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  • ThighsOfXeniaThighsOfXenia
    edited October 2019 Posts: 1,596
    QoS' score is one of the best things about it. I'm not an Arnold hater, per say, but I often don't love his scores for the series, but that is far and away his best work I think. His TND work is also good for its "all or nothing, everything and the kitchen sink" feel. If you've got one shot at a Bond score, as he's talked about, give it everything. So, I get why it's too loud for some people but I tend to feel that way about his last 2 Brosnan scores as opposed to TND which I think sounds great. Not as evocative as QoS, though, and it is easily his best score for the series.

    As for the film as a whole, I've come around to elements of it over time, but it's still pretty hard for me to overlook some of its more glaring issues. It is middle-bottom of the pack for me, I think, inching upward slowly.

    But I've never understood the superlative praise it is often given as a whole on these boards, even though certain elements of it are certainly masterful/superlative. Definitely not the dumpster-tier entry I once considered it.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    Re-evaluated some of the films. Few changes here and there.

    1. Dr.No
    2. From Russia With Love
    3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    4. Casino Royale
    5. Octopussy
    6. The Living Daylights
    7. Goldfinger
    8. For Your Eyes Only
    9. Thunderball
    10. The Spy Who Loved Me
    11. Live And Let Die
    12. Goldeneye
    13. Licence To Kill
    14. You Only Live Twice
    15. Skyfall
    16. Moonraker
    17. The Man With The Golden Gun
    18. Spectre
    19. Quantum Of Solace
    20. Tomorrow Never Dies
    21. Die Another Day
    22. A View To A Kill
    23. Diamonds Are Forever
    24. The World Is Not Enough

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    edited October 2019 Posts: 16,169
    1. GOLDFINGER
    2. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
    3. THUNDERBALL
    4. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
    5. THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
    6. DR NO
    7. FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
    8. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
    9. LIVE AND LET DIE
    10. OCTOPUSSY/NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
    11. CASINO ROYALE 06
    12. SKYFALL
    13. LICENCE TO KILL
    14. GOLDENEYE
    15. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
    16. MOONRAKER
    17. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
    18. A VIEW TO A KILL
    19. YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE/ CR 54
    20. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
    21. SPECTRE
    22. QUANTUM OF SOLACE
    23. TOMORROW NEVER DIES/ CR 67
    24. DIE ANOTHER DAY
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited October 2019 Posts: 40,976
    Here it is, my second ranking of the year and easily the biggest shakeup my list has undergone in years. I tried to avoid objectivity of the films and their inherent "legacies" and rank them flat out in terms of enjoyment and rewatchability this time.

    1. GE
    2. OHMSS
    3. QOS
    4. DN
    5. CR
    6. YOLT
    7. FYEO
    8. LALD
    9. GF
    10. OP
    11. AVTAK
    12. TSWLM
    13. FRWL
    14. MR
    15. TWINE
    16. TB
    17. LTK
    18. DAD
    19. DAF
    20. TMWTGG
    21. TND
    22. TLD
    23. SF
    24. SP
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,473
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Here it is, my second ranking of the year and easily the biggest shakeup my list has undergone in years. I tried to avoid objectivity of the films and their inherent "legacies" and rank them flat out in terms of enjoyment and rewatchability this time.

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

    Unique list! Love to see the AVTAK love!
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    FoxRox wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Here it is, my second ranking of the year and easily the biggest shakeup my list has undergone in years. I tried to avoid objectivity of the films and their inherent "legacies" and rank them flat out in terms of enjoyment and rewatchability this time.

    11. AVTAK

    Unique list! Love to see the AVTAK love!

    Funny how 11 is love for AVTAK!

  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    vzok wrote: »
    There’s a lot of positive rankings for QOS here and yet it was still well down the last league table.

    True on both counts. There's still more QoS 'haters' than 'lovers' but there's definitely more love for it on these forums
    ThighsOfXenia wrote: »
    QoS' score is one of the best things about it. I'm not an Arnold hater, per say, but I often don't love his scores for the series, but that is far and away his best work I think.

    QoS's score is one of the best things of the whole Craig era, and is more energetic than Barry's later scores (although that may have to do with QoS having more energy as well)


  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,473
    w2bond wrote: »
    FoxRox wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Here it is, my second ranking of the year and easily the biggest shakeup my list has undergone in years. I tried to avoid objectivity of the films and their inherent "legacies" and rank them flat out in terms of enjoyment and rewatchability this time.

    11. AVTAK

    Unique list! Love to see the AVTAK love!

    Funny how 11 is love for AVTAK!

    For me any Bond film at 11 is “love”; love almost all of them. And definitely AVTAK almost always sees lower ranking than that. It’s lower on my own list, but I still have loved it lately!
  • ThighsOfXeniaThighsOfXenia
    Posts: 1,596
    @Birdleson As you know I always like your lists and ours often have more similarities than not, but I'm not sure I can forgive QoS passing TB ;)

    In any case, nice to see some AVTAK appreciation, as well as seeing you coming around a bit to TLD / OP which are both entries I love.
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    I have to say @Birdleson, that your top 5 is, objectively, the best.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    Some shifts as I re-watch these with my 18 year old boy:

    1/FRWL
    2/OHMSS
    3/CR
    4/DN
    5/GF
    6/SF
    7/TB
    8/TLD
    9/QOS
    10/YOLT
    11/LALD
    12/LTK
    13/DAF
    14/TMWTGG
    15/OP
    16/TND
    17/FYEO
    18/GE
    19/TSWLM
    20/TWINE
    21/SP
    22/AVTAK
    23/MR
    24/DAD
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    Posts: 3,497
    peter wrote: »
    Some shifts as I re-watch these with my 18 year old boy:

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

    Interesting top 10. B-)
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    thanks @JamesCraig... I think the top three are the same films in different order.

    DN went up at TB's expense. But I'm happy with the top 10 overall. The big battle in the future is AVTAK and SP.

    Unfortunately, for now, nothing will change the bottom two.
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 814
    AVTAK appreciation... hmm, maybe it'll take 30+ years for more people to appreciate Spectre. :-??
  • peterpeter Toronto
    Posts: 9,509
    Thunderball wrote: »
    AVTAK appreciation... hmm, maybe it'll take 30+ years for more people to appreciate Spectre. :-??

    I've actually always been highly entertained by AVTAK-- a Goldfinger rip-off in a sense, but entertaining... and there are some very strong scenes-- primarily in the first quarter (minus the BB cover)-- any scenes with Walken and Jones and Moore, and the finale...

    It's the production value, and the made-for-TV feel it has once the story hits San Fran (what car was Bond driving? A Chrysler? I don't care if he was posing as a reporter, Bond would have found a way of explaining why this reporter was driving around in a Mercedes! This reeked of budget cuts...)

    SP is the opposite-- wonderful production, costumes, design-- woeful villain/story. Painfully boring and lacking in tension...
  • 2Wint2Kidd2Wint2Kidd
    Posts: 698
    Well to be fair, people's opinion on SP really comes down to what they enjoy with Bond. All your criticisms of SP, some other people would feel the same way about AVTAK. I guess that's what I love about Bond, each film has it's lovers and haters for different reasons.
  • vzokvzok
    Posts: 4,044
    I think watching QOS on the smaller screen helps it a good deal.
  • peterpeter Toronto
    edited November 2019 Posts: 9,509
    I agree @Birdleson ... the outstanding production values on SP is what you called it: window-dressing.

    If you don't have a proper story/script in place to anchor everything to come, to be the foundation of all the creative decisions that will happen, the "house" then collapses on itself.

    Sadly, that's what happened to SP, IMO.
  • ThighsOfXeniaThighsOfXenia
    Posts: 1,596
    @Birdleson I think that also speaks to the strength of SF, and I see exactly what you're saying. If QoS had been the last Bond film, it'd be a far more difficult pill to swallow (for the reasons you've mentioned, and others as well). However, since we've gotten installment(s) after it that've solidified that the film was a one-off exploration of some of the aspects of the character (not all of which I agree with / find valid, but some) we can more easily embrace QoS. It sounds like that's what you're saying?

    In a way we have the strong, more classical entries to thank for our appreciation of the oddities.
  • barryt007barryt007
    Posts: 19,339
    Thunderball wrote: »
    AVTAK appreciation... hmm, maybe it'll take 30+ 300+ years for more people to appreciate Spectre. :-??

  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 814
    Oh well, some of us still love it.
  • matt_umatt_u better known as Mr. Roark
    edited November 2019 Posts: 4,343
    peter wrote: »
    I agree @Birdleson ... the outstanding production values on SP is what you called it: window-dressing.

    If you don't have a proper story/script in place to anchor everything to come, to be the foundation of all the creative decisions that will happen, the "house" then collapses on itself.

    Sadly, that's what happened to SP, IMO.

    Well, the concept behind SP is pretty strong and personally quite fascinating. Can't argue with people who find the film "lifeless" or "boring", that's fair, but beside a script that doesn't always seems able to fully capitalize the inherent values of the film, I don't think they built a mammoth chatedral without foundations. I see SP as a kind of a film like The Dark Knight Rises. Bigger, less focused on character development than the previous entry but at the same time extremely satisfying and cool in its magniloquence.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,473
    This will likely be my last ranking before I marathon the movies again next year, leading up to No Time to Die (trying to not watch any before then):

    1. Casino Royale
    2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    3. Thunderball
    4. From Russia with Love
    5. Skyfall
    6. Goldfinger
    7. GoldenEye
    8. The Spy Who Loved Me
    9. Dr. No
    10. Licence to Kill
    11. For Your Eyes Only
    12. Quantum of Solace
    13. The Living Daylights
    14. Live and Let Die
    15. A View to a Kill
    16. The Man with the Golden Gun
    17. Tomorrow Never Dies
    18. You Only Live Twice
    19. Octopussy
    20. Moonraker
    21. The World Is Not Enough
    22. Spectre
    23. Diamonds Are Forever
    24. Die Another Day
  • BondHQBondHQ Heysham, Lancashire
    Posts: 28
    Hello, being new to the forum and my introduction done, I thought this may be the best thread to tell people a bit more about me by giving a simple ranking of the Bond movies.

    Sir Rog is my favourite 007 and I am sure that this may be reflected in my ranking. Anyway, here goes…

    1. The Spy Who Loved Me
    2. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
    3. From Russia With Love
    4. Casino Royale
    5. Octopussy
    6. Goldfinger
    7. Dr No
    8. Live and Let Die
    9. Goldeneye
    10. Licence to Kill
    11. Skyfall
    12. For Your Eyes Only
    13. Thunderball
    14. The Man with the Golden Gun
    15. Quantum of Solace
    16. Moonraker
    17. Tomorrow Never Dies
    18. The Living Daylights
    19. You Only Live Twice
    20. A View to a Kill
    21. Spectre
    22. Diamonds Are Forever
    23. Die Another Day
    24. The World is not Enough
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    That's fine Top 7 there @BondHQ. @Benny would be proud with your high rating of OP!
  • BondHQBondHQ Heysham, Lancashire
    Posts: 28
    royale65 wrote: »
    That's fine Top 7 there @BondHQ. @Benny would be proud with your high rating of OP!

    I love it, very underrated in my opinion.

  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,013
    After my recent Bondathon of Moore and Brosnan films i'm afraid in this latest ranking Brozza gets a bit of a proverbial kicking. Much prefer Moore to Brosnan as Bond. Never thought i'd say that...

    1. Goldfinger
    2. From Russia With Love
    3. Dr No
    4. The Living Daylights
    5. Casino Royale
    6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    7. Thunderball
    8. Quantum of Solace
    9. Skyfall
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. The Spy Who Loved Me
    12. Octopussy
    13. Live And Let Die
    14. Licence To Kill
    15. Tomorrow Never Dies
    16. The Man With The Golden Gun
    17. Moonraker
    18. You Only Live Twice
    19. Goldeneye
    20. The World Is Not Enough
    21. Spectre
    22. A View To A Kill
    23. Diamonds Are Forever
    24. Die Another Day



  • Mathis1Mathis1
    Posts: 7,434
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    After my recent Bondathon of Moore and Brosnan films i'm afraid in this latest ranking Brozza gets a bit of a proverbial kicking. Much prefer Moore to Brosnan as Bond. Never thought i'd say that...

    1. Goldfinger
    2. From Russia With Love
    3. Dr No
    4. The Living Daylights
    5. Casino Royale
    6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    7. Thunderball
    8. Quantum of Solace
    9. Skyfall
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. The Spy Who Loved Me
    12. Octopussy
    13. Live And Let Die
    14. Licence To Kill
    15. Tomorrow Never Dies
    16. The Man With The Golden Gun
    17. Moonraker
    18. You Only Live Twice
    19. Goldeneye
    20. The World Is Not Enough
    21. Spectre
    22. A View To A Kill
    23. Diamonds Are Forever
    24. Die Another Day



    Knew you'd come to your senses 're Brossa, Leonardpine!
    Just kidding!
    Really good list.
    Top 8 are perfect!
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,013
    Mathis1 wrote: »
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    After my recent Bondathon of Moore and Brosnan films i'm afraid in this latest ranking Brozza gets a bit of a proverbial kicking. Much prefer Moore to Brosnan as Bond. Never thought i'd say that...

    1. Goldfinger
    2. From Russia With Love
    3. Dr No
    4. The Living Daylights
    5. Casino Royale
    6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
    7. Thunderball
    8. Quantum of Solace
    9. Skyfall
    10. For Your Eyes Only
    11. The Spy Who Loved Me
    12. Octopussy
    13. Live And Let Die
    14. Licence To Kill
    15. Tomorrow Never Dies
    16. The Man With The Golden Gun
    17. Moonraker
    18. You Only Live Twice
    19. Goldeneye
    20. The World Is Not Enough
    21. Spectre
    22. A View To A Kill
    23. Diamonds Are Forever
    24. Die Another Day



    Knew you'd come to your senses 're Brossa, Leonardpine!
    Just kidding!
    Really good list.
    Top 8 are perfect!

    Thanks! LTK has moved up my rankings as well 😁
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    BondHQ wrote: »
    Hello, being new to the forum and my introduction done, I thought this may be the best thread to tell people a bit more about me by giving a simple ranking of the Bond movies.

    Sir Rog is my favourite 007 and I am sure that this may be reflected in my ranking. Anyway, here goes…

    1. The Spy Who Loved Me
    2. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
    3. From Russia With Love
    4. Casino Royale
    5. Octopussy
    6. Goldfinger
    7. Dr No
    8. Live and Let Die
    9. Goldeneye
    10. Licence to Kill
    11. Skyfall
    12. For Your Eyes Only
    13. Thunderball
    14. The Man with the Golden Gun
    15. Quantum of Solace
    16. Moonraker
    17. Tomorrow Never Dies
    18. The Living Daylights
    19. You Only Live Twice
    20. A View to a Kill
    21. Spectre
    22. Diamonds Are Forever
    23. Die Another Day
    24. The World is not Enough

    Great ranking this @BondHQ. Always love seeing OP so high on any list.
    I like your top 10, but overall we share some similar highs and lows.
    Welcome to the forum btw.

    :-bd
    royale65 wrote: »
    That's fine Top 7 there @BondHQ. @Benny would be proud with your high rating of OP!

    Indeed he is...indeed he is. Always happy to see some OP appreciation. ;)
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