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[ChrisBaleBatman]

Okay, IGN.com put together a bunch of Top Ten's all Bond related. So....here they go:


Top 10 Bond Babes
The franchise's most memorable leading ladies.

November 15, 2006 - Seeing as how Casino Royale — the 21st James Bond feature — opens this coming Friday, IGN Movies decided to celebrate the occasion with a weeklong series of features spotlighting the 007 franchise.

Today, we're focusing on the Top 10 Bond Babes — the ladies that haunt the fantasies of each and every 007 wannabe. Here's a list of our favorites…

10. Jane Seymour as Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973)

A sex icon then and arguably still one now, Seymour played the sightseer Solitaire alongside the newly-debuted third Bond, Roger Moore, in Live and Let Die. Her beauty alone gets her on this list, as her abilities weren't fully maximized.

 

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9. Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Mrs. Ringo Starr, the lovely Barbara Bach, gets major points in her role as aloof KGB spook Agent XXX, not just for her raw sex appeal but also for her position as one of the first independent and truly powerful Bond girls. The fact that she posed for Playboy to help promote the film didn't hurt either!

8. Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

As the Queen of Hong Kong action films, Michelle Yeoh garners a spot on this list thanks to her exotic beauty and whoop ass skills, despite her petite 5'4" 100-pound frame. She also earns the title "Bond girl most likely to kick the crap out of all other Bond girls."

 

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7. Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simanova in GoldenEye (1995)

While some will inevitably disagree with us on this one, our favorite Bond girl from GoldenEye is not Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp; it's the breathtaking Poland born and bred beauty Izabella Scorupco, who played the intelligent and charming Natalya Simanova. Her beauty is timeless and she was exactly what the franchise needed to get back on top after a lengthy time away from the big screen.

6. Sophie Marceau as Elektra King in The World is not Enough (1999)

In yet another move likely to generate tons of hate mail, The World is not Enough Bond girl who makes our Top 10 list is the French beauty with the most amazing DSL's, Sophie Marceau who played the wealthy Elektra King. While Denise Richards' sex appeal is undeniable, her Christmas Jones character just didn't work. Check out Starship Troopers or Wild Things for your Denise fix.

 

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5. Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Despite never smiling and being as icy as an ice cube, the vengeful Melina Havelock played by Carole Bouquet was the second Bond girl to steal the heart of this reporter — the first being Moonraker's Dr. Holly Goodhead, who failed to make this list despite her amazing name because of the film she's associated with. Havelock stole the show with her great determination to get revenge, ability to handle a crossbow like a champ, and… ummm, those legs — those unforgettable legs.

4. Halle Berry as Jinx in Die Another Day (2002)

She's one of the sexiest women of our generation, so it'd be a shame to leave Berry off any Top 10 Bond Girls list. Her Jinx character was fun, her chemistry with Bond was amazing, and, well, the bikini scene is forever etched in our minds. Lest we forget she's an Oscar-winning actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

 

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3. Diana Rigg as Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Service (1969)


Once honored as the sexiest TV star by TV Guide, one can't argue with the raw beauty of Diana Rigg's Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Service (starring opposite the one-time-only Bond, George Lazenby). She not only won the heart of Bond, the one woman 007 ever truly loved and his only official wife, but she basically saved the movie with her convincing and heartfelt performance alongside an overly stoic and unanimated Lazenby.

2. Honor Blackman as ***** Galore in Goldfinger (1964)


For the most brave and obvious innuendo of any Bond babe ever, ***** Galore would have made our Top 10 list even if the character were played by a woman of Janet Reno's masculine "beauty." Luckily, Blackman backed up the killer name with an amazing smile, a take charge attitude, and the ability to fly a plane and kick some butt. And, okay, the name ***** Galore is just too damn good to ever ignore.

1. Ursula Andress as Honey Rider in Dr. No (1962)

Andress, who played Honey Rider in Dr. No, is not only the first true Bond girl but she's also arguably the best. She set the stage for all future 007 love interests with her seductive and sultry emergence from the waves in a bikini that's still to this day one of the most memorable moments in film history. Her less-than-amazing acting range and the fact that her voice was dubbed over in post-production because of a heavy Swiss accent just can't take away from the fact that she's simply one of the sexiest actresses to ever star alongside James Bond.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

So......I guess some people will probably be pissed with a number of those choices.....so, have at it, I guess.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

That's not a bad list. Top three is predictable. Surprised, but pleased to see Carole Bouquet in there. However, I don't see how anyone could argue Halle Berry was better than Sophie Marceau or Michelle Yeoh.

 

[Furious Styles]

EDIT....Jinx is better than Melina, no way!

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Yeah....Halle just seems tacked on by sheer reputation rather than her perfomance, which was pretty 'meh' for me. I think even Izabella Scorupco should be ahead of her on that list. Really....if you think about it, Halle should either not be on that list or be 10.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

All right, here's the next one:

Top 10 Bond DeathsThe franchise's best kills and most famous demises.
by IGN Staff


November 14, 2006 - Seeing as how Casino Royale — the 21st James Bond feature — opens this coming Friday, IGN Movies decided to celebrate the occasion with a weeklong series of features spotlighting the 007 franchise. Today, we're focusing on the Top 10 deaths in the Bond series. These will include 007's most famous kills, as well as the deaths of characters that affected Bond personally. For obvious reasons, BEWARE OF SPOILERS ...


10. The Lotus Esprit in For Your Eyes Only Bond's famous submersible sportscar debuted in The Spy Who Loved Me and reappeared in For Your Eyes Only. Q's idea of an anti-theft device was a self-destruct feature that was triggered when some goons tried to break the driver's window.


9. Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye
This obnoxious Russian computer whiz (played by future X-Man Alan Cumming) gets his chilly comeuppance for aiding the villainous 006 (Sean Bean) when he is frozen solid by liquid nitrogen. "I am invincible" — not!

8. Professor Dent in Dr. No
This cold-blooded execution from the very first Bond film captures Sean Connery's 007 at his ruthless, sardonic best. Dr. No's henchman Professor Dent fails to kill 007 by putting a tarantula in his bed and later sending the "Three Blind Mice" to run him off the road. So Dent decides to do the job himself by ambushing Bond, but 007 outwits him; Bond, cigarette in mouth, wryly shoots him dead even after Dent had run out of bullets.

7. Elektra King in The World is Not Enough
One of Pierce Brosnan's best Bond moments came near the end of this film when he mercilessly shoots his villainous former lover Elektra King (Sophie Marceau). "I never miss," Bond says after capping her in the head. 007 is a true ladykiller.

6. Red Grant in From Russia With Love Robert Shaw played formidable SPECTRE agent Red Grant in Sean Connery's second Bond film. His famous brawl with 007 in Bond's passenger car onboard the Orient Express — a precursor to the sort of hardcore hand-to-hand combat later seen in the Jason Bourne films — ends with Bond strangling Grant with his own garrotte.

5. Hugo Drax in Moonraker
Although the sinister Hugo Drax had already been mortally wounded by Bond's poison dart gun, 007 delivered the coup de grace by expelling Drax from the space station and into the cosmos. Bond's send-off quip? "Take a giant leap for mankind." (Another memorable death scene in Moonraker has Drax's doomed assistant, Corinne, mauled to death by the villain's Dobermans after she helps Bond.)

 

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4. (tie) Oddjob and Capungo in Goldfinger
There are not one but two memorable electrocutions in Sean Connery's third Bond film. First, during the pre-credits sequence, 007 dispatches the thug Capungo by tossing a lamp into a bathtub, to which Connery dryly quips, "Shocking." Then, during the climactic brawl with Goldfinger's henchman Oddjob, Bond uses the giant's bowler hat (and a severed electrical cable) against him to sizzling effect.

3. Milton Krest in Licence to Kill Veteran screen heavy Anthony Zerbe played yet another sleazy bad guy in Timothy Dalton's second outing as Bond. An associate of drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi), Krest uses his marine exploration and research firm as a cover for shipping Sanchez's drugs. Krest eventually runs afoul of Sanchez, who locks Krest inside a high-pressure chamber until his head inflates and explodes all over a load of stolen drug money. Sanchez's instructions for the literal blood money? "Launder it."


2. Jill Masterson in Goldfinger
The sight of Bond girl Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) — suffocated by being painted head-to-eye in gold — lying dead on a bed is arguably the most iconic image ever spawned by this 42 year-old franchise. Jill only has about five minutes of screen time but her murder — for helping Bond beat her boyfriend Auric Goldfinger at cards — immortalized her. (Jill's vengeful sister Tilly also meets a grisly end thanks to Oddjob's lethal bowler hat.)

1. Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Tracy (portrayed by The Avengers' Diana Rigg) was the only woman that truly became Mrs. James Bond (Kissy Suzuki wed Bond in a faux ceremony in You Only Live Twice). Tracy was a rarity for the Bond series: a complex female protagonist. Alternately a spoiled rich girl and a suicidal yet vibrant woman, Tracy initially spurns Bond before they fall in love. They are driving off on their honeymoon when Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his henchwoman Irma Blunt speed past and open fire, killing Tracy. George Lazenby, who never acted before playing 007 in his sole Bond film, earns his pay in the poignant finale where he cradles his dead bride and mutters, "We have all the time in the world."