Your favourite James Bond film
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Topic: Your favourite James Bond film
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Your favourite James Bond film
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 14:46
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I was tempted to include Zardoz for fun. I grew up with James Bond and seeing Moonraker in the cinema was one of my favourite childhood experiences. Much as I continue to love classic Bond films, the 2006 Casino Royale blew me away and will get my vote. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 14:50
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Live and Let Die, including the song by Paul McCartney and Wings ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:06
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Diamonds for its quirkiness and because it was the first one I saw as a kid, Casino Royale a close second, and MwtGG because it's so much fun & silly in a good way. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:13
I grew up with James Bond movies too. I was 3 years old at the time when Dr. No was released and Diamonds Are Forever was the first Bond movie I went to see at the pictures. My vote goes to Timothy Dalton in License To Kill in this poll and my least favourite Bond movie is Die Another Day. I noticed you didn't include Sean Connery's Never Say Never Again in the poll - the unofficial Bond movie that was released the same year as Octopussy.
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Logan wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:23
It is included, but as an unofficial Bond film, I put Never Say Never Again at the bottom of the list in the 25th option alongside 1967's Casino Royale. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:38
Thanks! I missed it completely. I never thought to look right at the bottom of the list. I'll change my least favourite Bond movie to David Niven's Casino Royale, seeing as that's included in the list.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:43
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^ Interesting, I love that Sellers/Niven/Allen film. Great fun, I thought -- the comedy works for me. I would have agreed on Die Another Day. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 15:50
The thing that really put me off Die Another Day were the artificial CGI computer graphics, which had never been used in a Bond movie before. The sequence where James Bond (Pearce Brosnan) surfs on a tidal wave just looked totally ridiculous. Die Another Day was memorable for all the wrong reasons. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 16:12
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That is ridiclous and looks so bad. It reminds me of the sort of follow-up to Escape From New York (1981), Escape from L.A. (1996). Give me good old alligator surfing any day: ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 16:17
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ahh.. what kind of question is that.. Goldfinger.. duh... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 16:26
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After watching that silly surfing clip in Escape From L.A. I can see why the movie received such bad reviews at the time.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 17:07
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Escape from New York, on the other hand, is a fine film of its kind (fairly silly too). The other-the-top ridiculousness of that scene I actually don't mind, and Steve Buscemi is always a plus for me, but then I enjoy the silliness of the 60's Casino Royale comedy film. Even if it's not up there with the silly and campy Barbarella (1968). I probably thought of Jane Fonda's film because Peter Fonda is in that surfing scene. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 18:42
| I haven't seen all Bond films so no vote. That being said my personal favorite is probably Moonraker since it the first one I ever saw and in the theater as a 9 year old with my family at that. THe one after it For your eyes only was very good too. I think at some point things started to go downhill but eventually picked up again with Pierce Brosnon(who is my favorite with possible exception of Sean Connery). |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 20:03
^ Similar to me with Moonraker, although I saw it my my older brother at the cinema. It's such a fun story. When I was young, that and The Spy Who Loved Me were my favourites, then Connery became my favourite.... Now I can enjoy all of the Bonds including George Lazenby (he's not much of an actor, but On Her Majesty's Secret Service is one of my faves -- partially for Diana Rigg).
Love your choices. I've heard it disregarded, but The Man with the Golden Gun ranks amongst my very favourite Bond films. Christopher Lee is the man. Scaramanga: "A duel between titans. My third nipple against your Walther PPK." Bond: "What the f***?! One bullet against your three nipples?" Scaramanga: "I only need the third one, Mr. Bond". -------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, just my little take on some well-known film dialogue. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 20:28
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^ And a little TV show called Fantasy Island surely draws inspiration from it . Diamonds is such a strange Bond film "If God had wanted man to fly, Mister Wint..." "He would have given him wings, Mister Kidd." ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 20:49
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"Ze plane! Ze plane!" (Nick "Tattoo" Nack). Scaramanga's Island is like a fantasy island to me. Nick-nack : Monsieur, what'd you think? Bond : I've never killed a midget before. But, there can always be a first time. Nick-nack : Oh, monsieur. Posted this in another thread before making this poll, but can't resist: ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: October 14 2019 at 21:48
You nailed it! I almost went for "You Only Live Twice" for its cool weaponry & special FX, but Goldfinger is THE classic! ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 00:45
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Whenever I hear the Fantasy Island TV show mentioned, it reminds me of the song by Tight Fit. They were like a low budget version of Abba and the blonde singer even looks like Agnetha! Whenever I think of Tight Fit now, I'll be reminded of the tight fit of Sean Connery's costume in Zardoz, shown in Logan's avatar.  I loved the Diamonds Are Forever/Zardoz video.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 01:21
EfNY is one of my favorite cult films, just a perfect early 80s low-budget action flick. " You touch me, he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds, he dies. You come back in, he dies". https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwq8Gm3J3lAhWCv54KHVq7BhIQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.syfy.com%2Fsyfywire%2Ffrank-doubleday-dies-escape-from-new-york&psig=AOvVaw1rjxcZt0tFKHMvhKu3N6wt&ust=1571210191872636" rel="nofollow">  https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjPsuqy3Z3lAhVBop4KHcKUA3kQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhenskippylovedmallory.com%2F2014%2F04%2F10%2Fescape-from-new-york%2Fcomment-page-1%2F&psig=AOvVaw1rjxcZt0tFKHMvhKu3N6wt&ust=1571210191872636" rel="nofollow">  ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 02:13
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I'm pretty sure there is another Bond poll in this section I've seen every Bond until Moore's last at least once, though TBH, I don't think I ever saw a Bond movie on the silver screen (only on TV, but some I saw 5 or 7 times).... I'm not sure I ever saw a full (in uts entirety) post-Moore Bond, though
It's also the funniest one, so it got my vote. I tend to prefer Connery's Bond, but Moore's version had a little je-ne-sais-quoi Hesitated between Russia, Twice, Diamonds (I used to hate it, but it's offbeatness makes it interesting) and Let Die |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 03:34
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My ranking: 1 From Russia with Love (1963) 2 For Your Eyes Only (1981) 3 Thunderball (1965) 4 Skyfall (2012) 5 The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) 6 License to Kill (1989) 7 Diamonds Are Forever (1971) 8 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) 9 You Only Live Twice (1967) 10 Dr. No (1962) 11 Casino Royale (2006) 12 The World Is Not Enough (1999) 13 Goldfinger (1964) 14 Octopussy (1983) 15 Live and Let Die (1973) 16 The Living Daylights (1987) 17 Moonraker (1979) 18 Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 19 A View To Kill (1985) 20 Spectre (2015) 21 The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) 22 GoldenEye (1995) 23 Quantum of Solace (2008) 24 Die Another Day (2002) ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 03:34
I've gone for that as well, it might have something to do with Jane Seymour.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 16:39
Goldfinger closely followed by Thunderball. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:11
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Goldfinger, Thunderball, plus the with the Golden Gun: Perhaps Javier Bardem was chosen to play the villain (Raoul Silva) in Skyfall because of the Bondesque titled Golden Balls that he starred in in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Balls_%28film%29" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Balls_(film) Better that than Fingerballs.... or Goldmember perhaps for that matter. Enjoyable, fun film, I thought (twas a good one to watch with my girlfriend), that has nothing to do with James Bond except that it shares Javier Bardem, and when I heard he was playing the villain I made that association. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:17
Better yet, remake Golden Gun with Bardem as Francisco Scaramanga. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:23
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love the music on You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty Secret Service. One of them have Roald Dahl on screenplay/play wright, fun fact. -------------  
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:28
He has a powerful weapon He charges a million a shot... The man with the golden [balls]. ... Who will he bang? We shall see, oh yeah! Love is required, whenever he's hired It comes… I only changed the word gun there in the song lyrics. The innuendo worked a little better in the song when it was still gun methinks. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:33
Roald Dahl was friends with Ian Fleming, the lyricist for "You Only Live Twice", Leslie Bricusse, was a very good friend of my dad. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 15 2019 at 17:33
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You Only Live Twice is a 1967 British spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 19 2019 at 01:47
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Recently rewatched Specter and it's rather good. QoS on the other hand I can't remember anything about  .------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 19 2019 at 02:03
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: October 19 2019 at 08:42
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Always held a soft spot for George Lazenby and Mrs. Bond (now deceased), Diana Rigg, in Switzerland in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 19 2019 at 08:48
For one moment there, I thought you meant Diana Rigg was deceased, but thankfully, she's still with us.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 19 2019 at 09:21
Considering some the 'Bond' dreck that came after this one, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was a considerably decent James Bond film. I liked it.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: October 21 2019 at 13:42
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That's a tough one...I like all the early Connery films....but Goldfinger is my favorite with him. And then to be honest I'm a big fan of Craig.....I think Skyfall is simply a killer film. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 21 2019 at 13:48
.....And Daniel Craig makes a perfect killer as James Bond - probably the most ruthless killer of all the Bonds. He was very good in "Munich" too, where he also played a ruthless killer.
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 21 2019 at 13:53
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The one where Jaws was cutting steel cables with his teeth. ------------- |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 21 2019 at 16:05
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^ I think that was Moonraker, not sure. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: October 21 2019 at 17:35
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Thunderball, owner of one of the best movie lines ever: Largo (the great Adolfo Celi) walks around the shark infested pool with a shotgun and asks Bond (Connery) : " So what do you think of this rifle?" to which Sean answers "Itch a womange Riffoh" (it is a woman's rifle). Celi: "I see you know a lot about guns". Connery: "No, I know a lot about women" . Sexist but funny ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 05 2019 at 07:35
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Hi, Was not quite a fan of these, and always thought that it was just another studio hype thing, and since they had the best money, they could buy anyone they wanted for their films. Some very nice looking women in the films, but honestly, I didn't think they made the films any better, and too much of the filming (it was the 60's that started it!) was filmed with that keyhole mentality about the women in their skimpy outfits ... something that is a part of the history of films, but even Playboy mentioning it in their yearly thing on movies and sex, it never left ... Most actors were boring and not worthy of a mention. I can only remember one exception. CHRISTOPHER LEE ... was worth watching every minute of it ... ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: November 14 2019 at 19:34
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"Goldfinger". Gert Fröbe is such a superb villain -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: November 22 2019 at 18:33
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Every last one of these movies is unadulterated trash. That said, the best I could manage was to vote for extended scenes of Jill St. John in a skimpy bikini. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 22 2019 at 19:52
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Definitely Live and Let Die. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 23 2019 at 00:15
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I have never watched an entire James Bond movie in my life. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: November 23 2019 at 16:12
^^ This
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: November 25 2019 at 04:31
Interesting that you say that. I recently watched all the Connery films and the Lazenby film for the first time and was mostly unimpressed. I think the one I enjoyed the most was You Only Live Twice. Goldfinger wasn't bad and I was surprised that I liked the Lazenby film as much as I did, up until the stupid ending. Actually, my favorite moment from watching them all was seeing where the Simpsons's writers got the ideas for Hank Scorpio.  ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |