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What do you like about your least liked Bond films?

GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
edited May 2011 in Bond Movies Posts: 7,136
So give us your five least liked films of the franchise and tell us what you do like about it.

Here are my choices:

Die Another Day: title sequence & song, sword fight, car chase
Tomorrow Never Dies: PTS, title sequence, Oxford, Hamburg part
Moonraker: soundtrack, cinematography, production design, villain, centrifuge & glass museum action
A View to a Kill: soundtrack, villain & henchmen, PTS, finale, chateau scenes
You Only Live Twice: soundtrack, production design, cinematography, allies, atmospehere, action scenes

What are yours?

Comments

  • TolkienTolkien
    Posts: 26
    Die Another Day: Rosemund Pike
    The World Is Not Enough: "I always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey." (love-hate this line)
    Diamonds Are Forever: The Crematory Scene, Bond vs Franks in the elevator
    Moonraker: Gondola Scene
    A View To A Kill: Christopher Walken
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
    edited May 2011 Posts: 2,629
    From my Bottom 10

    QOS: Rene Mathias and closure from Vesper
    DAD: The fencing scene in the parts that don't involve Madonna's presence.
    TWINE: PTS and Desmond's departure.
    TND: Paris's death.
    AVTAK: May Day blowing herself up.
    MR: Everything not involving outer space or double taking pigeons.
    TSWLM: PTS and Naomi
    LALD: The bayou boat chase
    DAF: The humor when I forget how poor of a followup it is to OHMSS.
    YOLT: Tiger and Aki
  • PrinceKamalKhanPrinceKamalKhan Monsoon Palace, Udaipur
    edited June 2011 Posts: 3,262
    From my bottom 3:

    AVTAK: Jenny, Pola, Sir Godfrey, Chantilly, John Barry, Cold War elements, 1980s-ish atmosphere
    TWINE: OHMSS references, Zukovsky, Cigar Girl, attempt to do something a little different with the main villain formula
    QOS: Craig, Mathis, Strawberry, the fall threw the glass roof, Tosca
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited May 2011 Posts: 11,189
    DAF, the Shirley Basset song.
    DAD, the swordfight. Pierce's performance, the VR scene between Bond and MP, the Bond/Q scene
    QoS, Craig (although I haven't quite been won-over by him yet his performance was ok), the last 2 scenes, the score in the end credits, .
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,187
    TWINE: The PTS
    TMWTGG: Barry's score and the Funhouse
    AVTAK: Barry's score, Sir Rog and Tanya Roberts
    DAD: Pike and the London scenes
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited May 2011 Posts: 11,189
    TMWTGG: Barry's score and the Funhouse
    Don't forget Christopher Lee aswell ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,187
    TMWTGG: Barry's score and the Funhouse
    Don't forget Christopher Lee aswell ;)
    I thought he was good in TMWTGG but not great.

  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    Posts: 7,582
    TWINE - I like Sophie Marceau in that red dress. I like some aspects of the PTS. I like the song by Garbage. I like the line 'First things first'

    LTK - I looooove the tanker chase. I like Robert Davi.

    TMWTGG - I like some of the dialogue (often witty and very clever). I like Sir Rog. I like the gun.

    AVTAK - I like the Eiffel |Tower sequence. I like Christopher Walken.

    DAD - I like the sword fight, some of the Cuba sequences are enjoyable. The sequence where Bond punches the South African gangster's lights out, steps in the room and a disinterested girl says 'hello' to him. That was funny.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited May 2011 Posts: 15,718
    QOS - Mathis
    CR - Mathis
    TWINE - Llwelyn's goodbye
    TND - Spying in Hamburg
    DAD - Cuba arrival music
    GE - The cast (excluding pathetic Brosnan).
  • sHell_Is_HeresHell_Is_Here
    Posts: 30
    DAD - The PTS, credit sequence visuals (sans music), Cuba until Halle Berry
    DAF - The theme song, Slumber Inc.
    AVTAK - Christopher Walken

    Some of the other films I disliked don't actually have good aspects, in my opinion.

    Also, I wouldn't call TWINE one of my "least liked" Bond films, but it deserves an honorable mention because it mixes horrible scenes with decent ones. Redeeming aspects: Zukovski, Zukovski, and more Zukovski.
  • anotherbondgeekanotherbondgeek
    Posts: 423
    DAD- Rosamund Pike & the North Korea opening scenes, particularly the surfing and Moon.

    TWINE - the girls.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    edited May 2011 Posts: 4,813
    Interesting topic! There's really only a few movies I don't particularly care for. Let's see.....

    * TMWTGG- Roger Moore is young (lol), Christopher Lee, Golden Gun prop is awesome
    * TWINE- This is actually my least favorite of the whole series. Not much to say.... cool car...? But then again they totally destroyed it. Really reaching here.... Actually, I will say this much: Good send off for Q.
    * DAF- I admit it has grown on me- I like Connery's fight in the elevator, and I've finally learned to appreciate just how hot Jill St. John was. When I was a kid, I used to dismiss her right away because she had a hairstyle like my grandmother :D
    * YOLT- Tiger was cool- and I'd love to have a 'Japanese bath'
    * DAD- Actually, the whole first half is pretty good. It's a shame the direction they took with it... I even liked the bullet in the Gunbarrel- lol I remember seeing it opening day and the whole theatre ducked and gasped! It was fun
  • MoonrakerMoonraker
    Posts: 60
    5. Live and Let Die - Roger Moore, music, and J.W. Pepper.
    4. Dr. No - Sean Connery, Dr. No, Jack Lord, and the control room.
    3. Licence to Kill - Wayne Newton, Robert Davi, and the stunt sequences.
    2. Casino Royale - The cinematography.
    1. Quantum of Solace - I liked the length of the film. I am glad that it ended quickly.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,355
    Die Another Day has some good moments in it's first half, Brosnan also gives his best performance I feel, I wish he got another two films like he wanted.
    You Only Live Twice has some fantastic locations and a killer score, the allys also aren't bad - the rest of the film...
    The World Is Not Enough has got a great final scene with Q, great boat chase and great boat chase score, the plot is fantastic, it's excusation...
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,718

    2. Casino Royale - The cinematography.
    1. Quantum of Solace - I liked the length of the film. I am glad that it ended quickly.
    Glad to see someone else having the Craig films as least favorite... Long live Sir Rog's films !!

  • MoonrakerMoonraker
    Posts: 60

    2. Casino Royale - The cinematography.
    1. Quantum of Solace - I liked the length of the film. I am glad that it ended quickly.
    Glad to see someone else having the Craig films as least favorite... Long live Sir Rog's films !!

    I love Sir Roger, and he is my favorite Bond. I don't like "Live and Let Die" though because all of the voodoo stuff is unnerving to me. No doubt though that Roger Moore does a great job depicting James Bond fighting the forces of evil for God and Country!

    I don't like the Craig films. Not only do I not like his portrayal, but I don't like the reboot stories either.

    So it looks like we are on the same page when it comes to Daniel Craig and Roger Moore.

  • M_BaljeM_Balje Amsterdam, Netherlands
    edited May 2011 Posts: 4,521
    18. Yolt. The stunts (With the fight on the roof one of my favorites) and spying, the ally's, maintitle, title song and Sean Connery. Keep in mind, this be rank from 9 May 2009, in the mean time i already consider to swith the movie to the 16th place with Die Another Day. With the biggest reasen that Die Another Day be les re-watchable in all those years after it and i think Yolt fit better above Dr No then one place lower then Dr No.

    19. GF: Titlesong, maintitle, gunbarrel scene, Pussy Galore

    20. MR: Maintitle, title song, Ally's

    21. CR: Maintitle, with exeption of Miami the locations, Judi Dench

    22. TB: Specter (Number 1), Title song, Ally scene's.

    Whyle LALD unnerving for Moonraker because of the Voodoo, for me the violence and 24 elements of be unnerving factor for me with Casino Royale. Also i don´t eat the cake about the reboot.

    LALD for me is rank at the 7th place for me It be a original movie where the Voodoo part of it. This be the highest place i can at LALD, between OHMSS and FRWL. That Desmond not be in it i don´t like.

  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    Posts: 4,399
    Die Another Day - the PTS i thought was the strongest part of the film.. after that, it's a slow turd ride downhill... small props to the sword fighting scene between Bond and Graves though - that was entertaining..
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I came across this in archives but obviously missed out at the time

    In no order of Bond 'least favorites' etc

    #1 Die Another Day

    The PTS in Korea, hovercrafts, a very good teaser, Swordfight with Graves, really struggling to come up with more now... Graves arrival in London from the sky on parachute maybe

    #2 Goldfinger

    Golf match with Connery and Auric, end sequence at Fort Knox, Oddjob battle, electrocution etc, Goldfinger demonstration of Operation Grandslam, Connery pulling funny faces in Jail Cell even

    #3 Octopussy

    The opening with the acrostar Jet, train ride across Germany, auction scene at Sotherbys, Moore deals with intruders at the Octopussy Island, Talks with Orlov

    #4 Tomorrow Never Dies

    Very good PTS at the arms fair, Sheryl Crow song, Bond sneaking around the Carver building in Hamburg, fight scene with Carver heavies, soundproof room, The Doctor Kaufmann bit and slaying

    #5 Diamonds are Forever

    The Wint / Kidd pair, actually genuinely amusing they were. Bond in Amsterdam/ The fight with Peter Franks on the apartment elevator, Yes, Jill St John was in it, I enjoyed that. The Bambi / Thumper battle for some reason. Connery masquerading as Klaus Hergerscheimer, checking radiation shields et al

  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    Moonraker: Most of everything not in space; not the pigeon; not the Jaws love story

    Die Another Day: Torture scenes; sword fight; PTS (kinda)

    Live and Let Die: THE VILLAINS, they're brilliant!

    Tomorrow Never Dies: love the villain idea, not the execution (feels Flemingesque in concept); stealth ship; Chinese tension; motorcycle chase*

    Diamonds Are Forever: Theme tune.. about it for that release


    * I really like the whole concept behind TND, the writing was just so terrible unfortunately!
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    There may be other areas we can explore -


    You Only Live Twice

    Bond gets into Osato chemicals, makes his escape, Bond gets captured 'May I smoke' etc. The first meeting with Tiger Tanaka, a most super theme tune from Nancy Sinatra

    View to a Kill

    Scenes with Moore/McNee. Stacy Sutton can't see a freakin' great air blimp behind her about five yards away. Christopher Walken as well had a screen presence. The opening in Paris, Eiffel Tower scenes etc

    On Her Majestys Secret Service

    Lazenby gets the safe combination and waiting around. Helicopter scenes with Bunt. Scenes with the Blofeld girls at Piz Gloria. End siege on said retreat/research center. Very good John Barry score

    License to Kill

    Dario in Cocaine Grinder. Leiter fed to sharks. Fight battle at the bimini bar. Interrogation of Bond by Sanchez at the Casino upstairs. The increased level of violence from a previously tame round of Bond releases

    Goldeneye

    Pre credits sequence at the Arkhangel facility. Bond and Natalya in the holding cell before Defense Minister Mishkin arrives. On the armor train with Trevelyan and Onatopp. With Tanner and M at MI6 HQ as the Goldeneye is fired. Brosnan and Alec at the ruins as he explains his betrayal and his forming of the Janus group

    and it's time for bed :bz
  • chuck007chuck007
    Posts: 172
    from my bottom 5

    18.AVTAK = Tanya Roberts
    19.TND = Michelle Yeoh
    20.TWINE = none
    21.DAF = Lana WOod
    22.DAD = Rosamund Pike
  • rocketgun83rocketgun83
    Posts: 36
    Live and Let Die = Everything at the crocodile farm. Sheriff J.W. Pepper (He doesn't belong in the film, of course, but I always laugh at just about everything he says).

    Moonraker = There are actually quite a few good parts in this one. Skydive sequence (before Jaws appears) centrifuge torture, fight with Chang, boat chase on the Amazon. And I don't hate the space sequences as much as most people.

    Die Another Day = Again, a lot of good stuff. Surfing, hovercraft chase, Bond's capture, strolling casually through the hotel soaking wet and dressed in PJs, sword fight KICKS ASS!! I've always enjoyed the car chase on ice despite its overall stupidity.

    The Man With the Golden Gun = Moore's best performance, Scaramanga, fight in Saida's dressing room (Moore's best fight) car flipping across the bridge.

    Quantum of Solace = Wow...this one's tough. I'll just mention...well...Craig is pretty good I guess (considering the crap he had to work with) Mathieu Almaric is a good villain. Some of Arnold's score is decent here, like during the opening scenes at Tosca.
  • 0iker00iker0
    Posts: 501
    Moonraker: the pts, the bird-haunting scene, everything until they go to Rio...
    DAD: the pts, the title sequence itself - the sequence not the song- and the fencing
    LTK: The pts, the first visit to the Krest boat, the atempt to kill Sánchez and the tricking to Sánchez.
  • PlykshowPlykshow Kent, United Kingdom
    Posts: 35
    Hmm worst 5 films and something I like about them... ok
    1. Quantum of Solace - when I press eject after waking up
    2. On her Majesty's Secret Service - The Gun Barrel, the title song
    3. The world is not enough - Q and Pierce Brosnan
    4. Diamonds Are Forever - Everything but the christmas cracker jokes
    5. Casino Royale - The fact that it was the first bond film in years, thats it!
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    I liked the opera house bit and the burning hotel finale in QOS (if only it was some sort of secret lair instead of a hotel).

    I liked pretty much all of DAD except the final iceland part and the plane finale (when it went really OTT)
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,306
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    I liked the opera house bit and the burning hotel finale in QOS (if only it was some sort of secret lair instead of a hotel).

    I liked pretty much all of DAD except the final iceland part and the plane finale (when it went really OTT)

    Good point about QoS. Why did it have to be a hotel as opposed to a lair?
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    Of my five least favourite Bond films, there is still plenty to enjoy. As with many fans, I do enjoy all the Bond movies. Just some more than others.
    But with the good, comes the bad.

    Diamonds Are Forever - The humour and pace of the film. The return of Connery
    Die Another Day - This one continues to grow on me (Sorry Luds), I really do get caught up in this boys own adventure. But Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens (even though he chews the scenery) and Brosnan are the plus points for me.
    Moonraker - For the most part this is excellent Bond. It's only when Bond ventures into space, that I get frustrated. A minor quibble really.
    Quantum Of Solace - After CR, I was expecting much, much better. Infact other than Craig, there is little I enjoy about this total mess of a film. Possibly my least viewed Bond film.
    The Man Wth The Golden Gun - The locations, Lee, Moore and Adams are really the plus points here. I find the energy crisis plot dates the film, and often events happen that make no sense. Hip leaving Bond after rescuing him from the Karate school. Sheriff Pepper turning up in Bangkok, and shopping for a car.
    Both these scenes are far to convenient means to an action sequence. Sloppy film-making.

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