

Let's see this is tough, so I'll do it this way...

Sean Connery-

Goldfinger - The first Sean Connery bond I ever saw, and had all the classic elements that made the Bond movies what they are. Hot bond girls, Aston Martin Db5, Bollinger, bad villian and henchmen (more like most memorable), the gadgets; the locations...just a classic

Thunderball - This is just as good IMO if not better than GF. It kept the same tone but took it to another level. SPECTRE has never been more sinister; Domino (ohhh how I love thee); the locations, the return of the DB5; the gadgets; the shark pool; the underwater fights

Roger Moore-

The Spy Who Loved Me- By far the most classic Bond film that Moore ever did. I mean 3rd times a charm. The lotus, Barbara Bach (boy is she smoking hot); Stromberg (another classic bond villian); JAWS (hell yeah); the theme song (even though John Barry had no involvement, easily one of my top 5 favorite songs).

For Your Eyes Only - The most down to earth, realistic Moore bond movie. The lotus returns, the plot was not over the top, Moore was more stern in this one; Melina, the ski chase (probably the best one ever); the locations...

Timothy Dalton

License to Kill - Probably one of the darkest, grittiest realistic Bond movies ever made. Sanchez never wanted to take over the world, he was just a sinister SOB; more of Q; Bond in a situation we've never seen him in (rogue and pi$$ed off); Benecio del toro; wayne newton (random, but funny).

Pierce Brosnan-

Goldeneye - The first bond movie i ever watched and still one of my favorite. Bond was back and vs 006...i mean that is enough to wanna watch it; the aston db5 back; judi dench as M; the cold war is over; the gadgets (the OMEGA)...

Daniel Craig

Casino Royale- Still my #1, just because Bond is human. He makes mistakes, he feels, he falls in love with the goddess and my favorite bond girl, Vesper. Not one, but two Aston Martins; the omega, the locations; le chiffe; the return of Felix; Judi Dench; the acting; the editing; the main title by Chris Cornell...WOW!!!

That's just my personal opinion. Take it for what it is...I need to go watch these again...

[Messervy]

The next one

[Skudor]

I'll take this like an exam and carefully read the question: it asks for my favourite Bond film. I take this to mean not what I think is the best film all round, or best script, or best performance by an actor, but simply what makes me smile and want to watch it.

So I'll go with the one I'll always pick up if I want a dose of proper Bond, and the winner is:

GOLDFINGER

Everything is classic Bond in Goldfinger: Connery at his best, an amazing PTS that is at the same time utterly OTT and beautifully BOND in a way things simply cannot be any more, the villain is a giant of the series, the henchman the definition of itself, the gadgets better than they ever got and the car a stunner. It has its flaws - but it is the perfect little package.

For Best Bond Film, I'd pick On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - classic-Bond's final shout. The rest, up until Casino Royale serve as repititions and nostalgia trips back to those first six movies - and are often great in their own right. With Casino Royale, and in its excellent follow up Quantum of Solace the game was changed and we got a new type of Bond - still true to the core in some ways, but no longer trying so hard to be Goldfinger.

Shocking.... positively shocking: has anything surpassed that?

[mrevans]

Casino Royale

[Aris007]

OHMSS. Nothing comes even a mile close to the locations, the ski chase scenes, the soundtrack.

I read above someone saying that nothing can compare with CR's emotionally. I say, just the last scene of OHMSS contains much more emotion than the whole 2 hours of it.

[Tarl_Cabot]

FRWL The only true spy drama in the Bond series.

[The Shark]

I read above someone saying that nothing can compare with CR's emotionally. I say, just the last scene of OHMSS contains much more emotion than the whole 2 hours of it.

Agreed.

[Melack]

From Russia With Love with Casino Royale and On Her Majesty's Secret Service close behind.

FRWL is just perfect spy-action with a very Hitchcock esque feeling and great characters. CR and OHMSS manages to be damn entertaining and emotional at the same time, a lethally striking combo.

[AndrewBond]

Thunderball. Continuing from what was said above, it is the coolest Bond film, the one with the most oomph. It has all the elements I cherish most - beautiful location work (by the time it's over, you feel like you've actually been in the Bahamas), a great plot, and most importantly, the greatest collection of absolutely gorgeous women ever on film. Domino has to be the most beautiful Bond girl of all. Or is it Fiona Volpe, who's also one of the greatest villains? No, it's Bond's best sidekick, Paula Caplan, who was so cool, so stunning, it's a damn shame she wasn't in the film longer. Also, and I know this is heresy, I think that Domino killing Largo in the finale is on par with anything the entire series has given us emotionally.

[univex]

Russia and Thunder, no doubt. Majesty, Daylights, and Casino, make the top five.

Edited by univex, 17 January 2012 - 04:28 PM.

[Miles Miservy]

Since the 50th Anniversary is approaching very soon, I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread for the ultimate question! What is your favourite James Bond film?

It's a tough choice between From Russia With Love and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, for me. I think I'm going to have to go for the latter, though. A brilliant film, with incredible cinematography and a fantastic soundtrack. Beautiful acting, and a very fine performance from Mr Lazenby.

The Spy Who Loved Me

[Henry-Jones-Sr]

The Spy Who Loved Me.

The Guardian newspaper recently described this film as 'a resplendent feather in the cap of Roger Moore apologists'. Now, I'm no Roger Moore apologist because the man is beyond awesome, but I thought it was a great quote anyway.

The Spy Who Loved Me is, in my opinion, the only Bond movie so far to have gotten the Bond formula absolutely perfect. I'm not dissing the others in any way whatsoever, I'm just saying that it's the ultimate distillation of everything that makes Bond so great. It's exciting, funny, spectacular, scary, stylish, preposterous, beautiful to look at, and most importantly, it's absolutely enormous! I do wish Mike and Babs would raid the kitty and give us another Bond film of this magnitude.

I'd love to see Daniel Craig's brutal realism combined with a Ken Adam-style vast set with a ruddy great rocket in the middle or something. Or how about a super-fast submarine bursting through the banks of lower Manhattan and plowing its way up Fifth Avenue with Craig standing on top. Unlikely, I know, but this 70's-raised Bond fan can but dream.

[Garth007]

Casino Royale (2006) Easily the best in terms of plot, character developement, and emotion.

[SteveBolton]

Casino Royale is for me the definitive Bond movie, its got everything. Living Daylights is a close second.

[Miles Miservy]

OHMSS.

Yes... definately THIS one, and for several reasons.

1) It is the one film that is loyal to the novel.
2) It is the one film that proves OO7 is bigger than Sean Connery (not the other way around)
3) It is the one film that is most referred to in subsiquent films that followed; TSWLM. FYEO, LTK, etc.
4) It is the one film I prefer to watch around the holidays (Some folks have MIRACLE ON 34th STRRET or A CHRISTMAS STORY... I have this.)

[Cruiserweight]

Live and Let Die

[Janus Assassin]

GoldenEye

[I never miss]

So tough to choose one. My holy trinity that I never tire of watching are TB, OHMSS and CR. eventually I went with OHMSS. Not much in it though.

[Dan Gale]

My favorite Bond film is DNFRWLGETBYOLTOHMSSDAFTMWTGGTSWLMMRFYEOOPNSNAAVTAKTLDLTKGETNDTWINEDADCRQOSSF

... of which my favorite chapter is GoldenEye. It was the second Bond film I ever saw, and I still find it to be the most balanced, the most entertaining, the most rewatchable, the most fun, the most self-aware, the most interesting, the least cringe-inducing. I won't say it's the best Bond film, but it's the one I most often feel like watching. About once a month. It can't be mere nostalgia, because the first Bond movie I saw was TND, and I never feel like watching that.

Really? Gold*enE*e was the least cringe inducing?!
You didn't cringe once during the worst opening 9 minutes of train-wreckingly bad cinema outside of Vampire Circus (which is unbeatably bad).
What about the crappy CGI plane? The Afro haired Bond being introduced going down on a guy in a Russian toilet cubical? The lack of physics in the free fall where a man falls faster than a plane? The music (dear god, the music..)? The unlikely idea that 006 would happily join forces with (or plan to betray a friend for) a Russian Colonel who shot him in the face? The idea of a dam leading DOWN to a runway which is all somehow at the top of a mountain - so the dam is somehow even higher UP the mountain again? Brozzer playing Bond as if he had a metal rod up his backside and talking like he has sewn up his nostrils...The most toe-curlingly unfunny Q scene ever and to top it all, Bond's first onscreen seduction in 6 years is with a girl who's face most people wouldn't wipe their feet on...
Just my opinion of course... sorry, I know some people like it but I just came away wishing they'd released Licence to Kill again.

[DamnCoffee]

My favorite Bond film is DNFRWLGETBYOLTOHMSSDAFTMWTGGTSWLMMRFYEOOPNSNAAVTAKTLDLTKGETNDTWINEDADCRQOSSF

... of which my favorite chapter is GoldenEye. It was the second Bond film I ever saw, and I still find it to be the most balanced, the most entertaining, the most rewatchable, the most fun, the most self-aware, the most interesting, the least cringe-inducing. I won't say it's the best Bond film, but it's the one I most often feel like watching. About once a month. It can't be mere nostalgia, because the first Bond movie I saw was TND, and I never feel like watching that.

Really? Gold*enE*e was the least cringe inducing?!
You didn't cringe once during the worst opening 9 minutes of train-wreckingly bad cinema outside of Vampire Circus (which is unbeatably bad).
What about the crappy CGI plane? The Afro haired Bond being introduced going down on a guy in a Russian toilet cubical? The lack of physics in the free fall where a man falls faster than a plane? The music (dear god, the music..)? The unlikely idea that 006 would happily join forces with (or plan to betray a friend for) a Russian Colonel who shot him in the face? The idea of a dam leading DOWN to a runway which is all somehow at the top of a mountain - so the dam is somehow even higher UP the mountain again? Brozzer playing Bond as if he had a metal rod up his backside and talking like he has sewn up his nostrils...The most toe-curlingly unfunny Q scene ever and to top it all, Bond's first onscreen seduction in 6 years is with a girl who's face most people wouldn't wipe their feet on...

Nope. Didn't cringe once.

Edited by Mharkin, 17 March 2012 - 04:37 PM.

[E S Blofeld]

Each film has it's merits (and sometimes demarits) but for me if I had to pick just one it would be Goldfinger. It's the first one where it really all clicked -- the girls, the cars, the gadgets, everything. Over the top, yet not too over the top.

[Colossus]

Dr. No ... basically remember viewing it for nostalgic reasons.

[Onyx2626]

From Russia With Love

Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw and the Orient Express (the most famous train ride in history?) give the film a sharp edge.
(Remember how she tested his fitness?)


p.s.
As I said before long ago: for a so called "non actor" Lazenby does a good job on that final scene. A fine job, really.

[glidrose]

Do we have a thread for worst Bond film? If not, can one of the moderators arrange it? Jim? You're usually out there somewhere reading my posts.