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CR
FRWL
TB
SF
OHMSS
DAD
TND
YOLT
AVTAK
Hmmm.....
DN
TSWLM
OP
TLD
SF
TND
DAD
GE
TWINE
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Living Daylights
License To Kill
Quantum of Solace
BOTTOM 5
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Octopussy
Die Another Day
Spectre
OHMSS
CR
QOS
FRWL
GE (childhood memories swaying me)
Bottom:
SP
DAD
OP
YOLT
FYEO
I like your top 5 but have a few issues with the bottom.
(In alphabetical order)
Goldfinger
Octopussy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Skyfall
You Only Live Twice
And my Fumbling Five are
(In alphabetical order)
A View To A Kill
Die Another Day
Licence To Kill
Spectre
The Man With The Golden Gun
Even so, FRWL often breaks into the Fab Five, as does TLD. And DAF is out of the Fumbling Five simply because SP has fallen from grace in spectacular fashion.
Now, addressing a comment about SF and Sp being cut from the same cloth I appreciate that sentiment, but in my eyes SF is pacey, exciting and creative, SP is lazy and half- hearted. Every time I watch SP it drops in my estimation, whereas SF never does.
1. Casino Royale
2. Licence to kill
3. Quantum of solace
4. The living daylights
5. From Russia with love
Bottom 5
1. Die another day
2. Spectre
3. Diamonds are forever
4. A view to a kill
5. Moonraker
What’s interesting is Brosnan Lazenby and Moore are in my top 10 just not in my top 5 and Brosnan and Moore are in bottom 5
Craig is in both but that is due to an unworkable script in Spectre and a director and composers whose best ideas were in the last film and even those were just ok
OHMSS
Casino Royale
Dr No
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Living Daylights
Bottom
Spectre
You Only Live Twice
Goldfinger
Live and Let Die
Quantum of Solace
These change on a weekly basis, though. And like other posters, I do quite like most of the bottom 5, just not as much as the others. Only Spectre really pisses me off.
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Dr.No
Casino Royale (2006)
Worst
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day
License To Kill
Moonraker
The World is Not Enough
1. GoldenEye (Masterpiece)
2. Moonraker (Masterpiece)
3. From Russia With Love (Masterpiece)
4. Die Another Day (Extremely entertaining)
5. The World Is Not Enough (Also highly entertaining)
Worst
21. You Only Live Twice (Not bad but very flawed with issues like Pacing after hour 1, and a poor Main Villain)
22. Thunderball (also not bad but ruined by terrible pacing making it a snoozefest)
23. Never Say Never Again (not bad either but doesn't need to exist and has issues TB didn't have)
24. Spectre (ok first hour but completely falls off the rails with awful writing and plot twists as well as feeling lazy)
25. Skyfall (Horrible in pretty much every regard with only the Shanghai bits, Gareth Mallory and Kincade being any resemblance of Good but even they can't save this one)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia With Love
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Casino Royale (2006)
Worst
Octopussy
Moonraker
A View To A Kill
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Something’s gotta give, right? Lol. Which issues do you have?
Best
Diamonds are Forever
Moonraker
Quantum of Solace
Thunderball
OHMSS
Worst
A View to a Meh
Tomorrow Never Dies
Skyfall ugh
Licence to Kill, just unpleasant
DAD
Well mainly OP, which I love. But also YOLT, which has so much to enjoy. And DAF, although obviously flawed is still a Connery Bond movie, so technically is just not allowed in a bottom 5 list - it's just not the done thing.
SP is not great and I understand why it's there but it doesn't personally quite plumb the depths required to merit this ranking IMO. Lower middle table just above the drop zone for me. I personally have it just above the even more woeful SF. Having said that, I'm not going to quibble over this one.
DAD is the only one I can wholeheartedly agree on, but DAD is almost a given in the bottom 5 these days. An easy target.
Skyfall
Casino Royale
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Spy Who Loved Me
WORST
Spectre
Quantum of Solace
Diamonds are Forever
A View to a Kill
Die Another Day
Really interesting bottom 5 there. I don't hate it but TB really is a snore fest. Simply don't understand why some people rave about it so much. Terence Young did such an amazing job with the first 2 but here just loses his way a bit. The spectacle begins to overpower and unbalance the whole thing. I actually think YOLT is the superior film between these 2 by a large margin.
Perfectly happy to see SF and SP languishing in the bottom division as well. I think you're spot on here. A brace of overcooked turkeys. Pretty sure history will come to see these 2 as amongst the direst in the series.
1. OHMSS
2. From Russia With Love
3. Casino Royale
4. The Living Daylights
5. Skyfall
Worst:
1. Never Say Never Again
2. Casino Royale (1967)
3. Casino Royale (1954)
4. O.K Connery
5. Die Another Day
;)
Goldfinger
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale (2006)
From Russia With Love
Licence to Kill
Worst/ Least favourite:
Die Another Day
Never Say Never Again
Casino Royale (1967)
Die Another Day
Die Another Day
:)
Best
CASINO ROYALE ('06)
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
GOLDFINGER
SKYFALL
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Worst
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
A VIEW TO A KILL
OCTOPUSSY
MOONRAKER
DIE ANOTHER DAY
I see what you did there =D>
Oh my we are close in the best department. Worst is tough on the other hand, hence I chose the easy route ;)
A man has difficulty making choices :)
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldfinger
Casino Royale
GoldenEye
Worst
Spectre
Die Another Day
A View To A Kill
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
SF won't, I guarantee it. You've been trying to convince everyone for 8 years to think like you do ;). The truth is SF is now deeply entrenched in the British psyche (like GF). It's classic status is ensured.
When 1917 was advertised, it wasn't done so as being by the director of American Beauty or Road To Perdition, and certainly not Spectre. It was advertised as being by the director of Skyfall. That would not be the case if it didn't hold a place amongst the classics of 21st century cinema.
Sorry, pick it apart all you like, but people really did love the film when it came out and not just because it was the London Olympics or the Queen's Jubilee (yawn). It's status is secure.
Casino Royale
Thunderball
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Dr. No
😡👎
Die Another Day
A View To A Kill
The Man With The Golden Gun
Moonraker
Octopussy
*Edited to replace GF with DN
I see your point of view. For me, I could never get into YOLT. There’s just something off-putting about it that I can’t quite put my finger on... I do love the set design by Ken Adam and of course John Barry’s score but that’s about it. DAF I just find incredibly bad all around, from the dialogue, the action, to the badly written characters. There’s
nothing that really stands out, except Sean’s performance, where he seems to get back to TB levels of cool and swag.
Spectre. *Sigh*. Never have I ever been so bored to tears while watching a Bond film. I genuinely did not care about anything that was going on in the story. Sure, it looks great, but the recycled SF score, Daniel Craig’s lackadaisical performance, the forced relationship between Bond and Maddy, and Brothergate... It all, to put it bluntly, pisses me off. Yes, DAD is a bad film but I only put it slightly above SP because there’s at least some interesting elements going on plot-wise, and the first 2/3 of the film is actually fairly solid...until
it tanks in Iceland.
I know what you mean about Mendes’ pacing. There’s a lot of this meandering and lingering on too long on shots, for example. It’s like “ok, get to the point already.” CR is Craig’s benchmark film. And if I had to choose between SF, SP, and OoS I’d choose QoS; the only other drawback it has, besides following on the heels of CR, is the editing (too choppy) and its pacing (it moves way too quickly). But when it finally slows down and breathes, it succeeds. M and Bond’s conversation before White’s interrogation, those three scenes with Bond and Mathis (when they reunite, “what’s keeping you awake?”, and his death scene), Tosca, as well as Bond and Camille in the sinkhole and the last 15 minutes....god, it’s just perfect.
Yes I very much agree with this Getafix, QOS is easily Craig's best.
That's fair. As great as QOS and SF are, CR did achieve something higher - a perfect Bond film, as far as I'm concerned, and it's never threatened by its sequels as far as the ranking goes for me. Though it's not entirely set in stone, my current Top 5 and bottom 5 I'd choose would go:
Top:
1. Casino Royale
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Thunderball
4. From Russia with Love
5. Skyfall
Bottom
1. Die Another Day
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. Spectre
4. The World Is Not Enough
5. Octopussy