My top five are pretty easy to pick given my tastes. In chronological (but not necessarily preferential order):
Thunderball
The high point for Connery in my opinion as it gets all the elements of the "formula" just right - an audacious pre-credits sequence, a suitably world threatening plot, a great villain and some of the most beautiful Bond girls ever.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The only film in the series (other than arguably FRWL) that manages to give us a great sprawling adventure while still staying very true to Fleming.
Diamonds Are Forever
It marks a shift towards more humor and a more lighthearted tone, and Connery is visibly older, but the film is eminently watchable and perfectly paced. Just a fun movie all around.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Roger Moore's best outing and probably the apex of the Bond "formula"; like Thunderball, the PTS is amazing, the plot world shaking, the women gorgeous and the gadget are really unique.
Goldeneye
Pierce Brosnan's first and best outing as Bond in a great reintroduction of the character after an extended hiatus. The movie has a nice balance of action and humor and having Bond square off against another 00 agent was something I always wanted to see and this movie really pulls it off.
Off the top of my head and certainly not definitive:
1 - Dr. No (does much more to set the formula than Goldfinger did)
2 - Casino Royale (best Bond movie in the past three decades)
3 - The Spy Who Loved Me (aggressively silly, but the best overtly sci-fi Bond movie)
4 - From Russia With Love (a little slow but an interesting spy vs. spy story with a surreal feel to it)
5 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Tracy's death made me cry when I was a little boy watching it, great locations, and some of the action is quite nasty)
Honourable mentions - GE and TND (on hindsight the best of Brosnan and were more commercially succesful than the Dalton movies in making Bond fit in better amongst late 1980s/1990s action films), LTK (a brave first attempt with Dalton to have Bond move with the times before the early Brosnan era ironed things out) YOLT (again aggressively silly and borderline offensive in parts, but despite its faults more memorable than Thunderball and even Goldfinger, and helped make me a big fan of Austin Powers), and FYEO (the second most solid Bond movie featuring Moore).
I liked Skyfall, but I didn't think it was the second coming of Christ, parts of it felt like beautiful to look at padding, and I've only seen it twice.
'Alright guard, begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism...'
1 - Skyfall
2 - Casino Royale
3 - Dr. No
4 - Thunderball / You Only Live Twice (Tie)
5 - The Living Daylights / Goldeneye (Tie. I prefer Dalton's portrayal of Bond over Brosnan's, But I'll always have a soft spot for Goldeneye because it was my first Bond I saw on the big screen.
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1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. Skyfall
3. Quantum of Solace
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. Casino Royale
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Would my top 5 be slighty different than my top 10 ? hmm let's say for example both Dalton films rank #7 and #8 of my top 10 but maybe i would want to squeeze one in for a Top 5 list just to show my support.
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Goldeneye
3. A View to a Kill
4. Goldfinger
5. Living Daylights
Normally, TWINE would be in my top 5 but I gotta add a Dalton. Daniel Craig has thus far proved to be no immediate threat to my top 5 or even top 15 for that matter.
My current 10 favorite:
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Although many of us posted this before in the top 22 thread, here's my top 5 anyway:
1. License to Kill
2. Goldeneye
3. Goldfinger
4. Casino Royale
5. The Spy Who Loved me
It's a coincidence that all major actors have a movie in my Top 5, and also a coincidence that there is a movie of every decade in it as well! I guess for me every decade had atleast one very good movie!
I like that you have all decades represented. It shows you're not stuck in the early 60's like some fans.
A top 5 can be different than a top 22. Some folks are just copy and paste from their top 22, but think of it as if you could only have 5 Bond films to watch for the rest of your life. Would that change anything? Add more variety perhaps?
My current 10 favorite:
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Yep, it was the 1st Bond film I've watched on a cinema! Love it!
Cool. My first was DAF, and though I still love it, when TND came out, I just loved it so much more! Recently I re-discovered TLD, so now that & TND are two of my most highly regarded Bond movies.
Would my top 5 be slighty different than my top 10 ? hmm let's say for example both Dalton films rank #7 and #8 of my top 10 but maybe i would want to squeeze one in for a Top 5 list just to show my support.
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Goldeneye
3. A View to a Kill
4. Goldfinger
5. Living Daylights
Normally, TWINE would be in my top 5 but I gotta add a Dalton. Daniel Craig has thus far proved to be no immediate threat to my top 5 or even top 15 for that matter.
1. For your eyes only = Nothing on earth comes closer to this masterpiece, favourite Bond film, and favourite film of all time. Under appreciated, everyone have a minute silence to appreciate this epic movie. If the whole movie was just Carole Bouquet saying "For your eyes only darling" then dropping her dressing gown to skinny dip, it would still have this placing.
2. Skyfall = This film is really enjoyable, I've seen it twice, repeated viewings may be needed but Craig is really good in this, and it is my first Bond in Cinema experience so some bias involved perhaps.
3. The living daylights = The first two were easy to pick but number threeon my list needed a minute of consideration. Dalton is the man in this, the Bond girl is awesome and Necros is my favourite henchman, the Bond movie which I like to show to beginners of the series.
4. On her majestys secret service = You don't want to know how much I hated this movie when I first saw it, to think that it's on my top five list? Diana Rigg is enough to set this movie into my top ten now, let alone the great plot adapted from a great novel, with some truly awesome action sequences, if George only did one, atleast it was a ripper.
5. Casino Royale = With Eva Green as Vesper, finally a Badass Bond, a great parkour chase and a great plot from a terrific novel, Casino Royale is good enough to steal 5th spot on my official list, with Octopussy 6th, Goldeneye 7th and and License to kill 8th, this reboot spits in Batman Begins face,.
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. "
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
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Thunderball
The high point for Connery in my opinion as it gets all the elements of the "formula" just right - an audacious pre-credits sequence, a suitably world threatening plot, a great villain and some of the most beautiful Bond girls ever.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The only film in the series (other than arguably FRWL) that manages to give us a great sprawling adventure while still staying very true to Fleming.
Diamonds Are Forever
It marks a shift towards more humor and a more lighthearted tone, and Connery is visibly older, but the film is eminently watchable and perfectly paced. Just a fun movie all around.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Roger Moore's best outing and probably the apex of the Bond "formula"; like Thunderball, the PTS is amazing, the plot world shaking, the women gorgeous and the gadget are really unique.
Goldeneye
Pierce Brosnan's first and best outing as Bond in a great reintroduction of the character after an extended hiatus. The movie has a nice balance of action and humor and having Bond square off against another 00 agent was something I always wanted to see and this movie really pulls it off.
2 (tie) Casino Royale/Skyfall
3 The Spy Who Loved Me
4 Doctor No
5 GoldenEye
1. From Russia With Love
2. Casino Royale
3. Goldfinger
4. The Living Daylights
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
Close (but no cigar): OHMSS, Thunderball, Licence to Kill and GoldenEye.
2. From Russia with Love
3. Licence to Kill
4. Casino Royale
5. Quantum of Solace
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2) Skyfall
3) The Living Daylights
4) Dr No
5) OHMSS
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2.For your eyes only
3. Casino Royale
4. Goldeneye
5. The living daylights
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2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. GoldenEye
4. Casino Royale
5. Goldfinger
1) The Spy Who Loved Me 2) On Her Majesty's Secret Service 3) GoldenEye 4) Casino Royale 5) Goldfinger
2. From Russia With Love
3. Licence To Kill
4. The Living Daylights
5. Dr. No
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
1. Licence to Kill
2. Skyfall
3. Goldeneye
4. Goldfinger
5. Casino Royale
The Spy Who Loved Me just missed out on my top 5 since Skyfall got released!
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The Living Daylights
OHMSS
Thunderball
License to Kill
1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia With Love
3. Goldfinger
4. Licence To Kill
5. Dr. No
2) Casino Royale
3) Licence to Kill
4) Goldfinger
5) Skyfall
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. From Russia With Love
4. Goldfinger
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
Plus five more:
6. The Living Daylights
7. Goldeneye
8. Dr No
9. For Your Eyes Only
10. Skyfall
8. TMwtGG 9. AVtaK 10. TSWLM 11. SF 12. LtK 13. TND 14. YOLT
15. NTtD 16. MR 17. LaLD 18. GF 19. SP 20. DN 21. TB
22. TWiNE 23. DAD 24. QoS 25. DaF
2. Goldfinger
3. On her Majesties Secret Service
4. Live and Let Die
5. Moonraker
1 - Dr. No (does much more to set the formula than Goldfinger did)
2 - Casino Royale (best Bond movie in the past three decades)
3 - The Spy Who Loved Me (aggressively silly, but the best overtly sci-fi Bond movie)
4 - From Russia With Love (a little slow but an interesting spy vs. spy story with a surreal feel to it)
5 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Tracy's death made me cry when I was a little boy watching it, great locations, and some of the action is quite nasty)
Honourable mentions - GE and TND (on hindsight the best of Brosnan and were more commercially succesful than the Dalton movies in making Bond fit in better amongst late 1980s/1990s action films), LTK (a brave first attempt with Dalton to have Bond move with the times before the early Brosnan era ironed things out) YOLT (again aggressively silly and borderline offensive in parts, but despite its faults more memorable than Thunderball and even Goldfinger, and helped make me a big fan of Austin Powers), and FYEO (the second most solid Bond movie featuring Moore).
I liked Skyfall, but I didn't think it was the second coming of Christ, parts of it felt like beautiful to look at padding, and I've only seen it twice.
2 - Casino Royale
3 - Dr. No
4 - Thunderball / You Only Live Twice (Tie)
5 - The Living Daylights / Goldeneye (Tie. I prefer Dalton's portrayal of Bond over Brosnan's, But I'll always have a soft spot for Goldeneye because it was my first Bond I saw on the big screen.
2. Skyfall
3. Quantum of Solace
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. Casino Royale
2. Tomorrow Never Dies
3. OHMSS
4. Casino Royale
5. Skyfall
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#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Yep, it was the 1st Bond film I've watched on a cinema! Love it!
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1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Goldeneye
3. A View to a Kill
4. Goldfinger
5. Living Daylights
Normally, TWINE would be in my top 5 but I gotta add a Dalton. Daniel Craig has thus far proved to be no immediate threat to my top 5 or even top 15 for that matter.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
ha. and you said I had ADD because i made a similar statement in another thread.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
I like that you have all decades represented. It shows you're not stuck in the early 60's like some fans.
A top 5 can be different than a top 22. Some folks are just copy and paste from their top 22, but think of it as if you could only have 5 Bond films to watch for the rest of your life. Would that change anything? Add more variety perhaps?
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Love your number 3 choice -{
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
2. Skyfall = This film is really enjoyable, I've seen it twice, repeated viewings may be needed but Craig is really good in this, and it is my first Bond in Cinema experience so some bias involved perhaps.
3. The living daylights = The first two were easy to pick but number threeon my list needed a minute of consideration. Dalton is the man in this, the Bond girl is awesome and Necros is my favourite henchman, the Bond movie which I like to show to beginners of the series.
4. On her majestys secret service = You don't want to know how much I hated this movie when I first saw it, to think that it's on my top five list? Diana Rigg is enough to set this movie into my top ten now, let alone the great plot adapted from a great novel, with some truly awesome action sequences, if George only did one, atleast it was a ripper.
5. Casino Royale = With Eva Green as Vesper, finally a Badass Bond, a great parkour chase and a great plot from a terrific novel, Casino Royale is good enough to steal 5th spot on my official list, with Octopussy 6th, Goldeneye 7th and and License to kill 8th, this reboot spits in Batman Begins face,.
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Skyfall
2. Goldfinger
1. GoldenEye
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
I was also thinking that my top 5 "favorite" Bond films is slightly different from my top 5 "best" films.
Here's what i mean:
Top 5 BEST- These are the finest masterpieces in the 007 series.
1. Goldfinger
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. From Russia With Love
4. The Living Daylights
5. Goldeneye
Top 5 FAVORITE - These are the films I watch again and again because I enjoy them so much.
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Goldeneye
3. A View to a Kill
4. The World is Not enough
5. Moonraker
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
TLD & LTK always vie for 2nd place.
I guess I'd go for OHMSS and GF for 4 & 5.
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