I agree there have been a couple of duds but, depending on what kind of mood i'm in I'll even watch them, they all have their moments.
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"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Mine would have to be DAF. After the brilliant OHMSS it's depressing to see this emotionless, sloppy film serve as a successer.
My next worst would be DAD then AVTAK, which at least has the amazing Chris Walken to make it slightly watchable.
daf without a doubt had dvd 4 xmas and turned it off after 15 mins in fact imho sc only made 3 good bonds frwl gold finger tb in fact even dr no ranks in my bottem 5 whereas only frwl ranks in my top 5 i honestly think sc is overatted just in case anyones intrested my top 5 are ohmss casino royale qos great film dont care what anyone else says. tswlm and frwl. bottem 5 are daf dad avtak mr dr no
"A View to a Kill," followed by "Die Another Day," and "Diamonds are Forever."
"A dry martini, in a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of Vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until its ice cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?" - Ian Fleming's 'Casino Royale'
"We're just too different... I mean, you're dead...." - Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'
Interesting to see this old topic is still going. Last time I posted on this topic (in 2007) I said Moonraker was the worst. But now I say Die Another Day is the worst. It's ruined by a number of things, such as terrible CGI, invisible car, those slow motion fight scenes (what is this, the matrix?), and an awful theme song, not to mention madonna's cameo. The acting of the main villain didn't help either. This is definitely my least favourite bond movie.
A License To Kill is the worst ever, Dalton - terrible, plot - to typical for the period, nothing special like a bond film should have, TRUCK WITH FRONT WHEELS IN THE AIR. The only good thing about it is the title song, Gladis is fantastic. Second worst - QOS, I understand that it was quite a challenge to make a good film after CR but THAT was over the top! DAD was actually pretty good, if we won't take into account CATASTROPHIC title song, title sequence and everyones favorite - the invisible car!!!
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SUCKED! It lacked effort by Connery. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SUCKED! WHY???????????????
well its everything like the gadgets. Like the car could actually turn on its side to escape. Please it was horrible.
Right now I would like to be the lawyer of A VIEW TO A KILL. It was pretty good. Who doesn't love Christopher Walken has a bond villain.I thought that was pretty cool.
I love all the Bonds and adore them-so I will defend most while aware of their flaws.
Golden Gun is a good film-Christopher Lee and Herve Villacheze? How can it get better!
AVTAK has issues-Stacey Sutton sounds like a squealing pig throughout the film, but we have Christopher Walken and Patrick Macnee-the main problem is the budget cuts that the film suffered and terrible plot.
YOLT has an insane concept but has so much energy that I enjoy it to this day.
Moonraker goes over the top (space battle/weightless/gondola hovercraft/double-taking pigeon!/Jaws gets a girlfriend and dialogue and a slow motion sequence!) but I enjoy Drax's disdain for Bond and RM gets in some great one liners and debonair charm.
FYEO is tired and lame in parts-hockey fight and teaser-the song is my most hated in the series and the music is way too cheesy.
Octopussy. Need I say more? Oh well, I will anyway-confusing plot, ridiculous plot, uninteresting, lame street chase in India, bad RM hairstyle, first appearance of RM's orange skin, Maud Adams breaking the never do 2 films rule, Gobinda is an Indian Oddjob, dull villain/Bond confrontation, Orlov is underused, human hunt is unspirited, Bond does a Tarzan yell, Bond hides in a Gorilla suit, Bond in the car with the sterotypical Germans, Bond trying to hitch a ride, and lastly Bond appears as a CLOWN! THE HORROR!
Die Antoher Day wasn't really that bad was it?
LTK was a misguided attempt to make a simple revenge story and change the formula. Unfortunately they forgot charater was Bond and made 007: Miami Vice.
I list these as flaws, but they are nothing compared to the awful mess that is Diamonds Are Forever.
DAF is a pitiful excuse for a film and serves as a raunchy 1971 travelogue for Connery's boredom. He looks like crap in the film and faces off against a Blofeld with doubles and more importantly...HAIR! The dark humor of Tom Mankewicz is ruined by all of the false glamour. Tiffany Case is a bimbo. The final battle is just some explosions on an oil rig and the film costars the immortal king of sausage, Jimmy Dean.
DAF is the worst for me of the original series-this does not include CR (1967), NSNA, CR (2006), or QoS.
I'm sure many people would agree when I say that Die Another Day is the worst Bond movie ever. It has a terrible plot, Halle Berry's Bond Girl is very weak, no really good henchmen, (Toby Stephens was actually a decent villain), and you know we've hit the ally bottom when we're scrapping out Falco (Michael Madsen). This film was a disgrace and the fanbase probably could have done without it. I'd much rather like to stick Everything Or Nothing in its place.
A View to a Kill. Someone ask who didn't like Christopher Walken as a Bond villain. I didn't. I thought he sucked in this movie....
"A dry martini, in a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of Vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until its ice cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?" - Ian Fleming's 'Casino Royale'
"We're just too different... I mean, you're dead...." - Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'
For me the absolute worst Bond film is A View To A Kill. It featured a way over-the-hill Roger Moore (my least favorite Bond), a terrible Bond girl (Tanya Roberts) and some of the worst action I have seen in a Bond film (e.g. the firetruck chase scene). AVTAK was the only Bond film that actually bored me. The only redeeming feature of the film for me was Christopher Walken as Zorin. Bottom line - AVTAK makes the much-maligned Die Another Day look like The Godfather by comparison!
It's a close-run thing between "Moonraker" and "Tomorrow Never Dies" for me. But whilst the latter is very boring and "Moonraker" has a few genuinely exciting scenes (the centrifuge, the dog chase, the glass factory and cable car fights), it has to take the overall crown as the worst film as the underlying plot is plainly ludicrous. Also, the Jaws-and-Dolly romance is possibly the least amusing piece of humour in any Bond film (and that's against quite some competition!).
- You Only Live Twice (Maybe I think this because of the volcano lair though.)
- Diamonds Are Forever (Could've been better with Lazenby in the title role.)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (Saved only by Lee's performance.)
- Die Another Day
- Quantum Of Solace (With this one, they should've gone back to the Roger Moore era a bit more rather than try and follow up with CR.)
I cannot believe anyone would list LTK as one of the worst films. Most of the action sequences put Schwarzenegger to shame and Dalton and Davi are fantastic.
I also think that although AVTAK has some horrid moments it still has the great Christopher Walken, possibly the best ever actor to appear in a Bond film.
By far the worst has to be Die Another Day, a simple case of modern 007 being murdered in cold blood by an evil collaboration of smug "actors", disappearing cars, very realistic surfing, and a butchered version of the Diamonds Are Forever plot, which was already very bad. DAD is not just Bond's worst film, but it is arguably the worst cinema release ever made, an absolute catastrophe.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung
I cannot believe anyone would list LTK as one of the worst films. Most of the action sequences put Schwarzenegger to shame
Say what you want about the performances (I did love Davi BTW, but not Dalton), but how can you consider the action sequences in LTK, or any 80's Bond film (and in fact most Bond films), to be superior than action sequences in Scharzanegger films? Who was arguably the greatest action star of all time.
I also think that although AVTAK has some horrid moments it still has the great Christopher Walken, possibly the best ever actor to appear in a Bond film.
This raises an interesting question. Who was the greatest actor to appear in a Bond film? IMO there are five candidates; Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee and Christopher Walken.
DAD is not just Bond's worst film, but it is arguably the worst cinema release ever made, an absolute catastrophe.
You really don't like it. ) I don't like DAD much at alll, although IMO the worst Bond film was actually QOS. That said, I can think of plenty of films (such as RoboCop 2, Drop Dead Fred, Paul Haggis's Crash, Anatomy of Hell and Predator 2) which IMO are vastly inferior to DAD.
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Die Another Day. I went to see it at the cinema after an afternoon watching the extended cut of The Fellowship Of The Ring on DVD. The contrast between the two - a masterpiece based on a book I'd known very well for 30 years and a bottom-of-the-barrel worse-than-Moonraker pile of snot - was remarkable.
Die Another Day. Absolute ****.
I cannot believe anyone would list LTK as one of the worst films. Most of the action sequences put Schwarzenegger to shame
Say what you want about the performances (I did love Davi BTW, but not Dalton), but how can you consider the action sequences in LTK, or any 80's Bond film (and in fact most Bond films), to be superior than action sequences in Scharzanegger films? Who was arguably the greatest action star of all time. .
LTK is by no means perfect in terms of action sequences. I found the bar brawl a bit ridiculous. But IMO the opening sequence where Sanchez's plane is hung up, is sheer genius("let's go fishing") and very original. This is followed by by Bond's attack on the Wavekrest, which while it owes something to TB, also sees Bond escape from the water with a speargunshot into a plane. And it has great touches such as Bond removing the door to throw out one of the pilots, or using a manta ray to hide from cctv cameras. Putting Arnie to shame may have been a slight exaggeration, but I still consider LTK a fantastic action film to compare with almost anything from its era.
DAD is not just Bond's worst film, but it is arguably the worst cinema release ever made, an absolute catastrophe.
You really don't like it. ) I don't like DAD much at alll, although IMO the worst Bond film was actually QOS. That said, I can think of plenty of films (such as RoboCop 2, Drop Dead Fred, Paul Haggis's Crash, Anatomy of Hell and Predator 2) which IMO are vastly inferior to DAD.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed Predator 2 and I thought Robocop 2 was okay. I can't say I've even heard of any of the others you mentioned but I can't imagine them being as bad as DAD by a long shot.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” - Carl Jung
In my opinion, I think that 2006's Casino Royale, was a great movie {[], but the worst of the Bond's mainly because it has probably the least or second least action sence's in a Bond film.
Also, one thing that I found to be quite strange, is that when Bond is at the resort in the Bahamas, the disc he checked was labled with '2006', but the movie is suposed to be set before all the other films. I found that to be quite a big plot-hole.
"Oh look! Parachutes for the both of us! Whoops, not anymore!"
"You see Mr Bond. You can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you!"
"Time to face destiny."
-Gaustav Graves in Die Another Day-
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"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
My next worst would be DAD then AVTAK, which at least has the amazing Chris Walken to make it slightly watchable.
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1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
well its everything like the gadgets. Like the car could actually turn on its side to escape. Please it was horrible.
Right now I would like to be the lawyer of A VIEW TO A KILL. It was pretty good. Who doesn't love Christopher Walken has a bond villain.I thought that was pretty cool.
COMPARISON CHART
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER SUCKED 1%
DIE ANOTHER DAY ALRIGHT 47%
QUANTUM OF SOLACE OK 52%
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY OK 54%
Golden Gun is a good film-Christopher Lee and Herve Villacheze? How can it get better!
AVTAK has issues-Stacey Sutton sounds like a squealing pig throughout the film, but we have Christopher Walken and Patrick Macnee-the main problem is the budget cuts that the film suffered and terrible plot.
YOLT has an insane concept but has so much energy that I enjoy it to this day.
Moonraker goes over the top (space battle/weightless/gondola hovercraft/double-taking pigeon!/Jaws gets a girlfriend and dialogue and a slow motion sequence!) but I enjoy Drax's disdain for Bond and RM gets in some great one liners and debonair charm.
FYEO is tired and lame in parts-hockey fight and teaser-the song is my most hated in the series and the music is way too cheesy.
Octopussy. Need I say more? Oh well, I will anyway-confusing plot, ridiculous plot, uninteresting, lame street chase in India, bad RM hairstyle, first appearance of RM's orange skin, Maud Adams breaking the never do 2 films rule, Gobinda is an Indian Oddjob, dull villain/Bond confrontation, Orlov is underused, human hunt is unspirited, Bond does a Tarzan yell, Bond hides in a Gorilla suit, Bond in the car with the sterotypical Germans, Bond trying to hitch a ride, and lastly Bond appears as a CLOWN! THE HORROR!
Die Antoher Day wasn't really that bad was it?
LTK was a misguided attempt to make a simple revenge story and change the formula. Unfortunately they forgot charater was Bond and made 007: Miami Vice.
I list these as flaws, but they are nothing compared to the awful mess that is Diamonds Are Forever.
DAF is a pitiful excuse for a film and serves as a raunchy 1971 travelogue for Connery's boredom. He looks like crap in the film and faces off against a Blofeld with doubles and more importantly...HAIR! The dark humor of Tom Mankewicz is ruined by all of the false glamour. Tiffany Case is a bimbo. The final battle is just some explosions on an oil rig and the film costars the immortal king of sausage, Jimmy Dean.
DAF is the worst for me of the original series-this does not include CR (1967), NSNA, CR (2006), or QoS.
"We're just too different... I mean, you're dead...." - Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride'
James Bond- Licence To Kill
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
- You Only Live Twice (Maybe I think this because of the volcano lair though.)
- Diamonds Are Forever (Could've been better with Lazenby in the title role.)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (Saved only by Lee's performance.)
- Die Another Day
- Quantum Of Solace (With this one, they should've gone back to the Roger Moore era a bit more rather than try and follow up with CR.)
I also think that although AVTAK has some horrid moments it still has the great Christopher Walken, possibly the best ever actor to appear in a Bond film.
By far the worst has to be Die Another Day, a simple case of modern 007 being murdered in cold blood by an evil collaboration of smug "actors", disappearing cars, very realistic surfing, and a butchered version of the Diamonds Are Forever plot, which was already very bad. DAD is not just Bond's worst film, but it is arguably the worst cinema release ever made, an absolute catastrophe.
This raises an interesting question. Who was the greatest actor to appear in a Bond film? IMO there are five candidates; Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Diana Rigg, Christopher Lee and Christopher Walken.
You really don't like it.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Die Another Day. Absolute ****.
LTK is by no means perfect in terms of action sequences. I found the bar brawl a bit ridiculous. But IMO the opening sequence where Sanchez's plane is hung up, is sheer genius("let's go fishing") and very original. This is followed by by Bond's attack on the Wavekrest, which while it owes something to TB, also sees Bond escape from the water with a speargunshot into a plane. And it has great touches such as Bond removing the door to throw out one of the pilots, or using a manta ray to hide from cctv cameras. Putting Arnie to shame may have been a slight exaggeration, but I still consider LTK a fantastic action film to compare with almost anything from its era.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed Predator 2 and I thought Robocop 2 was okay. I can't say I've even heard of any of the others you mentioned but I can't imagine them being as bad as DAD by a long shot.
Also, one thing that I found to be quite strange, is that when Bond is at the resort in the Bahamas, the disc he checked was labled with '2006', but the movie is suposed to be set before all the other films. I found that to be quite a big plot-hole.
"You see Mr Bond. You can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you!"
"Time to face destiny."
-Gaustav Graves in Die Another Day-