Which is your favourite James Bond movie and why?

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mine is "The Spy Who Loved Me"

i grew up in the Moore-Bond era and i think this one has absolutely everything

  • the opening ski chase / Union Jack parachute (definitely the best pre-credits sequence)
  • the classic plot formula
  • the lotus esprit
  • the femme fatale in the helicopter
  • Jaws
  • the final mass battle at the baddy's hideout

which is yours?
 
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Best Bond girl
Best theme music
Vastly underrated and underappreciated and badly advised actor in the James Bond role.
Excellent stunts
Excellent fight scenes
Believable romance, shows he gives love another chance with Tracy even though Vespa (if one is to include the as yet unfilmed Casino Royale in the equation) nearly put him off long term relationships for good.
Shows JB is not a Pierce Brosnan style superhuman. Bond gets scared when he is pursued. Then those legs appear in front of him and he follows them up to Diana Rigg's gorgeous face.
Brilliantly realised and exciting attack on the "baddies lair"
Emotive ending.
 
Probably The World is Not Enough.

I thought it was a real Old School Type Bond. It was like Classic Bond in the 90's. Loved the Directing, the music, the London Jet Chase, great story, great villains. I reckon i'm ready to watch it again despite knowing the script to death. :)
 
I like them all really but I guess my favourite would have to be Casino Royale which was a brilliant reboot of the series.
 
My personal favourite will always be Golden Eye. It may be due to the fact I am a geek but I loved the computer elements etc. It also was a great FPS :)
 
View to a Kill because of the cast (Roger Moore is my favourite Bond, also a huge fan of Grace Jones and Christopher Walken) and the sound track.
 
It's a choice between Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace for me.

The Brosnan era films, after Goldeneye, stank. Just dreadful.

Dalton was excellent as Bond, and his films are very good efforts.

Moore era films have a certain Carry-On feel to them now, and are mostly dreadful compared to the original books, which I am a huge fan of and base my opinions of the films on these.

Connery was good, but DiamonRAB Are Forever was poor, as was the unofficial Never Say Never Again.

Craig is excellent and has two brilliant films behind him after the dross of Brosnan.

Can't wait for the next installment.

Would like to see Butler, Owen or Fassbender replacing Craig, who I feel will ditch the role after the next film.
 
For Your Eyes Only

  • down to earth after the buffoonery of Moonrake
  • Gorgeous Greek and Italian locations
  • lovely title song by Sheena Easton
  • Melina Havelock is an exceptional Bond girl and wonderfullt played by the smoking hot Carole Bouquet
  • The keel haul sequence
  • Topol
  • mountain climb up to St Cyrils monasteries
  • Roger Moore plays an agent who is world weary
  • Ski chase down a bobsled run with bobsled, skier and motorbike all chasing each other
  • taut thriller story about Soviets versus British in the Greek islanRAB
  • Kristatos versus Colombo rivalry
 
Not sure how the "rolleyes" icon appeared in my reply to you? Sorry about that.

If Bluray has no interest for you but you are a big Bond fan find someone with Dr No to give you a demo.

The scenes with Honey and Bond in the swamp are a real jaw dropper especially the bits with them washing on the bank.

The detail is unbelieveable

Lowry worked from the original negatives so they were able to clean up the years of dirt , dust and general age to a degree I never expected.

Thunderball onwarRAB have always looked half decent on VHS and dvd but the first 3 always looked really old but the end result is real demo material - and thats without the excellent sound mixes that bring the films to life even more
 
I've seen Sky's HD screening's early Bondage but I'm not shelling out any more cash on movies I already have, no matter how good the picture is, even if the disc boxes are made of unicorn hide.:)
Lowery certainly do a good job: they even managed to remove the joins from "How the West Was Won".
I don't think Dr. No is one of the better BonRAB (in any format).
The reason I like "From Russia With Love" is that it's reasonably realistic (and the book is easily the best novel) without all the irritating comic book nonsense which plagues most of the other movies.
I know it's blasphemy but I also think "Never Say Never Again" is a far better film than the leaden "Thunderball": even the theme song is better. Braces for impact . . . :)
 
I think the Sky HD versions of the Bond films were pre-restoration so will not be as good as the Bluray.

For starters the version of Goldfinger they aired ended with the "Bond Will Return OHMSS" like it did for its initial release only but the Lowry restoration has the correct Thunderball mention at the end.

I can see where you're coming from but I would give Sky a wide berth for HD movies .
I found them to be very average.

Certainly the Bluray set of the first 6 Star Trek movies is in a different league to the mess that Sky showed

I would say "leaden" would be a tad unfair to Thunderball but its rather generous for NSNA .
I found staying awake a real challenge as it made Thunderballs pretty boring underwater battle even more boring.

However - I still got the US Bluray of it a while back along with Licence To Kill and Golden Gun so halfway there .

I want OHMSS
 
I'd pay money to forget "Licence to Kill": everyone in it seemed to have been dubbed by the people who do Italian westerns.
A real let down after "The Living Daylights".:yawn:
 
You Only Live Twice

Why?
- Sean Connery
- Sean Connery pretending to be Japanese.... erm.
- Brilliant opening with the spacecraft.
- Secret volcano hideout
- Ninjas!
- Brilliant music
- Blofeld
- Inspired that brilliant Simpsons episode with Hank Scorpio
- Donald Pleasence.
 
Definitely Goldeneye for me also, I just thought it was brilliant and loved Pierce Brosnan as James Bond it was something that suited him perfectly.

I also have a quite deep hatred for Daniel Craig and his movies for some reason, probably because when he "rebooted" the series (Something Brosnan did better and at a time when Bond really did need a reboot) it became the norm to crticise Brosnan as some kind of inferior Bond, even though Brosnans movies were good and certainly saved Bond from dying a quiet death.
 
On Her Majestys for me too. Saw it at school. Everyone cringed at the snow blower moment. Telly savalas was a marvellous villian with a haunting voice. Then we had Jenny Hanley before her magpie days as one of the girls. great theme tune and Louis armstrongs magical all the time in the world.
 
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