Favourite Bond films....

[Nerys Myk]

From Russia With Love
Casino Royal
On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

[Starkers]

Captaindemotion wrote:

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Hmmmm. Live and Let Die cashed in on blaxploitation movies. TMWTGG cashed in on the popularity of Bruce Lee and kung fu. TSWLM came after Jaws and featured a shark and a villain named, er, Jaws. And Moonraker was rushed into production to cash in on Star Wars (IIRC, the end of TSWLM says that Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only).

Hardly fair to blame LTK for following trends!

Not to mention the fact that at the end of TMWTGG Bond suddenly swaps his PPK for a fuck off .44 magnum revolver ala Dirty Harry!

Bond basically only set the trend in the 60s, from then on it's always adapated itself to the times.

Anyway, tricky to pick three but...

OHMSS
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye

It would be easier to pick my three worst to be honest! (Thunderball, FYEO and TWINE)

[Evil Twin]

Starkers wrote:

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Not to mention the fact that at the end of TMWTGG Bond suddenly swaps his PPK for a fuck off .44 magnum revolver ala Dirty Harry!

That was Live and Let Die. He most definitely had his PPK for his duel with Scaramanga at the end of TMWTGG.

[JacksonArcher]

Casino Royale, GoldenEye, Goldfinger.

[Admiral Shran]

Why no love for Octopussy?

Ok, Moore was starting to show his age and it can be bit silly at times, but I thought it was an excellent movie.

It's certainly nowhere near as bad as A View to a Kill, The World is Not Enough, or (the offensively bad) Die Another Day.

[Kirkman1987]

Admiral Shran wrote:

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Why no love for Octopussy?

Ok, Moore was starting to show his age and it can be bit silly at times, but I thought it was an excellent movie.

It's certainly nowhere near as bad as A View to a Kill, The World is Not Enough, or (the offensively bad) Die Another Day.

I like Octopussy alright, but It just doesn't reach top 3 potential for most folks.

I agree it's better than those.

ugh, A View to a Kill IS the worst Bond movie IMO.

[Greg Cox]

I suspect that nostalgia sometimes colors these choices. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER was possibly the first Bond movie I ever saw, so I remember it fondly--even though I know, intellectually, that it's far from the best.

[Admiral Shran]

Kirkman1987 wrote:

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I like Octopussy alright, but It just doesn't reach top 3 potential for most folks.

I agree it's better than those.

ugh, A View to a Kill IS the worst Bond movie IMO.

It's not in my top three either, it would probably be my number six or seven pick.

But a lot of people are saying how Moore should have stopped after For Your Eyes Only. I just don't see why.

[Kirkman1987]

Admiral Shran wrote:

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It's not in my top three either, it would probably be my number six or seven pick.

But a lot of people are saying how Moore should have stopped after For Your Eyes Only. I just don't see why.

I'll agree, because even when the movies were bad, Moore was a good Bond. It's not his fault View to a Kill sucks.

My own prejudice towards the series is that I adore the Sean Connery entries way above the rest. I'll take a bad Connery entry over any of the others.

[Captaindemotion]

Greg Cox wrote:

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I suspect that nostalgia sometimes colors these choices. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER was possibly the first Bond movie I ever saw, so I remember it fondly--even though I know, intellectually, that it's far from the best.

Me too. I have a soft spot for it, Connery's paunch and obvious toupee bedamned.

Admiral Shran wrote:

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It's not in my top three either, it would probably be my number six or seven pick.

But a lot of people are saying how Moore should have stopped after For Your Eyes Only. I just don't see why.

Because he was far too old. He was older than Connery, who had quit because he was too old, then joked about 'making way for an older man.' Moore was born in 1927 and was thus 54 when FYEO came out and 58 by the time of VTAK. Looking every inch of it too. He just looked too old to be credibly carrying out those stunts. Connery had first played the role aged 32 and Bond really should be played by someone reasonably vigorous and sprightly, if not youthful.

As has been said, Connery's Bond of Never Say Never Again (released at much the same time as Octopussy) was supposed to be an older spy brought out of retirement. But Moore just looked old and silly. No wonder they had to bring Patrick Macnee as his sidekick in VTAK - it was the only way to make Rog look relatively youthful by comparison.

[Captain Craig]

Tough, I have two favorite Connery's, same for Brosnan but I also like OHMSS.
If I only had 3 I'd go with

Goldfinger
The Spy Who Loved Me
Goldeneye

I omit the Daniel Craig movies cause those are good spy movies that riff on Bourne and not really cinematic Bond movies. Even when other Bond movies were adapting other cinema styles to the franchise as noted earlier the series still retained a strong sense of Bond style that the moviegoer had come to know. The Daniel Craig Bonds are a pale reflection of that which came before.

[Starkers]

Evil Twin wrote:

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That was Live and Let Die. He most definitely had his PPK for his duel with Scaramanga at the end of TMWTGG.

Oh God I can't believe I did that

VTAK might have worked if they hadn't surrounded Moore with lots of old people on his side, then faced him off against really young villains!

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Tie between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale.

Oh, that's only two... well, never mind.

[Pemmer Harge]

Goldfinger is the definitive Bond, but From Russia With Love is, for me, a better film. It's Bond, but not too over the top and it has a story I can watch over and over again. I'll pick The Spy Who Loved Me as my third choice, since it's my favourite of the Roger Moore films.

[cardinal biggles]

Lonemagpie wrote:

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service — 10/10 - believable, great fights, wonderful atmosphere, good cast... If Connery was in it would be the best ever.

I question that assessment; Connery was a little less than enthusiastic in YOLT, and was only there for the money for DAF, so I find it hard to believe that he would have turned it around for OHMSS. Just my 2¢ on the subject, anyway.

Starkers wrote:

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Oh God I can't believe I did that

Yeah, at least a .44 Magnum is badass. Way more badass than fighting a midget with a wooden chair.