What's the best James Bond film?

And why is it Goldeneye?

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For England, James?

No, 4U

But you misspelled From Russia With Love user.

I would also have accepted the Spy Who Loved Me and Goldfinger - albeit I disagree with that.

Die Another Day is better, even with that awful surf scene.

>From Russia With Love

This is what taste looks like lads.

Because Tina Turner best James Bond song.
> Golden EYYYYYYYYE the world we live in!

It had the best video game, but I don't know about best Bond film

FRWL is acceptable

the rest of these are absolutely trash tier answers

Because of Xenia

...

OHMSS is the ultimate pleb filter in the Bond franchise.

Memorable villain, memorable girls, cool gadgets, well written, great action and was a deconstruction of the Bond character (from the movies) without being too over the top about it like Casino Royale or Skyfall

Because it inspired the video game you played after coming home from grade school.

yeah, because if you like it you're a pleb

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For England James?

Also even though Eric Serra was an odd choice to do the music it had a certain charm to it and yet they still knew to ditch his score during the tank chase for something more traditional

t. Brainlet who thinks Connery is unquestionably the best Bond.

nice assumption and stay mad pleb

Personally Casino Royale is my favorite.

It's a huge shame that Brosnan didn't get more movies like Goldeneye and instead got shafted with hilarious bullshit that looked like it was a SYFY original production.

FRWL is a great film, but I don't think it's a great James Bond film. I think it lacks a lot of the shit that makes a great James Bond film - because a lot of the general tropes and devices of a Bond film weren't really set in stone until Goldfinger.

Bond films have exotic locales, but FRWL has, what, the Turkish countryside? Bond films have cool gadgets, but FRWL doesn't. Bond films have glamorous sexy bond girls, but FRWL has an angry elderly lesbian and a secretary who doesn't really do anything. Bond films have zany stuntwork, but the fights and action in FRWL are quick and brutal.

None of those are criticisms of the film itself. FRWL is great. However, it's really more of a down to earth spy thriller in a franchise that is all about over the top action spy thrillers - so while it is a great film, I wouldn't say it's great as a Bond film.

Don't forget how important it was for its time. It was six years after the last Bond film, which wasn't well-received wrongly, because License to Kill was great and a lot of people at the time felt that Bond could not outlive the Cold War. Goldeneye didn't just ignore the issue of the post-Cold War era, it made it a central theme and directly addressed it. It is not an exaggeration to say that decision may have literally saved the franchise.

>Personally Casino Royale is my favorite.
It has some decent action and isn't quite as laden with jump cuts as Quantum of Solace, but the dialogue and literally every scene with Vesper in it are cringey as fuck and the movie treats the audience like they're retarded.

Also the villain is a wimpy bitch and gets killed offscreen 45 minutes before the movie ends. What the fuck?

You must mean From Russia With Love

No love for The Living Daylights/License to Kill, Craig bond movies before Craig?

Both were terribly underrated. The Living Daylights is unironically one of my favorite Bond films, and License to Kill has so much of that hilarious 80s edge.

>this love for Licence to Kill
Acceptable, Sup Forums.

One underrated thing about LTK is that Bond actually does actual fieldcraft. He observes his targets and then uses their psychology against them. He pits enemies against one another by manipulating their actions and paranoia and shit. That is way more interesting to watch than the mindless stuntwork of too many Bond films where flash replaces substance - and the car chase at the end is legitimately tense and interesting without having to use nauseatingly fast jump cuts to disguise the fact that not much is actually happening.

The car chase scenes in Quantum of Solace and Spectre in particular were both fucking boring.

THREAD THEME
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Goldeneye and arguably Tomorrow Never Dies was the last true Bond movie.

Based.

Goldeneye got the post Soviet/ traditional cheesy Bond mix just right. Craig's Bond films aren't Bond films. They're British attempts at Bourne.

Goldeneye's soundtrack is fantastic and very distinctive. Listening to it, I know it's Goldeneye. A lot of movies have a pretty generic score that can honestly be swapped out with any other action movie's.

>Streets

>not comfy Watch

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Timothy Dalton's films are among the greatest.

My favourite Bond is Roger Moore for the banter.

The best Bond films are Goldeneye and Goldfinger.

All of Craig's are boring, numale, capeshit, WE WUZ AGENTZ, feminist, fuck why-pi-poh bullshit.

You Only Live Twice is great. Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay which is pretty fucking cool too. The man loved his airplanes.

I also quite like Live and Let Die, and not just for Jane Seymour.

I think Man with the Golden Gun is underrated but probably not the best.

I hate that Connery is such a fucking sacred cow for Bond fans. He's not bad, and he's definitely in the running for sexiest bond, but to be honest more of his films were bad than good and as raw talent in acting even Timothy Dalton is better. Daniel Craig is unironically closest to book!Bond, if that helps. And of course Moore is just iconic.

Connery is probably the best contemporary Bond.

However

Pierce was able to bring Bond into the 21st century

Last great bond movie, world is not enough was good, but every single bond film after that is just cancer or wannabe bourne. Unfortunately you can't do crazy shit in movies anymore, we'll never get another ninja assault on a volcano base or underwater knife and spear gun fight.

Bond is dead, let him lie.

Thunderball, License To Kill, Moonraker
fight me

Childhood is thinking Connery was the best.

Teenagehood is thinking Brosnan was the best.

Adulthood is thinking Moore was the best for banter, Dalton was the best for edge, Connery was the best for unashamed manliness, Brosnan was in the best Bond film ever made, and Craig ruined the franchise with his depressed pouting Polish bouncer SJW persona

Official theme song tier list:

>Beyond question
The James Bond Theme

>Shirley Bassey tier
Goldfinger
Diamonds Are Forever
Moonraker
her rejected theme for Quantum of Solace, which is available on Youtube

>Top Tier
Thunderball
A View to a Kill
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye

>Pretty good tier
Skyfall
The World Is Not Enough
You Only Live Twice
The Man With The Golden Gun
We Have All The Time In The World
Nobody Does It Better
The Living Daylights
You Know My Name

>Mid tier
From Russia With Love
For Your Eyes Only
All Time High
Tomorrow Never Dies

>Bad tier
Live And Let Die
Three Blind Mice

>OH GOD MAKE IT STOP
Writing's On The Wall
Die Another Day
Another Way To Die

.....attempting re-entry sir

Goldeneye is the best because it is the most balanced film in terms of genre and tone. If you put all the Bond films on a circular map then Goldeneye would be right in the middle.

Other films are more violent
Other films are sillier
Other films are more about spy stuff
Others are more comedic
Others are more realistic

Goldeneye gives you a taste of everything. Bond has a personal connection to the villain, who himself is a former 00 Agent. His plan is grandiose scale but pretty down to Earth in motivation and means; an EMP attack to crash the London Stock Exchange. Compare this to Brosnan films or some of the Connery films. His base is in an exotic location but it is constructed in a realistic and believable style.

His henchman, Xenia, is perverse but not TOO perverse. She has no special powers, just a perverted mindset. None the less, she is a sexual villain.

Bond has several shoot outs and chases down his enemies with a tank, but still relies on lots of espionage and gadgets.


Other films do more or less of everything Goldeney does, so I think it is the best all arounder and a great appetizer for the franchise as a whole.

Gotta agree with From Russia with Love being the best.

Hot take though, Thunderball > Goldfinger

>jack of all trades
>master of NONE
t. pleb

>His henchman, Xenia, is perverse but not TOO perverse. She has no special powers, just a perverted mindset. None the less, she is a sexual villain.
Xenia is a perfect example of a female baddie, to be honest. Even when she's just playing second to Trevalyn she's fucking great.

>Trevalyn brags about molesting Natalya
>"She tastes like strawberries."
>Xenia, audible in background, "Mmm~"

She's hilarious.

slughead

Thunderball's underwater sequences were a lot more thrilling in 1965 than today. It doesn't age well. But those filming techniques were new at the time, and its audiences were impressed with them more than we are.

If you can forgive that, then it's actually a pretty great film. Goldfinger has the under-appreciated flaw that Bond is actually kind of useless in it, the only thing he really does is bang Pussy Galore into switching sides. Otherwise, he spends nearly the entire movie either in Goldfinger's clutches or playing into his hands.

What about end scene songs lad?

I've always liked the ending song of Licence to Kill

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Goldfinger is my second favorite after Goldeneye

goldeneye still has that cool cold war feels

This.

I hate Craig's Bond so much. Bond should've died a few years after the Soviet Union.

and it was the last film to use "old school" sound effects and explosions. i kinda miss them. TMD and newer updated the sound library

That's not accidental; the end of the Cold War was a major part of the theme.

Based

I know, but it also makes the movie great.

but the question is, wtf is wrong with Q;s hands? theyre purple and swollen

FRWL has the hottest extras

Finally, I have become a The Living Daylights

It's a symptom of a heart condition. Though, it can also be caused by severe rheumatoid arthritis.

reminder the original timer in Goldfiger stopped at 003.

… the writing's on the wall?

Goldeneye was the best one you faggots. LTK close second. Quantum of Solace most under rated.

>Goldeneye was the best one you faggots. LTK close second. Quantum of Solace most under rated.

Do women still find Bond hot or is he a sexist Pig?

Roger Moore, God bless him, was the worst James Bond.

That's because the best Bond film is in fact TLD.

>Best Bond actor going for the harder grittier approach they finally took in CR
>Cutest Bond Girl in Kara (does bes stunt of any bond girl too)
>Evillest boot-acquiring henchdude with Necros
>High degree of Fleming influence
>Plot that wasn't over the top or reliant on deus ex machina

Only real negative was that both villains turned out comic - if they'd replaced Joe Don Baker's character with General Ourumov from GE it would have been a genuine 10/10 instead of Bond-only 10/10.

Both or do you not know anything about women?

Goldeneye's theme would have been much better with ace of base

Subtle Kek

best movie and best vg shooter.

DELET

>WE WUZ AGENTZ
that was so.fucking.retarded
moneypenny is a field agent all of sudden, and then she ends up as a secretary at the end of the movie. what the FUCK were they thinking? If they were not going to do anything with her, why even do it? I would complain more, but then spectre happened which is 100000x times worse.

>They're British attempts at bond
But user, goldeneye and casino royale were both written and directed by the same man

damn james bond looks like THAT?

Cara Delevigne?

because it has bonds highest bodycount
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May I submit a competitor?

You Only Live Twice:

>best song
>best Bond
>best Blofeld
>the story itself
>Japan setting

The current comic is doing this quite well. Moneypenny is a trained agent (not quite 00 level) who does a lot of legwork for M when Bond and the others are chasing other shit up.

The comics are quite good all round actually. Written/created by Warren Ellis - the other writers aren't bad either: Andy Diggle (ex-2000AD editor) did Hammerhead and is now on the Kill Chain arc; James Robinson did a cool Felix Leiter mini.

How "diverse" are the comics?

I don't understand what's being said here

>Quantum of Solace most under rated.

Moneypenny's based on Naomi Harris; M is basically a bald Idris Elba. Bit more movie synergy with Q being an annoying nerd kid. Beyond that Bond is slaughtering people of all nationality and colour.

The setup is a lot like Fleming's. The tech is best described as 20min into the future (eg., cybernetic prosthesis) but they appear to be dialing back on that recently.

Don't worry, user. It's okay to admit you're American in this thread.

I would happily allow myself to be sexually harassed by that man. Goddamn.

>Bond is dead, let him lie.
that's the whole point. you can't. it makes money. it's a franchise. bond is so ingrained in the pop culture you just can't abandon him. for some reason, eon has the "no period film" rule. I remember tarantino wanted a 60s bond, but eon is just not interested in the 60s bond. They want Bond set in present times. I mean, I don't really blame them. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is basically that, and it fucking flopped lmao

the next bond, and i'm not talking about the next craig bond. the next bond, the one that will replace craig, it's gonna be important. Because craig era started right before the whole sjw pc crap in media. Will James Bond be a non-white? Will James Bond will be actually Jane Bond?

It seems to me Eon is really waiting for something. Like, craig films have the longest periods between new bond films. We waited for Skyfall 4 years (because of the fucking anniversary). Now we're waiting for the next bond, which is scheduled for 2019. Also 4 years. This is unusal for bond. Usually it's 2-3 years. Craig is gonna be a bond for 13 years with only 5 films. Brosnan made 4 films in 7 years. Craig era is gonna surpass moore era as the longest one.

>And why is it Goldeneye?
uuuuhh uhhh uhhhh, pretty sure you mean MOONRAKER

I am...kids and the mentally ill can't normally have guns, some states have stricter laws than others. Why would kids and the mentally ill specifically look for trash guns, that's what I'm trying to understand

I liked this because of the lasers when I was a kid. I rewatched it at some point, most of the movie is just a boring run around with jaws/bond

Liberals and europeans like to stereotype America as not having any gun laws because we allow law-abiding adults to own and carry guns and, preposterously, believe in the legal presumption of innocence and don't deprive "mentally ill" people of their rights before they've done anything wrong, possibly because we know 99.9% of mentally ill people are nonviolent and the mentally ill are actually three times more likely to be victims, not perpetrators, of criminal violence.

It's just a worse The Spy Who Loved Me but in space.

Women don't really watch bond. It's a male fantasy at its finest. But yes women find all peak bond actors attractive.

I think we're all agreed then?
Moonraker is the best James Bond film!

seconded

I don't really care about anything other than the films. I mean, Bond has some weird shit like James Bond Jr which was just a saturday morning cartoon, or that fucking young bond series. Wonder if they adapt something like that. I mean, eon had some pretty weird ideas, like making a spin-off based on a halle berry character from die another day. What the fuck was up with that.

yes!

Yes we do.

>moonraker
>thinking it's gonna be bond on the moon
>it's just a space station in space

This still makes me mad to this day

Just because you wear your sister's clothes, that doesn't make you a woman, sissyboy.

I don't have a sister.

so you steal your mother's clothes. Great, sissyboy.

My mother died over a decade ago.

so you buy your own clothes. That's great, sissyboy. I mean, at this point you just confirmed you're a sissy, with these weeb pics.

It's a weeb site.