Are their any bond movies you believe get a bad rep but you like

KKwheelchair

Personally i love moonraker but i dont think anyone else does are there any other people out there that think a Bond they love gets a bad rep but they still like it.

Nick37

Licence to Kill. The "Miami Vice" Bond movie, despite the fact that the only element it shares is the fact that some of it takes place in the same state, and it features a drug lord as the villain (Also the main villain of LALD).

LastRatStanding

Licence To Kill for me too. It's my favourite by a long shot but so many people out there simply don't like it! A great tense plot line, a dark edge but by no means not fun or humourless, a great performance from Dalton, Davi and Lowell, David Hedison as Felix, an appearance from the fantastic Llewelyn that is more than just handing over a few gadgets, henchman that actually have personality and turn out to be genuinely interesting characters, a great soundtrack, some great deaths and great escapes a great finale and a truck doing a wheely. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT LIKE THIS?

Blackleiter

You Only Live Twice is a fun, pretty enjoyable Bond film that I believe is often unfairly relegated to the bottom of the heap. Some nonsense about Connery appearing bored and distracted. As I have said before, this is by no means the best Bond film and it's not even my favorite, but I probably watch it more than any of the others because it's just so darned entertaining!

KKwheelchair

i must agree that YOLT and LTK are also very under rated Bond movies

Brosnan_fan

Live and Let Die - I don't (often) hear a lot of praise for this film, but its quite watchable.

Moonraker - the "love it or hate it" jewel in the crown of the Bond canon. I can understand people not liking it because of the outer space element, but I for one love it.

raptors_887

Octopussy

You know exactly when the Tarzan yell is coming so put it on mute for those 5 seconds and you have nothing to complain about. Bond is also a spy so it makes perfect sense that he would dress up like a clown to get into the circus.

The movie has great locations and some great action scenes. It also has one of my favorite lines.

"This is for my brother."

Bond kills him

"And that was for 009."

KKwheelchair

Yes i must agree that Octopussy is good and doesn't get any credit for it

LastRatStanding

Die Another Day to an extent too. It ranks pretty much bottom of my list but that doesn't mean I dislike it. Up until the Ice Palace its actually really good, minus Jynx doing that backwards dive off the cliff. I can agree it loses the plot from there but even so I do get some sort of enjoyment from the ice car chase and the plane finale even though it's not really 'Bond film entertainment'.

Others that I do really enjoy are YOLT, LALD, TMWTGG, OP, AVTAK and QoS. None of these really receive praise from everyone but are all great Bond films. YOLT is definitely fun and the shoot out in the volcano lair is fantastic. LALD, to me, is just pure greatness - can't understand why people don't like that one apart from when Kananga inflates. TMWTGG is interesting, a nice change from your usual Bond and a whole lot of fun..certainly not boring because 'Bond doesn't do anything'. OP is pure greatness too, probably one of the best Moore films and one of the most tense in the entire series. AVTAK only really misses out on praise because of Moores age and the lack of effort in the stunt doubling which usually over powers comments about how genuinely good the film is. And QoS is a fast paced revenge story that I just cant help but love!

KKwheelchair

I also love tmwtgg i think it gets a bad rep for no reason as for QOS though i didn't like it too much because i thought it was more of an action movie then a Bond movie it just didn't have that Bond movie feel to me

Firemass

Moonraker and A View to a Kill because they seem universally panned yet both are in my Top 5.

I feel sorry for all the Bond fans who are missing out!

KKwheelchair

Firemass wrote:

Moonraker and A View to a Kill because they seem universally panned yet both are in my Top 5.

I feel sorry for all the Bond fans who are missing out!

yes i agree though i haven't seen a view to a kill in so long that i can't really remember it

Thunderpussy

I agree Before Joining AJB007, I didn't even know that
Many fans disliked AVTAK.
I thought all Bond films were universally loved. )

Jarvio

AVTAK, obviously

Hold Command

QoS, I love the PTS, the style, Craig's look and performance and the score.

I just wish he had a real enemy to fight and that Quantum were central the plot.

Peppermill

Octopussy and You Only Live Twice. 2 Movies that are in my top 8

BIG TAM

Well, for me this shows up the difference between Best & Favourites. A couple of cross-overs excepted, these two Top Tens feature completely different films. I get immense enjoyment watching DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, MOONRAKER & DIE ANOTHER DAY but none of them have sufficient qualities to be called Best or Classic. But I watch them far more than my beloved ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE!

LastRatStanding

BIG TAM wrote:

Well, for me this shows up the difference between Best & Favourites. A couple of cross-overs excepted, these two Top Tens feature completely different films. I get immense enjoyment watching DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, MOONRAKER & DIE ANOTHER DAY but none of them have sufficient qualities to be called Best or Classic. But I watch them far more than my beloved ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE!

'Most watched' is a whole different story too!

Kent007

Agree with the people saying Live and Let Die and Licence To Kill

KKwheelchair

yes i have noticed Licence to kill gets a bad rep in most places but here most people love Dalton's 2 movies

LastRatStanding

KKwheelchair wrote:

yes i have noticed Licence to kill gets a bad rep in most places but here most people love Dalton's 2 movies

Licence To Kill is one of those movies that everyone loves to defend - cause it's so easy to! Great movie.

Peppermill

another fan of LTK right here!

chrisisall

KKwheelchair wrote:

yes i have noticed Licence to kill gets a bad rep in most places but here most people love Dalton's 2 movies

Oh, that's just because they're great is all. )
My pet peeve is people dissing TMWTGG, I love the freakin' movie to death. Easily the equal of TSWLM or OP in my book. Just a smaller movie with a smaller body count.

KKwheelchair

chrisisall wrote:

KKwheelchair wrote:

yes i have noticed Licence to kill gets a bad rep in most places but here most people love Dalton's 2 movies

Oh, that's just because they're great is all. )
My pet peeve is people dissing TMWTGG, I love the freakin' movie to death. Easily the equal of TSWLM or OP in my book. Just a smaller movie with a smaller body count.

i agree with both things you said there i think that Daltons movies are great but for some strange reason alot of people don't like them and as for TMWTGG i didn't really care that not much happend it was still a great movie

chrisisall

KKwheelchair wrote:

and as for TMWTGG i didn't really care that not much happend it was still a great movie

Right ON my AJB brother!!!!

NeverSayDie

Moonraker for me!

chrisisall

NeverSayDie wrote:

Moonraker for me!

Dude, can you do a fan edit of MR for me that mostly takes Jaws out of it so that I can totally enjoy it? ?:)

KKwheelchair

I also hate all the complaining about Connery's acting in YOLT i thought it was at least fine

KKwheelchair

i must agree that the Jaws love interest bit in moonraker wasn't that great but everything else about that movie was amazing

LastRatStanding

KKwheelchair wrote:

I also hate all the complaining about Connery's acting in YOLT i thought it was at least fine

I think I'm with you on that. Recently I've been starting to really like YOLT. Connery isn't at his best but it's still a fine performance.

KKwheelchair wrote:

i must agree that the Jaws love interest bit in moonraker wasn't that great but everything else about that movie was amazing

Lois Chiles is pretty dull to me despite being absolutely beautiful. And yes, Jaws really does ruin the film and I'm not even talking about the love thing. There was just too many-an action sequence ruined by Jaws pulling a silly face and crashing into something. The 3 that spring to mind are the PTS, the cable car scene and the boat chase - all with great potential to be tense and exciting but ruined at the final hurdle by force fed comedy that is just plain stupid and annoying. The only benefit from these scenes being ruined is that the space thing at the end actually does come across as exciting and tense especially when Bond has to destroy the globes. The whole mood is pretty much ruined by the Jaws love interest thing though and the "Well, here's to us" line is absolutely diabolical but I suppose it's not the end of the world. I just feel Moonraker isn't sure what it wants to be a real tense movie or a comedy. There's some amazing scenes for example the centrifuge chamber and the hunting scene which ends on a very dark note - the dog's attacking. All pretty exciting and dark especially mixed with Lonsdales extremely cold portrayal of Drax, but then next minute Jaws is pulling the steering wheel off a boat and going over a waterfall making some ridiculous face. When it's great its really great but when it's bad it is the absolute worst. And the bad bits really make it hard for me to enjoy the movie as a whole.

Blackleiter

I'm glad to see so many beginning to appreciate YOLT, an unfairly maligned entry in the series.

KKwheelchair wrote:

I also hate all the complaining about Connery's acting in YOLT i thought it was at least fine