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1. SF
2. CR
3. TB
4. GF
5. DAF
6. FRWL
7. QoS
8. YOLT
9. SP
10. LALD
11. LTK
12. TSWLM
13. OHMSS
14. DN
15. TMWTGG
16. AVTAK
17. OP
18. GE
19. TLD
20. TND
21. TWINE
22. FYEO
23. DAD
24. MR
This man understands the Brosnan era.
Also: Best SPECTRE meeting, awesome cast, second-best Felix Leiter actor, great soundtrack. Fionas death alone is such a great scene, the shark pool and so on and so on. The movie just "feels" right (to me).
TB is one great sequence after another- a huge Bond film that doesn't go overboard on the ridiculous, though it could have crossed that line. Sean is the king of cool throughout.
If I watched those scenes in isolation, yes it's great. But to watch the whole film from beginning to end is a bore
With Bond that's different. There is not one single film that ends up at the top most of the times. That spot has to be shared by several films.
And even those who end up a lot somewhere at the bottom have many fans that will put it in the middle or even in a Top 10.
I thought it might be interesting to post my ranking "number of watches". As I have an excel diary with everything I have watched since the late 90's it was easy to make this ranking.
In brackets you'll see how many times I have watched it.
Jason Bond's Bond ranking of number of watches since 1999 including cinema viewings since 1987.
1 TLD (57)
2 GE (54)
3 TND (52)
4 OP (50)
5 AVTAK (48)
6 LTK (47)
7 TB (45)
8 DAD (43)
9 GF (40)
9 MR (40)
11 TWINE (38)
12 DN (35)
13 FYEO (34)
14 TSWLM (30)
15 OHMSS (28)
16 CR (25) will go considerably up as I watch it up to 4 times a year now
16 FRWL (25)
18 YOLT (24)
19 LALD (22)
19 DAF (22) will go considerably up as it is my new favourite guilty pleasure
19 QOS (22) will go considerably up as I now watch it regularly, up to 4 times a year
22 SP (18) will go considerably up, certainly into the Top 10 if not Top 5
23 NSNA (13)
24 TMWTGG (12)
25 SF (9) even if new, no dice climbing up this ranking
2. Licence to Kill
3. From Russia With Love
4. Moonraker
5. Thunderball
6. Octopussy
7. OHMSS
8. The Living Daylights
9. You Only Live Twice
10. The Spy Who Loved Me
11. Casino Royale
12. Live and Let Die
13. Spectre
14. For Your Eyes Only
15. Goldeneye
16. A View to a Kill
17. Goldfinger
18. Dr. No
19. Quantum of Solace
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Diamonds are Forever
22. The Man with the Golden Gun
23. The World is Not Enough
24. Die Another Day
Blimey! I don't think I've seen any Bond film more than 20 times!
That is dedication!
Once TLD was released on VHS in March of 1988, I watched it every 2 weeks until LTK opened. I probably average 4 times per year for TLD.
1. GoldenEye
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Casino Royale
4. Spectre
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. Dr. No
8. Skyfall
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Tomorrow Never Dies
11. Licence To Kill
12. Moonraker
13. The World Is Not Enough.
14. Live And Let Die
15. Octopussy
16. From Russia With Love
17. Thunderball
18. Goldfinger
19. The Man With The Golden Gun
20. The Living Daylights
21. A View To A Kill
22. Diamonds are Forever
23. You Only Live Twice
24. Die Another Day
1.) Casino Royale
2.) From Russia With Love
3.) Thunderball
4.) Dr. No
5.) Quantum of Solace
6.) Spectre
7.) Skyfall
8.) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
9.) Licence to Kill
10.) The Living Daylights
11.) Goldfinger
12.) Goldeneye
13.) The Spy Who Loved Me
14.) For Your Eyes Only
15.) Octopussy
16.) You Only Live Twice
17.) Live and Let Die
18.) Diamonds Are Forever
19.) The World is Not Enough
20.) The Man with the Golden Gun
21.) Tomorrow Never Dies
22.) Moonraker
23.) A View To a Kill
24.) Die Another Day
It's quite taxing ranking these movies, as some could be swapped day to day. I'll be interested to see how I rank all of them after I revisit each during the Bondathon.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/17100/mi6community-bondathon/p1
Starting with CR I became a 100% Bond fan again - and it lead me to re-read all of the novels again and appreciate them definitely more than I ever did before.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/916/biggest-change-in-opinion-regarding-anything-bond-y/p3
If they ever go back to Fleming in a big way, I'd love to see Mathis brought back as he is in the books. A great reason to get Bond to France, too.
:-O
You have to see it from the other side:
- Excellent Bond intro and PTS
- Koskov defection
- Safehouse infiltration and Green 4 fight
- Car chase
- Pushkin interrogation
- Cargo net fight
- I'll include the Bond/Saunders relationship which I've grown to like, it's more fleshed out than many of the other allies.
- The score of course
But I can understand John Glen humour is very misplaced, sometimes funny (eg. in OP) but inappropriate in TLD, and how it can ruin the movie for some.
It's an easy 1st place for me. Although this year's Bondathon OHMSS may displace it