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1 CASINO ROYALE
2 GOLDENEYE
3 OCTOPUSSY
4 ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
5 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
6 MOONRAKER
7 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
8 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
9 GOLDFINGER
10 SPECTRE
01 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
02 GOLDFINGER
03 LIVE AND LET DIE
04 OCTOPUSSY
05 GOLDENEYE
06 CASINO ROYALE
07 SPECTRE
08 SKYFALL
09 ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
10 DR. NO
11 THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
12 A VIEW TO A KILL
13 LICENCE TO KILL
14 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
15 MOONRAKER
16 THUNDERBALL
17 THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
18 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
19 TOMORROW NEVER DIES
20 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
21 YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
22 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
23 DIE ANOTHER DAY
24 QUANTUM OF SOLACE
DAF
LALD
OP
GE
2. OHMSS
3. FRWL
4. TLD
5. GF
2. the rest
2. GoldenEye
3. From Russia With Love
4. Licence to Kill
5. Casino Royale
Honorable mentions: Live & Let Die, Octopussy, A View to a Kill
In these rankings, GE's cast is INVINCIBLE!!!
It's just that there's literally no weak link. Everyone does what they need to do perfectly. And all the villains are bang on.
Out of the entire series, the villain trifecta of Trevelyn, Onnatopp, and Ourumov is pretty impossible to beat. There are some fair contenders (maybe Khan, Gobinda, and Orlov; or Klebb, Grant, and Kronsteen; or Kananga, Samedi, and Tee Hee), but I really can't think of a better three in a single film.
Those are my next favourites.
OP also has the twins and the yoyo saw guy
Yeah, Octopussy has a whole host of great villains. The twins are particular favorites of mine.
1. FRWL (faultless)
2. OHMSS (again, faultless)
3. GF
4. DN
5. OP (primarily for Jourdan, Berkoff, Adams)
6. LALD (minus point for Hendry)
7. CR
8. AVTAK (Walken, Jones, Macnee)
9. LTK (Davi, Del Toro, Lowell, Zerbe)
10. DAF
11. QOS
12. SF
13. FYEO
14. GE (I've really gone off Bean as of late)
15. TMWTGG (Solely for Lee and Adams)
16. MR (Good cast, but a little bland)
17. YOLT (For Gray, Dor, Hama)
18. TWINE
19. TND
20. SP (Should have been excellent performances all round, instead we get a muddled performance from Waltz, an uninspiring one from Seydoux and of course, there's always Kinnear's drabness)
21. TSWLM (look where my favourite Bond film landed!)
22. TLD (for Krabbé and Davies)
23. TB (Paluzzi is the only jewel amongst a cast of sheer dullness)
24. DAD (you know the score)
I'll say you have to rank GE so low in the ensemble department! I'll chalk your placement of GE at #14 up to the following:
Mine:
1. DAF
It's so ridiculously bad in places that it's already great fun again to view it. Add a fantastic score and brilliantly witty and funny dialogue to it and there you have the PERFECT GUILTY PLEASURE BOND FILM.
2. QOS
The least Bondian film of the series is such a relentless action-roller-coaster ride that it makes it the most re-watchable. Even if I cringe at the monstrosity of a gun-barrel and bond theme, there is the most underrated side-character ever, Elvis, one of the best Bond girls, Camille and some ridiculously edited action.
3. AVTAK
You can't recognise who is the oldest in that movie. Moneypenny? M? Q? Macnee? Or is it Bond after all??
His eyejob is more hilarious than all jokes in DAF combined.
But still, it is sheer fun to watch this movie. Add the best ever, THE BEST EVER, Bond theme to it and one of the very best scores and you got a guilty pleasure of gigantic proportions.
4. TMWTGG
Only Lee saves this film from being utter trash? Maybe. But hey, Goodnight is yummy to the max and I still get a bo*n*r everytime she bends over in her negligee, and isn't she just lovely always trying to help poor Rog.
Scaramanga and what must be the most fascinating villains lair of the series makes this a great watch, always. Moore is on top of his game already in his first Bond.
The Guilty Pleasure With The Golden Gun
5. MR
Probably the easiest Bond film to watch. Fun from start to finish, cartoonish action and I want to stand up and clap everytime the laser fight begins. Darth Vader would be proud.
Holly Goodhead is sexy as hell and every scene she's in makes my mind wander...
Hugo Drax is probably the most ridiculous of all villains still I totally love him and hasn't he the greatest dialogue ever!!
2. AVTAK
3. TWINE
4. MR
5. TND
2. OP
3. AVTAK
4. MR
DAF is so bad that is good, whereas OP and MR have done genuinely great moments
1. AVTAK (Nostalgia is the big reason for me. Cracking title tune and score. But the plot is meandering. I love May Day's campiness and menace. There's so much to dislike about this film - but I still enjoy watching it.)
2. NSNA (It's non-Eon. But Klaus Maria Brandeur and Barbara Carerra are terrific fun and would actually influence EON - maybe subconsciously - when they came to put together Walken and Grace Jones in the very next film? The Shrublands section of NSNA is superior to TB's. I also think Connery is having a great old time and that's infectious.)
1. DAF. I agree with @w2Bond on this one. It's so bad that it is "classically" bad. It's B-movie stuff.
2. LTK. The title song is so 80s cheesy that I love it.
3. AVTAK. This has to be watched late night, in bed, with a bowl of cereal.
4. TMWTGG. An AMC Hornet vs Matador car chase/stunt in Thailand?
1. DAF, for its campiness and for being an unintentional period piece.
2. TMWTGG, for its campiness, again, HK film tone.
3. CR'67 (see DAF).
4. NSNA (see DAF and CR'67).
5. MR (guess why. I think you'll see a pattern here).
If you want to count out the unofficial ones, you're welcome to do so.
BTW, Birdleson is right: we already had a thread about this.
2. MR
3. TMWTGG
4. DAF
5. YOLT
2. YOLT
3. TWINE
4. TMWTGG
5. DAF
2. DAF- My second favorite Connery film. I do get turned off once the oil rig scene starts. But I still always enjoy it.
3. YOLT- I never was a huge fan until recent. Equivalent to SP in many ways.
4. QOS- I enjoy more when I watch CR right before. Great epilogue to CR.
5. SP- No surprise to me that 3 of the 4 Craig films are in my top 5. Yes, there were many missed opportunities and the trailers did deceive me slightly, but I always enjoy what we got.
Silly, infantile and ridiculous. But oh so watchable and enjoyable.
A sunday afternoon Bond film.
I always skip the Gondola hovercraft scene though.
Worst moment along with the Beach Boys song in AVTAK in the series.
2 TMWTGG
3 YOLT
4 LALD
5 OP
The Gondola is right at home in a Moore film, so I can live with that. Jaws falling in love, that really gets me the wrong way.
You're are right. When a series becomes a parody of itself it's in trouble.
Luckily the makers came to their senses and made FYEO.
The scenes I would snip out of MR...
Jaws falling into the circus tent. The scene could have ended with Moore pulling his rip-cord and escaping Jaws clutches.
The whole Gondola sequence. You could have Bond's conversation with M and then cut to Bond entering the glass factory.
The Jaws falling in love scene.
The awful scene of Moore dressed as Clint Eastwood with (I think the Magnificent 7 theme) playing
All the shots of Jaws gurning when his boat is about to go over the falls.
Without those scenes MR would be a far fetched but very good Bond adventure.
It's still an entertaining film but those stupid bits really grate.