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From the audiences point of view, which Bondfilm is the least known?

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  • Suivez_ce_parachuteSuivez_ce_parachute
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    OHMSS is the movie with a significant lowest number of voter on IMDB (35000). Moore movies are then remarkably all around 45000, with AVTAK as a non significant low for him.
  • SlyFox007SlyFox007
    Posts: 414
    Knowing all of them by heart, it's hard for me to think of any as obscure (unless you count the non-EON Casino Royales or NSNA). When I show the movies to friends, they seem most surprised by the existance of the Dalton films, though, so I'd say TLD and LTK.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I love FYEO, but I think it is one of the strong contenders for the least known Bond movie. Yes, Moore is in it, but the movie is "lost" in his tenure.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited January 2013 Posts: 28,694
    lahaine wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    I think OHMSS is remembered more than Daltons films because Bond gets married.

    Plus Christopher Nolan and i think Daniel Craig (i could be wrong on the Craig one) have cited it as there favourite Bond movie which has done it a lot of good for its critical standing. plus it has one of the greatest songs in We have all the time in the world and it has Bond been married as you said.
    No, Dan's favorite it FRWL. Great taste, that man has. And he's too modest to pick his own. ;)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    The general public knows Bond as Connery & Craig.
    ONLY hardcore fans know anything else IMO. [-X
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    chrisisall wrote:
    The general public knows Bond as Connery & Craig.
    ONLY hardcore fans know anything else IMO. [-X

    Oh I disagree there. Moore and Brosnan are well known too. Some still beg for the return of Brosnan. And in this day and age, with open access to trivia via the Internet and whatnot, the occasional reader seems quite aware of Lazenby and Dalton too. I really wouldn't mistake Connery's and Craig's popularity for their being the only well known Bonds. ;-)
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    A question is still opening for answers, how well recognized is Craig going to be in 15-20 years? Is he going to be forgotten or is he going to stay in people's mind?

    I think he will be remembered for a while, and then depending on who the next actor is and how good he are he will be more forgotten/remembered.
  • YtterbiumYtterbium
    edited January 2013 Posts: 269
    By discussing with "normal" Bond viewers, I would say that OHMSS is the least known, no matter how good or important it is for us Bond fan.
    Why ?
    Because for the average viewer, there is no such thing as a specific Bond film, appart from the most recent he bears in mind. Most of them can't tell one Bond movie with Roger Moore than another Bondmovie with Roger Moore. Most of the time, people tell me "Oh! Yeah! James Bond ! I've seen one recently! I don't remember exactly what was going on.There was this villain, a lot of shooting... a bond girl, and this was with Sean Connery!".
    So most people I know identify the actor playing Bond before the film, and choose to watch a movie when it's on TV when they already know the actor. Hence, OHMSS is the most unknown of the Bond film and those who's seen it don't have particularly fond memories of it.
    However, the Dalton film tend to be more easily remembered (by the story and quality of the film because people can't tell the name of the actor). [french context]
  • Quantum07Quantum07
    Posts: 135
    According to the stats on this sporcle quiz, the least 3 known movies are FYEO, TLD, and AVTAK. Allthough this can't really be reliable because SF is actually in the bottom with them...

    The top 3 that most people guessed were CR, GF, and DN

    http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/jamesbond/results
  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    Posts: 6,432
    TLD, LTK, OHMSS in my experience are films people have forgotten. Me personally, i have tried to wipe 3 of Brosnans movies from my memory.
  • 00Beast00Beast
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    From what I have seen through a little research, it seems to me like For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, and License to Kill are the least known of the Bond movies. Perhaps A View to a Kill in that list, although everyone does tend to remember it by Duran Duran's title song and Christopher Walken as Max Zorin. When I took a Bond quiz for fun on this website called Sporcle, the results showed that the majority of users who had taken that same quiz forgot FYEO, TLD, and LTK the most.
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,106
    00Beast wrote:
    From what I have seen through a little research, it seems to me like For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, and License to Kill are the least known of the Bond movies. Perhaps A View to a Kill in that list, although everyone does tend to remember it by Duran Duran's title song and Christopher Walken as Max Zorin. When I took a Bond quiz for fun on this website called Sporcle, the results showed that the majority of users who had taken that same quiz forgot FYEO, TLD, and LTK the most.
    The more I think about it, the more I would say FYEO is the least known one. Partially due to the fact that Roger Moore is in it: it gets lost in his tenure. If you ask people about his time as Bond, what they remembered, they will remember the title OP, the Lotus, Jaws, but the straight spy plot?
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Ytterbium wrote:
    Because for the average viewer, there is no such thing as a specific Bond film, appart from the most recent he bears in mind. Most of them can't tell one Bond movie with Roger Moore than another Bondmovie with Roger Moore. Most of the time, people tell me "Oh! Yeah! James Bond ! I've seen one recently! I don't remember exactly what was going on.There was this villain, a lot of shooting... a bond girl, and this was with Sean Connery!"

    That's almost as lucid as something I might have written myself.

    At the end of the day the vast majority of Joe Public could name half a dozen Bond titles (probably DN, GF, LALD, MR, GE and CR) but wouldn't have a clue what went on in them with regard to plot characters etc. To the public they all much of a muchness so to be honest this whole thread is pretty redundant.
  • ElliotCarverElliotCarver
    Posts: 249
    00Beast wrote:
    From what I have seen through a little research, it seems to me like For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights, and License to Kill are the least known of the Bond movies. Perhaps A View to a Kill in that list, although everyone does tend to remember it by Duran Duran's title song and Christopher Walken as Max Zorin. When I took a Bond quiz for fun on this website called Sporcle, the results showed that the majority of users who had taken that same quiz forgot FYEO, TLD, and LTK the most.

    Probably the first thing my dad said when I asked him "what do you know about Bond?" he said "lots of half-naked girls and Christopher Walken". So yes, A View to a Kill is not really forgotten, mostly due to him.
  • NapoleonPluralNapoleonPlural
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    Agree with Wiz of Ice, plus NSNA is pretty off the radar these days. Mind you, it does have that iconic b+w shot of Connery with the gun, actually more famous than the film itself. And his wig and his eyebrows look better in that picture, was it taken before filming started?
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    Posts: 2,341
    I have to agree with most of you. the Dalton films are overlooked. folks had such a love affair with Pierce Brosnan and his mediocre films that they want to pretend the Dalton never existed. A pity because TLD and LTK are quite good.
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