Poll: Favorite James Bond film

Same here. But the Goldfinger theme is iconic. That was my point.

 

IIRC, The Living Daylights $30 million, Quantum Of Solace $200 million

 

Die Another Day... the first one I've ever seen and still great. 2nde place - Casino Royale. Honourable mentions - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (has a significant parallel to Casino), Goldfinger

 

The 1st half DAD is really good! Quite possibly the best hour of Brosnan 007 ever IMO. And then...the 2nd half, culminating in the tsunami kite surfing with unbelievably bad CGI.

 

Yes, it has not aged well, I acknowledge that. But! The invisible Vanquish vs Jag with mini-gun duel amazes me every time!

 

I like them up to for your eyes only, after that I just can't get into them.
I suppose when your a kid you think he's cool. When you grow up you realize he's an awful psychopathic wanker.

 

Right. Bond was like a real person, and not some superficial spy character.

 

I love most of them, but I think I will go with Casino Royale, as well.

 

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I found that one to be the most believable story. Skyfall and Goldeneye come in at 2nd.

 

Recently re-watched Thunderball and The Living Daylights.

Thunderball had a lot of promise but was poorly edited (the first time Felix and Bond flew out to find the lost jet and found nothing should've been on the cutting room floor), and the underwater fights just don't hold up. If they could somehow remake this (yet again, I know) and reduce and/or remove the underwater sequences they could have a bang up action movie.

The Living Daylights also had a lot of promise, but the style of 80s filmmaking hurts it. Dalton is a decent Bond, but after checking the casting story I realize he was a quick substitute. They wanted Brosnan but he was already tied to Remington Steele. From that backstory, Brosnan would have been Moore's replacement all along and would have a lot more Bond credits to his name. By the time Brosnan got the part, the style again changed and we have the Brosnan editions we have. Good story, but again, the editing and overall style of the film make it drag in parts. Also, it's somewhat strange looking back on the fact that Bond rendered aid to the Mujahadeen. It was timely then, but now it's kind of like a 20/20 hindsight moment.

I started to watch Goldeneye the other day but didn't finish due to time. Shades of Thunderball, actually. It starts out very good. Brosnan has the swagger without too much camp.

I voted for Skyfall. Yes, it's got its problems and holes as they all do, but Craig makes a good Bond and along with Dench and Bardem are able to buoy this to something that I found enterataining. Looking forward to this year's installment with Feinnes as M.

 

I have the blue ray box set and watched Goldeneye recently and was very surprised how good it was.
Definately one of the better bond films. A shame he couldn't make better films because Brosnan was a good bond

 

Since I had to vote for only one, I voted for Goldfinger. My second pick is Skyfall, as I really like Daniel Craig as Bond, but there is just something about Sean Connery in Goldfinger that I like a bit more, and in spite of being dated, the plot still holds up well and I always enjoy watching it over again.

 

One of the first books I read, at age five. My mother was appalled to say the least-I guess it was too "sexy" or something. Kind different from Tom Swift and The Hardy Boys (it was a library run by expats so the collection was quite eclectic).

 

Just rewatched OHMSS (blurred out nudity on television btw; guessing that wasn't blurred in the original film). Lazenby does well as Bond (funny he stole a Playboy too), but man did that film drag in the middle. Wow...I was yawning through what is at heart a decent action flick. I'm finding that in some of these older Bond re-watchings that some of these 2nd acts in the films just meander a bit too much. Tighter editing or something, I don't know, was needed. I also found it a bit quirky that Bond was in cahoots with the Corsican mob here, one of the most notorious international organized crime units in the world - and they're played as if they were honorable!

I'm also finding some interesting motifs: Baccarat, fights on skis, car chases, chases on foot, pool scenes, hotel scenes, and of course the martinis, caviar and Dom Perignon! OHMSS was surprisingly bereft of gadgets as well, only a few. I also found the fight scenes rather choppy, filmed in "Confus-a-vision."

 

Goldfinger for me. Everything about it is right on the mark. I do like Daniel Craig -- he brings Bond up to the present tense quite well. Casino Royale is classic.

 

Looking forward hugely to the upcoming SPECTRE ... Daniel Craig gets off the Bond train after that (sadly.) He's the first one who's been able to play the character in a believeable way, with a real physicality; e.g. after fight scenes, he looks beat-up, etc. ... plus there's an emotional vulnerability there, that he has to repress to keep his job in MI-6

I find that older Bond films date badly for me; part of the point of the films is all the cutting-edge tech and weaponry, that modernity. So, my favourite Bond/Bond films are de facto the current one(s). Still, I will miss Craig ... once again, I'm having a hard time visualising the next 007. Imagining a nice game-changer: I'd have liked Colin Salmon playing Bond, except he's had a supporting role in a couple of Bond flicks already (and may be too old now to play 007.)

 

Who do you think will get the gig?

 

According to legend, director Peter Hunt (who had previously edited several Bond films) wanted On Her Majesty's Secret Service to go out at almost 3 hours. The producers balked and brought in a new team to try to chop the film down. They were surprised to find that Hunt had connected the entire film together so tightly it was very difficult to just omit an entire scene. They wound up whittling away every single shot in the film to the bare minimum, then came up with a film that was about 2:45 long, then they started over and cut that down, and finally came up with a film that was about 2:20, which is how it was released. This is a big reason why the film looks so "choppy": it was intended to be a longer film, and a lot of the pauses were cut out.

 

I don't have the Bond films in any released form,but do the DVD's/BD's contain extra features with these outtakes/extended scenes?
and if they do..........are they of lesser/deemed unusable quality and only suitable as extras,and is it the reason why Extended/Directors cuts haven't been done?
Because surely extended versions would be a big seller.

 

From memory, DAF, AVTAK and TLD have deleted scenes on their home video discs.

 

I love the Bond series... my cell phone ring tone is the 007 theme.

I don't think I could ever narrow it down to a single favorite, but my fave Connery is Goldfinger, fave Moore is The Spy Who Loved Me, fave Brosnan is Goldeneye and fave Craig is Skyfall. I can take or leave Lazenby's and/or Dalton's entries - none of them are particularly bad, but they're not great either. I rarely revisit those.

 

Diamonds Are Forever is far from their best, but it's my favorite. I love the off-center early-70s sensibilities, the camp bad guys, Connery's funny quips, and Jill St. John. Las Vegas in its heyday and Shirley Bassey singing her head off are bonuses.

 

Haven't a foggy.

I've read that Daniel Craig is done after SPECTRE; elsewhere that he's contracted for one more. If the latter, we won't know 'til what, 2018?

 

Am I the only one who enjoyed "Quantum of Solace" more then both "Casino Royale" and "Skyfall?"

 

A friend of mine does. We had a debate/discussion, and the result was he feels really strongly about it, too. He liked the other Craigs, but thought Quantum was the most exciting and really makes a good point about the water-shortage issue.