[Film] What is your favourite James Bond film?

[Trufflehound]

Live And Let Die is epic and ticks all my boxes.

Most beautiful Bond girl - Jane Seymour
Best theme song - Wings
Best baddie - Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big
Best allie - Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Best car chase - London double decker bus in the Caribbean!

In addition, the locations were brilliant (loved the menacing atmosphere in New Orleans).

All of the above.

Jane Seymour

But especially this bit for someone who was 11 years old when it came out and just getting, erm, hormonal...

 

[A1X]

Much as with Doctor Who, I think you're always somewhat more emotionally attached to your first Bond , and for me it is Brosnan. His films are a bit lame compared to some of the others objectively but I think Goldeneye stands up well even against other great Bond films. After that it's Skyfall.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Much as with Doctor Who, I think you're always somewhat more emotionally attached to your first Bond , and for me it is Brosnan. His films are a bit lame compared to some of the others objectively but I think Goldeneye stands up well even against other great Bond films. After that it's Skyfall.

I think you’re right, Live and Let Die is arguably my nostalgic favourite, Roger Moore not even my best Bond but it’s a fantastic film. The direction of the Daniel Bonds running as sequels also really worked rather than as stand alone films.

 

[NorthLainer]

Interesting no-one has mentioned Timothy Dalton. His two Bond films are underrated, particularly Living Daylights which was a much grittier representation of the character than Roger Moore's. It also had the lovely Maryam D'Abo in it.

I always struggle to say which one is the my favourite. Even Moonraker, as preposterous as it was I found really enjoyable at the time, but then it was the excitement of a trip to the cinema to watch it with my dad and to see the Space Shuttles featured.

 

[highflyer]

The one I don't have to watch. Sorry, but I just don't get it.

You are not alone.

 

[tigertim68]

Dr No and live and let die for me

 

[studio150]

Wow all those votes for David Niven in Casino Royale, amazing.

My favourite - Live And Let Die

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Casino Royale was great. Bond was on its knees at the time with the likes of Jason Bourne kicking around.The re-boot moved it from the invisible car tinpottery of the Brosnan era to something that was more in keeping with 2006 when we were all sat on our arses playing Poker. Plus the start was immense with that free running scene. It's been done to death since but we forget how good that was when it came out. Other then Quantum of Solace, all of the DC films have been pretty good.

Live and Let die and the man with the Golden Gun are my favourite of the older films. [MENTION=23795]Hugo Rune[/MENTION] sums the former up perfectly. Christopher Lee was always a fantastc baddie in the later to the point he carried the god awful star wars prequels. I'm sure you could argue a case for many a Connory film but as I grew up with Moore, that tips the balance.

Whatever, pleased to have a film to look forward to watching in the cinema again. That's before some bell cheese sits behind me with rustling sweets, the worlds smelliest hot dog and whispers loudly to his wife "Is Daniel Craig a goodie or baddie" in the first 5 minutes when I then wish I was plonked on my sofa at home.

 

[Petunia]

Another vote for Live and Let Die from me.

 

[Biscuit]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I know George Lazenby got a lot of flack as 007 but Dianna Rigg was the best Bond girl ever; smart, stylish, confident and very beautiful.

It was probably about a half an hour too long but Telly Savalas was the best Blofeld (a snob who seemed more concerned about his title than world domination) and Piz Gloria a great location as the villains lair.

Also the story was believable to a degree rather than some of the totally overblown plot lines of other Bond movies. Bond also came across as more human than a lot of his other iterations.

This is mine too. Also Bond loses, which is rather cool/different.

But Dr No is brilliant, so is From Russia With Love, and of course, Skyfall.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Interesting no-one has mentioned Timothy Dalton. His two Bond films are underrated, particularly Living Daylights which was a much grittier representation of the character than Roger Moore's. It also had the lovely Maryam D'Abo in it.

I always struggle to say which one is the my favourite. Even Moonraker, as preposterous as it was I found really enjoyable at the time, but then it was the excitement of a trip to the cinema to watch it with my dad and to see the Space Shuttles featured.

Yes, Living Daylights I think is the best bond film. (didn't like licence to kill at all though)
Goldeneye second

The best Bond films are always the cold war type stories

 

[Stat Brother]

Agreed. It is a poor Bond movie. However, it did lose a lot of it’s budget as it was filmed around the time of the 2008 recession.

As 'bad' is it is, if you can watch it in a period of time far removed from any criticism, it actually isn't as bad as you think.

On the back of Quantum, easy top 3, it got savaged by the media.
'We' then went to see it and doubled down.

I rewatched it some 5 years later, probably an ITV2 week when they weren't showing a Bourne , and came away with a completely different perspective of the film.


Ok sure that perspective was:-

'well that was a bit shite'.


But honest to god that's considerably better than first time around and elevated to Moore and Connery's conveniently forgotten latter years Bond's.
So for me I does still, rather surprisingly, sit in the oeuvre and isn't some inbred cousin living in the basement.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I know George Lazenby got a lot of flack as 007 but Dianna Rigg was the best Bond girl ever; smart, stylish, confident and very beautiful.

It was probably about a half an hour too long but Telly Savalas was the best Blofeld (a snob who seemed more concerned about his title than world domination) and Piz Gloria a great location as the villains lair.

Also the story was believable to a degree rather than some of the totally overblown plot lines of other Bond movies. Bond also came across as more human than a lot of his other iterations.

I agree. My favourite too. As a fan of the books I like the way this film has close adherence to the original story. Lazenby was excellent, Savalas appropriately narcissistic and vindictive, the sets perfect and as you say Diana Rigg was perfect as the tortured Tracy. There is something wrong with all the other films; Connery's silly quips and unconvincing acting (Bond was a posh boy, French mother, 'high-born' Scot father, cruel, heavy drinker and smoker, not a scrubbed-up Glaswegian docker in a borrowed suit); The wooden Simon Templar was a write off - 'Jaws' FFS!; Dalton was too soft; Daniel Craig is excellent, as are the films but they have no connection to Fleming's stories and might as well be an entirely unrelated franchise.

 

[Brovion]

Rather like Dr Who's you're supposed to like the one/ones you knew growing up, so for me that would be Connery, and yes for a long time my favourite Bond film was Goldfinger. But rather like Icy I've loved Daniel Craig as Bond as he moved it more back to Connery and away from the slightly camp era that started with Roger Moore.

So my new and current favourite is Skyfall.

 

[doogie004]

The spy who loved me


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[Sid in the Sharknado]

Moonraker.

It's the funniest bond film, therefore the best bond film.

 

[METALMICKY]

Goldfinger for me had everything. As for most underated it has to be On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

 

[Brovion]

I agree. My favourite too. As a fan of the books I like the way this film has close adherence to the original story. Lazenby was excellent, Savalas appropriately narcissistic and vindictive, the sets perfect and as you say Diana Rigg was perfect as the tortured Tracy. There is something wrong with all the other films; Connery's silly quips and unconvincing acting (Bond was a posh boy, French mother, 'high-born' Scot father, cruel, heavy drinker and smoker, not a scrubbed-up Glaswegian docker in a borrowed suit); The wooden Simon Templar was a write off - 'Jaws' FFS!; Dalton was too soft; Daniel Craig is excellent, as are the films but they have no connection to Fleming's stories and might as well be an entirely unrelated franchise.

A pedant writes .....

Actually his mother was Swiss, Monique Delacroix Bond. (And Connery was born in Edinburgh). But yes you're right, like a lot of the people Fleming supposedly based the character on he was upper class, so Moore et al were probably closer to what he envisaged - even though I prefer the rougher Bonds. But as you say the movies are almost totally divorced from the books so the character, like Dr Who, is always up for reinvention and re-interpretation.

 

[Jam The Man]

Man with the Golden Gun

 

[Dr. No]

Yours?

No.