The official James Bond Movie Tournament Thread

[Golgo-13]

Gold finger.

 

[childeroland]

Goldfinger -- the greatest Bond film.

 

[Sebastos]

Love both, but I choose Goldfinger.

 

[Bond]

Goldfinger. The best Bond film to this day.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Because of all the lag today, and because I want to prepare something special for the potential final four, I'm delaying the end for one more day.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Not the dreaded double post! Anything but the double post!

 

[Slushy]

The Best Bond Movies:

Connery - From Russia With Love

Moore - For Your Eyes Only

Brosnan - The World Is Not Enough

Craig - Casino Royale

 

[Ajendo]

The Best Bond Movies:

Connery - From Russia With Love

Moore - For Your Eyes Only

Brosnan - The World Is Not Enough

Craig - Casino Royale

Incidentally enough those movies above are the most spy thriller-type movies each actor did out of their respective movies. Adding to that list...

...Dalton - The living daylights

Lazenby -OHMSS (for obvious reasons).

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Okay, with LAG-AGEDDON 10' over, I'm closing this battle.

Goldfinger wins

I have prepared something good for you guys. I have made four profiles for of each of the final four films.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

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Since 3 of the Final four are Sean Connery, I'm going straight to the Bond Girls and Villains

Main Bond Girl

Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova

Main Bond Villains

Robert Shaw as Red Grant

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb

From Imdb, a random user review


“Following the surprising success of Dr No, it became obvious that Broccoli and Saltzman's next step as producers would be other cinematic adaptation of Ian Fleming's work. Their choice this time was From Russia With Love, a novel once pointed out by US president Kennedy as one of his favorite books.

Trying to capture the unique mood and look of Dr No, the producers brought back almost everyone involved in the first Bond outing ( excepting mediocre composer Monty Norman, whose clumsy tunes were replaced by a magnificent John Barry's score, in his first "official" collaboration in the Bond series). This includes Broccoli's long-standing collaborator Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum ,and, of course, Connery, that rough Scottsman, initially despised by everybody as a "lorry driver" , who nevertheless delivered an unforgettable performance as James Bond.

All these talents combined to produce what no doubt is one the best Bond films of all time. Contrasting with the over the top story lines which would very soon become synonymous with Bond, From Russia With Love is a gritty and realistic Cold War thriller,filled up with sex violence and pure excitement. Terence Young considers this to be his best Bond film, and the movie proves him right. It is full of stylish shots( the famous close-up of Romanova's lips while Bond says "your mouth is just the right size") and really hot( by the 60's standards) seduction sequences. Even the back projection, a technical device often unfairly criticized , works wonderfully. Although many have criticized the action sequences following Bond's scape from the train, I think they're excellent, adding to the film's sense of danger and excitement. The helicopter chase, in particular, is a moment of brilliant film-making.(And it's even better than the sequence From North By Northwest that inspired it) The shot of Bond and Romanova embracing in the foreground with the helicopter exploding in the background perfectly encapsulates what the entire movie is about:danger, romance, violence.

As for the cast, Connery seems more confident and relaxed this time, but when it comes to his job, he is as ruthless and cold as Fleming originally envisioned the character. Lotte Lenya wonderfully portrays SPECTRE mastermind Rosa Klebb ("..such a disgusting woman..." as Romanova states at one point) . But it is legendary supporting actor Robert Shaw who nearly steals the show as a cold-blooded hit-man with a psychotic strain to him.

All in all, From Russia With Love is definitely a must-see not only for Bond fans, but for every discerning film lover.A true classic.”


The Boat Chase scene
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[Mrs. Sawyer]

DR. NO

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Main Bond Girl

Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder

Main Bond Villain

Joseph Wiseman as Dr. Julius No

From imdb, a random user review:

“Dr. No: the one that spearheaded it all and still one of the best James Bond films ever. What else is there to say really? This film is a classic - every scene is drenched in Ian Fleming's Bond atmosphere from the casinos to the Caribbean Islands. In Bond's big-screen debut, we see a story that is also simple yet interesting, shrouded in danger and mystery with bare-boned action as Bond is sent to the Jamaica where an MI6 man was murdered while trying to figure out who or what is interfering with the United States' space program.

James Bond is brought to the big-screen by Sean Connery, beginning his iconic tenure as movies' most popular secret agent. Connery adds his own individual cinematic presence and style ("Bond, Jamesh Bond") to the toughness, class, and cold-bloodedness of the James Bond literary character in this spectacular performance. Connery is a more realistic cinematic Bond here in Dr. No; he gets beaten up, scared, and goes gadget-less with nothing but a Walther PPK and the clothes on his back.

Although John Kitzmiller's performance as Bond's helper Quarrel is a bit weak, the rest of the cast outside of Connery really stand out. Joseph Wiseman sets the precedent for many future cinematic Bond villains with his haunting performance as the villain Dr. No, Jack Lord is as cool as can be as Bond's CIA contact Felix Leiter (one of the best Felix Leiters of the entire Bond series), and let's not forget to mention the unforgettable Ursula Andress as Bond Girl Honey Ryder in the film.

I think Dr. No is a great film - Connery is in top form as Bond and the film is doused in a stylish 60s spy-genre glaze - but James Bond author Ian Fleming apparently hated it: he thought it was "dreadful, simply dreadful," as a matter of fact. Luckily Fleming's opinion seems to have been the minority opinion and 47 years later we have a 22-film Bond series (and 2 unofficial films). Even after these 47 years, the first Bond film ever, Dr. No, easily stands with (and, from where I sit, in many cases above) all the other Bond films that follow it.”

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[Bim]

This is a tough one! Dr. No gets my vote though.

 

[Captain America]

Dr. No

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Forget what I said about starting it at a later time.

And I vote for From Russia With Love, my all-time favorite Bond film.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'll use this double post to ask if anyone likes the profiles I made for the two films?

 

[Immortalfire]

They look great!

Not as great as Ursula Andress though t:

I once again vote Dr. No

 

[childeroland]

Extremely tough, but I must vote for From Russia With Love.

 

[The Joker]

Dr No

 

[Bond]

From Russia With Love. I love both of them though.

 

[Sebastos]

I love them both, but as i've said time and time again, From Russia With Love is my favorite Connery Bond. So From Russia With Love.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

Dr.No

 

[NY1981]

From Russia with Love

 

[Sawyer]

Dr. No

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Because I think its awesome and it applies to the battle:

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

The poster's so nice this board posted it twice