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Your favourite James Bond and movie?

Roger Moore was my hero, The Saint, Brett St Clair in The Persuaders and then if he wasn’t cool enough by then he got the Bond gig, genuinely gutted when I heard he’d died,so many childhood memories

Live and Let die, The spy who loved me and Moonraker were my favourites
 
BromleyMonkey said:
Roger Moore was my hero, The Saint, Brett St Clair in The Persuaders and then if he wasn’t cool enough by then he got the Bond gig, genuinely gutted when I heard he’d died,so many childhood memories

Live and Let die, The spy who loved me and Moonraker were my favourites
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He always came across as such a nice, warm and humble man in interviews.
 
Live and let die for the outrageous dialogue alone.

"What are you boy some kind of doomsday machine"

"There's an interesting lady back there with a set of cards" "I saw those cards they were all...."

Butterhook.

"It's easy like following a cue ball"

and my favourite

"Bond's escaped the man who get's him stays alive NOW move you ..."
 
whichever was the final Roger Moore movie. He was fat, flabby, tired looking and seemed to have been on a bar stool at his native Stockwell all week. Smoking 60 tabs and drinking Tennants.

Then he goes off and beats up a heavyweight MMA champion, seduces a 22 year old beauty, and cracks the encryption on a nuclear missile. Just after nicking a Mig 25 and outmanoevreing the 5 top guns scrambled to catch him.

what a South London boy !!!!!!!!!

One of the best voices in cinema "turned out nice again"
 
We've done this one a few times.

The best Bond film is definitely Casino Royal. Not just a great Bond movie, just a great movie.
Each Bond era has a different style which reflects the times. They are difficult to compare.

The Craig movies are the best films and Craig's is the most developed character. His efforts are generally serious, but if you want daft hammy enjoyment then look no further than Roger Moore. His best effort was Live and Let Die. Great when you were 9 years old at the cinema. His worst was probably For Your Eyes Only.
Connery was a good Bond, but the films are very dated now. I liked Dr No and Goldfinger but despite having some memorable elements, the others are a bit dull. Thunderball is very forgettable.

Timothy Dalton was underrated. His first effort was a bit feeble, but Licence To Kill is one of the best.

Lazenby was OK, but the film was silly. Telly Savalas presumably only got his part because he was bald.
It was the first Bond I ever saw, so I have a slight soft spot for it.

Pierce Brosnan. Er no. I like him in other stuff, but his films had no sparkle. I have rarely rewatched them.

So for me, Craig is the best Bond and has the best film, although I loved Roger Moore. He was my childhood Bond and will always be a move hero for me.
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I’ve actually just purchased a book cheap off eBay for my holiday sunbed next week. It’s Roger Moore’s diary on the making of live and let die 😎
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300 pages of raising eyebrows.
 
Eddie Moliano said:
The newest Casino Royale is my choice. Do we count the original as a Bond film? And Never Say Never Again?
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Completely agree. I was always a Roger Moore fan and loved Live and let Die but tbh, the whole of Craig's films are in my opinion the best. Casino Royale nicks it but also really loved 'SkyFall'.

Going off topic but what is your favourite song or theme tune from a Bond film?
I'll have to go with 'We've got all the time in the world' in 'On her Majesty's secret Service' but also in the closing scene of 'No time to die'. Nod to 'Nobody does it better' as well from 'The Spy who Loved Me'.
 
stevethenorm said:
Completely agree. I was always a Roger Moore fan and loved Live and let Die but tbh, the whole of Craig's films are in my opinion the best. Casino Royale nicks it but also really loved 'SkyFall'.

Going off topic but what is your favourite song or theme tune from a Bond film?
I'll have to go with 'We've got all the time in the world' in 'On her Majesty's secret Service' but also in the closing scene of 'No time to die'. Nod to 'Nobody does it better' as well from 'The Spy who Loved Me'.
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Always had a soft spot for Live and Let Die. The song anyway.
 
There have been some amazing Bond films over the years/decades and I admit to watching them all a little too much including multiple A-Z sessions (1 per night for a month or so).

For me, several stand out:

Casino Royale
Goldfinger
From Russia with Love
On her Majesty's Secret Service

Wonderful movies, which stand on their own but also develop the franchise in profound ways.

Worst for me would include:
Diamonds are Forever (notwithstanding the soundtrack)
Octopussy
View to a Kill
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day (first third/half makes you think this could be one of the greats, but then invisible cars and other unoriginal or pathetic storylines take over. Shame).

In terms of actors, I thought Timothy Dalton did a fantastic job (albeit the scripts were not amazing). Sean Connery is still the gold standard for me although Daniel Craig did a top job as well. I couldn't really take the others seriously.

I always found it curious how some of the best Bond villains appear in some of the worst Bond films.
 
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stevethenorm said:
Completely agree. I was always a Roger Moore fan and loved Live and let Die but tbh, the whole of Craig's films are in my opinion the best. Casino Royale nicks it but also really loved 'SkyFall'.

Going off topic but what is your favourite song or theme tune from a Bond film?
I'll have to go with 'We've got all the time in the world' in 'On her Majesty's secret Service' but also in the closing scene of 'No time to die'. Nod to 'Nobody does it better' as well from 'The Spy who Loved Me'.
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OHMSS ("all the time in the world") is fantastic. I'm a Shirley Bassey fan so Diamonds are Forever is one of my favorites. The Casino Royale rock track was different and worked - but the Vesper Lynd orchestral music during the same movie was some of the most enchanting music I've ever heard.
 
There's a book called Love and Let Die by John Higgs which has some interesting Bond (and Beatles) stories. It's based on the fact that Dr. No and Love Me Do were both released on the same day (Friday 5/10/62 if anyone cares). Some of the links and conclusions he draws are a bit dubious but it's a good read.
 
Daniel Craig is a great Bond but I only liked Casino Royale - went to the cinema to see Quantum of Solace which was rubbish. Have barely watched the others, was it Skyfall which had the ridiculous CGI train crash? The Pierce Brosnan films were generally forgettable and also had CGI which made them look like video games. Instead of starting a new thread it might be nice to say who your favourite Bond villain is. I liked Charles Grey as Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever, Mr Wint are Mr Kidd are also good in the same film, and Gert Froebe as Goldfinger.
 
ex hibitionist said:
Daniel Craig is a great Bond but I only liked Casino Royale - went to the cinema to see Quantum of Solace which was rubbish. Have barely watched the others, was it Skyfall which had the ridiculous CGI train crash? The Pierce Brosnan films were generally forgettable and also had CGI which made them look like video games. Instead of starting a new thread it might be nice to say who your favourite Bond villain is. I liked Charles Grey as Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever, Mr Wint are Mr Kidd are also good in the same film, and Gert Froebe as Goldfinger.
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I think Sanchez the drug lord in licence to kill. It was a film that had a more violent brutal sort of feel to it than previous bond films

Other than that, I’ll say Nick Nack in the man with the golden gun 😀
 
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