In Honor of Bond's 50th List the films worst to first.

[Gully Foyle]

It will all seem silly one day looking back. Too heavy handed. The way Dirty Harry ultimately became the teeth-gritted "Make my day" character.

Very well put. The humorless dark-and-brooding type is already showing a lot of tread wear.

Craig is stiff as a board. A mile wide and an inch deep. His Bond comes off more as a Bourne or insert-generic-stoic-spy here type.

 

[CelticPredator]

^ Casino Royale wasn't Bournish at all.

It had good camera work, for starters.

He was absolutely perfect in that one. QoS just for some reason decided not to evolve.

By the way, the character hasn't been this dark in 50 years. So, I think he's allowed to be a little dark.

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

And Craig has plenty.

He has a darker sense of humor like Connery did. Its great.

Aside from the scene where he parks Goldfinger's Land Rover and ballwhipping scene, there's very little memorable humor in his portrayal. Craig makes Connery look like George Carlin.

 

[CelticPredator]

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He had a dryer sense of humor. And it works. Still funnier then loony toons sound effects.

 

[CelticPredator]

And did EVERYONE forget the torture scene? Dude never cracked under pressure. He spat off taunting one liners.

Do you really want Die Another Day back? Is that what everyone wants? Well, I hope you get that.

I'll enjoy these great Bond flicks while they last.

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAv3Y2EBfI

He had a dryer sense of humor. And it works. Still funnier then loony toons sound effects.

I'm not disagreeing. Connery was actually funny. The previously acknowledged ballwhipping aside, Craig isn't. He just looks mad all the time.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Connery was actually funny.

Very moving

Heartwarming

A glowing tribute

Craig isn't. He just looks mad all the time.

I'd say mad or constipated.

_____

 

[CelticPredator]

Craig isn't hysterical. But why should he be? He's wasn't in the position to be BOND yet.

 

[Laney74]

My most watchable list - don't care about critical acclaim

My list is based on what I would pop in, comes from the movies I grew up watching most and the newer ones that I like. All of the Roger Moore 70's ones set in Africa get to go down the bottom. The only funny one is OHMSS - just can't identify Lazenby with Bond, only ever seen this once. All the others are multi watches.

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

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

Craig isn't hysterical. But why should he be? He's wasn't in the position to be BOND yet.

So when he gets to a certain point, MI6 just starts writing him material? Or does Bond work on his one-liners and timing between missions?

 

[CelticPredator]

Just like any human being, he grows. Once the coldness takes over, and he's devoid of any real human emotion, the one liners start.

Only an evil bastard would do something like that.

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

But Craig plays him as a cold emotionless killer from the start. Sure he gets hurt in the end, but he's already a stoic, 40 year old man who has no problem picking people off by the beginning of the film.

So once any tiny bit of compassion he may have is killed with Vesper, THEN he decides to have fun with his murders? Wouldn't he be even less fun to be around, considering he was a block of stone to begin with?

I agree with what you are saying, but Craig playing him as a glum bastard makes it hard to see how he'd grow into someone with sharp wit and personality. I'm interested to see if his performance feels more like Bond in Skyfall.

 

[CelticPredator]

He has the wit. It's just, he's not a fully destroyed person yet.

Skyfall I believe will do this. It's already got that classic Bond feel. If it can still be gritty, and keep moving his character forward, I think we'll have a winner on our hands.

 

[K07]

Craig is stiff as a board. A mile wide and an inch deep. His Bond comes off more as a Bourne or insert-generic-stoic-spy here type.

Bond is a literary character. Craig and Dalton are best at portraying the literary character. Connery did a great job with it but incorporated a lot of humor into his work. That defined who and what James Bond was to general audiences. And there's nothing wrong with that! The first three he was in are great! The last three? Garbage I clump with Roger Moore's films. Roger Moore might have been a great Bond if his films weren't so ridiculous. I've seen a handful and can't stand them. Pierce does the best job emulating Connery and is in one of the greatest Bond movies ever. His first two sequels are pretty fun too, not perfect, but not insulting. Than DAD came along...

Anyways, here's a list of ones I enjoy enough to watch multiple times:

Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace

I have not seen ALL of Moore's movies, OHMSS, or The Living Daylights yet.

 

[JAWS]

"Goldfinger" in the "really good" category? You must be joking. "Goldeneye" is better? You must have been 13-17 when that came out.

Damn right baby!! I like Goldenfinger but have never been in love with it like so many others. I find the villian to be OK. Odd job is cool but the hat I always found to be silly. And I think ***** Galore is one of the Ugliest Bond woman ever. The action in the film is average IMO. But I like the plot and the look of the film. The score is fantastic also.

Well I was 24 when Goldeneye came out. And it is a great bond film. Bond is a Bad ass in that one. Great Villian with Sean Bean. Famke Janssen was great as Xenia Onatopp! Great tank chase, great hand to hand combat, great witty Bond remarks....What the hell is not to love?????? Well the plane dive was bad in the begining but everything else is great.

Seeing that Goldeneye has made most people top list I have to ask again War - Gar, What's not to Like?? Just wondering. Is it that you just don't like Brosnan in the role. I can see that agrument. But he was great in Goldeneye. to bad he never hit the high mark like that in the other films.

 

[JAWS]

To me the scene that sums up Bond the best and has my fav. line and is Bond at his most cold blooded is the

"That's a Smith and wWesson....and you've had your Six" then Bond shoots him not once but a second time in the back when he's on the ground.


IMO after Connery, Craig has been the only one to come close to capturing this feel.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Bond is a literary character. Craig and Dalton are best at portraying the literary character. Connery did a great job with it but incorporated a lot of humor into his work. That defined who and what James Bond was to general audiences. And there's nothing wrong with that! The first three he was in are great! The last three? Garbage I clump with Roger Moore's films. Roger Moore might have been a great Bond if his films weren't so ridiculous. I've seen a handful and can't stand them. Pierce does the best job emulating Connery and is in one of the greatest Bond movies ever. His first two sequels are pretty fun too, not perfect, but not insulting. Than DAD came along...

Anyways, here's a list of ones I enjoy enough to watch multiple times:

Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace

I have not seen ALL of Moore's movies, OHMSS, or The Living Daylights yet.

Thank you.

A couple of years ago I read a few of the Fleming novels, and found that Connery's Bond wasn't all that close to how the character was written. I personally never really took to Connery's Bond and I agree that Craig and to a slightly lesser extent Dalton got the character much closer to the novels. However, I would place Brosnan a very close second to Craig. I don't see Brosnan emulating Connery at all. As a matter of fact, when CR first came out I thought Craig was emulating Brosnan!

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Watching Goldfinger