James Bond Appreciation Thread

[TurdFondler]

My favorite is Thunderball. The opening scenes where they steal the nuke and land the plane underwater are fantastic.

I can't get into newer Bond movies, computers kind of killed it. The vibe was different when it was all clunky analog/radio based spy equipment. The first few Connery ones are just so aesthetic too, midcentury design was rad.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I can only imagine they were kept around so long because they were yes men who incorporated whatever bullshit came to Barbara Broccoli's mind that day.

She sounds rich (in fiber).

I felt the same about twine. All the stuff in Baku looks cheap as balls

A real spy would have a special-built piece of hardware (packing a custom OS most likely). I highly doubt they would touch anything with Motorola or Nokia on it.

 

[Kyria the Great]

I hope with a new bond they bring back some of the more epic and practical setpieces the franchise is known for as even if Moonraker is Bond in excess, it at least knew to make the set design something to bring real awe to the audience. Though lets be honest, can't really be a volcano lair from You Only Live Twice

 

[khaine]

She sounds rich (in fiber).

A real spy would have a custom-built piece of hardware (packing a custom OS most likely). I highly doubt they would touch anything with Motorola or Nokia on it.View attachment 2873667

In that photo the radio isn't Bond's it was Electra's. So its not unsurprising that it's off the shelf. I think TWINE gets a bad wrap. I enjoy it. It has good action scenes, and a great soundtrack.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I think TWINE gets a bad wrap.

The film wastes time that could be used developing important characters like Molly Warmflash.

She also shows up on Buffy as Faith's Watcher. She proceeds to attack Angel, breaks the handle of a shovel and goes, "I believe this is your poison."

 

[ComStar]

I really liked the Bond movies when i was younger, and if they were on TV i'd usually watch them, even the crappier ones. Here's some stream of consciousness bullshit


If i have to choose a favorite Bond, i'll go with Connery. The man IS Bond! From Russia With Love is the greatest Connery movie, just classic spy shenanigans, decoding machines and revenge plots.

While i feel that the rest of Connery's movie plots become outlandish pretty fast (Nuke Fort Knox! Steal nukes! steal spaceships! BUILD DIAMOND DEATH RAY SATELLITES!), the movies themselves are surprisingly good and carry it off pretty well. except for Diamonds Are Forever, never liked it.


Lazenby gets a lot of undeserved shit. OHMSS Is a good movie, has the best theme song (fight me!) and Bond actually feels vulnerable and out of his element for once, which never happens otherwise. He could have grown into a fine Bond if he had some better direction and a few more acting lessons. Huge props to Gabriele Ferzetti (Marc-Ange Draco) for being incredibly affable and with great fashion sense, and Diana Rigg for being just lovely overall.

I really would have liked a second Lazenby movie instead of Diamonds Are Forever, but alas. They should at least rescore OHMSS to remove the fucking happy-go-lucky Bond theme from the ending and just keep "We have all the time in the world" playing throughout the credits. Lazenby and the final scene deserve it


Moore is generally good, but aged out of the role halfway trough. I love Live And Let Die because of the corny blaxploitation elements and the supernatural shit, and it's the best Moore movie. The rest are decent to bad but generally watchable. Never liked For Your Eyes Only though. The car chase and the underwater scenes are good. but the rest of the movie is forgettable at best, unlike Moonraker or Octopussy which are retarded movies, but fun just because they're so stupid.


Dalton is a good, serious, angry Bond. The Living Daylights has a great henchman in Nekros, and the glorious Mujahideen* who fight against the godless hammer and sickle, but everything else is worse than Licence To Kill. LTK doesn't really feel like a Bond film though, but has good action and Bond doing some really sneaky backstabbing shit. I love how Felix is all "Great job James, i feel so fucking good i'll go fishing tomorrow" like a week after his wife got fuckmurdered by Benicio Del Toro and half his body got bit off by a shark. what a cunt.


Brosnan was a good Bond saddled with shit scripts. GoldenEye is the only good Bond movie he made, and it's fucking good. Everything else is the drizzling shits and the people involved in them should be shot.


Craig looks like a russian gangster and i don't like him.


*I love cold war movies where the taliban are the good guys by virtue of killing russians. They aged so fucking poorly, and have aged even worse since 2021...

 

[ditto]

Craig looks like a russian gangster and i don't like him.

He looks (and acts) distractingly like Red Grant from FRWL. Connery's evil opposite.

 

[Drdinnermint]

He looks (and acts) distractingly like Red Grant from FRWL. Connery's evil opposite.
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He looks like he should be selling copies of the Big Issue

 

[Captain Syrup]

I love cold war movies where the taliban are the good guys by virtue of killing russians.

The hatred toward the FBI and CIA has been stunning to see. Things are going be shaking up for a while.

 

[ComStar]

He looks (and acts) distractingly like Red Grant from FRWL. Connery's evil opposite.
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Grant was an excellent henchman. Strong, intelligent and definitely on Bond's level.

The only other henchman i can think of that even gets close to Bond's skill is Nekros from The Living Daylights. Sure, Jaws and Oddjobb were built like tanks and more or less indestructible, but Nekros is good at improvisation and a vicious fighter. He can also pass for (in order) a milkman, an agent over the radio, and a doctor in the span of like 4 minutes...

 

[TurdFondler]

The corny ending scene of FRWL is just brutal, but the rest of the movie is great. I don't think I've ever felt like Bond had met his match that well in a film before. Usually you just know some gadget or trickery will get Bond out of a pinch, it was less predictable with a competent villain like Grant.

 

[ditto]

Critical Drinker ranks all the Bonds.

(I would swap Lazenby and Craig.)

 

[RageCageChamp19]

Sean Connery is the best bond, with Pierce Brosnan in second place.
Sean Connery as Bond has been my main role model. An absolute chad.

>praise Apartheid South Africa in conversation with your boss
>refuse to elaborate

 

[LeChampion1992]

I really liked the Bond movies when i was younger, and if they were on TV i'd usually watch them, even the crappier ones. Here's some stream of consciousness bullshit


If i have to choose a favorite Bond, i'll go with Connery. The man IS Bond! From Russia With Love is the greatest Connery movie, just classic spy shenanigans, decoding machines and revenge plots.

While i feel that the rest of Connery's movie plots become outlandish pretty fast (Nuke Fort Knox! Steal nukes! steal spaceships! BUILD DIAMOND DEATH RAY SATELLITES!), the movies themselves are surprisingly good and carry it off pretty well. except for Diamonds Are Forever, never liked it.


Lazenby gets a lot of undeserved shit. OHMSS Is a good movie, has the best theme song (fight me!) and Bond actually feels vulnerable and out of his element for once, which never happens otherwise. He could have grown into a fine Bond if he had some better direction and a few more acting lessons. Huge props to Gabriele Ferzetti (Marc-Ange Draco) for being incredibly affable and with great fashion sense, and Diana Rigg for being just lovely overall.

I really would have liked a second Lazenby movie instead of Diamonds Are Forever, but alas. They should at least rescore OHMSS to remove the fucking happy-go-lucky Bond theme from the ending and just keep "We have all the time in the world" playing throughout the credits. Lazenby and the final scene deserve it


Moore is generally good, but aged out of the role halfway trough. I love Live And Let Die because of the corny blaxploitation elements and the supernatural shit, and it's the best Moore movie. The rest are decent to bad but generally watchable. Never liked For Your Eyes Only though. The car chase and the underwater scenes are good. but the rest of the movie is forgettable at best, unlike Moonraker or Octopussy which are retarded movies, but fun just because they're so stupid.


Dalton is a good, serious, angry Bond. The Living Daylights has a great henchman in Nekros, and the glorious Mujahideen* who fight against the godless hammer and sickle, but everything else is worse than Licence To Kill. LTK doesn't really feel like a Bond film though, but has good action and Bond doing some really sneaky backstabbing shit. I love how Felix is all "Great job James, i feel so fucking good i'll go fishing tomorrow" like a week after his wife got fuckmurdered by Benicio Del Toro and half his body got bit off by a shark. what a cunt.


Brosnan was a good Bond saddled with shit scripts. GoldenEye is the only good Bond movie he made, and it's fucking good. Everything else is the drizzling shits and the people involved in them should be shot.


Craig looks like a russian gangster and i don't like him.


*I love cold war movies where the taliban are the good guys by virtue of killing russians. They aged so fucking poorly, and have aged even worse since 2021...

Connery was good but by you only live twice his role had jumped the shark. Hence why diamonds are forever is just so campy.

Lazenby did a good job but should have had a second bond film.

Roger Moore live and let die was a good intro with his best film being octopussy he and Maude Adams should have ended that bond film.

Dalton - the living daylights was the weakest meanwhile the strongest role license to kill.

As for Bronson - Sure his best was GoldenEye but honestly the world is not enough and tomorrow never does are criminally underrated.

 

[Foltest]

Been watching some bond movies and man, Goldeneye is so good.
Killer bond theme (fuck you if you don’t like the bond theme in that one)
Great action.
006 is a great villain as well.
Martin Campbell is a great director.

( I have been trying to watch tomorrow never dies again but my disk is fucked or something )

 

[Burt Ryan]

So me and two friends have decided to watch the whole 007 movies (Casinò Royale 1967 included) and we've (re)watched Casinò Royale 2006 yesterday.

The movies I watched before this marathon were Casinò Royale 2005, Skyfall, No Time To Die, A View To A Kill, GoldenEye, Die Another Day: though of these last ones I remembered very little.

I was absolutely amazed at how good Lazenby's movie was, and even more but how fucking amazing Timothy Dalton is, hence why I voted him best Bond.

So far the tier list goes as such, for me.


edit: to add some context (the movies are just slapped in tiers, not ordered properly)

Casinò Royale 1967 is a masterpiece because of how fucking campy and spoof it is, and the overall production and behind the scenes was pure hell because of The Man below.


S tier

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Lazenby's movie is really fucking solid, so good that I can see how Casinò Royale 2005 'stole' some elements for the girl tragic ending
• The Man with the Golden Gun - Christopher Lee, enough said.
• Licence To Kill - best Dalton kino. I want more veteran and off-the-books 007 in the future movies.
• Live and Let Die - the New Orleans funeral scene cracked me up, and the whole Haitian villains are too enjoyable.
• GoldenEye - What's there to say? Onatopp.
• The Livin' Daylights - Now I got the main theme song back into my head, again.
• Casinò Royale - Best theme song ever, out of all the Bond movies. And a game that has a third of it centered around a poker game and it manages to keep you lured in, goddamn.
• A View To A Kill - Duran Duran + Grace Jones + Christopher Walken as villain? Hell yeah.
• The World Is Not Enough - Denise Richards and Garbage? Let's go!
• From Russia With Love - This movie is peak Connery for me, which is kind of alarming considering it's his second Bond movie.

A tier

• You Only Live Twice - Connery doing Jap-face and Pleasance as Blofeld. Shame that they completely waste the villain (except for the Lazenby one) from here on out.
• Goldfinger - I expect you to seethe, Mr. Bond.
• Tomorrow Never Dies - Possibly the most actual of the Bond movies? The comparison between Jonathan Pryce and [token media mogul] write themselves.
• Moonraker - Jaws finally got some pussy.
• Octopussy - The name is a guarantee, shame that Octopussy isn't the main real villain.
• The Spy Who Loved Me - One thing that I loved about No Time To Die were the Ana De Armas sections. And then they drop her off and the movie just... meh. So yeah, this movie is what if we had Ana De Armas as love interest for Bond but instead of removing her from the movie we keep her around for more?
• Dr. No - For being the first of the Bond, it's pretty good. It does a good job at properly introducing SPECTRE.

B

• Die Another Day - I remember I owned a bootleg copy bought off the streets of this movie. And it was very grainy and bad. But I gotta say, at least it was stupid and enjoyable.
• Diamonds Are Forever - Blofeld was teased and introduced so brilliantly throughout the movies and then they kept using him ad nauseam until...
• Thunderball - After the ending sequence of this movie, me and my two kino friends developed phobia of underwater fight scenes. It was such an incomprehensible clusterfuck to watch, but under the technical aspect very cool and amazing, but goddamn. No more.
  

C

• For Your Eyes Only - ...what the fuck was that intro? Why Blofeld? WHY?! This movie was so fucking long.

Never

• Never Say Never Again - Connery and Basinger. Atleast he went out with a bang, but Jesus Christ the ending title card of this movie with Connery winking at the camera before he tongues Kim Basinger. Holy shit.

 

[Burt Ryan]

So adding to my previous posts, now having finished the Craig movies as well and the series overall.

S

• Skyfall - This movie rules. I love Javier Bardem, but I also hate how it was planned to be the last Craig Bond movie, only for then to release the sequels.

A

• Quantum of Solace - The good thing about this movie is that it's the shortest, and it should be considered a fourth and final act of Casinò Royale overall. I like the villain, but I am still pissed at how they killed off Mathis.

C

• No Time To Die - First part of this movie, up until Felix's death? Solid as fuck. And they sideline Ana De Armas, kill off Jeffrey Wright like a fucking bitch, dump in the trash what's left of Brofeld, and then throw you into the island endgame against a slightly better played villain, with a better motivation (compared to Brofeld) for the events of this movie that weren't just "Daddy loved you more than me." Also nice try making the new 007 a POC woman, worked charms.

D

• Spectre Fuck Brofeld, fuck the waste of Christoph Waltz, fuck every actor whispering lines and the whole retcon ending of every Craig villain into Spectre. Most of all, Silva. I know he was a freelancer for the highest bidder, but he was not after Bond in the previous movie, he wanted M to pay.

Side note: what I did really notice from the Craig movies, is how fucking useless and a waste of screen time for other characters is Tanner. Instead of having him do the menial shit, it should be calling this or that, certain scenes in No Time To Die could've been perfectly fine if Tanner was to be erased from the screen, giving Moneypenny, the other 007, Q and M more 'air to breathe'.

And I'm done, back to reading Casinò Royale.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Goldeneye when combined with the subsequent Goldeneye 007 game is absolutely top-tier.

 

[ditto]

Side note: what I did really notice from the Craig movies, is how fucking useless and a waste of screen time for other characters is Tanner.

I associate Tanner with all the remote watching they do in the Craig movies. Having a controller constantly talking into Bond's ear and just seems like narrative laziness.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

We might add to the list some comic relief characters who added some ingredients that made them something special to the James Bond franchise like Sheriff J.W. Pepper.

Sometimes I think J.W. Pepper might have served as one source of inspiration for Jackie Gleason for the role of Sheriff Bufford T. Justice in Smokey & the Bandit.