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From Sean to Daniel - The Best and Worst Movie of Each Actor
Thought it might be interesting to have a little thread about your favourite and least favourite flick from each actor. Why we enjoy certain films the most etc etc.
Connery - Best - From Russia With Love - Even though I think Sean's best performance AS Bond was in Thunderball, the tone of FRWL was just everything i think of when someone says Bond. The wonderful action scenes in the Gypsy camp, on the train and the boat chase. Some good fun humour, and a real sense of threat.
Connery - Worst - You Only Live Twice - I don't hate YOLT, at all. In fact I enjoy certain parts of it, however, it was by far the weakest of Connery's run. They hadn't gone full blown into the cheesy comedy that made DAF enjoyable, but they had lost the credibility of the earlier flicks. Which leaves YOLT in this strange limbo area of what kind of 007 flick it want's to be.
Moore - Best - Live and Let Die - I'm not sure exactly what it is i enjoy so much about LALD but i always find it a great watch. Possibly Roger's quaint English sensibility in the middle of Harlem? Maybe. But everything about LALD was fun and enjoyable for me.
Moore - Worst - A View to A Kill - I always find it hard to chose between AVTAK and TMWTGG as Roger's weakest but i think i'm gonna give the nod the AVTAK. It's just ridiculous. It's horrible. Rog' was well too old at this point, his love scenes were embarrassing, his action scenes were pitiful.
Dalton - Best - The Living Daylights - It's my favourite Bond movie. I love everything about it. I always have done.
Dalton - Worst - Licence to Kill - It's my second favourite Bond movies. I love everything about it. I always have done. Dalton was actually better in LTK. It's just Daylights had that little bit more. Barry score tips it? Could well be.
Brosnan - Best - Goldeneye - I don't really like any of his Bond's but Goldeneye is the only one that i can honestly bare to watch. It's the only Brosnan flick that i don't dislike passionately. Also i don't find his Bond as smarmy in GE.
Brosnan - Worst - Die Another Day - Do i really need to explain why?
Craig - Best - Casino Royale - To this day i still get goosebumps during the PTS, Craig was perfect in this one. Brutal, rough around the edges, sarcastic. Wonderful performance in a wonderful film.
Craig - Worst - Spectre - I'm not going to review it here for obvious reasons. Just to say its my least favourite Craig.
Connery - Best - From Russia With Love - Even though I think Sean's best performance AS Bond was in Thunderball, the tone of FRWL was just everything i think of when someone says Bond. The wonderful action scenes in the Gypsy camp, on the train and the boat chase. Some good fun humour, and a real sense of threat.
Connery - Worst - You Only Live Twice - I don't hate YOLT, at all. In fact I enjoy certain parts of it, however, it was by far the weakest of Connery's run. They hadn't gone full blown into the cheesy comedy that made DAF enjoyable, but they had lost the credibility of the earlier flicks. Which leaves YOLT in this strange limbo area of what kind of 007 flick it want's to be.
Moore - Best - Live and Let Die - I'm not sure exactly what it is i enjoy so much about LALD but i always find it a great watch. Possibly Roger's quaint English sensibility in the middle of Harlem? Maybe. But everything about LALD was fun and enjoyable for me.
Moore - Worst - A View to A Kill - I always find it hard to chose between AVTAK and TMWTGG as Roger's weakest but i think i'm gonna give the nod the AVTAK. It's just ridiculous. It's horrible. Rog' was well too old at this point, his love scenes were embarrassing, his action scenes were pitiful.
Dalton - Best - The Living Daylights - It's my favourite Bond movie. I love everything about it. I always have done.
Dalton - Worst - Licence to Kill - It's my second favourite Bond movies. I love everything about it. I always have done. Dalton was actually better in LTK. It's just Daylights had that little bit more. Barry score tips it? Could well be.
Brosnan - Best - Goldeneye - I don't really like any of his Bond's but Goldeneye is the only one that i can honestly bare to watch. It's the only Brosnan flick that i don't dislike passionately. Also i don't find his Bond as smarmy in GE.
Brosnan - Worst - Die Another Day - Do i really need to explain why?
Craig - Best - Casino Royale - To this day i still get goosebumps during the PTS, Craig was perfect in this one. Brutal, rough around the edges, sarcastic. Wonderful performance in a wonderful film.
Craig - Worst - Spectre - I'm not going to review it here for obvious reasons. Just to say its my least favourite Craig.
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I watched Live and Let Die last night. I enjoy that, too! Great post!
I am not good at listing "worst" because I enjoy each 007 film, some less than others, though.
Connery
best - FRWL (with TB & DN getting honourable mentions)
worst - YOLT (drags too much in the middle/end and Connery is bored. Moore remade it better - see below)
Moore
best - TSWLM (iconic in every way possible. The gold standard for a larger than life Bond film. LALD & FYEO get honourable mentions)
worst - AVTAK (felt like they stopped trying here and Moore is well past it)
Dalton
best - LTK (his performance is excellent and it's really a superb original dark thriller)
worst - TLD (I like it a lot until Afghanistan where it collapses. Weak female lead & weak villains)
Brosnan
best - GE (unquestionably)
worst - TWINE (the only Bond film I truly cannot stand. DAD comes close but this boring PoS takes the cake as far as I'm concerned)
Craig
best - CR (unquestionably)
worst - QoS (at the moment. I've yet to see SP. It's close between SF & QoS though. I put QoS below SF due to the weak dialogue/characterizations and poor editing of some scenes - but not the opening car chase which I love)
DAF is just silly and looks cheap.
Connery's best: GF or FRWL, I tend to FRWL which may objectively be the best Bond movie ever.
Lazenby: ha, ha (couldn't help it, sorry :)) )
Moore's best: OP without the shadow of a doubt, while some nice OTT action, the humour is toned down enough so it's not silly as MR. Exotic, great villains, Octopussy, etc.
Moore's worst: TMWTGG or AVTAK, I tend to TMWTGG because it just is more like an Avengers TV-episode and looks like it too in places. Take away Lee and it falls completely apart.
Dalton's best: TLD, his worst: LTK
Brosnan's best GE, as it is my favourite Bond movie anyway and even objectively I'd rank it in the Top 5.
Brosnan's worst: TWINE, yes I know there is a movie called DAD but I like it and there is too much prejudice against it around. TWINE has probably the worst direction ever (shame on you Apted) and Renard must be the dullest villain ever, and don't get me started on Dr. Christmas that only comes once a year I thought...urghh...
Craig's best: As I will not judge SP until I've seen it three times (by the end of next week) it is CR for now, CR is Top 5 material, objectively and in my personal ranking.
Craig's worst: Skyfall, yes I know QOS screams at the opportunity to get called the worst and in my ranking it is below SF (for now) but QOS is one great kick-ass action movie, fast-paced, never boring and has Olga Kurylenko and one of the best love to hate villains that is truly sociopathic.
Skyfall is a sleeping pill in comparison and can you say flashlight incident, the Joker as the main villain, imbecile Q, and a tear-jerker M dying scene that could be directly out of an episode of Grey's Anatomy. Re-watchability equals zero with Skyfall.
I'll be brief..
Connery FRWL my favorite Connery and my favorite Bond film.
Connery DAF ..
Moore TSWLM favorite
Moore MR went a bit too far. Walken saved AVTAK for me.
Dalton LTK lesser of two evils.
Dalton TLD weak silly villains otherwise more Bondian than LTK.
Brosnan TND matured nicely into role.
Brosnan TWINE c'mon Apted what happened? You're better than that!!!
Craig CR easily and that's a shame. Note though I haven't seen SP yet. Expecting SP to be Craig's most fun outing but not his best if that makes sense.
Craig QS but I do actually like QS.
Connery TB.... Sean had really got into the role by this film
Connery DAF....lame climax on oil-rig, Connery bit out of shape. Wint & Kidd were great though.
Moore LALD.... a very good entry for the Moore era.
Moore AVTAK .....it was clear in this film Moore could barely move
Dalton TLD ..... more fun than LTK, but i agree villians here were weak
Dalton LTK ....... good film, but Tim looked so dour in this film
Brosnan TND ....... rip roaring action with a fantastic music score
Brosnan TWINE ......this film is just so dull
Craig CR ........fantastic film
Craig QOS ....... a truly dismal addition to the Bond franchise
Moore: best LALD; "worst" is MR by far
Craig: don't make me choose between CR and SF...worst (if you can call it that) is QoS
For Moore, the best is undoubtedly The Spy Who Loved Me, which has everything from action, suspense, elements of horror, comedy, and one of the most memorable henchmen & Bond cars. In my opinion, this is the series' finest offering. His worst is TSWLM's predecessor, The Man With The Golden Gun, which only has Christopher Lee as its saving grace. Poor direction, poor comedy, poor action scenes (for the most part), and the movie as a whole is just poor in almost every aspect.
For Dalton, his better one is probably Licence to Kill, followed narrowly by The Living Daylights. Both have their strengths over the other, but ultimately the biggest advantage here is the fact that LTK has one of the best villains of the franchise in Sanchez, while TLD's villains are unmemorable and just pitifully weak in characterization. The finale in LTK is also much, much more climatic, suspenseful, and just awe-inspiring, compared to the pitiful way Whitaker met his end in TLD.
Brosnan's best is probably GoldenEye, though Tomorrow Never Dies is also quite good. I think GE brings more badassery on Bond's part, a vastly superior villain, and better characterization. TND does have a better score, a car that actually gets used, a better Bond girl, and has good scenes of its own, but ultimately, I don't think it can top what GoldenEye brought to the table, though that isn't to say GE isn't flawed to some degree. Pierce's worst is Die Another Day for obvious reasons. I mean, just compare it to TWINE, which also isn't very good. The directing and excessive CGI was even worse than in TWINE, and the writing/dialogue was even worse as well. The villains were worse, the plot was even less believable, the acting was worse, the score was worse, the theme song was definitely worse, and there were more laughable scenes like Bond's infamous surfing. Bond's all-time low.
Craig's best is definitely Casino Royale. The action there was jaw-dropping and amazingly intense like never before (in Bond's history), while still bringing superb characterization for all the major characters. The synergy of the characters was also tremendous, which is just made better by the fact that the script is also amazing (except in a few parts). His worst is Quantum of Solace, which was evidently hindered by the writer's strike. It's also clear that Marc Forster couldn't direct action movies properly, because the cutting and editing of the action scenes was atrocious. Everything becomes an incomprehensible blur in the cinema, and the villain pales in comparison to LeChiffre from Casino Royale. I think the fact that QoS was just worse than CR in every aspect, which is made more evident by the fact that it's CR's immediate successor, just drags the film down. The only good scenes in the film feel like they should've been added to CR, which means the rest of QoS makes for an irrelevant and unwanted addition to the Bond series. Also, the references to past titanic Bond films like Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me were just pitiful and in my opinion hurt the film more than it helped.
SC Best: TB - Gripping story, great score, gorgeous female lead tolerable SC
SC Worst: DAF - I find watching this very challenging than any other Bond
GL Best: OHMSS - best of the lot and I can never tie of watching it. My No1 Blofeld, Bond girl, score oh yes, what a score
GL Worst: Haha - so he never made a bad Bond film!?
RM Best: TSWLM - my first Bond in the cinema. Love the story, action, scale, score and RM is active - truly epic
RM Worst: OP - always felt weak and underwhelmed by it at first but I've turned around the negativity and now like it more and more. Still my weakest RM though
TD Best: TLD - amazing Bond interpretation by Dalton, glorious soundtrack, yes weak villains but a real Bond romp.
TD Worst: Well this leaves LTK - still a bloody good darker Bond and the action sequences are so well done
PB Best: GE - I can always get a buzz watching this and love how well it plays out throughout 'til the final fight scene with SB
PB Worst: TWINE - it's so forgettable and... for the life of me what am I trying to talk about? Not even DAD is this vanilla
DC Best: Tie between SP and CR : I like these both equally although I'm actually erring towards SP
DC Worst: SF - I just never 'got' this film and as nice as it is to look at it does absolutely nothing for me with action, plot, score and character motivations/actions
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