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The World Is Not Enough
The Spy Who Loved Me
Dr No
Octopussy
You Only Live Twice
Casino Royale
Moonraker
The Living Daylights
Die Another Day
From Russia With Love
For Your Eyes Only
Diamonds Are Forever
A View To A Kill
Quantum Of Solace
Thunderball
GoldenEye
The Man With The Golden Gun
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Live And Let Die
Licence To Kill
Tomorrow Never Dies
Skyfall
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It seems an age since I watched TND and since then many people here have begun their Bondathons in readiness for the new kid on the block to arrive. Mine started at Christmas so has taken 8 months to reach this point.
I'm abandoning any idea of ranking the films. They can stay in this order of viewing. It takes me years to decide how much I like a Bond film, and even now I'm re-evaluating some of the 'lesser' films like DAF and TMWTGG, and finding less to enjoy in the ones I have always liked such as TLD. So it's a hopeless task to rank them.
Skyfall still sweeps me along in a way OP and TLD always did. Yet both of these films seem a little less grand now. Maybe SF will feel the same in 20 years time, if I'm still alive.
Next up.....SPECTRE
It's not as bad as many think really.
Back then people were upset because there was no gun-barrel, different Moneypenny, and Q, no proper Bond theme etc.
If only people would have known then, that 20 odd years later EON itself would do all this to Bond when starting the Craig era they probably wouldn't have minded so much
:))
Connery really looks bloody fantastic in NSNA.
If you compare it to other Bond movies of that time it holds up pretty well in my opinion. Just keep in mind they didn't have that big a budget, but they did the best with it.
I've always liked watching this movie....as a crime movie. It fails as a Bond movie, lacks that spark, that magic that the other films have, and it is certainly the most violent. I've always felt emotionally attached throughout, starting at Della's murder and get a sweet satisfaction from all the revenge killings.
The main criticisms are that it is one of the cheapest looking films, the wardrobe is ridiculous, and the score takes me right out of the Bond experience. The best parts are the excellent stuntwork throughout as is normal for the Glen films.
Dalton definitely gives a more comfortable performance as Bond than in TLD, but none of the charm that would have fans clamoring to see the film - definitely not the family fun affair of the 70s.
I will have to sadly place it below DAF, but anything from LTK upwards I can easily rewatch.
1. TLD
2. OP
3. FRWL
4. OHMSS
5. FYEO
6. TSWLM
7. DN
8. MR
9. DAF
10. LTK
11. GF
12. YOLT
13. AVTAK
14. TMWTGG
15. TB
16. LALD
Basically I was indifferent about Barry Nelson as James Bond. I prefer all the Eon actors by a considerable margin, but I didn't think he was bad necessarily. Le Chiffre was a lame villain though in this version, and I wasn't a fan of Valerie Mathis either (far too stereotypical). It's hilarious to compare the torture scene in this one to the 2006 version :)) how the times change... Still, it held my attention through its short length, so it was alright. Just not anything special to me. I suppose though it will always have the honor of being the first to portray James Bond on screen, for better or worse.
He's looks more fit and up for the part in NSNA than he does in DAF.
One thing I'll give the movie is that the casting was spot-on for the most part. Also, I have to admit there were a few scenes that made me laugh, namely the trippy torture Le Chiffre gives Tremble. I have to emphasize the last few minutes were some of the most wild and ridiculous I've ever seen in a movie (I mean that in a kind of good and kind of bad way). The few things I enjoyed from it aren't enough to warrant another watch - at least not for a long time. Most of the film just drags for me; I was just waiting for the whole thing to be over. It's totally crazy and silly, but of course, that was the point. It simply doesn't work for me most of the time.
Very good contribution from you, everything really. I have read it all :)
I too don't watch the Bond movies too often, every 2-3 years only, usually all of them chronologically.
Except the newer ones which I pop in every now and then.
I have seen CR about 10 times since 2006.
But I must admit since owning 55" to 65" TV Sets (65" since February) and nice bombastic soundbars I'm tempted to watch my favourite movies more often.
Luckily there are quite a lot of them (I am a Trekkie and a DC Fan (DC Comics) too).
So I always have something to choose from that I haven't seen in a while :)
By the way I'm doing the unthinkable next time I re-watch the Bond movies. I will view them in 3D, my new TV can up convert 2D to 3D and it really works! and even does look good.
I'm not a fan at all of 3D in the cinema, but nowadays with the new TV sets 3D actually looks quite good.
If only it would work without glasses :))
Though not quite as awesome as his first four performances, Connery is still great to watch, and he carries the movie the whole way through for me. I have to say that I did enjoy Felix Leiter in this version. I didn't care too much for Largo or Blofeld, but they weren't bad either. The soundtrack wasn't the best, and the plot we've seen before. Still, I enjoy the film more than a few Eon ones (at least above AVTAK and MR), and I'm glad I got around to seeing it at last. With that, my official Bondathon starts next Tuesday with Dr. No! I must close though by saying: Happy Birthday Sean Connery, and thank you for all your contributions as 007!
Why sad? I'm pretty sure you have a nice life besides Bond :)
I'm only left with Skyfall which ends my Bondathon and I already want to start anew :))
And my wife even wants to re-watch some of them already again too!
That's good that your wife is interested in them! She's a keeper!
Which team does she play ?
Her favourite Bond movies are: in roughly this order:
Licence To Kill
Casino Royale
Skyfall
Die Another Day*
Goldeneye
Quantum Of Solace
The Living Daylights
She's of the Brosnan generation like me (40 years old) but her favourite actor nowadays is DANIEL CRAIG by far, Brosnan and Dalton.
The awesome thing is, she was born November 7th, and we always go and see the latest Bond movie at that date!! This year we will do that too.
*She absolutely loves the first half of the movie, the PTS, Cuba. So much it doesn't hurt the viewing experience for her that she hates Madonna and finds the last third of the movie rather silly.
Haven't seen this in quite some time. I was looking forward to this one as I thought it will probably climb up in my ranking as I enjoyed Casino Royale (once more) that much.
Sadly, QOS in many ways is the worst Bond movie ever.
It's not only the insane editing that ruins every action scene, but there is almost never really any Bond feeling to this movie. Additionally I found it to be very low-budget looking compared to CR. Sure, the production quality is brilliant but there aren't really too many impressive sets (if any) and the only thing that looked "expensive" was the opera sequence.
I found QOS oddly to be similar to the Transporter movie, even Matthis' house looked exactly like Frank's house in Transporter and Mathis' character seemed to be copied from Inspector Tarconi.
QOS has no memorable characters at all, even Camille was boring. And Felix Leiter was wasted in that movie. Opportunity missed.
Up until now I suspected I was treating QOS unfairly and ranked it too low.
But actually this movie belongs to the bottom.
The only reason DAF stays at the bottom is because it's more of a parody of Bond than anything else.
Having said this, once more I want to stress that there is no "bad" Bond movie. QOS works well as a fast-paced action movie without any depth and for pure mindless entertainment. It's just unworthy of Bond.
PS: The very last sequence in QOS when Bond finds Vesper's boyfriend and delivers him to MI6 is absolutely stunning and perfect and it could very well be the last scene in CR. It should have been. The gun-barrel at the end is nice but odd, it belongs to the beginning.
My ranking of the Bond movies
1. Goldeneye
2. The Living Daylights
3. OHMSS
4. Casino Royale
5. Octopussy
6. From Russia With Love
7. Goldfinger
8. Licence To Kill
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
10. Die Another Day
11. The Spy Who Loved Me
12. Moonraker
13. Dr. No
14. For Your Eyes Only
15. The World Is Not Enough
16. Thunderball
17. You Only Live Twice
18. A View To A Kill
19. Live And Let Die
20. TMWTGG
21. Quantum Of Solace (was No 19, now No 21, sad that after CR they made such an unworthy successor)
22. Diamonds Are Forever
True, but then, we both have it on No. 15! So we seem to agree on that
:)
I'm glad that you finally watched it @FoxRox! Kudos on a job well done.
When I saw NSNA at the movie theatre in 1989 I was 15 years old. It was re-shown at our local cinema and the funny thing is, I even didn't know or realise that it wasn't an unofficial Bond movie. I just thought, ok there's another one. I had only seen OP, AVTAK and TLD up to that point and only discovered all the Bond movies after LTK.
I was immediately a fan of NSNA, Barbara Carrera made me drool...and at some point my right wrist hurt quite a bit :)) Fatima Blush is still one of my favourite Bond girls.
I like some of those things that seem to be disliked in general, like Rowan Atkinson's part or the dreaded theme song which was then even for some time my favourite song, I guess a 15 year old is easy to impress :)) but I can see now why it is bad.
By the way I discovered Herb Alpert in 1987 thanks to Janet Jackson which I was a big fan of, when she released Diamonds with Herb Alpert. Been a fan of him ever since.
Nowadays I can re-watch NSNA easily, it is one of my guilty pleasure Bond movies.
I see its flaws but they are not that many.
Brandauer, I feel, is one of the most underrated Bond villains. As a Swiss I of course know him very well, he was probably the most famous and popular German talking actor of the 80's and early 90's in Switzerland/Germany/Austria.
He is so much better as Largo than Adolfo Celi.
To compare Thunderball and NSNA: I would prefer NSNA over TB if it had had a bigger budget, sadly it looks quite cheap here and there. As it is I'd rate TB over NSNA but only by a bit.
Edward Fox and Max von Sydow are perfect and I'd go so far to say, Fox was the best M ever. I didn't know those actors then of course, but since the mid-nineties I'm a big fan of Fox and discovered many films of him. And von Sydow is even one of my favourite actors!