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Which is your least favourite decade?

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  • LudsLuds MIA
    Posts: 1,986
    Quoting BAIN123: ("the cunning linguist line always amuses me").
    This is precisely the level of ridiculousness that I associate with the Brosnan era. The puns are no longer funny and slightly risqué, they're flat out of a teen movie. They uses to be classic, now it's just garbage moments out of a Seth Rogan flick.
    Quoting BAIN123: That should NEVER be Moneypenny. MP should be about flirtation, about playful banter, about suggestion - not some school-girl crush.
    I certainly agree there, John Glen failed miserably at casting a proper Moneypenny, or maybe not, who knows what Caroline Bliss could really do, but the way he had her portray the little school girl crush was a big failure compared to the magical moments we had between Connery, Lazenby, or Moore with Lois Maxwell. At least there was an attempt with Samantha Bond, but what I disliked about it as I wrote above was her dialog. When I end up rolling my eyes every time she speaks due to poor writing, I'm thrown out of the scene, I just don't dig any chemistry. I certainly did sense that Samantha Bond's Moneypenny wasn't a school girl though!
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
    Posts: 7,653
    The '80's easily with two Dalton movies was the pits in my book.
  • BondBond
    Posts: 503
    My least favorite decade huh? I can't decide between the 1950s and the 2010s B-)
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
    Posts: 2,632
    The 1970s. That decade only had 1 quality Bond film(TSWLM). The others were ridiculous.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    Quoting Bond: Brosnan is a good actor, and he's proven so in Evelyn, The Matador and
    Seraphim Falls, but he was really quite bland and unimpressive as Bond
    until DAD, when he finally started to make it his own, but the movie fell apart
    around him.

    I agree with this. Brosnan at last really seemed to get it and then - he's gone. He deserved the final two films he wanted.

    It's EONs fault really, they could've done so much better with Brosnan and he should have known better, especially after Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • Vodka_MartiniVodka_Martini
    Posts: 27
    My least fav is the 90's without any question.
    95 Goldeneye 4.5/10
    97 Tomorrow Never Dies 2/10
    99 The World Is Not Enough 3.75/10

    Pretty weak decade if you ask me
  • IcebreakerIcebreaker
    Posts: 26
    The 1970s, mainly due to the Tom Manckiewicz trilogy of terror and Moonraker. The early 70s in particular seem to be my least favorite Bond era. If I were alive and attending theaters back then, I might have lost my interest in the series after TMWTGG.

    The 90s and the 00s were not as productive as the first three decades were, but I still thought the majority of the movies made in those two decades were good (with the last two Brosnans being the sour note).
  • The_ReaperThe_Reaper
    Posts: 1,092
    I still don't get this hate for the 70's. As silly as some moments were, these are still the classic Bond films.
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    Either the '60s or the '70s, but probably the '70s. My bottom-ranked Bond movies come from these two decades, like GF, YOLT, OHMSS, TMWTGG, and MR.
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    90's think brosnan was the weakest bond.
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    Posts: 2,629
    1. 90s
    2. 00s
    3. 70s
    4. 80s
    5. 60s
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    Posts: 2,341
    GeorgeLazenby wrote:
    60s - Golden Age
    70s - Silver Age
    80s - Bronze Age
    90s - Sewage
    00s - Interesting age this one, with one classic (Qos), one middler (CR) and one piece of crap (DAD)

    I agree: the 90's was the low water mark.

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,219
    My choices:

    1. 60s
    2. 80s
    3. 00's (only because of CR TBH)
    4. 70s
    5. 90s
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited January 2012 Posts: 5,745
    The 70's naturally comes to me, I just don't like the style of the films.
    The 80's were saved by Dalton, just barely.

    EDIT: Nevermind. When I think about it really hard, CR and QoS are two of my most-re-watchable.

    So worst to best,

    70's
    80's
    90's
    00's
    60's
  • identigraphidentigraph
    Posts: 1,052
    90's or 00's, either of these are pretty poor. For me the 70's and 80's are full of classics, this is my personal golden age, obviously most would say the 60's are the golden age and I fully understand why.
  • 00Beast00Beast
    edited January 2012 Posts: 4,762
    Does nobody like the '90s as much as I do? GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies are two of the best Bonds yet, and The World is not Enough is also very good.
  • jackdaggerjackdagger
    Posts: 498
    Sorry, I have to say the 90's were the worst as well. Terrible puns, forgettable villains, and pretty mediocre-to-bad Bond girls (exept for Xenia, of course).
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    jackdagger wrote:
    Sorry, I have to say the 90's were the worst as well. Terrible puns, forgettable villains, and pretty mediocre-to-bad Bond girls (exept for Xenia, of course).

    And Electra King, I wouldn't kick her out of bed ;)
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    Posts: 2,341
    As I read some of you guys' comments I have to look back at the seventies and maybe it was the low point. I have such a bad opinion of the Brosnan age though. Even if DAD came out in 2002, I stilll find myself lumping that train wreck in the 90's. It was for all intents a 90's film. I would never place it in the same league with CR and QoS.
    I still will rank the Nineties as the worst decade for 007 but the seventies would be a close second. DAF,LALD, TMWTGG, TSWLM, and to close out the decade, MR
    After seeing MR I was ready to swear off James Bond. Only after I heard that they were going back to basics with FYEO did I relent and return to the theaters for the rest of Moore's run.

    60's GOLDEN AGE
    80'S SILVER AGE
    00'S BRONZE AGE (CR trumps DAD and keeps it from dragging the decade into the gutter)
    70'S CHEAP IMITATION AGE
    90'S SEWAGE
  • 007JamesBond007JamesBond
    Posts: 321
    90's for me
  • 002002
    edited January 2012 Posts: 581
    honestly i think the 90s were the best decade of Bond- followed by the 80s
    i dont understand all the hatred towards Brosnan he certainly did a good job as Bond- he is highly underrated- i had the feeling that Die Another Day destroyed his reputation...

    The 2000s were the worst- Die Another Day and Qantum of Solace were the worst films in the entire bond franchise (Casino Royale was the exception of this decade)
  • 002002
    edited January 2012 Posts: 581
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  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited January 2012 Posts: 15,719
    1 ( least favorite)
    5 ( most favorite)

    1 - 00's
    2 - 90's
    3 - 80's
    4 - 70's
    5 - 60's
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    00Beast wrote:
    Does nobody like the '90s as much as I do? GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies are two of the best Bonds yet, and The World is not Enough is also very good.

    Well, I like Brosnan - loved Goldeneye, enjoyed most of Tomorrow Never Dies, and liked a lot of The World is Not Enough ... I did not like Die another Day in spite of a nice fencing scene ... well, I wish Brosnan had done more. And I wish that the last two were better scripted. I do like him as Bond, definitely.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited January 2012 Posts: 12,837
    every decade has at least one bad film. When you have a franchise thats lasted 50 years there's bound to be bad films.

    But to me, the 80s (dalton was there, plus it was also a great year for films outside of bond, like die hard, and indiana jones), and the 90s were the best decades. The 00s are the worst for me. They started of with the 2nd worst bond film ever (the could've been great then got ruined by the iceland and plane scenes DAD), then had a great reboot with a great bond film (CR), but closed out the decade on the worst bond film ever (QOS).

    BEST TO WORST

    1- 80s/90s

    2- 60s/70s

    3- 00s (sorry, but there was only one good film. I know only 3 films were made but the 2 that weren't good were the worst in the series)
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited April 2013 Posts: 12,837
    4EverBonded wrote:
    00Beast wrote:
    Does nobody like the '90s as much as I do? GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies are two of the best Bonds yet, and The World is not Enough is also very good.

    Well, I like Brosnan - loved Goldeneye, enjoyed most of Tomorrow Never Dies, and liked a lot of The World is Not Enough ... I did not like Die another Day in spite of a nice fencing scene ... well, I wish Brosnan had done more. And I wish that the last two were better scripted. I do like him as Bond, definitely.

    I like goldeneye, TND had some really good parts but had some bad parts, and the villian was pretty weak. I loved TWINE. And DAD started of so great that it would probably be one of my fave bond films IF they had changed the whole iceland/finale sequence to have less CGI and did lots of rewrites.
  • TreefingersTreefingers Isthmus City, Republic of Isthmus
    Posts: 191
    To me is a tie betweenthe 70's and 00's, each one having only one decent film, TSWLM & CR respectively.
  • ZekidkZekidk
    Posts: 3,278
    PanchitoPistoles wrote:
    70's. No question. I mean that decade starts with DAF/LALD/TMWTGG and ends with MR. It's bad. Really bad.

    Bad for who? MR is one of the highest grossing Bond-movies.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    Zekidk wrote:
    PanchitoPistoles wrote:
    70's. No question. I mean that decade starts with DAF/LALD/TMWTGG and ends with MR. It's bad. Really bad.

    Bad for who? MR is one of the highest grossing Bond-movies.

    TMWTGG wasn't bad, and TSWLM was awesome. And most of moonraker is a decent film. The 00s are the worst, it only had 1 good film out of 3, and the other 2 are the worst in the series
  • timmertimmer
    edited April 2013 Posts: 4,622
    My ranking is exact inverse of this ranking. :\">
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    1 ( least favorite)
    5 ( most favorite)

    1 - 00's
    2 - 90's
    3 - 80's
    4 - 70's
    5 - 60's

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