The Odd Ones Out

MilleniumForce

We all have our different favourites of what type of Bond film we like, serious, light hearted, mixed, but I feel there are some films that don't feel like Bond films, obviously not always in a bad way. Which ones do you consider the odd ones? Ones that aren't the Bond films a non fan would recognise? Here are my ones:

Dr No - The traditional Bond formula is not used in this one, and upon re watching it recently, it doesn't feel like your average Bond film, not even for Connery.

Licence To Kill - The darkest of the 'old' Blnd films, LTK feels more like a 80's cop movie than a Bond movie, but of course there is nothing wrong with that.

GoldenEye - Not sure how to put is one, but it doesn't feel like a Bond film. The whole film feels very gritty compared to other entries, the whole film doesn't look as bright as the other films, and has a strange look to it, and I find it hard to know the bright and modern TND came after this one.

Whilst films like DAD and MR aren't like other Bond films due to what happens, they are similar to other ones, so I would not count them here. So what do you think?

AlphaOmegaSin

I agree with you on LTK -{

Absolutely_Cart

The traditional Bond formula wasn't used in Dr. No? Dr. No created the traditional Bond formula. Everything from the one-liners to "talking villain syndrome" and etc. is all there.

As for the movies people commonly consider to be the odd ones out (not saying that these movies are bad ; just that people see them as apart from the Bond identity):

Moonraker - Forewent Fleming's source material to cash in on Star Wars
License to Kill - Some felt it was more akin to Miami Vice than James Bond
Die Another Day - With all it's CGI and sci-fi elements, it's distant from the typically grounded spy series
Quantum of Solace - Missed a number of motifs (like "shaken not stirred") and is percieved as overly serious