Rank all the Bond Films!

Sarai wrote:

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

Your anti-LTK rhetoric is very amusing.

that look on Daltons face around the 1:09 mark or so where he starts laughing with Sanchez  lol



OK, I'll stop now.

You have to admit, even if you don't like LTK (which is an understatement for you I know!) it is legitimately a great scene.

Sarai wrote:

Casino Royale at No.1 above all the Connery films?

It's not that controversial, at least outside this forum.

Yeah, the kidz at M!6 luv da Kool acktion seens.

Ah, there you are MP. Realised the other day you didn't seem to have been on here much of late, good to see you around again .

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Ah, there you are MP. Realised the other day you didn't seem to have been on here much of late, good to see you around again .

Aye.

The rationale behind all the rankings is pretty good, even if I don't agree on some of them. OHMSS would probably rank #1 on my list too if only Lazenby were not cast. Since he was, the film is simply incapable of reaching that height.

Agreed. Good rationale but some choices are a bit baffling. OP is definitely better than that.

Ah yes, I gave this a watch during a workout and forgot to add my thoughts afterward. There's certainly a good cause for OHMSS at no. 1 and Lazenby's performance perhaps adds to that, in my opinion. CR is much too high but refreshing to see DAD higher than 2 of Craig's and TND and TWINE not relegated to the bottom.

OP, AVTAK and GE are too low and as I say, CR, much, much too high.

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia With Love
3. Dr No
4. The Living Daylights
5. Licence To Kill
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. Thunderball
8. Octopussy
9. Goldeneye
10. Skyfall
11. Diamonds Are Forever
12. Goldfinger
13. Tomorrow Never Dies
14. The World Is Not Enough
15. Die Another Day
16. Moonraker
17. View To A Kill
18. You Only Live Twice
19. Live And Let Die
20. The Spy Who Loved Me
21. Casino Royale
22. Spectre
23. Quantum of Solace
24. The Man With The Golden Gun

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the differences to the 2015 rankings

OHMSS NOC
FRWL NOC
Dr No 2+
TLD -1
LTK -1
FYEO 1+
Thunderball -1
Octopussy NOC
GE 7+
Skyfall -1
DAF 1+
GF -1
TND 8+
TWINE 8+
DAD 5+
MR -3
VTAK 2+
YOLT -4
LALD -4
TSWLM -2
CR -4
Spectre -12
QOS NOC
TMWTGG NOC

the /10 differences

the /10s from 2015
10/10- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
9/10- Dr No, FRWL, TLD, LTK
8/10- Thunderball, FYEO, OP, SF, SP
7/10- Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker
6.5/10- YOLT, LALD, Goldeneye, Casino Royale
6/10- TSWLM, TND, TWINE, DAD
4/10- Quantum of Solace
3/10- The Man With The Golden Gun

in 2020
OHMSS, FRWL10/10
Dr No, TLD, LTK 9/10
FYEO 8.5/10
TB ,OP, GE, SF 8/10
DAF 7.5/10
GF, TND, TWINE, DAD 7/10
MR, VTAK 6.5/10
YOLT, LALD, TSWLM 6/10
CR 5/10
Spectre 4/10
QOS 3/10
TMWTGG 2/10

My Bond's

1. Timothy Dalton
2. George Lazenby
3. Sean Connery
4. Pierce Brosnan
5. Roger Moore
6. Daniel Craig

Very nice Hilly! For some reason I thought you rated Spy quite highly, what with the naval component and all that. Turns out TND really is the superior WWIII and naval story! I'm a happy man. Cracking top 4, refreshing to see DAD not relegated to the bottom and CR nowhere near the top. GE creeping up to round out the best film of the most recent two eras makes me proud.

I've long suggested that the weakest of Brosnan's efforts is simply middle of the road Bond and your ranking is consistent with that (even if I'd personally bump up at least half of his era to the top 5!).

It really isn't all that different to my list. I wouldn't have LTK as high, or Diamonds, but it's a good point of difference. Good job!

TSWLM used to be much higher. Even the Royal Navy can't save it.

It is odd how the rankings have changed in respect to Brosnan but such is the passage of time. Since my last Bondathon Spectre came along and various views about this era have become entrenched.

If I wait until 2025 for the next one, God knows where they'll be!

I'm gonna guess nobodys scrutinising these lists any longer so i wont bore anybody with another list of 24 films.....Best film is OHMSS, worst film is Moonraker. As good as Lazenby was in OHMSS i still wish Connery had done it. Moonraker is erm, well....shit

I love a ranking so if have one, feel free to post it! OHMSS at the top is always good game. MR at the bottom well... one can argue otherwise but it's certainly in the second half for me!

We always have time for rankings hereabouts. Sometimes just to give other people grey hair.

Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang wrote:

I love a ranking so if have one, feel free to post it! OHMSS at the top is always good game. MR at the bottom well... one can argue otherwise but it's certainly in the second half for me!

I'm at a loose end today so for the first time since joining ,here it is......

1 On her majestys secret service

2 you only live twice

3 From russia with love

4 Thunderball

5 Dr no

6 Casino royale

7 Skyfall

8 Goldfinger

9 Goldeneye

10 Live and let die

11 Diamonds are forever

12 The living daylights

13 License to kill

14 The world is not enough

15 Quantum of solace

16 Spectre

17 For your eyes only

18 Tomorrow never dies

19 The man with the golden gun

20 The spy who loved me

21 A view to a kill

22 octopussy

23 die another day

24 Moonraker

Interesting ranking. CR is certainly too high for my tastes. Perhaps YOLT too but it's nice to see some love for that film. Thanks for sharing!

The Spy Who Loved Me is quite low on that list. That is one Bond movie I keep going back and forth on, cause a part of me would put it around #4, but the other part says #16, so it's definitely the hardest to decide on.

ironpony wrote:

The Spy Who Loved Me is quite low on that list.  That is one Bond movie I keep going back and forth on, cause a part of me would put it around #4, but the other part says #16, so it's definitely the hardest to decide on.

Far too much silliness for my taste, also Barbara bach kills it stone dead

Oh okay, do you think she was just too wooden?

It's such a shame they cast Bach. The dynamic between Bond and Anya has all the makings of one of the best in the series.

Does anyone think that Bond and Anya's chemistry was perhaps more on the corny side, rather than sexy, or no, with her doing things like making fun of Bond's shaken not stirred line, or no? Or when she says let me look at your wound, and then they play the cheesy saxophone music?

ironpony wrote:

Does anyone think that Bond and Anya's chemistry was perhaps more on the corny side, rather than sexy, or no, with her doing things like making fun of Bond's shaken not stirred line, or no?  Or when she says let me look at your wound, and then they play the cheesy saxophone music?

Yes.....it all makes me feel rather queasy, she should be shot!

Or another thing is, you could make the case that it was the best romance of the Moore era, because Bond has more screen time with the love interest to develop the romance, and the romance is centered around a much better than usual plot turn of Anya's boyfriend being killed.

ironpony wrote:

Or another thing is, you could make the case that it was the best romance of the Moore era, because Bond has more screen time with the love interest to develop the romance, and the romance is centered around a much better than usual plot turn of Anya's boyfriend being killed.

Mmm, nah...prefer my assessment to be honest

Yeah I can definitely look at it both ways. Well as for her being wooden, I do like For Your Eyes Only and the Bond girl in that is wooden in her acting, so it is fair of me to say Anya is too wooden, when Melina, is also quite wooden?