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Well, go ahead, it clearly doesn't do any short term or long term damage! ;)
1. Casino Royale
2. Thunderball
3. Dr. No
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6. Skyfall
7. From Russia With Love
8. Goldfinger
9. Spectre
10. The Living Daylights
11. Licence To Kill
12. For Your Eyes Only
13. Moonraker
14. Quantum Of Solace
15. You Only Live Twice
16. GoldenEye
17. The Man With The Golden Gun
18. Octopussy
19. A View To A Kill
20. Live And Let Die
21. Diamonds Are Forever
22. Die Another Day
23. The World Is Not Enough
24. Tomorrow Never Dies
A very respectable list. At least you have the Brosnan films at about the right place. Octopussy so low though? I think it deserves a rewatch!
By the looks on it, another viewing of Spectre would be torturous enough. ;)
Haha... Cheers to Sean Bean and Martin Campbell for making GE the best of the Brosnan era.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Octopussy - it's fun and features one of Roger Moore's best individual Bond performances if you ask me. The deserved winner of 1983's Battle of the Bonds for sure.
The camp is what brings it down lower for me in the rankings. The tarzan yell, the fighting amazon women, Berkoff, the Toys'R'Us Gatorboat.... Also, even though the scenes themselves were shot well and set in a dire atmosphere, it's hard to take a clown seriously.
It's a fun movie - not one of the best for my tastes.
The re-boot films under the direction of the likes of Mendes and Forster still have a different vibe, as did NSNA, from the original 20-film run.
CR I think is slam dunk the best of the films in terms of its craftsmanship.
Campbell does Bond much better than Mendes, but Craig is so much better in SP than he was as origins Bond in CR, and having Blofeld and Spectre back in SP, is ultimate Bond fan dream, especially with cat, scar and Nehru jacket back too, that SP must shoot to #1, even if I am not entirely pleased with Mendes Bond filmmaking.
Updated alternative Bond film rankings.
1. SP
2. NSNA
3. CR
4. SF
5. QoS
I may merge the rankings some day, but I can say at least, that Craig's capturing of the Bond persona in SP ranks Top 8, tucked in behind the 6 Connerys and Laz, and light years ahead of everything else.
DN-DAF plus SP = A+ Bond.
These 8 performances as Bond IMO equal rarefied air.
Sorry, can't agree with that. Craig's Bond gets the sociopath right but misses the snobbery. A great Bond has to capture both.
People don't dig the snobbery these days. A shame as it's an amusing aspect of the character.
I think that It can also be shown via the reaction of the other party to such behaviour and as always I think Green/Vesper showcased it best in the train and in the early parts of the hotel when playing off of Craig.
Yes very true. It has to be done in a way that we can enjoy it and laugh along with it.
I know, but it's an essential part of Bond's persona. Take the snobbery away and he is interchangeable with other more pedestrian action heroes.
That's the problem with the series for the moment, they are too politically correct.
I agree. You could argue it started with Dalton. The sense that Bond is a bit Everyman instead of this chippy upper class outsider. He should be Someone from the upper echelons but not quite part of the in crowd. Connery did that aspect perfectly IMO. Another reason he'll never be bettered.
Loved how, in TLD, he concluded that the brand on the list was rather 'questionable' and took the liberty of picking out something else.
Superb Mr. Bond, Superb.
Trying to be faithful to the novels, Dalton would never have tried to lose that side of Bond's persona.
I also recall these small pieces of dialogue:
Sanchez to Bond in 1989: "I knew it. You've got class."
Le Chiffre to Bond in 2006: "Wow, you take good care of your body."
Anyway, I guess I'm trying to say that Dalton could do angry Bond without losing the classy swagger.
Certainly there were moments of refinement during the Dalton era (more so in TLD than LTK though). However, there was a definite dial back compared to the earlier times.....it was more subtle rather than overt ('not exaggerating' it, as you note). I too think Dalton was able to convey the swagger subtly.
Once in a while though I'd like the overt........Bond as smooth talking, refined but arrogant sod. We got a small flash in SP with the Bollinger gift for Q, but it was more an act rather than him talking. Another one I recall outside of CR was with Fields in Bolivia and the teachers on sabbatical. That was pure Bond right there.
Yes it worked well in CR. The snobbery is a great British part of the character.
The last thing I want is to start a row or a long lasting argument when no one will ever convince anybody, but rating Specter dead last in a Bond movie ranking list stands as the most pathetic, stupid and bizarre thing I ever read on the MI6 discussion board.
You have to be dishonest or looking to provoke reactions, I can't see anything else.
Agreed. He can have his own opinion, and he's obviously not a troll user. Don't attack him for being different.
I guess everyone forgot when Bond said his digs weren't good enough and switched to a high class hotel in QOS....?
It does have a rather heavy almost suffocating feel about it.
That's why I don't merge my re-boot rankings, as I think I might just tag the lot on the bottom anyway so what's the point.
I'd rather take an apples oranges approach, but I do give all 25 films equal standing when I do my full random draw Bondathons.