Favourite Bond Film

[marinyork]

Was just interested. Been done before of course. I've decided to allow multiple votes so it doesn't get too boring.

So I'll trust people to vote for their favourite 3. There wasn't enough space for the more than 20 so the spoof Casino Royale, Never Say Never Again and Quantum of Solace were omitted.And already made a mistake in there .

 

[amnesia]

Quantum of Solace and the recent Casino Royale for me... I think the new dark side of Bond is what we've been waiting for for 30 years.

Daniel Craig seems the perfect man for the job IMHO.

 

[ianrauk]

From Russia With Love
Diamonds Are Forever
Goldeneye

are my 3 faves.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I've gone for the Dalton's + 'Live and Let Die' as it was my first cinema Bond and the great theme.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Voted for From Russia with Love, Gold Finger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The old ones are the best.

 

[brokenbetty]

On her majesty's secret service. Not the best Bond but the archetypal Bond plot, the best Bond girl, and an ending that makes me cry every time

"It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."

 

[brokenbetty]

Oh, and I really think the franchise missed a trick on the Bond identity. When they first changed actors they should have made the James Bond persona/ 007 a constructed identity with a prebuilt back story that any agent could assume. If you were assigned the 007 id, you were also inhabited the character. That would have given the franchise unlimited longevity, and the freedom to refer both to the history of the Bond persona and the various agents who inhabited it would have really enriched the stories.

 

[DavieB]

Oh, and I really think the franchise missed a trick on the Bond identity. When they first changed actors they should have made the James Bond persona/ 007 a constructed identity with a prebuilt back story that any agent could assume. If you were assigned the 007 id, you were also inhabited the character. That would have given the franchise unlimited longevity, and the freedom to refer both to the history of the Bond persona and the various agents who inhabited it would have really enriched the stories.

Like Dr Who?

Im quite happy with it the way it is. Not sure Im keen on your idea.

 

[brokenbetty]

Like Dr Who?

Im quite happy with it the way it is. Not sure Im keen on your idea.

Not like Dr Who - that's the same guy in different bodies. I mean different people with the same cover story.

But Bond as a guy who has been about 36 since 1962? That's just silly.

 

[montage]

Daniel Craig isn't james bond - he is a wannabe jason bourne.

I like the bond where lines such as below frequent:

*Roger Moore remove fake third nippled and says "well now I feel a bit of a tit"*

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I am curious who voted for Moonraker (currently leading with 4), which is surely one of the most outstandingly dire of what amounts to a long list of bad films involving Roger Moore.

So far Daniel Craig has followed exactly the same pattern as Timothy Dalton - a back-to basics Bond with a good first film, an off-the-rails second in which Bond goes rogue, followed by external problems which threaten the future of the series and see him never make another.

BTW, why no Never Say Never Again? I actually quite like it and the ageing Sean Connery is far more convincing than the Roger Moore in a corset of A View to a Kill.

I chose You Only Live Twice (best music and Japan), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Lazenby is actually far better as Bond in retrospect than was thought at the time - okay, so he was an peanut, but that is surely perfect for the role...) and From Russia with Love. Looking back on it, Bond was a thoroughly sixties film series that should have been killed off then.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I don't like any of them. They are mysoginistic, and treat women like dirt.


My girlfriend told me to write this.

 

[marinyork]

BTW, why no Never Say Never Again? I actually quite like it and the ageing Sean Connery is far more convincing than the Roger Moore in a corset of A View to a Kill.

It was in when I typed it originally and then realised the list did actually have only 20 options and so took that and the 1967 spoof version of Casino Royale out. Unlike many other people I do regard Never Say Never Again as a proper Bond film, it just got left out for space reasons. I quite like it in its ways.

 

[Keith Oates]

I just looked at Quantum of Solas two nights ago, not impressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Brandane]

Dr No (original and best), Goldfinger, and Live and Let Die (purely sentimental reasons, saw part of the filming on location when I was a boy living in Jamaica).