>You Only Live Twice
The only correct answer, this Bond film is totally bonkers, Roald Dahl must have realized he was writing a great big cartoon for adults so he went all out:
- bigger spaceships eating smaller spaceships
- Sean Connery as a 6'5" Japanese man
- sumo wrestling
- secret Japan intel lair in the subways
- aerial dogfight with kit helicopter
- Spectre base inside a giant volcano
- like 1000 ninjas attacking the Spectre base
- drawbridge over piranhas for killing henchmen
- volcano spews lava at the end just because
and of course...
- utterly gorgeous theme song by Nancy Sinatra tying it all together
YOLT's set design is immaculate and it has amazing action, but Sean Connery has clearly checked out at this point and I find a lot of the movie before the Little Nellie battle pretty boring. Kissy Suzuki is also one of the worst Bond girls in the entire series when Aki was so much fun - it's like they wanted to replicate the twist of Tilly Masterson's death but forgot to replace her with a Pussy Galore-tier Bond girl.
All Bond movies are bad. It's just bad in its own charming way...Telly Sevalas smoking cigarettes like a weirdo, Lazenby running around in a kilt with super models, the comfy kino of winter in the Alps, a gun battle while skiing, a crying Moneypenny and the downer ending. It felt...very British, and human. A bunch of Lazenby Bond films would have been great.
I can never get into Bond. Give me a recommendation for the best one to get a non-Bond fan into Bond. My brother loves the Thanksgiving Bond-athons so I've seen a couple, but do not remember which ones (Except Casino Royale, which I do remember and wasn't a big fan of) and will take all suggestions.
I can never get into Bond. Give me a recommendation for the best one to get a non-Bond fan into Bond. My brother loves the Thanksgiving Bond-athons so I've seen a couple, but do not remember which ones (Except Casino Royale, which I do remember and wasn't a big fan of) and will take all suggestions.
Goldeneye. Brosnan movies had just the right combination of campiness and seriousness.
there's a lot to love about Goldeneye and I'd definitely consider it in the higher tier of films but people who just flat-out say it's the best are late millennials who just have nostalgia for the video game and nothing else
>DO IT JAMES, BLOW THEM ALL TO HELL
he actively encourages james to say "fuck the detonator countdown and blow it up now" but then gets mad later in the film because james set the timers for one minute less than they'd agreed upon
>From Russia with Love >Goldfinger >OHMSS >The Spy Who Loved Me >Casino Royale
No Time to Die is a very close 6th place because it emulates everything I love about OHMSS and Spy, from the romance, to the undercurrent of tragedy, to the massive Ken Adams-inspired set design.
It definitely suffered from pandemic-induced rewrites and cleaning up Spectre's baggage but I honestly love it, what do you not like about it?
People complain about Bond having a kid not "feeling like Bond" when it's literally something Fleming did and No Time to Die, besides Casino Royale, is the closest thing the series had done to an adaptation of the books since the Connery era
>on her majesty's secret service.
best be trolling moron. would have been a mediocre bond film even with connery at the helm. people try to treat it like it's sooo deep because traci gets gakked by blowfeld. yawn
>the spy who loved me
banger of a theme, annoying bond girl, cool gadgets.
OHMSS has the best soundtrack bar none and I love the end sequence, from the attack on the mountain base to that scene, but it also has an awful lot of Austin Powers shit at the beginning. I do love it though.
All around:
From Russia With Love
Best Theme:
A View To A Kill
Best Bond Girl:
For Your Eyes Only
Swap girl for Solitaire
James Bond
Casino Royale probably.
You Only Live Twice
>You Only Live Twice
The only correct answer, this Bond film is totally bonkers, Roald Dahl must have realized he was writing a great big cartoon for adults so he went all out:
- bigger spaceships eating smaller spaceships
- Sean Connery as a 6'5" Japanese man
- sumo wrestling
- secret Japan intel lair in the subways
- aerial dogfight with kit helicopter
- Spectre base inside a giant volcano
- like 1000 ninjas attacking the Spectre base
- drawbridge over piranhas for killing henchmen
- volcano spews lava at the end just because
and of course...
- utterly gorgeous theme song by Nancy Sinatra tying it all together
YOLT's set design is immaculate and it has amazing action, but Sean Connery has clearly checked out at this point and I find a lot of the movie before the Little Nellie battle pretty boring. Kissy Suzuki is also one of the worst Bond girls in the entire series when Aki was so much fun - it's like they wanted to replicate the twist of Tilly Masterson's death but forgot to replace her with a Pussy Galore-tier Bond girl.
License to Kill
Dalton was best Bond. Fight me. He got shitty scripts, but he was closest to what Ian Flemming envisioned for Bond to look and act like.
Why would I fight you when you're right?
My two favourites are FRWL and athe Living Daylights
Octopussy
for your eyes only and the spy who loved me
How the hell did On Her Majesty's Secret Service happen?
it's so incredibly bad. i hate it so much.
All Bond movies are bad. It's just bad in its own charming way...Telly Sevalas smoking cigarettes like a weirdo, Lazenby running around in a kilt with super models, the comfy kino of winter in the Alps, a gun battle while skiing, a crying Moneypenny and the downer ending. It felt...very British, and human. A bunch of Lazenby Bond films would have been great.
Moonraker
with all these stupid remakes/reboots, they should do Nightfire as a remake of Moonaker. The theme song from Nightfire is DIMES and KINO
I decided to give it a chance and it's probably the worst theme song I ever heard:
are you fucking high? Nearly Civilized is a BANGER and i'll fuck your dad in the mouth if you say one more unkind word about it
For me: It's 'Everything or Nothing'
When I listen to the song now, it's pure garbage, but the intro makes it look good.
Just look at the cast of that game. It felt like a new Bond movie, but it was a videogame. Worst title to date though.
I can never get into Bond. Give me a recommendation for the best one to get a non-Bond fan into Bond. My brother loves the Thanksgiving Bond-athons so I've seen a couple, but do not remember which ones (Except Casino Royale, which I do remember and wasn't a big fan of) and will take all suggestions.
Best Bond films to start off are Golden Eye or Tomorrow Never Dies.
Wait, you're a gun? I always thought you were like an eyeball or something!
Anon, you can see the rifling...
Camera shutter POV.
Golden eye has the perfect level of camp and believability.
Goldeneye was originally supposed to be a Dalton film.
Connery:
From Russia With Love
Moore:
For Your Eyes Only
Dalton:
License To Kill
Brosnan:
Goldeneye
Craig:
Casino Royale
my bad, this was meant for
Favorite? Live and Let Die.
Goldeneye
Best Bond
Best villain
Best girl (Xenya)
Best video game
there's a lot to love about Goldeneye and I'd definitely consider it in the higher tier of films but people who just flat-out say it's the best are late millennials who just have nostalgia for the video game and nothing else
This scene is pure kino and one of many reasons why Goldeneye is still the best Bond to date.
>DO IT JAMES, BLOW THEM ALL TO HELL
he actively encourages james to say "fuck the detonator countdown and blow it up now" but then gets mad later in the film because james set the timers for one minute less than they'd agreed upon
Trevelyan hated Bond because he stands for EVERYTHING Trevelyan hates, the timer was immaterial
I have never been so offended at something so right.
Goldeneye still the best bond film.
My top 5
>From Russia with Love
>Goldfinger
>OHMSS
>The Spy Who Loved Me
>Casino Royale
No Time to Die is a very close 6th place because it emulates everything I love about OHMSS and Spy, from the romance, to the undercurrent of tragedy, to the massive Ken Adams-inspired set design.
I found NTTD extremely disappointing, but I'm glaf you like it.
It definitely suffered from pandemic-induced rewrites and cleaning up Spectre's baggage but I honestly love it, what do you not like about it?
People complain about Bond having a kid not "feeling like Bond" when it's literally something Fleming did and No Time to Die, besides Casino Royale, is the closest thing the series had done to an adaptation of the books since the Connery era
>what do you not like about it?
Most of it just felt uninspired to me. The villain, the nanomachine plot, most of the action.
>on her majesty's secret service.
best be trolling moron. would have been a mediocre bond film even with connery at the helm. people try to treat it like it's sooo deep because traci gets gakked by blowfeld. yawn
>the spy who loved me
banger of a theme, annoying bond girl, cool gadgets.
Golden eye
Goldeneye. Brosnan movies had just the right combination of campiness and seriousness.
Everything about this movie is goofy as fuck and I love it. Honorary mention to Quantum of Solace, for some reason I find it comfy.
Plenty O'Toole had such a cute little dumper
i don't like diamonds are forever but i like bambi
OHMSS has the best soundtrack bar none and I love the end sequence, from the attack on the mountain base to that scene, but it also has an awful lot of Austin Powers shit at the beginning. I do love it though.
My top 5:
1) Octopussy
2) Licence to Kill
3) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4) From Russia with Love
5) The Spy Who Loved Me
1. First 5 Connery Films
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. Moonraker
4. Goldeneye
5. OHMSS
Honorable mention Casino Royale