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Is Skyfall the best Bond of all time?

oorogersoorogers
edited November 2012 in Skyfall Posts: 122
hard to say: skyfall was defo the best of the last three and a million miles away from quantum. craig was brilliant in casino royale hes showed hes a grate bond right from the start it just feels that as a bond film quantum just did not cut it and i believe more down to director then actor. But in skyfall bond really came alive action packed all the way. And the end fight at the skyfall ranch the most dangerous i have ever seen bond just a shoot gun limited bullets out numbered no other weapons and the poor old aston DB5 gets blown to bits other then that it was fantastic. im shore skyfall will stand the test of time but is it really the best bond i mean with classics like goldfinger and you only live twice. even goldeneye lets face it many grate films but i say that skyfall is defo in my top three what do you think?

MOD EDIT: For an abhorrent lack of capitalisation in the thread's title. There is such a thing as a "shift" key.

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  • 9eor9e9eor9e
    edited November 2012 Posts: 20
    I am always wary about deciding the relative standing of a Bond film when it's just come out - I remember in 2002 when swathes of Bond fans were saying "New ranking: 1. DAD 2. FRWL 3. OHMSS 4. GF etc..". Obviously SF will always be regarded at the other end of the spectrum from DAD; but I think we can be slightly snow-blind with the excitement of a new release. The test will come with further re-watchings (alongside the other films), the DVD release etc. That said, I am quite confident that Skyfall will stay somewhere in the top half-dozen or so for most Bond fans.
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
    Posts: 4,043
    I'm still placing OHMSS at the no. 1 spot and that is after seeing Skyfall twice but I believe for me SF is biting at it's heels.

    Aspects of the film are better then anything I've ever seen in a 007 film, I think OHMSS has the edge slightly with the script, the action and of course Barry's genius score. Though SF has the strongest script since then and Craig's performance was even better than in Casino Royale for me, making it my favourite Bond performance and putting Craig level pegging with Connery, Craig only needs to better this with a traditional entry and the bitter Scot will be surpassed for me.
  • UmustbjockingUmustbjocking
    Posts: 83
    No Skyfall is not the best Bond. It is a fantastic film but the franchise has changed so much that it is not the same. It could've been a Bourne film or anything similar.
  • RisicoRisico
    Posts: 97
    I actually think Casino Royale still has the edge on Skyfall as an all-round well-told story, and since I don't think Casino Royale is better than OHMSS... no, not to me.
  • MDCarterUKMDCarterUK
    Posts: 13
    For me, it's certainly in my never-settled top five. Dalton's entries, as well as GE and CR have all jostled for the top three spots in my heart over the years, and now SF has come along and complicated the matter even further. It will certainly be down to how it holds up on repeat viewings. So far, two showings in and it is a very impressive entry, with the best villain of the five contenders and some of the greatest set pieces - the finale at Skyfall is right up there with the drama, the explosions, the score, genius.

    I don't agree with any claim that SF is too much like a Bourne film. QoS was a Bourne film, with its nausea-inducing editing and action, action, ACTION! This is a new generation of Bond, and it will involve a deal more plot and character than the predecessors. There will still be that element of fantasy (bouncing off big lizards, etc) but it's going to be considerably more grounded, and I don't see the harm in that. Occasional giant enemy squid aside, Fleming kept things reasonably real. The best Bond films, for me, have ultimately been the more realistic ones, though they all have their fantasy moments.

    SF has shown that Craig can show sides of his lighter-hearted forebears without the writers making the lines too ridiculous (remember DAD's "Time to face gravity"? Still makes no damn sense to me). IMO, SF did the job QoS should've done by rounding off the development of Craig's Bond, introducing the familiar characters that the nostalgia-heads (myself included) crave and with Bond24 all the pieces are in place for the best Bond. For most people, anyway. :P
  • craigrulescraigrules
    Posts: 284
    Nowhere near the best for me, OHMSS TB CR all joint top for me.
  • doubleonothingdoubleonothing Los Angeles
    edited November 2012 Posts: 864
    oorogers wrote:
    hard to say: skyfall was defo the best of the last three and a million miles away from quantum. craig was brilliant in casino royale hes showed hes a grate bond right from the start it just feels that as a bond film quantum just did not cut it and i believe more down to director then actor. But in skyfall bond really came alive action packed all the way. And the end fight at the skyfall ranch the most dangerous i have ever seen bond just a shoot gun limited bullets out numbered no other weapons and the poor old aston DB5 gets blown to bits other then that it was fantastic. im shore skyfall will stand the test of time but is it really the best bond i mean with classics like goldfinger and you only live twice. even goldeneye lets face it many grate films but i say that skyfall is defo in my top three what do you think?

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    Have we lost the ability to capitalise or use basic punctuation? Is it really so difficult to press shift or to put in commas and apostrophes?
  • craigrulescraigrules
    Posts: 284
    Give him a hundred lines.
  • LibrarianLibrarian
    Posts: 312
    Maybye not "the best of all time" but in my opinion one of the best since 90's.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Not sure where it comes in yet? It certainly is up there though!
  • DiscoVolanteDiscoVolante Stockholm, Sweden
    edited November 2012 Posts: 1,347
    Personal insults deleted.

    @oorogers, watch your language and check your PMs.

    Oh, and thread closed as well, since it's a duplicate.
    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/4121/is-skyfall-the-best-bond-film-ever
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