Your favourite Bond movie?

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Drumstick** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:15 pm

Gah. My favourites are You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Goldneye. I voted for the latter.

A View to a kill is one of the worst Bond films. It's just terrible.
Critics and Roger Moore agree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_To_ ... _reception

Release and reception

A View to A Kill was the first Bond film with a premiere outside of the UK, opening on 22 May 1985 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts.[18] The British premiere was held on 12 June 1985 at the Odeon Leicester Square Cinema in London.[7] The film was first broadcast on British television on 31 January 1990. It achieved a box office collection of US $152.4 million worldwide with 50.3 million in the United States alone.[19][20] On its opening Weekend in the US it earned $10.6 million.[20]

Rotten Tomatoes currently gives A View to a Kill a 39% "Rotten" rating.[21] One of the most common criticisms was that Roger Moore's age was 57 - Sean Connery declared that "Bond should be played by an actor 35, 33 years old. I’m too old. Roger’s too old, too!".[18] Moore has also stated A View to a Kill as his least favourite film. He was quoted saying "I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said 'That wasn't Bond, those weren't Bond films.' It stopped being what they were all about. You didn't dwell on the blood and the brains spewing all over the place".[22] The film was mentioned by Brian J. Arthurs of the Beach Reporter as the worst film of the Bond series.[21] John Puccio of DVDtown.com said, "No Bond outing is awful, but this one comes close."[21] C. Pea of the Time Out Film Guide said, "Grace Jones is badly wasted."[23] Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the worst Bond movie,[24] while IGN staff chose it as the fourth worst, over The Man With The Golden Gun, Die Another Day and Diamonds are Forever.[25] In a December 2007 interview, Roger Moore remarked, "I was only about four hundred years too old for the part."[26]

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Kanbei** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:17 pm

It's Goldeneye or Casino Royale...difficult one...

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Superking** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:18 pm

Goldfinger followed by Goldeneye followed by Live and Let die. Stop voting for Casino Royale :fp:

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Denster** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:20 pm

CosmoKramer wrote:
Denster wrote:As galling as it is. I actually agree with Tom the ballbag!

I'm going to murder Shedders.

Long time since you inspired a sig!
Too long!

CosmoKramer wrote:Goldeneye.

For England, James?

No.

For me.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Gandalf** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:28 pm

It's between Casino Royale, Goldeneye or Live and Let Die.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **E-Man** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:36 pm

Not really sure, either Goldeneye, Casino Royale or Goldfinger. I'll vote for Goldeneye.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **sw26** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:37 pm

Goldfinger is far and away my favourite.

I must have watched it about 20 times now and still revisit it every so often.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Octoroc** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:40 pm

I like Moonraker because it is set in space and has laser guns which makes it more like Star Wars than any of the other Bond movies with the possible exception of You Only Live Twice which also has space bits in it, but sadly has no laser guns in it. All of this is especially good in 1979 whilst we are waiting for The Empire Strikes Back to come out.

Moonraker also reprises the role of bond-villain Jaws, except this time he is involved in a humorously mismatched relationship with a wee slip of a lassie which adds to the entertainment and also allows us to see a different, more gentle side to Jaws' normally somewhat abrasive nature which is good because he was far too scary in The Spy Who Loved Me and gave me nightmares.

Octoroc (aged 9)

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Floex** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:43 pm

Mr Plough wrote:Goldfinger followed by Goldeneye followed by Live and Let die. Stop voting for Casino Royale

Your saying it's a bad film then?

Silly little Octoroc, far too naive to know that Moonraker was a CYNICAL attempt by the Bond producers to cash in on Star Wars mania that was rife at the time. Best thing about the film was the Bond girl's name. Holly Goodhead.

Tee hee.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Superking** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:46 pm

No its a good film its just not the best Bond film and its way to early to call it that anyway.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **tomvek** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:17 pm

It's a toss up between Goldeneye, The Living Daylights and Casino Royale. I really liked Dalton as Bond and for a long time he was my favourite though I think Craig takes a lot of the good aspects that Dalton had and added to them.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Octoroc** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:22 pm

Drunken_Master wrote:Silly little Octoroc, far too naive to know that Moonraker was a CYNICAL attempt by the Bond producers to cash in on Star Wars mania that was rife at the time. Best thing about the film was the Bond girl's name. Holly Goodhead.

Tee hee.

Cynical or not, it had spaceships, a space station and LASER GUNS.

I read on Wikipedia that it was originally going to be Moore's first Bond film back in 1969- clearly a CYNICAL attempt to cash in on the Space Race. It doesn't say what made them change their minds. I wonder how it would have compared to Kubrik's 2001?

Octoroc wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:Silly little Octoroc, far too naive to know that Moonraker was a CYNICAL attempt by the Bond producers to cash in on Star Wars mania that was rife at the time. Best thing about the film was the Bond girl's name. Holly Goodhead.

Tee hee.

Cynical or not, it had spaceships, a space station and LASER GUNS.

I read on Wikipedia that it was originally going to be Moore's first Bond film back in 1969- clearly a CYNICAL attempt to cash in on the Space Race. It doesn't say what made them change their minds. I wonder how it would have compared to Kubrik's 2001?

For your Eyes only was to be the follow up to The Spy who love me. It even says so at the end of the film. I wonder what made them change their minds?

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **Superking** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:26 pm

I'm in the process of reading Moonraker at the mo as it happens. Its supposed to be far different to the Film and indeed much better as most of the books are. Incidentally The book Live and let die is almost comically racist though I think thats just a sign of the time it was written rather than anything else.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **satriales** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:02 pm

The Living Daylights - Dalton is the best Bond.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **PuppetBoy** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:07 pm

Out of curiosity, which ones would everyone say are their least favourite Bond films?

Mine are Moonraker and Die Another Day. I really dislike both of those.

PostRe: Your favourite Bond movie? by **satriales** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:08 pm

Thunderball is the worst.

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