Best Bond film?

[Abitrary]

From Russia With Love - by far the best
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale

The films got more and more silly during the Roger Moore era - he was never remotely credible in the role and neither, I think, was Pierce Brosnan. Timothy Dalton, the best actor ever to have had the role, should have had more of a chance, the producers just made a mistake with his second outing and his tenure coincided with Bond being unfashionable. I actually like Never Say Never Again - it has a certain roughness about it.

Yawn. Is there absolutely nothing you know everything about?

 

[Mr Pig]

''No Mr Bond, I want you to die!!''

It's "..I expect you to die." ;0)

I have favourite bond film 'parts!' I love the Lotus submarine chase, I like the BMW in the multi-story chase, that sort of thing. The rest of the films are crap though! ;0)

 

[alp1950]

Casino Royale -despite the ker-ching moment; ref Mark Kermode http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/a2z/rams/kermode171106.ram

 

[Andy in Sig]

Golden Eye. By a mile.

I hated Casino Royale with a passion.
Daniel Craig is just a teaspoon of DNA removed from a shaved gorilla but seeing as the books are pretty damn nasty anyway and a Bond that is true to them is just a thug in a tuxedo he at least fits the bill. The Craig films have no sense of humour. Absolutely none. And without at least a hint of tongue in cheek, a Bond film is just unpleasant.

Oh, and most stupid Bond gadget ever? The defibrillator in Casino Royale. Makes the invisible Aston look like a Blackberry.

I watched the DVD of Casino Royale again yesterday and it just reinforced my view that there is more actual acting in it than all the other Bond films put together (and that includes those with Mr Canary in the lead role). It's worth the whole film for the scene where he's verbally sparring with Vesper Lynd in the train. Also the interplay between Bond and M is excellent. Whoever thought of putting Judi Dench in that role was a genius.

 

[Mr Pig]

I stand corrected

I don't expect you to be corrected Mr Lee... ;0)

 

[Maz]

The one with whatsisface with that fit bird in it.

 

[Mr Pig]

The one with whatsisface with that fit bird in it.

That could be any one of them!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

The Man with Golden Gun. Christopher Lee is class and the golden gun itself is well smart.

Wasn't you, was it?

 

[Landslide]

The Man With The Golden Gun? The one with the cheesy swanny whistle when the car did the barrel roll? The one heavily featuring the US Sheriff? What???

 

[User482]

From Russia With Love (worth it for the fight on the train alone)
Live & Let Die (by far the best Moore film, though maybe that's not saying much)
Living Daylights (I thought that Dalton was very under-rated)
Casino Royale (great return to form after the dire end to the Brosnan era)

 

[User482]

The Man With The Golden Gun? The one with the cheesy swanny whistle when the car did the barrel roll? The one heavily featuring the US Sheriff? What???

Sherrif JW Pepper was quite amusing in Live & Let Die ("a spy? On whose side?"), but his appearance in MWTGG was woefully contrived.

 

[Landslide]

I humbly disagree. His appearance in Live And Let Die was merely an exercise in extracting the urine from the redneck South and really should have been nipped in the bud before MWTGG. Nearly as bad as Jar-Jar Binks...

 

[User482]

I humbly disagree. His appearance in Live And Let Die was merely an exercise in extracting the urine from the redneck South and really should have been nipped in the bud before MWTGG. Nearly as bad as Jar-Jar Binks...

He was a stereotype - not the first, or last in Bond films.

Given that all the baddies in that particular film were black, I suppose a bit of wee-wee taking of red necks re-dressed the balance a little.

 

[Greedo]

Sean - From Russia With Love
Roger - Live and Let Die.

 

[Landslide]

He was a stereotype - not the first, or last in Bond films.

Given that all the baddies in that particular film were black, I suppose a bit of wee-wee taking of red necks re-dressed the balance a little.

Very true, though I never really saw the black characters as stereotypes. I can't completely knock the film though - I've always had a soft spot for the theme tune (the Guns n Roses cover at least! ).