What's your personal favorite James Bond film? Not necessarily the "best" but the one you had the most fun with?
I can't believe I wrote these films off for so long. It's such a nice treat watching all of them for the first time. Connery is obviously the best uwu
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you only live twice and license to kill are my favs
I think it’s a really complex question. I’ve seen all 24 and to a large extent it depends on what you’re in the mood for.
If you want really great action you should go for the Brosnan films, Craig if you want a bit more grit, Moore if you want a a bit more campy, Connery if you want “classic” Bond
>but the one you had the most fun with?
You know I had a bloody blast with Moonraker. If the qualifications for my personal favourite really were 'the one I had the most fun with' I'd have to choose it. Of course, it's not my actual favourite, which would be one of the Connery films. Off the top of my head I'm saying Goldfinger, but I haven't seen any recently, so it's not fresh.
lol that's the one where he has psychic powers.
From Russia with Love and Casino Royale are the two that I find most compelling and fun to revisit. They're probably my favorites.
My favorite is Goldfinger. But the first Bond movie I ever saw as a kid was Octopussy when it came out on VHS at a friend's birthday party. I liked it a lot. One day my Dad was watching Never Say Never Again on HBO and I asked him what he was watching. He said James Bond. I laughed and said that's not James Bond. I'll never forget the look he gave me and the long explanation of how Connery was the first (and the best according to him) James Bond and how Roger Moore was a goofy hack lol.
I’ve always like Thunderball.
The scenes in the health spa.
The scene in the pool with the shark.
The plane hidden underwater.
I know it’s not perfect, but it just has all the Bond elements.
This. It's tropical kino, with a good opening. He punches out a cross-dressing assassin in the first few minutes.
this one was strangely emotional. He seems genuinely melancholy, exhausted and fed up in this one which actually made for a really interesting watch. I love the scene where he dances with her on the boat and she talks about her brother, it somehow struck me as sentimental. The scuba battle at the end is fucking ridiculous though
it's a good movie, but I dislike it
something about all the underwater stuff
I think Goldfinger is best but it took quite a few watches before I realized it
As a kid Live and let die
Watched some of them at christmas and the best was
Goldeneye and Casino Royale.
bond? lmaaaao what year is it, 1982? only fuckin old people or soiboi redditors watch flicks this old and out of date. I watched 30 seconds of goldfinger on tv once and physically cringed at how dated and boring it was. i understand watching old movies if they have a message or a plot, but there is literally no reason to ever watch an action movie that is more than 10 years old. even the shit i grew up watching like predator and aliens is horrible dated and boring by today's standards.
It's the only Bond movie I can watch no matter what mood I'm in. Great villains, great girls, beautiful locations, excellent score and Roger Moore at his toughest and meanest. It's also the first and best time 007 squares off against a mirror version of himself and imo done far better than it was in GoldenEye.
cringe
Britt Eklund, the midget and the flying car are great, but what was up with that scene where he grabs the sumo wrestler's ass?
I really Dr No and Thunderball. My guilty pleasure Bond is Man with the Golden Gun.
Any of the original Connery Bond films are perfect for a rainy day, even Diamonds Are Forever. Personal favorites are From Russia with Love and You Only Live Twice.
Casino Royale. Its one of those movies you just don't get bored of.
Goldfinger and Thunderball were also some childhood favorites.
this
*slide whistle plays*
I've been watching them all in order - I haven't seen them since I was a kid. I just watched You Only Live Twice, and that's probably my favourite. It's so brilliantly silly.
I think From Russia With Love is probably the 'best' one though.
Thunderball is kino until the underwater fight at the end. It's impossible to tell what's happening, and it never ends.
My personal favourite would be On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It has two of the most important things that make a Bond Movie great (The Locations and the Action) but subverts many expectations (No major gadgets, The Girls, Bond Himself). I love the soundtrack, the cinematography (The Beach scene at the beginning) and I truly believe it's kind of a victim of it's era, it's so damm 1969. But you gotta love it for that.
But my favourite James Bond is Timothy Dalton and my second fav Bond movie would be License To Kill. Dalton is just great, it's by far my favourite interpretation of the character. He's not smooth, nor charismatic. He's a cold blooded killer, a professional that only kills professionals. In License To Kill you can see all of this, he's visceral, doesn't look like someone who's having fun with his job. He's also not charismatic at all and that's what I love about his Bond. You can see all of the above in The Living Daylights, but toned down a bit.
>As a kid
You Only Live Twice
>Now
OHMSS
OHMSS has the best everything except James Bond himself. Best villain, girl, setting, etc.
>It's impossible to tell what's happening, and it never ends.
Fucking this.
>In License To Kill you can see all of this, he's visceral, doesn't look like someone who's having fun with his job. He's also not charismatic at all and that's what I love about his Bond. You can see all of the above in The Living Daylights, but toned down a bit.
License to Kill feels like Bond written by Americans. They took the character too far, as a revenge flick it's pretty satisfying but as a Bond movie it's just missing something. I don't see the cold blooded killer, I see a man overcome with emotion because of a dead friend.
The Living Daylights is my favorite Bond movie, because it's my favorite interpretation of the character. He's very much a spy, just a militant one.
For me, it's Goldeneye 64.
based
>He didn't watch bound kino with his dad.
I legit feel bad for you.
Based and OHMSS-pilled
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It was so fucking boring.
The fuck I care about some colombian drug lord shit? (or whatever it was, I can't even remember it was so forgettable).
I want international intrigue with exotic locales and exciting shit.
Not some extended drug deal bullshit.
Goldfinger is my go-to favorite. Its funny, we had the Connery VHS box set so I had access to all the connery films as a kid but for some reason Goldfinger stuck out to me. My dad was a Thunderball fan, but I guess something about Goldfinger's American settings vs foreign locations made more sense to me as a kid.
pic related. i really liked the custom logos on each tape. i think they continued that trend all the way up to TWINE so you can have all 20 films match
Is it just me or is it finally time to have a woman or minority or both play James Bond. She could be called Jane Bond. It's really past time for this. Who's with me? #metoo
I liked OHMSS for some reason. Even though Lazenby is a ballschin having goof and even though Blofeld shouldn't be getting into physical fights with Bond. Even though a large part of the movie is cringe Bond acting as some gay fag. Even though the bond girl is annoying. It's still good because it ends on a sad note.
Goldfinger was probably the best all around.
But I can't get over The Living Daylights because Maryam D'abo is so goddaman cute. I LOVE YOUNG MARYAM D'ABO! Fuck the haters!
based taste, fuck critics
I actually watched that before I saw any of the Connery Bonds and that was dumb. Still good but I need to see it knowing that he's basically playing an old solid snake equivalent of bond
1.- Casino Royale
2.- OHMSS
3.- From Russia with love
I also have a soft spot for For your eyes only cuz it was the first Bond movie i saw as a kid. I also fucking love Licence to Kill because of how edgy and violent it is.
Your dad is based, and if you like Roger Moore you are not.
Still, I'll admit Octopussy is probably the least bad Moore film and Never say never is by far the worst one with Connery just because he looks like a fat old woman in that. That fucking movie was a mistake. Might be the worst Bond movie, it's definitely down there with Diamonds are Forever, Brosnan's later shit and everything Moore.
I find Goldfinger near-infinitely rewatchable—the plot, locations, and gadgets all make for a quintessentially comfy Bond that you can drop in and out of any time.
Before that it used to be Casino Royale, which I still find surprisingly well-written and also insanely rewatchable. Thunderball and From Russia with Love are also up there—something about the Connerys just makes them very easy viewing.
definitely a closet gay
my top 5 is the first 5 in reverse order
>YOLT
>TB
>GF
>FRWL
>DrN
yeah me and my brother were laughing our asses off when we realized there was going to be a underwater scuba battle scene
On Her Majesty's Secret Service has been overrated ever since Christopher Nolan sang it's praises
What's the most kino opening sequence?
I fucking love GoldenEye's theme
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Good taste.
Diamonds are forever is good too.
Uh, it was a martial arts move
It's always fun to see Bond behaving less than civil, like he does in this one;
>"There's a certain four letter word, and you're full of it"
Sounds so uncharacteristically rude it's funny.
The only other instance of this sort of thing happening I can think of is the pre-title sequence in Diamons Are Forever where he strangles a woman at the pool and beats the snot out of a guy at a casino.
I thought Ithsmus was a cool and exotic location. Sanchez's house was amazing. LTK might be like a typical 80s action flick in some ways, but it's still a Bond movie at it's core and a better adaptation of the Live and Let Die novel than Live and Let Die was. I think it's a million times better than The Living Daylights with the boring Afghanistan shit that goes on for fucking ever
Yeah I love the font they use; Retro yet smaller to indicate that it's new and higher quality. Goldeneye is solid film. The Brosnan bonds had great opening sequences.
Something funny I noticed about the Casino Royale opening is that it's the only bond opening without women. He's just beating the shit out of men the whole sequence. Casino Royale is a good movie but it's not a bond film. Craig isn't bond. a good character, but he's completely emasculated throughout the film
All these man children liking this superhero in a suit. Grow up. This is just as bad as cape-shit.
God Tier
Golden Eye
From Russia With Love
Skyfall
Thunderball
stop nagging, Karen. No one cares
Goldfinger and unironically Live and Let Die. I love the latter setting, I'll watch almost anything set there.
whats with the cop scenes in Live and Let Die? it's turns into Cool Hand Luke in the third act and we follow a couple of racist southern cops who say "boy" and chew absurd amounts of tabacco. IT's the 70s we gotta throw some anti white propaganda along side the anti black propaganda
from russia with love by a mile
What happened to the first 6 James Bonds?
You realize there has been four Bond movies since 2006 and another one coming, right? Bond movies are still relevant today you fucking moron.
God Tier is my fav bond film
It has women in the intro you blind asshat.
connery might be the best bond and brosnan gets a lot of crap but brosnan is actually my favorite. the reason being i grew up around this time watching him, he was bond for me before i knew of the other guys. its all campy and over the top but entertaining
Roger Moore Seiko era
Moonraker- it was disclosure about the breakaway civilization
Yeah it could have done without J.W. Pepper desu, but 1970s gonna '70s.
It has all the elements of a hit though
>The South
>Voodoo
>Jane Seymour
>A plan that isn't really that unfeasible
>Huggy Bear henchmen
But, as you say, it gets cartoonish and spoils it. However, at least in my mind, it manages to keep its head above water.
he's more bond than Craig will ever be
Disney probably owns the distribution rights to them at this point :/ what do u mean by that question? lol
Because Craig is Aryan manlet and not tall dark and handsome?
Well he's James Bond 007. What happened to James Bond 001-006?
i used to think like you until recently when tv aired all of the bonds in order. brosnan is great but connery is completely different league. man is very charismatic and exudes effortless masculinity and that alone is enough to justify low quality production of early movies
Diamonds are Forever had me in tears laughing so it might be it. Otherwise GoldenEye has a pretty good blend of action, drama and comedy.
Licence to Kill is my favourite. Brosnan is shit. Moore has only one bad film (Moonraker). Diamonds are Forever is in my top 10. Thunderball is boring crap.
and dalton if you want the actual best bond closest to the books.
from russia with love and license to kill.
>it could have done without J.W. Pepper
low i.q cunt
oh yeah no it's still a good flick.
In the same way that people are going to look at the current craig bond as being too influenced by Bourne. (shaky camera, no vehicles, explosions, cool set pieces, action is all hand to hand combat) I see Live and Let Die as being so very French Connection. And Goldeneye is very Le Femme Nikita. OHMSS is very Le Samourai
But that's why I love watching all the old ones to kindof track the culture. (Craig is a complete cuck who sleeps with married women and who's judgement gets comprised by his complete faith in women, so very modern!)
The Great Game, land periscope, a goddamn gypsy fight, Bulgarians, the whole bit with the sniper rifle, Bond sex tape, 'one last cigarette', a fight sequence on a train that doesn't end on the fucking roof, and that choker man, that choker
i've got the majority of these that came like this
>craig
>bond
i miss VHS box set images that would show up when you had the whole set. DVD cases were too thin to make it work
You guys are gonna hate me for this. I really like Moonraker. It was comfy, campy, had memorable villains, and good scenery. That said, it might not be my favorite. I also very much enjoyed YOLT, and The Living Daylights. Tough call.
The Spy Who Loved Me, followed closely by You Only Live Twice. Probably Live and Let Die in 3rd place.
Yolt is trash, the whole thing feels like some weird proto weeb fantasy, thunderball was way better
nah bro
Oh man, how could I forget about this. This one was great.
Nothing beats tossing that annoying kid in the water
I've seen all the Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, and Lazenby ones, and I've only seen Dr. No out of the Connery ones.
favorite would either be The Living Daylights or For Your Eyes Only
Die Another Day is definitely the worst, and maybe top 10 worst movies I've ever seen. I had heard it was bad but I watched it recently and holy shit did George Lucas direct it in front of his green screens?
>FYEO
It's so dull.
Have you never seen a 70s drive-in film? It was full of that shit. Live and Let Die is Bond stuck in a blaxploitation film
I enjoy it for the soundtrack alone. Bill Conti's score is great. Also Melina is a top-shelf Bond girl
She's too...cold. I'm more of a Tiffany Case or Stacy Sutton kinda guy.
Bond was pretty lost in the 70's in general so they just turned them into genre films. Live and Let Die is blaxploitation, Man with the Golden Gun is a kung fu movie, Moonraker was sci-fi, Octopussy was a comedy, etc.
007 Tier
>From Russia with Love
>OHMSS
>Casino Royale
Great Tier
>Goldfinger
>Thunderball
>Live and Let Die
>Licence to Kill
>Goldeneye
>Skyfall
Good Tier
>Dr. No
>You Only Live Twice
>Man with the Golden Gun
>The Spy Who Loved Me
>The Living Daylights
Meh Tier
>Diamonds are Forever
>For Your Eyes Only
>Tomorrow Never Dies
>Spectre
Bird doing a double take tier
>Moonraker
>Octopussy
>A View to A Kill
>Die Another Day
Shit Tier
>The World is Not Enough
>Quantum of Solace
you're kinda right. I did dig the movie overall, but I guess that answer is more like "if you had to suggest one Bond movie to somebody what would it be." and FYEO doesn't have any huge flaws, has some high points, hits a good ratio of actual impressive stunts:cheesy closeups on Moore in front of a projection. it's an accountant's pick rather than my actual favorite
The Living Daylights is probably the Bond movie I'm most likely to rewatch.
>OHMSS
There he is again, folks. Peddling that same old contrarian nonsense. Making excuses for fourth wall violations, hilariously bad flashbacks, bizarre lighting choices, and a pedestrian as shit villain who's literally just a getaway chauffeur by the end of the movie.
thank you. OHMSS is so fucking overrated
Casino Royale is a fine film but it's not a bond film
Why has nobody mentioned Telly Savalas as Blofeld? He was the best Blofeld...
I would put The Spy Who Loved Me on Great tier, and Live and Let Die all the way down to Meh tier.
Other than that, good taste user.
I like them as well, especially Stacey. Tanya Roberts was a legit semen demon
He's a fucking getaway driver, dude.
Tomorrow Never Dies is not better than The World is Not Enough. 1v1 me
> Peddling that same old contrarian nonsense
it's one of the more popular bond movies
>Most enjoyable
A View to a Kill
>Favorite
Goldeneye
Even if that was the case, which it isn't, it's still an ass movie.
>being sanctimonious about Bond
had great rally car racing
The world is not enought is not the same tier as Quantum of Shit
CHANGE MY MIND
A View To A Kill is pretty damn good. Kinda surprised to read afterward that it was panned and was a financial disappointment.
It definitely has the best theme song, and Walken as the villain was exactly as enjoyable as I expected. Kinda drags in the middle-late section but all the Bond movies drag a little.
Quantum of Shit was not only bad, it was boring. TWINE was not boring.
I wouldn't say it was good. More like Walker and Grace Jones + a pretty good soundtrack saved it.
Quantum of Solace is the worst bond flick in the franchise its history
Simple as.
This. Die Another Day was at least entertaining.
I don't think it drags at all, AVTAK is a blast from start to finish. Walken and Jones are great, but more importantly it's such an unusual and offbeat Bond film that sets it apart from the rest. It has all of these subtle bizarre touces like Mayday assassinating someone with a fake butterfly, Bond driving half a car, Zorin has a boobytrapped horse track, etc. Also we see 007 get dominated in bed for the first time, and later on in the film he bakes a quiche lmao
On the contrary. I find the underwater fight the best due to the sheer scale of it.
true it's action packed almost the entire time. but by the Blues Brothers-esque chase with the cops and the drawbridge I was kinda exhausted by everything. maybe they could have skipped the part where they're investigating those oil rigs in the ocean. water levels suck even in movies.
I admire the ambition but you literally can't even tell who is on what side half the time. Thunderball would be remembered as highly as Goldfinger and From Russia without it.
>who is on what side
Are you colorblind?
hahah
Dont get me wrong Casino Royale is an excellent film with good writing and characters. But it's undeniably emasculating propaganda meant to set a new standard for men for the modern day. Craig has little to no resemblance to the Connery Bonds.
>sleeps with married women
>is cold to most pretty women,
>gets stripped naked and enjoys getting his balls busted
>falls in love with a girl, judgement gets impaired and gets screwed over by her because he lets his guard down. (+ doesnt sleep with her until he gives himself fully to her)
>doesn't sleep with ANYONE in Quantum of Solace
>gets mistaken for valet
>everyday man, who shows no sign of aristocracy or class
It's good for the camp value but it and License to Kill both suffer from the same problem of not feeling like a real Bond movie. A firetruck chase through San Francisco? Bond taking on a Columbian drug lord? Sounds more like a generic Arnold movie.
the main bad guy in TWINE is bland, and not in a serious, all-business way. the actor sounds like an amateur they pulled out of some random theatre troupe. Jonathan Price hams it up and is entertaining.
Denise Richards is just awful. Teri Hatcher was similarly bad in TND but they killed her off very quickly.
>maybe they could have skipped the part where they're investigating those oil rigs in the ocean
But user, without that we wouldn't have gotten the famous hot tub scene that Austin Powers parodied.
>undeniably emasculating propaganda
No this is very deniable. What's undeniable is you are whiny little bitch and you should kill yourself.
whats more emasculating than this scene? He's literally stripped naked and his balls get busted.....
They both had plenty of classic Bond elements. There is more to being a Bond film that the basic plot or where it's filmed. Goldfinger had Bond hanging out in Kentucky for fuck's sake
Maud Adams is so underrated in Man with the Golden Gun. Her performance is fantastic for any movie let alone for a Bond girl. You can see her fear in everything she does and read how fucked up and damaged she is by all of her actions. She's tragic. Plus she's unbelievably hot and has that look that Melania Trump has spent millions on trying to achieve through surgery.
None of the vintage bonds could be made today-hes grandfathered in. The first Brosnan they initiated with the toxically male deconstruction. Watch with your local shitlibs for added lulz.
No one cares. Stop whining about imaginary people whining and talk about Bond or leave.
This is less on topic than what you replied to.
Bond would not be done as seen, in the current year.
And on the flip side you have Britt Ekland as the klutzy but lovable and charismatic Mary Goodnight. Both are very memorable in their own way, but Maud Adams's performance was excellent. I was genuinely chilled by her death, as well as Bond's flippant attitude. Love how cold he is in TMWTGG, he just starts going through her purse with a jovial tone as soon as he realizes she's dead.
Peanut?
I'm not even talking from a redpilly pol perspective. It's just a fact that Craig is fundamentally different from Connery's character. The filmmakers would even admit this. This is a bond thread lol it's totally on topic
She's one of the few Bond girls that actually makes Bond seem like a monster
>Live and Let Die all the way down to Meh tier
Pleb: Filtered.
She's basically a sex slave trying to escape her master and Bond just uses her and throws her away, and fucks her while his main squeeze hides in the closet.
>Anonymous 03
Apart from three or four, the Flemmimg books are much better.
Thunderball is the GOAT, but OHMSS gets points from me because it's the only movie where James Bond doesn't act like fucking James Bond when he goes undercover.
Man With the Golden Gun unironically
Watching moonraker right now, quick question, what the fuck were they thinking when they made this film?
They thought that The Spy Who Loved Me was really successful, and so was Star Wars, so let's copy the story of the former while dressing it up and advertising it as the latter. The worst thing about Moonraker isn't the camp, camp is fine, it's the terrible action scenes and the piss poor editing and pacing. Although at the time audiences loved it and critics weren't that harsh on it at all