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The title should be "The best Bond film". Full stop." Only Americans say 'period' in relation to grammar. To a brit 'period' is a point in time or a womans 'time of the month'. Anyhow my answer is FRWL.
Because of Rosa Klebb?
Or at least a comma, even in American English it doesn't make sense.
Interestingly Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny says 'period' in the American way in Dr. No, presumably she's meant to be Canadian as Maxwell was, she certainly retains her North American accent.
Never noticed that. Must be the Canadian in her or Cubby's appreciation that he wanted the films to appeal to Americans (a very important Commercial concern).
Otherwise, it refers to an era.
True.
But I'd prefer 'full stop'.
I could take that.
That is such a well done, crafted film and probably the only true "espionage thriller" of the franchise.
GF is the one that set Bond off as his own genre
CR is a damned good film and ranks high on everyone's list ...
but if I had to pick the best film period:
I stand by my all time favorite:
OHMSS
Beautifully photographed, that great love story, the best soundtrack, the two ski chases and the bobsleigh makes this film tops. As for the stock car race, I even liked that. It has thrills and some light humor but not OTT.
Best Bond film? Difficult. FRWL? OHMSS? CR?
OHMSS? Not the greatest James Bond actor, some goofy moments, unusual downer ending.
CR? A bit uneven due to rebooting, downer ending.
Nope, Dr. No is better than these.
:-?
Close second: GF, TB, CR.
As I said earlier, I'd go for FRWL because it's so unique as a spy film & as a Bond film.
For a more 'traditional' film Bond experience, there's DN for the tight thriller with Spectre involvement, GF for the iconic standalone villain experience, TSWLM for the larger than life Bond film, CR for the modern interpretation, & OHMSS for the Fleming die hards.
Quite simple - because it's stupid.
Here's a cunning ruse to escape from the villains - let's drive round and round in circles.
If the SPECTRE goons weren't so gormless they would just pull up, get out with their guns and wait for Bond and Tracy to come round again.
I love OHMSS and have it top of the pile but anyone who argues that the stock car sequence is better than Fleming's original scene is plain wrong.
Bond, out on his feet, with no weapons and the car running out of fuel on a deserted mountain pass in the dark, sending the car over a precipice and the headlights flailing around in the sky as the car tumbles or a few average one liners, a reasonable stunt sequence, a guy upside down (and the director hoping we won't notice they've just inverted the shot) and Irma Bunt shouting 'Waaaaah as she gets her buttocks singed?
Only one winner there for me.
=))
The Best: Thunderball, its the first Bond film with The Gadgets and its directed by Terrence Young who knew how to mix the best humor and seriousness in The Bond films.
Its the the First established Bond film by the numbers and it had the first Femme Fatale in Bond franchise who is Fiona Volpe.
Isn't the first femme fatale Miss Taro?
I didn't think of her at first as a Femme Fatale but now that you mention it, i guess you are right since she was working with the bad guys and tried to be Bond's weakness but he was smarter than her