Your Pick For Bond Movie Milestones
chrisisall
Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
In trying to be as objective as possible for me, I'd say the three most awesome milestones in the Bond Franchise have been DN, TLD & CR.
Dr. No introduced us to Bond.
The Living Daylights brought us back to a serious Bond.
Casino Royale rocked the casbah with a new interpretation.
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Dr. No introduced us to Bond.
The Living Daylights brought us back to a serious Bond.
Casino Royale rocked the casbah with a new interpretation.
There can, of course, be many views on this.
Let's hear them, if you please. -{
Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Comments
OHMSS --- A different actor for the first time.
GE --- Post-Cold War Bond launched, generation gap
CR --- Reboot as mentioned in the OP
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
DN - the first
GF - set the standard
OHMSS - First with a new actor
GE - Reboot for the post-cold war age
CR - New timline and new (old?) style
OK, If you hold a gun to my head:
DN
GF
CR
Goldfinger - set the gold standard and marked the true beginning of Bondmania/Spymania
The Spy Who Loved Me - established Roger Moore as a successful successor to Connery, and significantly raised the bar in terms of scale and production values
Goldeneye - Brought the series back from the dead and reestablished it as a modern franchise
DAF, heaviest Bond ever
AVTAK, oldest Bond ever.
CR, gives an old series a shot of new life.
OHMSS- First non British Bond
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
OHMSS -- One-off in terms of seriousness, faithfulness to the novel and lead actor. Most polarizing among hardcore fans (high water mark for people like me, low pint for others).
TSWLM -- All the reasons Golrush007 said.
GE -- End of the 6-year hiatus.
CR -- Reboot.
GF - Stamps the franchise's rules in stone on how to make the films.
OHMSS - Brings Bond back to Fleming/one of the best of the series.
GE - Brings back the series with a bang after a lengthy absence.
CR - Throws out the rules of the old EON series with a return to
Fleming and his Bond and modernizes the plot.
SF - Cleans out the cobwebs of Bond's life - childhood/M/MI6/his
homestead/flat/Aston to set up a return of a reborn 007 with
new missions.
What he said. :007)
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Not quite 100%! I deliberately didn't include DN because it was on everyone's list and also, the fact that it is the first means it is an obvious milestone so I thought I would take that as a given, and try to single out three other milestones. Ultimately I could easily have picked five or six. It is certainly an intriguing exercise trying to pick these.
DN - the kickstarter of the franchise
GF - turned Bond into a cinema icon, and firmly established "Bondmania"
OHMSS - first film with a change of Bond star
TSWLM - as mentioned already, the film which firmly established Roger Moore as James Bond
LTK - a bold entry, containing a dark tone and more confrontational violence than what people expected a "standard Bond film" to be
GE - brought the franchise back from a long hiatus, proving Bond to be as popular as ever
CR - rebooted the Bond franchise
SF - the 50th anniversary film; peeling away the layers of James Bond bit by bit
I don't think LALD proved that the Bond films could continue without Connery anymore than OHMSS did. It was TSWLM that proved that.
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Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
True, and what LALD managed that OHMSS didn't was that it was a big financial success. However, I stand by my original choice of TSWLM as the milestone film of the Moore era, because it combined huge financial success with a significant step forward in scale and production value, whereas LALD was financially succesful, but didn't raise the bar at all.