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Dr No, Thunderball, Casino Royale? Vote now for the best Bond film
Over the past couple of weeks, we've had an entertaining time deciding on the vilest Bond villain and the ultimate movie Bond, so the the time has come to pose perhaps the most critical 007 question: What's the best James Bond film? Sean Connery was voted your fave Bond, so we suspect one of his outings has to be in with a …
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Friday 26th October 2012 09:47 GMT Spudbynight
Re: I really want to like the Daniel Craig films
Quantum of Solace was for me a complete dog of a movie.
Bond villains need to have an evil plan. As you say setting up a utility monopoly in Bolivia doesn't quite cut the mustard. It was the Diet Coke of evil master plans - just one calorie, not evil enough. (With thanks to Dr. Evil)
It wasn't evil enough or big enough. A water monopoly would have been fine - IF it covered the entire world. But Nicaragua*? Please!
Paris would have made a better Bond villain.
*I don't even care what minor country it was.
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Friday 26th October 2012 12:22 GMT Silverburn
Re: I really want to like the Daniel Craig films
The later movies have become too action orientated...no intrigue, no deductions or working out of the cunning plan (instead, we rely on Mr evil to spell it out), no covert ninja-ing, too much reliance on intel and gadgets to solve the problems for you. All DC has to do is run about fighting.
More brain, less braun please. More John le Carré, less David Morrell (Rambo).
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Friday 26th October 2012 09:59 GMT ISYS
Re: I really want to like the Daniel Craig films
Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) is an hour long poker game because the book is largely a poker game. I admit that is a lot of time to be sat there watching some people stare at each other (even Bond and Le Chiffre kept dashing off to change their shirts and restart their hearts etc) but a necessary part of the plot.
Fleming describes Bond as a damaged, detached killer. I think DC has portrayed this well and the directors are giving us fans all the gadgets, action and beautiful women that we expect.
As for Quantam of Solace - WTF
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Friday 26th October 2012 09:42 GMT RainForestGuppy
I'd vote Goldeneye but....
Goldeneye had all the elements, EMP pulse weapons, trick helicoptors, Cold war Missile trains, a tank chase, a secret jungle radar base (Sean Bean trying his best not to sound like he comes from Sheffield).
But the Bond Car.... A BMW Z3, I half expected Bond to confront Alec Trevelyan and offer him a light perm and a bit off the back.
Product placement is one thing, but not when you put the worlds greatest secret agent in a Hairdressers car.
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Friday 26th October 2012 12:25 GMT Silverburn
Re: I'd vote Goldeneye but....
But the Bond Car.... A BMW Z3, I half expected Bond to confront Alec Trevelyan and offer him a light perm and a bit off the back.
It could be worse - he could drive a rented Mundane-o, whereapon he'd jump out and try and sell you some plumbing supplies...damn you Cas Roy!
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Friday 26th October 2012 09:43 GMT Spudbynight
Dalton fan checking in
I am a Dalton fan. I personally feel he was an excellent Bond and his two movies were both better than later Moores and all of Brosnans bar Goldeneye.
He played a Bond that was far closer to Fleming's character.
Was he my favourite Bond - no. Was he in the best Bond film - no.
He certainly wasn't the wurst* though.
*Oktoberfest - everybody drink!
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Friday 26th October 2012 10:54 GMT Tibbs
Re: Dalton fan checking in
I think you could tell they didn't know what to do with Living Daylights, Moore might have come back, so they needed the comedy, but it was likley to be someone new who would be more serious, so it fell between 2 stools.
Licence to Kill they got a much better fit for him. Much more serious, and really played to Dalton's acting strengths (i.e. that he's a bloody good dramatic actor). I also think it's one of the few Bond films you could rename the main character and it would still work as a film. Had Dalton made another Bond in 1991 or so whenever it was supposed to come out (thank you Kevin Sodding McClory), I think we'd have had a much grittier path through the 90s, much more akin to what we have with the Daniel Craig reboot now, rather than Brosnan, who always sounded like he was straining a stool when ever he said Buaaahnd. (*plop*)
And this is one of the times I wish I could punch people through the screen - all 8 of you who voted for QoS as the best film...
Beer, because it's as close as you have to a martini...
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Friday 26th October 2012 15:16 GMT BillG
Re: Dalton fan checking in
Another Dalton Fan here. He is the proper balance between Sean Connery's playfulness and Daniel Craig's aloof coldness. As Spud just wrote, his Bond was far closer to Fleming's character.
That's why I like License to Kill - it's Bond going off-the-rails. His friend is killed, and he's going after his killer, Service be damned. It's Bond at his most focused and most dedicated.
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Friday 26th October 2012 09:43 GMT Mondo the Magnificent
Currently.. Casino Royale leads with Goldfinger following shortly behind..
Tells me two things, we have different generations of Bond fans here!
I like all of the Bond films, from the stern Connery, the cheesy Moore, the doubtful Dalton, the poncy Brosnan to the non nonsense Craig.
Rest assured if I play "Remote Roulette" and a Bond film comes up, I watch it!
However the latest Bond played by Daniel Craig is probably the best portrayal of a modern no nonsense spy with realistic fight scenes and the "Jason Bourne" esque persona I've come to love, but with the British flair.
It's a tough choice to pick one, but in essence they're all great in their own way..
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Friday 26th October 2012 10:01 GMT EddieD
Dr No for me...
Every series needs a start, and I particularly like this - no toys, no gimmicks, no SFX, no CGI - just Bond with his wits, and his new Walther PPK (part of the time) - and a nice line in witty ripostes ("That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your 6" and he then goes on to mow down a technically unarmed man...).
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Friday 26th October 2012 10:21 GMT Tom Melly
Sorry about this...
Bono and the boys decide to retire and move to Australia to take up surfing. Anyway, a reporter goes to interview them in their new beach pad. Unfortunately, on the day of the interview, the entire band is drowned in a freak accident, and on arrival, the reporter is greeted by a tearful manservant. The reporter asks if the band is ready to be interviewed, to which the manservant replies, "No, Mister - Bondi-expats U2 die."
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Friday 26th October 2012 10:44 GMT graeme leggett
Re: Is it just me
Well they are all straighforward tales of daring do where the hero prevails due to a combination of courage, strength of character and the assistance of an ally he has befriended (bedded?) over a wily and resourceful enemy
Part of a tradition going back to Buchan's Hannay and Sapper's Bulldog Drummond (though the latter is more of a cold killer than the former)
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Friday 26th October 2012 11:22 GMT AbortRetryFail
Sophie Marceau
Has to be The World Is Not Enough, simply for the gorgeous Sophie Marceau as the delightfully complex Elekra King and the solid performance of Robert Carlisle as Renard.
But it was hard to choose as I have so many favourites. Tim Dalton put in a very solid performance as the 'Bond of the Books' but was let down by poor scripts, and Daniel Craig has put in an equally good stab at it too.
I was lucky enough that my dad bought a white Lotus Esprit S3 not long after The Spy Who Loved Me came out. Being dropped off at school in James Bond's car was totally awesome. So that film has a special place for me too.
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Friday 26th October 2012 14:45 GMT Mat 3
You've just killed James Bond
Although Diamonds isn't the best - it is my favourite - for the violent fight scene with Bond and Peter Franks - Bond smashing Franks with a fire extinguisher - and then Tiffany Case exclaiming: "My God ..You've just killed James Bond !! "
http://listverse.com/2010/09/10/top-10-badass-james-bond-fights/
As it notes here:
On a sidenote, Joe Robinson, who portrays Franks, was getting off a bus in Cape Town, South Africa in 1998 and was attacked by eight muggers. Robinson has a 6th degree black belt in judo, and used to be a professional weightlifter. They came at him with knives and baseball bats, but the 70-year-old Robinson took out two with leg kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth. The rest turned and ran. When Sean Connery heard about this, he sent Robinson a Get Well card that said, “Give this to the muggers, if you can find them. Sean.”
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Friday 26th October 2012 22:13 GMT TheProf
Can't figure Goldfinger
Can someone explain to me why Goldfinger is always rated so highly in these polls?
I've watched it several time and I can't see the attraction.
Bond is rubbish in it. He gets captured while doing some simple spying and spends the rest of the film impotent (well apart from the scene in the hay).
The day is saved by Pussy Galore and the US military. Even the atomic bomb is defused by someone else.
Please, why? It must be more than the DB5 and a woman painted gold.
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Sunday 28th October 2012 11:23 GMT Jonjonz
Craig is no Sean
I will give Craig his due as a workman's effort at the role, but he is and never will be numero uno JB, that will always be Sean Connery, hands down.
Polls like this tend to reflect that moronic youth assumes that whatever they have seen is better than what they have not seen. Their loss, Goldfinger and Thunderball, it's all downhill from there.
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