Here’s the trailer for Daniel Craig’s last hurrah as James Bond.
Seems like a good time to rank your Bonds, your Bond girls and your Bond movies. Also, whom would you like to see as the next Bond?
Have at it in the comments.
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Pretty cool stunts esp with that motorcycle. Like the nod of car gadgetry
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Ooooh, I hadn’t seen the trailer yet, thanks for that!
Don’t forget to rank your Bond villains, henchmen (Jaws!), and songs. Adele’s Skyfall and Tina Turner’s Goldeneye are a couple of my favorites. I’d always thought that Jason Isaacs would’ve made a good Bond but he’s probably too old for it now. I recall some chatter about Idris Elba possibly getting a shot at it, but age might be a factor for him as well. Tom Hiddleston could probably pull it off.
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Sean Connery is still the best though Daniel Craig is very good.
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Yeah that’s my 1-2.
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I always wanted to see Sean Connery come back as a villain. Portishead should have been contacted to do a Bond song.
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Portishead doing bond. Interesting
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Bond. Rodrigo Bond.
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Post of the year!
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Sean Connery best Bond persona, but Daniel Craig series of reboots probably the best overall. Roger Moore had some fun ones along with some duds.
Nobody Does it Better edges Skyfall for best song.
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+1 to all of this. By the way if anyone watches Fleabag on Amazon/BBC (great show, highly recommend it) Daniel Craig insisted that Phoebe Waller-Bridge do a pass on the screenplay for this. I’m really excited, the trailer looks awesome.
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Watched the first episode of Fleabag and have had some trouble getting into it, but I hear that it gets better. What say ye?
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It’s true
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Skyfall is my #1
Here’s the location where Bond and M pause beside the Aston Martin before arriving at Skyfall: 56°37’10.0″N 4°55’52.0″W
Beautiful! Can’t wait to go someday
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Is it heresy to say you like all the Bonds (yes, even Tim Dalton and George Lazenby) and that they all did a decent job for the roles/eras they were required to play? I have only seen one of the Daniel Craig movies (shouldn’t they be on the TBS marathon rotation soon???)
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I agree with you, in that I can appreciate all the different Bonds and what they brought to the role.
Do yourself a favor and stream/watch “Casino Royale” without commercials. One of the best Bond movies there is, and a great reboot (and does probably the best job of capturing the Bond novel).
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I like OHMSS and Living Daylights.
Love almost all the Craig movies. Casino Royale and Skyfall are right there with From Russia… and Goldfinger for me. FRWL is still my favorite.
Would vote Live and Let Die best song.
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People watch movies on TBS? Or movies edited for TV in general?
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+1 for the TBS marathon crack
I swear they would run those the week around finals every quarter when I was at UGA and I always ended up watching more Bond than studying.
Best Bond Icon: Connery
Best Badass Bond: Craig
Bond Girls: I always liked the duo of Fiona Volpe and Domino from Thunderball
Movie: FRWL, Skyfall, Casino Royale
The 1st Bond Movie I remember: Moonraker
Villain: team of Goldfinger (for quips) & Oddjob
Next Bond: I like the suggestion of Hiddleston
I thought Brosnan was wasted as Bond as he had so much potential, but outside of Goldeneye and maybe one other movie, his series of movies were the worst with either bad overall stories or too much campiness.
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Oh, most laughable and now cringeworthy moments: You Only Live Twice. Connery as a Japanese guy is horribly funny and his sexist Asian counterpart (Tiger?) is ridiculous. But hey, ninjas FTW!
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I agree with all of this
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Skyfall is the best Bond movie, and everything else is fighting for second place. Sadly, after such a great Bond movie, Spectre was a total dud. Personally, I probably like Craig best, but think Brosnan did a great job with it too. Halle Berry at the top for Bond girls. I don’t know where it rates, but Sheana Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only” gets stuck in my head more than any other Bond song.
Would love for Elba to be the next one, but as noted above, probably getting too old for the role. Hiddleston might be able to pull it off, but it’s hard for me to see him in such a role after eight years of being Loki. Aside from that, most of the British actors I know about are my age, and therefore too old for the role.
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Jill St. John (Diamonds are Forever) is my favorite Bond Girl.
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Plenty O’Toole
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“Named for your father, perhaps?”
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Best Bond actor: Sean Connery
Best Bond movie: From Russia, With Love
Best Bond villain: Max Zorin (Christoper Walken – View to a Kill)
Best Bond song: Live and Let Die
Best Bond car: 1963 Aston Martin DB5
Best Bond girl: Anya Amasova (The Spy Who Loved Me)
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This list is objectively correct. The only acceptable substitution is Honey Ryder (Doctor No) as the Best Bond Girl. All other opinion are wrong.
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Waiting for one to be named “Goldfingered” and not wearing a wedding band
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Walken was so over the top. I think the fact that he knew A View to a Kill was so bad gave him license to just over-play the whole thing.
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Great list, dont need to make my own. The Connery films really capture the sort of spy craft romance and danger like no other. Brosnan did a great job, the newer films always feel too polished the way they are constructed.
My DVD collection is simply every Bond film made. I have no other movies that I own. My other DVD collection for TV is all the MASH episodes. End of my collection.
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I’m a Connery guy but Craig is very close. My favorite is probably Goldfinger followed very closely by Casino Royale. I liked all the Bonds in some of their movies, but Connery and Craig really didn’t make bad ones in my opinion.
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Quantum solace was not good
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Yeah, I thought about that. I could be persuaded it was bad. I thought SPECTRE was worse, actually. I just like Craig’s portrayal of Bond.
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And Thunderball, for being such a fun book, was such a bad movie. Everyone mailed it in.
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Best Bond: Sean Connery
Best film: Goldfinger
Best theme song: You Know My Name
Best Bond Girl: Jane Seymour
Best Villain: Auric Goldfinger
What can I say, I’m old fashioned.
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I couldn’t even start to choose the best bond girl. I could eliminate a few but to actually choose just one?
Ursula Andress, Jane Seymore, Lana Woods, Barbara Bach? How can a man choose just one?
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Jane Seymour was just wow. I’m “younger” than the bond films of that era so I only knew her when she was older, but got damn.
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PUSSY GALORE……
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Thank you I was waiting for her – what a name. Can you imagine the outrage today from all the feminist – snowflakes – politically correct – gender whatever’s.
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Best villain – probably the guy from Skyfall though Auric Goldfinger is good, so was the assassin in From Russia with Love
Best Bond girl – Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
Best song – You Only Live Twice
Next Bond – ? some unknown
Best car – DB5 for sure
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Eva Green in that movie was stunningly beautiful.
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She’s stunningly beautiful being possessed and having her head spin round.
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I think Craig is the worst Bond of all. The movies are entertaining but I just don’t like what he brings to Bond. The old Bonds were always portrayed as aloof playboys, which played well with being a secret agent. The fact that Bond was dangerous in those old movies was always latent. Craig’s character is the opposite, he always seems uptight and ready to explode with violence at the drop of a hat, which is the opposite of what one would expect from a “secret agent”. Just my two cents.
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Craig is probably the closest to what Fleming wrote, in that Bond was a brute/misanthrope in a tux, barely contained. I agree that he’s completely different from all the others.
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This^.
Craig is definitely my favorite.
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Craig is a great Bond, but the movies aren’t my favorite. In fact they’re not really Bond movies as we knew them previously. Bond has always been a large living bad ass secret agent lothario who gets the bad guy using bad ass toys, and usually settles on the finest of the women by the end of the movie, but by the next movie she’s mysteriously gone and we start all over.
The Daniel Craig Bond is a bad ass but instead of all the rest of that stuff he’s been changed to an angsty jilted lover who gets tangled up in sticky moral dilemmas, in basically one big ole arching story instead of mostly one off adventures.
I don’t think the series could have survived into the 21st century in the classic mold as far as the chauvinistic lothario behavior, but none of the rest needed changing. They’re very good movies, but I have to look at them as something other than “Bond movies” to really enjoy them. Just my two cents.
Also I’m pretty sure that trailer just introduced us to the next “Bond.”
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I think it’s the next 007, but maybe not the next Bond? They’re playing games, for sure.
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So Craig’s story lines brought depth and that’s it good? It was needed. Hot guy fucks hot girl while talking shit and using spy gadget isnt interesting.
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Exactly. The people who took over the franchise, like you, didn’t like Bond movies. So they made something different.
It’d be like if soccer people took over the NFL and replaced the football with a round ball that you can only touch with your feet. Then they would say, “it’s still ‘football’”. More people would watch, worldwide. It would be “more interesting” to most people. It would be cleansed of all the bad parts. But it wouldn’t be football as we always knew it. That’s all.
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I’m a fan of the old school Bond movies. Goldfinger, Dr. No, Thunderball, From Russia With Love, etc. My favorite bad guy is either Auric Goldfinger or Emilio Largo. My favorite henchman is Oddjob. Favorite Bond girls are Honey Ryder and Tatiana Romanova. And who doesn’t love a criminal organization with a secretive Number One and a name that spells out exactly what they are…SPECTRE…the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion!!!
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I almost forgot, best Bond double entendres or puns? One of my favorites is this one from The World is Not Enough.
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Being a space geek, I always liked this one:
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Outstanding!
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Thanks. I’m in. Sean Conney And Carole Baquet(sp?) In for your eyes only
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Thanks for the trailer. I hadn’t seen it.
Also, for those that care (I certainly do), I saw this trailer yesterday as well:
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I’m an MCU geek and very fired up for this movie. Trailer looks good. Re-watched “Endgame” last night for the first time since seeing it in theaters and it was even better the 2nd time.
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Craig has been in 2 of the top 3 Bond movies, one all time crap fest, and one meh.
As far as Bond movies go, that’s a pretty good hit rate actually.
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Fair
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Best Bond Movie: Thunderball
Best Villain: Auric Goldfinger
Best Song: Live and Let Die
Best Bond Girl: Ursula Andress
Best Bond Girl Name: Pussy Galore (no contest)
And hey, you kids get off my lawn!
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I can’t believe it took this far down to see Pussy Galore mentioned.
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Let’s not forget Dr Goodhead!
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Onatopp?
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Daniel Craig ain’t bad in “Knives Out”, a delightful movie.
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I’d like to see that. I thought he was a riot in Logan Lucky.
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First time I have seen that trailer. It looks like I have a new event just added to the calendar for April. Looks like a good send off for Daniel Craig as Bond. As for the best Bond- Sean Connery is and always will be THE James Bond but Daniel Craig has done a good job as well. Even thought he did a lot of Bond movies, Roger Moore just never seemed to be the right fit for me.
Goldfinger-“No Mr Bond, I expect you to die”. Blofeld. Oddjob and the list of great villans goes on. It will take some thought to come up with a true list with all the great choices to chose from.
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Bond and Star Wars. About the only movies I make a point to see in theatre these days.
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Best Bond: Connery is first but I love Craig. Totally different styles, I know, but love them both.
Best Bond movie: can’t decide between “Goldfinger” and “Skyfall”.
Best Bond song: “Goldfinger” by a country mile. “Nobody Does It Better” and “Live and Let Die” are in the running for 2nd but “Goldfinger” is just way better than all of them.
Best Bond villain: Auric Goldfinger
Best Bond girl: going off the grid here some – Natalya Simonova from “GoldenEye”. Vesper Lynd from “Casion Royale” is a close 2nd.
From what I’ve read about the new Bond movie, they will replace Bond with a new “007” agent (black British actress who was in “Captain Marvel”) but she will NOT be the new “James Bond”. No word yet on what they’re doing there.
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That’s correct. New super spy but not James Bond. Shell he introduced and handed off by Bond. Jane Bond. Lol. And James Bond maybe gone a long long time.
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I am only mildly entertained by Bond films. Less and less as I get some age on me.
My favorite Daniel Craig film is one of my all-time absolute favorite movies: Road to Perdition.
If you haven’t seen it and want to see Craig, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Jude Law turn in some of the best performances of their careers, you need to check it out.
Not only a great story combined with great performances, but one of the most beautifully filmed and scored movies you’ll ever see.
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Being the resident Library Dork, I like this film and it really exceeds the original graphic novel.
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Agreed! Great film!
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The Bond character will not come back until the current trend of Social Justice within the film industry finally goes away. Bond represents everything they think is wrong with society. He is a hetero-sexual, cis-gendered, white male that exploits sexually women, especially those of color, and exhibits the worst of toxic masculinity. In short, Bond is problematic. IMHO, making Bond “diverse” would not be sufficient to redeem the character and what he represents.
This is explicitly why Lashana Lynch is 007 and not “Jane Bond”. Successive 007s will be a string of increasingly “diverse” actors. It is unlikely that Bond will return for quite some time (I would guess about 15-20 years) unless they decide that a transgendered male actor can take the name.
It is sad that the movie industry’s desire to have more female leads had led them to get rid of Bond instead of coming up with new characters with unique stories / backgrounds. Film-Noir (and the best of the Bond Girls) has shown us that the Femme Fatal is the best and most intriguing of all characters. Spy movies with a female lead should write themselves. I hope this is what they do with the upcoming Black Widow movie. That needs to be a spy movie not a superhero movie.
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I’m not taking a stance here, I just want to comment that it is way “on the nose” the way film/tv is actively mainstreaming all kinds of gender and identity issues. It’s so obvious that, for example, they are placing a gender neutral adolescent in a lot of family dynamics and the actors usually go over the top trying to act like nobody notices.
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James Bond is dead. And your correct, just create new stories instead of overwriting old ones with current PC.
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I want twin chain guns mounted in the headlights of my truck.
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Ammo goes away fast
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The Definitive James Bond Ranking:
Daniel Craig – Sorry, not sorry. He best imbued the cold-blooded dangerous, don’t give a shit attitude of the original novels with the physicality missing since Connery.
Sean Connery (through YOLT) – The original. Not quite the debonair super spy of the original novels, but the physicality was there.
Timothy Dalton – Before Daniel Craig, he was the guy who best showed the cold-blooded killer James Bond. License to Kill is a fantastic James Bond movie; one of the best. It’s also what made him “unpopular” after the jokey Roger Moore films poorly redefined James Bond for a generation of fans.
George Lazenby – He usually gets crapped-on for being only in one film and for replacing Connery, but he’s in the best James Bond movie ever, so that counts for something.
Pierce Brosnan – The only good film he was in was his first one. The rest were garbage, each successive film worse than the last. He could’ve been a James Bond on par with Craig, he had the chops and the physicality to do it, but Eon learned all the wrong lessons from why the Dalton films “failed,” and returned to a less serious, more jokey Bond.
Roger Moore – Like Brosnan, his first film, Live and Let Die, was his best. The Spy Who Loved Me is also extremely good. But I can’t forgive the rest of his films which are complete garbage.
Top-10 Best Bond Films
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – This is the best Bond film, and it’s really not close. This movie brings us the best sequence, the mountain top assault, which is so iconic that Christopher Nolan recreated it for Inception. It brings us the best Bond Girl in Tracy, the only one Bond married. It brings us the best score. The theme of this film is so iconic that they used it in the trailers for Spectre to tell us how serious they were trying to be in that movie. The story with Blofeld is suitably crazy. Yes, George Lazenby isn’t the best Bond, but he does very well, and it would’ve been interesting to see what kind of Bond he would’ve been had he done more. The end of the film will break your heart.
Casino Royale – I know many people like Skyfall better, and it is a great film, but this James Bond reboot-origin story type thing fantastically provides us a window into everything that makes Bond, Bond. I wish they would’ve gone further than they did when they decided to keep Dame Judy Dench as M and explained that James Bond has been a codename that goes with the 007 designation (thus explaining why she is M for this Bond as well as Brosnan’s), but they didn’t and that’s fine. The movie is great. The Bond Girl is wonderfully complex.
Skyfall – This isn’t recency bias. I know many people will be like, “Were’s Goldfinger or all the others,” but this is a great movie all the way around. It’s the culmination of everything that came before to flesh out the James Bond origin, to bring us to the moment where Daniel Craig becomes JAMES BOND. The story is wonderfully written. The villain is top notch. The stunts are spectacular. The end of the film with the assault on Skyfall Manor, ancestral home of James Bond, with a wonderful appearance by Albert Finney, is balls to the wall action with an affecting conclusion. The last scene of the film with Joseph Fiennes’ new M and James Bond is absolute perfection.
From Russia With Love – I think what makes this film rank so highly for me is it’s the first “real” Bond film. Dr. No is a good story with a beautiful girl and a good location, but it was missing many elements that would become part and parcel of what we know “James Bond” to be. FRWL is the beginning of all that. Also, Robert Shaw is the perfect Bond villain as Red Grant.
Thunderball – Everything we “know” about the world of James Bond is put to work in this film in absolutely perfect ways. Blofeld. SPECTRE. Number Two. Trapdoors to a shark tank. Exotic locales. You know, everything that Mike Meyers would send up in his Austin Powers films. The stunts are amazing, especially all the under-water work. Action-packed, a perfect Sean Connery, an evil villain, and beautiful women. Can’t ask for more.
Goldfinger – I know this gets the nod for best Bond film for a lot of people, and it’s understandable. A great theme song, a great Bond girl-villain combo in the best-named Pussy Galore, but the villain played by Gert Frobe never really does it for me. It may be the poor ADR dubbing of his voice. I don’t know. Just never works for me all the way.
Licence to Kill – As many people may disagree with me about ranking Goldfinger 6th, I know many will also disagree with this, though they’re wrong. Timothy Dalton is an underrated James Bond. He didn’t fail. His first film failed him, which made many people not like this film either, even though it was a box office success. Also, people were used to a jokey James Bond, not this serious, cold-blooded killer out for revenge. The revenge tale is what makes this a great film. Is the villain the best? I mean, he’s not bent on world-wide domination. He’s not Blofeld. He’s a drug kingpin, but he’s a guy who messed with Bond’s only real friend in the world, so he has to die. And he’s also well-played by character actor and 80’s staple heavy Robert Davi This film also earns points for introducing us to a young Benicio Del Toro. What really shines here though is Dalton’s single-minded obsession to kill Sanchez. This Bond is scary.
GoldenEye – Yet another movie in which Sean Bean dies. The end. Hah. Kidding. The first, and only good, of Brosnan’s turn as James Bond reinvigorated the franchise and kind of combined Dalton’s more serious, harder-edged James Bond with Moore’s jokey gadget-heavy Bond, and for this one movie, it works well. Famke Janssen is a great villain with maybe the worst name ever. The beginning of the movie, used to bridge the gap from Cold War-era Bond with this new Communism is over Bond, brings together some great stunts with a fantastic set-piece of blowing up the dam. The villain being a former Double Oh and friend makes for a nice twist, although one you can see coming from miles away. Oh, and there’s a fun tank chase, too. A forgettable Bond girl and a decent theme top it all off with a BMW Z3 commercial tacked-on to boot.
Live and Let Die – There is a distinct lack of jokey Roger Moore moments in this film because it was originally was meant for Connery as a continuation from Diamonds Are Forever, but he again dropped-out, and Simon Templar, er, Roger Moore stepped-in. The villain is lame. The stunts are starting to get a bit lazy. Roger Moore can’t run or do much of anything physical. But damn if Jane Seymour isn’t an amazingly beautiful Bond Girl. Also, this is the best Bond Theme Song. That alone is enough to place it above the last film on the list.
The Spy Who Loved Me – In many ways this is a better film than Live and Let Die from a villain and story perspective, but again, it is painfully obvious that Roger Moore just doesn’t have the physicality needed to make this role work for him, and while not nearly as jokey as his other films, there’s still a lot of silliness going on in this movie.
Top-10 Best Bond Theme Songs
Live and Let Die – This song rocks. Literally. It’s one of the few Bond themes that it is an honest to goodness rock song. By a Beatle no less!
Skyfall – Amazingly beautiful. Adele is a goddess.
Goldfinger – Gooooold-FINGUH!!!! [wa-waaah-wa!]
Nobody Does it Better – One of the only songs not named after the film title (The Spy Who Loved Me). A great song by a great voice.
Theme from OHMSS – John Barry’s Bond-ian masterpiece as far as I’m concerned.
You Know My Name – I love Chris Cornell’s theme. Another Bond that rocks, as it were. It fits the mood of the movie, that’s for sure.
Diamonds are Forever – One of the worst films in the series has one of the best songs. Shirley Bassey IS James Bond.
Thunderball – Tom Jones brings it in the song to most awkwardly shoe-horn in the title of the movie into the song lyrics.
For Your Eyes Only – Sheena Easton’s going for some Carly Simon-like emoting here, and almost pulls it off believe it or not.
GoldenEye – Tina Turner puts in an admirable effort to a mostly forgettable song.
Top-10 Bond Girls
Tracy Bond, OHMSS – I mean, it’s Dame Diana Rigg, and she’s the only one he married. The last scene of the film, with Bond cradling her lifeless body in his arms is heartbreaking.
Vesper Lynd, Casino Royale – The woman he would’ve given it all up for had she not deceived him. And then died.
Pussy Galore, Goldfinger – Great name. An ass-kicker villainess turned good.
Honey Ryder, Dr. No – The proto-Bond girl. The first. The one to which all others are measured, and usually found wanting.
Tatiana Romanova, FRWL – Beautiful. More to her than meets the eye.
6.Solitaire, LALD – She’s a virgin psychic whose powers are removed by James Bond’s… um, manhood.
Domino, Thunderball – Not just beautiful, but handy with a speargun, too.
Anya Amasova, TSWLM – Not just a Bond Girl, but a KGB Agent in her own right with a ridiculous code name (Triple X) to boot.
Eve Moneypenny, Skyfall – Can you be a Bond Girl if you don’t do the deed with Bond? First she shoots Bond, then she shaves him, and then she becomes the Secretary / Bodyguard for M. Quite the career arc.
Madeleine Swann, SPECTRE – The Bond Girl on which the entire film hinges, and also the Bond Girl who Bond decides to leave it all behind for in an homage to Tracy.
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Why if you number something, it removes the numbers and then squishes everything together? This is weird and we need an editing feature to fix stuff.
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I actually hear the “wa-waaah-wa” in my head as I was reading that.
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Have they ever said how many double-O agents there are at any one time? There can only be nine, right? 001 through 009. The only other one I can recall seeing was Double-O Six in Goldeneye, but I think there were one or two others shown throughout the films.
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They mention 009 dying at the beginning of Octopussy.
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And show him dying by the knife thrower in the circus.
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I honestly have some vivid memories of some scenes, but I often struggle place them in their films. 26 movies will do that.
I lost interest with the Dalton entries – not his fault, just poor direction and a tired formula. The people handling the Craig films have done wonders. Skyfall and Casino Royale are just great movies, Bond or not.
Tatiana is my favorite Bond girl. I was 11 when Moonraker came out, and the name Holly Goodhead still makes me snicker like a 4th trader. When my Sunday School class rants on popular culture, I can always throw out, “Um, Pussy Galore? Holly Goodhead?”
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I’ve never watched a Bond movie in my life. Not joking.
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Best Bond actor: Sean Connery
Best Bond movie: Thunderball
Best Bond villain: Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee)
Best Bond song: Goldfinger
Best Bond car: 1980 Lotus Esprit Turbo (I’ve always loved the look of that car with the ski rack and his Olins, and showing my age as a teenager in the 80’s)
Best Bond girl: Anya Amasova (The Spy Who Loved Me, Barbara Bach)
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1983 was my senior year in high school. Never Say Never Again came out with Kim Basinger (I think Sean Connery may have been in it too, but I remember her!). It never got better than that to me.
TripleB
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Best movie – The spy who shagged me
Best Bond – Mike Myers
Best villain- Mike Myers
Best Bond girl – Elizabeth Hurley
Best Song – I Touch Myself by Divinyls
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Of course Sean Connery was the best James Bond.
he was also the coolest wearing that Rolex submariner. I use to borrow my dads and take it out with me on Saturday night on date night with my girlfriend. lol.
Roger Moore sported a Seiko. Come on guys that’s lame
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Hey, don’t knock Seiko!
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April? April? I’m ready to go see it right now!
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Bonds: Connery, Lazenby, Craig, the rest
Films: 1a) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1b) From Russia With Love, 2) Casino Royale 3) the first 15 minutes of The Living Daylights
Girls: 1) Tatiana Romanova 2)Tracy (Draco) Bond 3)Natalya Simonova
Villains: 1) Telly Savalas’s Blofeld 2) Wint & Kidd 3) Zorin
Who’s the next 007 is already decided so that’s irrelevant. The next Bond hasn’t been born.
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Another category: Best Double Entendre’
First Nominee: From Russia With Love
Chick: “I think my mouth is too small”
James: “No, it’s just the right size.”
And remember, this is 1962.
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Obviously things like this are very subjective and can depend on your age somewhat but for me……..
Sean Connery, Roger Moore by a mile for best Bonds
You Only Live Twice for the best song
Goldfinger for best movie
And how could Pussy Galore not be the best Bond girl name?
Jane Seymour the most attractive
That’s this old man’s list, I know many others will be different
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great song. TV show “Mad Men” used it so well to end season 5. Good fried, if I looked like Don Draper and played that song on repeat, I’d be such a hound dog.
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Roger Moore is swollen with red wine and steak and some of the editing is awful, but the intro parachute jumped paired with a great song in “The Spy Who Loved Me” is incredible.
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It will be Bond. Jane Bond. And there will be Bond Boys instead.
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See my comments above. Bond is being retired since the character is “problematic”. The 007 tag is being handed off to Lashana Lynch. Do not expect the name Bond to be used for quite some time.
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I think they are doing what everyone is doing right now: expanding the franchise.
We’re going to get parallel Super Spies, one male, one females, and their stories will intertwine at times, and then we’ll get the streaming spinoff Moneypenny and then…
The only thing media companies consider “problematic” is a failure to explore all possible franchise revenue streams
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When it tanks, and they lose tens of millions, like the latest Charlie’s Angel’s POS.
They’ll find another James Bond right quick.
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Apologies… I would not normally do something like this, because we can’t delete or edit comments. There’s something in the WordPress that does something when you create numbered lists that deletes the numbers and smooshes everything together. So I’m reposting my post here so it can be legible.
The Definitive James Bond Ranking:
Daniel Craig – Sorry, not sorry. He best imbued the cold-blooded dangerous, don’t give a shit attitude of the original novels with the physicality missing since Connery.
Sean Connery (through YOLT) – The original. Not quite the debonair super spy of the original novels, but the physicality was there.
Timothy Dalton – Before Daniel Craig, he was the guy who best showed the cold-blooded killer James Bond. License to Kill is a fantastic James Bond movie; one of the best. It’s also what made him “unpopular” after the jokey Roger Moore films poorly redefined James Bond for a generation of fans.
George Lazenby – He usually gets crapped-on for being only in one film and for replacing Connery, but he’s in the best James Bond movie ever, so that counts for something.
Pierce Brosnan – The only good film he was in was his first one. The rest were garbage, each successive film worse than the last. He could’ve been a James Bond on par with Craig, he had the chops and the physicality to do it, but Eon learned all the wrong lessons from why the Dalton films “failed,” and returned to a less serious, more jokey Bond.
Roger Moore – Like Brosnan, his first film, Live and Let Die, was his best. The Spy Who Loved Me is also extremely good. But I can’t forgive the rest of his films which are complete garbage.
Top-10 Best Bond Films
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – This is the best Bond film, and it’s really not close. This movie brings us the best sequence, the mountain top assault, which is so iconic that Christopher Nolan recreated it for Inception. It brings us the best Bond Girl in Tracy, the only one Bond married. It brings us the best score. The theme of this film is so iconic that they used it in the trailers for Spectre to tell us how serious they were trying to be in that movie. The story with Blofeld is suitably crazy. Yes, George Lazenby isn’t the best Bond, but he does very well, and it would’ve been interesting to see what kind of Bond he would’ve been had he done more. The end of the film will break your heart.
Casino Royale – I know many people like Skyfall better, and it is a great film, but this James Bond reboot-origin story type thing fantastically provides us a window into everything that makes Bond, Bond. I wish they would’ve gone further than they did when they decided to keep Dame Judy Dench as M and explained that James Bond has been a codename that goes with the 007 designation (thus explaining why she is M for this Bond as well as Brosnan’s), but they didn’t and that’s fine. The movie is great. The Bond Girl is wonderfully complex.
Skyfall – This isn’t recency bias. I know many people will be like, “Were’s Goldfinger or all the others,” but this is a great movie all the way around. It’s the culmination of everything that came before to flesh out the James Bond origin, to bring us to the moment where Daniel Craig becomes JAMES BOND. The story is wonderfully written. The villain is top notch. The stunts are spectacular. The end of the film with the assault on Skyfall Manor, ancestral home of James Bond, with a wonderful appearance by Albert Finney, is balls to the wall action with an affecting conclusion. The last scene of the film with Joseph Fiennes’ new M and James Bond is absolute perfection.
From Russia With Love – I think what makes this film rank so highly for me is it’s the first “real” Bond film. Dr. No is a good story with a beautiful girl and a good location, but it was missing many elements that would become part and parcel of what we know “James Bond” to be. FRWL is the beginning of all that. Also, Robert Shaw is the perfect Bond villain as Red Grant.
Thunderball – Everything we “know” about the world of James Bond is put to work in this film in absolutely perfect ways. Blofeld. SPECTRE. Number Two. Trapdoors to a shark tank. Exotic locales. You know, everything that Mike Meyers would send up in his Austin Powers films. The stunts are amazing, especially all the under-water work. Action-packed, a perfect Sean Connery, an evil villain, and beautiful women. Can’t ask for more.
Goldfinger – I know this gets the nod for best Bond film for a lot of people, and it’s understandable. A great theme song, a great Bond girl-villain combo in the best-named Pussy Galore, but the villain played by Gert Frobe never really does it for me. It may be the poor ADR dubbing of his voice. I don’t know. Just never works for me all the way.
Licence to Kill – As many people may disagree with me about ranking Goldfinger 6th, I know many will also disagree with this, though they’re wrong. Timothy Dalton is an underrated James Bond. He didn’t fail. His first film failed him, which made many people not like this film either, even though it was a box office success. Also, people were used to a jokey James Bond, not this serious, cold-blooded killer out for revenge. The revenge tale is what makes this a great film. Is the villain the best? I mean, he’s not bent on world-wide domination. He’s not Blofeld. He’s a drug kingpin, but he’s a guy who messed with Bond’s only real friend in the world, so he has to die. And he’s also well-played by character actor and 80’s staple heavy Robert Davi This film also earns points for introducing us to a young Benicio Del Toro. What really shines here though is Dalton’s single-minded obsession to kill Sanchez. This Bond is scary.
GoldenEye – Yet another movie in which Sean Bean dies. The end. Hah. Kidding. The first, and only good, of Brosnan’s turn as James Bond reinvigorated the franchise and kind of combined Dalton’s more serious, harder-edged James Bond with Moore’s jokey gadget-heavy Bond, and for this one movie, it works well. Famke Janssen is a great villain with maybe the worst name ever. The beginning of the movie, used to bridge the gap from Cold War-era Bond with this new Communism is over Bond, brings together some great stunts with a fantastic set-piece of blowing up the dam. The villain being a former Double Oh and friend makes for a nice twist, although one you can see coming from miles away. Oh, and there’s a fun tank chase, too. A forgettable Bond girl and a decent theme top it all off with a BMW Z3 commercial tacked-on to boot.
Live and Let Die – There is a distinct lack of jokey Roger Moore moments in this film because it was originally was meant for Connery as a continuation from Diamonds Are Forever, but he again dropped-out, and Simon Templar, er, Roger Moore stepped-in. The villain is lame. The stunts are starting to get a bit lazy. Roger Moore can’t run or do much of anything physical. But damn if Jane Seymour isn’t an amazingly beautiful Bond Girl. Also, this is the best Bond Theme Song. That alone is enough to place it above the last film on the list.
The Spy Who Loved Me – In many ways this is a better film than Live and Let Die from a villain and story perspective, but again, it is painfully obvious that Roger Moore just doesn’t have the physicality needed to make this role work for him, and while not nearly as jokey as his other films, there’s still a lot of silliness going on in this movie.
Top-10 Best Bond Theme Songs
Live and Let Die – This song rocks. Literally. It’s one of the few Bond themes that it is an honest to goodness rock song. By a Beatle no less!
Skyfall – Amazingly beautiful. Adele is a goddess.
Goldfinger – Gooooold-FINGUH!!!! [wa-waaah-wa!]
Nobody Does it Better – One of the only songs not named after the film title (The Spy Who Loved Me). A great song by a great voice.
Theme from OHMSS – John Barry’s Bond-ian masterpiece as far as I’m concerned.
You Know My Name – I love Chris Cornell’s theme. Another Bond that rocks, as it were. It fits the mood of the movie, that’s for sure.
Diamonds are Forever – One of the worst films in the series has one of the best songs. Shirley Bassey IS James Bond.
Thunderball – Tom Jones brings it in the song to most awkwardly shoe-horn in the title of the movie into the song lyrics.
For Your Eyes Only – Sheena Easton’s going for some Carly Simon-like emoting here, and almost pulls it off believe it or not.
GoldenEye – Tina Turner puts in an admirable effort to a mostly forgettable song.
Top-10 Bond Girls
Tracy Bond, OHMSS – I mean, it’s Dame Diana Rigg, and she’s the only one he married. The last scene of the film, with Bond cradling her lifeless body in his arms is heartbreaking.
Vesper Lynd, Casino Royale – The woman he would’ve given it all up for had she not deceived him. And then died.
Pussy Galore, Goldfinger – Great name. An ass-kicker villainess turned good.
Honey Ryder, Dr. No – The proto-Bond girl. The first. The one to which all others are measured, and usually found wanting.
Tatiana Romanova, FRWL – Beautiful. More to her than meets the eye.
Solitaire, LALD – She’s a virgin psychic whose powers are removed by James Bond’s… um, manhood.
Domino, Thunderball – Not just beautiful, but handy with a speargun, too.
Anya Amasova, TSWLM – Not just a Bond Girl, but a KGB Agent in her own right with a ridiculous code name (Triple X) to boot.
Eve Moneypenny, Skyfall – Can you be a Bond Girl if you don’t do the deed with Bond? First she shoots Bond, then she shaves him, and then she becomes the Secretary / Bodyguard for M. Quite the career arc.
Madeleine Swann, SPECTRE – The Bond Girl on which the entire film hinges, and also the Bond Girl who Bond decides to leave it all behind for in an homage to Tracy.
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Looks like CMB might be on the market
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Interesting. Was the problem recruiting or coaching them up?
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Andy Staples has talked about this over the last few years. It’s become almost impossible to win in CFB with a pro style offense unless you have blue chips everywhere, but especially on the o-line. It’s why so few teams run a pro style offense anymore.
Bobo’s scheme with Georgia’s talent, however, more collective talent than he ever had under Mark Richt, especially on the o-line, would be unstoppable.
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From 2011-2014 with the talent level Bobo had up front, they were pretty darn hard to stop. Give him the kind of talent he would be inheriting on the o-line with the Pitt Boss, and we could be unstoppable.
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Hope we can get Bobo back as OC. That should solve all our problems on O. Can you imagine what the team will be like if that comes to pass?
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Everything is happening exactly as I predicted.
I expect him in Athens tonight. He’ll have two days to help with Fromm’s awful mechanics that have devolved under Coley and to help Coley game plan for Saturday.
I still expect us to lose, but I expect Fromm to look better and more confident with just a little bit of Bobo’s help.
I then expect our offense to go out and put 40 points on Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.
I also expect James Coley to quietly leave for TAMU as Kirby makes the correct determination that he can have a great coach AND a great recruiter in Bobo for the same price as Coley.
2020 the Dawgs win the National Title behind the best defense in CFB and a top-10 offense.
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I like where you say same price a Coley because Bobo probably has options (especially with a spot opening up at SoCar) and Kirby might need to leverage the Georgia Way in paying some cash and the Coley number would be a nice spot to get a “Mama Called’ discount or start a bidding war.
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If Coley is rumored to be getting one of the Florida openings (see other threads), Bobo will be back in Athens. If the OC/QB job opens up, I can’t imagine that Kirby goes in any other direction.
Bobo likes to run the ball and use play action. Throw in some HUNH, and this is what Kirby wants to do.
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Oh please, oh please, oh please!
We could use another analyst right about now. And probably a new OC come January.
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I’ve actually given this question a lot of thought as it has been a subject of discussion for years. I like all the Bonds equally because it is the character not the actor that makes James Bond. The producers have been very good at selecting actors who portray the character of James Bond consistent with the scripts. I have no favorite. I like them all.
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This was fun. But I find the 10 different “it’s not even close” amusing.
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I have to say you people are morons. Ursula Andress is THE Bond girl. Go to you tube and watch her coming out of the water in “Dr. No”. If you are not gobsmacked, you’re not heterosexual.
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Specs is falling behind in the Lou Groza poll. Do your part:
https://www.lougrozaaward.com/19finalists
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