Least favorite Bond film in the 60s?

DevilMayCare007DevilMayCare007 Posts: 196MI6 Agent
in The James Bond Films
The 60s were the best for Bond, but YOLT just to me seemed out of place for me.
Top 10 Bond Films
1. Thunderball 2. FRWL 3. Casino Royale 4. TLD 5. OHMSS 6. SkyFall 7. GF 8. TSWLM 9. GE 10. FYEO
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    It is a bit over the top "Fantasy" adventure, compared to
    The others.
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  • DevilMayCare007DevilMayCare007 Posts: 196MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    It is a bit over the top "Fantasy" adventure, compared to
    The others.
    Definitely agree, and plus I didn't care for Connery's performance in YOLT
    Top 10 Bond Films
    1. Thunderball 2. FRWL 3. Casino Royale 4. TLD 5. OHMSS 6. SkyFall 7. GF 8. TSWLM 9. GE 10. FYEO
  • JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,241MI6 Agent
    For me, it's Thunderbore
    1 - LALD, 2 - AVTAK, 3 - LTK, 4 - OP, 5 - NTTD, 6 - FYEO, 7 - SF, 8 - DN, 9 - DAF, 10 - TSWLM, 11 - OHMSS, 12 - TMWTGG, 13 - GE, 14 - MR, 15 - TLD, 16 - YOLT, 17 - GF, 18 - DAD, 19 - TWINE, 20 - SP, 21 - TND, 22 - FRWL, 23 - TB, 24 - CR, 25 - QOS

    1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
  • MadMaxZorinMadMaxZorin United StatesPosts: 65MI6 Agent
    I would have to say YOLT sadly. I would love to be able to answer with OHMSS, but it is a better film. I feel dirty ranking a Lazenby film ahead of Connery :))
    1. Goldeneye 2. The Spy Who Loved Me 3. From Russia With Love 4. Goldfinger 5. Casino Royale
  • samurai4114samurai4114 Alberta, CanadaPosts: 129MI6 Agent
    Either TB or YOLT. Tough to call. TB has better Bond girls, and a better Connery, but just isn't that exciting compared to YOLT which is just a delight. Dead heat because both rank highly
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,867Chief of Staff
    I couldn't possibly decide, I love them all beyond the capacity for logical thought. So here's the fencesitting option: CR67.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I agree that YOLT is the worst of the 1960s Bonds and probably where the rot (i.e. lack of fidelity to Fleming) really set in, to be expanded upon in the Bond films that followed in the 1970s. Scriptwriter Roald Dahl didn't really understand Bond or the Bond films either I feel and I would have loved to have seen his Garden of Death on screen given his own dark and macabre imagination. In fact, Dahl hated the YOLT novel and decided to turn to the newspapers and the on-going Cold War Space Race between and US and Soviet Russia for inspiration instead. The more's the pity in my book.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    TB. As much as the Underwater Scenes are still Breathtaking nowadays, parts of the Film do drag. TB to me has always been a Showcase for the Tropical Locations -{
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Since this is 'least favourite' as opposed to 'worst' I have no trouble picking FRWL. All of the Sixties Bonds were great, but FRWL is (for ME) the slowest. If the whole movie were like the last part on the train with Grant, it would be my favourite.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I can hear pitch forks being sharpened and burning torches being lit ! :))
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I can hear pitch forks being sharpened and burning torches being lit ! :))
    Yes, I enjoy YOLT more than FRWL. I also enjoy popcorn more than steak. ;)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    None! :D
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • samurai4114samurai4114 Alberta, CanadaPosts: 129MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Since this is 'least favourite' as opposed to 'worst' I have no trouble picking FRWL. All of the Sixties Bonds were great, but FRWL is (for ME) the slowest. If the whole movie were like the last part on the train with Grant, it would be my favourite.

    I might just be one of those with the pitchforks. :)) I think it speaks to how good the Connery era was if FRWL is your least favourite.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I've come to the conclusion that depending on what age you are, your
    Perception of the films change. :)) as a kid I loved MR and YOLT etc and
    Thought FRWL & OHMSS as very slow indeed.
    As I matured ( into a fine handsome " Stallion " of a man :)) ) I got to
    Appreciate the fantastic characters and Story telling these films can put
    across. -{
    Now, I'll still watch and enjoy the rather " sillier" Bonds, but my heart belongs
    To the ones that stay close to Fleming or at least try and stay in the Fleming
    Frame of mind. {[]
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    I think it speaks to how good the Connery era was if FRWL is your least favourite.
    Definitely. FRWL is a great near Hitchcock-like thriller. No pitchforks needed my friend.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I've come to the conclusion that depending on what age you are, your
    Perception of the films change.

    Well if you're going by age, I started out enjoying Barry Nelson as "Jimmy Bond" in the 1954 version of Casino Royale. Of course, I was all of 3 months old at the time, but still..................
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    By the way Chrisisall, aren't you supposed to be falling off a mountain about now ? :D
    Or have I tampered with those ropes for nothing !. :))

    Barry Nelson was he the Bond you wanted to see on your home ground BL, when
    Sir Roger took over ? :))
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Barry Nelson was he the Bond you wanted to see on your home ground BL, when
    Sir Roger took over ?

    Pssst.....I'll let you in on a little secret, TP. I actually like Roger Moore's Bond better than Barry Nelson's. But let's just keep this between us, okay? I wouldn't want to tarnish my reputation. :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    That's almost something positive about old Rog. :)) ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    By the way Chrisisall, aren't you supposed to be falling off a mountain about now ? :D
    Or have I tampered with those ropes for nothing !. :))
    Ha! The distraction worked- the ropes sit in a pile; we climb like Hunt:hands & feet only. Recuperating from yesterday's climb- on the lake in a canoe today. Big climb Thurs or Fri.

    Okay guys, I can't help it; I love YOLT. Yeah, I guess it's objectively the worst of the Sixties lot, but even there you see what solid gold the 60's were!!
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • MadMaxZorinMadMaxZorin United StatesPosts: 65MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Since this is 'least favourite' as opposed to 'worst' I have no trouble picking FRWL. All of the Sixties Bonds were great, but FRWL is (for ME) the slowest. If the whole movie were like the last part on the train with Grant, it would be my favourite.
    Ouch! That one hurts lol.
    1. Goldeneye 2. The Spy Who Loved Me 3. From Russia With Love 4. Goldfinger 5. Casino Royale
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    {[] respect, I haven't the nerve for all that free climbing stuff, but it
    Looks amazing -{ , I'll have to tamper with the chalk, instead. :))
    Watched a documentary recently on TV about a bloke who climbs
    Buildings,cranes anything really. Totally mind blowing stuff.
    I'll wait until I can get a pair of those anti-grav Boots that Spock had. :))
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I haven't the nerve for all that free climbing stuff, but it
    Looks amazing
    i may have exaggerated it a bit: we aren't quite doing the Star Trek V type climbing, more like what Rambo did in First Blood. :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Either way it's impressive. -{ The closest thing I've done from
    First Blood, was walk the dog through a forest. :))
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Small Peice of Trivia, that old Sack that Rambo uses as a Shirt was there on Location when they shot that Scene at the Campsite.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    {[] I didn't know that. :)
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  • richbondrichbond Posts: 36MI6 Agent
    I can't pick the worst here. The 60's Bond films are still the very best ones. Goldfinger and From Russia with love are masterpieces. The others are all classics too. I could probably pick the worst from any other decade, but the six Bond films of the 1960's are exempt. :D Rich.
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Okay guys, I can't help it; I love YOLT. Yeah, I guess it's objectively the worst of the Sixties lot, but even there you see what solid gold the 60's were!!

    Ahhhh.......I see the high altitude hasn't made you light-headed and you are still able to think clearly! -{
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:

    Ahhhh.......I see the high altitude hasn't made you light-headed and you are still able to think clearly! -{
    I've even been entertaining the idea of getting a copy of NSNA (I don't presently own it). :))
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    First sign of altitude sickness ! :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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