Since my own personal Bond-Experience began with "Goldeneye" (I had seen older Bonds before, but without knowing about the Bond franchise), and also because in the last months my wife and I sat through all the 16 (17 with "Never Say Never Again") Bonds up to 1989's "License to Kill", it is time now for a toplist. Here it comes:
Top 3 of all Bond movies before Pierce Brosnan:
1. The Living Daylights
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. Goldfinger
Honorable mention: You Only Live Twice, Never Say Never Again.
The worst 5 Bond movies before Pierce Brosnan:
1. Live And Let Die
2. The other 6 Roger Moore Bonds except "A View To a Kill" and "Octopussy"
3. Octopussy
4. A View To A Kill
5. Thunderball
Honorable mention: License to Kill, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Reasons:
Roger Moore should be remembered as a) "Bathrobe Bond", because we see him wearing one in every single Bond movie he's in, b) "Dumb Boy Bond", because he never ever seems to know what he's doing, and c) "Lucky Fuck Bond", because every single woman wants to have sex with him for no apparent reason. And please, never ever torture us with that Sheriff again (nor with 5 boat chases in 4 sequential movies)!
Sean Connery's Bond's only flaw is that he gets whacked over the head too often. Apart from that some of his Bond movies suffer from bad writing and bad directing, "Thunderball" is especially boring. The Remake "Never Say Never Again" however, is surprisingly good (probably thanks to Irvin Kershner). "Diamonds Are Forever" is the best here because of its entertaining ideas, like the fake moon landing site, the awesome one-person-hug or the two gay killers. Besides, they had all these great sophisticated enemy lairs back then, especially the one in "You Only Live Twice".
The first Timothy Dalton Bond after Roger-Moore-Forever brings the franchise back to life, it's quick, funny, has lot's of great action, but most importantly: Bond is a secret agent again. He know's what he's doing! And he does his job first, then fucks the woman. Unfortunately they didn't manage to make that work for "License to Kill", which is just pure eighties boring.
I don't even want to start on "Her Majesty's Secret Service". It has it's moments, but it just "wouldn't have happened to the other guy".
Once we've finished rewatching the Brosnans and Craigs, I will make new lists. So long.
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I can't stop thinking about the word "octopussy." Not sexy. Not at all. Kinda funny though.
I'm sorry my friend, but the Canadian weather seems to cloud your senses. Goldfinger is the best Connery Bond, followed by Thunderball as a close second (Thunderball's got the hottest chicks in a Bond film ever... both of them!!!). Diamonds are forever is too campy, especially the two gay guys, but the one-person-hug is awesome, indeed.
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