Got the set of films for my Birthday and have been watching through one a day in chronological order - I'm currently at "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and so far I'd say Goldfinger is my favourite.
What are your thoughts on the franchise? Best Bond? Best Film? etc. among-st other Bond-related stuff.
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>one a day
What a fucking pleb. Back in my day tbs used to show bond marathons. Nothing but bond. Back to back. All weekend long.
Top 5:
OHMSS
License to Kill
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
GOldfinger
Idris Elba
>back in my day
>2005
I think tom hardy and clive owen could pull off a good bond.
Best Bond : Daniel Craig
Second best : Sean Connery
Best Film : Skyfall
>tfw 2005 was literally 12 years ago
And i was thinking more 98
Objective truth coming through
OHMSS, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Casino Royale(67), The Spy Who Loved Me
Jesus, time sure flies.
stop casting famous people as Bond
he's better as random dashing young no-namers.
lol
As i tell my grandma every time she complains about anything:
It's hell getting old
I have a soft spot for Goldeneye because it was the first Bond film I ever saw as a kid. I also really like The Living Daylights and Diamonds Are Forever
Jane Seymour is best bond girl
They're all good. I like Dalton and Brosnan's movies best. Moore's are underrated, some are pretty funny.
Whilst I would usually be against the replacement of typically white roles with that of blacks, I honestly would not be phased by Idris Elba playing Bond given how good Luther is. So long as it doesn't play into political correctness of any sort.
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I was honestly hoping when watching OHMSS that they would be awkwardly forced into syncing the long title with the instrumentals, it would have been hilarious.
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This guy is pretty objective.
I wish there was a reporting radio button for "gigantic faggot"
All those people ranking Casino Royale #1.
If I found Casino Royale really fucking boring even after speeding it up to 1.5x, found Goldeneye mediocre, and enjoyed Moonraker, and don't remember watching any other Bond movies, which ones should I watch?
>enjoyed Moonraker
Hail Nietzsche, you are almost unsalvageable as a human being.
The World Is Not Enough should get your ego erect.
Dalton > Connery > Peak Brosnan > Craig > the rest > worst Brosnan
I watched digitally remastered Diamonds are Forever recently on local tv . I felt both sad for how Las Vegas had changed and impressed that some of the stuff still stayed relevant.
A shame Dalton only had 2 films
I have a strange feeling recently. I have been watching these movies on and off for ten years.
I used to prefer the "new Bond" but I began to feel that "old Bond" were campy and they were frank about it, while "new Bond" always want to be taken seriously.
I can't describe it but music was the difference I guess.
The early Connery ones aren't even campy. The Moore era is when you get top camp
Can anyone explain the Die Another Day hate? I honestly really like the opening, and I don't think the rest is that awful. It's one of the lesser Bond films, with that I agree though.
I like it too.
Daniel Craig is a shit Bond and none of his Bond movies are good.
If you disagree you're not a Bond fan. You're a Bourne fan that watched the wrong franchise.
>you will never have Christmas in Turkey
Roger Moore is the best Bond and Live and Let Die is the best Bond film, fact.
Well, back in my day we'd get it once a week on the Sunday night movie (ABC network, I think). I'd tape them on VHS and if I was astute enough I'd hit pause during the commercials...
Shit was cash.
>pleb
Of course, this was all before the Timothy Dalton era.
Good picks, user. Almost identical to what I'd pick as to Ian Fleming's bond. I think OHMSS & Casino Royale were the closest adaptations to his books.
>Moonraker was totally reatarded.
still have most of them on vhs from when i was younger
connery is best bond
i liked view to a kill and live and let die when i was a kid but now I'd say goldfinger is favourite
>67
>Ha ha ha!
You ought to check out that Barry Nelson one. He was the first and it's probably the most faithful to the original story adaptation, even though he was an American named Jimmy Bond.
>Best Bond:
Gotta go with Connery. Has the most good JB movies and his portrayal of JB as a sociopath in Queen's employ is great. That being said, Dalton was great too, even though one liners never sat right with him.
>Best Bond movie
I'm partial towards License to Kill
>Worst Bond movie
Either Octopussy or Spectre. Mendez's Bond is awful in general. Quantum of Solace is underrated. Moonraker and Diamonds are Forever are so campy it outweighs any misgivings I have about them.
Jane Seymoure is way up there, but her character was rather incompetent. I guess that was the character. I rather liked Barbara Bach's Agent Triple-X!
>used to wank it to my dad's Playboy that had a bond-girl edition and Bach was always my favorite...
>Thunderball
Excellent taste, user.
For Your Eyes Only was a good combination of both serious & comedy but that music was TERRIBLE. I bought the record on vinyl because I found it in a used cheapo-bin and I still can't get over the ski/motorcycle-scene where the theme from The Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous was the theme, all disco-ed out and all...
Too bad, because that was an intense sequence. And Moore could actually ski.
I never got the criticism for that, the ending scene may have dragged slightly though I felt the underwater scenes were a nice change from the previous films.
He played it right. It's a shame that that he got sub-par scripts to work with.
He's still my favorite.
Under-rated post.
>You'd EXPLODE if you had the chance to have Christmas in Turkey...
Best Bond films per actor
Connery: Goldfinger (my favorite is From Russia with Love)
Lazenby: OHMSS (great flick)
Moore: The Spy Who Loved Me (my favorite is For Your Eyes Only)
Dalton: Licence to Kill (love the brutal decompression murder scene)
Brosnan: GoldenEye (my favorite Bond film of all Bond films)
Craig: Casino Royale
Worst Bond films
Connery: Diamonds Are Forever
Lazenby: None (OHMSS was awesome)
Moore: A View to a Kill (this film was a joke, only redeeming quality was Christopher Walken's performance)
Dalton: None (Living Daylights was awesome)
Brosnan: Die Another Day (Even though none of his films really lived up to the masterpiece that was GoldenEye... Tomorrow Never Dies was interesting though, Jonathan Pryce as the media baron was pretty cool)
Craig: Quantum of Solace (this entire film was a joke best compared to A View to a Kill, only difference is that even the villain sucked in this one, best watched as an epilogue to Casino Royale and even then it sucks)
"It's not."
"Huh? How do you know?"
"Because I'm standing on it. Let's have a little fun with Mr. Goldfinger, shall we..."
>also, seducing a hard-core lesbo
>also, theme song
>also, GPS before it existed
also, "Shocking. Positively shocking."
Those underwater scenes were EPIC! I always laughed when Bond would just pull off the enemies' masks, rendering them temporarily useless. The sped-up footage at the end scene takes away from the film but I guess you've got to work with what you've got in your era of film-production. Thunderball was a good representation of a Fleming novel; Connery got it right, then. Dalton tried but didn't have the stories to work with except for one of the opening scenes in The Living Daylights when he's supposed to assassinate the cello player.
That was straight-up Fleming.
>Moore: A View to a Kill (this film was a joke, only redeeming quality was Christopher Walken's performance)
Psychopathic villian with David Bowie eyes.
Yeah... That was cool.
And I liked the theme, even though it was Duran Duran -- but they worked with John Barry so that worked for me.
>nice Aleistar Crowley quads, by the way...
...
>Brosnan: Die Another Day (Even though none of his films really lived up to the masterpiece that was GoldenEye... Tomorrow Never Dies was interesting though, Jonathan Pryce as the media baron was pretty cool)
But, Michelle Yeoh! She was awesome in that. Also, she used to be one of the nude silhouettes in the opening title sequences from previous Bond films that, by the way, her husband (a Playboy photographer) filmed.
Ian Fleming wrote this:
Before an explosion cuts off her dialogue in Casino Royale, the character Vesper Lynd says, “He is very good-looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his …’”
Later in Moonraker, the character Gala Brand says, “Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold.”
The only actor that fits this profile TODAY without an unknown is Tom Hiddleston simply because of his facial structure (and he's a Brit, and he did a good job in the Night Manager).
>pic related
Ian Fleming didn't like Sean Connery as the choice for Bond but after seeing Dr. No he changed his mind and then altered Bond's heritage into one of Scottish decent for subsequent novels.
I would like a seperate series of "James Bond" movies with him making a cameo in an Idris-centric-double-0 film as a different agent, altogether. It could open up the writing, anyway.
those poses
was that on purpose?
Hoagy looks like Dalton.
I have a soft spot for The Man With The Golden Gun because I like the theme music (which shows up a couple of times in Scaramanga's funhouse) and Christopher Lee.
Same, plus the midget and babes are cool. Kung-Fu stuff is ridiculous tho.
THAT and Dalton was actually an actor that did Shakespearian theater on a regular basis (and played a priest in the real story movie of the Exorcist cannon -- some movie that I can't remember the title of right now). It triggers me that Dalton would have made the perfect Bond but for those over-the-top scripts with unnecessary attempts at comedy, etc...
Comedy is fine, in fact, they enter into the novels just fine ...but those Dalton-era fantastical things were just dumb (laser beams coming out of hub-caps, sending somebody in a coffin-style-pod through pipelines that are at right angles, et all..).
i'll check it out. thanks, man
>no Craig
Of course, all the books are better & My favorite is "On her Majesty's Secret Service". The movie is O.K. but the book is much better with Bond escaping from the bad guys without any weapons (he kills a guy with his watch!). I always hate books made into movies because a bunch of screenwriters think they're better than the actual writer of the novel, but the original Fleming books are not bad on screen.
I haven't checked but you can probably find it on YouTube or someplace online. It's black and white and abbreviated because it was American television (I think) but instead of whipping Bond's nuts, they bust his fingers (in a bathtub I think). Anyway, point being, it was the first visual-motion-adaptation and probably the closest to the original storyline.
From Russia with Love was pretty much spot on, as well (also one of J.F.K.'s favorite books, which was also the last thing he said he liked before the assassination).
And OHMSS is faithful. Thunderball and Goldfinger are also pretty faithful enough. Diamonds Are Forever was a complete derailment from the book. And by "derailment" if you read it, you'd get that pun...
Casino Royale '67?
The one with David Niven and URSULA ANDRESS and Peter Sellers and ORSON WELLES and Woody Allen???
And every fucking character's name is James Bond? And the cowboys and indians fiasco and the end with bubbles flying around?
My god, this has got to be a troll-post.
Having said that, it *IS* a funny art-house-movie just making fun of everything at the time, so yeah... Utterly ridiculous like "Airplane" when it came out (though Airplane had a bit of a plot). I do have this Casino Royale on DVD mostly because I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get at it again so I couldn't pass up the purchase.
Oh man, to even include that one...
This is why I love Sup Forums; throwing that one in the midst of OHMSS and Thunderball.
>VHS
My Nigga!
I think I got laid off because when I worked at a call center we had a lot of down time and I'd read these books because I figured, "What the heck, I can just put this down wherever and take the next call." I found myself putting my phone-line line on hold / off-line just to finish a certain segment... I was being monitored online and since I had excessive hold-times I think I got laid off due to lack of numbers.
>totally worth it
But come on! Bond falls in love, Bond gets married, etc... The most emotional book of them all. And then the follow up to that with You Only Live Twice was good with the emotional level, with Bond hanging out for days in a shed looking through the cracks in the siding and his nourishment was mostly glycerin pills... Brilliant.
Top 3 songs:
Tomorrow never dies
Living Daylights
The man with the golden gun.
How could you not include Live and let Die
>Tomorrow Never Dies
The KD Lang version at the end credits ("Surrender") not being the title credits was an ultimate snub.
Living Daylights is one of my favorites but I'm not really sure why. Maybe I was coming of age at the time so it stuck, along with them working with Barry.
"The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Live & Let Die" are great. They show the sign of the times without crapping out like "Die Another Day" or the Spectre theme.
I really liked "Skyfall" as a throwback to the original sentiment of the themes but still keeping it current. I've heard cover versions live at casinos and such and while the performers were not up to the caliber of the original that song in and of itself holds up quite well.
>"Three Blind Mice" will always be my favorite because of the blending in to the "blind" assassins.
"Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?"
I liked a view to kill a lot but then again I Like Duran Duran a lot too.
Come to think of it, all Brosnan era songs were groovy.
Yeah, I do, as well.
Grew up listening to them.
That theme brought back the "punch" to the title themes that was getting lost with all the adult / contemporary / romantic songs that were creeping in to the series. Which would be OK if it fit the movie but they didn't.
That's the point when the themes got back on track.
>track, get it??? ha! oh boy, I'm drunk...
Yes.
Tina Turner doing the theme that U2 wrote for Goldeneye and Bono making the wise choice of bowing out and having her sing it was brilliant.
I still wish that Depeche Mode didn't turn down all of their opportunities to do a theme. It was during that era when they were making songs like "Only When I Lose Myself" which is inherently a Bond theme. Silly drug abusers...
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Funny.
He still looks like Hoagy Carmichael to me.
Also, wrote about half of Quantum of Solace on the fly while the faggot writers went on strike.
>under-rated movie, by the way (yeah, the jump cuts were annoying but goddam, that opening scene in the marble quarry and keeping to the Ian Fleming story-telling was spot on).
If you are retarded, turn on the subtitles to your TV/DVD and then you can follow along by actually reading the dialog, pausing every once in a while... just to take it all in.
The only scene that drew me out of the story was the last second parachute draw and landing into a cave. But that's exactly how Ian Fleming would have done it.
If T.H. would die his hair, he could pull it off as a new James Bond. He's about the appropriate age and he's got enough chops to make it work.
>the irony would be if Taylor Swift did the theme song
I feel that the new Bond has written itself into a corner. They always have to fight the same kind of villain, the villain that was behind everything.
And when it's revealed to be Austin Power, some Star Trek quote sounded in my head like "this is the moment when echo triumphs the voice"
Too true, too true...
The vintage Bonds are where you got surprised just as the character did. An Connery did a great job of that "What The Fuck?" moment, what with his facial expressions and all.
Nowadays, it's all cold, hard and steely grit as if it were the Good, the Bad and the Ugly - style.
>And (not an)
>skyfall at #3
Fucking reddit plebs
James Alejandro Bond.
that list
I like the main title sequence for the animation's sake. I have no ears for music.
And I always like the one with the latest CGI effects. ie. the latest one.
>Whilst i usually
Stop lying. Stop shilling for this to happen.
>when Buzzfeed has the least shit taste in Bond movies