I saw Skyfall on PPV last night. I’d heard so much about it being the “greatest of all the James Bond movies” that I was stoked for an unforgettable experience. Well, it was good…but it wasn’t that good. Maybe it ranks in the top five.
My favorites:
[b]For Your Eyes Only[/b]
To me this was the best Roger Moore Bond film because it was the closest to just straight-ahead adventure, as opposed to the ones with steel-toothed villains or comic-book villains. Maybe…maybe…I could put Man with the Golden Gun in this category, but Scaramonga was still a comic-book villain.
[b]Goldfinger[/b]
Connery as Bond. A nasty villain. An admittedly comic book sidekick villain in Oddjob–but who could forget the hat that decapitates? The Astin Martin with machine guns and an ejection seat. A Bond girl killed by covering her with gold paint. What more could you want? All this and Pussy Galore.
These are my picks for the greatest James Bond movie of all time.
I’m too young to have seen the old ones lol. I have seen a few random prices if them in TV but I want to start at the beginning and watch the old ones so that keeps me in track of what’s going in with them. I enjoyed skyfall.
I have a soft spot for You Only Live Twice as it introduced a lot of martial arts to the US for the first time. Also Dr. No for Ursula Andress and The Spy Who Loved Me for the brief appearance of Caroline Munro.
Live and Let Die competes with Goldfinger for best theme song and Jane Seymour was pretty hot too.
But all things considered I think Goldfinger will be the greatest of them all.
I always enjoyed Thunderball more than Goldfinger. But hell I’m the only guy who likes On Her Majesty’s Secret Service too.
Sir Roger Moore stated that he thinks Skyfall is the best Bond film to date. I really like Craig’s Bond, second only to Connery’s. Connery made a non-Eon Productions 007 movie in '83, Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball. No one mentions this but it is a great Bond movie. It was Connery’s seventh outing as Bond, tying him with Moore for a total of seven Bond films each. The title was a jab at Connery due to him telling the media in 1971 that he would “never play Bond again”. It actually sold more at the box office than Octopussy did, they were out at the same time.
As I’ve grown up and watched them again and again, Goldfinger is the best Bond movie overall for me. Moonraker is my favorite Moore Bond movie, probably due to my age when it came out. (Saw it the weekend it was released, in Denver. I was 12-13.) I liked the ‘comic book-style’ villains. So much of the movie premises were really out there, so it always added to the fun for me.
Connery’s Bond in Dr. No had an almost cruel feel underneath, which I liked. I think Daniel Craig kind of picks up on that in how he portrays 007, which made me like his version, even though the newer movies aren’t as ‘fun’ as I would like them to be.
The Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me is my favorite Bond car. Not for any other reason than I just loved the look of the Esprit when I was a kid…
I liked Skyfall but felt it got too personal into Bond’s past. He is a man of mystery. Keep it that way. I also felt the villain got a little too personal with Bond and skipped the usual ‘take over the world scheme’ which I always liked in the older films.
Goldfinger is fantastic and I always loved Goldeneye. Bronson was a great Bond but the films (minus Goldeneye) just got silly.
The original Q always added to the movies in a great way and I must admit the Q in Skyfall was a great addition.
Saw it in the theater as a ten-year-old. Alone. Bus ride to downtown. Lunch. Movie. Bus ride back home. All with money I saved from mowing. Some of the best money I ever spent.
WHAT?
I am one of the “youngins” here, and I have seen them- made sure to watch the Bond marathon last year on a movie channel the TV service sampled for the month.
Agreed.
I think anyone with a pulse would have loved to spend some quality time under a mango tree with Andress. :happy:
And Live/Let Die is the only theme song I can actually remember any of.
My other favorite would be Goldeney SIMPLY because watching him drive that tank through the middle of the city was worth every second of the rest of the movie- which wasn’t bad, I just don’t like Brosnan.
Honestly, aside from Moore and Connery I haven’t liked any of the other Bond actors.
Granted, Craig is good- I like the way he does the part BUT I hate to say it, the new Bond movies just aren’t as good as the old ones, and Craig’s Bond is missing something- I think he’s to badass. The old bonds could go from shooting dudes in the face to seducing a woman in like, 0.0025 seconds. The new Bond is more “all business, no pleasure”. :laugh:
And I really don’t get what everyone’s raging over with the new movie (skyfall)- I saw it and I was like, Ooookayyyyyy…
No you’re not the only one. OHMSS is underrated and forgotten by most. George Lazenby was actually not a bad Bond. I reckon he rates up with Connery and Craig. I never liked the Pierce Brosnan or Timothy Dalton Bond - and am iffy about most of the Roger Moore Bonds. Some of the Roger Moore movies were cartoonish or just poorly written and ill conceived. “A View To a Kill”? - garbage that should be forgotten.
^ Tina Turner friggin nailed that vocal. The song was written by U2 though. I think the Brosnan films had some of the best theme music out of them all (besides that Madonna one, that was an epic mistake)
FYI, Reelz Channel is playing every Bond film this month, several films a day for the entire month of February. Even Never Say Never Again which is rare as it is not an Eon Production (aka “official Bond film”).
Timothy Dalton is the absolute worst Bond ever! His films The Living Day Lights and License To Kill are garbage. While Roger Moore was a great actor his films were just a little too hokey for my liking.
I was very disappointed with Skyfall. OK, for the start it pretended to be Bond movie, but towards end? Excuse me! A-Team revisited? :stop:
Even massive apperance of HK416 did not made it up for me.
My favourite is Goldeneye because of Polish actress Isabella Scorupco (real name Iza Skorupko), but it was nice one anyway. I liked also Wolrd is Not Enought with Sophie Marceau, she lived in my neighbourhood for several years. Very nice lady :dirol:
But anyway, best Bond ever was Sean Connery.
BTW Daniel Craig is openly anti gun and anti gun ownership. He expressed it in interviews before getting to play Bond. Also there is a story (I do not know truth to urban myth ratio in this one), that during Casino Royale shoot he refused to undertake firearm training, because he did not want to handle firearms more than necessary. Then he got minor face injury when cycling slide hit him.
The one they will make when Benedict Cumberbatch gets cast as Bond, and when they eliminate political correctness, and can all his chick bosses at MI-5. Mark Gatiss as “M” would be a fine start.
I had always thought Brosnan “could have been” the greatest Bond ever. He certainly looked the part. IIRC they offered it to him while he was making Remington Steele and he couldn’t get out of that gig. By the time he became Bond, he was a little too old and had past his best opportunity IMHO.
I recall reading an interview with Brosnan around the time Tomorrow Never Dies came out, in which he stated that he felt he was too young the role at the time.
And I don’t know that I would say he was too old when he started… It’s just that it tales soo much longer to make a Bond film these days than when Connery or Moore were Bond. Hell, they already had titles for the next Bond films before they even finished post-production!
Live and Let Die is probably my all time favorite Bond movie. For me, the apex of the series. One I think people don’t appreciate was View To a Kill. Christopher Walken was great and I loved sexy Tanya Roberts at that time.
