Most Rewatchable Films
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Not necessarily your favorite. What Bond films are just easy to pop in and watch without much thought?
Some Bonds I love dearly but feel I really need to be in the mood for like SF, OHMSS, CR. While others I dont enjoy as much but they are just pure entertainment fun DAD, TND, TMWTGG, LALD. How about you guys?
For some I know it may just outright be your favorites. And that's fine too!
Some Bonds I love dearly but feel I really need to be in the mood for like SF, OHMSS, CR. While others I dont enjoy as much but they are just pure entertainment fun DAD, TND, TMWTGG, LALD. How about you guys?
For some I know it may just outright be your favorites. And that's fine too!
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To me, I can just escape into those films because I know them so well I don't really have to think about it.
Octopussy in particular. I've a developed a killer Kamal impression by now
Basically because they are (mostly) short
I think the direction and how some shots work are a hidden gem in QoS. It's still something I wonder about, what if just some shots wandered a little more? Would that be the solution?
But then I start thinking about how it would never be as punchy or unique. Does leave a lot to be pondered.
I find TMWTGG, MR, TND, TWINE, easy viewing.
The reasons for this are hard to fathom, as OP is a middling Bond film (although I think generally a bit underrated) and AVTAK and LTK are well in the bottom half of my ranking.
A solid pre-title sequence makes a good incentive to put on a particular Bond film. As does the absence of any long boring segments such as the boat chase in LALD, the rock climbing in FYEO or the underwater battles in TB.
The first 3 Brosnan films are next in line as most rewatchable. Interesting locations and likable characters make them a joy to revisit again and again.
I used to not rank OP very highly, but the sheer amount of times I have watched it made me re-think how I rate it. It must be doing something right! I've heard the mark of a good film is how excited you are to watch it again.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
I seem to re-watch those over and over.
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Also I love watching the best halves of some films, such as QoS and TND where I love the first half, and don’t feel the need to watch the second half so much.
Can also watch TWINE heaps as well (again not my favourite but definitely the best brosnan and in my top seven probably)
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Majesty and Royale, you're supposed to be in a kind of mood where you can watch it.
The ones that go down easy for me are GF and OP. OP has been referred to several times over and I personally think is because of how globetrotting of an adventure it is without being tiring at all. It feels typical but so enjoyable. Everything going for it.
Golden Gun, though I'm always thinking of what shots I'd have picked because I'm anal like that, I quite fancy out of the Moore Bonds.
It's Moore except not really and JW I look forward to. LALD would replace it but it simply hasn't clicked as much.
TND is basically a lighter version of TSWLM and I like to keep Spy as a special occasion. MR is just purer escapism than any of all the other Bonds.
Finally, the Craig equivalents, being Royale; I quite like rewatching for its whole set up and because of how big a movie it is, oddly, in this scenario/QoS;/SP; for the adverse reason I like watching Royale, because both feel as typical to me as OP is to everyone else and it's simply a punchy, escapist movie. SP in particular is just Moore but not really for me.
If in the mood: TSWLM, MR, AVTAK.
If inebriated: OP, TWINE, DAD.
Never: GE, QOS.