“From Russia with Love” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” are my favourites, along with also “For Your Eyes Only” and “Octopussy”. I am in agreement with others here though, that Stromberg (”The Spy Who Loved Me”) makes me think of Soros a great deal. One other one that seems to get panned but wasn’t really a bad one IMHO partly because it was so very well photographed was “The Man with the Golden Gun”.
I like TMWTGG better now than when I first saw a few times back when ABC ran Bond movies as big movie event.
Stromberg was originally going to be yet another incarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Kevin McClory was awarded the film rights to Thunderball -
he made a deal with EON but then of course years later he commissioned “Never Say Never Again,” and tried to get Timothy Dalton for “Warhead 2000” or “Warhead 2001” (never made).
Anyway, he pushed the envelope, claiming that he not only came up with (part of) the idea for Thunderball, but also SPECTRE and Blofeld.
In response, Albert Broccoli renamed the character and the organization entirely.