Top 10 films

Oddjob's Hat

It's probably been done before, but I'm new to the site and can't find the thread.. so what are your top ten Bond films?

In this order, mine are:-

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Spoff

Best to erm...not best.

The Living Daylights
Thunderball
Casino Royale
Dr. No
Licence to Kill
Goldfinger
A View to a Kill
From Russia With Love
Moonraker
The Man With the Golden Gun

AlphaOmegaSin

On Her Majesties Secret Service
The Living Daylights
License To Kill
From Russia With Love
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Goldfinger
Diamonds Are Forever

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BIG TAM

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia With Love
3. Goldfinger
4. Thunderball
5. Dr. No
6. Skyfall
7. Casino Royale
8. Licence To Kill
9. The Spy Who Loved Me
10. Live & Let Die

ics

1. TLD
2. OHMSS
3. FRWL
4. LTK
5. DN
6. CR
7. TB
8. YOLT
9. FYEO
10. OP

A list with only Capital letters is "#¤%&/() on ajb

broadshoulder

1. For Your Eyes Only
2. The Living Daylights
3. From Russia with Love
4. Casino Royale
5. OHMSS
6 Skyfall
7. Goldfinger
8. Thunderball
9. Dr No
10. The Spy who Loved Me

ggl007

1. DN, FRWL, GF, TB, OHMSS, TLD, CR
2. The rest.

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Absolutely_Cart

I'll give you my top 10 list, in alphabetic order.

Casino Royale
Dr. No
For Your Eyes Only
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
License to Kill
Octopussy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Skyfall
The Spy Who Loved Me

Runner ups: From Russia With Love, The Living Daylights, You Only Live Twice and Quantum of Solace

TheGRman

Best to last:

Thunderball (First time I saw it, I was 9 years old - 1972. I was in awe at how cool and exciting it was... scuba diving, sharks, gadgets, the jet-pack escape, and the underwater fight scenes, blew me away as a kid.)

Goldfinger - The DB5... need I say more?

Casino Royale - My favorite DC performance as Bond to date

Skyfall

From Russia With Love - great plot

The World Is Not Enough - IMHO, Brosnan's best performance as Bond

Goldeneye

Dr. No

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Living Daylights

(I know, I Know, what about any of the Roger Moore films? I'll give TMWTGG an honorable mention.)

Firemass

I have 9 definite favorites and the 10th spot is a 3-way tie between Licence to Kill, Octopussy, and TMWTGG.

The Red Kind

OHMSS
FRWL
TSWLM
GF
LALD
CR
TB
TLD
FYEO
DN

I could equally enjoy my next 10 though :007)

MilleniumForce

1.GE
2.SF
3.OP
4.FYEO
5.TND
6.GF
7.LTK
8.MR
9.LALD
10.AVTAK
11.TLD
12.TSWLM
13.YOLT
14.DAF
15.TMWTGG
16.TWINE
17.CR
18.OHMSS
19.FRWL
20.DAD
21.TB
22.DN
23.QoS

Gassy Man

Top Ten:

Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Casino Royale
Diamonds are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights


Next Ten:

Skyfall
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
Tomorrow Never Dies
Never Say Never Again
The Man with the Golden Gun
Quantum of Solace
Licence to Kill
Moonraker
Goldeneye


The Leftovers:

The World is Not Enough
Octopussy
Die Another Day
A View to a Kill

Firemass

MilleniumForce wrote:

3.OP  4.FYEO 

I am shocked that FYEO rose from your least favorite Moore film to in your Top 5 overall.

Am I the only one who still ranks FYEO at the bottom?

Absolutely_Cart

A lot of people say FYEO is the best or 2nd best movie Moore made.

I enjoyed the movie, but it just doesn't do anything that stands out either.

Gassy Man

It's one of the few Moore films that is Fleming-esque and plausible. It borrows a lot from previous films -- especially On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- but relies more on plot and character than jokes and spectacle. I admire it for letting the revenge part not be Bond's but the girl's, allowing Bond to be a professional rather than the overplayed rogue agent out for revenge that by today has gotten tiresome. Not everyone will like it, and I wasn't as impressed by it when I saw it in the theater as a young teenager, but as I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate what it offers.

Absolutely_Cart

FYEO ticks the boxes of what people want. It's a serious Bond featuring Moore. It's objectively good. I notice that as people get older they appreciate subtlety. FYEO isn't as accessible as Moore's other over-the-top movies which were made to entertain kids. Subtlety, I guess. I used to think Dr. No was outdated but now I feel it's aged incredibly.

But with FYEO, there's just nothing that made me care about it. The story was plain and none of the characters were relatable. There was no one to root for or empathize with. Kristatos, for example. A total asshole, but not more terrifying or intimidating than your average coward wife-beating alcoholic scum.

MilleniumForce

Firemass wrote:

MilleniumForce wrote:

3.OP  4.FYEO 

I am shocked that FYEO rose from your least favorite Moore film to in your Top 5 overall.

Am I the only one who still ranks FYEO at the bottom?

I re watched after I originally posted about FYEO - and really enjoyed it, and after rewatching some Moore ones, I moved it up a bit. I also moved LALD up and LTK.

AlphaOmegaSin

The only Thing about FYEO that I felt hasn't aged well is the Soundtrack.

chrisisall

AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

The only Thing about FYEO that I felt hasn't aged well is the Soundtrack.

{[] Get thee to a disco.

Thunderpussy

I love a couple of tracks on the soundtrack, " Runaway" and "Submarine " -{
We'll not mention " make it last all night " ;%

AlphaOmegaSin

It's got a couple of good Tracks though -{

broadshoulder

Thunderpussy wrote:

I love a couple of tracks on the soundtrack, " Runaway" and "Submarine " -{
We'll not mention " make it last all night " ;%

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broadshoulder

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

FYEO ticks the boxes of what people want.

Exactly after Moonraker?

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

It's a serious Bond featuring Moore. It's objectively good. I notice that as people get older they appreciate subtlety.

Perhaps its because the serious approach so fresh in 1981 after ten years of Roger playing it for laughs. In the meantime we’ve had Casino Royale and Licence to Kill so a down-to-earth Bond isnt fresh anymore. Another accusation is that the pace is too slow and scenes underwater messing about with a mini-submarine or in the winchhouse of the Greek monastery dont perhaps move at Bourne pace. Has the audience changed that much it cant relax and enjoy the moment rather then wait for the next thrill

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

But with FYEO, there's just nothing that made me care about it. The story was plain and none of the characters were relatable..

Carole Bouquet is now a leading French actress and has presented the Palm D’Or ceremony at Cannes and was the face of Chanel for a number of years. But this was her first international screen role and she is very good. Melina is a marine archeologist who witnesses her parents being gunned down by Gonzales aboard their research vessel ‘The Triana’. The director and scriptwriter is very good at inferring a close family and the sight of Melina’s grief and disbelief is reflected in her eyes. But the link between her Greek heritage and revenge is made - she quotes Electra, who destroyed her father’s murderers in Greek mythology. This is one of the strongest female roles ever written for a Bond film.

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

F There was no one to root for or empathize with. Kristatos, for example. A total asshole, but not more terrifying or intimidating than your average coward wife-beating alcoholic scum.

Kristatos was a crook. A greek crook. Trusted by the British he was looking out for the Russians. The switch that he was the villain was taken from the book. FYEO follows the book closely..

Well, I like the way it takes itself and the situations Bond is in seriously. For ten years before we had superman Bond where you knew he was going to escape from every situation with a quip and a gadget. This time we didnt – how is he going to escape death when kicked off the edge of a thousand foot cliff? How is he going to escape the fishes when keelhauled behind a motoryacht?

And the story was so relevant then. 1981 saw, under Reagan and Thatcher, the Cold War start up again.Defence became big news. The spending on Polaris was a hot issue. The amount the USSR and USA were spending on nuclear weapons was beginning to bankrupt the pair of them. The little countries of the world were just pawns for games of the superpowers. And that sort of fits this story. If Russia gets the ATAC she would gain an unfair advantage of us or bankrupt us trying to change the system. The “That’s detente comrade..” at the climax was to show the futility of the arms race.

To be honest it says alot for all those who saw it as DVD or on the telly then seeing it on the bigscreen.

Jarvio

Gassy Man wrote:

Top Ten:

Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Casino Royale
Diamonds are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights


Next Ten:

Skyfall
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
Tomorrow Never Dies
Never Say Never Again
The Man with the Golden Gun
Quantum of Solace
Licence to Kill
Moonraker
Goldeneye


The Leftovers:

The World is Not Enough
Octopussy
Die Another Day
A View to a Kill

I really have a hard time understanding why anyone would prefer DAD over AVTAK.

AlphaOmegaSin

Me too.

MilleniumForce

Jarvio wrote:

Gassy Man wrote:

Top Ten:

Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
From Russia with Love
Dr. No
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Casino Royale
Diamonds are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights


Next Ten:

Skyfall
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
Tomorrow Never Dies
Never Say Never Again
The Man with the Golden Gun
Quantum of Solace
Licence to Kill
Moonraker
Goldeneye


The Leftovers:

The World is Not Enough
Octopussy
Die Another Day
A View to a Kill

I really have a hard time understanding why anyone would prefer DAD over AVTAK.

And how GoldenEye is #20!

Mr_Sable_Basilisk

Top Ten

01. OHMSS
02. FRWL
03. GF
04. CR
05. GE
06. LALD
07. TLD
08. TB
09. TSWLM
10. DN

Absolutely_Cart

Dad is good. Once people are done with the craig hd realism antihero phase theyll go back and rerate it

Gassy Man

The first half of Die Another Day is pretty good, and there are moments in the film where it feels like a Bond movie rather than a Michael Bay one. A View to a Kill just feels tired most of the time -- it has some nice scenery, a few good moments with the always delightful Patrick MacNee, a decent soundtrack, and some nice looking women, but that's about it.

broadshoulder

Absolutely_Cart wrote:

Dad is good. Once people are done with the craig hd realism antihero phase theyll go back and rerate it

They won't you know. They will faunter when the invisible car comes along or the cgi tidal wave.