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What is your least favorite Sean Connery Bond film?


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#61 Iceskater101

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Posted 07 July 2013 - 10:06 PM

I mean my least favorite is Never Say Never Again and after that is Diamonds are Forever. Otherwise I love all of his other films.



#62 GalaSilva

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 11:41 AM

Diamonds are Forever. I like it but compared to the others I don't find it as good.

 

Also, I think it would have been better if someone else played the role of Bond due to the fact that Sean Connery returned for one film and in my opinion, it didn't quite fit. 



#63 hoagy

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Posted 08 July 2013 - 05:32 PM

YOLT, no question.  He was interested and involved in his portrayals in NSNA and DAF.  In YOLT it was obvious that it would have been MUCH better had they slowed down, taken some time, made it later.  Thought about making a more modern movie, gotten the star involved, etc.  Of course, Bond-mania was in full swing so everything I just wrote might have made for a better movie and lower receipts.  Oh, well.



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Posted 15 July 2013 - 04:13 PM

YOLT for me as well. I enjoy the plane sequence with the Bond theme blaring and the Blofeld reveal, but I agree Connery did not seem into the role and just something about the movie rubs me the wrong way. Its not a horrible movie by any means and there are definitely worse Bond films than YOLT, but of Connery's it is definitely the weakest in my opinion.  



#65 MooseWithFleas

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Posted 22 July 2013 - 01:54 AM

NSNA if we are counting non-EON films. I still have nightmares of those denim overalls!

 

DAF otherwise. Connery doesn't do camp well. There are a few moments where it works, such as the scene in the pipeline with the rat. For the most part it falls flat for me though. Specifically the moonbuggy scene. It's a stunt that would be much better suited for Moore as Connery doesn't sell it right.

 

Then there's the whole Tiffany Case silliness. Going from a cunning, intelligent Bond girl taking his fingerprints to identify him. Then all of a sudden she turns complete ditz. Ugh! 



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 04:19 PM

Diamonds Are Forever for me. It's a bit of an obvious choice, but I never watch it, and I'm not trying to any time soon. 



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Posted 25 July 2013 - 09:16 PM

I've got to go with DAF here.  There's a lot I like about it, but NSNA has a more invested, fun performance from Connery.  And even with the extra age on him, he looks more fit in NSNA to me.  Both are stinkers in my book, but DAF should have been far better than it was.



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Posted 26 July 2013 - 02:30 AM

Thunderball. Starts off well but begins to drag after half an hour. Nothing truly terrible per say, but a Bond film simply going through the motions. The biggest problem is that the film is far to leisurely paced for a "race against time" scenario. I'm sad to say I once fell asleep watching it.

 

Now having said that I think Diamonds Are Forever is probably worse for a variety of reasons but I find it to be a lot more entertaining. It's tacky as hell, but fun.



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Posted 26 July 2013 - 07:22 PM

Thunderball. Starts off well but begins to drag after half an hour. Nothing truly terrible per say, but a Bond film simply going through the motions. The biggest problem is that the film is far to leisurely paced for a "race against time" scenario. I'm sad to say I once fell asleep watching it.

 

Now having said that I think Diamonds Are Forever is probably worse for a variety of reasons but I find it to be a lot more entertaining. It's tacky as hell, but fun.

I fell asleep the first 3 or 4 times I tried watching it.  Something so soothing once the water scenes hit.



#70 Janus Assassin

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 10:55 PM

Something about Thunderball and You Only Live Twice in which I could never find the motivation to watch it. YOLT loses its interest for me after the Little Nellie scene. But Thunderball, I skip through the entire Shrublands and the extremely boring sequence where they hijack the bomb. But I love it once Bond reaches the Bahamas. 



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Posted 30 July 2013 - 03:22 AM

DAF & YOLT are tied for worst Connery films.

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Posted 11 August 2013 - 02:11 AM

Definitely NSNA, if it counts.

 

Otherwise, probably YOLT. Sure, it's a better made film than DAF, and it does have Akiko Wakabayashi, one of my favorite Bond girls. Plus, Lois Maxwell in that Navy uniform....Yeeowza!  But the script and dialogue is incredibly, insufferably stupid and no we don't need Connery in disguise as a Japanese.  After reading the book, the whole film seems like a huge insult to the Fleming legacy.

 

I loved YOLT as a kid, but then again I also loved The Adventures of Sheriff Lobo.



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Posted 11 August 2013 - 06:31 AM

I find Dr. No a chore to sit through.

#74 Guy Haines

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Posted 11 August 2013 - 06:55 AM

 

I think it's fair to say that even the producers weren't happy with DAF's finale.  Originally, Richard Maibaum had scripted a boat chase across Lake Mead in which Bond rallies the casino owners' regatta into forcing Blofeld over the Hoover Dam.  Alas, no such regatta of sailboats exists and it was too expensive to replicate.  So there was the oil rig after which Bond was to chase Blofeld's bathosub in a weather balloon to a salt mine where he meets his demise in a salt granulator!  That ending seemed too lengthy so they opted for just the oil rig.  There was supposed to be a battle with frogmen who jumped from helicopters into the water (as on the poster), and the rig's legs were mined with explosives.  Unfortunately, the explosives accidentally went off early so nothing went according to plan.  However, cameras happened to be rolling and that's what we see.

Fascinating info, thanks for filling us in. If you've any more i'm all ears :)



NSNA. I think it was a comeback too far. As far as the portrayal of Bond is concerned, for me it seemed like "Connery playing Bond playing Connery". Plus, when one considers the ideas they had for a rival Bond film, even within the legal constraints of the Thunderball case, it seemed a bit ordinary on release. And I missed the Bond style music in the background - Michel Legrand's jazz influenced score just didn't cut it for me.

 

 

All true, but.... it has the best Bond retort of all the films IMO:

 

 

Fatima Blush  jet skis onto the floating bar, straight into Bond and says,

     

          "....made you all wet."

 

Without missing a beat, Bond replies,

     

          "Yes, but my martini is still dry".

 

 

It doesn't get better than that   ;)

 

NSNA does have another Bond reply earlier on, admittedly one used previously by the late Ronnie Barker as the convict Norman Stanley Fletcher in the BBC TV comedy "Porridge". This is at Shrublands:-

 

Nurse (with bottle at one end of room) "Could I have a sample please, Mr Bond?"

 

Bond (at the other end) "What, from here?" ;)

 

(They brought in the "Porridge" scriptwriters Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais to "sharpen up" the NSNA script, and I must admit that made me chuckle. Pity I'd heard before it in a very similar scene on TV.)



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Posted 11 August 2013 - 07:04 AM

A funny thing about NSNA was that, even though I had what I'd watched it and Thunderball many times when I was younger, I never noticed that the story and characters were the same. I know I was young but considering I had watched them quite a few times I think it's strange that I never caught on.

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Posted 16 August 2013 - 01:44 PM

Diamonds are Forever by a wide margin. Outside of the poor, crass quality of the film, probably the biggest thing that annoys me about it is that the mainstream populace seem to think that it's one of the good ones, by virtue of Connery just being in it (whereas quality entertainment like TSWLM gets dismissed by virtue of Roger Moore being in it).

 

NSNA was at least an interesting experiment. It almost feels like the film version of a Gardner novel.


Edited by Gothamite, 16 August 2013 - 01:44 PM.


#77 glidrose

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Posted 17 August 2013 - 08:32 PM

Hey mods... can we get a poll here?

 

Remember to include NSNA - which will get a lot of votes.



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Posted 21 August 2013 - 10:17 PM

Hmmm...have a hard time choosing between Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again. I don't dislike either, but neither are works of art. Diamonds moves at a quicker pace, has a better Bond girl, better score, and is actually a new story. However, Connery, while a bit more lively than he was in YOLT, feels pretty out of place, and it not even making a passing reference to the events of OHMSS, save maybe for the pre-title sequence, definitely take away points. Oh, and Blofeld in drag....yeeeaaahh...

 

Never Say Never Again has slightly better action sequences, a (slightly) better main villain, a MUCH better Blofeld (Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Charles Gray in DAF, just not as the murderer of Bond's wife), and Connery actually looks better here than he did in 1971, at least in my opinion. But, there's of course the un-Bond feel to it, and while I'm a fan of Kim Basinger, I do find her really boring in this film, though Barbara Carrera is a lot of fun.

 

So in the end, I'm torn between these two. It's been a while since I've seen NSNA, so when I give it a re-watch sometime in the near future, I'll probably have a better answer.



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Posted 22 August 2013 - 07:39 AM

NSNA just doesn't feel like a bond movie to me at all. Never could watch it from start to finish without getting bored.

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Posted 20 September 2013 - 12:41 AM

My least favorite 007 film starring Connery would sadly have to be Diamonds are Forever. No matter how hard Connery tries to make the film look belieable, the whole Roger Moore-era slapstick humor and wackyness is just too much to bare. Whenever I see the scene of the [fake] elephant playing the slots...I cringe! That was just so bad!!! I mean, just the way it walks up to the machine is all fast and unrealistic. Oh wow...it won three elephants in a row...ugh...gives me pains just thinking about it.


Edited by iBond, 20 September 2013 - 12:42 AM.


#81 AMC Hornet

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Posted 20 September 2013 - 04:30 PM

Fake elephant?

They had better CGI in 1971 than I ever realized.



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Posted 23 September 2013 - 06:20 PM

Diamonds are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun are the only films in the series I actively dislike and don't look forward to watching when I'm doing the series. TMWTGG is the only film in the entire franchise that I would regard as a truly bad film. DAF comes damn close though. 



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Posted 23 September 2013 - 07:58 PM

Diamonds are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun are the only films in the series I actively dislike and don't look forward to watching when I'm doing the series. TMWTGG is the only film in the entire franchise that I would regard as a truly bad film. DAF comes damn close though. 

Add OHMSS and you have my favorite December triple-feature.



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Posted 24 September 2013 - 03:01 PM

Diamonds are Forever by a wide margin. Outside of the poor, crass quality of the film, probably the biggest thing that annoys me about it is that the mainstream populace seem to think that it's one of the good ones, by virtue of Connery just being in it (whereas quality entertainment like TSWLM gets dismissed by virtue of Roger Moore being in it).

 

NSNA was at least an interesting experiment. It almost feels like the film version of a Gardner novel.

 

I have to agree with you.

 

I think another reason is Shirley Bassey's fantastic title song. I think for a lot of people the films themselves blend into one for each of the actors, but the title songs are very memorable.

 

So by virtue of DAF having one of the better title songs people remember it as one of the better Bond films.



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Posted 25 September 2013 - 09:57 AM

At least Diamonds Are Forever had a few fun elements to it. Granted, it's not a strong Bond film, and for me it does belong pretty far down the list. Nothing can beat how BORING You Only Live Twice is though. Diamonds kickstarted the era of self aware Bond slapstick, You Only Live Twice got too ahead of itself, kept the same winning formula but ended up being 'the same thing as before' and just didn't live up to the hype. Personally, and the same goes for the last three Brosnan Bonds, I find it soulless. It's alright for half an hour but after that it just descends into the same old thing and gets very boring very quickly. The same goes for Tomorrow, World and Die. 



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Posted 26 September 2013 - 03:03 PM

All of his Bond films!!! Except From Russia With Love.

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Posted 30 September 2013 - 03:50 PM

Diamonds are Forever for me i don't get why people say Connery looks fresher in this one than in YOLT he is phoning in his performance in DAF



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Posted 03 October 2013 - 07:42 PM

Sean Connery looks too old in Diamonds are Forever..



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Posted 05 October 2013 - 10:44 PM

In my opinion Thunderball probably. I've always found that movie to be really rather boring. Most of the Connery ones really hold my attention but for some reason this one does absolutely nothing for me. I actually prefer Never Say Never Again to Thunderball.

 

I'm not THAT keen on Diamonds Are Forever but it has one of my favorite Barry scores. Also, I really like the Willard Whyte character. There's some interesting stuff in it, but its far too glitzy and superficial. As camp as the sodom it's set in I'd say. 

 

Surprised at the hate for You Only Live Twice in here. To me that's always been one of the good ones! 



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Posted 06 October 2013 - 03:36 AM

Although there is no such thing, in my mind as a bad Bond film, YOLT is my least favorite.

 

A shame too, because I really enjoyed the way the book picked up after OHMSS and would have liked to see the movie do the same. But then again, I would have liked to have seen Connery do OHMSS, YOLT, and TMWTGG in sequence and with the same flavor as each of the books.

 

Or Dalton.

 

Yeah, Dalton would have done a fabuous job with the trilogy.

 

Not meant to be, but fun to think about.