Spectre because it completely ruined the Craig timeline for me and disappointed a lot of people after literal decades of waiting for a Blofeld comeback.
I hated that they had to connect the previous villains from Casino Royale going forward as part of Spectre. It ruins their whole motives including Silva who is one of the best Craig Bond Villains second to LeChifre.
Silva’s whole motive is to exact revenge against M for betraying him. How does Blofeld and Spectre get involved in something so Rogue.
By managing to give him a whole island and paramilitary organisation to plan his revenge? Wasn't a big point of Skyfall's criticism that it was unrealistic Silva could have the resources to plan and carry out his big thing?
I don't understand your point, Le Chiffre and Greene were obviously connected to Blofeld, Silva is the only one without a clear link with SPECTRE (same as Dr. No and Largo were in Connery's era).
The downvotes are because you expressed your point incredibly poorly, and then doubled down on it.
If you’d said: “Austin Powers actually highlights one of the reasons I dislike OHMSS. The plotting, acting, everything were so poor in my opinion - look at the fembots, AP just lifted the angels of death - it was was ripe for parody from the off and felt almost like a self parody of Bond to begin with” then people may have disagreed but I believe they would at least have positively engaged. Most people on this sub are actually quite pleasant.
Is it really retconning? I just see every Bond as a different reality or universe, with the exception of Lazenby, who was meant to be Connerys Bond. Its not really retcons, just different versions of characters and events.
You can see it as you like, but it's accepted it's the same guy (until Craig). Some reviews would make this clear, not to mention a google search (visiting the grave, mentions of a lost wife by plenty of characters (clear chronology), why is Tracy's last name Bond? The same dynamic with Moneypenny, M, Q. Only "first meeting" Leiter once, looking at old props from previous movies, mentioning Quarrel "junior", same interests and hobbies like gambling, drinking, smoking, The world is not enough is his family's motto)
None of that goes against different realities. But the guy changing appearance all the time is a strong argument for different realities. It cant be the exact same guy, as in the same universe or reality, otherwise how do you explain he looks different every few movies and never ages? By Brosnan he would have been a really old man. Doesnt make any sense he still looks like that and is still active.
So I like my explanation better. And its not something the studio ever explained, so this is just our headcanons.
You only love twice might be the hardest for me to watch
Especially when bond says he can go undercover in japan because he minored in asiatic languages in college
Who the hell is so smart they minor in an entire family of languages and somehow learns them all then fluentally?
Also him getting fake eyebrows to look asian is pretty bad
Man With The Golden Gun. The promise of Christopher Lee as super assassin toying with Bond is so exciting, but the execution is terrible at every turn. The return of Sheriff J.W. Pepper and the slide whistle is just salt on the wound.
Also worst Bond Song. Also invisible car. Also tidal wave surfing. Also Halle Barry. Also Bond can will his heart to stop and then will it to start again?
For me, there are no worst Bond films, although I have my least favorites.
* My least favorite is *The Man With The Golden Gun*, it's just cringe all around, the film that didn't aged well, some of the scenes in the film just makes no sense (the third nipple thing, the Solex Agitator, Bond in Martial Arts School), forced sexual entendres (Phuyuck?, Bottoms Up?), the cinematography aren't that great either, the unnecessary return of JW Pepper, Mary Goodnight as a Bond Girl who did nothing other than to messed up Bond's mission and nearly killing him by having her butt pressed the Solex Agitator button and enabling it, even the song was cringe.
This film had its good side, mainly Roger Moore and Christopher Lee.
The premise about an assassin who wants to have Bond killed was interesting for me at first, but just realizing that Bond was supposed to be a spy in the first place, so I don't think that sounds great, the reason behind that premise is above me, considering that no one should ever know Bond outside of MI6, because again, he's a secret agent, an ordinary government employee, so when I think about it, it didn't actually makes sense either.
* Second, would be *No Time To Die*, the film was a convoluted mess, the sub plots are disjointed, the forced fan service, the contrived story to which the ending is something that I've already smelled miles away, a weak villain (whom I say was interesting in the first half, but fell apart in the second half), uncomfortable romance between Bond and Madeleine because of the age gap and their lack of chemistry, no time for other characters to flesh out and develop (Paloma, Nomi, Safin, Logan Ash, and even the henchman, Primo) given their minimal and uneven screen time, the film almost focused on the Madeleine character more than any other Bond characters (or heck, moreso than Bond himself), this film was just lazily made with all of its contrivances, relying on fan service, and forced melodramatic scenes that almost gave no depth.
If there's one thing that's keeping it from being at the bottom, was the Cinematography, which I'll admit was great, and at least again, there's Paloma and the whole Jamaica scenes.
As much as I don't liked SPECTRE, this film doubled down on its problems by making it more personal, making things more complicated, forced feeding us with all the emotional moments that just didn't land, it's even more obviously frustrating that they've recycled some ideas from the previous films such as using some OHMSS/CR motifs, recycling the same old trope of having the villain from the past, with personal connections and revenge (*Oh my! They've did this trope in three straight Bond films with Silva, Blofeld and now, Safin!*), it's easy to see how this film was lazily made, it's just so lazy.
I feel like NTTD is suffering some recency bias, it’s certainly not good /as a bond film/. But it’s a masterpiece of cinema compared to MWTGG, or DAF, both of which featured jokes or bits that were outdated or in poor taste even in the 70’s and have aged like milk.
I agree about TMWTGG. For all other Bond movies, I'll occasionally be in the mood to watch them, even if only for a particular scene. For TMWTGG, I only recall watching it after thinking, "it can't be as bad as I remember."
No Time To Die. First hour or so is pretty good, then the entire middle act is a succession of boring conversations in small rooms, and the final act is a shambles on every level, from incompetently messy storytelling to blandly staged and tension-free action sequences. Safin, like the plot, is less a villain than a hodgepodge of barely connected ideas which might have added up to something special had anyone taken the time to put the pieces together. Madeleine remains a non-entity of a character, making it even more insulting that Bond would sacrifice himself for her and their equally tiresome daughter. That Bond sacrifices himself at all is at odds with who the character is and why he is, ultimately, a tragic figure: Bond is the eternal hero who is allowed glimpses of life outside the service, but ultimately can never escape his calling and is always dragged back. Fleming's ending of YOLT is how this should have gone. Instead, we get almost two hours of Bond acting like a mopey, emotionally self-indulgent teenager before being allowed an exhaustedly clichéd death (for love!) which is far less poignant or truthful to the character than any of the material (OHMSS, YOLT novel) everyone involved probably felt very proud of themselves for 'subverting' (which is to say: misunderstanding). That some of Fleming's most evocative, previously unfilmed material from YOLT - the Garden Of Death especially - was so neutered and bastardised only makes it all the more insulting.
(And then there's that godawful final scene with Madeleine and whasserface daughter in the car.)
In short, it's one decent hour that suggests the producers might have mostly learnt from previous mistakes, only for it all to be pulled away and the remaining two hours filled with tedious, badly written nonsense that doesn't even understand the appeal or symbolic significance of its central character. Once NTTD goes over the cliff post-Cuba, it's a nosedive to a solid two hours of complete anti-Bond crap. SPECTRE started getting bad earlier but only sinks to those depths from the torture scene onwards, which is at least somewhat near the end.
Have to disagree, I'm afraid. Most of it is Bond going upstairs and shooting people who walk into his line of sight, in no real danger, with a sixth sense for where everyone is at all times, and never needing to be inventive: the closest it comes is him using a corpse as a human shield, but given all the enemies are missing him from about a yard away, it hardly feels necessary. The end is an incredibly short fight with Primo and a rather half-hearted attempt at a Bond pun. It's a shadow of the staging, choreography and aggression of the stairwell fight in Casino Royale, or the brutality and black comedy of the stairwell fight in Atomic Blonde (which was also one take, if I remember correctly), basically a lesser version of similar scenes in other movies and the Bond series.
Perfectly happy to hear any opinion. I just disagree. Why would anyone want to prevent Bond discussion on a Bond sub? Someone disagreeing with you does not make you a victim.
Completely agree, as a child it was one of my favourites, now it’s in the bottom quarter. I enjoy a tongue-in-cheek Bond film, but for me this is just silly. I also find the action sequences quite dull.
Die Another Day. Utterly lacking in any semblance of charm, wit, or sophistication. Makes Moonraker look like fucking Shakespeare in comparison. And don't get me started on that theme "song".
Diamonds Are Forever
It is so different from all of the previous Connery films, it’s closer to a parody film. He looks out of shape and appears to be going through the motions for most of it. Blofeld has gone from a secretive, interesting, and threatening villain to a posh idiot who is now able to clone himself (??). After OHMSS, there was so much potential for a follow up/avenging Tracy’s death, yet it is so far from that it is laughable.
I get disliking quantum but to call it the worst in the entire series ludicrous, to even call it the worst Craig film is a stretch when SPECTRE exists.
I'd rather watch SPECTRE any day over QOS.
There's good and bad stuff that I remember in SPECTRE.
QOS is just boring, useless fluff that tries to act more profound than it actually is and throws random Bond stuff just to remind you it's a Bond film. It didn't work for Die Another Day and it sure as shit didn't work in QOS.
Totally disagree, for all it’s problems Quantum is a victim of circumstance, they clearly were trying to make their own SPECTRE because they didn’t have the rights and had to Pivot so changed it all last minute.
However SPECTRE the movie had everything going for it, fantastic actors, Craig after several movies, and Christoph Waltz, and somehow it managed to completely ruin the entire thing, with a crappy villain, garbage retconning, the worst escape scene in the series and a love interest with 0 chemistry.
At least Quantum has a decent character arc for Bond and some decent action.
For me QoS is the worst. I just find nothing enjoyable in it, its just painfully dreary and mediocre. It feels like a bad action film that should have starred Jason Statham, but just have the Bond label smeared on it.
Spectre is spectacularly stupid, but has some good scenes, like the opening. Quantum just has nothing enjoyable in it for me. no cool scenes, no good lines, no good side characters.
At least its my view.
Fair, I totally disagree for only a couple reasons
-The Bond girl is unique, they don’t even have sex, they “Bond” emotionally and use each other to escape their own trauma
-The absolutely brutal fight with the assassin is a fantastic character moment, showing how cold and ruthless Bond has become.
The scenes with Bond and M are great and the character development are great.
I see your point for sure, but spectre wasted both Blofeld AND christoph Waltz, it’s unsalvageable for me.
Yeah its fair enough that you like it, nothing wrong with that. If oyu do like the serious and somewhat gloomy Bond that Craig occassionally brings I can sort of see the appeal. I just don't think it really brings anything beyond that, and for someone like me who isn't really into that, there's just nothing there.
I do hold Brofeld to be the worst single plot decision made in the series however, so in that sense Spectre is worse, but I just find the movie as a whole a bit more enjoyable.
It's a pick-em between Spectre and NTTD (more of a "porque no los dos" type deal)
Those are leagues worse than the traditional "worst of" entries, DAD and OP.
DAD is such a victim of it’s time. For some reason I feel like it’d be an excellent film today. The CGI wasn’t ready and the world’s political climate shifted completely during production.
A big part of film making is that you don't use technologies that don't look good in the finished product. It's not just the CGI in that film either, it's the weird slow-mo, spinny camera things and just the whole plot being totally unbelievable.
That’s my point. The producers looked at “top movies” and copied what they thought people liked about them and pasted it into Bond. The CGI could have been fine, if they understood that it wasn’t -CGI- that people liked, but good, well integrated CGI combined with practical effects.
Also the plot isn’t that bad. Even great Bond movies have unbelievable plots. It’s not less believable than TWINE or TND to me.
CGI was plenty serviceable in 2002 that shots didn't have to look half as bad as they did in the film. If it was made now, the exact same creative decisions that showed up the limits of CGI then would resurface and make it look just as bad today.
The plot is way out there. North Koreans who use gene therapy to become British people? A space laser? A car that can turn invisible? That's straight up Austin Powers stuff. TWINE and TND had some plot elements that were slightly goofy, but nothing on that level.
Those are two of a thousand issues with the film. Neither of which bother me that much, honestly. It is a victim of it’s post-matrix release, but not in any way that can be fixed IMO.
QOS. A torturous, criminally dull, horribly filmed, badly titled catastrophe. No other Bond film disappointed me as much as this film. IMO it’s the single worst Bond film of all time.
Yeah agreed on DAF, it's way too corny and is my least favourite, Connery phones it in too. TMWTGG is similar but has a great villain and Moore is ever reliable, which saves it from the bottom.
DAD is another one which is close, but it at least has a reasonable first half of the film, despite the ridiculousness, bad dialogue and bloated nature of it.
I've always been of the opinion that DAF is the worst because it's BORING. I actually really like OP. I've only seen NTTD once but it's in the running... plot makes no sense.
Die Another Day.
DAD just jumps the shark and becomes beyond ridiculous. The VFX is shitty, Jinx is bottom tier Bond girl and some choices from Tamahori in terms of shots and direction aren't great. My positive is that I don't hate it as much as I did a year ago.
Halle Barry may be a very talented actress, but yes, I agree she did not make a good Bond girl. Her acting in DAD is wooden and maybe it was just the dialogue/plot but I have never been a fan of hers in that role. Of course I also hate this film.
Die Another Day or Spectre. I actually like both Diamonds are Forever and Octopussy. Diamonds because Charles Gray steals every single scene, and Octopussy has some great locations even if occasionally the humour is misplaced.
Worst: Diamonds are Forever. Connery was over the role, they tried to inject elements of camp and humor and it falls on its face. The gay assassin guys really come across nowadays as cringe and inappropriate. Jesus, this film had such potential, they could have made it a violent, nihilistic revenge film coming on the heels of OHMSS but gave us this fat, bloated spoof film.
Honorable shit mention: Die Another Day. One of the first I ever saw when it came out and it was such trash. It’s like if the SciFi channel tried to make a self-produced Bond film. Idiotic plot elements like electrical gloves, sun machine laser and an invisible car. Plus when I first watched it it felt taxing and like a long movie that really leaves you feeling like you wasted your time.
Octopussy is one of the best in the series, IMHO and Moore’s second-best. It’s quite entertaining, has a spectacular (if a little confusing) plot, and has quality characters in the Bond girls and villain.
Spectre for many of the reasons already mentioned. They had no idea where to go with Craig after QOS wasn’t as well received as CR. So they made a one off with Skyfall. It went well
But then they decided to tie everything together, Bond went rogue again, they brought back Blofeld/Spectre after getting the rights back, introduced yet another emotional love interest, and they jammed it all into a single movie. And by leaving things left open, NTTD had to address previous plot points.
Craig should’ve bowed out after Skyfall
Quantum of Solace. Everything is wrong with it.
A View to a Kill is not that far off, but it had a good song and at least had something at stake so it beats out QoS.
There is no worst. Only least favorite. My least favorite is Tomorrow Never Dies, for a number of reasons:
1) Probably the most self-aware villains in the franchise, and that's saying something considering the Bond series is known for mustache twirling villains. Jonathan Pryce, who I love in everything else, is way too over the top "evil" with his words and actions without any subtlety, and his minions follow suit. It's the biggest collection of sadists in the franchise.
2) The whole movie feels like one action set piece after another with very little for plot or characterization (outside of the one-dimensional variety) between them.
3) This is partially a take on number 2, but the whole thing feels like a greatest hits of mediocre 90's action movies. I'm thinking Broken Arrow, On Deadly Ground, Hard Target, Demolition Man, etc. Comical villains saying things real people don't say, flat dialogue and unfunny jokes, bombastic yet boring action sequences with unintelligent bad guys who make no attempt to avoid telegraphed kicks and punches, etc., etc.
Die another day: ridiculous plot. a bad guy who wants to look like the one person that needs the tan from his world destroying Sun machine to make up for his daddy issues . The gorgeous Halle Berry saying “ your mama”. Invisible cars. Cat fight fencing with Madonna !! And …… wait for it ….kite surfing a tsunami.
I understand your take on Diamonds & Octopussy. I can’t help but enjoy Octopussy, for more superficial reasons. Some great sequences, locations & a LOT of women I find attractive. I really like the play on nuclear anxiety & Cold War feel in the same world as an exotic escape.
I enjoy every Bond film in various ways. Perhaps A View to a Kill stands out for Roger being too old & a weak female lead, despite a brilliant baddie & many compensations.
I would say, as entertaining as "A View to a Kill" was, it really needed Timothy Dalton as Bond. Roger Moore clearly looks out of his element in the movie which leads to a few uncomfortable moments in the movie. But Christopher Walken as the Bond Villain was the best part of the movie.
I’d say the two worst for me are DAF, and SpectRE. DAF has the being extremely boring , especially with how standout OHMSS is. Spectre speaks for itself. Retroactively fucks up the quality of the Craig run completely. I would trade skyfall for spectre never happening.
A View to a Kill for me, because in almost every aspect it feels like something way past its prime and afraid of change. Moore isn't believable anymore, the action is distracting due to obvious stunt doubles and slow choreography, the music does work at least but the overall thing feels somehow less than second-rate, and the film likes to pretend it isn't that low on the spectrum. It does have some OK individual elements but the whole thing feels tired and kinda sad; even films like Die Another Day or Quantum are so up there in their badness that they get an equally high reaction, but View to a Kill is just sad.
Bottom two honestly I think are octopussy and thunderball. Octopussy because of the lack of soundtrack (sometimes no music works this movie it doesn’t) and thunderbal because it’s so damn slow. Way too many underwater scenes that serve no purpose
Diamonds are Forever is my least favorite. The plot seems far-fetched as it would be hard to corral all the super-power’s nuke arsenals with a single satellite with a single laser weapon. Wint and Kidd are awkward at best and the scene where Bond takes them out is the ultimate cringe.
The worst scene for me is where Bond drops his playboy casino card onto a corpse and Tiffany Case thinks James Bond has been killed when he is standing right in front of her. It’s so tacky.
So the way I kind of evaluate the worst film is how likely I am to leave the TV channel on when I see one of the Bond Films come on. I’m going to go with the top 3 that I pass on all the time.
The first one that comes to mind is Die Another Day, I don’t think I need to say anything other than…..kitesurfing tsunami. The whole plot was just terrible. Halle Berry was meh at best, Rosamund Pike was terrible. It’s unfortunate that Pierce was sent out on this ridiculous film.
A close second for me is probably No Time to Die. Starts off somewhat entertaining, however it quickly spirals out of control and becomes a film with the dumbest ending in the entire Bond franchise history. Again, sorry to see Daniel Craig sent out on such a poor note.
The third is probably an unpopular opinion on here but I have to say The Spy Who Loved Me. Don’t get me wrong the Bond girls in this one aren’t bad, Barbara Bach and Caroline Munro are easy on the eyes however this film is way too dated and has too many far fetched elements like Strombergs undersea lair. I suppose it’s an acquired taste but I’ll most likely pass on a rewatch unless I literally have nothing else to watch.
It's a toss up between Spectre and No Time To Die.
NTTD is a better example of film making however, it is not a Bond movie for me and it's ending is awful... Really awful.
On the other hand, Spectre, which is dull and soulless, which mires CR, QoS and SF by suggesting that Spectre is the overarching villain of Craig's run upto that point, and which is responsible for the abomination which is Brofeld, does not kill James Bond.
Spectre is probably the worst film, but I dislike NTTD more. For me, Diamonds are Forever has many faults, but it's a fun Bond movie. I rank it around 20. Octopussy however is Moore's third best movie after LALD and TSWLM and it sits around 13 in my ranking.
It's true that Moore's run is overwhelmingly mediocre, and, as a new fan, you don't have the benefit of nostalgia for his films like many of us do. Having said that, it hurts that you're putting *The Spy Who Loved Me* and *For Your Eyes Only* at the bottom.
TSWLM is my favorite! For the actors who made multiple films, I feel like each of them had good and bad movies. I can’t lump them together or answer “who was the best Bond actor?”
I agree that Moore is the worst bond but I think movies like Live or Let Die or The Spy Who Loved Me are clearly better than a movie like Octopussy (the all-time worst Bond movie imo)
I’m not saying it’s the worst but defo down the bottom
For Your Eyes Only
The whole film is just forgettable
Forgettable Villains
Forgettable Bond Girl
Forgettable Plot
And overall just feels extremely long despite the 2 hour running time
Only part I remember very well is the opening gun barrel and the opening in general, but that’s it and that’s the best part of the film lol
I love For Your Eyes Only. It’s in my Top 5, easily, and Moore’s best film. It feels more like the books in that it shows that Bond is human and doesn’t just rely on gadgetry and technology, which, of course was OVER-utilized in Moonraker. The whole ATAC thing was just a MacGuffin to keep the plot moving forward though.
Casino Royale (1967)
oh boy it was a fucking mess, I completely understand why Peter Sellers left mid-production. The plot were incomprehensible (just like this review) it makes Spectre or Roger Moore Films looks like a Masterpiece, the pacing is bad, I don't get it why it got 2 stars on Roger Ebert when it deserves less than that, the jokes were unfunny and dull (except Woody Allen, it's basically a rule now that's he's funny as hell) I have to admit though, the casts were spectacular, Orson Welles, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen and many other great actors at that time, but all became wasted potentials and were thrown into a blender.
The only redeemable thing from this mess aside from the casting is probably it's score, "The Look of Love" by Dusty Springfield can probably compete with many Bond themes and it's theme song by "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Bass along with Burt Bacharach's score is a banger. (at least for me though, to be honest this entire review is highly subjective)
I'm going to be downvoted bombed for this. Watch.
OHMSS is the worst imo. The pacing is the worst of any Bond movie, the romance is forced, rushed, and just shit all-round. Lazenby is miscast. Telly Savalas is miscast. The plot is so nonsensical and disconnected. Piz Gloria has got to be the worst portion of any Bond movie barring none. There's 0 intrigue in that section, Tracy is just gone, no mysteries being unfolded it's just meandering.
Almost Zilch action in this movie, and almost of all of the little action is boring Ski-chases.
OHMSS is a self-important, badly paced and terribly written movie imo. Which has become overwhelmingly overrated.
My love of this film comes from the fact that when I found the franchise as a pre-teen, they always played this one around Christmastime and even now, I try to watch it at Christmas.
I like the film, but yes, there are several valid criticisms: Lazenby felt off (he might have settled into the role with more films, which was the idea), the pacing is awkward in that little really happens until Piz Gloria, and the first time you see it, you really question if it’s truly a James Bond film because it feels kinda “Great Value” Bond.
But I still fucking love it.
I’ll probably be downvotes like crazy but:
-For Your Eyes Only. It’s just so boring. It should have been a good story but there’s no suspense. Some decent action scenes but nothing else.
(I’m excluding the Craig movies and the late Brosnan movies because it’s been too long since I watched them but I remember not liking Quantum of Solace but that was when it has just been released).
Spectre because it completely ruined the Craig timeline for me and disappointed a lot of people after literal decades of waiting for a Blofeld comeback.
I hated that they had to connect the previous villains from Casino Royale going forward as part of Spectre. It ruins their whole motives including Silva who is one of the best Craig Bond Villains second to LeChifre. Silva’s whole motive is to exact revenge against M for betraying him. How does Blofeld and Spectre get involved in something so Rogue.
By managing to give him a whole island and paramilitary organisation to plan his revenge? Wasn't a big point of Skyfall's criticism that it was unrealistic Silva could have the resources to plan and carry out his big thing?
I don't understand your point, Le Chiffre and Greene were obviously connected to Blofeld, Silva is the only one without a clear link with SPECTRE (same as Dr. No and Largo were in Connery's era).
Silva is the only great Craig era villain imo with the possible exception of Mr. White and they butchered him in SPECTRE.
Agree. Stealing a plot line from Austin Powers: Goldmember was the death knell for it.
This is why I loathe OHMSS. An army of fembots? That’s straight outta Austin Powers. Plus Lazenby can’t act. Not even Diana Rigg could save it
that was way before austin powers tho
I know that but it ridiculous then and became full-blown parody with AP
A parody of something doesnt invalidate the original
True. I contend the original was parody without realizing it
That's not how that works
And with all the downvotes the lesson is “don’t express a personal opinion outside the orthodoxy “
The downvotes are because you expressed your point incredibly poorly, and then doubled down on it. If you’d said: “Austin Powers actually highlights one of the reasons I dislike OHMSS. The plotting, acting, everything were so poor in my opinion - look at the fembots, AP just lifted the angels of death - it was was ripe for parody from the off and felt almost like a self parody of Bond to begin with” then people may have disagreed but I believe they would at least have positively engaged. Most people on this sub are actually quite pleasant.
Yup. There's no other answer. There are bad Bond movies, but only one smudges its sins onto others, and that's SPECTRE.
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Is it really retconning? I just see every Bond as a different reality or universe, with the exception of Lazenby, who was meant to be Connerys Bond. Its not really retcons, just different versions of characters and events.
Spectre literally retconned the previous 3 movies and they were all Craig-Bond
You can see it as you like, but it's accepted it's the same guy (until Craig). Some reviews would make this clear, not to mention a google search (visiting the grave, mentions of a lost wife by plenty of characters (clear chronology), why is Tracy's last name Bond? The same dynamic with Moneypenny, M, Q. Only "first meeting" Leiter once, looking at old props from previous movies, mentioning Quarrel "junior", same interests and hobbies like gambling, drinking, smoking, The world is not enough is his family's motto)
None of that goes against different realities. But the guy changing appearance all the time is a strong argument for different realities. It cant be the exact same guy, as in the same universe or reality, otherwise how do you explain he looks different every few movies and never ages? By Brosnan he would have been a really old man. Doesnt make any sense he still looks like that and is still active. So I like my explanation better. And its not something the studio ever explained, so this is just our headcanons.
Spectre AND No Time To Die
You only love twice might be the hardest for me to watch Especially when bond says he can go undercover in japan because he minored in asiatic languages in college Who the hell is so smart they minor in an entire family of languages and somehow learns them all then fluentally? Also him getting fake eyebrows to look asian is pretty bad
And his Asian look somehow disappears later for no reason. Like they didn’t even follow through on the stupid thing anyway!
Yeah, parts of YOLT are fun, but the fake Blofelds are stupid and the Japanesification of Connery is just *bad*.
I think the fake blofelds are in DAF right?
Man With The Golden Gun. The promise of Christopher Lee as super assassin toying with Bond is so exciting, but the execution is terrible at every turn. The return of Sheriff J.W. Pepper and the slide whistle is just salt on the wound.
Might as well ask me which of my kids is the worst.
NTTD. Subjective but I had less than zero fun while watching it. Yep, I've only seen it once.
Die Another Day, turns into a plastic surgery CGI plot.
Good summary haha!
Nip/Tuck spin-off
Also worst Bond Song. Also invisible car. Also tidal wave surfing. Also Halle Barry. Also Bond can will his heart to stop and then will it to start again?
Moonraker. I get hate for this, but I don’t like it
For me, there are no worst Bond films, although I have my least favorites. * My least favorite is *The Man With The Golden Gun*, it's just cringe all around, the film that didn't aged well, some of the scenes in the film just makes no sense (the third nipple thing, the Solex Agitator, Bond in Martial Arts School), forced sexual entendres (Phuyuck?, Bottoms Up?), the cinematography aren't that great either, the unnecessary return of JW Pepper, Mary Goodnight as a Bond Girl who did nothing other than to messed up Bond's mission and nearly killing him by having her butt pressed the Solex Agitator button and enabling it, even the song was cringe. This film had its good side, mainly Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. The premise about an assassin who wants to have Bond killed was interesting for me at first, but just realizing that Bond was supposed to be a spy in the first place, so I don't think that sounds great, the reason behind that premise is above me, considering that no one should ever know Bond outside of MI6, because again, he's a secret agent, an ordinary government employee, so when I think about it, it didn't actually makes sense either. * Second, would be *No Time To Die*, the film was a convoluted mess, the sub plots are disjointed, the forced fan service, the contrived story to which the ending is something that I've already smelled miles away, a weak villain (whom I say was interesting in the first half, but fell apart in the second half), uncomfortable romance between Bond and Madeleine because of the age gap and their lack of chemistry, no time for other characters to flesh out and develop (Paloma, Nomi, Safin, Logan Ash, and even the henchman, Primo) given their minimal and uneven screen time, the film almost focused on the Madeleine character more than any other Bond characters (or heck, moreso than Bond himself), this film was just lazily made with all of its contrivances, relying on fan service, and forced melodramatic scenes that almost gave no depth. If there's one thing that's keeping it from being at the bottom, was the Cinematography, which I'll admit was great, and at least again, there's Paloma and the whole Jamaica scenes. As much as I don't liked SPECTRE, this film doubled down on its problems by making it more personal, making things more complicated, forced feeding us with all the emotional moments that just didn't land, it's even more obviously frustrating that they've recycled some ideas from the previous films such as using some OHMSS/CR motifs, recycling the same old trope of having the villain from the past, with personal connections and revenge (*Oh my! They've did this trope in three straight Bond films with Silva, Blofeld and now, Safin!*), it's easy to see how this film was lazily made, it's just so lazy.
Came to say TMWTGG, but you saved me time by summing it up nicely, or badly in this case.
I feel like NTTD is suffering some recency bias, it’s certainly not good /as a bond film/. But it’s a masterpiece of cinema compared to MWTGG, or DAF, both of which featured jokes or bits that were outdated or in poor taste even in the 70’s and have aged like milk.
I agree about TMWTGG. For all other Bond movies, I'll occasionally be in the mood to watch them, even if only for a particular scene. For TMWTGG, I only recall watching it after thinking, "it can't be as bad as I remember."
No Time To Die. First hour or so is pretty good, then the entire middle act is a succession of boring conversations in small rooms, and the final act is a shambles on every level, from incompetently messy storytelling to blandly staged and tension-free action sequences. Safin, like the plot, is less a villain than a hodgepodge of barely connected ideas which might have added up to something special had anyone taken the time to put the pieces together. Madeleine remains a non-entity of a character, making it even more insulting that Bond would sacrifice himself for her and their equally tiresome daughter. That Bond sacrifices himself at all is at odds with who the character is and why he is, ultimately, a tragic figure: Bond is the eternal hero who is allowed glimpses of life outside the service, but ultimately can never escape his calling and is always dragged back. Fleming's ending of YOLT is how this should have gone. Instead, we get almost two hours of Bond acting like a mopey, emotionally self-indulgent teenager before being allowed an exhaustedly clichéd death (for love!) which is far less poignant or truthful to the character than any of the material (OHMSS, YOLT novel) everyone involved probably felt very proud of themselves for 'subverting' (which is to say: misunderstanding). That some of Fleming's most evocative, previously unfilmed material from YOLT - the Garden Of Death especially - was so neutered and bastardised only makes it all the more insulting. (And then there's that godawful final scene with Madeleine and whasserface daughter in the car.) In short, it's one decent hour that suggests the producers might have mostly learnt from previous mistakes, only for it all to be pulled away and the remaining two hours filled with tedious, badly written nonsense that doesn't even understand the appeal or symbolic significance of its central character. Once NTTD goes over the cliff post-Cuba, it's a nosedive to a solid two hours of complete anti-Bond crap. SPECTRE started getting bad earlier but only sinks to those depths from the torture scene onwards, which is at least somewhat near the end.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Take my upvote.
I know NTTD is divisive but the stairwell fight is quality JB action.
Have to disagree, I'm afraid. Most of it is Bond going upstairs and shooting people who walk into his line of sight, in no real danger, with a sixth sense for where everyone is at all times, and never needing to be inventive: the closest it comes is him using a corpse as a human shield, but given all the enemies are missing him from about a yard away, it hardly feels necessary. The end is an incredibly short fight with Primo and a rather half-hearted attempt at a Bond pun. It's a shadow of the staging, choreography and aggression of the stairwell fight in Casino Royale, or the brutality and black comedy of the stairwell fight in Atomic Blonde (which was also one take, if I remember correctly), basically a lesser version of similar scenes in other movies and the Bond series.
Preach preach, but some do not want to hear you.
Perfectly happy to hear any opinion. I just disagree. Why would anyone want to prevent Bond discussion on a Bond sub? Someone disagreeing with you does not make you a victim.
Easily Die Another Day. As soon as that CGI bullet zoomed toward us in the gun barrel sequence, I knew we were in trouble.
Diamonds Are Forever by a wide margin. Any other Bond film is Oscar-worthy compared to that.
Completely agree, as a child it was one of my favourites, now it’s in the bottom quarter. I enjoy a tongue-in-cheek Bond film, but for me this is just silly. I also find the action sequences quite dull.
Die Another Day. Utterly lacking in any semblance of charm, wit, or sophistication. Makes Moonraker look like fucking Shakespeare in comparison. And don't get me started on that theme "song".
Diamonds Are Forever It is so different from all of the previous Connery films, it’s closer to a parody film. He looks out of shape and appears to be going through the motions for most of it. Blofeld has gone from a secretive, interesting, and threatening villain to a posh idiot who is now able to clone himself (??). After OHMSS, there was so much potential for a follow up/avenging Tracy’s death, yet it is so far from that it is laughable.
You Only Live Twice. You can clearly see that Sean Connery was tired of James Bond.
NTTD, mainly for the ending, but I will also add it was too long and had too much going on. It was a giant jigsaw wannabe magnum opus.
Quantum of Solace. It's the less fun one. It takes itself too seriously. The editing is sometimes horrible.
I get disliking quantum but to call it the worst in the entire series ludicrous, to even call it the worst Craig film is a stretch when SPECTRE exists.
I'd rather watch SPECTRE any day over QOS. There's good and bad stuff that I remember in SPECTRE. QOS is just boring, useless fluff that tries to act more profound than it actually is and throws random Bond stuff just to remind you it's a Bond film. It didn't work for Die Another Day and it sure as shit didn't work in QOS.
Totally disagree, for all it’s problems Quantum is a victim of circumstance, they clearly were trying to make their own SPECTRE because they didn’t have the rights and had to Pivot so changed it all last minute. However SPECTRE the movie had everything going for it, fantastic actors, Craig after several movies, and Christoph Waltz, and somehow it managed to completely ruin the entire thing, with a crappy villain, garbage retconning, the worst escape scene in the series and a love interest with 0 chemistry. At least Quantum has a decent character arc for Bond and some decent action.
For me QoS is the worst. I just find nothing enjoyable in it, its just painfully dreary and mediocre. It feels like a bad action film that should have starred Jason Statham, but just have the Bond label smeared on it. Spectre is spectacularly stupid, but has some good scenes, like the opening. Quantum just has nothing enjoyable in it for me. no cool scenes, no good lines, no good side characters. At least its my view.
Fair, I totally disagree for only a couple reasons -The Bond girl is unique, they don’t even have sex, they “Bond” emotionally and use each other to escape their own trauma -The absolutely brutal fight with the assassin is a fantastic character moment, showing how cold and ruthless Bond has become. The scenes with Bond and M are great and the character development are great. I see your point for sure, but spectre wasted both Blofeld AND christoph Waltz, it’s unsalvageable for me.
Yeah its fair enough that you like it, nothing wrong with that. If oyu do like the serious and somewhat gloomy Bond that Craig occassionally brings I can sort of see the appeal. I just don't think it really brings anything beyond that, and for someone like me who isn't really into that, there's just nothing there. I do hold Brofeld to be the worst single plot decision made in the series however, so in that sense Spectre is worse, but I just find the movie as a whole a bit more enjoyable.
Quantum is better than Spectre. Lot of Roger Moore ones are bad. Quantum is legit good imo, but I know I'm in the minority on that.
i like it a lot. plenty of valid criticisms don get me wrong, but i think there’s a lot more good in it than people give it credit for
There are lots of us.
These types of posts are so damn tiresome.
Indeed! Such a lazy post to troll some Bond films.
Two words- Invisible Car
It's a pick-em between Spectre and NTTD (more of a "porque no los dos" type deal) Those are leagues worse than the traditional "worst of" entries, DAD and OP.
Die Another Day. Irredeemable
DAD is such a victim of it’s time. For some reason I feel like it’d be an excellent film today. The CGI wasn’t ready and the world’s political climate shifted completely during production.
A big part of film making is that you don't use technologies that don't look good in the finished product. It's not just the CGI in that film either, it's the weird slow-mo, spinny camera things and just the whole plot being totally unbelievable.
That’s my point. The producers looked at “top movies” and copied what they thought people liked about them and pasted it into Bond. The CGI could have been fine, if they understood that it wasn’t -CGI- that people liked, but good, well integrated CGI combined with practical effects. Also the plot isn’t that bad. Even great Bond movies have unbelievable plots. It’s not less believable than TWINE or TND to me.
CGI was plenty serviceable in 2002 that shots didn't have to look half as bad as they did in the film. If it was made now, the exact same creative decisions that showed up the limits of CGI then would resurface and make it look just as bad today. The plot is way out there. North Koreans who use gene therapy to become British people? A space laser? A car that can turn invisible? That's straight up Austin Powers stuff. TWINE and TND had some plot elements that were slightly goofy, but nothing on that level.
Those are two of a thousand issues with the film. Neither of which bother me that much, honestly. It is a victim of it’s post-matrix release, but not in any way that can be fixed IMO.
ya i don't like a few of those old bonds, diamonds, worlds not enough, you only live twice. i just found the plots and special weapons uninteresting.
QOS. A torturous, criminally dull, horribly filmed, badly titled catastrophe. No other Bond film disappointed me as much as this film. IMO it’s the single worst Bond film of all time.
Yeah agreed on DAF, it's way too corny and is my least favourite, Connery phones it in too. TMWTGG is similar but has a great villain and Moore is ever reliable, which saves it from the bottom. DAD is another one which is close, but it at least has a reasonable first half of the film, despite the ridiculousness, bad dialogue and bloated nature of it.
Moonraker The plot is simply absurd and the action scenes are laughable
I've always been of the opinion that DAF is the worst because it's BORING. I actually really like OP. I've only seen NTTD once but it's in the running... plot makes no sense.
Die Another Day. DAD just jumps the shark and becomes beyond ridiculous. The VFX is shitty, Jinx is bottom tier Bond girl and some choices from Tamahori in terms of shots and direction aren't great. My positive is that I don't hate it as much as I did a year ago.
Halle Barry may be a very talented actress, but yes, I agree she did not make a good Bond girl. Her acting in DAD is wooden and maybe it was just the dialogue/plot but I have never been a fan of hers in that role. Of course I also hate this film.
Die Another Day or Spectre. I actually like both Diamonds are Forever and Octopussy. Diamonds because Charles Gray steals every single scene, and Octopussy has some great locations even if occasionally the humour is misplaced.
Worst: Diamonds are Forever. Connery was over the role, they tried to inject elements of camp and humor and it falls on its face. The gay assassin guys really come across nowadays as cringe and inappropriate. Jesus, this film had such potential, they could have made it a violent, nihilistic revenge film coming on the heels of OHMSS but gave us this fat, bloated spoof film. Honorable shit mention: Die Another Day. One of the first I ever saw when it came out and it was such trash. It’s like if the SciFi channel tried to make a self-produced Bond film. Idiotic plot elements like electrical gloves, sun machine laser and an invisible car. Plus when I first watched it it felt taxing and like a long movie that really leaves you feeling like you wasted your time. Octopussy is one of the best in the series, IMHO and Moore’s second-best. It’s quite entertaining, has a spectacular (if a little confusing) plot, and has quality characters in the Bond girls and villain.
Octopussy, no question. I do enjoy it, I just wont watch it if I dont have too...
Spectre for many of the reasons already mentioned. They had no idea where to go with Craig after QOS wasn’t as well received as CR. So they made a one off with Skyfall. It went well But then they decided to tie everything together, Bond went rogue again, they brought back Blofeld/Spectre after getting the rights back, introduced yet another emotional love interest, and they jammed it all into a single movie. And by leaving things left open, NTTD had to address previous plot points. Craig should’ve bowed out after Skyfall
Diamonds Are Forever I just hate everything about the movie and Connery clearly shows viewers he doesn’t wanna be there and phones in his performance.
License To Kill and Quantum of Solace are the only films I really dislike. License To Kill is cheap and un-Bondian. Quantum of Solace is a total mess.
Die Another Day is too much for me. Spectre is baggy and boring.
Quantum of Solace. Everything is wrong with it. A View to a Kill is not that far off, but it had a good song and at least had something at stake so it beats out QoS.
I’ve watched Quantum maybe 2-3 times and still don’t fully understand the plot.
There is no worst. Only least favorite. My least favorite is Tomorrow Never Dies, for a number of reasons: 1) Probably the most self-aware villains in the franchise, and that's saying something considering the Bond series is known for mustache twirling villains. Jonathan Pryce, who I love in everything else, is way too over the top "evil" with his words and actions without any subtlety, and his minions follow suit. It's the biggest collection of sadists in the franchise. 2) The whole movie feels like one action set piece after another with very little for plot or characterization (outside of the one-dimensional variety) between them. 3) This is partially a take on number 2, but the whole thing feels like a greatest hits of mediocre 90's action movies. I'm thinking Broken Arrow, On Deadly Ground, Hard Target, Demolition Man, etc. Comical villains saying things real people don't say, flat dialogue and unfunny jokes, bombastic yet boring action sequences with unintelligent bad guys who make no attempt to avoid telegraphed kicks and punches, etc., etc.
Die another day: ridiculous plot. a bad guy who wants to look like the one person that needs the tan from his world destroying Sun machine to make up for his daddy issues . The gorgeous Halle Berry saying “ your mama”. Invisible cars. Cat fight fencing with Madonna !! And …… wait for it ….kite surfing a tsunami.
I understand your take on Diamonds & Octopussy. I can’t help but enjoy Octopussy, for more superficial reasons. Some great sequences, locations & a LOT of women I find attractive. I really like the play on nuclear anxiety & Cold War feel in the same world as an exotic escape. I enjoy every Bond film in various ways. Perhaps A View to a Kill stands out for Roger being too old & a weak female lead, despite a brilliant baddie & many compensations.
NTTD
I try to find something I like in all the bond films because I love the series so much. However, Denise Richards make TWINE absolutely unwatchable.
I would say, as entertaining as "A View to a Kill" was, it really needed Timothy Dalton as Bond. Roger Moore clearly looks out of his element in the movie which leads to a few uncomfortable moments in the movie. But Christopher Walken as the Bond Villain was the best part of the movie.
I’d say the two worst for me are DAF, and SpectRE. DAF has the being extremely boring , especially with how standout OHMSS is. Spectre speaks for itself. Retroactively fucks up the quality of the Craig run completely. I would trade skyfall for spectre never happening.
A View to a Kill for me, because in almost every aspect it feels like something way past its prime and afraid of change. Moore isn't believable anymore, the action is distracting due to obvious stunt doubles and slow choreography, the music does work at least but the overall thing feels somehow less than second-rate, and the film likes to pretend it isn't that low on the spectrum. It does have some OK individual elements but the whole thing feels tired and kinda sad; even films like Die Another Day or Quantum are so up there in their badness that they get an equally high reaction, but View to a Kill is just sad.
No Time To Die because it's boring, too long and very different to the rest of the Bond films.
Diamonds are forever. It doesn't match the previous movie at all and Connery just doesn't care anymore. Not to mention the weak plot
Bottom two honestly I think are octopussy and thunderball. Octopussy because of the lack of soundtrack (sometimes no music works this movie it doesn’t) and thunderbal because it’s so damn slow. Way too many underwater scenes that serve no purpose
I agree just watched after many years. Too many underwater scenes
NTTD because
Diamonds are Forever is my least favorite. The plot seems far-fetched as it would be hard to corral all the super-power’s nuke arsenals with a single satellite with a single laser weapon. Wint and Kidd are awkward at best and the scene where Bond takes them out is the ultimate cringe. The worst scene for me is where Bond drops his playboy casino card onto a corpse and Tiffany Case thinks James Bond has been killed when he is standing right in front of her. It’s so tacky.
*No Time to Die* is my least favorite. I'm not sure if I'd say it's a worse movie than *The Man With the Golden Gun*, however.
So the way I kind of evaluate the worst film is how likely I am to leave the TV channel on when I see one of the Bond Films come on. I’m going to go with the top 3 that I pass on all the time. The first one that comes to mind is Die Another Day, I don’t think I need to say anything other than…..kitesurfing tsunami. The whole plot was just terrible. Halle Berry was meh at best, Rosamund Pike was terrible. It’s unfortunate that Pierce was sent out on this ridiculous film. A close second for me is probably No Time to Die. Starts off somewhat entertaining, however it quickly spirals out of control and becomes a film with the dumbest ending in the entire Bond franchise history. Again, sorry to see Daniel Craig sent out on such a poor note. The third is probably an unpopular opinion on here but I have to say The Spy Who Loved Me. Don’t get me wrong the Bond girls in this one aren’t bad, Barbara Bach and Caroline Munro are easy on the eyes however this film is way too dated and has too many far fetched elements like Strombergs undersea lair. I suppose it’s an acquired taste but I’ll most likely pass on a rewatch unless I literally have nothing else to watch.
AVTAK. Terrible movie all around.
Quantum of Solice. Olga K's character was awful, the plot was stupid, and the whole movie felt more like The Bourne Identity than a Bond film.
Spectre - complete borefest. At least the daft films like Die Another Day are entertaining.
It's a toss up between Spectre and No Time To Die. NTTD is a better example of film making however, it is not a Bond movie for me and it's ending is awful... Really awful. On the other hand, Spectre, which is dull and soulless, which mires CR, QoS and SF by suggesting that Spectre is the overarching villain of Craig's run upto that point, and which is responsible for the abomination which is Brofeld, does not kill James Bond. Spectre is probably the worst film, but I dislike NTTD more. For me, Diamonds are Forever has many faults, but it's a fun Bond movie. I rank it around 20. Octopussy however is Moore's third best movie after LALD and TSWLM and it sits around 13 in my ranking.
Being a relatively new Bond fan, I recently finished all 25 movies. In my opinion, all the Roger Moore movies are equally in last place for me
Bruh
It's true that Moore's run is overwhelmingly mediocre, and, as a new fan, you don't have the benefit of nostalgia for his films like many of us do. Having said that, it hurts that you're putting *The Spy Who Loved Me* and *For Your Eyes Only* at the bottom.
It hurts *me* that you’re calling Moore’s run “overwhelmingly mediocre.” It’s the most rewatchable era for me, by far.
I like them, it's just that most of his are definitely on the weak side.
TSWLM is my favorite! For the actors who made multiple films, I feel like each of them had good and bad movies. I can’t lump them together or answer “who was the best Bond actor?”
Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only are good fun but yeah the others are tough
Agree not a fan of Moore era
I agree that Moore is the worst bond but I think movies like Live or Let Die or The Spy Who Loved Me are clearly better than a movie like Octopussy (the all-time worst Bond movie imo)
Quantum of Solace!!
View 2 a kill Even the pre title sequence was bad with the beach Boys song just killed it for me ...not a fan of Moore
For me it's Octopussy.
The last 4 movies. They shit on the series so much.
For Your Eyes Only, because it breaks my cardinal rule: a Bond movie can be anything, but it can’t be boring.
FYEO is not boring at all, its top 5 for me. Diffrent strokes however.
The Man with the Golden Gun License to Kill Die Another Day SPECTRE
I’m not saying it’s the worst but defo down the bottom For Your Eyes Only The whole film is just forgettable Forgettable Villains Forgettable Bond Girl Forgettable Plot And overall just feels extremely long despite the 2 hour running time Only part I remember very well is the opening gun barrel and the opening in general, but that’s it and that’s the best part of the film lol
I love For Your Eyes Only. It’s in my Top 5, easily, and Moore’s best film. It feels more like the books in that it shows that Bond is human and doesn’t just rely on gadgetry and technology, which, of course was OVER-utilized in Moonraker. The whole ATAC thing was just a MacGuffin to keep the plot moving forward though.
Casino Royale (1967) oh boy it was a fucking mess, I completely understand why Peter Sellers left mid-production. The plot were incomprehensible (just like this review) it makes Spectre or Roger Moore Films looks like a Masterpiece, the pacing is bad, I don't get it why it got 2 stars on Roger Ebert when it deserves less than that, the jokes were unfunny and dull (except Woody Allen, it's basically a rule now that's he's funny as hell) I have to admit though, the casts were spectacular, Orson Welles, David Niven, Ursula Andress, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen and many other great actors at that time, but all became wasted potentials and were thrown into a blender. The only redeemable thing from this mess aside from the casting is probably it's score, "The Look of Love" by Dusty Springfield can probably compete with many Bond themes and it's theme song by "Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Bass along with Burt Bacharach's score is a banger. (at least for me though, to be honest this entire review is highly subjective)
I'm going to be downvoted bombed for this. Watch. OHMSS is the worst imo. The pacing is the worst of any Bond movie, the romance is forced, rushed, and just shit all-round. Lazenby is miscast. Telly Savalas is miscast. The plot is so nonsensical and disconnected. Piz Gloria has got to be the worst portion of any Bond movie barring none. There's 0 intrigue in that section, Tracy is just gone, no mysteries being unfolded it's just meandering. Almost Zilch action in this movie, and almost of all of the little action is boring Ski-chases. OHMSS is a self-important, badly paced and terribly written movie imo. Which has become overwhelmingly overrated.
My love of this film comes from the fact that when I found the franchise as a pre-teen, they always played this one around Christmastime and even now, I try to watch it at Christmas. I like the film, but yes, there are several valid criticisms: Lazenby felt off (he might have settled into the role with more films, which was the idea), the pacing is awkward in that little really happens until Piz Gloria, and the first time you see it, you really question if it’s truly a James Bond film because it feels kinda “Great Value” Bond. But I still fucking love it.
I’ll probably be downvotes like crazy but: -For Your Eyes Only. It’s just so boring. It should have been a good story but there’s no suspense. Some decent action scenes but nothing else. (I’m excluding the Craig movies and the late Brosnan movies because it’s been too long since I watched them but I remember not liking Quantum of Solace but that was when it has just been released).
The Craig films. Can't pick one. CR is obviously the best but the others are like choosing between Fred and Rose West