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[glidrose]

18.  FYEO (no change)
 
14.  AVTAK (dropping slightly from no. 10, with LALD rising again)

In the AVTAK thread, you put AVTAK below FYEO. Here it appears above. What gives?

[SecretAgentFan]

You´re absolutely right.  But somehow I did prefer it slightly when doing the ranking.  Maybe the Dalton and Brosnan eras have contributed to this change of opinion.

[SecretAgentFan]

Okay - here´s my ranking that includes the Craig era...

 

24. NSNA

23. TWINE

22. DAF

21. FYEO

20. DAD

19. TB

18. LTK

17. AVTAK

16. DN

15. YOLT

14. MR

13. TMWTGG

12. GE

11. CASINO ROYALE

 

10. GF

9. OP

8. LALD

7. TND

6. TLD

5. OHMSS

4. QUANTUM OF SOLACE

3. FRWL

2. SKYFALL

1. TSWLM

[tdalton]

Good list overall.  It's great to see Quantum of Solace so high on someone's list other than my own.

[Call Billy Bob]

CR and GE not cracking the top 10? And GF ONLY at 10? Curious...

[tdalton]

 And GF ONLY at 10? Curious...

 

Agreed.  Should be lower.  

[Call Billy Bob]

I know you may think it's overrated and cliché, but it's my all-time favorite film, Bond or otherwise. And I'll defend it against anything until I die.
Then again, I'd rather subject myself to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull than Quantum of Solace - to each their own.

[glidrose]

 

 And GF ONLY at 10? Curious...

 

Agreed.  Should be lower.  

 

 

Absolutely! Easily somewhere in the low single-digits, no higher than #3 .

[SecretAgentFan]

It´s getting more difficult the more entries there are...

[DamnCoffee]

1. Goldfinger
2. Skyfall
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Thunderball
5. From Russia With Love
6. GoldenEye
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Casino Royale
9. Live and Let Die
10. Dr. No
11. Moonraker
12. Octopussy
13. The Man With The Golden Gun
14. Licence To Kill
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
16. The Living Daylights
17. You Only Live Twice
18. Diamonds Are Forever
19. A View To A Kill
20. Die Another Day
21. For Your Eyes Only
22. The World Is Not Enough
23. Quantum of Solace

Edited by DamnCoffee, 01 August 2015 - 12:41 AM.

[Professor Pi]

It´s getting more difficult the more entries there are...

 

There are over 620 sextillion possibilities (a 24 digit number.)

[Call Billy Bob]

It´s getting more difficult the more entries there are...

 
There are over 620 sextillion possibilities (a 24 digit number.)

With a name like Professor Pi, it was great of you to do the math!

[Mr_Wint]

I categorise them in seven groups like this:

GROUP 007
These are the truly excellent films. Pure magic for aficionados.
- From Russia With Love
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- For Your Eyes Only

GROUP 006
Another group of excellent films. But a little bit more polish is needed to take them up another level.
- Dr No
- Thunderball
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Octopussy

GROUP 005
Good, enjoyable, Bond films, but they all suffers from some major flaws. A skilled editor could fix most of them.
- Goldfinger
- You Only Live Twice
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Moonraker

GROUP 004
These films do have plenty of classic moments, but they don’t hold together very well. Unlike Group 005 films, I can’t point out the flaws so easily – they need a complete makeover (script, casting etc).
- Live And Let Die
- The Man With The Golden Gun
- A View To A Kill
- The Living Daylights

GROUP 003
In the following groups, I place the films from the modern era, LTK and onward. These films have completely lost the feeling and the original craftsmanship, and therefore cannot compete with any of the films above. It’s like comparing old and new Star Wars. The films in this group are still somewhat entertaining in their own way.
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Casino Royale
- Skyfall

GROUP 002
Same as Group 003 films, just not as well made.
- Licence To Kill
- GoldenEye
- The World Is Not Enough
- Die Another Day
- Quantum of Solace

GROUP 001
And the last group is reserved for the film I care the least about.
- Never Say Never Again

 

[BesBond]

1. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (10/10)
2. Licence to Kill (9.5/10)
3. Octopussy (9/10)
4. From Russia with Love (9.5/10)
5. Moonraker (9/10)
6. Live & Let Die (9/10)
7. The Living Daylights (9/10)
8. Tomorrow Never Dies (8.5/10)
9. You Only Live Twice (8.5/10)
10. Thunderball (8.5/10)
11. Skyfall (8.5/10)
12. A View to a Kill (8/10 - a guilty pleasure)
13. Dr No (7.5/10)
14. Goldfinger (7/10)
15. The Spy Who Loved Me (7.5/10)
16. Casino Royale (8/10 - need to re-watch)
17. Die Another Day (7.5/10)
18. For Your Eyes Only (7.5/10)
19. Goldeneye (7/10)
20. The Man with the Golden Gun (6/10)
21. The World Is Not Enough (6.5/10)
22. Quantum of Solace (6/10)
23. Diamonds Are Forever (5/10)

This list changes constantly; Skyfall probably deserves to make the top 10, but I decided to keep it just outside due to its recent vintage.  I loved Casino Royale at the cinema (saw it twice), but I found it a bit padded out last time, and a bit heavy handed in its attempts at emotion/humanising Bond, something I feel was handled far better in OHMSS, and even TLD.  However the last 4 of the list are fairly interchangeable (i.e. not really a fan of these four, for various reasons).  Diamonds is the most tedious, so that gets my bottom vote overall, despite some enjoyable moments (Plenty O'Toole, Wint & Kid's camp antics) and 1 great fight scene. 

 

Edit - I've added my ratings out of 10 for each film.  This probably just adds to the confusion though as my ranking doesn't always match my critical view of each film.

Edited by BesBond, 12 August 2015 - 12:03 PM.

[carddoug]

1. The living daylights
2. For your eyes only
3. Thinderball
4. Live and let die
5. Goldeneye (this would be number 1 if brosnan wasn't in it)
6. Casino royale
7. Skyfall
8. From Russia with love
9. The man with the golden gun
10. Ohmss
11. Goldfinger
12. The spy who loved me
13. License to kill
14. A view to a kill
15. Tomorrow never dies
16. Dr. No
17. QOS
18. Moonraker
19. Octopussy
20. You only live twice
21. Diamonds are forever
22. The world is not enough








30. Die another day

Edited by carddoug, 10 August 2015 - 07:46 PM.

[dtuba]

30. Die another day

Still ranked too high

[carddoug]

That could be true

[Bondage007]

Wow, some big surprises in my latest Bondathon. My thoughts on the films have stayed mostly the same throughout the years but there have been shocking changes to the list.

 

The Living Daylights remains my favourite film, and unexpectedly, OP jumped from 6th to 2nd. Both are full of tension and move at a quick pace with plenty of action and drama.

 

You Only Live Twice and Tomorrow Never Dies are the other big winners, the former from long term last place to 14th and TND up 6 places to 9th.

 

The Gilbert films have grown on me hence their higher places, whereas the Hamilton films continue to bore me for the most part even though they have some classic moments and characters - DAF ranks highest at 12th.

 

The losers are GE which I used to love and has now fallen to 6th, AVTAK has slipped over the years although I still enjoy it, TB which I thought I liked but the movie just drags, and this brings me to the most controversial placing of Skyfall at 20th. While it's technically very well made and acted, it bores me for the most part, my favourite aspect is the dialogue. I placed DAD above SF, shoot me

 

The untouchables. Spectre will have a hard time cracking the top 5. GE is on shaky ground

 

1. The Living Daylights (+3)

2. Octopussy (+4)

3. Casino Royale (-2)

4. From Russia With Love (-2)

5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (-2)

6. Goldeneye (-1)

 

Excellent, could easily rewatch

7. For Your Eyes Only (+2)

8. The Spy Who Loved Me (+4)

9. Tomorrow Never Dies (+6)

10. Moonraker (+12)

11. Dr No (+5)

12. Diamonds are Forever (+1)

13. Licence to Kill(-3)

 

Flawed but enjoyable

14. You Only Live Twice (+9)

15. A View To A Kill

16. Goldfinger

 

Mostly pacing issues (TB) or just downright bad (DAD)

17. The Man with the Golden Gun (+2)

18. Die Another Day (+2)

19. Thunderball (-11)

20. Skyfall (-13)

 

Didn't do much for me (unfortunate because LALD has many good scenes)

21. LALD (-5)

22. TWINE (-4)

23. QOS (-2)

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

1. FRWL (It's never changed for me for the last 10 years)

2. OHMSS

3. GF

4. Casino Royale

5. TSWLM

6. TB

7. Dr. No

8. Goldeneye

9. LTK

10. YOLT

11. FYEO

12. TLD

13. Octopussy

14. Skyfall

15. LALD

16. MR

17. DAF

18. QOS

19. TND

20. TWINE

21. AVTAK

22. TMWTGG (For years this was my least favorite Bond film).

23. DAD (Cringeworthy second-half. Awful)

[Pierceuhhh]

ALL TIME HIGH
1. Thunderball
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. You Only Live Twice
4. Goldfinger
5. The Spy Who Loved Me

GREAT MOVIES
6. Diamonds Are Forever
7. GoldenEye
8. Skyfall
9. Moonraker

MOVIES I VERY MUCH ENJOY
10. The Living Daylights
11. The Man With the Golden Gun
12. A View to a Kill
13. Live and Let Die

EHHHH GOOD ENOUGH I GUESS
14. From Russia With Love
15. Octopussy
16. Tomorrow Never Dies
17. Dr No

DISGRACEFUL EFFORTS
18. Casino Royale
19. Die Another Day
20. For Your Eyes Only
21. The World Is Not Enough
22. Licence to Kill
23. Quantum of Solace

[BesBond]

 

1. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (10/10)
2. Licence to Kill (9.5/10)
3. Octopussy (9/10)
4. From Russia with Love (9.5/10)
5. Moonraker (9/10)
6. Live & Let Die (9/10)
7. The Living Daylights (9/10)
8. Tomorrow Never Dies (8.5/10)
9. You Only Live Twice (8.5/10)
10. Thunderball (8.5/10)
11. Skyfall (8.5/10)
12. For Your Eyes Only (8/10)
13. A View to a Kill (8/10 - a guilty pleasure)
14. Dr No (7.5/10)
15. Goldfinger (7/10)
16. The Spy Who Loved Me (7.5/10)
17. Casino Royale (8/10 - need to re-watch)
18. Die Another Day (7.5/10)
19. Goldeneye (7/10)
20. The Man with the Golden Gun (6/10)
21. The World Is Not Enough (6.5/10)
22. Quantum of Solace (6/10)
23. Diamonds Are Forever (5/10)

This list changes constantly; Skyfall probably deserves to make the top 10, but I decided to keep it just outside due to its recent vintage.  I loved Casino Royale at the cinema (saw it twice), but I found it a bit padded out last time, and a bit heavy handed in its attempts at emotion/humanising Bond, something I feel was handled far better in OHMSS, and even TLD.  However the last 4 of the list are fairly interchangeable (i.e. not really a fan of these four, for various reasons).  Diamonds is the most tedious, so that gets my bottom vote overall, despite some enjoyable moments (Plenty O'Toole, Wint & Kid's camp antics) and 1 great fight scene. 

 

Edit - I've added my ratings out of 10 for each film.  This probably just adds to the confusion though as my ranking doesn't always match my critical view of each film.

 

Edit 2 - FYEO raised in my ranking

[thecasinoroyale]

Time to update my list to now cover all 24 Bond films!

1. Licence To Kill
2. A View To A Kill
3. Dr.No
4. Octopussy
5. SPECTRE
6. Casino Royale
7. Live And Let Die
8. From Russia With Love
9. Goldfinger
10. The Living Daylights

11. Skyfall
12. GoldenEye
13. The Spy Who Loved Me
14. Diamonds Are Forever
15. Quantum Of Solace
16. You Only Live Twice
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. The Man With The Golden Gun
19. The World Is Not Enough
20. Moonraker
21. Thunderball
22. For Your Eyes Only

23. Die Another Day
24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

[hoagy]

This collection of rankings demonstrates once again:  There is no accounting for taste.

[DamnCoffee]

I'll be on properly in a few hours and I've been a tad tight lipped regarding SPECTRE, but come tonight I have all the time in the world! and if my latest ranking is anything to go by....

 

1. Goldfinger
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. From Russia With Love
4. Skyfall
5. Thunderball
6. SPECTRE
7. GoldenEye
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Casino Royale
10. Live and Let Die
11. Moonraker
12. Dr. No
13. Octopussy
14. Licence To Kill
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
16. The Living Daylights
17. Diamonds Are Forever
18. The Man With The Golden Gun
19. You Only Live Twice
20. Die Another Day
21. A View To A Kill
22. For Your Eyes Only
23. The World Is Not Enough
24. Quantum of Solace

I predicted it would be #5 a few months ago and I was close!

Edited by DamnCoffee, 31 October 2015 - 03:33 AM.

[Hockey Mask]

Time to update my list to now cover all 24 Bond films! :D1. Licence To Kill2. A View To A Kill3. Dr.No4. Octopussy5. SPECTRE6. Casino Royale7. Live And Let Die8. From Russia With Love9. Goldfinger10. The Living Daylights11. Skyfall12. GoldenEye13. The Spy Who Loved Me14. Diamonds Are Forever15. Quantum Of Solace16. You Only Live Twice17. Tomorrow Never Dies18. The Man With The Golden Gun19. The World Is Not Enough20. Moonraker21. Thunderball22. For Your Eyes Only23. Die Another Day24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Is your list upside down?

[Vauxhall]

2. A View To A Kill

24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Woah!

Edited by Vauxhall, 29 October 2015 - 09:53 PM.

[HoneyDiamond]

Time to update my list to now cover all 24 Bond films!

5. SPECTRE

 

We have a top Fiver! 

 

24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 

Talk about George Lazenblasphemy

[Gobi-1]

We'll just have to see where Spectre falls but here's my listing as of today.

 

23. A View To A Kill (tried watching this the other day and I almost turned it off.)
22. Die Another Day
21. Thunderball
20. The Living Daylights
19. License to Kill
18. Diamonds Are Forever
17. The Man with the Golden Gun
16. You Only Live Twice
15. Quantum of Solace
14. Live and Let Die
13. The World Is Not Enough
12. Moonraker
11. Octopussy
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
8. For Your Eyes Only
7. Dr. No
6. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. GoldenEye
4. From Russia With Love
3. Casino Royale
2. Goldfinger
1. SkyFall

[thecasinoroyale]

Hey, this is what makes us Bond fans a good bunch does it not? It'd be boring if we all liked the same and had no room for debate! 

2. A View To A Kill
24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Woah!

I've REALLY tried with 'OHMSS' numerous times Vaux...I really have, but I just can't do it.

Time to update my list to now cover all 24 Bond films!

5. SPECTRE

 
We have a top Fiver! 
 

24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 
Talk about George Lazenblasphemy

"Well it's all a matter of perspective."

[SecretAgentFan]

 

 

2. A View To A Kill
24. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Woah!

 

 

That ranking is... one of the most surprising and shocking things I´ve ever read on this board.