Your Top 5 'James Bond' Films (+ No Time to Die/Votes Changeable)

[wvmgmidget]

5. Goldeneye
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. Skyfall
2. Goldfinger
1. From Russia With Love

Best Bond: Sean Connery

 

[Casey]

5. From Russia With Love.
4. The Spy Who Loved Me.
3. Live and Let Die.
2. Skyfall
1. Casino Royale (2006)

Have not seen Spectre yet.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Goldfinger and Moonraker because they're the two best "old" Bond films, imo.

View to a Kill... not to everybody's taste but it was the first Bond I saw in a cinema as a kid and so is 'my' Bond.

Goldeneye is, to me, the best Bond film of all time ever and the game was bloody awesome too... and finally Spectre because it's the state-of-the-art Bond.

 

[Clark]

Where's Never Say Never Again?

 

[wvmgmidget]

Where's Never Say Never Again?

It wasn't made by Eon.

 

[Clark]

I know, but it's still a Bond movie in my eyes.

 

[TenEightyOne]

It wasn't made by Eon.

Definitely still a Bond film, however it does say only "official" franchise in the OP but in text that's too small to easily read

 

[prisonermonkeys]

It's a shoddy re-tread of Thunderball. So just vote for TB instead.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I know, but it's still a Bond movie in my eyes.

I wanted to keep the poll for the official studio Bond film... no Casino Royale (1967) either However there's nothing to stop you making a case for why you think they did a better job with NSNA than Eon were doing at the time.

Definitely still a Bond film, however it does say only "official" franchise in the OP but in text that's too small to easily read

Better?... Have a snickers



edit: So far, average votes per film...

Connery 6.2
Lazenby 4.0
Moore 5.7
Dalton 7.0
Brosnan 8.0
Craig 8.25

 

[Clark]

I think Brosnan is inflated a bit by just how good Goldeneye was.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I think Brosnan is inflated a bit by just how good Goldeneye was.

I think it's fair to say that Lazenby was worst, then Moore, then Connery... it was back when Bond films were, at times, almost "**** you" in their atrociousness. Brosnan was the first time we saw the more serious, suave Bond who looked like he could really have been in the job.

It's Dalton's standing that astonishes me...

 

[MatskiMonk]

I think it's fair to say that Lazenby was worst, then Moore, then Connery... it was back when Bond films were, at times, almost "**** you" in their atrociousness. Brosnan was the first time we saw the more serious, suave Bond who looked like he could really have been in the job.

It's Dalton's standing that astonishes me...

I think what Dalton lacked in suaveness he made up for in seriousness, which I think worked well for the films he was given. Then Brosnan bought back some of the comedy that had disappeared along with Moore, and definitely some of the silliness. In my opinion, where Connery and Moore had ups and downs throughout their time as Bond, Brosnan went straight from making one of the best, to one of - if not the worst in a linear steep downward fashion. That's not to rag on Brosnan as an actor, I quite like him, I really like the Thomas Crown affair remake he did.

 

[05XR8]

Moore had the best scripts.
Connery the best Bond.
Craig movies most realistic.
Dalton lucked out by missing the Brosnan films.
Lazenby: the only actor actually qualified to be a real secret agent.

5. Casino Royale(2006)- The Alfa Chase in Octopussy was my favorite until the construction scene in CR. Just blew me away.
4. Living Daylights(the Audi 200 on BBS and Miriam d'Abo)
3. You Only Live Twice (the theme song hooked me)
2. The Spy Who Loved Me(watching the Lotus chase in the theater as a kid, fantasy fulfilled and then to see the helicopter pilot blown up, crushed my dreams of marrying her)
1. Live and Let Die(Jane Seymour. That is all)

 

[Clark]

@MatskiMonk You should some other Bond polls too, like the best themes or cars.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Having seen Spectre tonight, I'm going to say that it's about level with The World Is Not Enough; maybe a little behind. Skyfall, The Living Daylights, From Russia With Love, For Your Eyes Only and GoldenEye are my favourites; then I rank the likes of The World Is Not Enough, Casino Royale and Thunderball, so Spectre probably fits into my top eight.

 

[Samus]

I look at some eras separating the actor from the film. For example I like OHMSS the movie but hate Lazenby as Bond. Never liked him, never will. Dalton I thought was a good Bond but the films were so-so, a casualty of 80s action films. Connery and Moore eras are more even, with both the actors and the movies of their time. You couldn't have a Bond smacking women around today like 60s Bond and the overly camp 70s Moore films likewise wouldn't work.

I grew up watching the Brosnan films so they'll always have a special place, even Die Another Die. Yes it went to stupid levels with the tech and overall story arc but I still enjoyed it as a solid Bond movie.

Anyway my top five are probably:

Dr No
Goldfinger
Live And Let Die
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies

Tough to choose between TND and Skyfall but I think the above mentioned Brosnan afection is swinging that. I like the Craig movies except QoS but I'm still not totally convinced on him as Bond. He just plays it so differently from what I knew with Brosnan.

Surprised Dr No has so few votes, even less than QoS.

 

[CaddyKOP]

For the best...
1. Goldeneye
2. Casino Royale
3. The Living Daylights
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. From Russia With Love

Now on to the worst...
24. Moonraker
23. Die Another Day
22. Thunderball
21. Diamonds Are Forever
20. The Man with the Golden Gun

Best Bond: Daniel Craig OR Timothy Dalton
Worst Bond: Moore

 

[Sanji Himura]

After some careful reconsideration, I have sorted my top five as follows:

1. The Living Daylights
2. Dr. No
3. Spectre
4. From Russia With Love
5. The Man With the Golden Gun

Best Bond (minimum 2 films): Timothy Dalton
Worst Bond (minimum 2 films): Pierce Brosnan*

*Reason being is that Brosnan's Bond films, with the exception of Goldeneye, basically amounted to action flims in the end. At least with Goldeneye, it is a product of the times, and then as @prisonermonkeys as aptly criticized of the later Moore films, went back to the "campy" mix that drove the franchise for the rest of Brosnan's tenure.

 

[wvmgmidget]

I've also somewhat reconsidered my choices as well.

My top five:
Goldeneye
Goldfinger
Skyfall
From Russia With Love
Thunderball

Best Bond: Sean Connery
Best Bond Girl: Ursula Andress (Honey Rider; Dr. No)
Best Intro: Thunderball

 

[prisonermonkeys]

I think it's fair to say that Lazenby was worst, then Moore, then Connery... it was back when Bond films were, at times, almost "**** you" in their atrociousness.

They were very much a product of their times - Fleming created SPECTRE because he believed that the Cold War could have ended within a few years, and didn't want the novels to date quickly; as the Cold War dragged on, he didn't want Bond fighting the sane foe.

The films followed a similar template; they actively avoided casting Russians as villains, which is how we got to the vaguely-European industrialists like Drax and Stromberg. The only times that Russians were villains - Octopussy and The Living Daylights - they were carefully shown to be acting independently and without the approval of the Politburo.

Brosnan was the first time we saw the more serious, suave Bond who looked like he could really have been in the job.

Maybe in GoldenEye but there's a scene in Tomorrow Never Dies thst kills his credibility: just moments after discovering the body of The One That Got Away, he's grinning like a schoolboy in his remote-controlled car.

It's Dalton's standing that astonishes me...

Dalton succeeded because his got the physical presence of the character just right.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Might be time to dust of this ol' thread with No Time to Die FINALLY coming out soon.

Votes changeable, so people can update their rankings if they think NTtD is in their top 5.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I will need to pick at my brain for a bit. I had a run of watching all the Bond movies a year ago and I forget which ones were the best.

 

[Clark]

No Time to Die Can go near the bottom of the list for me.