Hmm too hard to say.
One of my top favorites would have to be From Russia with Love.
The rest of my list would be films starring Sean Connery, Roger Moore or Dalton (Licence to Kill).
Pierce Brosnan is a pretty damn good Bond, but just his films wouldn't top the previous ones.
Craig's Bond is decent, Casino Royale was enjoyable, but QoS was terribad.
Originally posted by Nephthys
Why? I thought it was excellent.
QoS?
Well lets briefly consider the history of Bond Villains...
- Dr No
- Spectre
- Jaws
- Guy who Controls Death Satellite (Golden Eye/Die Another Die)
and then...
- Guy with a Bleeding Eye
- Guy who threatens to block water supply!
The story for the older Bond movies are just alot richer imo. Craig's Bond is aiming for a dark tone and realism (why they do away with the larger than life plots and villains, the essence of Bond films IMO), which just doesn't really work out - Or it didn't work for me anyway. Old Bond anyday.
Originally posted by Nephthys
What? How do the old villains have more substance? Dr No= man with hook. Spectre = generic evil organisation. Jaws= man with jaw etc.
Well, you obviously don't see it the way I do... Like I said, its all personal opinion and preference, but thats why I like the old ones better anyway...
Originally posted by Nephthys
True, I guess you just need to have grown up with them.
Not really. Just saw most of those and the new ones, and the classic villains are much cooler(as well as richer). I prefer the colorful element in which the bad guys give you reasons to fear them. The newer villains are pretty lame when compared to an unstoppable death machine for a man and a suave nuclear scientist gone wrong. Blocking off water supply and looking mean lacks the flair.
I enjoyed Quantum of Solace but it did indeed have quite a dull villain, especially coming from such a good actor as Mathieu Amalric!! The scriptwriter didn't come up with a good enough villain.
Not in order:
1. Casino Royale(it's probably the one I enjoyed the most, it does have the best Bond girl imo, Vesper!)
2. Live and Let Die
3. The Living Daylights
4. Goldfinger
5. For Your Eyes Only
6. Quantum of Solace
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service(just ignore Lazenby...)
Humm, I can't really remember any of the other older ones, and I'm not big on the Brosnan films. But those 7 above are the ones I really liked.
Originally posted by MildPossession
I enjoyed Quantum of Solace but it did indeed have quite a dull villain, especially coming from such a good actor as Mathieu Amalric!! The scriptwriter didn't come up with a good enough villain.Not in order:
1. Casino Royale(it's probably the one I enjoyed the most, it does have the best Bond girl imo, Vesper!)
2. Live and Let Die
3. The Living Daylights
4. Goldfinger
5. For Your Eyes Only
6. Quantum of Solace
7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service(just ignore Lazenby...)
Humm, I can't really remember any of the other older ones, and I'm not big on the Brosnan films. But those 7 above are the ones I really liked.
good list MP
1. Gold finger
2. Tomorrow never dies (Pierces best)
3.thunder ball (Domino the hottest bond girl very sexy)
4. you only live twice
5. live and let die
6. casino royale (good restart to the shows)
7. die another day
8. for your eyes only
9. the living daylights(daltons best)
10. golden eye
QoS sucked the green weiner. i was bored silly watching it. the villan was terrible there was no humor and the camera work was terrible too. (really shakey and too close). casino royal was much better. they shouldn't of continued the story they should of just gone back into the bond formula with a new world domination or similar plot, with gadgets. you get someone like John Cleese to replace Q and now don't use him?
that is what bond is about gadgets, world domination. casino royal since it was a revamp it had very little of that but the way it was put together was great, but QoS had nothing any of the movies with revenge as the motive is crap eg. licence to kill.
Originally posted by Placidity
QoS?
and then...- Guy with a Bleeding Eye
Well Le chiffre is also in the book of the same name so yea of course he would've had to stay for the movie version and not to mentioned he also manages to torture Bond alot worst then the other villains
Originally posted by Nephthys
What? How do the old villains have more substance? Dr No= man with hook. Spectre = generic evil organisation
Actually Dr No had metal hands
Originally posted by darthmaul1
that is what bond is about gadgets,
Well with the movies it was but not the books and besides near the end of Brosnans run they were concetrating too much on the gadgets.
1. Casino Royale, I liked how it was quite dark Bond
2. QOS, again it had a dark kinda Bond and plus he went a lil rogue agent
3. License to kill, I liked the whole Bond going rogue thing and how he was on a mission but also out for revenge and I think with the right amount of commercialism that this movie woulda done much better
4. Goldeneye, great storyline and Pierce got Bond spot on
5. Living daylights, Dalton was fantastic as Bond in this one
Dunno if I have any others, but thats not me saying I didn't enjoy them, think the worst one for me in her majestys secret service
Originally posted by Placidity
Hmm too hard to say.One of my top favorites would have to be From Russia with Love.
The rest of my list would be films starring Sean Connery, Roger Moore or Dalton (Licence to Kill).
Pierce Brosnan is a pretty damn good Bond, but just his films wouldn't top the previous ones.
Craig's Bond is decent, Casino Royale was enjoyable, but QoS was terribad.
Brosnan was good but man after Goldeneye they surrounded him with crap.