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Author Topic: Best bond film Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-05-2004 06:52 AM                     Out of the 21 Bond films which is (in your own opinion) the best. I ask as I have now After Christmas got them all on DVD. My Girlfriend who hates 007 films, has to admit that she can sit through Die Another day. So there is hope  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-05-2004 07:00 AM                        My vote would be for "Goldfinger" with Sean Connery, who I believe was the real James Bond. Just ask Q. All the other James Bond's are distant seconds.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-05-2004 08:37 AM                     My vote would be From Russia With Love. Less gadgets and truer to the novels.  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-05-2004 09:01 AM                     I'll second 'From Russia With Love'. It's a class act all the way. Of the more recent (relatively speaking) Bonds, I think 'The Living Daylights' is perhaps the best.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-05-2004 10:28 AM                        "OHMSS", great women, good Bond, fantastic cinematography, great locations, good acting and the best 007 score yet.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-05-2004 11:14 AM                     I second the vote for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Quite faithful to the book, with a great John Barry score, strong Bond woman in Diana Rigg, great photography, and few gadgets. I love Bond on skis! A close second (for me) is the ersatz sequel, "For Your Eyes Only." Much of the same applies, although John Barry could have helped.  |  IP: Logged Paul Cassidy Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 549 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2001 posted 01-05-2004 11:25 AM                        "Living Daylights " for me , a real romance and action film and he is not bed hopping in this one  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Whitish Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-05-2004 02:59 PM                     Ill third the vote fo On Her Majesties Secret Service. Im planning my next vacation to end up in Murren, Switzerland so I con take the ride up to Piz Gloria.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-05-2004 03:50 PM                     On Her Majesty's Secret Service Connery IS the definitive James Bond but IF George Lazenby didn't quit I think he COULD HAVE BEEN one of the top Bond actors! Maybe not as good as Sir Sean but a close second. I like Telly Savalas as Blofeld too. I think he was a better bad guy than Charles Gray (Diamonds are Forever) or Donald Pleasance. (You Only Live Twice) What I really like about this movie is that it sets into motion the whole psychological motivation of the James Bond character and begins the relationship between Bond and Blofeld that last for many of the rest of the Bond movies. Blofeld tries to kill Bond and ends up machine-gunning Bond's new wife, pretty much in cold blood. From that moment on, Bond vows to never love another woman as much as he loved Tracy. (Diana Rigg) It sets him on the path to being the "great lover" we all know him to be in later movies. James devotes his life to work for "Queen and Country" and he vows to get revenge against his arch enemy, Earnst Stavros Blofeld. Though it's not the first James Bond movie it is the movie that begins the whole James Bond story. Even if On Her Majesty's Secret Service is not your favorite 007 movie I still say it's "required reading" for any James Bond fan!  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-05-2004 04:12 PM                        Did Lazenby quit or was it decided to bring Connery back because I understand the movie wasn`t a big success at the time? I am undecided between "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball".  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-05-2004 04:24 PM                     The way I remember it, Connery coudln't be Bond again due to prior obligations and Lazenby was tapped. Sean actually told George to do at LEAST two Bond films. When the next movie was scheduled, George Lazenby was out of the counrty (or something) and couldn't (wouldn't) return in time to make the film. Connery was called in to take over again and the rest is history.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-05-2004 04:28 PM                        Out of the country? Didn`t they already have telephones in the 60s? Was IHMSS a success at the time? Would Lazenby have had the option to continue?  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-05-2004 04:37 PM                     1. Goldfinger 2. You Only Live Twice 3. Thunderball 4. Moonraker  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-05-2004 05:06 PM                     On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tops with You only live twice second and Diamonds as the third and Dr No 4th  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-05-2004 05:50 PM                     Apparently Lazenby was getting other more lucrative offers WHILE he was shooting OHMSS. He admits to getting a swelled head and becoming a primadonna. The offers, coupled with his belief that the end of the 1960's meant the end of the Bond era, prompted his announcement that OHMSS would be his only Bond film. The original plan was to end the film with James and Tracy driving away as newlyweds (remember that crane shot near the end?). Diamonds Are Forever was to have begun with Tracy's death and Bond's search for revenge. Knowing that they wouldn't have Lazenby again, the story was kept intact in the film. It's the official Christmas movie in this house, and I drive John nuts singing "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?"  |  IP: Logged

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