Best Bond film?

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Yellow Fang

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I think I like On Her Majesty's Secret Service the best. It has the best music. I watched it all the way through and didn't realise it wasn't Sean Connery in it, although I was a kid at the time.
 

Noodley

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I don't think I have watched an entire Bond film since I never seem to get the chance to sit down in peace and do it. I am not even sure which Bond film is which, and would probably get mixed up with who did what in what film and who played Bond. They are mostly movies with little plot and similar themes across the movies...Bond, girl, fighting, chase, girl, fighting, chase, a few cheesy lines, girl.
 

buggi

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so far, Casino Royale. just for the fact that the film is the most believable of all them. The Pierce Brosnan ones were starting to get a bit too fictional... i mean.. invisible cars.... come on!
 

Mr Phoebus

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Dr Yes Please.

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marinyork

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Logopolis
My favourite Bond film is The Spy Who Loved Me. I think it has a great opening sequence, one of the better theme songs, a good aquatic story, a good baddie, jaws makes his debut, the beach scene. I think most of the Bond films are good. Connery had several very good ones but my favourite of his are probably Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever. I liked all the Roger Moore ones but thought A View to A Kill and Live and Let Die were slightly below the standards of the others. Contrary to popular opinion I liked OHMSS (and it has Diana Rigg). Dalton was good in Living Daylights. It is difficult to like some bond films more than others as they tend to lurch from one style to another between Bond films and Bond actors.

The only ones I think are below standard are Licence to Kill, Goldeneye and the absolutely dreadful Die Another Day. I wasn't especially fond of the Thunderball remake Never Say Never Again but that's not usually officially counted.
 

Flying_Monkey

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From Russia With Love - by far the best
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale

The films got more and more silly during the Roger Moore era - he was never remotely credible in the role and neither, I think, was Pierce Brosnan. Timothy Dalton, the best actor ever to have had the role, should have had more of a chance, the producers just made a mistake with his second outing and his tenure coincided with Bond being unfashionable. I actually like Never Say Never Again - it has a certain roughness about it.
 

Cathryn

Legendary Member
Torn between The Living Daylights which was the first Bond I saw at the cinema and had the amazing sledging-on-a-cello-case scene...and Casino Royale which just blew me away!!
 
Golden Eye. By a mile.

I hated Casino Royale with a passion.
Daniel Craig is just a teaspoon of DNA removed from a shaved gorilla but seeing as the books are pretty damn nasty anyway and a Bond that is true to them is just a thug in a tuxedo he at least fits the bill. The Craig films have no sense of humour. Absolutely none. And without at least a hint of tongue in cheek, a Bond film is just unpleasant.

Oh, and most stupid Bond gadget ever? The defibrillator in Casino Royale. Makes the invisible Aston look like a Blackberry. :biggrin:
 

mondobongo

Über Member
The Man with Golden Gun. Christopher Lee is class and the golden gun itself is well smart.

Casino Royale was a turgid affair and I also am not a fan of Daniel Craig, saw him tonight in Archangel he was basically playing the same role suffered an hour before hitting the button.
 
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