Your least/most favorite Bond movie?

[Spiffums]

Fave.....flip between From Russia with Love and Thunderball, with Goldfinger right in there. I just prefer the movies with Spectre.

Worst....Never Say Never Again. Horrible remake of Thunderball.

It made more money than the official bond film that was out at the same time.

[ramairthree]

It’s tough.

Connery was the classic.
Moore is what gen Xers saw growing up and a very comical Bond for kids.

Lazenby was rumored to be some real life Australian SAS guy that just didn’t pull it off, although more reviled than deserved in my opinion, then lost to the counter culture.

Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig all nailed certain aspects.

Overall, everything is so overtop it’s hard when they are trying to be serious, and a fine line from funny to ridiculous.

[SteyrAUG]

It’s tough.

Connery was the classic.
Moore is what gen Xers saw growing up and a very comical Bond for kids.

Lazenby was rumored to be some real life Australian SAS guy that just didn’t pull it off, although more reviled than deserved in my opinion, then lost to the counter culture.

Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig all nailed certain aspects.

Overall, everything is so overtop it’s hard when they are trying to be serious, and a fine line from funny to ridiculous.

Roger Moore was way before Gen X, Live and Let Die was 1973. But yeah hard to take him seriously, everything was a goof so when they tried to put him in a perilous moment you really didn't buy it because everything was a goof. The running across alligator heads in the first film was a perfect example.

They present everything as a life or death moment and then come up with the most absurd solutions it's like they had the writers from Scooby Doo. Even with Connery they were pushing the camp to the extreme, once it was Roger Moore it's like they felt they had to make it even more campy.

[Ron3]

As usual the books are better.

But as far as the movies my favorites are Live and Let Die, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In no order.

The Dalton films were pretty good, too. As were the first couple Craig films. The ones since were very forgetful.

I hated the Brosnan films. He was okay, I just thought the movies were really goofy and just didn't like them.

[Ron3]

One other thing about the books. The plots aren't quite as grandiose as the movies.

In Diamonds Are Forever the movie they have in the plot diamond smuggling, city-destroying laser-weapon satellites, and nuclear weapons, too.

The book is about....diamond smuggling. Bond has a Beretta .25. Go. 😁

[Grand58742]

I hated the Brosnan films. He was okay, I just thought the movies were really goofy and just didn't like them.

I certainly thought Goldeneye was up there in terms of good Bond flicks. It was the first Bond flick to depict how the world was changing from the Cold War and covered Russia pretty well.

Brosnan had the potential to be the best Bond had they given him plots and scenes worthy of his talents.

[ramairthree]

Roger Moore was way before Gen X, Live and Let Die was 1973. But yeah hard to take him seriously, everything was a goof so when they tried to put him in a perilous moment you really didn't buy it because everything was a goof. The running across alligator heads in the first film was a perfect example.

They present everything as a life or death moment and then come up with the most absurd solutions it's like they had the writers from Scooby Doo. Even with Connery they were pushing the camp to the extreme, once it was Roger Moore it's like they felt they had to make it even more campy.

Perfect example. Little gen X kid watching the Sunday night movie network premieres of those bond movies with stuff like that.

[WillBrink]

Roger Moore was way before Gen X, Live and Let Die was 1973. But yeah hard to take him seriously, everything was a goof so when they tried to put him in a perilous moment you really didn't buy it because everything was a goof. The running across alligator heads in the first film was a perfect example.

They present everything as a life or death moment and then come up with the most absurd solutions it's like they had the writers from Scooby Doo. Even with Connery they were pushing the camp to the extreme, once it was Roger Moore it's like they felt they had to make it even more campy.

But Bond was never about realism, and a balance of action and camp was Bond. Some pushed the camp too far and ruined it, but for me, meant to be fun and not taken seriously. If I didn't suspend disbelief and enjoy the camp, they would have just been totally unrealistic action movies. For some, Moore pushed the camp too far, and in some movies he did. Craig in Casino was a major turn away from the camp stuff, and I really enjoyed it, but following films took themselves too seriously, which then turned off my suspension of disbelief and I started rolling eyes at the stunts, plot, etc. and that ruined it for me. Connery was probably the best balance on the camp thing, but the Moore movies had better visuals, sets, etc as I assume bigger budgets.

To me, Bond was never intended to be taken seriously because if i did, the house of cards came down and I didn't enjoy it. Had they been able to build off of Royal where Bond -via Craig - was a much more realistic Bond, I would have been fine with that too, but what they tried to do was remove the camp, and yet have Bond villains, gadgets, etc that left me rolling my eyes a lot.

[Grand58742]

But Bond was never about realism, and a balance of action and camp was Bond. Some pushed the camp too far and ruined it, but for me, meant to be fun and not taken seriously. If I didn't suspend disbelief and enjoy the camp, they would have just been totally unrealistic action movies. For some, Moore pushed the camp too far, and in some movies he did. Craig in Casino was a major turn away from the camp stuff, and I really enjoyed it, but following films took themselves too seriously, which then turned off my suspension of disbelief and I started rolling eyes at the stunts, plot, etc. and that ruined it for me. Connery was probably the best balance on the camp thing, but the Moore movies had better visuals, sets, etc as I assume bigger budgets.

To me, Bond was never intended to be taken seriously because if i did, the house of cards came down and I didn't enjoy it. Had they been able to build off of Royal where Bond -via Craig - was a much more realistic Bond, I would have been fine with that too, but what they tried to do was remove the camp, and yet have Bond villains, gadgets, etc that left me rolling my eyes a lot.

One thing about the Daniel Craig Bond, he got his ass kicked regularly which is what we didn't see in the previous five Bonds

[vandal5]

The Aston Martin Vanquish instantly made my wet dream of cars list after that movie.

Doesn't even need to be invisible, but I wouldn't mind the optional target seeking shotguns.

While I do like and look forward to the Austin Martin in the Bond films my fave from Die another Day was the 993 Porsche they destroyed in the beginning.

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