Your Top 3 James Bond Movies (not James Bond actors)

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Mar 16, 2014
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Fair enough. For the life of me I can't understand how anyone could think Casino Royale is worse than something like View to a Kill or Octopussy, but to each his/her own! I'm guessing you didn't like the more somber take on the character?

I just found the Daniel Craig ones really boring.

Licensed to Kill is one of my favourite James Bond films, and that is regarded as the most somber Bond until the Craig films. Octopussy (my favourite Roger Moore Bond film) and a View to a Kill are great. Roger Moore is showing his age a bit in a View to a Kill though. And it was my first Bond film, so nostalgia definitely plays a bit part in really liking that one.

My top three:

Goldeneye
Licensed to Kill
Octopussy

HM: Goldfinger
 

WarriorOfGandhi

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Jul 31, 2007
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I never got the Skyfall love? Was bored throughout the film.

I think the first half of Skyfall is the best we've seen of Craig. Great opening, solid intrigue, visually compelling scenery, interesting angle with a potential Bond girl, dashing-and-charming-yet-dangerous villain. But once it turns into the Dark-Knight-esque "he wanted to be captured" it just becomes a vacuum of awful, highlighted by a grown-up version of Home Alone.

What is it about goldeneye that makes it on so many of your top 3 lists?

I mean, I liked it too but I don't know if it stood out as such a unanimous decision. Was it that brosan shot some injection into the franchise as the new bond at the time?

like the other guy said, it's a Bond movie with no flaws. Excellent intro, superb villain who is sympathetic instead of generically evil, all-time great Bond girl/henchwoman in Xenia, excellent action scenes, lots of good dialogue to chew on, interesting gadgets that aren't over-the-top, great music. And it made a great N64 game.
 

HanSolo

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I think the first half of Skyfall is the best we've seen of Craig. Great opening, solid intrigue, visually compelling scenery, interesting angle with a potential Bond girl, dashing-and-charming-yet-dangerous villain. But once it turns into the Dark-Knight-esque "he wanted to be captured" it just becomes a vacuum of awful, highlighted by a grown-up version of Home Alone.



like the other guy said, it's a Bond movie with no flaws. Excellent intro, superb villain who is sympathetic instead of generically evil, all-time great Bond girl/henchwoman in Xenia, excellent action scenes, lots of good dialogue to chew on, interesting gadgets that aren't over-the-top, great music. And it made a great N64 game.
I still like Skyfall a great deal better than his other two but I can't put it above Casino Royale. For me it's more that it just sort of felt like Sam Mendes was trying to do his take on a Christopher Nolan Bond film before Nolan ever got a chance to. But I did feel it executed what it was trying to do, Home Alone/Dark Knight story beats notwithstanding. With Spectre it felt like he was trying to do the same thing but it felt more like a soulless storyboard checklist than a working Bond film. Also it utterly wasted Christoph Walz which is a cardinal sin. Even Horrible Bosses 2 utilized him better.
 

SJSharksfan39

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Goldeneye
Casino Royale
Skyfall

I also liked some of the older movies I've seen like License to Kill and Goldfinger, but I gravitate more towards the newer stuff. I would even put Tomorrow Never Dies in my top 5 if we were allowed.
 

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