Which film represented it's decade the best?

MilleniumForce

Here's mine:

Casino Royale (1967)
From costumes to set pieces to the stars, this film scream 1960's. It's what you would associate with that decade.

Moonraker
The Bond film that clearly was made off of the success of Star Wars, it shows what was popular in the late 70's.

Licence to Kill
This one is similar to many 80's action films in that it involves a drug lord, big explosions and gore.

Tomorrow Never Dies
This film has the technology of the 90's and a plot that would never work in the 2000's.

Casino Royale
Turned the franchise darker like most action series of the decade.

Dutchfinger

Nice topic, I'll give it a go myself:

- You Only Live Twice
Pure 60'ies to me. A villian in a hollowed out volcano, the Space-age feel. The typical 60'ies styled interiors at Osato INC or at Blofelds layer. As a HUGE Thunderbirds fan, which was prime-time 60íes entertainment, this movie has to be the purest 60'ies movie.

Moonraker
Agreed on Moonraker, but I have to add the fashion in Bond's tux (as in TSWLM) is very evident in these movies. The wider pants, the huge collars, the longer hair in general.

Licence to Kill
Also agreed, very 80'ies for reasons you stated yourself.

GoldenEye
A movie representing 'modern' times after the end of the cold war. First showing of a female M, the constant refrences that things are now different. The very early computers which were very 90'ies modern, but have dated the movie badly.

Casino Royale
Once again agreed. The 2000's begged for a more serious tone, as is evident in the coming of the Bourne movies, Taken and such. Casino Royale truly breathes this decade. When you see the typical mobile phones or Bond coming out of the water in the swimming trunks being all buff, it also shows that this is another product of it's time.

I'm curious to see what we'll be saying about the 2010's once they have finished. Hopefully we will have atleast four movies to consider by then, but I highly doubt that one...

Thunderpussy

60s, Goldfinger. Great fashions and style.
70s, TSWLM, great 70s fun, big flares and lotus S1
80s, LTK, Bond v Drug lord, very 80s
90s, TND, Bond's take on a 90s action movie.
OOs, CR, Bond back to basics, Had edged and realistic.

AlphaOmegaSin

60s -1) From Russia With Love

70s -2) The Spy Who Loved Me

80s - 3) License To Kill

90s- 4) Goldeneye

00s - 5) Casino Royale

Matt S

I agree with a lot of the other people, but here are mine:

1960s: OHMSS. John Barry added some 60s sounds to the score that weren't present in the other 60s Bond films. Lazenby looks more hip than Connery ever did. Connery was dressed mostly in a late 1950s style of suit throughout the 60s whereas Lazenby's suits has a more updated look.

1970s: TSWLM. Marvin Hamlisch's music and Roger Moore's clothes do it here. Moonraker feels much less 1970s to me. People don't look quite as dated in that film, and the music doesn't sound like it is from the 70s until the end titles.

1980s: LTK. It's really the only Bond film in the 80s that feels like an 80s action film.

1990s: GE. They just tried so hard to update Bond for the 90s.

2000s: CR. The first time trends in film truly changed the direction of the series.

Agent Lee

60's-OHMSS: I was going to go with a Connery entry (maybe FRWL or YOLT) but Matt S's arguments convinced me otherwise. Definitely screams 60's much more than any other Bond film

70's-LALD: I was going to go with TSWLM for this one (Moore's tux and suits, Hamlisch score, "70's hot" Barbara Bach) but the blaxploitation/voodoo element of LALD trumps all that.

80's-TLD: seems like most people have cited LTK for this one because it's most like other 80's action movies, which is a good point, but TLD had a much more genuinely 80's aesthetic IMO (a-ha song, synth-driven bond theme, Dalton's wardrobe, Cold War themes, etc.)

90's-(tie) GE, TND: both of these films have very 90's aesthetics, themes, and storylines, but both in their own way.

2000's-CR: for the same reasons everyone else has said. #BondBegins

Firemass

Exact same topic by Chrisisall:

http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/43607/your-pick-for-the-bond-that-defined-each-decade/

Matt S

Firemass wrote:

Exact same topic by Chrisisall:

http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/43607/your-pick-for-the-bond-that-defined-each-decade/

I had the same choices as Chrisisall, and I hadn't even seen that post before!

Sir Miles

As a topic on this already exists, I'll close this one...