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@Birdleson As you keep saying that you aren't expecting SPECTRE to be off the bottom of your rankings in the immediate future, I'm curious how far away is 'The World Is Not Enough' is from SPECTRE in enjoyment (or not) terms?
2. Casino Royale
3. Licence To Kill
4. The Living Daylights
5. Thunderball
6. Goldfinger
7. From Russia With Love
8. Dr. No
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
10. Quantum Of Solace
11. For Your Eyes Only
12. Octopussy
13. The Spy Who Loved Me
14. Live And Let Die
15. Moonraker
16. The World Is Not Enough
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. Die Another Day
19. Skyfall
20. A View To A Kill
21. Diamonds Are Forever
22. The Man With The Golden Gun
23. You Only Live Twice
24. Spectre
I love them all @Birdleson but I love the others more. I actually give every film from #17 to #23 an 8 out of 10. SP on the other hand...
I may move it up soon as I thoroughly enjoyed the last viewing .
I still haven't got around to watching FYEO again,i seem to keep putting myself off from viewing it :
May
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia with Love
3. Casino Royale
4. Quantum of Solace
5. Thunderball
6. GoldenEye
7. Licence to Kill
8. Octopussy
9. Skyfall
10.The Spy who Loved me
11.The World is not Enough
12.Tomorrow Never Dies
13.Live and Let Die
14.A View to a Kill
15.Doctor No
16.Goldfinger
17.Diamonds Are Forever
18.Spectre
19.You Only Live Twice
20.The Man with the Golden Gun
21.Die Another Day
22.For Your Eyes Only
23.Moonraker
24.The Living Daylights
I just had one of those. It moved up from 16 to like 9
I am glad to see Spectre at the bottom of your list! I also dislike Spectre a great deal. I hope Bond 25 doesn't continue with anything Spectre attempted to do with the series. I'm also glad to see GoldenEye at the Number 1 slot! It's my favorite Bond movie as well.
Why does almost everybody hate Spectre so much?
Okay, it isn't a perfect film; Waltz is not good and story about foster-brothers is weak. But aside from that I absolutely love it.
Spectre is in my opinion a joy ride, has great pacing, love the PTS, Rome scenes and love Daniel's swagger. To be honest, Skyfall is the better film, but Spectre is much more fun to watch. I love it.
This and the crappy London finale.
I have to agree. I don't understand why so many hate it as much as they do. I've seen quite a few rank it at the very bottom of their list and that's just crazy. I'm not saying it has to be in the top 10 or anything, I'm not sure if it's even in my top 10. But last? Damn.
Edit: not referring to any individuals above though, honest!
.The stupid retcon of having Blofeld being behind CR, QOS, and SF. It cheapens those films.
.The yellow filter that sucks all the life out of the locations.
.The score is mostly reused from SF. Not a good thing.
.Apart from the excellent train fight, the action is unbelievably dull and unexciting.
.The Oberhauser connection is just stupid.
.Madeleine Swann is a boring character.
.There is too much CGI.
.Some truly awful dialogue.
.C and the whole Nine Eyes plot is just not interesting.
.The London finale is lame.
However, there are some good things:
.Good settings with some variety.
.I enjoy the banter with Q.
.I love the Rome scenes.
.Hinx is a beast. Love the train fight.
.Waltz is underused but he's solid.
Unfortunately, I lump SP in with CR'67 and NSNA as an unofficial film. In my eyes, the most recent EON film is SF.
Also I think Craig’s performance is the worst of all 25 Bond films including mich maligned swansongs like NSNA, AVTAK and DAD.
My top 3
CR
FRWL
QOS
All gritty spy thrillers.
That’s the bond I like.
Those are good choices. The edgiest, most stripped-back Bonds. DN is like those ones too.
Those are great movies, all. But FRWL is a ridiculous movie. Britain blowing up a Soviet consulate in Istanbul has nothing to do with real life. SPECTRE island is silly. All of Rosa Klebb's interactions with other people are utterly cartoonish. And it is great. But gritty it is not.
Nor is the movie where the man with metal hands fights Bond on a platform slowly descending into nuclear material.
CR and QOS are slightly grittier, I guess, suggesting that the series took a turn 44 years in, but if we're being serious, none of those first 20 movies are gritty, and few contain any spying at all....
I don’t think Dr. no and FRWL are cartoonish. Larger than life sure but cartoonish is GF because it’s fantasy. The first two Connerys and the books in general are gritty and spy centered. That’s why I like the direction the franchise was going in with CR and QOS and why ultimately skyfall was a let down for me. Campy jokey cartoonish Bond is good too don’t get me wrong, however I think the time we are in now, 2018 or 2020 or whatever isn’t the time for cartoonish Bond
Bond has nothing to do with real life.
Exactly!
1. Casino Royale
2. Thunderball
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Skyfall
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. License To Kill
7. From Russia With Love
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. The Living Daylights
10. Live and Let Die
11. The World Is Not Enough
12. Goldfinger
13. Goldeneye
14. Diamonds Are Forever
15. The Man With The Golden Gun
16. Spectre
17. Dr. No
18. Octopussy
19. Quantum Of Solace
20. Moonraker
21. You Only Live Twice
22. A View To A Kill
23. Tomorrow Never Dies
24. Die Another Day
Outside of my relatively high placement of TWINE and relatively low placement of DN - nothing TOO far out of the general consensus here.
I'd say 8-11 and 13-16 are almost completely interchangeable.
It boggles my mind that there are humans that exist that do not absolutely love Thunderball. What is wrong with humanity?
Minus DAD and TND after the driver-less car chase, I genuinely enjoy watching all of the films and I don't think I have too much preferred Bond-actor bias going on.
Those 3 placements are pretty unusual. DN is excellent.
Thunderball is not terribly interesting as a whole, but it has the funniest script in the whole series:
"I know a little about women"
"Bond James Bond who only..."
"Wait til you get to my teeth"
"Sounds terribly difficult"
"Mind if my friend sits this one out..."
"See you later, irrigator"
etc
Eh - I have seen a lot of people have TB in their top 5. The DN and TWINE placements are definitely unusual.
1. GOLDFINGER
2. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
3. DR NO
4. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
5. THUNDERBALL
6. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
7. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
8. CASINO ROYALE 06
9. LIVE AND LET DIE
10. OCTOPUSSY/NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
11. LICENCE TO KILL
12. SKYFALL
13. A VIEW TO A KILL
14. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
15. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
16. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
17. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
18. MOONRAKER/ CR 54
19. GOLDENEYE
20. SPECTRE
21. QUANTUM OF SOLACE
22. TOMORROW NEVER DIES
23. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
24. BOND 25
25. DIE ANOTHER DAY/ CR 67
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. The Living Daylights
4. GoldenEye
5. Thunderball
6. Live And Let Die
7. From Russia With Love
8.Octopussy
9. Goldfinger
10. Casino Royale
11. You Only Live Twice
12. The Man With The Golden Gun
13. For Your Eyes Only
14. Tomorrow Never Dies
15. The Spy Who Loved Me
16. The World Is Not Enough
17. Diamonds Are Forever
18. Skyfall
19. Die Another Day
20. Bond 25
21. SPECTRE
22. A View To A Kill
23. Quantum of Solace
24. License To Kill
25. Moonraker
Good idea @ToTheRight
Here's me list.