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50 years of James Bond

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  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    Just watched " On her majesty's secret service " for the first time . Lazenby is extremely wooden and you can see why he was a one off Bond but the film is ok and the ending is fantastic.

  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    My favourite has to be Live and Let Die. A classic Bond film with some great characters and smooth as silk one liners. Even better in Blu Ray.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,436
    Don't really like the films, they bore me. However, there is some first rate eye candy in them.

    Top five Bond girls:
    5 - Sophie Marceau, because, well, she's Sophie Marceau, and bloody gorgeous.
    4 - Jane Seymour. Beautiful, and classy.
    3 - Maryam D'Abo. Batshit crazy, but sexy as hell.
    2 - Famke Janssen. Psychotic dominatrix with killer thighs. Ticks every box going.
    1 - Caroline Munro. In love with her since I was about five.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Leroy, I went to a Bond film charity premiere about 10 years ago and the love of your life was there, signing autographs - bet you're consumed with jealousy now. :-)

    Can't remember what the film was - it was a Brosnan one. 'Jaws' was also there - he is massive - could hardly get through the door!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857

    Just watched " On her majesty's secret service " for the first time . Lazenby is extremely wooden and you can see why he was a one off Bond but the film is ok and the ending is fantastic.

    They wanted him to do a 2nd one but he wanted $2m and they would only pay $1m.
    Believe they then got Connery for $1m plus 12.5% of gross profits.

  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    MrOneLung said:

    Just watched " On her majesty's secret service " for the first time . Lazenby is extremely wooden and you can see why he was a one off Bond but the film is ok and the ending is fantastic.

    They wanted him to do a 2nd one but he wanted $2m and they would only pay $1m.
    Believe they then got Connery for $1m plus 12.5% of gross profits.

    I heard that he turned up to the premiere with a beard and long hair, having got into some 'free love' cult.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    Can't beat a bit of Bond, Daniel Craig is superb playing him, Casino Royale is a great film
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    A friend of mine thinks that 'Quantative Easing' is a Bond film .. what she lacks in brain she makes up with in looks and personality
  • Stebo
    Stebo Posts: 790
    loved the bond films in my youth. But then I got into the books and having read those the films lost their appeal. The new ones have done a better job at depicting Fleming's bond just wish they had picked someone else other Craig...he's done a good job but he just looks.nothing like the bond I see when reading the books.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    Stebo said:

    loved the bond films in my youth. But then I got into the books and having read those the films lost their appeal. The new ones have done a better job at depicting Fleming's bond just wish they had picked someone else other Craig...he's done a good job but he just looks.nothing like the bond I see when reading the books.

    I also read the books and to me although Craig doesn't look like book-version he is the most accurate in terms of translating the character. Of course the casual racism and sexism is out but I guess for the times that was pretty typical.
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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    There's a vote for the most iconic Bond moments on skymovies.com... http://skymovies.sky.com/iconic-bond-moments.

    Watching them on SM made me realise, I'd never seen about 20 of them without adverts, the ITV logo, or the news halfway through.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    JiMMy 85 said:

    There's a vote for the most iconic Bond moments on skymovies.com... http://skymovies.sky.com/iconic-bond-moments.



    Watching them on SM made me realise, I'd never seen about 20 of them without adverts, the ITV logo, or the news halfway through.

    I think the reason why a lot of people dislike Bond is exactly what you say. They remind people of rainy miserable Bank holiday mondays. ITV don't just do football badly.



  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    You're right Bedsaddick. Eon look after the franchise like it's an institution, proper approval nazis. Yet they allowed ITV to run it into the ground!
  • Time flies.

    There's a celebration tonight at the Burlington Arcade marking 60 years of the Aston Martin association.


  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited July 2024
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Spectre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Connery followed no one……everyone else followed him.
  • PhilG
    PhilG Posts: 66
    As a great Bond fan from a young age I read all the books, watched all the films. Craig by far the best. I have no idea how they are going to follow the last film. Will take some creative miracle
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,978
    Daylights is my fave. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    edited July 2024
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    What made Spectre for me was the opening. I thought it was as good as these spectacular openings get. It was a strap yourself in opening and fantastic on a large cinema screen. And the way it merged into Writing's on the wall was fautless. The ending was great too. Also, anything with Christolph Waltz in it can't miss in my books. I suppose what worked for Craig was that all his films told his own story very neatly. The next films need to tell a different story.
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  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    Hal1x said:
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
    Can we at least all agree that Roger Moore was the worst Bond?
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Hal1x said:
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
    Can we at least all agree that Roger Moore was the worst Bond?
    Never

    George Lazenby was the worst bond (although on her majesty secret service wasn’t the worst film)


  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited July 2024
    Hal1x said:
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
    Can we at least all agree that Roger Moore was the worst Bond?
    You are just compounding your folly!,  Bexley's own Roger made some poor Bonds (he was too old in the end), but also made one of the best in "The Spy who Loved me". He was unlucky in that Lew Grade wouldn't release him from the Saint to make Bonds when he was in his prime. 

    Lazenby - worst
    Dalton  - sour faced, wooden lump who thought he was far too good to be Bond.
    Brosnan - ok but made the biggest bond stinker in "Die Another Day"  pheewey!

  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    Connery or Moore for me (in equal measure). Never really understood how people liked the former soo much Moore. 

    The rest.... not bothered.  
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    Hal1x said:
    Hal1x said:
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
    Can we at least all agree that Roger Moore was the worst Bond?
    You are just compounding your folly!,  Bexley's own Roger made some poor Bonds (he was too old in the end), but also made one of the best in "The Spy who Loved me". He was unlucky in that Lew Grade wouldn't release him from the Saint to make Bonds when he was in his prime. 

    Lazenby - worst
    Dalton  - sour faced, wooden lump who thought he was far too good to be Bond.
    Brosnan - ok but made the biggest bond stinker in "Die Another Day"  pheewey!

    Sorry, but the worst Bond film has to be Moonraker.
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,513
    Ahh Bond, massive Bond fan and nice to see the eternal debates still going on.

    Connery for me (despite my age), followed by Moore then Craig. 

    As for the whole worst/ best, Bond/film you have to look at them both individually and take them for what they are (were), the Dalton two are very much 80's action shoot 'em ups, the majority of the Moore years were cheesey gag laden films and Brosnan's Bond a real life, jack of all trades world saving Action Man.

    Hard to put a definitive answer to any of it, Connery is of course the best Bond, but, can you imagine him or Lazenby attempting re-entry in Moonraker?
    Nah, thats all Rodge 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    Hal1x said:
    I like all the bond films but I think Craig was the best Bond. It took me a while to come to this conclusion but I think his films were pitched just right. I think on reflection that Casino Royale and Sceptre were Bond masterpieces. I appreciate many will disagree. 
    On the JB Facebook pages that’s fighting talk, that is!

    I agree with you about Casino Royale, although I prefer Skyfall over Spectre. 
    But, as with all things Bond, it’s very subjective. For example, one of my favourite Bond films is On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although George Lazenby is not in my top 3 favourite Bonds.

    I also agree with you that Daniel Craig was the best Bond, followed by Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton.



     
    Timothy Dalton !!! you have got to be joking!
    Can we at least all agree that Roger Moore was the worst Bond?
    Nonsense. He was the second best behind Craig . Obviously George Lazenby was the worst although On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a brilliant story.  
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    David Niven was the least authentic Bond.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    David Niven was the least authentic Bond.
    True but let’s face it . The original Casino Royale is not a Bond film as we know it . It’s an extremely unfunny comedy. I watched it for the first time about four years ago and I hated every minute of it . It’s terrible