007 Movies

[thingonaspring]

seems as good a place as any to leave this youtube trailer link.
all bond blu rays out in september.

[jdanddiet]

I've always had a soft spot for Diamonds are Forever. It's not great I know and Connery looks really old in it (on a par with Moore in a View to a kill) but it still appeals to me. The music is aces, it's got a great character in Willard Whyte ("Saxby? Bert Saxby? Tell him he's fired!") and Bond drives a moon buggy. What more could you want.

Oh and Ms. St.John is lovely

[theantmeister]

Personally I love James Bond and have done since I was a kid.

If I had to pick a favourite bond I think it would have to be Dalton, his two films are my favourites in the series. I also quite like Lazenby. I like a few of Moore's films too notably A View to a Kill and The Spy Who Loved Me. Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies are pretty damn food but it sorts of goes downhill from thereon.

The reboots with Craig is quite good I think, I mean I haven't seen Quantum yet but Casino was very very good.

Of all the posts on this forum, this, THIS - is the one I most vehemently and violently disagree with!

LAZENBY??!? LAZENBY!

The man is basically Austin Powers, not Bond.

And don't get me started on Dalton's films. He was an ok Bond, I guess, but the films he was in were just too American for my tastes. Although I do like The Living Daylights.

[jdanddiet]

OHMSS is actually underrated but Lazenby is more wooden than Ikea.

[JetSetWilly]

OHMSS is actually underrated but Lazenby is more wooden than Ikea.

I have to agree with jd here. I think OHMSS is really underrated, but I still think the rear projection on the sled chase that buggers up does throw it off a bit. Watch that bit in full, and you'll see what bit I mean. Plus the music on that bit doesn't seem to fit, but overall I do think it's quite fun.

[RetroMartin]

Love the Bond franchise. Dalton is still my favourite by a country mile. I'm enjoying the new ones thus far though if they have a SHOCKING opening credits tune like Quantum of Solace again i'm going off David Arnold big style (he is nowhere NEAR John Barry in terms of skill)

The Living Daylights is still my favourite film of the franchise.

[Spector]

John Barry summed up the Bond actors quite well in an interview about ten years ago. For him Connery was the best of the lot, and closest to the character in the book. George Lazenby was a lame duck and he knew it. According to Barry, Lazenby was actually telling co-stars about what he would be doing when he quit the part during the actual shooting of the picture. Barry felt Roger Moore was guilty of making the series too parodic and light-hearted, taking it far from its source. Timothy Dalton on the other hand was "a good Bond, but very intense and serious." He never worked on a Bond film after The Living Daylights after a terrible time collaborating with A-ha. A pity, because that film produced one of his least known but very best songs, "If There Was A Man", sung by Chrissie Hynde.

[samhain81]

For me it would be Ted Danson, no doubt, closely followed by Tom Sellick then Steve Guttenburg

[che_don_john]

Since Casino Royale I've not been able to watch any of the other Bonds, as they all just feel more like Austin Powers movies in comparison. That's except for the Timothy Dalton ones; Daniel Craig's bond has, for me, cast a new light on Dalton's portrayal and made me realise how good he was.

A trained killer in a world of espionage is always going to be slightly unhinged; not smarmy and wet like Pierce Brosnan, 'Carry On' like Roger Moore or smug and one-dimensional like Sean Connery (yes, I said it - Connery is a naff actor who can only ever play himself). I think it's unfair to judge George Lazenby on the basis of one film that was pretty poor regardless of who had been playing Bond.

Timothy Dalton's Bond was a nasty, brutish, unstable SOB who could nonetheless charm the ladies without sounding like he was trying to hard. Him and Craig are by far the best there's been.

[JazzFunk]

As I grew up with Moore, he errs towards being my favourite Bond (just imagine seeing Live And Let Die, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me and The Man With The Golden Gun before you turned 6!) though Connery has threatened to take his No.1 spot on many occasions, recently.

Craig is good as Bond but the films have been weird and disjointed, I've enjoyed neither so far. Dalton was brilliant as a serious, kickarse Bond, but maybe too glowery and 'dark' to be funky enough to enjoy. Lazenby film is very decent, though his head shape/size/style and demeanour are all wrong (one word: meathead), but the Barry score is amongst his very best. Brosnan? Too small, and resembled a carpet salesman (would work in Carphone Warehouse these days) - boring films, also.

Moore is bloated and aged and jokey and sleazy these days but has a wonderful sense of flippant ubersadism and all the films pack a 70s/80s funk/cheesiness. Connery became my recent fave because of THAT fight with Robert Shaw (I'd say the Dalton 'kitchen fight' in TLD is right up there with that, btw.)

Anyway, none of us is right, only in our own heads.

[killbot]

The man is basically Austin Powers, not Bond.

Well, he dresses like him. In one scene. Not sure that's the same as being him.

And don't get me started on Dalton's films. He was an ok Bond, I guess, but the films he was in were just too American for my tastes. Although I do like The Living Daylights.

So you don't like them, except you do like one of them. Which is 50% of them. I agree LTK is very much in the vein of 80s US action films but TLD is a great old-school Bond thriller like FRWL.