favourite bond movie

[sylvestris stew]

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I think I'm the only one who likes the new movie:bluboomteamenforcer

[Jason James Gairn]

It's only a bond movie by name. But a slight improvement on Casino royal, which was a card game. Both use the name James bond but ignore the reference points of the franchise.

The franchise was split in two by Austin powers and the Bourne films, the combination of which would be a good bond movie.

Here's my Bond checklist:

Theme tune

Car chase

Aston martin

Gadgets

Bond girls

Q

baddies base exploding

henchmen in uniforms

world wide locations

bond gets captured

More car chases

sex based double meanings

Miss money penny.

the names Bond, James Bond

shaken not stirred

3/10 must try harder.

[Ian C]

Hate the moden films, total crap in my opinion, all action and explosives and no story, my favs are the older ones, goldfinger etc

[Mr Ed]

Latest films are marvellous, a return to the hardcase Bond of the books.

Anybody into the original novels? great pulp fiction...

My personal favourite line from Bond, after strangling bad guy on stairs

Barman - 'would you like that martini shaken or stirred?'

Bond -' do I really look like I give a sh*t!?'

Edited February 18, 2009 by Mr Ed

[Jason James Gairn]

It's all very well citing the books as a reference point for these last two films; but there films were had a camp appeal to them that the books didn't deal with. Sailing and Knitting.

The remake of are you being served would involve the downsizing of Grace brothers and and international imports from china; all very serious and retail wise quite gritty, but not in any way the same thing.

I think the relationship between the Niven/Connery/Lazenby/Moore/Dalton and Brosnan films, and the Ian Flemming novels, i.e. the distance between them artistically and style wise, is the same distance that is present between those films and the last two Craig movies. You'd expect that to be true between a book and a film, but between any two films in a successful franchise like bond, is odd.

I feel let down by both these last films. The Bourne films kicks the Farm yard manure out of them both.

But they aren't without virtue, the Parkour opening of Casino Royal was great, and ... actually that's all I can think of, or indeed remember. And that's my point both films are essentially forgettable. I can remember every nuance of Live and let die (my fave) because it is a classical work of folk genius.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Hate the moden films, total crap in my opinion, all action and explosives and no story, my favs are the older ones, goldfinger etc

 

:congrats:

[Khriss]

Well- 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

 

Excellent plot- An suprisingly-20 odd yrs later, the US accused the Chinese of stealing a similar sub-hunting program........ Hmm Life stranger than Fiction

 

An good humour too-nice Arab locations.

 

( This wont be a popular choice,Khriss)