Bond Films: What is your favorite. (1 Viewer)

[QSTA]

"For Your Eyes Only", just because I had the biggest crush on Carole Bouquet.

 

[dtc]

Live and Let Die.... Only because I saw parts of it made when I was a kid... A friend's father worked on the crew, and I got to see some of the boat stunts...

I didn't see any of the stunts, but the wedding scene and boat scenes are all around my grandmother's old place.

 

[Sun Wukong]

IM Connery is the best, and I actually like Peirce Brosnan next.

Goldfinger, Golden eye (really like this movie, but it catches a lot of heat), From Russia with love, Dr. No are my favorites.

Also love Moonraker with Moore.

I do not like Daniel Craigs bond because he is like a super hero in these new bonds. I just don't like them, they are decent movies, but I don't even associate them with past bond movies. I want Bond to be more of spy like and undercover. The new bonds are over the top superhero films. I like the subtle, clever bonds from the past better.

That's funny, I'd say Craig's Bond is considerably more human that the cartoon character portrayed by Moore or Brosnan.

 

[treeduck]

For me the Connery 60's ones and the 70's Moore ones rule, plus the Lazenby one. "For Your Eyes Only" isn't bad too but it all went wrong with "Octopussy" and it never really went right again. "Casino Royale" was kind of a return to form, but Daniel Craig is all wrong as Bond, he looks like a Russian bad guy henchman to me, the opposite of what he's supposed to be.

 

[FLIPPY]

I didn't see any of the stunts, but the wedding scene and boat scenes are all around my grandmother's old place.

That was on Bayou Liberty huh?

 

[RJ in Lafayette]

I didn't really think there was a very good Bond movie after OHMSS until Casino Royale. Daniel Craig changed the franchise, making Bond more the ex-SAS trained assassin than the agent created by Ian Fleming, who was very much a product of the British class society and for whom the exercise of the license to kill was a distasteful duty. Now, Bond is a British Jason Bourne with death counts exceeding those in the Die Hard movies.

I do think that Craig has given the series a jolt of energy. I liked Casino Royale very much. I liked Skyfall, though will not watch it again. Quantum of Solace was a mess.

 

[BIG E]

Gold finger I think was the best.
Although, probably not the best films, I still liked Live and Let Die and Diamonds are forever.

Sorry, I did not care for Casino Royale. I haven't got to see Skyfall yet.

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[Devildog]

:newjamesbondmad:

 

[tenordas]

Still haven't seen Skyfall yet (was kind of on the bubble about it after the fairly lousy Quantum of Solace), so for now:

1. Thunderball
2. Goldfinger
3. Casino Royale (the new one)
4. The Living Daylights
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service probably would be #1 if only Connery had been in it. Lazenby was not much of an actor, but that one had the best script of any to that point and Telly Salvalas was terrific as Blofeld. Diana Rigg, as always in anything she ever did, was fantastic.


The only Roger Moore Bond film I will watch is Live and Let Die. All the rest are terrible. He was an utter joke in the role. I also despised Pierce Brosnan's Bond. Every one of his films was like watching a parody. They have an ongoing struggle in my head between Moonraker and Die Another Day for worst Bond film ever made (original Casino Royale does not count since it was an intended parody in the first place).

I know I am in the minority, but I enjoyed Timothy Dalton's Bond very much. Like Daniel Craig, his character was much more like the Bond from Fleming's books. Unfortunately, he suffered a terrible script in the 2nd film and the fact that Broccolli had wanted Brosnan (heaven only knows why) in the first place. The Living Daylights remains one of my favorite Bond films. I like Craig's portrayal of the character (it's spot on IMHO), but I have to admit he looks nothing like James Bond to me (primadox still hasn't watched any of his films since she says he is completely unattractive and therefore totally unbelievable as Bond).

 

[SaintJ]

In Like Flint.

As far as actual Bond movies, I am a Connery guy, with Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice (which I saw at the Cinerama on Tulane Avenue in the year 116 B.C.) as my absolute favorites.

I am with RJ; there's nothing wrong with Craig, but the character has morphed into a Bourne-like assassin, as opposed to a charming, reluctant (albeit super-clever) agent.

 

[RJ in Lafayette]

Agree with tenordas. OHMSS would have been extraordinary with a young Sean Connery. Great action scenes with the ski chases, and Lazenby was physical enough to play Bond and looked the part. And one of the best John Barry scores with an instrumental.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I liked Live & Let Die and Diamonds are Forever.

And Jill St. John in a bikini...

 

[Krewe of Clyde's]

ThunderBall is still my favorite Bond movie. Probably always will be.

 

[SaintArchieManning]

I like the ones most people think are the cheesiest....

1) Live and Let Die
2) Moonraker
3) Octopussy

 

[RJ in Lafayette]

Thunderball was the first James Bond movie I saw. The last Friday before Christmas, 1965, Loew's Theater on Canal Street. Back then, the Bond movies played only at the Loew's and opened on the Friday before Christmas. And always a long line down Canal Street.