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It's surprising to say the least to see you put DAD above such films as DN, TB, SF and YOLT, but okay. :)
Behind every film there is a personal story that explains why it gets ranked as it is, I'm sure that's the same with everybody.
If I would rank all Bond movies objectively (if such a thing is even possible) the list would look quite different in places and the Connery movies would rank much, much higher.
Understandable. This is a complex, sprawling and very ambitious film. And for that reason, I think it will repay multiple viewings.
But even with those minor distractions going on around me in the cinema, I could still see the positives with SP. This is Craig's TB. From the minute we see him walking coolly on the rooftops of Mexico, I knew this was the Bond film I had been waiting for Craig to appear in. I think its better than SF and QoS, but not as good as CR on first viewing, so this will most likely reside in my top 5, or thereabouts. I also think this film will be the most re-watchable of all the Craig films, the same way I can watch GF or OHMSS over and over again.
Yes, on my second viewing the people next to me were talking, I asked, politely, if they would mind stop talking and the woman next to me (who was quite tasty, actually), said, 'yes, when it starts.' and this was after the gun barrel - I said 'it has started' and she thought this hilarious and said something about Mr Grumpy. Thing is I didn't spend my hard-earned to listen to idiots prattle on during the film. And as she left she remarked 'well that was a pile of crap!'. So because she and her silly fiends weren't enjoying it they thought it okay to spoil it for those of us who were! Grrr.
#2 in the Craig era.
01CASINO ROYALE
02 ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
03 GOLDENEYE
04 SPECTRE
05 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
06 OCTOPUSSY
07 SKYFALL
08 GOLDFINGER
09 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
10 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
11 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
12 LIVE AND LET DIE
13 TOMORROW NEVER DIES
14 QUANTUM OF SOLACE
15 MOONRAKER
16 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
17 THUNDERBALL
18 LICENCE TO KILL
19 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
20 DR NO
21 YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
22 A VIEW TO A KILL
23 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
24 DIE ANOTHER DAY
25 NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
:D
Renard might have morphed into a hobbit but I always be curious as to what Peter Jackson would have done with that film.
Still peeved at Apted.
:))
Now I have 4 ‘tiers’ that haven’t changed in a good ten years, and I’ll stick SP in the first, for now, but it may slip into Tier 2 upon repeated viewings:
Tier 1 – top stuff:
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
CASINO ROYALE
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
SPECTRE
GOLFINGER
THUNDERBALL
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Tier 2 – good but nothing special:
DR NO
LICENCE TO KILL
QUANTUM OF SOLACE
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
GOLDENEYE
TOMORROW NEVER DIES
Tier 3 – below par, but I’ll watch it if it’s on:
SKYFALL
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
OCTOPUSSY
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
A VIEW TO A KILL
MOONRAKER
Tier 4 – switch it off, please:
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
LIVE AND LET DIE
DIE ANOTHER DAY
And three of the four 'switch offs' are Hamilton directed films with Manckiewicz scripts. How 'bout that!
I'll watch all of 'em but you Tier 4 would be very much my Tier 4 - If There's Nothing Better On!
It would be completely outside the scope of this thread to explain fully - but I find LALD lacklustre to the extreme. The NY sequences are cringeworthy & there is little or no thrill to speak of. Moore is ball-achingly boring as 007.
How anyone can rate it, apart for sentimental reasons, is beyond me.
I used to love it as teen, but with each passing year I find it not quite as good as it could have been, put that down to TM and GH. It's still watchable just not a fav.
The rest of it is so-so, but Moore is in top form here. New York is one of my favourite parts of the whole thing (so retro-70's with the Afro's and all) with superb charisma by all the actors (including the cabbie and the shopkeeper) but Martin's marvelous funk score really holds that section together.
Not really coincidence - '71 to '74 represents the nadir of the franchise for me, the team were out of ideas and it showed horribly. There is just nothing exciting there imo - the early 70's were parodies of what Bond had been the decade before.
So after Saltzman bailed they went back to what worked (big plots & big stunts, literally copying most of the earlier stories) and at least started making entertaining movies again, if not really increasing the quality of the writing...