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  • Octopussy
  • Ambrose
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    Oh My Word. Surely the worst 007 film ever. Dire from start to end, becoming more and more dire as it goes.

    Dr No however, superb. I’m biased though ‘cos I’m sort of in it. My pregnant mum was an extra.

    chevychase
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    From Russia With Love is the winner TBFH.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Surely the worst 007 film ever

    Not even close.

    howsyourdad1
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    IvanDobski
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    Anything pre-Daniel Craig was utter crap and that’s the hill I’ll die on.

    Edit – and some of his have had their moments.

    hols2
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    Surely the worst 007 film ever.

    nickc
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    Surely view to a Kill is worse?

    andermt
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    Moonraker is the worst.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Octopussy is definitely up there. Moonraker possibly the most ridiculous, even by Bond standards. Can’t actually recall View to a Kill, though it’s in line for worst theme song

    funkmasterp
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    They’re all a bit shit really. Just degrees of badness. The only one I’ve enjoyed is the Home Alone style one with Daniel Craig.

    simondbarnes
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    Moonraker is the worst.

    **** off. That is genius.

    Pook
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    Dalton was the best bond.

    Die Another Day worst film.

    From Russia With Love best film

    footflaps
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    Moonraker and Live and Let Die are probably my favourites.

    corroded
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    Octopussy definitely one of the worst, along with most of Brosnan’s films. Moore wasn’t all bad, I’ve got a soft spot for Live and Let Die.
    Dr No is my favourite Bond film. Though Craig has his moments.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    The only one I’ve enjoyed is the Home Alone style one with Daniel Craig.

    Excellent description, I may borrow that

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Dalton was the best bond.

    Die Another Day worst film.

    From Russia With Love best film

    Correct.

    He didn’t get the best scripts, but Dalton was the closest to Fleming’s Bond. Craig is in second place, as long as you overlook the Bond Home Alone bit! Think I’ll go with Casino Royale as the second best film as well.

    However…Madonna, dreadful CGI, Toby Stevens giving it the full ham, Madonna, Halle Berry, Madonna and that dreadful CGI. Oh, and Madonna. Die Another Day is a festering turd of a film.

    thepurist
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    Moonraker is the worst.

    That entire film is saved by the line

    “I think he’s attempting re-entry”

    moonsaballoon
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    I love the Rodger Moore films , especially Octopussy and spy who loved me . When i was a kid in the early 90s the Moore films were it seemed always on ITV on a Saturday and they were just modern enough with proper big enough stunts to give them a wow factor , a man skiing of a cliff, a man holding on to the outside of an aeroplane and a barrel rolling car . And Moore injecting a bit of fun into it which is the key part that i think the later ones are missing .

    cynic-al
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    Dr No on tonight on stv (Scotch itv) 8:30.

    I think the bond actors all did well tho.

    Did you know Connery wore a toupe in every one, and the Toyota S2000(?) Was made into a drop top at short notice because he couldn’t fit in it. I don’t think there’s even a tonneau cover on it.

    Spectre is up there for the worst imo

    ditch_jockey
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    Dr No
    OHMSS
    Thunderball
    Gold finger
    Live and Let Die
    Casino Royale

    Would be my top 6 favourite Bond films. I reckon Dalton would have made an excellent Bond if he’d had Craig’s scripts to work with; they both have that gritty, brutal edge that slowly disappeared at the end of Sean Connery’s shift.

    Scienceofficer
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    Any Bond movie with Roger Moore is basically panto for grown ups. He doesn’t even try to hide the ham.

    View them for what they are and they’re hilarious.

    mrb123
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    Quantum of Solace was a crock of sh!te.

    lister
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    Octopussy was awful but Maud Adams was the greatest Bond girl. Just stunning (both times).

    That’s my hill.

    slowoldman
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    Anything pre-Daniel Craig was utter crap

    I think you mean anything post Sean Connery.

    Dr. No
    From Russia with Love
    Goldfinger

    You can stick the rest.

    Northwind
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    The thing about Octopussy, is I can’t remember a single thing about it.

    nickc
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    Dr. No

    Is almost impossibly dated now as to make it almost unwatchable, even if you ignore the white actors pretending to be Chinese with really rather racist makeup, the script is terrible and the acting even worse. I suppose there’s small mercy as  at least the giant squid fight (in the book, but not the film) was left out…

    crazy-legs
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    Goldfinger

    Which is truly appalling. Aside from being full of gaping plot holes, it shows Bond to be utterly useless. Gives himself away, gets the first girl killed. Screws up a simple recce mission and gets the second girl killed. Is outwitted by a mirror and a granny with a machine gun. Spends the rest of the film as a prisoner and the CIA turn up at the end to defuse the bomb.

    He’s **** useless.

    Chest_Rockwell
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    Mad to think Dalton only got the gig because Brosnan had to do another series of Remington Steele, which was all but cancelled.

    Shame the world wasn’t ready for Dalton’s grittier portrayal. Always makes me think of that Alan Partridge episode where he’s having a a Bond marathon, Jones the Bond…

    Loved that portable jet in Octopussy at the time (primary school age)

    rone
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    They’re all very poor films.

    People just come around to it at different stages.

    Bank holiday Monday evening when you’re a kid is pretty low bar.

    Popular though.

    RustySpanner
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    Brosnan was the best.

    Dalton or Lazenby the worst.
    At least Roger Moore could wear a pair of flares and crack a gag at the same time.

    The Scottish wifebeater was too thuggish and Daniel Craig looks like a hairdresser.

    Goldeneye is the best film.
    And one of the best ever videogames too. 🙂

    tjagain
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    The films are a long long way from the books. Casino royale I think it is BOnd was an utter bastard. One he got tortured in – casino royale again?

    benpinnick
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    Octopussy had a good theme tune though. Just sayin’

    timmys
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    Brosnan was the best.

    Dalton or Lazenby the worst.

    I’ll assume typos and you meant that all to be the other way round or, wow….

    Dalton was the best bond.

    Die Another Day worst film.

    From Russia With Love best film

    Pretty much, though I’d probably go with Goldfinger for best by a hair.

    Pigface
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    Quantum of Solace is one of my favourite Bond films, great set pieces, Olga Kurylenko what’s not to like?

    People frothing about the artistic merits of Bond films is approaching peak STW 😂

    slowoldman
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    Goldeneye is the best film.

    No, it’s dross.

    ransos
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    Die Another Day is a festering turd of a film.

    It is, yet it started quite promisingly: captured by the North Koreans and abandoned by Britain. Then the silliness started, without Moore’s wit.

    Mister-P
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    Brosnan is awful. I can’t watch him. He does this weird huff at the end of sentences which drives me insane.

    Worst film is the one with Jonathan Pryce in it as Elliot Carver. Considering his credentials as an actor, he was utterly terrible.

    crazy-legs
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    It is, yet it started quite promisingly:

    Most of the Brosnan ones started quite promisingly! The remaining 3/4’s of the film was generally cringeworthy. Goldeneye was actually quite good (bar some of the usual plot holes you could fly a jumbo through).

    But none of the rest of the Brosnan films lived up to that, the scripts got steadily worse and the expectations of the film being as good as / better than Goldeneye got steadily higher.

    Dalton was the best bond.

    Die Another Day worst film.

    From Russia With Love best film

    Yes
    Yes
    No, Living Daylights.

    derek_starship
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    Interesting* fact:

    Octopussy’s girls were armed with BSA Scorpion air pistols in the scene where they fought off Kamal Khan’s men.

    *not guaranteed by any stretch

    DezB
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    Proper arousing to see a late 50s Roger Moore shagging a hot woman in her 20s. Made me think there’s still a possibility.
    But yeah, they’re not films I spend any time on.

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