Which is your favourite James Bond movie and why?

Me too. It was the first Bond i ever saw.

I know it's not particularaly challenging or have the best story line, but i too love the cast. Grace Jones is amazing - full stop. :D

I also have a soft spot for You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldfinger and Goldeneye.

I also watched Die Another Day back last year for the first time since the Cinema and to be honest it wasn't as bad as I remembered it. Not a classic but better than the dire Quantum.
 
Another vote for The Spy Who Loved Me. It moves along at a great pace and Moore (mostly) takes it seriously. Jaws poses a genuine threat and the stunts are all superb. It's not perfect (Barbara Bach can't actually act), but it's pretty great. The car chase is the best, bar none.

Other faves: Goldeneye, Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice and Licence to Kill.

I COMPLETELY understand why people dislike LTK, but I just think it has the most involving plot of any of them which excuses the fact that the cast would be more at home in a TV Movie.

The ones I can just about tolerate : The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, A View to a Kill

And the ones I rather dislike : DiamonRAB Are Forever, Die Another Day, Quantum of Solace.

Am a big Bond fan and sold all my DVRAB on eBay in preparation for the BRAB...and then the release schedule completely broke down. Haven't seen some of my favourites in such a long time!
 
Best Connery = Goldfinger
Best Moore= Spy Who Loved Me
Best Brosnan= Goldeneye

Best of the whole series is OHMSS.

It's the only one thats played pretty straight all the way through (bar the slightly dull FRWL) , it has an awesome score from John Barry , spectacular action and breathtaking scenery.

And the Xmas setting is also nice.

Many die hard fans have a soft spot for this one as it took such a long time to get the complete film .
For its first decade on home video we had to suffer an edited version with the key safecracking scene missing and in a twist of fate , the home of edited movies that was ITV became the saviour for Bond fans by showing the full version in a 2.5 hour slot - which alerted fans to the missing video footage

Real shame this one is not out on Bluray
 
Jason Isaacs would be a hell of a lot better.:cool:
People say he's too old but I don't care, he's one of the most versatile actors we have and would be perfect for Bond.
 
My fave is Live and let Die by a mile. Reasons are:

-The best (IMO) Bond theme there is
-Baron Samedi is simply iconic
-Jane Seymour as Solitaire
-Love the deep south locations and the whole 70's blaxploitation stuff with the afros, voodoo, pimpmobiles etc.
-Roger Moore as 007
-Awesome boat chase
 
Cant agree. DC is the best Bond after Connery. He took the character which was getting stale and cliched under Brosnan and reinvented him.

Brosnans movies quite good? GE is passable, TND struggles, TWINE is a bloated soap with a few action scenes and DAD, well, its pretty bad.

I can see why you would resent DC a if you like Brosnan. But the Brosnan era wasnt perfect by a long way.
 
probably my second favourite (i like the fact that charles dance is in it, as one of Kristatos' goons. he is the one who comes down the ski jump and punches Bond)
 
Totally agree, he's so good, especially in Black Hawk Down and Green Zone to name two.

Maybe missed the boat now though. Looks like Dalton too IMO...
 
Live and Let Die - probably because it was the first one I saw on the big screen as a kid, and it had a huge effect on me.

I'm not saying it's the best movie, but we are talking favorites here.
 
Goldfinger.

Because:
  • The theme
  • Connery looks amazing
  • Honour Blackmen looks amazing
  • Best Villian
  • Best Villians henchmen (0dd job)
  • Honour Blackmans charcters name
  • Incredibly stylish
  • The showdown at Fort Knox

Its quite difficult I think to make comparisons with the Bond Movies between the Connery to Moore period and then from The Living Daylights onwarRAB as the series was more grown up from the late 80s onwarRAB.
 
If not Bond, then he'd make a great Bond villian. The recent batch of Bond villians have been pretty naff. I'm sure Jason Isaacs could be a really memorable baddie.
 
I would say I have five absolute favourites but my favourite among them would be The Spy Who Loved Me. So well made, Moore's best performance, became the new template for Bond until they rebooted with Casino Royale.

runners-up: Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, The World is Not Enough, Casino Royale

I've always thought it odd that my five favourites each have a different actor as Bond.

I've never really seen the appeal of OHMSS, it just doesn't work for me. And I can't stand Goldeneye. Hated it in the cinema, hated it when I watched in again ten years later. Brosnan plays it smug, the music is unremittingly awful, very dated patterning after the BonRAB of the late seventies. gets me angry just thinking about it:mad::D
 
Daniel Craig is the worst Bond by a mile.
He has as much charm ,screen presence and charisma onscreen as a block of wood.

His various interviews show him to be equally appealing when he is being himself.

Of course he was not helped by his last movie which was directed by some young idiot who thinks its cool to edit things so fast that they become incomprehensible.

I dread to think how much was spent on the car chase at the start of QoS but as it was a blur I can't actually even recall its details.

For car chases of quality check out Goldeneye
 
my dad tried to make the spurious claim a few years ago that a new James Bond film was in the pipeline that suggested "James Bond: 007" ie the name and number was in fact a codename and number for various agents and got passed on, and that all five (this was pre Daniel Craig) actors who had played "Bond" were going to be in it together, a bit like "The Five Doctors"

:D
 
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