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I like most of the ones I've seen as well. I just prefer Bond overall as a franchise.
Worst Connery Bond film DAF (NSNA if including none Eon films)
Worst Moore Bond film AVTAK
Worst Brosnan DAD
Worst Craig SP
Dalton and Lazenby never appeared in bad Bond films IMO
Overall worst Bond film is SP
That bit does it for me, too. No level of excitement or anticipation from the opening gunbarrel onward. The Hinx/Bond fight on the train isn't too bad, but that's about it. I take pleasure in knowing that it's impossible for NTTD to be worse...though I suppose it could still be just as bad, which is an upsetting thought.
I agree, the virtue of a short Bond career I suppose. The others all have one lesser entry.
True a short tenure does help, though I also consider Lazenby and Dalton's films top tier Bond
(This is out of the "official" series, btw).
edit: Just realized 2019 is the 20th Anniversary of TWINE. I suppose I owe it a revisit before the year's over. I'll go in as optimistically as possible, since it has been quite some time since I've seen it. Perhaps this viewing will reveal some merits I've previously missed (or lost, as I once loved this movie).
But if I have to pick one as the definite worst Bond movie, for me it has to be "The World Is Not Enough". Nothing works: It is a stilted gloomy, needlessly dark Nothing, held together by a completely uninteresting plot, which would be a little less annoying if everyone involved wouldn't take himself so goddamn seriously. Ian Fleming made the trivial seem exciting and the unlikely seem normal; his books are often "fantasy thrillers". Le Chiffre works because you suspect these kinds of people really exist somewhere. Dr. No, of whom you never suspect that, works because he is so in-your-face: he has claws as hands, lives inside a mountain and is obviously not of this world.
Renárd in TWINE on the other hand is a man with a crazy, completely abnormal feature (no sensitivity to pain due to a bullet in his head), yet he's taken seriously at a kitchen sink psychology level and causes the opposite effect for the viewer: it makes him a bad Marvel figure. But this is just one of the horrible aspects of this movie.
Michael Apted's "The World Is Not Enough" is not only the worst James Bond movie, it may be among the worst action movies of all time.
Other really bad Bond movies: Tomorrow Never Dies, Spectre, Die Another Day, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Quantum of Solace. I really dislike Skyfall for what it is (not really a Bond movie!), but it certainly is well-made, even if its artfully glossy optics are too much for me.
The first is the worst Bond movie while the second is not a Bond movie at all.
Both feature the absolute worst theme songs, something that already makes a statement about their overall quality.
The rest of the movie I enjoy a lot re-watching although I honestly admit some movie I never re-watch that much.
Pretty much!
It wasn't very Fleming either.
Agree there. I put TWINE ahead because PTS and Zukovsky and 007 your time is up
Diamonds Are Forever
Octopussy
Spectre
Die Another Day
Same here. A recent viewing confirmed this is just underwhelming and lacking all around.
If I was forced to choose a Bond movie that I deemed to be the worst it would be LTK. The slow motion running on the tarmac with the horns blaring are cringeworthy. Bringing back an actor from over 10 years and pairing him with a younger Bond is jarring. Having M come all the way to Florida to demand Bond revoke his licence and then when one of his men have a clear shot he tells them not to fire? Even though his sniper on the tower has already shot.
Then we add in a bride for Leiter...can someone explain why this was needed? Did they feel we wouldn't feel sorry enough for Felix unless his wife was raped and killed. The camera work is shoddy and feels like 4:3 aspect. Bond should feel BIG and grand. This film feels small and cheap.
The action scenes redeem the movie but that's a sad state when the story isn't compelling enough. Lupe Lamora while pretty isn't a good actress. Oh and one of the biggest flaws of the film is sending out Q to the field. What the hell???? He should never be out in the field fighting alongside our man. The racist disguise he uses isn't a flattering look for a Bond film either.
Yes LTK takes the worst film title for me!
It’s an unpopular movie, not a disease. ;) DAD has some good moments if you give it a chance.
To me, Octopussy commits the cardinal sin of the Bond film; it’s boring.
I certainly said this before, but this all-encompassing disappointment that those promising aspects in the first half of the movie were totally squandered in the other half which turned the film into complete [insert four-letter word] is what causes my absolute conviction that DAD will forever remain the absolute nadir of the Bond franchise, including its non-official offspring. Give me CR'67 and especially NSNA over this miscarriage at any time. Disclaimer (as consolation?): I still haven't seen CR'54. Still, a TV drama starring Peter Lorre couldn't be worse even without a script.
Then I watched it.
It is definitely my least favourite entry since that viewing. The writing is all over the place, the practical effects are worse than a B-film from the 50's and Jill St. John is an unlikeable foul-mouthed Bond girl.
But the worst thing about it for me are the Las Vegas locations. Where other lesser Bond films redeem themselves in atmosphere, this one indulges itself in the unsophisticated crassness of Las Vegas.
At least in the novel, you can read Bond's thoughts about the place. And he's not liking it either. In the film he seems to not mind it at all. And that's what followed one of the most stylish and romantic Bond entries ever. Ghastly.
Good for you!
I came out of a screening very depressed, especially thinking Brossa was going to continue as Bond and the franchise was going to continue in this vein!
Agree. Bond & The Beautiful. Ugh.
One of the things I enjoy about OP is it really moves, tons of action along with some good suspense sprinkled in there.