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A scare?
Tbh, I don't listen to music from popular music bands or artists, just video game music.
Connery
Craig (consistent, tough Bond)
Lazenby (would be higher if he had done more, and his film is my favorite)
Dalton (like his films but not enough fight chops IMHO)
Brosnan (GE is impressive, then the rest fall flat for me)
Moore
Quite a good list (I'm sure you can justify every one of your rankings). Personally, though, I don't understand seeing Live And Let Die in the top ten. The Living Daylights also seems pretty low, as does Tomorrow Never Dies. What's your stance on those?
Live and Let Die is an interesting movie because it has some great scenes and stunts, some pretty good one-liners, and the chemistry between the actors is actually rather evident. The problem is that it has one of the weakest pretitles for me (the titles wouldn't impress either were it not for the theme song), and the final act with Kananga being blown up verges on farce. I'm able to get by the failed blaxpoitation, but if I didn't, it would've been a run-of-the-mill Bond flick, IMO.
I agree with you on The Living Daylights - my opinion of it has actually fallen upon rewatching it. It's good until they go to Afghanistan, and after that, the only resurgence is the plane fight because of the stuntwork - otherwise, the movie just goes nosedives like the plane in the GE PTS. There's also a good score from Barry, but the villains in the movie are easily some of the weakest in the franchise, and their demises are also unimpressive.
For Tomorrow Never Dies, I also agree. The final act is just a machine gun party - it's one of the most unfulfilling final acts ever. I enjoyed the remote car chase, though, just because it felt fitting for Brosnan.
I guess it's because you've seen all the Bonds in cinema and you've had the experience of the 70's? I was born a full decade after Live And Let Die, so maybe I just didn't have the cultural experience to appreciate it in the same way that you do.
Mind you, on this site, anything could happen!
Its got Sean in it. So 'win' for me.
I enjoy it because it is a pure, head down, full speed ahead action movie and Arnold's music really amplifies things even more. There are no frills and there are few, if any, misconceptions about its aspirations. It doesn't try to be something it isnt'
Not top tier Bond, but I have a great time with it.
I think the end with all of the machine guns firing wildly is pretty mindless, for sure. I know you hate the sequence, but I always have fun with the parking garage chase. It's pretty silly, sure, but I'm not sure I'd call it mindless. It's pretty competently put together, and thought clearly went into it. The shooting at the end just was just chaos and likely a huge hole in the script.
Same thing with the motorcycle chase. I think that's a fantastic set piece. All of Michelle Yeoh's stuff, too, is great in the film.
Arnold's music is pure "if this is the only Bond film I can do I'm throwing everything I've got at it" fan-territory, and in a way that's sort of how the movie feels for me. I think Pryce absolutely destroying every piece of scenery around him works well also. It's a movie, in a tenure full of tonal inconsistencies, that feels very consistent (for better or worse) start to finish.
Definitely would never scoff at anyone who dislikes it, or even hates it, because every time I view it, especially as an adult, I can always see why some might not rate it so highly.
Also, I wasn't a fan of Yeoh either. Too much of an action girl. If Belluci had been cast instead of Hatcher (as had been rumoured at the time) then undoubtedly the necessary classic style would have existed in the female dept.
Overall though, I think it's a good effort. Much better than what was to come. I like Elliot Carver as the whiney multi-billionaire.
I wouldn't say mine is a "best to worst" list--just favorite to lesser favorites.
1. The Living Daylights
2. Octopussy
3. Casino Royale
4. From Russia with Love
5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6. Goldeneye
7. For Your Eyes Only
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
10. Dr No
11. Moonraker
12. Diamonds Are Forever
13. Licence To Kill
14. You Only Live Twice
15. A View To A Kill
16. Goldfinger
17. The Man with the Golden Gun
18. Thunderball
19. Live and Let Die
20. Die Another Day
21. The World Is Not Enough
22. Skyfall
23. Spectre
24. Quantum of Solace
Damn shame about the bottom three, but I don't find joy watching them in their entireties. Their placement has nothing to do with Craig as Bond.
Couple of reasons....Martin Campbell knows how to direct Bond. It's not entirely a coincidence that Goldeneye is up there despite the subpar score. There's a certain Bondian style to CR that's lacking from his other 3.
For real - stunts in CR were mostly (all??) done for real, unlike the horrendous skyfall in QOS, Komodo dragons in Skyfall, etc. This is what impresses me about the 80's Bonds in particular, and the PTS of the latter two Gilberts
Score - I can't listen to Newman's score
I can't engage in the pacing or action direction of the Mendes films - Spectre's car chase is very underwhelming. QoS has the opposite problem, the action is too quick....it's unfortunate because I can see it is shot well.
Ultimately Craig's last 3 films in my eyes are missed opportunities because with a few tweaks they will improve dramatically. It's unfortunate because the talent has never been better
You got a pretty interesting ranking yourself...OHMSS being so low and OP way above average.
Is it Lazenby that puts you off? Ignoring him, the rest of the film is excellent, except the sound editing in places
01. A View to a Kill
02. The Living Daylights
03. From Russia with Love
04. Casino Royal
05. For Your Eyes Only
06. Goldfinger
07. Golden Eye
08. The World is not Enough
09. Skyfall
10. Live and Let Die
11. Octopussy
12. On her Majesty's Secret Service
13. Thunderball
14. The Spy who loved me
15. You only live twice
16. Dr. No
17. The Man with the Golden Gun
18. Licence to kill
19. Diamonds are Forever
20. Moonraker
21. Tomorrow never dies
22. Spectre
23. Quantum of Solace
24. Die another day