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Best Bond Fights

siskokid888

siskokid888

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I watched Quantum of Solace last night, and started thinking about the best fights in Bond films. Here are my top 5 -

5) Bond (Daniel Craig) and the 2 African assassins in "Casino Royale". Tough fight against 2 opponents.

4) My fourth favorite, strangely does not involve Bond. In "The Living Daylights", a British agent surprises the East German killer in the kitchen of the MI6 HQ. They have a short brutal fight using various kitchen implements.

3) Bond (Sean Connery) and the smuggler Peter Franks in "Diamonds are Forever".

2) 007 (Pierce Brosnan) and 006 (Sean Bean) at the end of "Goldeneye". The fight goes on forever, using various weapons and platforms.

My #1 is Bond (Sean Connery) and Red Grant (Robert Shaw) in the train compartment in "From Russia with Love". This is a brutal, violent nip and tuck battle that looks the most realistic of any fight I've seen in the Bond films.
 
I'm in total agreement with your number one pick. It's such a realistic brutal scene that it is often still edited for violent content when aired on TV - even after 40+ years.
 
The number one spot could not be anything else. The fight between Bond and Grant is the pinnacle of enclosed space fist fights not just in Bond movies, but in action movies, period.
 
From Russia with Love may be the best Bond movie period, and I agree on the fight.

I'll add the Bond/Oddjob fight. The vault was a awesome locale, and bond's solution in the battle was pretty clever.
 
1.) Goldeneye 006 Vs. 007
2.) Bond Vs. Red Grant
3.) Bond Vs. OddJob
4.) Bond pursues the African Terrorist
5.) Bond Vs. TeeHee
 
Bond (Roger Moore) vs. Zorin (Christopher Walken) on top of the Golden Gate bridge from A View To A Kill; most impressive when you consider they actually filmed a portion of it for real. I also love that Zorin laughs right before he falls. And John Barry's action music during this scene as well as during the rest of film (actually incorporating epic sounding electric guitars) is some of his absolute best work.
 
Bond vs. Necros in The Living Daylights (hanging on to the cargo net of the airplane)
 
Bond's fight with the guy in the bathroom at the beginning of Casino Royale was excellent. But I've got to go with the crowd and say that hands-down, the best ever Bond fight was Bond vs. Red Grant on the train.
 
siskokid888 said:
I watched Quantum of Solace last night, and started thinking about the best fights in Bond films. Here are my top 5 -

5) Bond (Daniel Craig) and the 2 African assassins in "Casino Royale". Tough fight against 2 opponents.

4) My fourth favorite, strangely does not involve Bond. In "The Living Daylights", a British agent surprises the East German killer in the kitchen of the MI6 HQ. They have a short brutal fight using various kitchen implements.

3) Bond (Sean Connery) and the smuggler Peter Franks in "Diamonds are Forever".

2) 007 (Pierce Brosnan) and 006 (Sean Bean) at the end of "Goldeneye". The fight goes on forever, using various weapons and platforms.

My #1 is Bond (Sean Connery) and Red Grant (Robert Shaw) in the train compartment in "From Russia with Love". This is a brutal, violent nip and tuck battle that looks the most realistic of any fight I've seen in the Bond films.
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The older Bond fights have faded from my memory; however, I'll have to see if I can find your #1 choice on youtube. The recent Bond's (Daniel Craig) fights all seem incredibly violent and brutal to me, but your list looks good just the same. :cool:
 
1. Bond V Grant in FRWL.
2. Bond V the guy in the hotel room in QoS.
3. Bond V Bathroom Guy in CR.

Those fights felt like they were lifted straight out of the Fleming books for their brutality.
 
1. Bond vs Red Grant, hands down.
2. Bond vs Gustav Graves (no not the finale of DAD, the superb sword fight, wonderfully choreographed and exceptionally brutal--just try to forget Madaonna's there!)
3. Necros vs MI6 agent in The Living Daylights.
4. Bond vs Necros in the Living Daylights, a fight taking place on a cargo net hanging out of the plane in flight, fantastic!
5. Bond vs two of Dracos men at the start of OHMSS ("This never happened to the other fellow")
 
I'll definately give another nomination to the Bond/Gustav Graves swordfight in Die Another Day. Up until this point, the movie was all kinds of awesomeness. (It starts falling apart shortly after this.)

Michelle Yeoh got some great fights in Tomorrow Never Dies.
 
I was just about to mention the sword fight too. They are really going hammer and tongs in that.

Most of Craig's fights have been good to watch, brutal ballet.
 
^True, but i was annoyed by the "jump cutting" during the fights during QoS. I guess its the new way of filming action, but I hate it (especially the way it was utilized in the new Batman movies. It ruined those movies for me). Compare the scenes to the straight out filming styles of the early Bonds, where you see the entire scene continuously, and to me there is no comparison.
 
5. The fight between Bond and the turncoat MI6 agent in QOS

4. Bond and the Africans in the casino in CR

3. Bond and Trevalyan in Goldeneye

2. Bond and the first guy he kills to get his 00 status in CR

1. Bond and Red Grant in FRWL.

One of the interesting things (IMHO) I heard about why the Connery fight scenes were so much better than the Moore ones was the difference in the actor's temperaments and outlooks. Moore was so terribly nice and afraid of hitting stuntmen that he always pulled his punches and they never looked realistic. Whereas the Great Scot's attitude was 'they're shtuntmen, thish ish what they're getting paid for' and just clobbered away merrily. Resulting in more visceral and brutal fight scenes!
 
Siskokid888, I totally agree with your number one pick. (As, apparently, so does just about everyone. :lol:)

siskokid888 said:
...i was annoyed by the "jump cutting" during the fights during QoS. I guess its the new way of filming action, but I hate it...
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I totally agree with this, too. :techman:
 
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