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James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« on: April 19, 2018, 08:46:14 PM »
How you rank your Bonds and movies says a lot about you as a person.


Bonds:

1. Daniel Craig
2. Roger Moore
3. Sean Connery
4. Timothy Dalton
5. Pierce Brosnan
6. George Lazybee
7. Everyone in Casino Royale 1967


Movies:

1. Casino Royale 2005
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Moonraker
4. From Russia With Love
5. Goldfinger
6. Skyfall
7. The Spy Who Loved Me
8. Diamonds Are Forever
9. License to Kill
10. A View To A Kill
11. For Your Eyes Only
12. Spectre
13. The Man With The Golden Gun
14. Live And Let Die
15. Dr. No
16. Tomorrow Never Dies
17. Octopussy
18. The Living Daylights
19. Goldeneye
20. Quantum Of Solace
21. Thunderball
22. Never Say Never Again
23. Die Another Day
24. The World Is Not Enough
25. OHMSS
26. Casino Royale 1967

These have changed order many times for me, the only true steadfast is Casino Royale as 1. Very much depends on my mood, what kind of state of mind I'm in, and so on. And where they're ranked doesn't necessarily indicate their quality level to me, but how much I enjoyed them, and I very, very much enjoy Roger Moore smirking. 2-10 could really be in just about any order on any given day for me.


Songs:

1. Skyfall
2. Nobody Does It Better
3. Live And Let Die
4. A View To A Kill
5. You Only Live Twice
6. From Russia With Love
7. Thunderball (particularly the slowed down, jazzy instrumental version)
8. Diamonds Are Forever
9. Goldfinger
10. You Know My Name
Dead last of any professional song ever made. Die Another Die



Books:


1. Casino Royale
The rest are all trash

This will be updated with gifs at a later point as I have to make them again since I didn't save the ones from my site. I will be making a supercut of Roger Moore faces at some point as well.

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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2018, 08:57:26 PM »
Goldeneye was p good
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2018, 09:16:42 PM »
James Bond still sucks dicks in gay hell but this is a much better thread so I support u op :clap
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 09:55:37 PM »
I like Dalton bond. He's a little frayed at the edges, raw, hurt and a little mean, something I don't think we saw again until Daniel Craig.

Pierce Brosnan kinda sucks but I don't blame it on him, they pretty much only gave him 1 good bond film and then a goofy but serviceable one. The rest suck.

Not a fan of Roger Moore's bond. At all. I've probably seen his the most growing up though so that's probably why.

Don't really hate any of the Craig bonds, at worst they're forgettable or half baked. We'll always have Casino Royale though.

Don't gotta say shit about Connery bond.

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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2018, 03:27:10 AM »
alright, you get points for the accurate Craig Casino Royale ranking

but the other Casino Royale ranking is a hate crime

also, using the title song WITHOUT the credit sequence shows a serious lack of information gain/processing ability, as the epic credits improve Cornell's song a thousand times

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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2018, 03:42:32 AM »
like Tina Turner's song is totally irrelevant without the Goldeneye intro, which imo is the only one that competes with Casino Royale's and arguably cannot ever be replicated:




there's also something about the imagery of both these intros and their respective "new era of Bond" representations, Goldeneye's status as the first Bond that has to deal with the end of the Cold War (which the franchise never really figured out with Brosnan, arguably EA figured it out with him better than EON did), and Casino Royale as formally rebooting the series (especially post 9/11) and deliberately eliminating the once constant of sexy women from the intros in favor of a bunch of relentless violence (though the franchise since has brought these back and shifted to absurd nonsensical allegorical "art film" intros that Spectre officially made impossible to parody)

also, i'm assuming you left off the true #1 james bond song from "quantum of solace" because of the corporate media's lies that it wasn't official

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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2018, 04:27:03 AM »
Bonds
  • Daniel Craig
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Sean Connery
  • George Lazenby
  • Roger Moore
  • David Niven

Films
  • Casino Royale
  • Living Daylights
  • Skyfall
  • Goldeneye because: Famke Janssen and Sean Bean
  • Live and Let Die
  • You Only Live Twice because: Japan

I'm not a fan of either QoS or SPECTRE, but QoS at least was more tolerable on 2nd viewing. SPECTRE is straight fan-trolling.

I tried watching Moonraker and A View to a Kill the other day, and had to stop midway. There's cheese, and then there's VELVEETA.

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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2018, 07:52:12 AM »
I can barely remember the Bond plots despite probably having seen a few of them twice at one time or another.

Best Bond might be Craig though I've only seen two of his. Though Dalton is my fav.

Themes:

1. License To Kill
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. You Only Live Twice
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
5. Snake Eater :teehee

Skyfall's theme is strong in the intro and completely falls apart for the chorus which is weak af, imho. Had Skyfall had a better chorus it could have been up there.

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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2018, 09:14:14 AM »
Bonds:
1: Sean Connery
2: Irrelevant

Films:
I accidentally fell asleep trying to rank the movies.

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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2018, 09:43:13 AM »
Dalton is probably the most underrated Bond and I think his Bond had a lot of potential that they sadly never utilized.  I also think Brosnan had a lot of potential but the movies outside of Goldeneye were too shitty.  When I heard Madonna with her faux Bri'ish accent make a jab about cockfighting (get it?  get it?), I assumed Bond was dead at that point.  Craig revived it but honestly I don't think any of his movies were all that great.  I was a huge Bond homo back in the day but I could barely be assed to watch Spectre.
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2018, 04:37:59 PM »
Sean Connery. There is no other Bond.

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« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2018, 04:18:10 AM »
I mean really the best films are those directed by Terence Young (the first two and Thunderball) and I'll maybe add You Only Live Twice because of how bonkers and defining it is (crazy space science and hidden giant base full of goons). Goldfinger for instance is dragged down quite a bit by its pace and direction and despite every else being great it is a bit of a bore. I'm not an expert but a lot is owed to the craftsmanship of the steady and talented team that made the original run, notably production designer Ken Adam. And of course John Barry soundtracks.

Have a lot of affection for Roger Moore but while he was always great the only real highlights are The Spy Who Loved Me (where Moore's Bond is suitably brutal in the first half) and Moonraker (it's super goofy, corny and a bit desperate in aping the successes of its time but the production design and SFX are awesome and the villain memorable) and really it is just retreads of the Only Live Twice formula. The Man with the Golden Gun deserves a watch for how cringily mysoginistic it gets and the bottom of the barrel comedy and writing. Also C.Lee and the midget from Fantastic Island. But the Moore films were very much played on his comedic performances and should be appreciated for that even if they also got cornier with age. I guess the ski  scenes are a good shortcut to define them : impressive in their own right for the stunt work but too samey and formulaic.

On Her Majesty... doesn't hold up well but it's crazy and different enough to hold its own. Great tune and Diana Rigg is awesome.

Not a big fan of Dalton films but I like the bits where it goes slightly absurd with an Avengers (The British TV show) bent. There's a part where someone is infiltrating a poshy house and cooks and butlers are all secret agents proficient at close combat (a bit Bourne-ish too).

Brosnan was really just a C grade knock off of a Connery and Moore amalgamation. I think Goldeneye is hokey, by the numbers and has terrible music (save for Turner song) and mostly overestimated for reviving the franchise (I suspect it's a bit of a marketing talking point that has been massaged by the producers, we get some canned discussion like that at every actor change). Tomorrow... is decent, Die Another Day is a mediocre greatest hits compilation and The World... is really really bad.

Casino Royale is OK, I guess. I'm not big into it and I don't buy the whole rejuvenation argument. QoS has issues (directing and editing) but the backlash was a bit much. Skyfall would be pretty good if not for the last act which is by far the most horrendous thing they could do with the character (grafting the same boring shit of daddy and mommy issues every other generic character have these days) and getting all weepy over Judi Dench (Bernard Lee is the iconic M, fuck you Eon).

And the original Casino Royale is boring as fuck, but this type of sixties comedy never did anything for me. Watch it for some of the clever parody/meta ideas and the cast, I guess.
Never Say Never Again is sort of decently mediocre but really why bother when you can watch Thunderball ?
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« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2018, 08:48:23 AM »
In my opinion, Thunderball is the best Bond movie.  It came fresh off of the upswing of popularity from Goldfinger so it had a lot of swagger but also with the realization that it had to be better than Goldfinger too, which I agree with VomKriege was kind of boring.
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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2018, 10:11:26 AM »
Thunderball is great but yeah there's one underwater scene too much in this movie, the underwater battle is great though, fantastic editing. Guess that was the Avatar effect of its time of binging on new technology.

Goldfinger is a bit flat and not just in pace. Pity because everything else is up there with the best ones.
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« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2018, 11:20:56 AM »
Casino Royale really is that great

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« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2018, 05:57:25 PM »
The best Bond is the basic cable marathon Bond :heart
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« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2018, 06:45:11 PM »
The best Bond is the basic cable marathon Bond :heart

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« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2018, 12:47:43 PM »
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If only it had been fashionable for women to do squats in 1962. Ursula Andress :noah The car and lair explosions in this are ABSURD :lol :lol :lol
It all looks so classy and stylish  :lawd

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« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2018, 08:46:06 AM »
Let us not forget the superior Goldeneye intro:



Ok, not really but it's a good effort. If they hadn't concentrated so much on LOOK ITS DANIEL CRAIG it could have been better.


Also I'm a huge huge fan of the theme to Tomorrow Never Dies. I know the movie is garbo and this is such a cool shuffle with great instrumentation, a real back to basics wailer.



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« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2018, 09:00:26 AM »
I like the one with James Bond.

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« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2018, 07:07:06 PM »
Man, those first 3-4 movies are so vibrant and clear. One of my only complaints about the Moore era is they changed to a different, cheaper looking film stock than they used in the first few movies. Sean is so immensely charming in his first few minutes on screen.  :whew

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I don't think the film stock was thought as cheaper-looking back then, it was probably better in a technical sense and I suppose people liked that it was more natural and high fidelity (and I would suppose allow for less use of artificial lighting) after decades of arguably crude color processes.

Not that I disagree with you, a lot of films from the seventies (sometimes early eighties) do suffer a lot for it now to many, including me, often made worse by the trend of having grey / brown palettes.
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« Reply #21 on: July 05, 2018, 04:23:54 PM »
Roger Moore second? He already looked too-old for the part in Live and Let Die. I'd put George "I Look Like Clive Owen's Father" Lazenby ahead of him.

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« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2018, 04:24:25 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2018, 05:13:33 PM »
Do I want my Bond to be "delightful"?

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« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2018, 06:03:02 PM »
stro, do you listen to James Bonding at all?
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« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2018, 09:44:33 PM »
tbh, I probably like the Roger Moore Bonds the most. Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun are just fun to watch. I don't care if he's old. Just look at this epic #dadbod.




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« Reply #26 on: July 06, 2018, 12:03:46 AM »
Okay, perhaps an unpopular opinion but I LOVED the Agent Under Fire and Nightfire games for GameCube  :hmph

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« Reply #27 on: July 06, 2018, 05:20:45 AM »
tbh, I probably like the Roger Moore Bonds the most. Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun are just fun to watch. I don't care if he's old. Just look at this epic #dadbod.

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« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2018, 06:35:39 AM »
Its not really fair to rank them because they are all a product of their time.

That said Skyfall is peak Bond.

Best song, most feels.

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« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2018, 06:59:44 AM »
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« Reply #30 on: August 21, 2018, 02:44:40 PM »
Boyle out of the director's chair for the next Bond which is the most mild shock thing ever. I'm still surprised Sam Mendes did 2 films but I suspect he's much more amenable to conformism (and by big budget / prestige standard he was a bit washed out, maybe ?). Unless the franchise is bankrupt they'll never ever manage to accommodate an "auteur" with a strong distinctive style.
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« Reply #31 on: August 21, 2018, 02:54:31 PM »
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« Reply #32 on: August 21, 2018, 03:36:55 PM »
Bonds:

1. Cary Grant

Movies:

1. North by Northwest

Idk, I've never really been into actual Bond. I've watched a bunch, I quite like moonraker, goldfinger and casino royale 2005. I appreciate this thread tho and will watch some more based on your rankings.
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« Reply #33 on: August 21, 2018, 06:55:55 PM »
Have I been in here to say none of these have ever been close to good? Because it’s the truth. The original Casino Royale is amusing in an “of its era” kind of way.
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« Reply #34 on: August 21, 2018, 07:05:26 PM »
TVC 15 likes shit like Bauhaus.  He has never had good taste as far as I know.
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« Reply #35 on: August 21, 2018, 07:05:46 PM »
I don't come to the bad vibes thread and troll you bro :rage

And I didn’t go into whatever movie thread I went into to see someone shitting on Barry Lyndon. I was sad. I let you have Mortal Kombat without denigrating it.
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« Reply #36 on: August 21, 2018, 07:07:10 PM »
I not only love Bauhaus, but I like a lot of Peter Murphy’s solo stuff. And Love and Rockets, but everyone loves them and Tones on Tail.
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« Reply #37 on: August 21, 2018, 07:10:14 PM »
I didn't shit on it's quality nor anyone who liked it. It wasn't for me because the setting is an immense turn off that I don't care about the quality of the rest of the movie.

"let me" have Mortal Kombat like it isn't one of the best films of the 90s :beli

Alright, I’ll buy that. Sorry for sassing you.

I still think James Bond is pretty bad. But this is to the person that isn’t stro here:

But Bauhaus? How can you not fucking like Bauhaus? They’re superb. Unimpeachable.
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« Reply #38 on: September 25, 2018, 06:09:02 PM »
I've re-watched a few Bonds movie recently and I have some quick opinions.

Casino Royale-It's ok, too long. The romance aspect kind of bores me.

QoS-I think it's pretty underrated. The action is actually really good, though edited kind of poorly. There are some fantastic scenes though and it's actually a very good looking movie. I feel it's better paced then CR which is a huge improvement. Honestly, I think this is one of the best Bonds.

Skyfall-Really enjoyable movie and a nice return to the typical Bond format, but made a bit more unique thanks to Craig Bond. The story has more stakes and relevancy then normal Bonds because of that. Amazing opening song and acting.

Spectre-It's ok, I think it gets a little long winded the more it goes on. The plot feels kind of too obvious and then when the reveal comes it's like whatever. The last act sucks.

Living Daylights-Honestly this may have rocketed up as one of my favorites. Dalton plays a really good Bond that feels a bit more grounded. It's more traditional then the one that follows it and thats why I think I like it. There's lots of good action here with a solid plot and a good Bond.

License to Kill-While this has a more interesting premise then Daylights and is darker, I liked Daylights more. Still good for those reasons though.

Goldeneye-I'm from the 90s so a classic.

World is Not Enough-Another that I feel is underrated. I like the story here more then most Bond movies as the situation Bond is involved in feels like it has a lot going on. I wish the good Bond Girl wasn't in here as Denise Richards sucks and feels tacked on. But the Bad Bond girl is great.
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« Reply #39 on: September 26, 2018, 12:42:51 PM »
All I know is it is so dark inside my head that I need to watch a Roger Moore movie. Hard to pick between Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun. I want to make a super cut of Moore smirks.

Kind of a toss up for me, as I like both movies a lot and just watched them both recently via a Roger Moore 007 Collection I got on sale on Vudu.  I would probably give the edge to LALD for the hotness of Solitaire versus Goodnight acting like a dimwit, and the end Bond/villain confrontation is much better IMO with the exploding Kanaga vs. Scaramonga just randomly getting shot because he couldn't tell the real Bond versus a mannequin.  Also like you said, the soundtrack is great, with one of the best Bond themes ever.

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« Reply #40 on: December 16, 2018, 02:31:33 PM »
How do these older Bond movies hold up in general?

I feel that some movies like Network and Lawrence of Arabia are timeless while others clearly show their age.
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« Reply #41 on: December 16, 2018, 03:06:09 PM »
Would you imagine James Bond movies to be Network/Lawrence of Arabia tier films?
I have no clue. I catched glimpses of the classic bond movies on TV when I was a kid but I never really watched it until Goldeneye, Die Another Day and the likes.
However, I do know that I don't mind watching old movies and looking past crappy special effects. I also greatly enjoy the classic Indiana Jones movies.
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« Reply #42 on: January 09, 2019, 05:28:03 PM »
Octopussy movie is also the most recent incident of a woman named Maud being sexy.

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« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2019, 01:43:29 PM »
Correct me if I'm wrong but on my last rewatch of Dr.No I had the memory that the musical leitmotif was used to introduce Bond and it felt to me as the film was somehow playing those sequences as in a sequel when the protagonist you already know is reintroduced. Which could make sense for a character that was somewhat popular in its own right. Maybe some speculation from my ass but it's obvious they started this as a series (hopefully, maybe) and the franchise long made of point of announcing the sequels right at the credits (Bond will be back in...), maybe something they lift from popular books.

Dr.No has a great intro and a good first half (there's a brutal scene where Bond kills a man he ambushed and is flat on the ground with his nose in the carpet, the perfect summation of the "licence to kill" and Bond being a goon at the end of the day) but it gets fairly subdued once Bond is on the No island, it's a little more First Blood than crazy antics. Even Dr.No schemes and his lair (despite the mecha suits and antiradiation suits) feels slightly more grounded than the extravagant lairs and megalomaniac plots that became the trademark of the series (maybe just a budget issue though, those famous Ken Adam sets weren't cheap).

Diamonds... is a clusterfuck. Charles Gray makes for a great Blofeld tho and there's some funny scenes in that (I think the whole stretch in the space / company HQ in Vegas, IIRC, including that scene with the Blofeld lookalike) but the whole closing action scene is really poor (those fucking helicopter shots getting reused).

Since we mention the shameful demise of the "character formerly known as Blofeld because fuck we somehow lost the rights to that particular bit" in For Your Eyes Only, the film opens with Moore Bond on the grave of his wife right before taking revenge on Blofeld. Seems pretty clear it's a bit of a message that Diamonds is to be forgotten. Make sense because that film also tried to go for a more "grimmy" story.
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« Reply #44 on: June 07, 2019, 11:02:12 AM »
Plus it had the only "Bond girl" who was also a 3-dimensional character

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« Reply #45 on: June 11, 2019, 09:43:45 AM »
I also liked it better on later viewings. After Nestlé started churning out drinking water from California while that state was in a drought, AND the CEO has gone on record saying people don't have a right to drinkable water, the whole plot of QoS seemed more prescient.

It's a big jump down from Eva Green to Olga Kurylenko, though. She's dumb and angry throughout the film, a bad combination for the character.

The follow-up with Giancarlo Giannini's character was great though, and appropriately brutal and cold.

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« Reply #46 on: July 13, 2019, 12:56:03 PM »
I think the first half of this film is a lot stronger than the second, especially the whole bit in Egypt (and Bond holding that goon by the tie plus the whole Sphynx scene), it's the closer a Moore era film got to Terence Young. And I may be misremembering but it's the most iconic of the ski stunt scenes that became a staple of the series. That super tanker set is bonkers bit it's a little bit déjà vu from the fake hollow volcano (more generally the whole Curd Jurgens megalomaniacal plot). It's a bit unfair, I reckon, because they basically had to go IN SPACE and compete with 2001 VFX to try to top You Only Live Twice. I love Moonraker but The Spy... is the second strongest Bond film with maybe some of the best individual bits.
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« Reply #47 on: July 15, 2019, 03:29:51 PM »
Doesn't bode well. However, they recently moved the release date to April 8, 2020, so they've got almost 9 months left.

Is this thread for general Bond news, too?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/15/james-bond-007-black-female-actor-lashana-lynch-daniel-craig
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« Reply #48 on: July 15, 2019, 03:54:52 PM »
Craig has two GOAT Bond films? Besides Casino Royale - which I agree with - what's the other? Skyfall? I couldn't disagree moree.
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« Reply #49 on: July 15, 2019, 04:30:23 PM »
CR is a classic. I haven't seen Skyfall since it was in theatres. I'll have to rewatch it.
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« Reply #50 on: July 15, 2019, 06:00:15 PM »
I don’t care what anyone says. Crappily edited actions scenes aside. I liked QoS.

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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #52 on: July 16, 2019, 03:43:18 AM »
I don’t care what anyone says. Crappily edited actions scenes aside. I liked QoS.

Same. The story wasn't bad. Wish there was a re-edited version that does away with all the millisecond cuts to make the action coherent.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #53 on: July 17, 2019, 12:32:45 PM »
Skyfall is really good. Until the last act. Worst thing to happen in the whole series. Fuck that shit.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #54 on: December 31, 2019, 09:10:43 PM »
The main issue with Spectre for me is the performance of Waltz as Blofeld and the material he got to work with.

He was a fairly unknown German TV series actor until he nailed Hans Landa in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.
Suddenly Waltz was everywhere playing the 'bad guy' but in Spectre for some reason it didn't work beyond the introduction.
He's never as menacing as he is sitting at the table at the head of this crime syndicate.
But this shadowy figure then turns out to be somewhat of a cartoon villain fixated on Bond.

Javier Bardem on the other hand nailed it as Silva. Which is why for me Skyfall is by far the better film.
His performance is 75% of that movie and Spectre doesn't have such an iconic villain, which Blofeld could and should've been.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #55 on: February 14, 2020, 10:36:22 AM »
Where is the fucking brass :rage
Daniel Craig retire bitch.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #56 on: February 15, 2020, 06:18:54 AM »
Theme song is better than expected. I'm pretty hyped for this film.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #57 on: February 15, 2020, 06:30:39 AM »
Where is the fucking brass :rage
Daniel Craig retire bitch.

Not quick enough.
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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #58 on: February 17, 2020, 10:49:47 AM »


Weak. This remains the best Craig-era intro song:


RIP Chris Cornell.
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Joe Molotov

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Re: James Bond Ranking And Discussion Thread
« Reply #59 on: February 17, 2020, 10:59:34 AM »
The Casino Royale OP was lit af. :lawd
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