I was so sure that you were going to vote Telly Savalas as the best villain after you said OHMSS was the best movie.Best Bond: Daniel Craig. Tough, gritty. An assassin. He is the blunt tool that gets things done, but is remarkably intelligent - he just doesn't always use that intelligence. I can relate to that.
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Close second: Sean Connery. Simply cool, throughout all of time and space. If a malevolent alien race were to monitor our tv signals and decide to destroy the vapid earth, they would stop and turn around once they discovered we had Connery.
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Turnaround Bond: I grew up with Roger Moore. He was my first bond, and for a long time could not accept the older Connery or the newer Bonds. As I matured, I realized that Moore was Leisure Suit Larry as a spy. Just terrible.
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Best movie: I still think On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best of all movies, but could easily be convinced that it's Casino Royale. Both make the Bond character multidimensional. OHMSS however, does a better job of portraying Bond as imperfect. The electro-shock trying to default the door locking system felt like a real mistake. I like my heros to also be human. Unfortunately, Lazenby didn't seem very tough. He might not balk at a gun, but if you smeared his make-up, he'd surrender in a heartbeat.
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Bond Woman, : Elektra King. I mean, come on.
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Bond Woman, Memorable Name: Pussy Galore. 1964, you would never survive in today's world.
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Best Kill: Bond vs King. Cold. Real. Brutal. Sad.
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Best Bond Villain: This is tough. Doctor No was the automaton you expected from the books. Jaws was memorable. Le Chiffre was as cold and calculating as you would expect him to be, and was brilliantly acted. Goldfinger... well he's on par with a certain American president. But I'm gonna say (for today) that the best villain was Raoul Silvia. Badass. Psychotic. Motivated. Intelligent. Probably gay (not that it matters, but to include it as a main character trait, pretty awesome and forward thinking).
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Not a lot of times I disagree with Poker Zombie, but Silva is just Zorin 2.0Best Bond Villain: This is tough. Doctor No was the automaton you expected from the books. Jaws was memorable. Le Chiffre was as cold and calculating as you would expect him to be, and was brilliantly acted. Goldfinger... well he's on par with a certain American president. But I'm gonna say (for today) that the best villain was Raoul Silvia. Badass. Psychotic. Motivated. Intelligent. Probably gay (not that it matters, but to include it as a main character trait, pretty awesome and forward thinking).
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Leave it to an Aussie to put winter right in the middle of summertime.When the wife is at work, it was 2 degrees this morning and you are avoiding spending money before holiday, what else do you do but sit under a blanket and watch James bond all day.
And yes @detroitdad im finally watching the connery movies. Its Goldfinger time right now
Have any of you ever done a Bond film marathon, all in order?
Could someone please go check on @pltrgyst ? It seems he's hit his head, because he's muttering nonsense.
If he does this to an Irish accent, I don't want to imagine what he'd do to an English one.Hey, tens of millions of stupid Americans go to see him play 6"5", 250 pound Jack Reacher, so I figure Bond would be a cakewalk...
I do love quantum of solace (novel).Have you read the books? @Phantom got me hooked on them
I’m reading for your eyes only just now. Quite cool having lots of short stories...The best.
Well novels are much different than movies plus for no English are quite uneasy to read. I do have Casino Royale but to be frank read only parts where Bond plays baccarat.I’m reading for your eyes only just now. Quite cool having lots of short stories...
I’m biased but it’s Big Sean all day long.Craig is definitely my favorite Bond...hands down. Just seems to be the most “real life”.
Who are you.TLDR this thread.
But i just started watching GoldenEye and my god, some of these Bond movies are so bad. 1995 ? wtf. Is that the best they could do?
Thats it. Carry on.
edit: on a positive note,,, some of the newer Bond movies are pretty good.
Maybe don't watch the rest of the Brosnan movies. They get progressively shitter.I grew up watching these, and LOVING them,,, but FFS!. the opening 20 minutes of Goldeneye is some of the worst. I thought it was a spoof.
Maybe don't watch the rest of the Brosnan movies. They get progressively shitter.
The first Daniel Craig movie, Casino Royale is great though. And so it's Skyfall. The other two of his aren't so good though
Dalton, Connery and Lazenby are great. Brosnan is okay and I can tolerate Moore but Craig is just an utterly bland charmless thug who isn't even close to Bond. It could be any straight to DVD character.I read today that the Broccoli family are wheeling out Daniel Craig once again to flog the dead horse that is the Bond franchise. Apart from Casino Royal his turn at being Bond has been pretty forgettable. Brosnan’s first movie was his only one worth bothering with so I was lamenting the sad state of affairs with what used to be a great franchise. It got me wondering who was the best Bond and which movie was the greatest.
No real shocks here. Obviously for me it’s big Sean and I don’t think they’ll ever beat Goldfinger. What’s your thoughts?
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Zero interest in this, even if there wasn't a pandemic. Craig is terrible. They might as well have cast Chuck Norris
New trailer has landed. I'm very excited. Nothing beats a Bond movie.
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