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Is Die Another Day.
Madonna. Cleese. Vanishing Vanquish. The para kite surfing CGI shit. Halle Berry. Halle Berry's car. All of it.
Colin Salmon, Judi Dench all good. Brosnan was good, too. The actual Vanquish is a lovely thing. The opening sequence, and arrival in to HK is also good.
However, I've flushed things better than this.
And yet I'm still watching!
I'll agree imo worst Bond film made.
I assume neither of you have had the pleasure of Quantum of Solace? Not just the worst bond film ever, possibly the worst film ever.
At least Quantum of Solace had Olga Kurylenko in it.
Die Another Die is truly awful.
QoS has some excuses as it was done during the screenwriters strike and Hollywood problems. It was like Fiat designed the film, Ford built it and Citroen sold it.
All of the Brosnan films were bad but Tomorrow Never Dies was awful.
I think that's overly harsh Mister P.
And QoS is so far from being the worst Bond film it doesn't even deserve a mention.
I really liked QoS, really stylish film and the baddie was great.
Not just the worst bond film ever, possibly the worst film ever.
No, not even close. All of the Roger Moore Bond films are worse. And there are a great many other films far, far worse.
On Her Majesty Service. They made bond dull.
QoS is up the with one of the best Bonds.
Die another Day is up there with Octopussy, Moonraker and Spectre.
Anything with Roger Moore in it.
I realise CountZero has already covered this but it can't be stated too often.
This will upset some, bit I’ve only ever seen one decent bond film and that was Skyfall. The rest all blur together. Except for the New Orleans voodoo one. That one is so bad it’s verging on brilliance.
Watched Dr No last week and realised it’s actually an awful film.
The original casino Royale. Done as a comedy with David Niven. Then die another day, then the living daylights. The ones with Moore in his 60s are all pretty embarrassing, View to a Kill and For your eyes only but Connery wasn't immune to a comeback either and Never say Never Again deserves a mention. Then and only then can you list QoS
Octopussy, Diamonds are Forever and Die Another Day are terrible. As is A View to A kill.
The Brosnan one with Robert Carlisle sucked so badly it nearly created a black hole too.
I quite like QoS but thought that Spectre was poor.
Top 5
CR
TSWLM
GF
QoS
SF
Bottom 5
O
DAD
AVTaK
The one with Robert Carlsile
DAF
Octopussy. By a mile.
it's like picking the best and worst prime minister in the last 40 years
The one with Robert Carlsile
Wait, do you mean Goldeneye?? How absurd! Natalya, Boris, Sean Bean as Janus, Xenia Onatop. Goldeneye’s Amazing!
Robert Carlisle wasn't in Goldeneye. It was one of the other films.
You are right though. Goldeneye is a brilliant film. One of the best.
Robert Carlisle wasn't in Golden Eye. He was in another one that was so good I can't remember the name of.
Also... For Your Eyes Only deserves a mention on the good Bond list. If Roger had been 15 years younger or if it had been Daniel Craig or The Daltonator it would have been one of the best.
QoS is one of my favourite Bond films, opening car chase is brilliant and has been pointed out Ms Kurylenko is in it. Very underrated
Spectre went on to long, but entertaining.
RC was in the world is not enough.
Worst? So much choice...
Octopussy or Spectre.
Best
Live and Let Die or The Man with The Golden Gun.
Anything with Roger Moore in it.
Oh, come on. Live and Let Die. Utterly brilliant and of its time.
Dr No is worst imo.
Noooooo. Dr. No was the first! Things had to start somewhere and it was just early days for that kind of film. Ok, it was a bit of a departure from the book, but it was not a bad film.
I do agree 100% that the later Brosnans were really bad and, likely, the worst of the official Bond series. I disagree with the Moore-haters though. I think there were so many things to like about them, just maybe not what was intended.
Goldeneye was great. Loved some of the sets for it.
I always think of Archer* now when watching any Bond film which does undermine the premiss of the character except the David Niven one...
*Plenty of Archer on youtube or Netflix if you're unfamiliar with it 🙂
I'm afraid any Bond ranking thread must contain this
Dr No is worst imo.
coincidentally, it was on last weekend, and me and the other half settle down to watch it, both of us having fond memories of it. Frankly it's pretty poor, even if you let the all too obvious "white actors with eyes made up to make them look Chinese" racism slide, the plot is dreadful the acting is dreadful, the sexism and misogyny is dreadful, the sets are dreadful,
hasn't aged well.
My Bond mad son tells me anything with Moore but especially For Your Eyes Only.
Die another day has Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost. Many a day has been wasted in front of that movie. Its not the best, but no way the worst Bond film.
Quantum of Sausage and Spectre are there for me. Spectre slightly saved by Hugo Drax being a bad ass, QofS for its terrible, terrible dialogue that Craig had to help with due to the writers strike in Hollywood.
Highly recommend the smershpod podcast series for some humorous reviews and retrospective of the series.
I love Quantum of Solace.
I hate Skyfall.
I love Spectre.
So Skyfall for me as the baddest.
the sexism and misogyny is dreadful
Throw in the racism and I find it pretty hard to read any Fleming these days.
The later Brosnan ones, all merge into one lump of formulaic blandness for me.
Not Pierce's fault at all. He had much more potential than the movies allowed him to realise IMO.
OP is probably right TBH. Laughable to suggest Dr No was worse.
On Her Majesty Service. They made bond dull.
Nooooo, that is by far the best of the early bond films 🙂
A View to a Kill.
Moore
Grace Jones
France
80s "fashion"
Duran Duran
A villain in a bloody blimp
Renault 19
Possibly even a 2CV (nope, that was the previous also shitty outing)
Could anything actually be more awful*?
*granted the post Goldeneye Brosnan era had a few damn good attempts.
If your not saying Die Another Day, you need to sit down & watch it again because it's truly terrible
The ice surfing car chase is the worst bond scene ever
QoS or any of the Roger Moore films.
Though QoS is getting so much love on here I may have to revisit it to check. I remember it being very muddled but that could easily have been me.
[googles kiryenko]
Throw in the racism and I find it pretty hard to read any Fleming these days.
To be fair to Fleming, the books are patchy, Live and Let Die is really really bad for racism, the Baddie "Mr Big" is just awful. The best (and pretty much the only) Bond book worth bothering with* is Moonraker. Forget the daft film that has the same name, it's completely different and is as good as Bond ever gets
*Honorable mention to "From Russia with Love"
Any Dalton film.
Worst. Bond. Ever.
I liked Quantum of Solace. It makes far more sense second time through, with the Wikipedia plot guide as a backup. Don't think you can say that all the Brosnam films were bad, GoldenEye is easily one of the best.
Is Die Another Day the one with the invisible car? Because that was terrible.
I simply cannot understand how anyone could think Spectre (which I think is probably the 2nd best DC Bond after Casino Royale) is worse than QoS which was a complete stinker?
Anyway, yeah Die Another Day is up there, which is a shame, because it actually starts pretty well.
For me the worst is License to Kill, I never liked Dalton as bond, generally if you ask people to list their favourite Bonds, they always forget him, even after Lazenby. License to Kill is very American, it's like Bond does A-Team.
Dishonerable mentions for:
Never Say Never Again (a 55 year old bond using a combination of a bad wig, obvious stunt doubles and two buckets of make-up to look younger)
A View to a Kill (a 59 year old bond using a combination of a bad wig, obvious stunt doubles and two buckets of make-up to look younger)
Moonraker (Bond jumps on the Star Wars bandwagon).