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How risky of you! I don't know if I could rank them altogether like that but it sounds interesting. Might give it a shot.
My approach was: what's going to get a rewatch. This or that? and that's where I landed.
CASINO ROYALE
QUANTUM OF SOLACE
SKYFALL
NO TIME TO DIE
SPECTRE
Nice one @Birdleson . Mirrors my own currently.
Have to agree as well.
Most days I place SP above NTTD though by simply feeling more like a Bond flick. However I’m fully aware that NTTD has better quality sequences. Otherwise yes - CR, QOS, and SF in that order.
CR
SF
SP
NTTD
QOS
Yes, the SPECTRE hate grows within you. Soon you will be one with the Blofeld side!
Casino Royale
Spectre
Quantum of Solace
No Time to Die
SF
QoS
NTtD
SP
SF
SP
QOS
The first two were great fun. The last two weren't as great, but I still liked them because they were Bond films.
I think that mops up the Craig era nicely for me.
Does this mean you didn't see NTTD or you loathed it so much that you don't even bother to rank it?
I've actually watched it quite a few times, trying to get into the 'fitting end to Craig's tenure' thing. But I just can't. I don't think of it as a 'proper' Bond movie now. It's like Casino Royale '67 to me.
Skyfall
Quantum Of Solace
Spectre
No Time To Die
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
SPECTRE
No Time To Die
For me, it felt like a Daniel Craig non Bond film, an ordinary film starring Craig, Daniel Craig film, but not a Bond film.
Than to line it up with the other Bond films.
For me, that's how I feel it.
It's just Craig's Film, not a James Bond film.
Yes, for me, it's also his worst, yes, worst than his performance in QoS (felt like Bourne to me).
Here, in NTTD, he's almost acting like himself, like I keep finding myself of "where's Bond? This is not him?", and from that alone, I know it's going to be bad, and I'm not wrong.
Again, this is Daniel Craig acting like Daniel Craig himself.
In CR: I see Bond
In QoS: I see Bourne
In SF: I see Bond
In SP: I see Craig taking on Fleming's Bond (SP would've ranked up to me higher if not for Madeleine Swann and the Bro-feld thing, both ruined the movie for me).
In NTTD: I see Daniel Craig (nothing more, nothing less), just himself (and there's Madeleine Swann again).
In QoS: I see Bourne
In SF: I see Bond
In SP: I see Craig taking on Fleming's Bond (SP would've ranked up to me higher if not for Madeleine Swann and the Bro-feld thing, both ruined the movie for me)”
We feel the same way about this. Well put, @SIS_HQ
I’ve watched NTTD again, still loathe it. It has a brilliant yet short first part, and then it all goes to hell. I fail to recognise Bond or Craig’s Bond from his return to London onwards. That interrogation scene is as awkward as Pierce’s Bond pretending to be in pain. Good actors can have lousy performances, and Craig is awful in the M’s office scene, and in the prision scene. And all that daddy Bond stuff…bah. And Bond and Madeleine felt so forced. Just awful. Between all of that and tsunami surfing I can’t decide which Bond is less Bond.
NTTD is the most polarizing film for me in any film I've watched. While there is some very good in it, the bad outweighs the good.
I don't mind admitting that, by giving Bond a daughter and killing him off, they strayed too far from the source material and the original vision of the screen Bond for me to engage with it as a full-bloodied James Bond film.
I have the movie on a USB stick. I've not bought the DVD or whatever, and the only spending I've done on NTTD was the tenner I spent on the soundtrack CD. Once I'd heard about the ending, I didn't go to see it at the pictures.
The first Bond film I've not seen at the pictures since LALD when I was a kid.
Edit - after the film came out and I came on here moaning about it, it really felt like I was in the minority. Now I realise I'm not, (especially reading the posts above). I think there were two or three very active members of this group that were on-board with the film at the time, and made it feel like the movie was almost universally accepted on here.
Plus, I suppose the re-watchability factor kicks in as well. Lots have said it's not one of the most re-watchable Bond entries.
The last time I was so let down by a Bond film was with DUD…
Nah, you’d still have daddy Bond, Felix’s death, Bond yelling at M that he is a drunk, Bond choking Blofeld out of the blue, stupid scooby gang scenes, a poorly written villain, Bond and Madeleine’s lack of chemistry,…
Agreed on those, and don't even get me started on those unnecessary fan services.
The death of Felix bothered me. I would have been fine with the rest. The relationship between Bond and Mallory has always been tense going back to Skyfall
For this reason alone I eventually moved Spectre above NTTD in my rankings.
Spectre is a bad Bond movie. NTTD is just a bad movie.
I can agree with much of this. Side note: I had not missed a new Bond film in a theatre (or drive-in) since TB (I was three when that came out, though I did see it paired with YOLT when that one was released, just as I had been taken to a GF/DN double billing the year before)), with the exceptions of OHMSS and TND.
I agree.
Wow, that’s quite the record! I’m jealous :)