Favourite Bond Movie

Yellow Peril

Apparently it's 50 years since Dr No came out. Which is your favourite Bond movie and why?

The recent Casino Royale movie is mine purely because of the gritty black and white section at the beginning where that bloke gets a good hiding in the bogs reminded me of my 1970's Comprehensive education.

Also any Roger Moore one where he is wearing a safari suit...priceless!

napoleond

For your eyes only. Because it was my first bond film memory of the hype and then going to see it at the cinema with my mum and dad, I only went to the cinema about 6 times with them.
This was when the cinema was one screen and huge!

NWLondoner

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is mine followed VERY closely by From Russia With Love.

These BOTH captured the feel and essence of the original Fleming novels.

Brilliant story telling plus superb cinema photography

Can't wait to see Everything or Nothing tomorrow

Cleat Eastwood

Yellow Peril wrote:

The recent Casino Royale movie is mine purely because of the gritty black and white section at the beginning where that bloke gets a good hiding in the bogs

Yes, i agree.

They caught the ruthlessness of the book bond in that film - i like the scene in goldeneye too where bond sits and waits to either kill or be killed and prepares himself for his fate by downing shots of vodka.

oh and a soft spot for Live and Let Die as it was the first one I saw in the cinema.

MarksMintness

I have a soft spot for view to a kill! Christopher walken, grace Jones, that Stacy girl is miiiint, and the blimp scene on san Francisco bridge!

craprider

I go living Daylights, Grittiness bought back in after the horrendous campness of Moore.
i don't think you would of had bourne without this, and subsequently casino royale...

Bozman

Live and Let Die. Jane Seymour, good theme tune and.....‘Names is for tombstones baby. You all take this honky out and waste him'

Pross

If it wasn't for the (slightly important) problem with Lazenby as Bond I would go for OHMSS. Great Bond girl, probably the best of the original stories, the Aston DBS, great villains, fantastic stunts - everything absolutely perfect and they go and stick him in the lead!

So taking that into account it is probably Goldfinger for me. Some of the most memorable quotes, Ivan Basso blasting out the theme tune, the nearly-as-good Aston DB5.

More recently I have found the last 2 films very good and they have hopefully ensured a good few more years of Bond. Also, being a huge Bond fan I have a soft spot for Goldeneye as it brought the franchise back (and when my time is up I really want to go at the hands of Xenia Onatopp).

fast as fupp

never seen one. they look shite.

lakesluddite

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

You should. They're not.

Goldfinger for me, closely followed by the last two Casino Royale and Quantum..."Do you expect me to talk?"..."No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!"

NWLondoner

LakesLuddite wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

You should. They're not.

Goldfinger for me, closely followed by the last two Casino Royale and Quantum..."Do you expect me to talk?"..."No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!"

Quantum??? Are you mad???

greasedscotsman

Used to like Major Anya Amasova or Agent XXX from the Spy Who Loved Me until I found out that he actress who played her, Barbara Bach, is the same age as my mum! :shock:

Pross

greasedscotsman wrote:

Used to like Major Anya Amasova or Agent XXX from the Spy Who Loved Me until I found out that he actress who played her, Barbara Bach, is the same age as my mum! :shock:

It doesn't matter. Diana Rigg is older than my mum but I can still appreciate how good she was 'back in the day'.

lucan2

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

^ This.

Good guy, bad guy, woman, (car/boat/plane/spaceship/camel) chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Next Bond Movie....

Good guy, bad guy, woman, chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Repeat ad nauseum.

Pross

So bad it's worth registering a new name and making your first post

finchy

Lucan2 wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

^ This.

Good guy, bad guy, woman, (car/boat/plane/spaceship/camel) chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Next Bond Movie....

Good guy, bad guy, woman, chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Repeat ad nauseum.

The first three films are still possibly the best spy movies ever produced.

capt_slog

Lucan2 wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

^ This.

Good guy, bad guy, woman, (car/boat/plane/spaceship/camel) chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Next Bond Movie....

Good guy, bad guy, woman, chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Repeat ad nauseum.

You missed an essential bit of plot....

Bond falls for girl, girl gets killed by bad guy (usually because she's betrayed him with Bond) Bond gets another girl who he then loses to and rescues from bad guy.

napoleond

Lucan2 wrote:

fast as fupp wrote:

never seen one. they look shite.

^ This.

Good guy, bad guy, woman, (car/boat/plane/spaceship/camel) chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Next Bond Movie....

Good guy, bad guy, woman, chase, good guy gets captured, almost dies, miraculously survives, bad guy loses, good guy gets the girl.

Repeat ad nauseum.

That's exactly why I like them so much!

lucan2

Pross wrote:

So bad it's worth registering a new name and making your first post

Previous username wouldn't work under the new log-in system so I created another. Sorry about that.

verylonglegs

I find it easier to pick the ones that really annoyed me, Moonraker and Die Another Day. I realise you have to suspend disbelief a little for Bond sometimes with gadgets etc. but the space scene at end of Moonraker with laser guns and the invisible car in Die Another Day really tested me...the car especially so, I remember thinking 'wtf..this isn't Star Trek!!!'.

The point about the first three being some of the best spy films is also a good one. Reminds me when I watched Dr. No for the first time in the 80's and my dad explaining that the scene where Bond shoots an unarmed guy after a brief chat sat opposite each other was almost ground-breaking and genuinely shocking at the time of release as previously films like westerns and war films tended to always show the 'good' guys not only being victorious but also playing fair. To have the hero of the film portrayed as a cold-blooded killer was very unusual at that time.

Yellow Peril

Pross wrote:

If it wasn't for the (slightly important) problem with Lazenby as Bond I would go for OHMSS. Great Bond girl, probably the best of the original stories, the Aston DBS, great villains, fantastic stunts - everything absolutely perfect and they go and stick him in the lead!
So taking that into account it is probably Goldfinger for me. Some of the most memorable quotes, Ivan Basso blasting out the theme tune, the nearly-as-good Aston DB5.

More recently I have found the last 2 films very good and they have hopefully ensured a good few more years of Bond. Also, being a huge Bond fan I have a soft spot for Goldeneye as it brought the franchise back (and when my time is up I really want to go at the hands of Xenia Onatopp).

Why does every thread have to degenerate into a discussion about Wiggo and Team Sky :roll:

mfin

On Her Majesty's Secret Service... best score, great locations inc Lauterbrunnen (switzerland) which is one place I'll go back to visit again for sure.

Live n Let Die, cos its ridiculous yet brilliant, and I still can't believe those fake looking alligators he ran across were real, but look it up on youtube, it was the guy who ran the alligator farm doing the stunt apparently!

cooldad

OHMSS. Mrs Peel is hot.

napoleond

To be fair, OHMSS is a real cracker.

jawooga

I have a soft spot for Live and Let Die - probably because Jane Seymour is stunning. I also love the New Orleans funeral march music - think it's called A Closer Walk.

Unfortunately my childhood Bond experience was saturated with Roger Moore, probably as ITV had rights to show these throughout the 80s. His acting could be described as none more wooden.

Pierce Brosnan is the coolest Bond I've seen. I enjoyed The World Is Not Enough - Robert Carlisle as Renard is excellent too. I remember thinking Tomorrow Never Dies was shit. I've not got around to seeing any Daniel Craig ones.

simon_masterson

Always loved the Roger Moore ones; I have most of them on VHS. It's hard for anyone to compete with Connery for sheer suaveness, but nevertheless I've always liked RM's, and his take on the character in general. The soundtracks and gadgets, as well as general silliness (including awful sound effects and unrealistic stunts) also make them for me. The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only are probably my highlights but I enjoy them all.

However... When I was growing up Pierce Brosnan was Bond, and I like his films as well, though I think GoldenEye and TND are the good ones.

So really I like them all. I even like Timothy Dalton's films, though I think he's incongruous in the role.

seanoconn

Hard to choose the best but....

1. Goldfinger.
2. Casino Royale.
3. Live and let Die.
4. Man with the Golden Gun.
4. Goldeneye.

OHMSS had the best soundtrack and Diana Rigg was gorgeous.

Yellow Peril

A lot of love here for Diana Rigg and rightly so. A few years ago she was given an honorary degree at Notts Uni. My Missus was working there and got to meet her, she said she was absolutely stunning and had great presence even though she was no spring chicken at the time. Any time a woman praises another woman you know you are talking about a class act.

I don't know how to post piccies but if anyone can post some Diana Rigg photos from The Avengers or OHMSS it would be greatly appreciated.

pinno

I liked the little short 'Heidi' girl in Moonraker. A pocket blonde thing.
Maybe its because I is a perv.

Yellow Peril

pinarello001 wrote:

I liked the little short 'Heidi' girl in Moonraker. A pocket blonde thing.
Maybe its because I is a perv.

I understand Daniel Craig is already considering Bond's next outing..."Dwarfshagger"

aleslie22

casino royale mainly due to a massive man crush on Daniel Craig