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2 LTK
3 OP
4 FYEO
5 AVTAK
1) FYEO (Great use of Fleming material, impressive stunts)
2) LTK (same, with a great performance by Timothy Dalton)
3) TLD (the stunts are not really impressivve compared to the first two)
4) AVTAK (can't believe in the Bond Girl)
5) OP (where to start ? The double-taking camel takes the cake, and Bond as a clown is the final nail in the coffin).
3. LTK
4. OP
5. AVTAK
2. License to Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. The Living Daylights
5. A View To a Kill
The first two are really close, so are the second two, and then there's AVTAK...
The Living Daylights
For Your Eyes Only
A View To a Kill
Octopussy
1) FYEO
2) OP
3) LTK
4) AVTAK
5) TLD
They're all in my top ten, so TLD in fifth place is no insult.
1) LTK
2) AVTAK/TLD
3) OP/FYEO
1. Licence To Kill
2. The Living Daylights
3. Octopussy
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. A View To A Kill
2. Licence to Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. Octopussy
5. A View To A Kill
2. License to Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. The Living Daylights
5. A View to a Kill
I like all of them except for avtak. There's a line when it comes to campiness, and this one crosses it.
2. A View to a Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. Octopussy
5. License to Kill
The Glen era is my favourite era in the franchise....
2. Licence to Kill
3. Octopussy
4. A View to a Kill
5. For Your Eyes Only
TLD's a classic, LTK has a sense of danger unmatched by nearly every other Bond film, OP is great fun, AVTAK isn't very good but still fun enough... The only one I have no time for is FYEO.
2. Licence to Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. Octpussy
5. A View to a Kill
AVTLTKFYEOP
But I guess TLD is the very best.
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. The Living Daylights
4. Octopussy
5. A View to a Kill
EDIT: Just bumping up my ranking; it's a few pages back as well I realized.
2. The Living Daylights
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. Octopussy
5. A View to a Kill
I reach for that one before the other 4. Actually I don't generally reach for the other 4,...well maybe AVTAK and LTK...but rarely for TLD and FYEO.
Excellent taste!
2. FYEO (could have done without cartoonish Blofeld)
3. TLD (waving falling dummy is embarrassing.)
4. AVTAK (guilty pleasure. Great villain wasted on stupid plot.)
5. LTK (too low rent to be any higher)
1. OP (the 1st Bond flick i saw at the cinema,love the soundtrack and Kamal Khan,Gobinda...and i have a massive hardboard of the original film poster right above me now in my living room.kind of shows how much i like it )
2. LTK (an equal to OP but just didn't have the Bond 'panache' ,even though a better film tbh,as my ratings show on my Bond Film list,well,which is 2 years out of date )
3. AVTAK (fun romp,and Sir Rog didnt go out with a spoof)
4. FYEO (John Barry was missed with the score in this)
5. TLD ( never floated my boat,way down on my list)
2. OCTOPUSSY
3. LICENCE TO KILL
4. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
5. A VIEW TO A KILL
Ever dance with the devil in the pale Moon light?
I agree with all of this but remember that John Glen made his bones as a second unit man on the Bond films. Nobody understood Bond action sequences better than him in the late 60s and 70s, and then they gave him the chair for the 80s and I think the series is better for it. My three favourite action sequences of the series (Aston Martin ice chase, cargo plane fight, tanker chase) are all in Glen films.
2.) For Your Eyes Only
3.) Licence to Kill
4.) Octopussy
5.) A View To A Kill
2. Octopussy
3. Licence to Kill
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. A View to a Kill
The gap in quality between FYEO and AVTAK is more pronounced.
2. The Living Daylights
3. Octopussy
4. Licence to Kill
5. A View to a Kill
There are several reasons why I rank FYEO first, partly because I think its henchmen are more threatening, and recovering the ATAK is more important than stopping Brad Whitaker, even though 004 is killed. I do wish Dalton had made a third, with a better script. Speaking of Glen's action sequences, I love the FYEO ski chase (though probably not as much as the one in OHMSS), and the climbing sequence. In Octopussy, one brief scene that always sticks with me is when Bond emerges from the train car and shoots to death two Russian soldiers who're trying to kill him--quintessential Bond marksmanship, and the sound his gun makes is classic--I also think Glen filmed it very well. I think it's almost a tie for second between TLD and OP.
A View to a kill
For your eyes only
Octopussy
License to kill
I really love the first three on my list, even AVTAK. I am really sad that almost everyone here seems to hate it. OP and LTK are also good. The Glen films are my favourite Bond era. Very underrated and enjoyable films.