"Which is your favorite Bond movie?" Topic

Which is your favorite Bond movie?

Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Casino Royale (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
Octopussy (1983)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence to Kill (1989)
GoldenEye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
Casino Royale (2006)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Skyfall (2012)

Did I miss any?

Goldeneye. Love the Tank chase.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

For many reasons.

Goldfinger

From Russia With Love is a close second.

Thunderball and Never Say Never Again, as if there was any doubt of who is the best Bond.

The Orignal Casino Royale with Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, etc. …

They have all melded into one giant movie in my memories…..

The Spy who Loved Me. Bond at his best.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

Favourite??

Top five:

From Russia with Love
OHMSS
Live and Let Die
Goldeneye
and bringing up the rear…. The Living Daylights (Dalton was hugely underrated in the part)

From russia with Love.
A good old fashioned unpretentious Cold war thriller.

Not that it is my favourite, but you missed "Casino Royale" 1967.

But I think the 2006 version is my personal favourite.

Got it. Thanks!

Goldfinger

Thunderball, closely followed by Goldfinger.

GoldFinger and Quantum of Solace.

Never liked the ones with Roger Moore. And the films with Pierce Bronson were even worse.

Although in most cases I would say original is better than new 'improved' for modern tastes, for me Daniel Craig is easily the best Bond to date, adding gravitas, plausibility and a tortured soul to the mix. And then there is the stunning Eva Green. Combining these ingredients gives us the later Casino Royale, my de facto favourite, despite the rather uncomfortable scene involving Bond's (ahem) undercarriage, what looks like a knotted rope and a chair offering no protection whatsoever in the danger area.

I'll add From Russia With Love as my second favorite.

I like Daniel Craig, and my first introduction to bond was through Moonraker (so I have a soft spot for Roger Moore, even though the films were a mixed bag).

I think it would be easier for me to make a list of least favorites, to be honest.

License To Kill and Die Another Day share that dubious honor for me.

Dr. No. Ursula Undress is still the best Bond girl ever.

Octopussy comes close and has the best Bond movie name.

Casino Royale (2006) followed by From Russia with Love followed by Skyfall

Rats! I think I left off "A View to a Kill" (1985)

That was Roger Moore's last Bond movie. Perhaps Dear Editor would add it to the list?

What exactly did Bond do in Goldfinger, apart from get captured ?

He got Pussy Galore….

You only Live Twice
Diamonds are Forever (Jill St. John makes this one easy)
Skyfall

Thunder ball
Goldfinger
Moonraker ( just for the space battle )

Terrement:

The original Climax TV version of Casino Royale, with Barry Nelson as an American James Bond and Felix Leiter appearing as a British agent, was, as you would suspect, pretty bad.

About a year or so ago it was rebroadcast fairly regularly on the cable channel Epix Drivein. It was worth watching once as a historical curiosity. Peter Lorre wasn't nearly as good as Le Chiffre as you might imagine; by this point in his career he was more of a comical villain than a serious one-think Roger Corman/Vincent Price AIP films (Lorre didn't play Le Chiffre for laughs, but he simply wasn't believably sinister-then again, Nelson was not very credible as a hero either).

Dennis

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger is a close second.

The first four, the "classics" will always be the best.

From Russia With Love-fight scene with Red Grant-gypsy girls, Turkish Agents and the first appearance of a AR-7 rifle.

Diamonds are Forever. The best lines of all the movies.

You Only Live Twice.

The book is a million times better than the film!

Skyfall

but then I like most of them.

Goldfinger – but OHMSS runs it a close second I think.

Goldfinger is great, maybe followed by GoldenEye, which breathed new life into the franchise IMO. I still like Live and Let Die for it's peculiar setting and mood, plus a great title song :)

Casino Royale (2006) for the same reasons as Some Chicken.

Many of the films are fixed fondly in our memories and on repeat viewing have not aged as well as we think.

I do feel every actor who played Bond brought something to the role. Moore and Connery did him enough times that in their later appearances they seem aged and weary, which the character doesn't need. So the franchise really does require new blood every so often.

Depends on what mood I'm in. Moonraker and the spy Who Loved Me are firm favourites, For Your Eyes Only is a bit more down to earth and gritty.

Thunderball, and then The Spy Who Loved Me.

From Russia With Love, Skyfall, Goldfinger

Goldfinger followed by From Russia With Love……

one of these
Thunderball (1965)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
while I think Connery was the better Bond I think Moore had the better stories. Craig's are great but, to me, almost in a different category, for the others, meh.

The Spy Who Loved Me, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger

From Russia With love, Live and Let Die and Quantam of Solace are my top three but the rankings change depending on which I've seen most recently.

I have to admit that I have never seen one. Just not my cup of tea.
I did, however, love Maxwell Smart.

A toss up between "Dr. No", "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger. For three different reasons.

"Dr. No" because I saw it in a theater when it was released. The scene where he killed Dent was amazing for it's time. I can't recall any film "hero" shooting a man in cold blood before that. I believe when that worm turned it was a signal that the public was ready for emotionless "anti-hero" killers like "the man with no name" to appear.

"From Russia With Love" because it lacked all of the gimmickry of the later Bond films. Just a great secret agent flick. One of the best ever.

"Goldfinger" because it established the Bond films high budget glossy look and wild and memorable opening scenes. Not to mention the first appearance of the "tricked out" Aston Martin…and "poosy". (-:

Daniel Craig is very good IMHO, but he could have been any spy. For me, only Connery is James Bond. As I read all of the novels it was his him that I saw in my mind's eye.

Picking one is tough, but I,m going with dr. No

Thunderball

Thunderball followed by You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger.

Dr. No

From Russia with love. Especially in the immaculate remastered Blu Ray and with the first real John Barry Bond score.