Which are your Top 5 James Bond movies and scores?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

My favorite Bonds are the ones where they just said, "Whoa, look at this weirdo we found who does a cool stunt!  Fuck it, let's just film him and pretend it's Bond."

[Koray Savas 2,251]

That would be called the Roger Moore era. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

3 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

That would be called the Roger Moore era. 

 

Heh heh, bingo!

 

 

MAKE BOND STUPID AGAIN!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I love that bit!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Always been one of my favorite Bonds. There's a time and place for the more gritty serious modern versions and the more lighthearted humorous Moore films. As long as it's entertaining, it's valid.

[Indianagirl 298]

I've wanted to rate these movies for years.

 

1. Thunderball

2. Goldfinger

3. From Russia with Love

4. Dr. No

5. Skyfall

6. Goldneye

7. Casino Royale

8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

9. Spectre

10. You Only Live Twice 

11. For Your Eyes Only

12. Live and Let Die

13. Quantum of Solace

14. The Spy Who Loved Me

15. Diamonds are Forever    

16. Moonraker

17. Liscense to Kill

18. The Man with the Golden Gun

19. A View to a Kill

20. Tomorrow Never Dies

21. The Living Daylights

22. The World Is Not Enough

23. Octopussy

24. Die Another Day

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Wow, Thunderball is among my 5 least favorite Bonds.  Interminably dull as I remember it.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'm not a big fan of Thunderball either. But some people just love it. Oddly I think NSNA was more watchable.

 

Plus it was only recently I noticed Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltsman weren't credited on Thunderball, and Kevin McClory strongarmed his name as producer instead.

[Indianagirl 298]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

My favorite Bonds are the ones where they just said, "Whoa, look at this weirdo we found who does a cool stunt!  Fuck it, let's just film him and pretend it's Bond."

 

 

This is why Thunderball is one of your five least favorite

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

I have a soft spot for Thunderball as it was the first Bond I saw, but the languid underwater scenes really do drag it to a grinding halt. I also wished they had kept Adolfo Celli's vocal performance rather than dub it over with Robert Rietti. 

 

Movies:

 

1. Skyfall

2. From Russia With Love

3. The Living Daylights

4. Dr. No

5. GoldenEye

 

Scores:

 

1. Diamonds Are Forever

2. Thunderball

3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

4. A View to a Kill

5. Moonraker

 

 

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Movies

 

1. A View to a Kill

2. For Your Eyes Only

3. Diamonds Are Forever

4. Live and Let Die

5. Octopussy

 

Scores

 

1. A View to a Kill

2. Diamonds Are Forever

3. You Only Live Twice

4. The Living Daylights

5. Tomorrow Never Dies

[Josh500 1,615]

9 minutes ago, Blanche Hudson said:

I have a soft spot for Thunderball as it was the first Bond I saw, but the languid underwater scenes really do drag it to a grinding halt. 

 

The languid underwater scenes were what always fascinated me. I saw the movie for the first time when I was 6 or so, and it left a deep (no pun intended) impression on me! 

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

I'm still in awe of the technical innovation in those scenes shot in the Bahamas, and the Ken Adam designed chariots and sleds are a thing of beauty, but in the end all of that counts for little as they're dramatically inert. I remember rightly, the director Terence Young abandoned the project in post leaving it to Peter Hunt and his team to pick up the pieces in the cutting room.

[Josh500 1,615]

2 minutes ago, Blanche Hudson said:

but in the end all of that counts for little as they're dramatically inert. 

 

It's not always all about drama. Something can be visually stimulating and exciting and impressive as well.

[Nick1Ø66 4,688]

10 hours ago, Indianagirl said:

I've wanted to rate these movies for years.

 

1. Thunderball

2. Goldfinger

3. From Russia with Love

4. Dr. No

5. Skyfall

6. Goldneye

7. Casino Royale

8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

9. Spectre

10. You Only Live Twice 

11. For Your Eyes Only

12. Live and Let Die

13. Quantum of Solace

14. The Spy Who Loved Me

15. Diamonds are Forever    

16. Moonraker

17. Liscense to Kill

18. The Man with the Golden Gun

19. A View to a Kill

20. Tomorrow Never Dies

21. The Living Daylights

22. The World Is Not Enough

23. Octopussy

24. Die Another Day

 

 

You don't have Die Another Day rated low enough.

 

[Josh500 1,615]

10 hours ago, Indianagirl said:

I've wanted to rate these movies for years.

 

1. Thunderball

2. Goldfinger

3. From Russia with Love

4. Dr. No

5. Skyfall

6. Goldneye

7. Casino Royale

8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

9. Spectre

10. You Only Live Twice 

11. For Your Eyes Only

12. Live and Let Die

13. Quantum of Solace

14. The Spy Who Loved Me

15. Diamonds are Forever    

16. Moonraker

17. Liscense to Kill

18. The Man with the Golden Gun

19. A View to a Kill

20. Tomorrow Never Dies

21. The Living Daylights

22. The World Is Not Enough

23. Octopussy

24. Die Another Day

 

You forgot Never Say Never Again! 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Ok, I ranked the scores a few days ago.

 

Here's my ranking of the films!  No objective measure, only measuring my personal affection for them

 

1. The Man With the Golden Gun

2. The Spy Who Loved Me

3. You Only Live Twice

4. Goldfinger

5. Tomorrow Never Dies

6. The Living Daylights

7. Goldeneye

8. Skyfall

9. For Your Eyes Only

10. From Russia With Love

11. Licence to Kill

12. Moonraker

13. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

14. Live and Let Die

15. Octopussy

16. Dr. No

17. Diamonds Are Forever

18. Casino Royale

19. The World is Not Enough

20. A View to a Kill

21. Spectre

22. Thunderball

23. Quantum of Solace

24. Die Another Day

 

Also, I did a Bond ranking a couple of years ago.  I just checked it and it actually is pretty different from this.  Go figure.

[mstrox 6,646]

Based on the completely scientific years-of-Flickchart.com data, apparently this is how I feel about the James Bonds that I've seen.

 

1.Casino Royale

2.Tomorrow Never Dies

3.Skyfall

4.Die Another Day

5.Quantum of Solace

6.Goldfinger

7.GoldenEye

8.The World Is Not Enough 

9.On Her Majesty's Secret Service

10.The Man with the Golden Gun

11.Dr. No

12.You Only Live Twice

 

It's not very accurate.  I'd move Die Another Day down down down, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service up up up.

 

I've probably seen bits and pieces of every other movie (except for Spectre) on TV over the years, but never sat down and actually watched.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Die Another Day is garbage!

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

Die Another Day's a really solid Bond film for the first three or so reels.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Despite my ranking I'd watch Die Another Day over The World Is Not Enough any day.  At least the former is entertaining in a daft sort of way.  TWINE is so boring.

[MikeH 768]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

Here's my ranking of the films!  No objective measure, only measuring my personal affection for them

 

1. The Man With the Golden Gun

 

I agree with Disco Stu! 

 

Christopher Lee is my favorite villain next to Telly's Blofeld. 

 

The fried mushroom...looks terribly interesting....

 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

27 minutes ago, MikeH said:

 

I agree with Disco Stu! 

 

Christopher Lee is my favorite villain next to Telly's Blofeld. 

 

The fried mushroom...looks terribly interesting....

 

 

Oh I much prefer the Pleasance Blofeld.  I will admit my affection for the first Austin Powers movie (but neither of its sequels) probably skews me there.

 

Also, @Jay how did you do your signature quotes like that?

[Jay 37,287]

You have to go into HTML mode of your signature and make a table and put each quote in their own cell with two cells per row.

 

Basically this:

 

<table><tr><td>{FIRST QUOTE GOES HERE}</td><td>{SECOND QUOTE GOES HERE}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{THIRD QUOTE GOES HERE}</td><td>{FOURTH QUOTE GOES HERE}</td></tr>
{ETC}
</table>

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 hour ago, Blanche Hudson said:

Die Another Day's a really solid Bond film for the first three or so reels.

 

Yes, but it becomes awful later.

 

What a piece of shit!

[Nick1Ø66 4,688]

No, it's awful from pretty much the beginning.

 

Though that Korean dominatrix who tortures Bond is interesting.

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Grrrrrr....

[Nick1Ø66 4,688]

OK, here's what I have good to say about Die Another Day:

 

1. Korean Dominatrix

2. Sword Fight

3. Some of the dynamics between Bond & M ("You're no longer useful to me").

 

 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Cowabunga!

 

[Nick1Ø66 4,688]

Yes, it's a cringeworthy scene, but the stellar effects work and Brosnan's acting really sell it.  You feel like you're there.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

No!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I'd probably actually like that scene if the movie knew it was goofy.  Like I love the dumb scene in A View to a Kill when Moore snowboards to The Beach Boys, but you get the feeling there that the filmmakers are snickering along with you.

[Nick1Ø66 4,688]

Late-era Roger Moore could almost make that scene work.

 

Almost.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

9 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Like I love the dumb scene in A View to a Kill when Moore snowboards to The Beach Boys, but you get the feeling there that the filmmakers are snickering along with you.

 

With DAD even the producers i believe admitted that was wrong

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

1 hour ago, Nick1066 said:

No, it's awful from pretty much the beginning.

 

What exactly is wrong with the pre-titles?

[Thor 7,465]

I don't like, or have no interest in, anything James Bond. Never have, not even as a kid. But I have a soft spot for a couple of the Brosnan movies, and I've enjoyed the Daniel Craig films since they nurture more of a Jason Bourne aesthetic than the goofy old camp stuff.

[Wojo 2,453]

I like not one single Bond movie or score. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

On 29/09/2017 at 3:18 PM, Stefancos said:

 

Yes, but it becomes awful later.

 

What a piece of shit!

 

Agreed. It's trash but it has the great line

 

"I know all about the UN embargo. I studied at Oxford and Harvard. Majored in Western hypocrisy".

 

It always makes me chuckle.

Also, the swordfight music is ace!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

The swordfight is awesome. The first 40 minutes or so of Die Another Day excepting Halle Berry's acting (terrible!) are as solidly built as a North Korean bell.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

"North Korean bell"

Wow. Now, there's a mouthful.

 

 

 

Ooh, I forgot: Miranda Frost could kill me any day!

[pixie_twinkle 48]

Films:

OHMSS

From Russia With Love

The Spy Who Loved Me

Casino Royale

Thunderball

 

Scores:

OHMSS

Thunderball

The Spy who Loved Me

You Only Live Twice

Live and Let Die

 

Yeah, I'm old school.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Totally respectable list.

[MikeH 768]

On 10/1/2017 at 2:38 PM, Thor said:

 I've enjoyed the Daniel Craig films since they nurture more of a Jason Bourne aesthetic than the goofy old camp stuff.

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,496]

On 27/09/2017 at 4:01 PM, Stefancos said:

Why isnt this a poll?

 

 

Because it doesn't come from Eastern Europe.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I think I can imagine how Bond gets rid of all those women between films. He finds some annoying flaw in each of them. Perhaps he even seeks out such flaws just to find an excuse to break up with them. Then he phones or texts them that he has to leave for another assignment, and they never hear from him again.

 

That, or he just ghosts them.

[publicist 4,643]

Good interview on  Barry with agent Richard Kraft:

 

http://jamesbondradio.com/talking-john-barry-richard-craft-interview-the-music-of-bond-015/