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Who is your favorite Bond director? (Poll)

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  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    Well, it would seem to me that John Glen should be the best, considering his run as director was the longest, the only one of the 1980s, and many of his were big successes. I'd probably give it to John Glen, and then Martin Campbell for bringing us GE and CR.
  • LAWNMOWERMANLAWNMOWERMAN
    edited July 2011 Posts: 163
    say...
    GLEN > LTK, TLD
    HAMILTON > DAF, GF, TMWTGG, LALD
    HUNT > OHMSS
    YOUNG > TB
    CAMPBELL > GE, CR are my top 5

    GILBERT > YOLT and
    FOSTER > QOS round out my list for now
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited July 2011 Posts: 15,718
    Well, it would seem to me that John Glen should be the best, considering his run as director was the longest, the only one of the 1980s, and many of his were big successes. I'd probably give it to John Glen, and then Martin Campbell for bringing us GE and CR.
    But Glen's directing was so dull... He was very by-the-numbers. He shot the films within the limits of the budget and schedule... Try to watch FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD and LTK and strickly analyze the cinematography... you will fall asleep before the end of the PTS.
  • JamesBondJamesBond
    Posts: 669
    Terence Young and Martin Campbell... Mostly TERENCE YOUNG!!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    My number 1 triumvirate: Young - Hunt - Campbell

    Directors I respect, despite flawed contributions: Hamilton - Gilbert - Glen

    Directors I approach with mild forms of contempt: Forster - Tamahori - Apted - Spottiswoode
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 13,978
    Well, it would seem to me that John Glen should be the best, considering his run as director was the longest, the only one of the 1980s, and many of his were big successes. I'd probably give it to John Glen, and then Martin Campbell for bringing us GE and CR.
    But Glen's directing was so dull... He was very by-the-numbers. He shot the films within the limits of the budget and schedule... Try to watch FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD and LTK and strickly analyze the cinematography... you will fall asleep before the end of the PTS.
    On his first 3 Bonds, yes. But TLD & LTK more than make up for anything he did before.

    So i'll go with Glen.
  • DB5DB5
    Posts: 408
    Terence Young, no question about it.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    My number 1 triumvirate: Young - Hunt - Campbell

    Directors I respect, despite flawed contributions: Hamilton - Gilbert - Glen

    Directors I approach with mild forms of contempt: Forster - Tamahori - Apted - Spottiswoode
    Cant really argue with that.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    Lee Tamahori! Die Another Day should have won a Best Picture Oscar.

    (I hope all of you sense that VERY heavy sarcasm.)

    My favorite Bond director is Martin Campbell. He re-ignited Bond twice, in a very, very good way.
  • natalianatalia
    Posts: 5
    None of them is my too favorite.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    None of them is my too favorite.
    How is that possible? :P They ARE the Bond directors. There are no others. You're bound to have a favourite one among those.
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    My number 1 triumvirate: Young - Hunt - Campbell

    Directors I respect, despite flawed contributions: Hamilton - Gilbert - Glen

    Directors I approach with mild forms of contempt: Forster - Tamahori - Apted - Spottiswoode
    Cant really argue with that.
    A pretty spot on assessment indeed

  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    Considering that all of John Glen's movies are in my top ten, GoldenEye is my favorite Bond movie, and Casino Royale is excellently made, I'd say it comes down to a tie between John Glen and Martin Campbell.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    Martin Campbell for me: favorite Bond film, along with one in my Top 3.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited July 2012 Posts: 12,837
    Glen. He made the Dalton films. Nuff said.

    I like Campbell, Young, Hunt, Gilbert, Apted and Hamilton though.
  • bondsumbondsum
    Posts: 3,333
    Terence Young
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Terence Young (style and sophistication)
    Peter Hunt (staying true to Fleming)
    Martin Campbell (Delivering when it mattered)

    Least favourite: That Man Hamilton!
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited December 2012 Posts: 12,480
    Favorites for me: Martin Campbell, Lewis Gilbert (I love TSWLM), and Terence Young. Hoping to add Mendes to that list.
    Yep, adding Mendes now (12/28).
  • SharkySharky
    Posts: 266
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Terence Young, ever so closely followed by the man that should have succeeded him, Peter Hunt.

    My thoughts exactly, i wish Hunt had done DAF at least.

    hopefully Mendes will be added our lists in the near future.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,217
    Seeing as I'm a firm believer that there's no such thing as a bad Bond film, I don't hold contempt for any director. Especially these days, where the films are so big and it takes a lot of balls to come up and try put your own stamp on the series. Nearly all of them work, but for me, the one who worked best will always be Terence Young.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Would have to be the following:
    1 Guy Hamilton
    2 Terence Young
    3 Martin Cambell
    4 Peter Hunt
    5 John Glen
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    If I ranked them-

    1. Martin Campbell and John Glen
    2. Roger Spottiswoode (TND is incredible!)
    3. Guy Hamilton (DAF, LALD, and even TMWTGG)
    4. Terrence Young (a little overrated I think, but FRWL and TB are still good examples of his work)
    5. Michael Apted
    6. Marc Forster
    7. Lee Tamahori (at least he knew how to do action sequences)
    8. Peter Hunt (OHMSS is....well.....pretty lame)
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    Posts: 2,341
    Peter Hunt
    John Glen
  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited July 2012 Posts: 4,520
    1. John Glen
    2. Lewis Gilbert
    3. Peter Hunt
    4. Terence Young
    5. Michael Apted
    6. Roger Spottiswoode
    7. Guy Hamilton
    8. Lee Tamahori
    9. Martin Campbell
    10. Marc Forster

    I take a look who have the best influence on other crew members/actors. John Glen direct a lot of my moost favorite Bond movies with a lot of return people and also edit a couple of movies and be advicer.. Lewis Gilbert not only be directer but also advicer. Lee Tamahori be very bad inspiration, whyle Marc forster deliever a new costume designer and production designer and some older Bond feeling return. The reasen that i stil give him a low place is the possible influence on Bond 24 whyle i think moost influence of that comes from Daniel Craig. Lee Tamahori, mess with Bond rules, include Michael Madsen in Bond but this les problem for me then having the 24 subject or what i think Bond 24 going to be.
  • VolanteVolante
    edited July 2012 Posts: 774
    I would've voted Martin Campbell, but Young's work on Bond was consistently excellent whereas with Campbell, I very much prefer CR to GE. I only wish Hunt had done more Bond films after OHMSS
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
    Posts: 1,092
    I think Young and Campbell are the best but I gotta vote for Glen b/c this is the decade I grew up in and became a Bond fan.
  • wildboonjivewildboonjive
    edited July 2012 Posts: 299
    It's a bit of a three-way tie for me, and all for good reason, between Terrence Young, Peter Hunt and Martin Campbell.

    Terrence Young for setting the impeccable tone.
    Peter Hunt for taking up where Young left off and doing it even better.
    Martin Campbell for successfully introducing two Bonds, and in the case of CR, making the best Bond film since the 60's.
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    My ranking:
    1. Terence Young: set the bluprint for the movies staying close to Fleming
    2. Peter Young and Martin Campbell: each film they made they innovated while keeping faithful to the tradition, a balance not always accomplished by others.
    3. Lewis Gilbert: a great escapism and imagination.
    4. Guy Hamilton: funny movies.
    5. John Glen: I like his movies but I don't see a characteristic stlye.
    6. Marc Foster: he tried something visually new but he sacrified important elements (eg gunbarrel at the begining) and the matching with the older movies was simply crude (the oiled agent Fields).
    7. Roger Spootiswood and Michael Apted: nothing new, just good action flicks.
    8. Lee Tamahori: he made some distasteful decisions.
  • myworldisenoughmyworldisenough
    Posts: 1,143
    Bounine wrote:
    I'd probably have to rate Terence Young and Peter hunt equal. Pity Hunt didn't direct more Bond films in a similar vein to OHMSS. This is my favourite Bond film along with FRWL.

    Looking through all the members preferences I have to completely agree with the above. OHMSS and FRWL are my two favourites and this is in most part down to the superb direction that was given to each movie.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    Terence Young for me, gave us three of the greatest adventures of the entire series when Bond was arguably at his most Fleming esque, Dalton did come very close to this under John Glen in the 1980s, but with Young is where it all started, look at the caliber of films under his direction, Dr No, From Russia with Love and Thunderball, it all speaks for itself, and he was not responsible for the awful Goldfinger either, which would of counted against him - Hamilton can have the rotten tomatoes for that

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