James Bond movies are extremely popular and have been since the very beginning. They are full of intrigue, sex, gadgets, and money – what more could you want in a film?! For todays “your view” I want to know what your favorite Bond movie is of all time. You can include films from the main franchise or any of the extra films that are not considered part of it by the true aficionados.
When answering this question, be sure to give us your reasons for your answer – it gives us a chance to debate!
What is the best James Bond film ever made and why?
My view on this question is easily the new Casino Royale. The reason is that we see a much more humanistic Bond – he is also more rutheless which I believe is more fitting to the style of films and his character. Now, tell me what you think!
Goldfinger and Casino Royale
Casino Royale. All the others aren’t very good.
The new Casino Royale, for the same reason you mention.
I agree about Goldfinger
No, casino royal is not one of the best bond films. it was one of the worst! come on…
from russia with love was good, sean connery is the man
also pierce brosnan and halle berry in die another day i thought was good.
I’ve never been much of a “Bond person” but I always liked Die Another Day for some reason…
Easily Casino Royale! I agree with your reasoning Jamie but as well in an interview with the filmmakers I read that this film is more like the original books. They said that in the books Bond WAS Blonde.
I loved Casino Royale and Goldeneye.
I know you all will laugh your asses off when I tell you mine but I have always liked Moonraker. Mostly because it has a bit of scifi to it and I love scifi, plus Moore is my favorite Bond,however,I need to see Casino Royale. I also like live and let die.
Best Bond Film – Goldfinger.
Best Bond Films (In Order)
- Goldfinger
- From Russia With Love
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Casino Royale
I always thought Goldfinger was the epitome of Bond films. I think the sub-catagory here is who is your ultimate Bond, and Goldfinger really cemented Connery as the model. I never seem to grow tired of that film.
But as the years went by, the things that made Bond who he was – the gadgets, the stupid catchphrases, relations with women and over the top stunts, started to get more and more farcical and tired. That reasoning alone is why the new Casino Royale is so good. They attempted to make a much more serious spy movie without all of the cornball antics and gimmicks and they succeeded. My two older children never liked the Bond stuff before Casino Royale. I felt it was a refreshing take on the series, if not a damn good movie overall.
And, obviously, when we talk of “Casino Royale”, we talk of the Daniel Craig reboot, and not that awful Peter Sellers/David Niven spoof.
Another funny thing is I really didn’t care for Roger Moore, but I absolutely loved Live and Let Die. I guess I thought it was kind of creepy that gramps was making out with a hot 20 something coed. But Live and Let Die is a hell of a ride!
i have to agree with Casino Royale. i have been a die-hard Bond fan for years (the Ian Fleming books, not necessarily the movies) and often found the gadgets Q had in the movies from, say, 1962 to 2006 unrealistic or even asinine.
Casino Royale captured my mental version of Bond like no other-and although the old Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton “Bonds” had suave, nobody, and I do mean NOBODY embodies Fleming’s Bond better than Daniel Craig. (Casino Royale is also the highest Box-office grossing bond film EVER)
Craig’s age, physique, attitude, persona, calculating, indifferent character, and ultimate *****-appeal just drives me wild as Bond!
(let’s just say that i wasn’t thinking of my boyfriend that evening after the movie when we where in bed…)
p.s. can’t wait until Quantum of Solace is released in November!
I have to agree with you Jamie, Casino Royale. My reasoning is simple. 1. It shows Bond as a real person 2. He is a complete badass. Simple.
Oh yeah, I also really like Daniel Craig. He was fantastic in Layer Cake.
Quantum of Solace will be the best one. Don’t take my word for it though, I am kinda partial because I am part of the production team.
No Contest. Goldfinger
~WTom: no way! where are you? can we grab a coffee? and do you have any pre-release pics of Craig?
no… on second thought… i do not want to ruin the present that Solace will be… plus i don’t want you to think i like you only because you are on the production team… but because i know nothing else about you, what could i like?
rtr
Dr. No (Ursula Andress back in the 60′s guys!)or From Russia w/ Love…
I love the Ian Flemming novels, Casino Royale is my fave spy book and subsequently Casino Royale (05) is my favorite Bond movie even though that hack Paul Haggis got his paws on the rewrites.
I’m not much of a Bond fan, but of the movies I have seen, I’d have to say Goldeneye was the best by far. Definitely an underrated movie. The game was good too.
+Casino Royale+
Because he is *****y, he is raw, he is brave, he falls in love.
I like Goldeneye, and Tomorrow Never Dies because Michelle Yeoh was in it. But I have to say the villains were really lame.
I have to agree that Casino Royal is my personal favorite. I loved the more human side of James Bond. It also explains a lot about his personality in the other movies. That said I had never seen a James Bond movie until 5 years ago. I know. I must be a Commie or something, I just can’t stand Sean Connery, so it kind of turned me off to the whole thing. My husband, however, was not willing to marry a woman who wouldn’t watch James Bond. So to save my relationship I gave it a try. And I haven’t seen one that I didn’t like. Sean Connery and all. It doesn’t hurt that Daniel Craig is the *****iest bond ever. Period. There can be NO arguing that point.
Goldeneye for the intro sequence. When I saw it at the cinema everyone clapped!
Casino Royal very good too though..
Best Bonds
1)Brosnan
2)Craig
3)Connery
4)Dalton
5)Moore
6)Lasenby
BAH! Brosnan can’t act worth a damn. He’s a total one trick pony. That being said, he was a total pretty boy Bond. That’s it. He never really did anything.
Anybody who knows anything about James Bond (and has seen *all* of them – that’s right, I own the *entire* DVD collection) know that “From Russia With Love” is hands-down the greatest Bond film of them all.
Moonraker was *****e, by the way. Worse than OHMSS, which is saying a lot because George Lazenby was by far the worst of the Bonds. I didn’t much care for Roger Moore…though I liked the first one he did “Live and Let Die.” He took the James Bond that Connery worked so hard to bring to life (the calculated, scheming, hyperintelligent, cold-blooded killer) and turned him into a damn gadget-wielding clown.
As soon as I say the title I was thinking Casino Royal. Then I open it up thinking that I might be the only one because all I ever here is how that Bond was the worst ever.
But then I see near everyone agrees.
Brosnan? LOL Navan man himself. Couldn’t act if his life depended on it. Depressing to think but the only real actor in that list is Dalton. And he’s no great shakes.
Ringtail Roxy:
I should point at that Craig was trying to capture the essence of Connery’s Bond from the first two or three Bond movies. Ian Flemming even said that Sean Connery was the picture-perfect idea that he himself had of James Bond in Dr. No and From Russia w/ Love.
Mostly everyone is saying “casino royale” because they have never seen any of the pre-Brosnan bond films. There goes the pop-culture scene rattling its ***** stick again. *rolls eyes*
Goldfinger. I mean, come on people. It’s freakin’ Goldfinger.
And there is no other Bond than Sean Connery. As good as Daniel Craig was in Casino Royale, he still isn’t quite the equal of Connery. None of the others even come close. Particularly pretty boys like Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. Those two were NEVER believable in that role… when you watch Sean Connery onscreen, you get this undercurrent of feeling that yes, this guy could kick your ass, kill you with his bare hands. You NEVER get that feeling with Moore or Brosnan of ANY of the others (except maybe Craig). They don’t come off as tough guys, they look like (and always looked like) male models.
And this is borne out when you consider these actors as people–in real life, Sean Connery WAS a tough guy. You wouldn’t have crossed him, when he was young (hell, I wouldn’t cross the old bastard NOW) whereas the others–actors, just actors.
Casino Royale is poop. The plot is holier than swiss cheese, the script is unintentionally cheesier than swiss cheese, but not in that slick, cool, seductive Bond way, and Daniel Craig (great actor) carries the film. If it were any other subpar actor this movie would have flopped.
The best Bond films are Thunderball, Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, The Spy Who Loved Me…
I remember back before production started for Casino Royale, they were considering doing a Thunderball remake with Connery as the villain. That would have been sweeeeeeeeet.
you only live twice =^_^=
Slick:
You make an excellent point. God I am so sick of kids these days who are so freakin’ arrogant about pop culture that they think ANYTHING that came before them is worthless.
When I was a teenager or 20-something (and ALL my friends felt the same as I did) we respected the pop culture of the past–the previous 20, 30, 40 years before we were born…. we KNEW there was deep and serious coolness in guys like Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, etc. etc. etc. and in the movies they made.
But these little morons today can’t even get their heads out of their asses long enough to take note of anything that happened before hip-hop and the Clinton presidency. It’s disgusting.
the ones with jaws are pretty awesome, but I really like all of them.
Slick: As one who has see most of the pre-Brosnan bond movies, Casino Royale is still my favorite. Perhaps because of the lack of a wandering plot?
If you’re talking actors though, I agree with Connery
Goldfinger for sure.
i would also agree with connery, my fav though is casino royale.
Mystern: lol, *lack* of a wandering plot? That’s pretty much all I got out of it. No doubt Daniel Craig makes an excellent James Bond. Much more reminiscent of Sean Connery, with the extra added elements of his humanity and inexperience thrown in. But the story was just kind of all over the place for me. Also, in the original book the game was Baccarat, not Texas Hold’em. That was an inexcusable change, in my opinion….changed simply because Texas Hold-em is all the rage at the moment.
#40 is not the real SlickWilly. Imposter – I order you to cease and desist, or at least choose your own damn name.
IMHO, I like the classic Bond films with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan. Timothy Dalton just never had the smooth superspy image that I learned to like in the earlier Bonds.
Daniel Craig may have made a good Bond, but the direction they took with Casino Royal just turned me off. First this movie is basically supposed to be about how Bond got his 00 rating and by not even making it look like it was at least a little while in the past is just wrong to me. Second spy movies are supposed to be behind the scenes, cloak and dagger type stuff, not run around shootouts in the streets. If that was the aim just call it one of the many action junkie shootem up movies that they spit out these days. Lastly as my coworkers have said, what was up with the 30+ minutes of card playing? The movie wasn’t Maverick, it was a Bond movie! I’m holding my judgement on Craig as a good Bond until I see the next film, but I think Casino Royal was a bad addition to the Bond movies.
For those who dislike the corny lines and the outragious gadgets I have to say, that is part of being a true James Bond fan. How could you say you were a Star Trek fan if you didn’t like all the aliens in the shows?
Personally, I have always liked From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and For Your Eyes Only.
I lost in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when, looking directly into the camera, the first words out of Lazenby’s rattish little mouth (after being slapped by the woman he just saved) was, “Huh. This never happened to the *other* guy.” Thanks, George. Thanks a lot. Yutz.
SlickWilly: how can someone steal your name? doesn’t wordpress say if its already taken?
Merlin; I’ve read the Ian Fleming book, the movie is very close and way more authentic than most. Casino Royale is my favorite in say the last 10 or 15 years. I liked Sean Connery as Bond, Dr No and Goldfinger stand out. I preferred Pierce Brosnan (I really enjoyed Die Another Day) over Roger Moore, but he had his charm too. I considered the Moore years as less James Bond, more Matt Helm.
Bond Week-end is one of the times I tune into Spike TV…
Csimmons: Possibly. I don’t think I’m a registered user, so that might be part of the problem. The other is that I think there might be a glitch in the site, as yesterday I made a post and the sn of my post came up as “Another Kiwi,” another user on this site. I don’t know.
Im no imposter
I have a totally different one-A View to a Kill. Christopher Walken is the ultimate Bond villian.
I felt very strongly that before Casino Royale came out that the only solution to the Bond series mess it had become was to return the whole thing to the cold war environment – complete 60′s cool surroundings. I thought Brosnan was just OK, but by the end you could tell he was getting tired of it all.
For me there’s no Bond but Connery although Daniel Craig could change my mind. He’s clearly taking it seriously and like I said earlier, most of the contrivances have been put away.
Im the Real SlickWilly.
Good call Mystern, he was fantastic in Layer Cake… or is it L4YER C4KE… It always screw me up when that stuff happens.
Who ever clames they are SlickWilly except me is a liar.
Slick – did you make another person sign in with your name to get more quotes on the board? Ha Ha Ha!
OK, you guys are really screwing me up… SlickWilly squared needs to figure their stuff out.
CSimmons: I think if you are not registered you can take any name you want.
LOL! @ bucslim!!
or should I call you ham sandwich?
bucslim: Haha, no, I swear to God. That’s a damn fine idea, but I’d like to personally do the spamming myself. Also, the other SlickWilly does not appear to be a very good speller, so that is one way to tell the difference.
Ewan McGregor in the Island should have said:
I’m SlickWilly!
No I’M SLICKWILLY!