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And now I see why I didn't remember The Legend of Lobo, @Birdleson. Disney's Lobo was the story of an actual wolf, not a human character nicknamed "Lobo," which is what I was expecting! I was thinking of the historical characters covered by Disney, like Davy Crockett (his most famous historic re-creation,) The Swamp Fox, Texas John Slaughter, and The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca. Or the adaptations of characters from existing novels, like Zorro and the Scarecrow. Attempting to duplicate the success of Zorro and Davy Crockett, these TV mini-series always started with catchy theme songs, some of them memorable years later. "Texas John Slaughter made 'em do what they oughter..." Fascinating the way memory works, especially memories formed at our earliest ages.
Dr No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Quantum Of Solace.
The input from @CommanderRoss' friends resulted in some of the less loved films receiving nominations. As far as I'm concerned, that's a very good thing! Even if it did make the computations a little more complicated...
That stated, here are the results as best I can figure:
DN: 5 Originals, 19 Total
FRWL: 5 Originals, 19 total
GF: 5 Originals, 19 total
TB: 4 Originals, 12 total
YOLT: 1 Original, 12 total
OHMSS: 4 Originals, 18 total
DAF: 1 total
LALD: 2 Originals, 8 total
TMWTGG: 2 total
TSWLM: 3 Originals, 13 total
MR: 2 total
OP: 4 total
FYEO: 3 Originals, 8 totals
AVTAK: 1 total
TLD: 2 Originals, 4 total
LTK: 1 Original, 6 total
GE: 5 Originals, 15 total
TND: 1 total
TWINE & DAD: No nominations.
CR: 5 Originals, 19 total
QoS: 2 total
SF: 3 Originals, 11 total
SP: 2 total
Anybody who wants to pitch for one criterion or another for evaluating the results is welcome to do so. I'll just state for the record that the films who received A TOTAL OF 10 OR MORE NOMINATIONS were:
DN: 19, FRWL: 19, GF: 19, CR: 19, OHMSS: 18, GE: 15, TSWLM, 13, TB: 12, YOLT: 12, and SF: 11. That's 10 films receiving nominations from more than half of the respondents (counting @CR's friends as one unit.) I'm willing to let these 10 stand as our list of Classic Bond films. Any dissenters? Can I get a vodka martini over here?
Postal Service on the weekend is an iffy thing, it'll probably get here Monday. Thanks, @Commander! For now, it being Sunday morning, all I get is ~O)
FYEO got a respectable turnout, but it doesn't surprise me that GE out-polled it. FYEO is the "down-to-Earth" Bond with a less than memorable villain and the end result of "That's detante, comrade!" GE was the spectacular return of Bond after a long hiatus, with a memorable villain and the installation-shattering destruction of a huge, imaginative plot. GE is "Inwincible!"
All consumables get caught by my spam filter.
Why, my computer, it's so old it's practically prehistoric! I think it was originally owned by a fellow named "Flintstone." I opened it up once and found a Tookie-Tookie bird inside! That's why any consumables being emailed to me get caught by the Spam filter -- poor ol' Tookie HAS to eat SOMEthing!
Ah, it's Monday morning. Nothing's funny on a Monday... [-(
As for my take on which Bond movies can be allowed to be called classics:
DN
FRWL
GF
TB
YOLT
OHMSS
TSWLM
GE
CR
SF might be too, but that's 6 years too early to tell.
QOS is the new FRWL, the more I see it, the more I get that feeling.
Are you kidding? QoS ? LMFAO
That movie should not be mentioned in the same breath as FRWL
From the bad theme song to the weak Bond Girl, to the horrible villain, to the disjointed and all over the map story...
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It's called sarcasm :))
damn I didn't want to use emoticons again but now I must ;)
So if Eon made an essentials box set it would include
Dr No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You only live twice
On her Majesty's secret service
The spy who loved me
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Skyfall
And could divide the classics in 3 diferent box sets.
here im more inclusive with some less voted but including the most voted for each actor And choosing one for a different director with the exception of Craig and Skyfall which still sneaked in the top 10.
I won't inlcude You only live twice since This reprats director with The Spy who loved me and ecah of these imaginary box sets im creating inlcudes the six most important directors in the franchise. Terrence Young, Guy Hamilton, Peter Hunt, Gilbert, John Glen, Martin Campbell and Sam Mendez
That means im including Skyfall which had lost of votes even though it went believe Casino Royale since Cambell appears with Pierce Brosnan so to include a Sam Mendes I choose Skyfall to represent Craig.
These would be named the Introduction to James Bond Box sets.
Box set number 1
Dr No-Sean Connery directed by Terrence Young
On her Majesty's secret service- George Lazenby directed Peter Hunt
The spy who loved me-Roger Moore directed by Gilbert
Licence to kill-Timothy Dalton directed by John Glenn
Goldeneye-Pierce Brosnan directed by Martin Campbell
Skyfall- Daniel Craig directed by Sam Mendez
Box set Number 2
From Russia with love- Sean Connery, Terrence Young
On her Majesty's secret service- George Lazenby , Peter Hunt
The spy who loved me- Roger Moore, Gilbert
Licence to kill- Timothy Dalton, John Glenn
Goldeneye-Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell
Skyfall- Sam Mendez
Box set number 3
Goldfinger- Sean Connery, Guy Hamilton
On her Majesty's secret service- George Lazenby , Peter Hunt
The spy who loved me- Roger Moore, Gilbert
Licence to kill- Timothy Dalton, John Glenn
Goldeneye-Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell
Skyfall- Sam Mendez
So where were YOU with two more "classic" votes for TLD? I'm not above stuffing the ballot box in a good cause!
LTK on the other hand has the distinction of being the only film that was made specifically for Dalton. It's the first one since OHMSS that makes Bond more vulnerable. LTK might not be a classic in the tradtional sense of the word, but its boldness and uniqueness surely count for something.