Favourite Bond films

[Captaindemotion]

I've long thought that if they hadn't followed TSWLM up with Moonraker, just to cash in on Star Wars and had instead made FYEO (as was the original plan), that would've been the ideal time for Roger to quit. He'd have made 4 Bond films, 3 of them really good, TMWTGG being his sole dud (and it's not awful by any means). He'd also have quit before he got ludicrously old for the role.

 

[Starkers]

But then we wouldn't have got Moonraker...


I'm not even joking a world without Roger Moore in space hardly bears thinking about

Have people read the supposed story idea behind Dalton's proposed 3rd? Two was never, ever enough I wish he'd done at least four.

 

[eyeresist]

Years since I've seen Moonraker, but I recall it actually being pretty good until they got into space. Comments?

The pimpmobile still raises a smile, and the theme tune really grew on me.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Moonraker is what happens when you take a diamond and smoosh it into a pile of dog shit.

 

[Captaindemotion]

It has a great opening sequence and the cable-car scene is pretty good. That's about it, IMHO.

 

[Starkers]

Oh I think there's more to it than that, John Barry's score for one is beautiful, as are a lot of the space effects. On a rational level I know its terrible, and if they wanted to send Daniel Craig into space in the next one I'd be horrified, but Moonraker exists and personally I find it a whole lot of fun.

Plus it proves Roger Moore is a better Bond than Connery because he actually got into space, Connery didn't even get as far as getting into the rocket

On a side note, I'm not exactly sure what Bond's plan was in YOLT? Short of suicide by causing the mission to fail.

 

[Orac Zen]

Forgot this yesterday:

I wonder if a Canadian would be more acceptable? William Shatner as James Bond!!!

*** permabans Starkers ***

And that's without the remarks about the utter abomination that is Moonraker.

 

[Starkers]

Forgot this yesterday:

I wonder if a Canadian would be more acceptable? William Shatner as James Bond!!!

*** permabans Starkers ***

And that's without the remarks about the utter abomination that is Moonraker.

Cackles like a Bond villain!

 

[Captaindemotion]

I remember someone on a documentary programme describing Shatner as Kirk as 'a bit like James Bond would be if he let himself go.'

 

[cardinal biggles]

And that's without the remarks about the utter abomination that is Moonraker.

Moonraker is just silly, and a bit over-the-top. And it's certainly easier to sit through than the awful Man with the Golden Gun, or watching geriatric Roger smirk his way through Octopussy and View to a Kill.

And for anyone wanting to name Denise Richards as the worst Bond Girl ever, I offer Britt Ekland as Exhibit A, and Tanya Roberts as Exhibit B.

 

[velour]

I'd have liked to have Dalton do FYEO too. Overlooked and in many ways the best of Moores films.

I like Roger, I really do, but he was a mistake as Bond.

Dalton was a welcome change from Moore. Moore was looking old in his last two Bond films.

Besides, Dalton was more robust. He was more like a blue collar James Bond as opposed to the very white collar Moore. It was almost like night and day. I preferred the more robust style of Dalton. I enjoyed both of the movies that he starred in.

FYEO, imo, was the best Bond song.

Years since I've seen Moonraker, but I recall it actually being pretty good until they got into space. Comments?

The pimpmobile still raises a smile, and the theme tune really grew on me.

The Jaws character was a good addition to the long line of Bond villains.

 

[eyeresist]

^ Agreed.

 

[od0_ital]

From best to worst, here ya go...

Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Live and Let Die
The Spy Who Loved Me
For Your Eyes Only
Skyfall
Casino Royale
Tomorrow Never Dies
Licence to Kill
A View to a Kill
Dr. No
GoldenEye
Spectre
Diamonds are Forever
Die Another Day
Moonraker
The Man with the Golden Gun
From Russia with Love
Thunderball
Quantum of Solace
The World is Not Enough
The Living Daylights
Octopussy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 

[cardinal biggles]

OHMSS the worst Bond movie? And From Russia on the bottom half of the list? Only in a world where crack grows on trees.

 

[Karzak]

OHMSS the worst Bond movie? And From Russia on the bottom half of the list? Only in a world where crack grows on trees.

Agreed. There's clearly no accounting for taste with some of the opinions in this thread,

 

[Orac Zen]

Moonraker is just silly, and a bit over-the-top. And it's certainly easier to sit through than the awful Man with the Golden Gun, or watching geriatric Roger smirk his way through Octopussy and View to a Kill.

Eh, to each their own. Moonraker is stupid beyond any and all belief, IMO (albeit with one of the best two or three theme songs), but then again ranking Moore movies according to their degree of repulsiveness is something I don't bother with.

OHMSS the worst Bond movie? And From Russia on the bottom half of the list? Only in a world where crack grows on trees.

Completely agree with this. It beggars belief that anyone can consider OHMSS to be the worst movie in this series. To each their own, I suppose.

 

[eyeresist]

How can a movie with a crappy Bond be the best Bond movie?

 

[Starkers]

Great story, great Bond girl (the best Bond girl IMO) good villain, wonderful locations and direction, good supporting cast, fantastic score by John Barry at his best, that ending and, well in the end the fact that Lazenby isn't that crappy really, he certainly doesn't inhabit the character's skin as confidently as Connery, and if he'd made another, more run of the mill Bond film his deficiencies might have shown up even more, but for this film his vulnerabilities are perfect because this is the film where 007 has to be at his most vulnerable.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Starkers hits the nail on the head. And I shudder to think how the film would have turned out if Connery had stayed in the role; he was publicly bored with Bond by the time they were shooting You Only Live Twice and only did Diamonds for the money (literally — at the time, his payday of £1.25 million, plus United Artists promising to back any two films he wanted to make, was a Hollywood record). I can't see him performing the final scene of OHMSS well, or at all.

 

[suarezguy]

Rewatched GoldenEye, still the best but not quite as good as I remembered, only a few hairs above Goldfinger. I think, half-jokingly, it's the best video game movie ever made (yes, the video game actually came later but it feels like it was inspired by other games and/or designed to be adapted to one).

Though I like Moore and Brosnan I think Moonraker, A View to a Kill (despite Walken) and Tomorrow Never Dies are along with Licence to Kill the worst films.