which is the best James Bond movie?

truth (which surprised me): pierce brosnan would be my 2nd favorite Bond (though i'm willing to see how the david craig era goes before making that final).

the blaxploitation parts of "live and let die" were amusing (as was yaphet kotto blowing-up a la Violet Beauregarde in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") ... the part where it turned into a precursor of "smoky and the bandit" (complete with dumbass rednecks and overlong, pointless chases through the bayou) were not so.

can't believe OHMSS didn't place higher!

Eisbaer, I think Brosnan (the first couple of films at least) is a great Bond. He's like a great balance between Dalton's grit and Moore's charm. Goldeneye is a ludicrous film, but I'd rank it up there with the best Bond performances.

wtf dude, 5th place is way too high as is

not really.

you could make a good case for a couple below it but moonraker is certainly not one of them.

I enjoy ho w Roger Moore was both posh and could kick some ass

you could make a good case for a couple below it but moonraker is certainly not one of them.

― gyac, Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:36 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, 4 votes for Moonraker, WTF. The Living Daylights should be much higher. Can't argue with the top four though.

Who the fuck voted for Licence To Kill

I miss Goldeneye on N64

i'm guessing that some folks found "moonraker" to be entertaining in a campy way ... i didn't find it so, but i guess i can see some folks looking at it that way.

ohmss is a solid movie but lazenby's boring. regardless, it placed really high and i cant see being dissatisfied with that. maybe you think it's better than live and let die, but surely not the other three ahead of it?

lazenby wasn't bad at all ... he only suffers in comparison to sean connery IMHO.

i'm more shocked w/ the lack of love for "the spy who loved me" ... not only is it the best film from the Roger Moore era, IMHO it's one of the best films during the entire series.

i think Lazenby's kinda wooden, it's an excellent film tho.

all Moore's films are for shit tho.

roger moore is like the fucking Tory party James Bond

I thought Roger Moore was the better Bond when I was a kid

it's probably a "who did you see first" thing, i saw Connery, then read the books, then when i saw Moore i just felt like he was taking the piss

roger moore is like the fucking Tory party James Bond

haha was thinking the same thing.

Moore was my 1st Bond ... so i originally thought that Bond was supposed to be a bit of a clown. only later did i see the Connery Bond films and had a rethink.

oh come you guys, Octopussy is nonstop roffles

it has a KILLER YO-YO in it

Octopussy, followed by Moonraker, are probably the best Moores if you kinda hate him as I do.

when Diana Rigg or snow chases aren't onscreen, OHMSS is boooooooooring

best james bond movie is the one that's on TV, obviously. up until roger moore quit doing them, at which point it becomes one of the other ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nikXT7UnFfQ

About the only charming quality to Roger Moore is that signal he sends to the audience that we know he's too old for this shit and he knows we know.

You all loved it when Moore cold-bloodedly pushed that dude in the car off the cliff in For Your Eyes Only. Don't even front.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjQZIiORGY

Tough call. Either would have been Casino Royale or the one set in Vegas. Or the one with Grace Jones and Walken and, you know, Duran Duran.

Can't believe Die Another Day got even a single vote

That movie stopped being awesome the moment Hallie showed up

When Halle showed up, she was in a bikini, so your thesis statement is tragically flawed

This is an odd poll, b/c it seems that bond films of different eras would be incomparable. Goldfinger works differently than For Your Eyes Only which is different that Goldeneye and Casino Royale.

And how does one compare 1964 Shirley Bassey to 1981 Sheena Easton?

Oh shit GOLDFINGER. how did I forget that

Hmm, interesting: a collection of essays/reviews running down each soundtrack:

http://www.tjbd.co.uk/james-bond-soundtracks.htm

The moments where Conti’s score turns into classic orchestrated Bond music are terrific, and if you can overlook the Moog synthesisers and disco funk of some of the other tracks, it is a much better soundtrack than For Your Eyes Only is a film.

russia otm

James Bond is irrelevant in a post-Urban-doctorate world

0 votes for Goldeneye, wtf.

Goldenbrowneye

I think that's a James Bound movie

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When Halle showed up, she was in a bikini, so your thesis statement is tragically flawed

Tragic attempt to invoke Ursula Andress. The only thing worse than her in DAD is the invisible car.

better an invisible car than a bucky blue ball

For Your Eyes Only is really great!

Definitely one of the most interesting of the latter Moores.

lotta trolling in this poll

prime example:

I can't tell any of these films apart
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 6:15 PM (5 years ago)

'007 And Counting' is my favourite Bond music

― blueski, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:37 AM (5 years ago)

Gotta be March in Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczHADTsIec

Sorry, Space March.

They're playing every film here starting in a couple of weeks:

http://tiff.net/bond#

I've seen almost nothing--bad rep prints of a couple of early ones, Live and Let Die when it came out--so I'm looking forward to at least seeing all the Connerys, and also some of the "other Bonds."

I was not trolling fwiw

the bond films are so different in tone and style and even mise-en-scene that i honestly dunno how you could say that -- like even 'from russia with love' is completely different than 'goldfinger.'

structurally they are all nearly identical in terms of plot mechanics, the sequence of scenes, the overarching themes ("British empire is sexy and authoritative! Also violent!" - the entire premise of which I find alternately laughable and offensive). Moorcock was right about Fleming.

essentially they're movies where nothing of consequence happens - the viewer can rest assured that no matter what, there will always be another Bond film a few years later with the same requisite villain/Bond girl/theme song/car chase/explosions etc

well yeah, but you can say the same of any action film series. just in terms of the way the films are put together -- on a shot-by-shot level -- the first three bonds are completely dissimilar.

fleming's books are terrible, but they aren't the films.

i think even the lesser films are so markedly different that every time i see one on TV it takes me about a minute to figure out which one it is. and i mean there are some that are clearly remotely unlike any other bond, like bond in space or "bond vs the cocaine cartels" or bond + i walked with a zombie + southern caricatures + blaxploitation.