Best of Each Bond?

[KevTravels]

I said above that Moore has my favourite portfolio of Bond films. But just looking at it from the point of view of a younger guy used to Daniel Craig's Bond and the likes of Bourne and Mission Impossible. If they went back through Bond history and saw all the other Bonds they might think "Ok I kind of understand why this series is so respected". If they then start on the Roger Moore era with the wrong film then they are in for a bit of a "WTF is this?" kind of shock.

I def recall watching Moore's films as a kid and laughing a lot.

 

[KevTravels]

For me, Thunderball probably is the film with the most beautiful Bond girls in it. Claudine Auger and Luciana Paluzzi.

That's not to say that there aren't other films with beautiful Bond girls, but sometimes there's only one who is outstanding rather than both.

Luciana. An Italian redhead, so rare hrt:

seems like we've had more French/Italian Bond girls than all others combined.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Die Another Day is possibly, if not, the worst Bond film of them all.

It's a strong contender, they even botched the car chase on ice.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Die Another Day is possibly, if not, the worst Bond film of them all.

A View to a Kill and Octopussy say Hello

Moonraker beats then both.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Probably a tad off-topic but how popular or well-received is Bond in the UK? I've only a few British pals, but like JB is a non-issue for them. It always seemed to me that more attention for Bond is in the US or Asia or Latin America than in the UK itself.

Its huge and the box office numbers demonstrate that for UK contribution plus the films pretty much kept the UK film industry alive during the 80's.

 

[Dark Raven]

I knew Goldfinger and Largo were bubbed but I didn't know Tatiana was as well, was Domino also dubbed in Thunderball? I was really surprised when I found out Goldfinger was dubbed, who knew early Bond and the Dollars trilogy had something in common!



The Live and Let Die boat chase is good I agree, and there's the car chases in The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy, the 2 classic Ski chases and the Lotus Esprit sequence, plus the pre-credits Helicopter sequence in FYEO is pretty cool

Domino is dubbed, and so is Honey Ryder, Sylvia Trench and all the other females (apart from Moneypenny) in Dr No. And Jill Masterson (the golden girl) in Goldfinger, and Corrine Dufour (the girl savaged by dogs) in Moonraker. They were all dubbed by Monica "Nikki" Van Der Syl.

She also worked as a dialogue coach for Gert Frobe in Goldfinger.

 

[Aximili86]

Vosloo, he's awesome. ^

Yeah Hunter, that's pretty much where I come down on Brosnan too. Guess some of it's nostalgia, given those were what was being released when I was growing up, but I dunno - feel he gets too much hate. The performance, anyway, the feel of all that stuff is sort of dictated by outside factors. He has some pretty grim/intense stuff in Goldeneye, has his moments in TWINE, and even a couple of cool scenes in DaD like the opening.

Pierce can do the cold hyper-focused killer/blunt-instrument thing like Dalton/Craig, that flick's pretty much the proof:

Kinda just felt like they were intentionally steering the ship back toward the one-liners and Bondisms after two movies of being a little lighter on all of that. With the movies being bigger & flashier than the last few. Doesn't really help that three of his movies aren't exactly knockouts, and one of them total crap, but that's sort of on Broccoli/Wilson and the writers/directors more than Brosnan himself. He pretty much played it the way the producers wanted the movie to go.

Still my second-least-favorite after Moore, but he was basically fine. The movies, Goldeneye aside, notsomuch. And even then I can have some fun with TND and TWINE, the latter's no worse than "upper-level decent/okay".

 

[KevTravels]

I gotta say that Brosnan did seem to do well trying to transition his career with non-Bond films. Like Dante's Peak, Mars Attacks, The Thomas Crown Affair, After the Sunset

Connery did well, but didn't he have to wait like over a decade after he retired from Bond to get good roles?

Craig's non-Bond films all kinda suck. But he's probably the best (with range) to have played Bond.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Craig's non-Bond films all kinda suck. But he's probably the best (with range) to have played Bond.

Loved his Girl With....film and Defiance is also pretty good.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Connery did well, but didn't he have to wait like over a decade after he retired from Bond to get good roles?

I don't really think so actually. In the 70s he had some decent stuff like Murder on the Orient Express, Robin and Marion, and A Bridge Too Far. He had a series of duds in the late 70s and early 80s until he hit with Highlander and The Untouchables in the second half of the decade. It was more that period where he was struggling which was long after he left Bond (NSNA excepted which was during that timeframe).

Craig's non-Bond films all kinda suck. But he's probably the best (with range) to have played Bond.

Munich, Road to Perdition, and Layer Cake were good. He also had a small role in Elizabeth.

If are strictly talking acting talent, I think the best actor to play Bond was Timothy Dalton. Unless you count David Niven (or Peter Sellers, but he wasn't playing the real Bond).

 

[Hunter Rider]

Vosloo, he's awesome. ^

Yeah Hunter, that's pretty much where I come down on Brosnan too. Guess some of it's nostalgia, given those were what was being released when I was growing up, but I dunno - feel he gets too much hate. The performance, anyway, the feel of all that stuff is sort of dictated by outside factors. He has some pretty grim/intense stuff in Goldeneye, has his moments in TWINE, and even a couple of cool scenes in DaD like the opening.

Pierce can do the cold hyper-focused killer/blunt-instrument thing like Dalton/Craig, that flick's pretty much the proof:

Kinda just felt like they were intentionally steering the ship back toward the one-liners and Bondisms after two movies of being a little lighter on all of that. With the movies being bigger & flashier than the last few. Doesn't really help that three of his movies aren't exactly knockouts, and one of them total crap, but that's sort of on Broccoli/Wilson and the writers/directors more than Brosnan himself. He pretty much played it the way the producers wanted the movie to go.

Still my second-least-favorite after Moore, but he was basically fine. The movies, Goldeneye aside, notsomuch. And even then I can have some fun with TND and TWINE, the latter's no worse than "upper-level decent/okay".

I remember Brosnan making an adaption of Alistair MacLean's Death Train with Alexander Paul from Baywatch and Professor X! .... but I haven't seen The Fourth Protocol, I'll have to check it out.

While Brosnan's 3 outings as Bond outside of Goldeneye were a mixed bag, they weren't without their good moments. I like the stealth boat concept, the fun remote control BMW car chase sequence and the awesome motorbike chase in Tomorrow Never Dies, while Elektra King is a great Bond girl/villain in The World is Not Enough, which also features the neat ski sequence where Bond takes on the mercs on those cool Parahawks, plus the pre-credits sequence with Q's fancy boat on the Thames is pretty decent. Even Die Another Day has the hovercraft sequence which is one of the best pre-credits sequences in franchise history IMO.

 

[B]

Just glancing at this thread, it makes me realise its been that long since I've watched some of the older Bond movies ie pre-Brosnan, that I can hardly remember the bulk of the films aside from some of the more memorable lines & characters.

I used to watch them every Christmas or Boxing day as they'd usually show a couple of them on TV over the holidays.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Just glancing at this thread, it makes me realise its been that long since I've watched some of the older Bond movies ie pre-Brosnan, that I can hardly remember the bulk of the films aside from some of the more memorable lines & characters.

I used to watch them every Christmas or Boxing day as they'd usually show a couple of them on TV over the holidays.

A lot of them I first saw on the TBS marathons.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Just glancing at this thread, it makes me realise its been that long since I've watched some of the older Bond movies ie pre-Brosnan, that I can hardly remember the bulk of the films aside from some of the more memorable lines & characters.

I used to watch them every Christmas or Boxing day as they'd usually show a couple of them on TV over the holidays.

Bit of Bond on a Boxing Day, classic British Christmas!

 

[Herofan]

A View to a Kill and Octopussy say Hello

I love Moore Bond (and Walken), I hate Moonraker and A View to a Kill. I also think Tomorrow Never Dies is terrible.

 

[Dark Raven]

I remember Brosnan making an adaption of Alistair MacLean's Death Train with Alexander Paul from Baywatch and Professor X! .... but I haven't seen The Fourth Protocol, I'll have to check it out.

While Brosnan's 3 outings as Bond outside of Goldeneye were a mixed bag, they weren't without their good moments. I like the stealth boat concept, the fun remote control BMW car chase sequence and the awesome motorbike chase in Tomorrow Never Dies, while Elektra King is a great Bond girl/villain in The World is Not Enough, which also features the neat ski sequence where Bond takes on the mercs on those cool Parahawks, plus the pre-credits sequence with Q's fancy boat on the Thames is pretty decent. Even Die Another Day has the hovercraft sequence which is one of the best pre-credits sequences in franchise history IMO.

I thought that was one of the worst pre-credits sequences in franchise history.

 

[Aximili86]

While Brosnan's 3 outings as Bond outside of Goldeneye were a mixed bag, they weren't without their good moments. I like the stealth boat concept, the fun remote control BMW car chase sequence and the awesome motorbike chase in Tomorrow Never Dies, while Elektra King is a great Bond girl/villain in The World is Not Enough, which also features the neat ski sequence where Bond takes on the mercs on those cool Parahawks, plus the pre-credits sequence with Q's fancy boat on the Thames is pretty decent. Even Die Another Day has the hovercraft sequence which is one of the best pre-credits sequences in franchise history IMO.

Yeah man, I can't fault the stealth-boat scene at all. It's dorky and totally over-the-top, but that's what they were going for. That scene's a blast, a whole lot of fun. Staged really well too, Apted seemed to know his action shiz. That parahawk sequence is awesome, even if not entirely original and feeling a little "been there done that elsewhere", still really entertaining.

And yeah, love that opening scene in DaD, honestly one of the better individual sequences in the whole Brosnan era. Of course it all goes downhill pretty damn quickly after the opening credits, but...

Even Tomorrow Never Dies, which is just kinda...non-memorable for the most part (not that DaD's "memorable" in any positive way ), I kinda dig. It has its moments, and a couple of cool broad concepts. The general ideas of TND but played in a more grounded Dalton-or-Craig-movie manner could have been pretty great I think, certainly timely when it came out. Some of the action-y stuff in the second half with Michelle Yeoh is fun too.

Goldeneye's heads-and-shoulders above everything that came after (and let's be honest, even that has its share of goofy stuff with Boris, Jack Wade, and Minnie Driver's character), but no way TND & TWINE are in that bottom category of Bond flicks overall. Nothing ambitious about 'em whatsoever, but they're competent & entertaining.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Bit of Bond on a Boxing Day, classic British Christmas!

Post lunch carve-up....Roger Moore, not a name, more of an instruction.

 

[jolldan]

Just glancing at this thread, it makes me realise its been that long since I've watched some of the older Bond movies ie pre-Brosnan, that I can hardly remember the bulk of the films aside from some of the more memorable lines & characters.

I used to watch them every Christmas or Boxing day as they'd usually show a couple of them on TV over the holidays.

Two that always stick out in my mind are

One of the absolute best cheesy moments of the series



And one of the smoothest moves I have ever seen lol

 

[Dark Raven]

Two that always stick out in my mind are

One of the absolute best cheesy moments of the series



And one of the smoothest moves I have ever seen lol

Those two films have some of the best lines and banter. Especially Thunderball. That's why it could've been the best Bond film if not for the long and dragging underwater sequences. It is about 80-90% there, has two of the most beautiful Bond girls in the entire series, and some great action too.

I'd still say the first 5 Bond films are among the best for me. Don't know how there could be such a difference between Connery in YOLT and in DAF though when he came back for a 6th.

 

[Iceman]

How long would a complete Bond marathon take these days?

 

[Dark Raven]

How long would a complete Bond marathon take these days?

Roughly 2 days. If each Bond is, on average, 2 hours long and there are 24 movies, then it's 2 x 24 = 48 hours.

But trying to watch it all in one go is more like a race than a marathon. You wouldn't enjoy it and there would be diminishing returns, and you'd probably fall asleep part of the way through.

 

[jolldan]

How long would a complete Bond marathon take these days?

At the very least a whole weekend getting home straight after work on a Friday through to Sunday night id imagine.

This was from Wired.com

The James Bond Franchise. Time Requirements: When you throw in the non-canonical Never Say Never Again—which we will here because it's Sean Connery playing James Bond, so enough said, really—it'll take you a little over 50 and a half hours to watch the first 24 films.

 

[Iceman]

At the very least a whole weekend getting home straight after work on a Friday through to Sunday night id imagine.

This was from Wired.com

The James Bond Franchise. Time Requirements: When you throw in the non-canonical Never Say Never Again—which we will here because it's Sean Connery playing James Bond, so enough said, really—it'll take you a little over 50 and a half hours to watch the first 24 films.

Oh damn, haha. If I had time off work then that might be doable in 3 full days (just under 17 hours a day), although probably more comfortable in 4 (just over 12 and a half hours a day).

 

[Iceman]

Roughly 2 days. If each Bond is, on average, 2 hours long and there are 24 movies, then it's 2 x 24 = 48 hours.

But trying to watch it all in one go is more like a race than a marathon. You wouldn't enjoy it and there would be diminishing returns, and you'd probably fall asleep part of the way through.

Oh no way I would consider doing it without a full night's sleep each night during it. As you say it wouldn't be enjoyable once you start getting tired.