What do you think is the weirdest Bond film?

Revolver66Revolver66 Melbourne, AustraliaPosts: 470MI6 Agent
I've been thinking about this a little lately. The series has thrown up a few films with some very strange and quirky moments! So I was wondering what people had as their strangest Bond film? I would have to say that I find Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker to be the two weirdest, with Diamonds nudging for the top spot. I quite like it, but I just think its bizarre!

What do you guys think?
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,701MI6 Agent
    I would have to agree - Moonraker and DAD.
  • OddjoblofeldraxorinOddjoblofeldraxorin CaliforniaPosts: 195MI6 Agent
    I always thought Live And Let Die was the strangest because it dealt with supernatural powers, and the scene were Kananga blew up was silly, but fun. I can see where you're coming from with DAF and Moonraker though. Moonraker and Spy are both weird because Jaws is so powerful; like a comic book character. I also thought OHMSS (of all movies) was weird for breaking the fourth wall a couple times; "This never happened to the other fellow", and the little guy whistling the Goldfinger theme.
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    I'll go with DAF, because it's overall tone is so blatantly and relentlessly comedic. In this case, "weird" doesn't equal "poor", however -- I think DAF is a lot of fun.
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  • DutchJamesBondFanDutchJamesBondFan the NetherlandsPosts: 414MI6 Agent
    Although I like it, DAD without thinking about it.
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  • OrnithologistOrnithologist BerlinPosts: 583MI6 Agent
    Definitely DAF (and then also NSNA, if it counts).
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    LALD for me. But weird in a mostly good way. That last shot says it all. :))
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  • heartbroken_mr_draxheartbroken_mr_drax New Zealand Posts: 2,073MI6 Agent
    I think LALD.

    DAF is very comedic, but it isn't really as weird because many of the standard elements are there.

    LALD deals with as Oddjoblofeldraxorin says, the supernatural. It also deals with the whole african-american element which at the time in some places was taboo. This shows in the film and it almost comes across like a blaxploitation Bond film. Roger Moore also plays Bond very differently - for the obvious reasons of differentiation from the previous. The soundtrack is quite odd too.

    My GF loves LALD because of how odd it is.
    1. TWINE 2. FYEO 3. MR 4. TLD 5. TSWLM 6. OHMSS 7. DN 8. OP 9. AVTAK 10. TMWTGG 11. QoS 12. GE 13. CR 14. TB 15. FRWL 16. TND 17. LTK 18. GF 19. SF 20. LaLD 21. YOLT 22. NTTD 23. DAD 24. DAF. 25. SP

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  • Miles MesservyMiles Messervy Posts: 1,757MI6 Agent
    I vote for YOLT. The film starts with Bond getting "killed," and the he ends up "becoming" Japanese, including a completely ridiculous makeover and sham marriage. The massive battle inside the volcano lair(!) between SPECTRE's private army and Tanaka's ninjas is also ludicrous.
  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    The Man with the Golden Gun. It's strange from the get go -- the psychedelic opening, the odd score, the unusual (for the time) physical qualities for people (third nipple, "midget" servant), the Solex McGuffin (mostly off screen, but it never quite makes sense to me that Scaramanga, an assassin, apparently built his power station with one other person but still has to steal the Solex to empower it), the dusty, swampy Southeast Asian locales, and so forth. It plays more like some strange, trippy nightmare than a Bond film. The rest are fairly conventional by comparison, though Live and Let Die probably takes second place.
  • eric7064eric7064 USAPosts: 343MI6 Agent
    TMWTGG definitely for reasons stated above
  • Revolver66Revolver66 Melbourne, AustraliaPosts: 470MI6 Agent
    Good call on LALD AND Golden Gun. They're both pretty farout. I love LALD, it's one of my favourites, and yes it is pretty left of field. It seems like the 70s was probably the weirdest period for Bond. Maybe because they were experimenting a little and trying to take the series in all of these different directions. I always found Diamonds quite strange because of the characters and the imagery. Blofeld is the campiest villain, the two gay henchmen are great but bizarre. Then there are strange characters like Shady Tree and Willard Whyte. And I always found the circus scene with the ape-woman absolutely bonkers. So random. Also the moon buggy chase and the pre-titles with that strange mud lake. Crazy times
  • heartbroken_mr_draxheartbroken_mr_drax New Zealand Posts: 2,073MI6 Agent
    Revolver66 wrote:
    Good call on LALD AND Golden Gun. They're both pretty farout. I love LALD, it's one of my favourites, and yes it is pretty left of field. It seems like the 70s was probably the weirdest period for Bond. Maybe because they were experimenting a little and trying to take the series in all of these different directions. I always found Diamonds quite strange because of the characters and the imagery. Blofeld is the campiest villain, the two gay henchmen are great but bizarre. Then there are strange characters like Shady Tree and Willard Whyte. And I always found the circus scene with the ape-woman absolutely bonkers. So random. Also the moon buggy chase and the pre-titles with that strange mud lake. Crazy times

    That's probably why TSWLM and MR (camp or not) were a return to form, scale and fantasy of the earlier films...
    1. TWINE 2. FYEO 3. MR 4. TLD 5. TSWLM 6. OHMSS 7. DN 8. OP 9. AVTAK 10. TMWTGG 11. QoS 12. GE 13. CR 14. TB 15. FRWL 16. TND 17. LTK 18. GF 19. SF 20. LaLD 21. YOLT 22. NTTD 23. DAD 24. DAF. 25. SP

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Ah, let's just call the entire Hamilton 70's trilogy a weird bunch! {[]
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • FiremassFiremass AlaskaPosts: 1,910MI6 Agent
    eric7064 wrote:
    TMWTGG definitely for reasons stated above

    Agreed. I also vote for TMWTGG.

    Weird and quirky in a cool way though IMO. Also like the odd angles of the RMS Queen Elizabeth and the bizarre Grisly Land. It's almost like some early german expressionism Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
    My current 10 favorite:

    1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
  • ThunderRakerThunderRaker Posts: 40MI6 Agent
    DAD, AVTAK, TMWTGG, MR, OP are some of the weirdest. -{

    Though my vote goes for DAF, it's just so strange, fat and tired Connery, Charles Gray as Blofeld? Blofeld in drag? An unappealing color palette, and a plot that goes all over the place makes DAF feel very un-bond like. Also, is it just me, or does Bond seem less of a main character in this film? By that I mean he seems to get less screen time, and more focus on things going on around him.
    1. TLD 2. CR 3. OP 4. OHMSS 5. FYEO 6. AVTAK 7. TSWLM 8. GF 9. FRWL 10. SF 11. LTK 12. TB 13. QOS 14. YOLT 15. LALD 16. DN 17. TWINE 18. GE 19. TND 20. MR 21. TMWTGG 22. SP 23. DAF 24. NSNA 25. DAD
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  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,596MI6 Agent
    For me it's definitely one of the 1970s Guy Hamilton films, as others have mentioned. Before reading what others had to say, DAF came to mind first, so I'll go with that one.
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  • Revolver66Revolver66 Melbourne, AustraliaPosts: 470MI6 Agent
    edited February 2016
    Yes the Hamilton trilogy is definitely quite pulpy and left field. The three films have some strange elements and imagery. As I said before I think it works best with Live and Let Die, as it fits the voodoo elements of the story. However I think Diamonds and Golden Gun could have definitely been told in a much more conventional way, like a regular spy film. Diamonds could have been a more straight forward smuggling caper, and Golden Gun could have been a more assassin vs assassin story, but they both end up being a little on the strange side. That's not to say I don't like them, I do :)
  • Revolver66Revolver66 Melbourne, AustraliaPosts: 470MI6 Agent
    Moonraker is just bonkers :))
  • JarvioJarvio EnglandPosts: 4,234MI6 Agent
    DAF definitely.

    Honorable mentions: AVTAK and TMWTGG
    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

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  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    Agree with everyone on DAF.

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    Yes, I'd say DAF and LALD are the weirdest of the lot and certainly not your conventional Bond film (or even spy film).
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I agree with DAF, it has some wonderfully weird characters in it. :D
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    I agree with DAF, it has some wonderfully weird characters in it. :D

    Agreed, it surely must be a Hamilton-Mankiewicz thing. That even sounds like some deadly disease! :))
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  • Revolver66Revolver66 Melbourne, AustraliaPosts: 470MI6 Agent
    Reading through "Some Kind of Hero" I think it's safe to say that if the original treatments for The Spy Who Love Me had of been filmed then that easily would have been the wackiest. Full of evil hippies and killer robots :))
  • jamesm123jamesm123 LondonPosts: 182MI6 Agent
    When I was a kid (not Kidd) I def thought DAF the weirdest. The gorilla transformation bit, space set scene, and yes, tranny Blofeld. I love the surreal aspects of MWTGG though, especially M's office in the ship and Scaramangas fun house.
  • MarcAngeDracoMarcAngeDraco Piz GloriaPosts: 564MI6 Agent
    At least half of the Bond films are bizarre, but that's the point I imagine. Fleming himself had written Bond novels that had a touch of bizarre so it's only fitting the Bond films carried suit - the psychedelic lights in OHMSS, the characters of Oddjob, Goldfinger, Horror (Jaws?), the bald henchmen with moustaches, Sluggsy, Dr. No, Shatterhand and Irma Bunt - all exude a weirdness.
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  • MilleniumForceMilleniumForce LondonPosts: 1,214MI6 Agent
    The weirdest for me is also my favourite: AVTAK. Walken as a Bond villain, with Grace Jones as his henchwoman/love interest, with all MI6 regulars aged over 50.....topped off with a title song by Duran Duran. I mean, that's pretty weird.
    1.LTK 2.AVTAK 3.OP 4.FYEO 5.TND 6.LALD 7.GE 8.GF 9.TSWLM 10.SPECTRE 11.SF 12.MR 13.YOLT 14.TLD 15.CR (06) 16.TMWTGG 17.TB 18.FRWL 19.TWINE 20.OHMSS 21.DAF 22.DAD 23.QoS 24.NSNA 25.DN 26.CR (67)
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Has to be Casino Royale '67....
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  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,596MI6 Agent
    Has to be Casino Royale '67....

    That's cheating :p
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  • jamesm123jamesm123 LondonPosts: 182MI6 Agent
    While we're on the topic of non-Eon-Bonds I would say the weirdest bit of NSNA is Rowan Atkinson
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