1. For Your Eyes Only
2. Licence to Kill
3. Goldeneye

The Living Daylights.

Far more realistic; Timothy Dalton brought that darker, grittier feel to Bond way before Daniel Craig. Less silly CGI shite, fewer wildly implausible bits, moved away from the “villain in stupid lair plotting world destruction” and of course Maryam d’Abo. Just what the series needed after the later Roger Moore films.

The Pierce Brosnan years were characterised by ever more stupid action spectaculars – let’s waste the entire budget on one big car chase across some ice and then do the rest of the film using woeful CGI – and daft story lines which is a shame cos he could have been very good.

Danuiel Craig is excellent but again some of the storylines are really crap – what on earth was QoS about?

Oh and Goldfinger – has it ever struck you just how shit Bond is as a secret agent in this one? Gets the girl killed almost immediately. Screws up everything at the factory – in spite of having a high tech car he’s defeated by a granny with a machine gun and a mirror. Gets the second girl killed. And finally, he doesn’t even disarm the bomb, that’s done by the FBI running to the rescue.

Timothy Dalton was the best Bond by a long way. The living daylights and licence to kill were both quality.

Didn’t like Skyfall, big disappointment. Personal faves are Casino Royale and I’ve got a soft spot for The Spy Who Loved Me, the first one I saw at the cinema.

probably russia from love, its the closest to the book too

QoS is pretty god in my not so humble opinion. It falls down when the hotel at the end is, for some reason, full of hydrogen tanks.

Loved Skyfall. Heard QoS was a PoS but actually quite enjoyed it. I love the early Connery ones and thought Timothy Dalton was brilliant, shame it didn’t work for him, he was what Bond is all about. Cold, killer and arrogant.

Moore? No thanks. Just couldn’t take him seriously. At all.

Dr No. The first bond set the scene. Sean Connery was ace.

Australian guy killed it.

Spy who loved me was great in its time. Roger Moore added comedy.

Dalton bored it but not his fault.

Pierce revived it thank god.

Latest guy is doing ok.

Was the last one skyfall? That one & then the ones with Jaws in,
Spy who loved me and Moonraker I think .

I like From Russia With Love as well, and the living daylights is really good to, quite like skyfall as well, Diamonds are forever is fun cos it has great pace and the requisite filthy breasty bond girl

QoS falls apart at the end because the writers strike happened and it had to be finished off by the director and Daniel Craig winging it !

Casino Royale.

Licence To Kill was also pretty good as Dalton actually played a pretty good Bond. Carey Lowell was very pleasing too.

Thunderball.

We really need a favourite Bond girl thread too.

You Only Live Twice
For this simple exchange between Bond and Moneypenny.

Moneypenny: James you’ll need this ( Throws him a copy of Japanese for beginners)
Bond: ( Throwing it back) You forget Moneypenny I have a first from Cambridge in Oriental Studies
The rest of the film is ok too 🙂

Not a fan of the new ones, or the older ones for that matter

crazy-legs – Member

what on earth was QoS about?

Since moving to Scotland and having my water bill linked to my council tax band I know exactly what it’s about. Evil but not exactly Bond villain evil.

For me Bond was basically a childhood thing. The one that I remember thrilling/scaring and exciting me was Live and Let Die. I still enjoy it today. I went to see Living Daylights and Licence to Kill in the cinema and enjoying them too.

Pierce Brosnan was just dire in the role. I watched Casino Royal hoping to see something new, but it was just the Bourne Identity crammed into the Bond universe, badly. haven’t bothered with anything after that.

😉

I actually really like the RM stuff now after years of being a SC stalwart.i like the DC films but they are not JB films for me as I grew up with them having much more humour.

The place where the Skyfall estate was filmed is one of my MTB haunts. In Surrey not The Scottish Highlands 🙂

I went to a fancy cocktail bar near Covent garden on Saturday night and as they had all the ingredients I ordered my brother in law the proper James Bond martini. A vesper. OKish for £10.

+1 You Only Live Twice. By far the best – baddie’s lair in an extinct volcano, gyrcopter in a suitcase, bad kung fu – you can’t beat that.

I really like Daniel Craig’s bond…. just the right site of being a complete barsteward.

I thought QoS was really good – it brings bond back from being a total psychopath after the death of Vespa in Casino Royale (which I think is my favourite).

I was very disappoint with Skyfall – the first 75% was excellent, but everything from the tube-train crashing (spoiler!) onwards was garbage IMO.

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+1 You Only Live Twice. By far the best – baddie’s lair in an extinct volcano, gyrcopter in a suitcase, bad kung fu – you can’t beat that.

that’s a very strong argument – I think that’s certainly my “definitive” Bond film.

Goldfinger by far, its got all the ingredients:
The best Bond in Connery, tick
An evil villain, tick
The obligatory henchman that you remember, tick
Pussy Galore, tick
The car, tick
M and Q, tick
007 saving the yanks again, tick

I am lost for words that people rate Skyfall so highly, not even the best Daniel Craig Bond film.

I think Casino Royale and Goldeneye are maybe my favourites although despite thinking Roger Moore was generally rubbish Live and Let Die is ruddy awesome. Best bit is the very end when the voodoo dude is sitting on the back of the train cackling away.

I grew up with Moore as bond, I thought they were comedy films….

For me the best is between Casino Royal and Skyfall, gritty darker and Bond isn’t really the good guy.

I am lost for words that people rate Skyfall so highly

It’s got (several) moments, but overall I agree, weak.

Mind, I’m pretty mleh about the whole thing really. Some combination of Get Carter and Tinker, Tailor for preference.

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Personally I’d vote for Moonraker followed by Live and Let Die.

IMHO the best Bond film is OHMSS, followed by from The Living Daylights / From Russia with Love / Casino Royale.
Best Bond however is Craig – opening scene in Casino Royale is excellent, and I really liked his chemistry with Dench. Moore wasn’t helped by the general level of poor storylines / stupid comedy moments that appeared in his later films(The start of For your eyes only where he drops Blofeld down the smoke stack if a pet hate of mine)and Brosnan was just too cheesy.
Oh and Maryam D’abo FTW.

Car chase at start of QoS is epic and it has Olga Kurylenko in it 😆 I like it.

Casino Royale for me, also enjoyed Skyfall and QoS was muddled but not dire, I think it just suffered a bit from coming straight after Craig’s brilliant debut, difficult second album syndrome.

I think Brosnan’s era is currently suffering from being new enough that people compare it to the excellent recent films whilst not being old enough to be ‘camp retro’ and viewed with rose tinted nostalgia in the way the Connery/Moore films are, give it time, Golden Eye was a great film.

The one Bond film that had me utterly 100% gripped from start to end though… Casino Royale.

… formulaic old bollcks the lot of it though. It’s ok, just tonnes of other better stuff out there.

That, what Mrs. D’arcy said.
Loada crap. I’d have to go for ‘From Russia With Love’ as a favourite as my favourite auntie took me to see it at the cinema when I was a lickle boy. I don’t remember a thing about the film, but my auntie, Freda was lovely.

OHMSS.

Even with Lazenby’s wooden acting (is Roger Moore’s any better?)

Simply the best Bond story, well made, dramatic and atmospheric, less gadget driven, great locations, especially the mountain top lair (Piz Gloria), skiing, best Bond music, Louis Armstrong song, Telly Savills and…

Diana Rigg !

Can’t be beat, and I hope they don’t remake it, though they keep saying they might do it. In style the nearest to it is probably Goldeneye, though many others are actually better Bond films.

Casino Royale for me, but I think mostly because I just don’t like the old ones that much. Moonraker or Live and Let Die from pre-reboot Bond though.

Not really feeling much love in this thread. 🙁
RM. 😆

Worked on the last three and I know exactly how the budgets are soo bloody high!
They are the best of the lot though – QoS did get ruined because of the strikes – caused all sorts of mayhem during shooting and elements/locations were cancelled :-/
Casino Royale is the best out of them – DC got properly battered filming it.
QoS had a few “unrepeatable” moments on set in the small hours of the night 😀

Love Goldfinger – and watched it with my eight year old lad before Christmas, and he loved it. And generally a fan of Connery.
But Daniel Craig in both Casino Royale and especially Skyfall have been fab.