Your ONE essential Bond film
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If you could have one - and ONLY ONE - James Bond film in your collection, what would it be and why?
It's TSWLM for me. It was the first Bond film I saw in the cinema, and I become quite fond of it when thinking about it.
It has a memorable title song (and nice score), a very attractive Bond girl, eye-popping sets (including a wonderful villain's lair), an unforgettable evil henchman, a lovely villainess :v, believable chemistry between the stars, fun action sequences...
Oh, and yes, the car that turns into a submarine. B-)
It's TSWLM for me. It was the first Bond film I saw in the cinema, and I become quite fond of it when thinking about it.
It has a memorable title song (and nice score), a very attractive Bond girl, eye-popping sets (including a wonderful villain's lair), an unforgettable evil henchman, a lovely villainess :v, believable chemistry between the stars, fun action sequences...
Oh, and yes, the car that turns into a submarine. B-)
"Well, he certainly left with his tails between his legs."
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Why? Because it remains the most faithful to what Ian Fleming created. Also it’s a damn good flick.
It's easy to relish Tatiana Romanova, well ya know!
It also has some classic villains. Rosa Klebb, Kronsteen and Red Grant. So yeah thumbs up there!
For me, it's the perfect Bond film that encompasses everything that classic Bond is all about. Heck, it even has a Cold War plot.
Well said. I'd choose TSWLM for the same reasons.
From Russia with Love. I have to agree with HH. It is the classic Bond film.
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IMO it's the best Bond movie and the best film that's a Bond movie. In other words it succeeds magnificently on an action as well as an artistic level, more so than any other movie. It's also got a fantastic Bond in George Lazenby, the best score of any Bond movie, the coolest plot, best romance, awesome ski sequences etc. etc. OHMSS rules.
My award for "best Bond" goes to FRWL but the one I would choose to have if I could only have one is TLD.
I'm with Tilly (and HH) on this one. FRWL is 'it' for me...but OHMSS is probably my fallback position, because it was the first Fleming book I ever read, and the movie is just so amazingly close B-)
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
As I mentioned in the post above this, I consider it to be a brilliant film in its own right (and the best film of the Bond series) but when it comes to James Bond, I don't think that any other film (even TSWLM) is as representative of the series as GF.
So here goes:
Brozzer - GE or TND
Connery - GF or TB
It's great for iconography, wit, leading man appeal and the Fleming sweep (effortlessly gliding from one country to another...)
Roger Moore 1927-2017
If Patrick Henry were alive in '83, I'm sure he'd agree with me.
OP's got all the right stuff. Great action, great locations, a cool Cold War plot. Great villains, lovely ladies, a score by Bond veteran John Barry.
Roger Moore is well into his 50s, but still in his prime. Opposite Moore is a more mature Maud Adams. Adams is even sexier than she was a decade earlier. Louis Jourdan brings class and sophistication to the role of Kamal Kahn. Stephen Berkoff's Orlov is absolutely mad. Kristina Wayborn is simply stunning.
Whatever your feelings towards OP, there is one thing that we can all agree on: the banister scene.
OP is such a fun film, one that I simply cannot go without. {[]
-Roger Moore
And I can't disagree with that !
OHMSS for me too.
However, with OHMSS Peter Hunt went to painstaking lengths to do justice to classic Bond staples that Young, et al. set in place while also preserving as many qualities of the Fleming source as possible to create, IMO, the finest meeting of the Bond worlds. Hunts' meticulous dedication was so much, to the extent that OHMSS exceeded the series' high water mark for excellence.
BTW, after all this time, you revert back to calling me Dan Same?
I don't hate GF's pts, I guess it fits more into the world of Casablanca in terms of fake exotism but with superb wit and style. The room where Bond meets the girl looks like some grotty bedsit! Though of course a bellydancer would be on minimum wage... Bond's assailant looks like Bernard Cribbins! (er... comedy Brit actor from 1960s, sang a song called Right Said Fred).
Roger Moore 1927-2017