Dr. No 11 From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22+ Thunderball 9 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 16 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 9 Tomorrow Never Dies 6 Casino Royale (2006) 15 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Dr. No 11 From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 9 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 17 + The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 9 Tomorrow Never Dies 6 Casino Royale (2006) 13 - Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Dr. No 11 From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 9 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 17 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 8 - Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 9 Tomorrow Never Dies 6 Casino Royale (2006) 14 + Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Dr. No 11 From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 7 - You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 17 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 9+ Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 9 Tomorrow Never Dies 6 Casino Royale (2006) 14 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
It's interesting to watch the change over the years: the more Bond films that are made (or, perhaps, the more time passes) the more OHMSS seems to be appreciated.
Dr. No 11 From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 7 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 17 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 9 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 10 + Tomorrow Never Dies 4 - Casino Royale (2006) 14 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 7 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 15 - The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 + Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 10 Tomorrow Never Dies 4 Casino Royale (2006) 14 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
I'll admit that OHMSS is my favorite of the Bond films. I think that if Connery would have remained for it it would have been pretty much everyone's favorite.
Lazenby is a terrible Bond, for one. For two the depiction of Blofeld is terrible. And for three, the ending reaches so far toward sentimentality, and falls so very short with the lack of emotional resonance preceding it.
To paraphrase the ever-paraphrasable Winston Churchill...it is the worst depiction of Blofeld, except for all those other depictions of Blofeld that have been tried. From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 22 Thunderball 7 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 16 + The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 8 - Tomorrow Never Dies 4 Casino Royale (2006) 14 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Nah. He was best in From Russia with Love and Thunderball. And at least entertaining in You Only Live Twice. Also, I'm frankly amazed that more people don't hate Octopussy as much as I do. They direct all their Moore hate toward A View to a Kill, which while hardly the best Bond movie ever, still has a coherent plot and an entertaining villain. Octopussy lacks either. Plus: Roger Moore as a circus clown!
^Well, if they'd gone with the obscured Blofeld from his first two appearances, we'd have discovered that Blofeld looked an awful lot like Professor Dent from Dr. No! I think they cast Christopher Lee as the wrong Bond villain...he would have been an inspired Blofeld. And Jimmy Dean should have been Leiter in DAF. You've got a tall, lanky, straw-haired Texan standing next to Leiter, who's being played by a short, pudgy, balding New Yorker. WTF?
From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 20 - Thunderball 8 + You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 16 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 8 Tomorrow Never Dies 4 Casino Royale (2006) 14 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Perhaps. But I liked him better obscured. Better to never show him, IMO. And having him as the primary, getting-his-hands dirty villain like in YOLT and OHMSS is out of the question. Don't get me started about his participation in ski chases. I think one of the things I'm most excited about in Craig's Bond tenure is the consistency of Felix Leiter. LONG overdue.
^ How about you guys move this discussion somewhere else (i.e. PM). From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 20 Thunderball 8 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 16 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 7 GoldenEye 8 Tomorrow Never Dies 2 - Casino Royale (2006) 15 + Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Nothing wrong with discussing the James Bond movies in a thread about the James Bond movies. Since we can only hurt/heal once a day, it keeps the thread from getting stale, and also makes it less spammy. From Russia With Love 17 Goldfinger 20 Thunderball 8 You Only Live Twice 10 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 16 The Spy Who Loved Me 11 The Living Daylights 10 Licence to Kill 5 - GoldenEye 8 Tomorrow Never Dies 3 + Casino Royale (2006) 15 Eliminated: 13th: For Your Eyes Only 14th: Live and Let Die 15th: The Man With the Golden Gun 16th: The World is Not Enough 17th: Octopussy 18th: Die Another Day 19th: Diamonds Are Forever 20th: A View to a Kill 21st: Moonraker
Not to mention the fact that I started the thread....I officially declare brief side-discussion of various aspects of the Bond films to be on topic. If we can't get the character that Fleming described, I'll take consistent. The Leiter thing irks me the most in DAF, because that had to be the most awful casting of Leiter, yet there was the perfect Leiter standing right next to him!