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  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    MayDayDiVicenzo wrote: »
    Used to be a top ten entry for me, now it's in the lower half. I've become disinterested in the Brosnan era of late

    Yes, I know what you mean - on my latest Bondathon I felt a strange disconnect with the Brosnan films. I've always been a fan of them, but...

    Perhaps, as @Thunderfinger mentioned, I too, am becoming a man!

  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    I'm not sure the last time I've done the rankings, but things have changed. For me, no such thing as a bad Bond film. This ranking is more of preference over quality of the film.

    1. GE
    2. CR (Actually, can I make this 1A and 1B?)
    3. SP
    4. SF
    5. MR
    6. FRWL
    7. DAF
    8. LALD
    9. OHMSS
    10. YOLT (It's shot way up my rankings in recent views, it used to be near the bottom)
    11. TSWLM
    12. TLD
    13. GF
    14. QOS
    15. TND
    16. OP
    17. TB
    18. TWINE
    19. DN
    20. TMWTGG
    21. DAD
    22. AVTAK
    23. LTK
    24. FYEO
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    A fan of both SP and SF. I thought we were a dying breed!
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    royale65 wrote: »
    A fan of both SP and SF. I thought we were a dying breed!
    Love them both, too.
    Excellent ranking, Last_Rat_Standing.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Add me to that group. Though I rank SP a few places below SF, I really enjoy both. All of Craig's Bond films are very enjoyable for me.
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
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    royale65 wrote: »
    A fan of both SP and SF. I thought we were a dying breed!

    Count me in!

    Thanks to the Spanish Bond fan club Archivo007 and Dolby Atmos cinema Phenomena, I just saw 'A View To A Kill' in phenomenal Ultra HD 4K quality. But I concluded that some Bond films really don't age very well. It's perhaps because of the great quality, that you are confronted more detailedly with the flaws of this 14th official Bond adventure.

    My biggest disappointment were in fact the incredible flatness of the characters, James Bond included. Only Academy Award winner Christopher Walken could elevate his villain role by charismatic and psychopathic acting. And the main title sequence was perhaps my personal highlight. Despite those meager highlights, 'A View To A Kill' is perhaps destined to be forgotten and mothballed by general audiences 40 years from now.

    During the film 'A View To A Kill' I was longing desperately to the quality of films like 'Casino Royale', 'Skyfall' and 'SPECTRE'. Next to Stacey Sutton...Madeleine Swan, Severine and Vesper Lynd could simply kill that irritating screamer solely by their brains
    ^:)^
  • suavejmfsuavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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    My updated 2016 list;

    Perfection:
    From Russia with Love (1963)
    Casino Royale (2006)
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    Dr No (1962)
    Thunderball (1965)

    Excellent:
    Goldfinger (1964)
    Licence to Kill (1989)
    The Living Daylights (1987)
    Live and Let Die (1973)
    Skyfall (2012)
    Spectre (2015)

    Good:
    You Only Live Twice (1967)
    Quantum of Solace (2008)
    For Your Eyes Only (1981)
    GoldenEye (1995)
    The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
    Octopussy (1983)
    Never Say Never Again (1983)

    Average:
    The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Moores performance is great.
    A View to a Kill (1985)
    Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
    Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
    Moonraker (1979)
    The World Is Not Enough (1999)
    Die Another Day (2002)

    TSWLM is always difficult for me to judge and rate. If some of the overt humour (bordering on parody) were edited out, along with Jaws being more serious...it would be ranked much higher by me.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I hope you have a positive evaluation of TSWLM at some later stage @suavejmf.

    Here's mine updated, after a recent pseudo Bondathon.

    1. FRWL
    2. TB
    3. CR
    4. TSWLM
    5. DN
    6. OHMSS (+2)
    7. GE
    8. OP (-2)
    9. SF
    10. LTK (+1)
    11. LALD (+1)
    12. QoS (+4)
    13. GF (+4)
    14. FYEO (-1)
    15. TLD (-1)
    16. TMWTGG (-1)
    17. DAF (+2)
    18. TND
    19. YOLT (+1)
    20. MR (+1)
    21. SP (-11)
    22. AVTAK
    23. DAD
    24. TWINE
  • vzokvzok
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I hope you have a positive evaluation of TSWLM at some later stage @suavejmf.

    Here's mine updated, after a recent pseudo Bondathon.

    1. FRWL
    2. TB
    3. CR
    4. TSWLM
    5. DN
    6. OHMSS (+2)
    7. GE
    8. OP (-2)
    9. SF
    10. LTK (+1)
    11. LALD (+1)
    12. QoS (+4)
    13. GF (+4)
    14. FYEO (-1)
    15. TLD (-1)
    16. TMWTGG (-1)
    17. DAF (+2)
    18. TND
    19. YOLT (+1)
    20. MR (+1)
    21. SP (-11)
    22. AVTAK
    23. DAD
    24. TWINE

    How many times have you watched Spectre?

  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    @vzok, about 6 now. 3 times in the theatre and 3 times on blu ray. It's not my cup of tea overall, but I like the first half until Madeline shows up.
  • vzokvzok
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    @bondjames - you've gone right off it recently though. I was just wondering after how many views you'd had enough of it.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited June 2016 Posts: 23,883
    @vzok, I never really liked it but I had it ranked higher because of the novelty factor. In a way, that was a 'placeholder ranking'. I knew it would decline eventually, but wanted to give it a chance.

    Since I started watching it on blu ray, my impression has declined further, especially after watching it with the previous Craig efforts back to back. It just doesn't do much for me - I find it very disjointed and more in line with the Brosnan period (and not as good as some of those) than Craig's meatier prior films.

    I just can't finish the film any more which is really shocking. Once it gets to London, I'm out. Newman's awful score, and all the other stuff that's been mentioned on here enough just gets me down. It sort of starts becoming difficult for me at Blofeld HQ, in the control room. Up to that point, I don't mind it at all, and it has some great moments earlier.
  • DoctorKaufmannDoctorKaufmann Can shoot you from Stuttgart and still make it look like suicide.
    edited June 2016 Posts: 1,261
    1. CR
    2. SF
    3. GF
    4. TLD
    5. GE
    6. TSWLM
    7. OHMSS
    8. AVTK
    9. SP
    10. TMWTGG
    11. LTK
    12. QOS
    13. TWINE
    14. FYEO
    15. TB
    16. TND
    17. LALD
    18. MR
    19. DAF
    20. DN
    21. FRWL
    22. YOLT
    23. OP
    24. DAD
  • vzokvzok
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    @ bondjames - That's a shame that you have a Bond movie that you can't complete. Maybe a long rest from it might ease the pain of the final third.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    I hope so @vzok. You're right. Time away may help.
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
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    More and more are placing SP in the bottom five. Interesting. It's been there for me since October.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited June 2016 Posts: 7,136
    EXCELLENT
    1. Licence to Kill
    2. Goldfinger
    3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    4. From Russia with Love
    5. GoldenEye
    6. Casino Royale

    GOOD
    7. The Living Daylights
    8. Skyfall
    9. Dr. No
    10. You Only Live Twice
    11. The Man with the Golden Gun
    12. The World Is Not Enough
    13. The Spy Who Loved Me

    OK
    14. Thunderball
    15. A View to a Kill
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies
    17. Quantum of Solace
    18. Live and Let Die
    19. For Your Eyes Only
    20. Diamonds Are Forever
    21. Octopussy
    22. Spectre

    POOR
    23. Moonraker
    24. Die Another Day
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Thanks @Birdleson.

    I would have thought I'd have a bit too much Dalton love and not enough Moore appreciation in there for your taste. ;)
  • MansfieldMansfield Where the hell have you been?
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    I see Spectre is relegated to dungeon duty @bondjames. Something about it landing below Moonraker is very telling, even more than the members who have it dead last.

    One thing that really put me off the last time I saw it was the color grading, which originally did not sway me greatly (though it did cause me to miss some of the subtle details that I later noticed on Blu-Ray). It works in a few scenes, but the whole thing is not a very retro vibe when you take the plot into account and tone of the film. And actually, if you take into account the ending of the film where he drives off with his significant other, you would think there should have been more color and beauty throughout similar to OHMSS. I may have just talked the film down another rank or two by writing this post. :-?
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited June 2016 Posts: 23,883
    I'm with you @Mansfield. That was the most annoying thing about my recent rewatch of the film last week. I have no idea what Hoyte was thinking but the yellow in particular is very distracting and annoying, and the film has a distinctly monotone pallete throughout which is incredibly dull. The Austrian snow scenes in particular are done no justice whatsoever. Such locales are extremely beautiful in real life (I've been near there). Not really my cup of tea - at all. The only part where I found it worked was in that boat ride to White's, which is very moody & foreboding.

    It's very much like these CGI infested superhero films, which also have the same monotone look to them in places.

    At least MR is colourful, vibrant and fun, and it's not trying to be anything else.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    bondjames wrote: »
    I have no idea what Hoyte was thinking but the yellow in particular is very distracting and annoying, and the film has a distinctly monotone pallete throughout which is incredibly dull.
    Honestly, I did not enjoy that much either except for in the PTS... the music kind of reflected that... as did the lame 'bro' concoction with Earnst.
    So I hate it now you think?
    Nah, Craig is the reason I love SP (well, AND the proper gunbarrel).

    :D
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
    edited June 2016 Posts: 1,817
    DELETE.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    edited June 2016 Posts: 8,400
    A few tweaks.

    1. Dr No (1962)
    2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    3. From Russia With Love (1963)
    4. Casino Royale (2006)
    5. Goldfinger (1964)
    6. Thunderball (1965)
    7. Live And Let Die (1973)
    8. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
    9. The Living Daylights (1987)
    10. GoldenEye (1995)
    11. License To Kill (1989)
    12. You Only Live Twice (1967)
    13. Octopussy (1983)

    14. The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
    15. Octopussy (1981)
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
    17. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
    18. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
    19. A View To A Kill (1985)
    20. Moonraker (1979)
    21. Die Another Day (2002)
    22. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
    23. Skyfall (2012)
    24. Quantum Of Solace (2008)
  • GBFGBF
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    1. The Living Daylights (1987)
    2. From Russia With Love (1963)
    3. A View To A Kill (1985)
    4. GoldenEye (1995)
    5. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
    6. Casino Royale (2006)
    7. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
    8. Octopussy (1981)
    9. Thunderball (1965)
    10. Goldfinger (1964)
    11. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
    12. Live And Let Die (1973)
    13. Skyfall (2012)
    14. Dr. No (1962)
    15. You Only Live Twice (1967)
    16. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
    17. The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
    18. License To Kill (1989)
    19. Tomorrow Ne ver Dies (1997)
    20. Quantum Of Solace (2008)
    21. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
    22. Moonraker (1979)
    23. SPECTRE (2015)
    24. Die Another Day (2002)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @GBF, AVTAK at number three? I like you. It's most certainly one of my favorites in the series, I love it, regardless of where I rank it.
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    edited June 2016 Posts: 4,423
    A slight revision to my rankings. Naturally, I'm not happy with it.

    1. From Russia With Love, 1963
    2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969
    3. Casino Royale, 2006
    4. Goldfinger, 1964
    5. Licence To Kill, 1989
    6. Dr. No, 1962
    7. The Living Daylights, 1987
    8. The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977
    9. Thunderball, 1965
    10. Octopussy, 1983
    11. Skyfall, 2012
    12. The World Is Not Enough, 1999
    13. Spectre, 2015
    14. For Your Eyes Only, 1981
    15. Quantum of Solace, 2008
    16. Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
    17. GoldenEye, 1995
    18. You Only Live Twice, 1967
    19. Live and Let Die, 1973
    20. Moonraker, 1979
    21. A View To A Kill, 1985
    22. Diamonds Are Forever, 1971
    23. Die Another Day, 2002
    24. The Man With The Golden Gun, 1974
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    Like TLD, OP and LALD, TMWTGG for instance? ;)
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
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    @GBF that is a very good list. Kudos for TLD as well.
  • GBFGBF
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    @Creasy47, @GBF

    actually AVTAK was my No. 1 for a long time despite all its flaws. But as you see, I am big fan of the 80s Bond, most probably because I grew up in this time.



  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    I'm afraid you'll have to blame your old friend Sheriff J.W. Pepper on LALD's low ranking @Birdleson!
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