Bond Films

[Movies205]

You know, I'm not much into the Bond lore, but just recently I checked a few threads on this site as well as a couple of websites on the recommendation of which I bought Goldfinger and Living Daylights. And surprisingly, after watching both films I liked Living Daylights better especially after hearing consistent praises about Goldfinger being the best Bond film to date.

It has to do with the fact that Goldfinger invented the formula which every Bond film that came after follows including Living Daylights and Casino Royale. If you watch Dr. No and From Russia with Love there not so rigidly structured as Goldfinger is so in that sense Goldfinger deserves the praise it gets, however not placed in that context I'd have to agree it loses some of its impact.

 

[Road Warrior]

It was in 1997 when TBS aired its Bond marathon during the Holiday season that I offically became a fan. So...this year is my 10th Anniversary as a Bond fan! t:

 

[A Dark Knight]

IMO CR is the best 007 film easily

Right now they are having a marathon of the Bond films on tv and last night I just happened to watch "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", that was god awful, the actor who played Bond was brutal, I was really shocked at just how bad everything was in that film.

But the good thing is that I have gotten to rewatch all the films with Connery, he was a great Bond.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I liked Die Another Day

 

[Mee]

Favorite Bond- Brosnan. Just ahead of Connery. Need to see more of Craig though he was good.

Favorite movie- Casino Royale or Goldeneye.

Least favorite movie- I dunno, something Roger Moore.

 

[AhabTheArab]

i thought everyone was joking when they said they liked the other brosnan movies... say it isnt so guys... please..

 

[ChickenScratch]

I mentioned earlier that I love Dalton and Craig as Bond because their portrayal is closer to the character Fleming wrote. For me the most fun Bond was Moore though. He obviously read the books and fixated on one aspect of his character that was usually kept reigned in (He usually though what Moore says), that being the humor.

As for least favorite it's Brosnan. He looked the part to a T but he didnt play his Bond. He played an amalgam of all the other actors. He didnt bring anything to the role nor move him forward one bit.

 

[Golgo-13]

I think Brosnon was a great Bond, it's just that besides Goldeneye and TND, the movies weren't really that good.

 

[Darkfly]

Favorite Bond
1. Daniel Craig
2. Roger Moore
3. Brosnan
4. Dalton
5. Lazenby
6. Connery

Favorite Bond flicks:

Casino Royale
The Spy Who Loved Me
Die Another Day
Goldeneye
A View To A Kill
Live or Let Die

Favorite Bond songs:

"You Know My Name"
"A View to a Kill"
"Goldeneye"
"Licence to Kill"
"Die Another Day"
"The World is Not Enough"
"Diamonds are Forever"

 

[A Dark Knight]

I liked Die Another Day

I liked it also t:

 

[jimmylace]

Brosnan is still the king to me and I am one of the few that felt Casino Royale wasn't particularly great. It didn't go far enough for my liking- it should have been a much harder film.

I also felt like I hadn't had enough of brosnan at that point too- it would have been a dream to see a tarantino helmed CR with brosnan..and the way the producers treated the guy when they ditched him and took his idea was pretty sour also.

Of the Brosnans, TWINE is my favourite-despite it's weak moments...it's the one I keep coming back to. DAD- I probably enjoy this more than others do- it was intentionally campy and I can appreciate it for what it is.
Goldeneye is awesome of course and Tomorrow Never Dies could have been a really strong movie with the campness of the villain toned down.

1/ The World Is Not Enough
2/Goldeneye
3/Tomorrow Never Dies
4/Casino Royale (controversial placement- but I still think they didn't go far enough with the intensity of it.)
5/ Die Another Day

Craig...hmmm...doesn't really work for me. I mean, he can sell the role when it comes to action and intensity...but I just couldn't buy him as a ladies man. A View To A Kill was always fun to watch and both of Dalton's movies are really strong. Connery deserves the accolade he gets but I guess that its just generational that I don't really connect with his movies in the same way I do the recent ones....theres something a little too "stiff" about the earlier bonds

1/Brosnan
2/Connery
3/Craig
4/Dalton
5/Lazenby
6/Moore

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I would say that Roger Moore is the true James Bond,that British accent always was best.Added to that,he was Bond more than any other actor.

 

[AhabTheArab]

shame on you people...

 

[LuiECuomo]

Shame on us for what??

 

[Episode29]

I find it difficult to rank the Bond's in any order. While Roger Moore is my favourite, I am well aware that Connery is closer in spirit to the character himself. I also loved Brosnan, and enjoyed every one of his films. The Die Another Day hate is ridiculous. Is it great? No. Is it one of the series best? Lord no. But it's no worse that Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker or View To A Kill. Hell, I'd argue it's superior to those films (Though Moonraker is pretty damn hilarious). Also, I'm gonna wait more than one film before declaring Daniel Craig the greatest Bond of all time. Thus far, he's in George Lazenby country for me; one great Bond movie and the promise of an actual shot at the title.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I also felt like I hadn't had enough of brosnan at that point too- it would have been a dream to see a tarantino helmed CR with brosnan..and the way the producers treated the guy when they ditched him and took his idea was pretty sour also.

Yeah, a guy in his 50's playing a young Bond just out of the Navy, freshly recruited into the secret service. If you think that after DAD Brosnan could have possibly played a 32 year old bruiser then fine, but I don't. Brosnan, while my least favorite Bond he does play the older, more settled Bond rather well. He's a great actor but way too smooth and urbane to seem like the huge threat that Connery, Dalton, Craig brought across the bruiser/assasin/take no prisoners approach associated with Bond just out of the Navy.

 

[Satch]

1 - Goldeneye
2 - Tommorow Never Dies
3 - The World is not enough
4 - For your Eyes Only
5 - Casino Royale

 

[Road Warrior]

I would say that Roger Moore is the true James Bond,that British accent always was best.Added to that,he was Bond more than any other actor.

Roger Moore was a joke. Sean Connery IS James Bond while Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig played great Bonds. Moore had potential to be great but he didn't take the role seriously.

 

[Warhammer]

I mentioned earlier that I love Dalton and Craig as Bond because their portrayal is closer to the character Fleming wrote. For me the most fun Bond was Moore though. He obviously read the books and fixated on one aspect of his character that was usually kept reigned in (He usually though what Moore says), that being the humor.

As for least favorite it's Brosnan. He looked the part to a T but he didnt play his Bond. He played an amalgam of all the other actors. He didnt bring anything to the role nor move him forward one bit.

He had the humor of Moore and the seriousness of Connery. That's another reason why Brosnan was my favorite Bond. I never liked Moore as much because he was the humorous, less serious Bond.

Yeah, a guy in his 50's playing a young Bond just out of the Navy, freshly recruited into the secret service. If you think that after DAD Brosnan could have possibly played a 32 year old bruiser then fine, but I don't. Brosnan, while my least favorite Bond he does play the older, more settled Bond rather well. He's a great actor but way too smooth and urbane to seem like the huge threat that Connery, Dalton, Craig brought across the bruiser/assasin/take no prisoners approach associated with Bond just out of the Navy.

If you thought Brosnan's age was bad, maybe you didn't see Roger Moore's later Bond films (preferably, a View to a Kill). He was old as dirt in that film. He seriously looked out of place.

 

[Road Warrior]

If you thought Brosnan's age was bad, maybe you didn't see Roger Moore's later Bond films (preferably, a View to a Kill). He was old as dirt in that film. He seriously looked out of place.

lol. Agreed. Moore should have ended the franchise with Octopussy. A View to a Kill is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I agree that Moore was WAY to old. You know whats funny though? In 1973 everyone thought Roger Moore was younger than Connery (which wasn't the case) but by the `80s Moore started to age really bad while Connery somehow started to look better than he did in the `70s. In 1985, Connery, would have been a more convincing Bond than Roger Moore!

 

[ChickenScratch]

I know that, but Rodger never ever proposed to play Bond in CR. In fact he's the guy who played the literary older Bond (except for LALD and MR), after all, he starred in TMWTGG, the last full Bond story.

My issue is, Brosnan was so keen on playing younger Bond he should have angled for it earlier rather than after he was already long in the tooth. He lack's the cruelty, the bluntness or even the physical build Fleming described Bond as early on.

 

[Warhammer]

lol. Agreed. Moore should have ended the franchise with Octopussy. A View to a Kill is a guilty pleasure of mine, but I agree that Moore was WAY to old. You know whats funny though? In 1973 everyone thought Roger Moore was younger than Connery (which wasn't the case) but by the `80s Moore started to age really bad while Connery somehow started to look better than he did in the `70s. In 1985, Connery, would have been a more convincing Bond than Roger Moore!

True.

Octopussy is on Spike right now, and I'm watching it thinking "Moore is really pushing it (age-wise) in this." Brosnan was old in DAD, but he still looks like he was in his late-30s. I was watching Never Say Never, and I almost forgot that it came out when A View to a Kill was released.

 

[jimmylace]

Yeah, a guy in his 50's playing a young Bond just out of the Navy, freshly recruited into the secret service. If you think that after DAD Brosnan could have possibly played a 32 year old bruiser then fine, but I don't. Brosnan, while my least favorite Bond he does play the older, more settled Bond rather well. He's a great actor but way too smooth and urbane to seem like the huge threat that Connery, Dalton, Craig brought across the bruiser/assasin/take no prisoners approach associated with Bond just out of the Navy.

the early idea, when brosnan was on board was to make C-R a sort of sequel I think.

 

[Warhammer]

My issue is, Brosnan was so keen on playing younger Bond he should have angled for it earlier rather than after he was already long in the tooth. He lack's the cruelty, the bluntness or even the physical build Fleming described Bond as early on.

I think he was in consideration before Dalton to be Bond, but he wanted to finish Remington Steele. Also, when I watched his Biography episode, a few years back, I think I remember him saying something like he felt like he needed to be a bit older before being Bond. He didn't want to be viewed as some young punk Bond, because of his looks.

Not sure if that's all true, though.

 

[Warhammer]

the early idea, when brosnan was on board was to make C-R a sort of sequel I think.

I would've been interesting to see Tarantino's take on Bond.