Well now, best Bonds.
Sean Connery's best is GOLDFINGER, with THUNDERBALL and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE a close second and third. Dr No was okay and a good intro to 007 though. One that doesn't even rank at any level is NEVER SAY NAVER AGAIN. Shudder. It's with OHMSS there.
Roger Moore's best is THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, with A VIEW TO A KILL and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY second and third. Moonraker was quite a marvel too though. Live and Let Die was a kind of low key Dr NO re-hash/intro for the new Bond actor (quarrel jnr for example).
Timothy Dalton's best is THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, LICENCE TO KILL wasn't what I expected, good to get a grittier vengeful Bond but at the wrong time in the franchise I think.
Pierce Brosnan's best is TOMMORROW NEVER DIES. It was the first true Bond film, gadgets - the car - enterprising villain - great heavy (& that danish teacher!!) since THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. DIE ANOTHER DAY and GOLDENEYE a close second and third. World Is Not Enough, the Bond family motto, was a bit more down to earth and more like FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Only gripe I have with TND is that in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE he mentions to moneypenny something along the lines of "I took a major in oriental languages at Cambridge." But he can't read the oriental text on the keyboard in Wai Lins's hideaway. Hmm.
George Lazenby's best is, well, his only. Though a good middle man between Sean and Roger, I felt the series stepped outside of itself a lot in this film. More a tribute or nod to the Bonds. "This never happened to the other fella." For example.
Also, Bond marries? He's had no more of a fling with Contessa than any other girl. If you gotta marry someone James, marry Daniella Bianchi. She's a prize. Also, that disguise wouldn't fool a blind polish peasant yet alone Blofeld who met Bond face to face in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. Scar? Sure he had Plastic surgery in Diamonds (a visual effects loss), but in a later Roger Moore flick he's Bald and has a neck brace (a la OHMSS).
That movie is a thorn in the series' side riddled with inconsistency and failings. To be harsh is to be noble and just. Good on it's own, as a seperate film though. That's my 2 cents. Live long and prosper.
Sean Connery's best is GOLDFINGER, with THUNDERBALL and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE a close second and third. Dr No was okay and a good intro to 007 though. One that doesn't even rank at any level is NEVER SAY NAVER AGAIN. Shudder. It's with OHMSS there.
Roger Moore's best is THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, with A VIEW TO A KILL and FOR YOUR EYES ONLY second and third. Moonraker was quite a marvel too though. Live and Let Die was a kind of low key Dr NO re-hash/intro for the new Bond actor (quarrel jnr for example).
Timothy Dalton's best is THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, LICENCE TO KILL wasn't what I expected, good to get a grittier vengeful Bond but at the wrong time in the franchise I think.
Pierce Brosnan's best is TOMMORROW NEVER DIES. It was the first true Bond film, gadgets - the car - enterprising villain - great heavy (& that danish teacher!!) since THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS. DIE ANOTHER DAY and GOLDENEYE a close second and third. World Is Not Enough, the Bond family motto, was a bit more down to earth and more like FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. Only gripe I have with TND is that in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE he mentions to moneypenny something along the lines of "I took a major in oriental languages at Cambridge." But he can't read the oriental text on the keyboard in Wai Lins's hideaway. Hmm.
George Lazenby's best is, well, his only. Though a good middle man between Sean and Roger, I felt the series stepped outside of itself a lot in this film. More a tribute or nod to the Bonds. "This never happened to the other fella." For example.
Also, Bond marries? He's had no more of a fling with Contessa than any other girl. If you gotta marry someone James, marry Daniella Bianchi. She's a prize. Also, that disguise wouldn't fool a blind polish peasant yet alone Blofeld who met Bond face to face in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. Scar? Sure he had Plastic surgery in Diamonds (a visual effects loss), but in a later Roger Moore flick he's Bald and has a neck brace (a la OHMSS).
That movie is a thorn in the series' side riddled with inconsistency and failings. To be harsh is to be noble and just. Good on it's own, as a seperate film though. That's my 2 cents. Live long and prosper.
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