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As for the film as a whole, I've come around to elements of it over time, but it's still pretty hard for me to overlook some of its more glaring issues. It is middle-bottom of the pack for me, I think, inching upward slowly.
But I've never understood the superlative praise it is often given as a whole on these boards, even though certain elements of it are certainly masterful/superlative. Definitely not the dumpster-tier entry I once considered it.
1. Dr.No
2. From Russia With Love
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Casino Royale
5. Octopussy
6. The Living Daylights
7. Goldfinger
8. For Your Eyes Only
9. Thunderball
10. The Spy Who Loved Me
11. Live And Let Die
12. Goldeneye
13. Licence To Kill
14. You Only Live Twice
15. Skyfall
16. Moonraker
17. The Man With The Golden Gun
18. Spectre
19. Quantum Of Solace
20. Tomorrow Never Dies
21. Die Another Day
22. A View To A Kill
23. Diamonds Are Forever
24. The World Is Not Enough
2. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
3. THUNDERBALL
4. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
5. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
6. DR NO
7. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
8. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
9. LIVE AND LET DIE
10. OCTOPUSSY/NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
11. CASINO ROYALE 06
12. SKYFALL
13. LICENCE TO KILL
14. GOLDENEYE
15. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
16. MOONRAKER
17. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
18. A VIEW TO A KILL
19. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE/ CR 54
20. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
21. SPECTRE
22. QUANTUM OF SOLACE
23. TOMORROW NEVER DIES/ CR 67
24. DIE ANOTHER DAY
1. GE
2. OHMSS
3. QOS
4. DN
5. CR
6. YOLT
7. FYEO
8. LALD
9. GF
10. OP
11. AVTAK
12. TSWLM
13. FRWL
14. MR
15. TWINE
16. TB
17. LTK
18. DAD
19. DAF
20. TMWTGG
21. TND
22. TLD
23. SF
24. SP
Unique list! Love to see the AVTAK love!
Funny how 11 is love for AVTAK!
True on both counts. There's still more QoS 'haters' than 'lovers' but there's definitely more love for it on these forums
QoS's score is one of the best things of the whole Craig era, and is more energetic than Barry's later scores (although that may have to do with QoS having more energy as well)
For me any Bond film at 11 is “love”; love almost all of them. And definitely AVTAK almost always sees lower ranking than that. It’s lower on my own list, but I still have loved it lately!
In any case, nice to see some AVTAK appreciation, as well as seeing you coming around a bit to TLD / OP which are both entries I love.
1/FRWL
2/OHMSS
3/CR
4/DN
5/GF
6/SF
7/TB
8/TLD
9/QOS
10/YOLT
11/LALD
12/LTK
13/DAF
14/TMWTGG
15/OP
16/TND
17/FYEO
18/GE
19/TSWLM
20/TWINE
21/SP
22/AVTAK
23/MR
24/DAD
Interesting top 10. B-)
DN went up at TB's expense. But I'm happy with the top 10 overall. The big battle in the future is AVTAK and SP.
Unfortunately, for now, nothing will change the bottom two.
I've actually always been highly entertained by AVTAK-- a Goldfinger rip-off in a sense, but entertaining... and there are some very strong scenes-- primarily in the first quarter (minus the BB cover)-- any scenes with Walken and Jones and Moore, and the finale...
It's the production value, and the made-for-TV feel it has once the story hits San Fran (what car was Bond driving? A Chrysler? I don't care if he was posing as a reporter, Bond would have found a way of explaining why this reporter was driving around in a Mercedes! This reeked of budget cuts...)
SP is the opposite-- wonderful production, costumes, design-- woeful villain/story. Painfully boring and lacking in tension...
If you don't have a proper story/script in place to anchor everything to come, to be the foundation of all the creative decisions that will happen, the "house" then collapses on itself.
Sadly, that's what happened to SP, IMO.
In a way we have the strong, more classical entries to thank for our appreciation of the oddities.
Well, the concept behind SP is pretty strong and personally quite fascinating. Can't argue with people who find the film "lifeless" or "boring", that's fair, but beside a script that doesn't always seems able to fully capitalize the inherent values of the film, I don't think they built a mammoth chatedral without foundations. I see SP as a kind of a film like The Dark Knight Rises. Bigger, less focused on character development than the previous entry but at the same time extremely satisfying and cool in its magniloquence.
1. Casino Royale
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Thunderball
4. From Russia with Love
5. Skyfall
6. Goldfinger
7. GoldenEye
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Dr. No
10. Licence to Kill
11. For Your Eyes Only
12. Quantum of Solace
13. The Living Daylights
14. Live and Let Die
15. A View to a Kill
16. The Man with the Golden Gun
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. You Only Live Twice
19. Octopussy
20. Moonraker
21. The World Is Not Enough
22. Spectre
23. Diamonds Are Forever
24. Die Another Day
Sir Rog is my favourite 007 and I am sure that this may be reflected in my ranking. Anyway, here goes…
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
3. From Russia With Love
4. Casino Royale
5. Octopussy
6. Goldfinger
7. Dr No
8. Live and Let Die
9. Goldeneye
10. Licence to Kill
11. Skyfall
12. For Your Eyes Only
13. Thunderball
14. The Man with the Golden Gun
15. Quantum of Solace
16. Moonraker
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. The Living Daylights
19. You Only Live Twice
20. A View to a Kill
21. Spectre
22. Diamonds Are Forever
23. Die Another Day
24. The World is not Enough
I love it, very underrated in my opinion.
1. Goldfinger
2. From Russia With Love
3. Dr No
4. The Living Daylights
5. Casino Royale
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
7. Thunderball
8. Quantum of Solace
9. Skyfall
10. For Your Eyes Only
11. The Spy Who Loved Me
12. Octopussy
13. Live And Let Die
14. Licence To Kill
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
16. The Man With The Golden Gun
17. Moonraker
18. You Only Live Twice
19. Goldeneye
20. The World Is Not Enough
21. Spectre
22. A View To A Kill
23. Diamonds Are Forever
24. Die Another Day
Knew you'd come to your senses 're Brossa, Leonardpine!
Just kidding!
Really good list.
Top 8 are perfect!
Thanks! LTK has moved up my rankings as well 😁
Great ranking this @BondHQ. Always love seeing OP so high on any list.
I like your top 10, but overall we share some similar highs and lows.
Welcome to the forum btw.
:-bd
Indeed he is...indeed he is. Always happy to see some OP appreciation. ;)