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1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Licence to Kill
3. A View to a Kill
4. Die Another Day
5. Diamonds Are Forever
6. Spectre
Favourite debuts:
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. The Living Daylights
3. GoldenEye
4. Live and Let Die
5. Casino Royale
6. Dr. No
Sean doesn't do so well here, but my favourites of his have always been FRWL and TB.
For once George and Tim benefit from their short Bond career. They've never made a weak entry, on the contrary.
Regarding how Brosnan and Craig will be remembered I won't prophecize but I would say it's fair to say Brosnan made Bond cool again with the general public after a long absence and a relatively unpopular tenure, while Craig with both CR and SF (regardless of what one thinks of the movies personally) showed Bond can be both critically acclaimed and financially successful.
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Licence to Kill
3. Spectre
4. A View to a Kill
5. Die Another Day
6. Diamonds are Forever
Favourite debuts:
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Casino Royale
3. GoldenEye
4. Doctor No
5. Live and Let Die
6. The Living Daylights
Because it's a masterpiece. B-)
Agree with the complaints about machine guns during the Brosnan era. Also Bond rarely killed innocents in the past. I don't think Bond would take pleasure or pride in wantonly wiping out dozens of hapless Russian soldiers - they are not the target of his mission. They really got that wrong in GE.
Bond should always escape with minimal carnage IMO. He is not an ISIS operative looking to attract the biggest headlines.
The Piz Gloria attack was different. It's like a commando raid and looks awesome.
"Defense Minister...Dimitri Miskin...murdered by British agent...James Bond. Himself shot while...trying..to..escape..GUARD". Bond basically had no choice.
Its the TND finale that irks me and takes things too far. I don't like the way Bond has a gun in each hand as he's running about the ship.
I agree, in GE it was kill or be killed. As unfortunate as it is for those poor soldiers simply performing their duty.
In TND when he is wielding two guns at the same time, it is the most unappealing moment of the machine gun action in Bond. It is the only time when it really bothered me.
The Kazakhstan ICBM base shootout in TWINE was also a bit OTT.
Just look at how horrible some Harry Potter and Spider-Man scenes are, or that abomination posted above.
It's not an excuse for what was done in DAD but people here really should start to see the context.
Back projection was the "CGI" of the old days, used often and sometimes excessive, even in the Connery films. Nobody complains about that here, and they shouldn't, just saying.
Those 12 seconds of pure CGI in DAD get so much attendance here it's almost grotesque.
I recall people laughing in the theatre in 2002. It was a deeply unpleasant (and embarrassing, for a life-long fan) experience.
I agree with you but Bond films did tend to pinch aspects from contemporary films - at least in later entries,
The flashlight incident in Skyfall, now that made people laugh and cringe. That was embarrassing for a life-long fan. As did the subway crash scene by the way.
That flashlight bit is just of many idiotic character choices in the movie. The poor CG in DAD may be a product of the times, but it's still tough to endure every time it comes on screen, it's so awful. Like I mentioned the other day, how we got that scene from the same movie that delivers a 100% practical, thrilling surfing stunt during the PTS is astounding.
At least in DAD's case you can close your eyes for 10 seconds and it's gone.
With SF that would require me to close my eyes and ears for almost all of the Silva scenes.
The train carriage scene was very silly, agreed.
I also never really understood the criticism of this scene.
Using a flashlight never phased me.
Avoiding a fall was more important than not being spotted by the assassins that have come knocking? I can accept that Kincade was past his days and M was hurt, but if Kincade was so inept at such an old age, he shouldn't have been sniping the intruders with such precision, then, either.
It's a minor nitpick to me - that moment in and of itself doesn't detract from the film in its entirety whatsoever, but it's all these moments added up take away a lot of enjoyment for me.
Well if they fell then they could die anyway. They needed the torch to navigate the area, also Kinkade was supporting M.
Aside from the massive frozen lake/pond, what could they possibly have fallen and died from? It's not like they were near any large cliffs, nor do I believe Kincade didn't know the area well enough to navigate it without a flashlight; he's only lived there for at least a few decades!
That bit got a good chuckle in the cinemas when I first saw it. If he wasn't too bothered by the helicopter before it destroyed his car, then he's DEFINITELY going to kill everyone onboard now.
It s because it s a cgi flashlight.