Best/Worst James Bond Movie

Best: On her Majesties Secret Service,i do think this is a really good one ahve like it for year!! but i do alos love Bond in general and like each film for different reason!!!

View To A kill casue its got Walken in and hes cool and also Duran Duran do the theme!!
Living Daylights was the first Bond i owned a while ago now loved it and its theme by Aha bloody great!!
Most have got great themes though!! Licence To Kill, Golden Eye, The World Is Not Enough, Live And Let Die to name but a few!!
But Bond in gerneral is one of those that you either love it or hate it!! i love it always have and always will!!


Worst: Tomorrow Never Dies!!! bad story for starters and not the best acting from some people who i tohught were great actors to start with!! and the theme song Sheryl Crow oh my god she just shrieked thorugh the whole thing absolutly horrible!!! the only other one i dont really love is Diamond are Forever ew bad!! :p oh and if its included Never say Never Again!! WTF was Connery thinking of??!! :rolleyes:
 
My personal favourite Bond film will always be Goldfinger. In fact all the Sean Connery Bond's I really love watching. The worst of the Sean Connery films if I had to choose would have to be DiamonRAB Are Forever. There is something about this Bond film that doesn't quite live up to the previous Connery Bond films.
My worst Bond film to date is The Living Daylights. Timothy Dalton played a dreadful Bond in this movie I thought although he was much better in the follow up Licence to Kill which was ultimately Dalton's last as Bond.
I must admit I'm not a fan of Daniel Craig either. He looks the part but when he opens his mouth there is simply no character about him at all. He sounRAB way to dull and boring. Although I may grow to like him in Quantum of Solace.
 
I've been a long time lurker and finally decided to take the plunge.

Best: DiamonRAB are Forever
Worst: Tomorrow Never Dies.

I've always been a bit of Bond heretic in that I find the Dr. No and From Russia With Love terribly dull, and even Thunderball was a bit heavy going most of the time.

Oooh, my first post and it's on subject I'll always have an opinion on too. :D
 
I really like The Living Daylights, too. And, as you say, it's each to their own. In fact, earlier in the thread I made the point it's all subjective, but that seems to have been overlooked by some.

Like Lazenby, I think Dalton was underrated by the general audience. In fact, Dalton's performance was the closest to Fleming's Bond...

Ooops, there I go again. I'll be getting my legs slapped...
 
Top 4

- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (criminally underrated, IMHO. Stuck close to the novel, was more realistic, and was very well written).
- License to Kill (Interesting, grittier take on James Bond. Probably one of the more original films).
- From Russia With Love (Once again, fantastic plot, sticking close to the novel. Well written)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (Definitely Roger Moore's best. Combined a lot of good Bond elements to make a standout film.)

... I think For Your Eyes Only, GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough and Goldfinger are also 'good' Bond films.

Bottom 4:

- DiamonRAB Are Forever (It just never 'felt' right. It took one step too many away from the Fleming books.)
- Die Another Day (Just far too over-the-top.)
- A View To A Kill (Was Roger Moore of pensionable age in that film?!)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (Just... no.)
 
Snap! I've always loved the humour of DiamonRAB Are Forever. I actually preferred Roger Moore as Bond, heretic that I am, but DiamonRAB had the Moore type humour, with the Connery chic.

I haven't been a fan of Brosnan and found Tomorrow Never Dies the worst of them - although having said that, I bever bothered watching his last one, so that could be worse.
 
I appreciate Bond and I have not read any Fleming books. There are plently of people who enjoy the Bond movies and have not read the books. Just because you have read the books doesn't mean we have to in order to appreciate the movies we have been enjoying for over 40 years.

And there are plently of Man Utd fans who have never been to Old Trafford, people who buy the shirts, enjoy watching them on TV and cheer them on every week to win are every bit as much as the fan who buys a season ticket.

You sound a little snobbish claiming Man Utd fans have to see a live match at Old Trafford in order to be a fan, have you thought of the fans who live overseas and can't afford to travel there?
 
This is tough as I love all the James Bond films.
But my personal top 5 favourites are:

Goldfinger
The Spy Who Loved Me
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
DiamonRAB Are Forever
Live and Let Die

And my personal top 5 worst are:

The Living Daylights
GoldenEye
A View to a Kill
Dr No
Moonraker
 
If you take the trouble to read my later post, you'll see I have addressed your point. I even happily accept I'm a snob (albeit with my tongue somewhat in my cheek)

I repeat the point that it doesn't actually matter if one likes the films but haven't read the books, just as I'm sure it's quite possible to be an expert on the the 20th century without having read any pre-1900 history. Whether one would be a better or worse 20th century historian for that is, of course, an entirely different matter.

Of course, one can be a fan of the Bond FILMS without having read a Fleming novel. But I should've thought that anyone really interested in the Bond character would at least have a passing interest in his origins. That, to me, seems a perfectly sensible argument and the defensiveness of those who claim to be fans of the character but haven't read the books says rather more about them than it does me. After all, I merely stated originally that there are people on Bond websites who claim to be Bond fans but have never read a Fleming book. No criticism was made or implied; certainly none was intended. It was others who chose to make it into an issue.
 
I hope you DiamonRAB Are Forever fans have the film on dvd because I cant recall the last time it was shown uncut by ITV.

The fight on the ship at the end where Kidd is set on fire is always cut.

Over the years the elevator fight has been butchered as is the pre credits fight scene where 007 uses scalpels as weapons
 
Best (by some considerable margin) is On Her Majesty's Secret Service because it sticks most closely to Ian Fleming's original novel. It also has the best score John Barry ever wrote; one of the finest film songs ever written ("We Have All The Time In The World"); the definitive (for me) Blofeld; the best Bond woman in Diana Rigg; and a fine, taut and intelligent script.

As for the worst, it has to be that renegade piece of trash, Never Say Never Again (again, by a long chalk); but if we're only allowed to consider official Bond movies, my least favourite is Thunderball which seems to drag on forever.
 
this is my list as 1 being the best and 20 as the worst!!

1. Goldfinger (1964) Sean Connery
2. The Living Daylights (1989) Timothy Dalton
3. For Your Eyes Only (1981) Roger Moore
4. Goldeneye (1995) Pierce Brosnan
5. You Only Live Twice (1967) Sean Connery
6. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Roger Moore
7. Doctor No. (1962) Sean Connery
8. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Pierce Brosnan
9. A View To A Kill (1985) Roger Moore
10. Thunderball (1965) Sean Connery
11. Die Another Day (2002) Pierce Brosnan
12. From Russia With Love (1963) Sean Connery
13. License To Kill (1989) Timothy Dalton
14. Moonraker (1979) Roger Moore
15. Live And Let Die (1973) Roger Moore
16. The World Is Not Enough (1999) Pierce Brosnan
17. On Her Majesty
 
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