Your top 5 most treasured Bond flicks
mrbain007
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Title says it all. I'll start with mine:
Goldeneye
The Spy Who Loved Me
From Russia With Love
Dr No
Goldfinger
Goldeneye
The Spy Who Loved Me
From Russia With Love
Dr No
Goldfinger
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2. From Russia With Love
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Goldfinger
5. Thunderball
I have debated with myself several times as to which is the ultimate Bond film and I think DN is the clear winner. It's the only film that feels like it is about Bond. Now if you want to talk about the best thriller, it's From Russia With Love by far.
However for me Goldeneye is the favourite! That film got me into the whole series and has a very special place in my heart. I can practically recite the whole script (sad I know, but hey, I'm among friends
- Goldfinger
- On her Majesty's secret service
- Licence to kill
- Casino Royale
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
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- Dr No
- Thunderball
- Casino Royale
- Live and Let Die
- Die Another Day
The spy who loved me- Moores best
The living daylights- Daltons best
Goldeneye- Brosnans best
Casino Royale- Craigs best
2. From Russia With Love
3. Goldfinger
4. Thunderball
5. OHMSS
Listed in order of appearance.
While I wouldn't use the term "treasured" for the movies, I consider these five to be the essential movies in the series. I enjoy the remaining movies (execept the Moore movies), but they are not necessary.
1. Thunderball
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. The Living Daylights
5. The World is Not Enough
You could say those were treasured. But of course, I added a few others that I needed...Very tricky topic.
in no particular order
for your eyes only-brilliant Moore
license to kill-different format
from Russia with love-classic spy film
goldeneye-bond revived
goldfinger-brilliant
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Thunderball
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
GOLDFINGER
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
OHMSS
The Spy who Loved Me
From Russia With Love - I consider this the best Bond film, the best adaptation of a Fleming novel, and the best performance by a Bond actor. I feel that everything in this film works beautifully and it is the film by which I define Bond.
Moonraker - Although low on my favourite films list, this is a treasured film because it was the first that I saw (on video in 1997), and it started the mania. The pre-titles sequence was enough to hook me - free fall stunts, Bond, Jaws, and the James Bond Theme.
Casino Royale - By far the best Bond film to come out during my time as a Bond fan. This was also the first film that I followed development online and discussed on AJB in the buildup to its release. I could also not have been happier as I left the cinema after that first viewing.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - I love this film because of the breathtaking beauty of the Swiss Alps, and John Barry's music. I have always loved mountains, and this film inspired me to travel to the Swiss Alps, learn to ski, and of course visit Blofeld's hideout at Piz Gloria.
Goldeneye - probably the Bond film that I have seen the most times, as for a long time it was the only one that I had on video. Despite its flaws, I like almost every aspect of this film (except perhaps the Eric Serra music).
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Licence To Kill
Goldeneye
The living Daylights,
From Russia with Love,
Goldeneye,
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, &
Casino Royale.
~ Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
FYEO
TND
Thunderball
TND???
Please explain...
I love the set up in the back of the lino with police out riders gives a great sence of urgancy.
the line "I'm just a professional doing a job" replied to with "Me Too".
I know many hear think of it as Crap, But I do have a soft spot for the lesser Films
Moonraker, Golden Gun etc.
2 The Living Daylights
3 From Russia With Love
4 On Her Majesties Secret Service
5 For Your Eyes Only
Bet your thinking what a wierd choice for No1 spot. Reason 1st 007 film I saw on betamax and to this day it was always a family & friends favourite.
Might be slow in places but still classic Bond.
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Honorable mention: Goldeneye
Goldneye
The Living Daylights
Tomorrow Never Dies
Casino Royale
Honorable Mention: From Russia With Love
Please explain
Just add this random comment: I like both The Man with the Golden Gun and Die Another Day...yes...really....their not my favourites but there higher than some
2. On her Majesty’s Secret Service
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. You Only Live Twice
5. The Living Daylights
This would be my top 5, although the bottom 2 tend to change quite often. I know YOLT is very high on my list (and probably a lot higher than it should be) but for some reason I love the Japanese setting and I remember seeing it for the fist time about 15 years ago and absolutely loving it. I also think that the score by John Barry is one of the best. All in all I think YOLT is more than the sum of its parts.
One of the great things about this forum is seeing that everyone has its own favourites and reasons to like a movie that they KNOW is not an overall great movie, but like it nonetheless.
You mean, more than the dim sum of its parts.
Ay thang yew.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
After that:
2. From Russia, With Love...Red Grant and the fight on the train---plus Daniela Bianchi, natch.
3. The Living Daylights...Bond finally rescued from Roger Moore; very excited when this one came out.
4. Live and Let Die...I was missing Connery terribly, but had a lot of fun with my second Bond film on the big screen.
5. Casino Royale...the second origination of the role, IMO. Priceless, with torture scene nicely adapted.
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale
From Russia With Love
Licence to Kill
GoldenEye
Dr. No
The first James Bond film is still one of the strongest and most sensible action-adventures of the entire series. So many classic scenes -- the card game that introduces Bond, his flirtation with Sylvia Trench, the first meeting with M, the confrontation with Prof. Dent, being scanned for radiation, Bond and Honey's passing out from the mickey-finn in their tea, the suspenseful nighttime visit by the black-handed Dr. No, the crawl through the ventilation and water shaft, the showdown with Dr. No at the dinner table, and the witty dialogue Bond has with just about everybody. The interaction between Bond and Miss Taro is refreshingly adult, sophisticated, and edgy. Not to mention honest.
From Russia With Love
Once again Connery nails James Bond with a deeply felt, minimalist performance. He works hard at the physicality of Bond. He inhabits the role so naturally it's impossible to separate the actor from the character. He is evenly matched by Robert Shaw, and it's a pleasure to watch them trying to underplay each other. Their final fight on the train is one of the series greatest and most memorable moments, partly because it's underpinned by everything that has come before. I enjoy the colorful villains, the comeradie between Bond and Kerim Bey, the endearing Tania and her supposedly loony scheme, the romance that strikes just the right balance between flirtation and seriousness on the express, and the dark moody atmosphere of the whole thing. A joy and a pleasure.
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
For Your Eyes Only
I wish Michael Wilson had kept his big fat fingers out of the cold-war espionage script, because all he did was screw it up. Richard Maibaum didn't need help from amateurs. I wish that Peter Hunt had directed it, as originally intended, because John Glen had no idea what he was doing. Neither Wilson nor Glen discerned the subtext of Maibaum's story about a spooked Bond who fears that he "must dig two graves" including his own to finish the mission. That having been said, this return to realism and believability was most welcome. The whole thing plays better when, after the helicopter rises into the sky at the cemetery, you skip the pre-title sequence. Later, skip past the entire interlude in the snow. Just skip it, the exposition is so screwed up, and then the film returns to its proper tone, sort of. Roger Moore is the consummate actor here, and delivers the most down-to-earth performance of his tenure. The mountain climbing scene is the first time we can believe that Moore is at risk, and what a difference it makes. A badly compromised Bond film, but they would all be under Wilson's interference and Glen's clueless direction.
I will edit in more comments later.
Richard