American here. I've never watched a Bond film ever...

American here. I've never watched a Bond film ever. I played the videogame as a kid and know a little because of pop culture osmosis, but where should I start? Are they worth it?

Dr. No

Watch some of the classics first: From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me. Then watch Goldeneye and jump to the Craig movies.

Buy the boxed Blueray set. Binge watch. Skip Moonraker.

If you are truly interested in watching all of them, just start from the beginning.

Dr. No has slow pacing, but is one of the better Bond movies

Don't bother, they're really not very good.

You should watch the old ones first.

If you can, just watch them in the release order.

Not all are GREAT, but the effect of watching all of them is GREAT.

Watch the Daniel Craig ones only.

Pretty much

What does you nationality have to do with the question?

Watch the first 3. After that it's up to you, here is my official ratings.

Top 007 Tier
>Dr. No
>From Russia With Love
>Goldfinger
>The Spy Who Loved Me
>OHMSS
>Licence To Kill
>Casino Royale (2006)

Good Tier
>You Only Live Twice
>Live and Let Die
>The Living Daylights
>Goldeneye
>Skyfall

Mediocre/Average Tier
>Thunderball
>Man With the Golden Gun
>For Your Eyes Only
>World is Not Enough
>Quantum of Solace

Camp/Fun but Shit Tier
>Diamonds are Forever
>Moonraker
>Octopussy
>View to A Kill

Just Shit Tier
>Tomorrow Never Dies

Die Another Day Tier
>Die Another Day

The Connery and Moore films are VERY camp.
Just know that going in. Fun to watch with a group, not nearly so great alone. Kind of the way watching Rocky Horror Picture Show alone would be sub-optimal
The Craig films are a whole different thing - actual good films.

I was trying to justify not having seen them.

All of them are campy and stupid. All of them, even the "serious" ones. They might as well have fun with it which is why Moonraker is unironically the best Bond movie.

They're all goofy, just watch from Dr. No to Thunderball, then Goldeneye, the Casino Royale and Skyfall. The Roger Moore films are hilarious if you want something retarded to laugh at, other than that avoid this franchise.

It's not as if Bond movies are only popular in Commonwealth countries or something. It's been a global franchise for 55 years.

>Moonraker is unironically the best Bond movie
stopped reading right there

>ywn live in the reality where Clive Owen was Bond instead of Craig

It depends if you want kino or campkino.

Top kino: Goldeneye

Top camp: Die Another Day

Watch the stuff before Craig first, then you'll really get a feel for what Bond films are really like.

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start with the first 3 Connery films
then skip to Goldeneye
then Casino Royale and keep going

i wouldn't know, i stopped reading

Some of them are atrocious nowadays, close to unwatchable.

Go with Dr. No, From Russia With Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, OHMSS, both Dalton movies, GoldenEye, Casino Royale, Skyfall

you'll be good

Watch it all, starting with Dr.No.

>Skyfall
is a croc of shite. Watch QoS instead.

The only really must-see ones are the first five Connery ones (Diamonds Are Forever was pretty unremarkable, and can be skipped unless you are dying for more Connery Bond).

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is very good, IMO, but people tend to either love it or hate it. A couple of the Moore ones are pretty good (Live and Let Die and the Spy Who Loved Me), but most of them are mediocre or worse, and there's a campy '70s feel to them. Dalton's first one (The Living Daylights) is very good, but his second (License to Kill) is probably the most divisive film in the series (it has some vocal advocates, but most seem to hate it, and it nearly killed the franchise). Goldeneye is really the only Brosnan one worth watching.

I have not seen the rebooted series with Daniel Craig, so I can't speak to it.

>skipping two of the three best Connery films
>skipping OHMSS
>skipping The Living Daylights

>From Russia With Love
Literally the worst entry prior to Diamonds are Forever.

A lot of the spy troupes began with the Bond films so expect to cringe at a lot of the dialogue and setpieces.

>No you only live twice


Fuckin pleb

>American here.

Stopped reading there

They're all worth watching, i'd honestly jsut start at the beginnign and work your way forward.

However, the most 'accessible' to new comers to the franchise likely are:

Goldfinger
Spy who Loved Me
Goldeneye
Casino Royale

these tend to be the ones that 'introduce' new fans to it

Start with Casino Royale.

My step-dad was a huge Bond fan and I've been familiar with the films since the late 80s.

With Bond it does not matter where you start chronologically, because every story moves along just about the same and neither one is directly related to the other. You will definitely find some films that are less interesting than others, but you should expect that going into it anyway with the number of films in the series.

My favorite Bond film is Goldeneye, but my golden years (heh, sorry bad pun) were in the 90s and this was definitively our Bond film. Tomorrow Never Dies and and Die Another Day were forgettable, however, I feel a certain charm toward The World Is Not Enough and would recommend it to anyone; Elektra King is one of the more interesting Bond characters, but I can't tell you much more than that without ruining significant parts of the plot.

However, Roger Moore is my favorite Bond era.

On Tim Dalton; License To Kill does not feel like a Bond flick, but it has the appeal of a grimy late 80s action film with some intrigue thrown in. I would throw the Dalton movies on just to see them.

The debate between Moore and Connery is as old as time. I'm going to narrow the top three Moore and Connery films in my estimation, and recommend you watch them to see which you prefer.

Connery

>Dr. No
>Goldfinger
>You Only Live Twice

Watch the other films that come between Moore and Connery at your own peril.

Moore

>Live and Let Die
>Moonraker
>A View To a Kill

Heck, I'll throw in Moore's The Man With The Golden Gun, too, since it's such a classic.

All of the Craig movies felt like Jason Bourne inserted into James Bond.

>it does not matter where you start chronologically, because every story moves along just about the same and neither one is directly related to the other.
That is not true of the first seven films (well, the second and the fourth through the seventh, anyway: Dr. No and Goldfinger are mostly standalone, but the others are all a part of the SPECTRE/Blofeld arc). Those really should be watched in release order in order to make sense of the overarching plot. There's a couple of mini arcs in the Moore films as well, as you should know if you actually liked Moonraker.

>License To Kill does not feel like a Bond flick, but it has the appeal of a grimy late 80s action film with some intrigue thrown in. I would throw the Dalton movies on just to see them.
Dalton was an excellent Bond, but License to Kill is not a good Bond film. Stick to The Living Daylights and muse about what might have been if Dalton had accepted the role when he was first offered it in the early '70s.

>The debate between Moore and Connery is as old as time.
And was largely decided in favor of Connery long ago. Consensus on Sup Forums typically seems to put Moore as worst Bond.

Some will tell you that the real debate is Dalton/Lazenby.

>Watch the other films that come between Moore and Connery at your own peril.
The only bad Connery film is Diamonds Are Forever.

And though you've completely disregarded Lazenby, OHMSS is easily better than any of Moore's films (Brosnan's, too, including Goldeneye).

>Moonraker
Is terrible. James Bond IN SPAAACE was bad when it was released, and it hasn't aged well.
>A View To a Kill
The only good thing about that film was Duran Duran. It's only worth watching if you especially like watching Chistopher Walken ham it up. Even Octopussy was better, and Octopussy was hot garbage.

I compiled responses from 6 posts that ranked Bond movies by tiers. Here are the results:

Great Tier
>Goldfinger
>From Russia with Love
>Goldeneye
>On Her Majesty's Secret Service
>Dr. No
>The Spy Who Loved Me

Good Tier
>Casino Royale (almost even split between Great/Good)
>For Your Eyes Only
>Thunderball
>Skyfall
>You Only Live Twice
>Licence to Kill
>The Living Daylights

Average Tier
>The Man with the Golden Gun
>Live and Let Die
>Diamonds Are Forever
>Quantum of Solace
>Tomorrow Never Dies

Shit Tier
>Octopussy (almost even split between Average/Shit)
>A View to a Kill
>Die Another Day
>The World Is Not Enough
>Moonraker

>you only live twice
>Bond/ninjas crossover
>muh Blofeld
>good

>American here
thread hidden

>not mentioning Goldfinger
>recommending You Only Live Twice
Please disregard this shit opinion immediately

>Are they worth it
Absolutely not. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Skyfall rocks QoS was bad you're bad and your friends hate you :(

>Skyfall rocks
>Was getting caught a part of your plan
Only if you are a brainlet whose idea of a good plot is a villain that somehow knows everything, even how the protagonists are going to act.

QoS is an underrated masterpiece only those without ADD can appreciate

Something about that pic always makes me laugh. I think its because the Gun seems so much bigger than bond in the pic.

goldfinger is the one that establishes all of the long-running tropes

You forgot Spectre in Average tier

>Average tier
kys

I was in your shoes once upon a time OP.

I got my hands on literally every james bond film ever made and watched them all in chronological order.

I hated it. I hate all the James Bond films.
They're clearly not for me, I wanted to kill myself during the entire process.

Timothy Dalton was the best James Bond though.

It's better then QoS, it's campy as fuck, and thats what makes it fun. Pacing, soap opera history with bloefeld and bond, and Moriarty are the worst parts

>it's better than QoS
Opinion discarded

Bond is a weird cultural phenomenon, in that the vast majority of the films are pretty shit, in particular the earliest ones which are put on a pedestal of cinematic quality when in reality they’re just silly, campy B-movies. I mean, the Connery films are all enjoyable, but because they’re ridiculous, not because they’re written or acted well (because they absolutely aren’t). At the time critics realised they were just parodies of themselves, but it seems that years of nostalgia have transformed Bond into something bizarrely genuine in people’s minds.

Moonraker is best Bond film.
Moore is best Bond.
Craig is worst Bond.
The Bond concept is inherently silly, so it only works as a comedy.

>Moore is best Bond.

This chap knows what's up

A View to a Kill
the Timothy Dalton ones
Goldeneye
These were my favorites

The others are good time passers. Just don't watch the one with George Lazenby. There was a reason he only played Bond once.
Kinda sounds like a parody title.
>You only play Bond once

>Skipping any Bond films

Moore's and Brosnan's are a bit campy but they're all bretty good. Ignore all the hate for QoS. Plot wise it's probably Craig's best film. It's just rather short on big set pieces.

>Plot wise it's probably Craig's best film.

I'd say it's the best Craig tonewise. It's one of the few Bond movies that really gets the ambiguity and unscrupulousness of secret agencies right which is shown with the way Bond treats dying Matthis.