Favorite Bond movie

[jaycanuck]

So I have the 30th anniversary Bond soundtrack (great tracks) and it got me thinking about my long time favorite Bond film "From Russia With Love". I'm beginning to think Casino Royale has eeked it out. It's close.

What's your favorite?

[saifan]

From Russia with Love really set the template IMO. Still my favorite. If Connery had stayed for On Her Majesty's Secret Service it would be the best Bond movie hands down.

[Legend]

Goldeneye

[jaycanuck]

From Russia with Love really set the template IMO. Still my favorite. If Connery had stayed for On Her Majesty's Secret Service it would be the best Bond movie hands down.

That would've been cool. Still..Lazenby did an ok job. Great theme song for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OCxwZI7YA

[Dirky]

Goldfinger followed by Diamonds Are Forever.

[indeed]

I'll go RWL also

Majesty is the most underated as was he as bond. he (forgetting name) was exactly like craig.

Casino is right there as well. craig is tied for me with Sean

[flabbybody]

the scene in Dr No where that horrible spider is going up 007's chest still keeps me up at night. I guess that's my number 1. I was hooked on Bond 4ever

[jaycanuck]

Robert Shaw as Red Grant in FRWL was just an awesome villain. The whole cold war agent thing going on. The train fight scene kicks ass to this day.

[flabbybody]

Ian Fleming looks like one of the bad guys in a Bond movie

[Quiet Reflections]

Goldfinger

[BiancaLover]

Definitely Goldfinger

[Quiet Reflections]

So I have the 30th anniversary Bond soundtrack (great tracks) and it got me thinking about my long time favorite Bond film "From Russia With Love". I'm beginning to think Casino Royale has eeked it out. It's close.

What's your favorite?Which Casino Royale 67 or 06

[tranetime]

Like the earlier poster, I like From Russia with Love, with Robert Shaw as the best villain. Dr. No is another favorite. Still like the scene of Ursula Andress coming out of the ocean in a bikini. One of the hot women of her day.

[LuciaMiel]

I heard on of the bond girls was a post-op transgirl.. anyone else heard this? I thought it was in goldfinger but I may be mistaken..

[Willie Escalade]

Diamonds Are Forever, followed by Goldfinger.

And the post-op Bond girl is Tula.

[Tara Emory]

Diamonds Are Forever, followed by Goldfinger.

And the post-op Bond girl is Tula.

What? IMO DaF might be one of the worst ones. I've never seen a movie with more continuity errors and and a more annoying Bond girl (she starts out okay, but then becomes really dumb, really fast.). I could show you a couple of places in that movie where Connery is slow.. really slow.. There's a bit where a guy is getting ready to escape on a 3-wheeler, and he sits there an inexplicable extra 10 seconds just so that Sean can tackle him.. It's quite sad (but fun to watch, if you're pointing out the embarassing stuff).

Okay- I'd actually say Diamonds are Forvever is "so bad it's good". Some of the other ones were just plain boring ("Man with the golden Gun", etc..)

I can't argue with Goldfinger though.. It's pretty much the gold standard for Bond movies. I've always had a soft spot for Moore two best movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (very 70's) and For Your Eyes Only (the one with Tula).

"Licence to Kill" was the only movie I've ever seen in the theatre that I fell asleep watching though.

-Tara

[Suckalot1]

Octopussy...na prob Goldfinger.

[rockabilly]

From Russia w/ Love was the first Bond film i saw as a kid
Goldeneye was my first theater Bond
Bigger question Who's your fave Bond? For me it's Sean Connery.

[jaycanuck]

What's your favorite?Which Casino Royale 67 or 06[/quote]
haha. 06. I started watching 67. Could not finish it. Yeeeeeesh.

Bigger question Who's your fave Bond?
Goes in this order..

Sean Connery
Daniel Craig
Roger Moore
George Lazenby
Pierce Brosnan
Timothy Dalton

It's close with Dalton and Brosnan. I think Dalton's last unfortunately because of the stories. I didn't like his two. Also an exception to this list is Goldeneye. Loved that one.

I heard on of the bond girls was a post-op transgirl.. anyone else heard this?
As mentioned, Tula or Caroline Cossey. My first tgirl. She was also in Playboy

[LibertyHarkness]

my fav bond fim was Thunderball then live and let die :)

my fav bond song. the spy who loved me by Carly Simon...

my fav bond - Pierce Brosnan

Worst Bond actor Timothy Dalton .....

Least liked Bond fim - living daylights..though the exploding milkbottles were amusing

[Coroner]

All Sean Connery Bond movies are my favs except Never Say Never Again. Sorry, but there´s only one James Bond and that´s Sean Connery.

[Norma]

-The World is Not Enough- Sophie Marceau, nuff said.

Brosnan, fave bond FTW!

[The Hierophant]

Ian Fleming looks like one of the bad guys in a Bond movie

How did you find the one photo of Ian Fleming where he isn't smoking? :smoking

Anyway, my votes: From Russia with Love & of course, Goldfinger.

I also enjoyed a few of the Roger Moore films.

[Jack59]

All the early Connery Bond's (DN, FRWL, GF) are great. They started to get silly in Thunderball. The Moore Bond's were mostly light-hearted adventures with a few exceptions - FYEO and LALD. Dalton tried to bring the movies back from the Moore silliness but I never really thought of him as Bond, although I enjoyed both of his movies. Brosnan brought the series back from extinction, if Goldeneye had flopped that would have been it, instead he hit one out of the park. A perfect combination of action, humor, sex, and thrilling sequences. Craig, or Crag as I usually call him, is an ugly, blond, runt with beady eyes, chipmunk ears and a bad haircut. His caricature of Bond is a dumb, brute animal; tough, but still a dumb, brute animal who seems to think with his dick or his fists. Although frankly that last part is the writers' fault.

Favorite Bond switches off between Connery and Brosnan, depending on what I've seen last. Favorite movie - Doctor No, with From Russia with Love and Goldeneye really close behind it.

Least favorite - Quantum of Solace. CR at least followed the general plot of the book, even if Purvis and Wade took huge liberties. But QoS was just a testosterone-loaded mess with no real plot. I would rather watch Moonraker a hundred times than see QoS again.

[jaycanuck]

I would rather watch Moonraker a hundred times than see QoS again.
But tell us how you really feel... lol

I agree..maybe not as much...QOS was a mess. It took a wrong turn from the very excellent Casino Royale.

I think Craig pulls off an early Sean Connery...which I like. Early Sean Connery was violent and agressive. He did have more intellect in the movie than Craig. I'm just happy that they don't focus on gadgetry in the news ones like they did in all the others. If they bring Q back I hope it's in a lesser role.

[rockabilly]

Bond shouldn't need to rely on gadgets. Seriously a high power laser gps celular taser wrist watch ? They might as well have given him a sonic screwdriver. Thats why i'm glad that it's back to brutal basics.

[Dinand]

Moonraker

[Tara Emory]

Moonraker

Yeah, Moonraker is a guilty pleasure that only seems to have gotten better with age. It's essentially the Spy Who Loved Me, in space.

Had Lazenby done more, I think On Her Majesty's Secret Service would be top of the list. - or if Connery had done that one. Still, can't get used to Kojak as Blofeld though!

-tara

[Willie Escalade]

What about On Her Majesty's Secret Service? I liked that one as well.

[Yoite]

You Only Live Twice

[BrassVillanueva]

Glad to see some love for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I was starting to think I was the only one who enjoyed it! I don't think Lazenby was up to par, but the rest of the cast and the plot MORE than makes up for it.

I'm an odd one in that I tend to like that film AND The Living Daylights. It was the last film to really capture the essence of what a Bond film was during the Cold War era. It was also John Barry's final Bond score, and while some may not like the addition of the drum machine throughout most of it, I found it perfect for the time it was set in. It also provided the perfect transition into David Arnold's work (minus that God-awful crapfest of a score that Eric Serra wrote for Goldeneye). Arnold's style was the direction Barry was starting to take with the late 80's Bond soundtracks, using the technology of the time, so it kinda irks me when people say Arnold has ruined Bondian music. He's done no such thing... he's just taken taken Barry's cue and used today's technology to make it work even better.

As for top Bonds, Brosnan is THE CONSUMATE Bond. Pardon me for the egotistical nature of the following comment, but there should be no debate about that. He took the ass-kicking physicality of Connery (the vodka), mixed it with a healthy portion of Moore's flair and wit (the vermouth), tossed in a bit of Dalton's serious side (lemon peel isn't really serious per se, but we'll go with it), then shook it all up and served it in a great performance (the cocktail glass). Plus, he had the perfect look. The man was BORN to play James Bond.

Connery would be my second favorite, Dalton third, Craig after him, followed by Moore and Lazenby.

I'll just say this for Roger Moore: the only films in which his performances were not ENTIRELY parodies of the James Bond character are Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. Moonraker and Octopussy just didn't do it for me, and the only saving grace in A View To A Kill (no, bodybuilder-lovers, I'm not going where you think I am with this) was Christopher Walken as the villain, Max Zorin. Great performance from him. The rest of it... no. Just no. I shake my head whenever the thought of Tanya Roberts as a Bond girl crosses my mind. Ugh.

I do agree with Tara, though, that Lazenby would have matured into the role. He was too stiff in OHMSS, but given time, I'd like to think he would have been right up there in my top three, probably replacing Dalton.

[baileyandkc]

Connery the best...

Diamonds best movie...

Lois Chiles hottest Bond girl!

[glenntinnyc]

goldfinger. Connery is of course the best, casino royal 06 is ruined by the most ridiculous poker scene ever. 4 people on a table and the hands are

str8
2 full houses and a st8 flush cmon with that. I can tolerate the gadgets and comical villains but i can't tolerate ridiculous poker scenes

[Bob's Tgirls]

So I have the 30th anniversary Bond soundtrack (great tracks) and it got me thinking about my long time favorite Bond film "From Russia With Love". I'm beginning to think Casino Royale has eeked it out. It's close.

What's your favorite?

I think my favorite is still Dr. No. It happened to come out the year I was born.

[tsslutboy]

Goldfinger best bond movies
best bond was Connery

[pantybulge69]

1. Dr. No (connery)
2. Diamonds are Forever (connery)
3. Goldfinger (connery)
4. Thunderball ( connery)
5. Man with the Golden Gun ( Moore)
6. Live and Let Die ( Moore)
7. Octopussy ( Moore)
8. You only Live Twice ( connery)
9. The Spy who loved me ( Moore)
10. Moonraker ( Moore)

i couldn't get an interest in Bond movies after Sean Connery and Roger Moore left. Connery kicked ass !! :twisted: