Posted on 10/05/2012 7:36:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The James Bond film franchise turns 50 today, so we're celebrating something called Global James Bond Day. And if you don't, the studio bosses will evaporate the world's oceans with lasers from space.
Really and clearly, Global James Bond Day is all about promoting Skyfall, the 23rd 007 film, which opens next month.
So where will Daniel Craig's latest stack up against the previous Bond films? Will it be better than the excellent Casino Royale? More cringe-worthy than Moonraker?
To help you assess the looming threat of Global James Bond Day, we present our list of 22 the previous Bond films, ranked from worst to best.
And we're just kidding about the laser.
See how we rank the 22 James Bond movies
While there is fidelity in much of the basic plot switching the villains from the Soviet Russians to SPECTRE and Blofeld is not a small change.
RE: #1 is Goldfinger.
Bond: “So, you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No Mr. Bind, I expect you to die!”
Yeah? Then why not just shoot 007 and be done with it? Why do the laser cutting stuff and allow him the time to escape?
RE: #1 is Goldfinger.
Bond: “So, you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”
Yeah? Then why not just shoot 007 and be done with it? Why do the laser cutting stuff and allow him the time to escape?
Likewise, I forgot about Timothy Dalton, easy enough to do.
Without the Moore films we wouldn’t have Octopussy..........
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You just don't get it, do ya? 
Bond going off a cliff, then opening a Union Jack parachute? Awesome. Skydiving in Moonraker? Climbing around on top of an airplane in Octopussy? Never again to be duplicated.
But - setting the stunts aside - yeah, the movies were bad.
You need to read the "If I were Evil Overlord" list.
#7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."
FROM THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcBgs2huRo
QUOTE;
“When you have to shoot...Shoot! Don’t talk”
James Bond vilians can learn from Tuco (Eli Wallach). Instead of explaining how to they are going to take over the world to 007, just shoot his ass and be done with it! lol.
It’s hard to rate the cringe-worthy elements. Like in the really crude studio set of an Alpine cabin at the start of The Spy Who Loved Me; the Jaws love story in Moonraker; and the “Taliban at the London symphony” of The Living Daylights.
However, there are some truly spectacular bits as well, such as the opening sequence on Gibraltar, and the counter kidnapping from the safe house in The Living Daylights, and the opener to The World Is Not Enough including the boat chase on the Thames and the Millennium dome.
Does Queen Elizabeth parachuting into the Olympic Stadium make your list? :)
That list covers all the bases.
"If I find my beautiful consort with access to my fortress has been associating with the hero, I'll have her executed. It's regrettable, but new consorts are easier to get than new fortresses and maybe the next one will pay attention at the orientation meeting."
"I will never accept a challenge from the hero."
And so on. Classic Stuff, and all good advice that I'll remember when I take over the world.
Since I preferred the realism of the early Fleming books, I liked the more realistic movies best as well.
1. Caisino Royale with Daniel Craig.
2. From Russia With Love. The switch from Russia’s KGB to Spectre was done for political nice/nice, but was covered by the use of Soviet style uniforms. Lotte Lenya as a villainess was superb.
3. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Once you get to the more and more unbelievable plots and villains, they are all of a piece, fighting over last place in terms of movies, but lots of fun.
Diamonds are forever was not Connery’s last Bond film. The completely forgo Never Say Never Again (1983). Of course it was a pretty forgetable remake of Thunderball.
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The first couple Roger Moore movies weren’t bad.
Then two things happened.
1) Roger Moore got older and larger so even the shots where he’s running were done by a stunt double.
2) Stupid wisecracks. While Sean Connery’s jokes were usually subtle, RM’s were childish.
It went down from there. I think his last movie was a View To a Kill. If it wasn’t for Christopher Walkin, the movie would have been a flop. No comment on Grace Jones. In this movie, RM practically had to have a double whenever you see him doing almost anything. Like the horse riding scene. I can understand the studio not wanting their star injured but the stand in was Mr. Universe compared to RM. The same goes for the fire scene in SF’s Moscone Center?? As an added bonus, they got away driving a fire engine and were still driving it the next morning. I guess the Police never put out an ABP for the stolen engine???
I prefer:
1) Sean Connery
2) Pierce Brosnan
3) The new guy
4) Roger Moore
5) Timothy Dalton
6) George Lazenby.
7) David Niven in the original Casino Royall.
I agree with the top 2 and the worst being Octopussy and the comedy A View to a Kill.
The other ones are all over the place..Daltons movies should be higher rated and so should Moonraker and Diamonds are forever...
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- Roger Moore was already 48 when he made his first Bond flick
- He made the most 007 films
- Recall Moore that had already been “THE SAINT” on TV
- So which film did Roger Moore drive the silverbirch Aston Martin DB5 in?
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1 - Connery
2 - Craig
3 - Dalton
4 - all the others
5 - Moore
Moore was excellent as the Saint, a much more David Niven-ish, sophisticate character. But he totally failed as Bond, a "licensed killer".
Best movie (and best book) - From Russia with Love, by a wide margin.
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