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CR - The Best Bond film ever. As perfect as it gets.
QoS - Good, but not great. Somewhere in the middle of my ranking.
SF - Great, top-tier Bond in most aspects. Top 10 easily.
SP - Average. Pretty decent first two thirds overall, but a very weak third act.
Interesting question.
If we dismiss the weakest entry/entries of the actors who have done 5 films and over to have everyone on an even keel of their 5 best films that would leave:
Sean - DN, FRWL, GF, TB, YOLT
Rog - LALD, TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP
Dan - CR, QOS, SF, SP, B25
I don't think Rog's films would hold up against CR, SF and B25 (best Bond ever) as even QOS and SP can go toe to toe with LALD and MR so it comes down to Sean v Dan.
As we're assuming it's the 'best Bond ever' if we replace B25 with OHMSS is that a better set of films than Sean's first 5?
Literally a fag paper between them. But even though TB bores me and the first half of YOLT isn't great I'd still say Sean shades it. But then if B25 is actually better than OHMSS who knows? The Craig era could yet go down as the greatest.
Except it won't because B25 isn't going to be the best of all time. That's Leicester winning the Premier League odds and those odds don't come in twice in one lifetime.
Obviously that only means the era has a better set of films. The performances as Bond are an entirely different debate.
I can't remember what the 'average' rank of these films is on this site. I know there was some contest done a few months back.
I know it's not likely at all; just throwing out the possibility. Even if Bond 25 is Top 10 material it will be 100% solidified as my second favorite to Connery's era.
Has anyone else seen this? Would have turned SF from one of my favorites to maybe my least favorite Bond film. Wow.
That would have been terrible. It actually would have been worse than Tamahori's idea to have old Connery-Bond mentor Brosnan-Bond. This is something worse than the code name theory, and that's saying a lot.
That earlier idea for SF demonstrates why P&W must go, sooner rather than later. Useless.
Staggering that these clowns are continuing to get away with coming up with shite like this with the only safety mechanism seemingly Babs and MGW. And as we have seen this is nowhere near robust enough, with stepbrothergate getting through and M being a traitor almost making it on the flight but for eagle eyed Fiennes at airport security noticing P&W trying to sneak a giant bomb on board.
These hacks represent a clear and present danger to the character and with such sloppy security to prevent their insane notions getting through it's only a matter of when not if a Bond film crashes with all hands. Remember the terrorists only need to succeed once.
Now i'm even more concerned for B25.
Like it or not, but at least it would have been real drama and not the soapy melodram we got.
'a flashback shows a young M during the Cold War having an affair with a KGB agent. This leads to a modern day plotline in which the bad guys blackmail M. Stunningly, the story ended with Bond killing M to protect the service.'
So Craig's M has been a traitor all along from the start of CR? And they are just rehashing Vesper's story but with M instead?
If people really can't see why P&W's desperation to foist poor man's Le Carre plotlines upon us and have everything revolving about the increasingly irritating and dysfunctional MI6 family is a bad idea I really do despair.
Stop getting Bond wrong!!! Just give us an honest to goodness film where the fate of the world depends on one man.
I don't give two shits about M's backstory, Q's cats, MP's fridge and Tanner's err well just Tanner in general.
Alas my Mariana Trench low expectations for B25 have sunk even further having read this article as not only did they try for it for SF they tried to resurrect it for SP. It's clear it's something they are keen on and Babs & MGW are too seeing as it was greenlit and only Fiennes blocking it saved us. Once he leaves (after the Craig era?) we are getting this storyline.
We'll she's been shagging someone from the KGB mate. Pretty sure if she mentions that in the interview for head of MI6 she's dead in the water. Not a traitor technically I guess but serious security risk and still a shit idea.
Only for Queen and Country old son.