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Casino Royale, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, From Russia with Love and Dr. No are as perfect as Bond films can get in every way, Goldfinger paved the way for Bondmania and changed cinema culture forever, Thunderball is the first proper blockbuster Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me has some of the most amazing location shooting in any film I've seen period, The Living Daylights is a hardcore Cold War spy film that released just as that period in history was near its demise, and Skyfall and Goldeneye are often represented as some of the best modern Bonds in relation to their casts, the former becoming a great cultural film that celebrates Bond and his "Britishness" in his 50th year, while the latter jump-started the series after it went comatose.
All viable movies, and all crucial parts of Bond's development over the course of the franchise's history. They each deserve their places in the top 10, and while there's great films amongst the remaining 14, the group we have in the high echelon are there because they are more crucial than the others for why Bond is still around, and why he changed cinema history forever.
Agree with everything you said here, especially the fact that Craig really played Bond for the first time in SP, definitely an updated and more serious interpretation, but still, for the first time, truly Bond.
wow, i'm realizing we have a lot in common when it comes to Bond, I also rank Craig & Lazenby the same as you...
1. Connery
2. Dalton
3. Brosnan
4. Moore
5. Craig
6. Lazenby
I should say though, that I also consider Craig to be the best actor to play Bond. I like him just fine as an actor, considering him a great actor. I just find him terribly miscast as Bond. I know that I hold a minority opinion.
And how was SP a 'More serious interpretation' than CR ?
Some of these Craig criticisms are quite laughable.
Then laugh and move on.
I'm waiting for an answer to my question.
If someone makes such an absurd comment at least back it up with an explanation
In my eyes it means that he's smooth, confident, assured of himself, full of panache and not agonizing over personal demons.
Of course ;)
I will never understand why DAD is that hated. It's really just those ridiculous 12 seconds of CGI that has everyone's mind spinning.
The first 70 minutes are simply stunning and near perfect. Brosnan is spectacular.
The score is spectacular. So is the cinematography and the directing is far from the worst in the series, except the very few slo-mo second long moments.
I can see though, that many will find the Ice Palace too fake looking and that the final fight in the plane seems to fall flat.
As for TND, this will go up in the rankings once it escapes the difficult 10 to 20 year old spot. In another 10 years it will probably rank somewhere in the middle near Spectre and such fun pictures.
Also Brosnan in general will be viewed much better in general (in the fan forums) once Craig is in the role of the predecessor.
Out there, Brosnan is loved, always was, always will be. That's what I experience wherever I go and talk about Bond.
You assume a lot :-)
It doesn't ruin the movie though. Icarus also is quite Bondian I'd say, but it has been there one too many so it falls flat.
The end-fight in the plane is too similar to the stealth boat end-game, so it falls flat.
But the rest (approx. 90% of the movie) is a joyride, pure fun with Brosnan celebrating his Bond.
Since I saw it on opening day back in 1997, I have always enjoyed TND. It's great to look at, and is pure fun. DAD, the first half of the film is very good (other than the title track and Madonna cameo. The abandoned station for abandoned agents and the sleeper agent scenes are the highlights. The second half of the film descends into Bond for the MTV crowd.
As for the results of the poll, a grudging congratulations to CR, it won over classics like FRWL, OHMSS & TLD (films that actually feel like Bond films).
Amazing work with the statistics ^:)^
CR is a worthy winner =D>
On DAD: I like the first half a lot - and I totally hate the second. But there is always at least one aspect I appreciate in any Bond movie - with the exception of CR'67 which I can't watch at all.
Rant over, back to business, a great game and I agree CR a worthy winner!
@Mathis1, I'd say that about covers it, yeah.
If only Madsen had been allowed to cut an ear or two off to get some information out of Graves' goons. Now THAT would have improved the film immensely, with Arnold providing a track to the score that orchestrated "Stuck in the Middle with You" Barry style.
That's why these rankings are great. It filters out overly emotional responses
Prejudice
Yep, it does. It basically 'teaches' people to think a bit more modest, to think that they are 'only' one voter out of 120. And once a few of these outliers are dissatisfied, then they forget that they basically were 'big outliers', far outside the average ranking and median :-).
No, no prejudice. But statistical propability :-). In this case........the fact that one who gives DAD 12 points is a huge 'outlier' and firmly outside the median.
Thanks for your efforts in compiling and running this poll @Gustav_Graves. Good job.