Bond General

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>>82612291
Yeah, the whole Japanese/ninja bit was fucking cringy. Not to mention he goes back to normal like one scene after the plastic surgery. That's why I have YOLT rated so low (I'm OP). Thunderball is fucking awful, though. The underwater fight scenes are some of the worst action I've ever seen in a film. I don't get why/how people enjoy it.

>>82612395
>Thunderball is fucking awful, though. The underwater fight scenes are some of the worst action I've ever seen in a film. I don't get why/how people enjoy it.
It was pretty revolutionary at the time in 1965. Of course nowadays it aged, but it's still an achievement.

>>82612438
I guess that's true. I still feel it aged much worse than the other 4.

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tough life

>>82612460
Thunderball had problems even outside of the movie, because Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory, who happens to be a credited producer in the movie, were working on a Thunderball adaptation screenplay before Broccoli and Saltzman bought the rights to the Bond novels. When it came time to make Thunderball, they had to avoid any McClory lawsuit by crediting him as producer and themselves as only executives. Eventually down the road, the McClory and Fleming story became Never Say Never Again

>>82612252
OP again. I've seen all the Craig films so I'll throw those into my rankings for comparison.
1. From Russia With Love
2. Casino Royale
3. Goldfinger
4. Skyfall
5. Dr. No
6. Spectre
7. You Only Live Twice
8. Quantum of Solace
9. Thunderball (yes I unironically think Thunderball is worse than QoS)

>>82612900
Got off to good start but ranking Skyfall or Spectre that high is unforgivable, I'm afraid you have shit taste.

Best theme?

toss up between these two for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8uYxTJ530

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy-c8aAntWA

>>82613105
I've only seen those nine. 4/9 and 6/9 are not high at all.

>>82613153
I'm in the minority on this but I really wish Pet Sounds/Run James Run by The Beach Boys would've made it into a Bond movie

>>82613218
The scale is unimportant, Skyfall is not better than Dr No; Spectre is not better than You Only Live Twice.

>>82612252
Thunderball is prime sexist bond, he literally blackmails a girl to sleep with him

Spectre may have sucked, but the first scene with Blofeld is probably one of my favorites in the entire franchise

>>82614064
refresh my memory

>>82613341
Did someone say Beach Boys and James Bond?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apJ-x2p-tvo

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>>82612252
Ok, here comes my patrician ranking per Bond

Connery

1. From Russia with Love
2. Goldfinger
3. Dr. No
4. Thunderball
5. You Only Live Twice
6. Diamonds Are Forever

Lazenby

1. OHMSS (one of the best though)

Moore

1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Octopussy
4. The Man with the Golden Gun
5. Live and Let Die
6. Moonraker
7. A View to A Kill

Dalton

1. The Living Daylights
2. Licence to Kill (probably going to get disliked for switching these two, but I think the Living Daylights really captures the whole essence. Licence to Kill was an awesome rogue story though, can't beat the decompression chamber death scene)

Brosnan

1. GoldenEye (my #1, thank you N64)
2. Tomorrow Never Dies
3. The World is Not Enough
4. Die Another Day

Craig

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. Spectre
4. Quantum of Solace

>>82614421
Elba

1.#bondlivesmatter
2. Live and Let White People Die
3. Goldnigga

>>82614618
>The Nigga With the Golden Gun

>>82613153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4UqmbzIq4

>>82612252
Currently doing this as well op, although I started with Brosnan, then Craig, then Connery.

I agree with your rankings for the first five.
For Brosnan I rate:
1.) World is Not Enough
2.) Goldeneye
3.) Die Another Die
4.) Tomorrow Never dies.

For Craig I rate them in release order.

>>82612252
1.goldfinger
2. russia with love
3. only live twice
4. dr. no
5. thunderball

>>82614162
The meeting room scene that was in all the trailers and the opening because they knew it was the best part

>>82615353
This is my favorite. I might be a little biased though because I love Duran Duran. The extended version of that is fucking great by the way.

This is my second favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7__rt0hRm8s

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>>82614421
My personal list in my humblest of opinions...

Top 007 Tier
>Dr. No
>From Russia With Love
>Goldfinger
>The Spy Who Loved Me
>OHMSS
>Licence To Kill
>Casino Royale (2006)

Good Tier
>You Only Live Twice
>Live and Let Die
>The Living Daylights
>Goldeneye
>Skyfall

Mediocre/Average Tier
>Thunderball
>Man With the Golden Gun
>For Your Eyes Only
>World is Not Enough
>Quantum of Solace

Camp/Fun but Shit Tier
>Diamonds are Forever
>Moonraker
>Octopussy
>View to A Kill

Just Shit Tier
>Tomorrow Never Dies

Die Another Day Tier
>Die Another Day

>>82615559
Moore probably had some of my favorite bond themes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3oQN0cAv0

I like all of the Bond movies, for different reasons, besides Die another day

Tomorrow Never Dies had the worst Bond girls.

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>>82613153
>>82615559
>>82615618
Nobody Does it Better is my favourite Bond song and opening credits. Love the opening ski chase scene too. Just love The Spy Who Loved Me regardless.

>>82615671
This is the one I'm most looking forward to right now.

>>82615671
>starts to snowboard
>beach boys comes on
You know it's gonna be fun.

Moore was my favorite Bond.

>>82612252
>What's your favorite Bond film?

Easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0px9QxojVjU

I'm pretty fond of Moonraker too. Has the best villian [Drax], best henchman [Chang], best girl [Holly Goodhead], best M, best Q, best space battle, etc.

>>82615671
Probably my favorite Moore movie. I tried to start a bond thread maybe two months ago. I might find it and post my list in a sec. Divided them by Bonds instead of ranking them all at once

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>>82615721
The madmen built this massive submarine set at Pinewood. Lighting done by Stanley Kubrick.

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>>82615821
Ken Adams was literally GOAT

Richard Spencer has some really great podcasts about Bond, obviously not for everyone, but does give out some interesting perspectives

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>>82615869
Bond films often have great sets.

You don't find the underwater scenes in Thunderball impressive? The movie was made over 50 years ago. They really got 20 dudes in frog suits underwater shooting harpoons at each other and slashing each others air tubes with an octopus and crab and shark swimming around them. It was the most impressive practical fight scene in any movie before the advent of CGI.

That along with the fighter jet model they sank, Connery swimming around a mansion pool with sharks, the other frogmen and submersible scenes, and the giant breakaway yacht they built, it was the most impressive production work on any Bond movie that wasn't done with CGI.

Story wise the other Connery films mostly top it, but in terms of production values it was never beat.

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>>82616047
Not as impressive as getting a bunch of lads up into space shooting lasers at eachother in Moonraker.

>>82615805
Found it.
>Best Connery Bond Film
Thunderball

>Best Connery Girl
Tatiana Romanova

>Best Connery Villain
Auric Goldfinger

>Best Connery Theme Song
You Only Live Twice

>Worst Connery movie
Diamonds are forever

>Best Moore movie
The Spy Who Loved Me

>Best Moore Girl
Anya Amasova

>Best Moore Villain
Zorin

>Best Moore Theme Song
A View To a Kill

>Worst Moore movie
A View To a Kill

>Best Dalton Movie
Licence to Kill

>Best Dalton Girl
Kara Milovy

>Best Dalton villain
Franz Sanchez

>Best Dalton theme song
The Living Daylights

>Worst Dalton movie
The Living Daylights

>Best Brosnan movie
Goldeneye

>Best Brosnan girl
Natalya Simonova

>Best Brosnan Villain
Alec Trevelyan

>Best Brosnan Theme
Die Another Day

>Worst Brosnan Movie
Die Another Day

>Best Craig Movie
Casino Royale

>Best Craig Girl
Vesper Lynd

>Best Craig Villain
Le Chiffre

>Best Craig Theme Song
Casino Royale

>Worst Craig movie
Quatnum of Solace

Picking Madonna over Tina Turner was probably the most controversial thing about the list
>>82616047
I still think it's impressive to this day.

Based Jaws.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85nthy7mSNs

>>82615642
Jinx in Die Another Day was worse

>>82614421
literally a perfect list. you did good

>>82612900
Goldfinger is so iconic but so overrated. Every Bond element is established in that film, but half the fucking movie could've been cut out