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I am watching every Bond movie: please kill me (1 Viewer)

Watched Goldeneye last night. It's a TWENTY ONE year old movie?

Still holds up all right. It's weird seeing movies that use practical effects/blue screen instead of CGI. Some of the effects are pretty bad. 

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Watched Goldeneye last night. It's a TWENTY ONE year old movie?

Still holds up all right. It's weird seeing movies that use practical effects/blue screen instead of CGI. Some of the effects are pretty bad. 
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There's a lot of things like that which begin to make me feel pretty old.

I remember going to the theater to see that movie and thinking that little BMW convertible was so awesome... and then the video game was the biggest hit when I was a freshman in college... which is too many years ago.

 
IvanKaramazov said:
Spectre is definitely in the bottom-tier of Bond films.  It was really awful.
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Finally got around to watching it - I didn't love it but I didn't hate it.  There's much worse from the Moore, Dalton and Brosnan group.  I do have some complaints.  

Too long - the opening sequence on the Day of the Dead and the music intro was like 15 damn minutes.  They needed to cut about 15-20 minutes of the film IMO.

This one may sound odd but they didn't use the typical Bond music throughout the film enough for me - when you get the unmissable Bond music it just does something for the scene - you can suspend reality and just have fun - they made it too dark and dramatic for me.

I enjoyed it and would watch again.

 
Spectre sucked.  Was expecting better with that guy that played the villain.  Forget his name but like him alot.  Story was meh.

 
Well crap.....it’s time for me to do my Bond Marathon. I have the Blue Ray collectors set up through Skyfall (added Skyfall as the collectors box had an empty slot for it). I snagged this set on Amazon 3 years ago for the amazing price of 29.99 on Cyber Monday.

The glory of Connery , the hit and miss of Moore, the one film (and very cool one I may add) of Lazenby, the tragic Dalton (actually really liked both his films) the garbage other than Goldeneye of Bronson and then back to glory for two films of Craig and one huge mis-step between Casino Royale and Skyfall.

I will cap it off by my very first viewing of Spectre on Amazon prime.

It will take me a while to get through all the films

 
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Ilov80s said:
I actually like A View to a Kill. Great song title song, the use of California Girls in the snowboard scene is fun. Grace Jones was bad as hell. Plus it has Christopher Walken in it. 
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I liked it.  It was one of the first bond movies I ever saw, so it kind of means something to me

 
Todem said:
Well crap.....it’s time for me to do my Bond Marathon. I have the Blue Ray collectors set up through Skyfall (added Skyfall as the collectors box had an empty slot for it). I snagged this set on Amazon 3 years ago for the amazing price of 29.99 on Cyber Monday.

The glory of Connery , the hit and miss of Moore, the one film (and very cool one I may add) of Lazenby, the tragic Dalton (actually really liked both his films) the garbage other than Goldeneye of Bronson and then back to glory for two films of Craig and one huge mis-step between Casino Royale and Skyfall.

I will cap it off by my very first viewing of Spectre on Amazon prime.

It will take me a while to get through all the films
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Sounds like we should watch them together as I agree almost completely on your ratings.  :hifive:

 
Amazon has the Blu-ray James Bond collection for $80. It's just the blu-rays(doesn't include Spectre).
I have this collection and I could not believe how good the movies looked, even the 60's versions.

 
From Russia with Love

Goldfinger

The Man with the Golden Gun

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Dr. No

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

Live and Let Die

Thunderball

Up Next:  The Spy Who Loved Me

 
Updated after finishing the Moore entries.  I’ll say this much for Moore - he was consistent - don’t love or hate any of his efforts.  I have Man with the Golden Gun higher than most - I’m a sucker for a little person.

From Russia with Love

Goldfinger

The Man with the Golden Gun

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Dr. No

Live and Let Die

Diamonds Are Forever

Octo#####

The Spy Who Loved Me

You Only Live Twice

A View To a Kill

For Your Eyes Only

Moonraker

The Living Daylights 

Thunderball

Never Say Never Again 

Up Next:  License to Kill (god help me)

 
Holy #### - the Bond girl in LTK just ordered a Bud with lime.  How the hell did it take them almost 20 more years to release that horrible crap?  

 
AAABatteries said:
Updated after finishing the Moore entries.  I’ll say this much for Moore - he was consistent - don’t love or hate any of his efforts.  I have Man with the Golden Gun higher than most - I’m a sucker for a little person.




 
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I disagree. I thought he was refreshing starting out, but by the time Moonraker rolled around, he got really stale IMO.

 
Eephus said:
The best thing about the flying car is that it's an AMC Matador. Scaramanga gets $1M per job, has a solid gold gun that shoots gold bullets, has three nipples and want to control the world. But he drives a Rambler because he's a sensible sociopath.
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:lmao: :lmao:

considering the quality of some of these all of them could be labeled guilty pleasures but TMWTGG is probably #1 for me in that category.  I like the nubbin, like the karate scenes, love the midget, love Lee.

 
Brady Marino said:
I disagree. I thought he was refreshing starting out, but by the time Moonraker rolled around, he got really stale IMO.
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Fair enough - I think Moore’s films are the most formulaic of a very formulaic series.  He had some weaker scripts and IMO some dud bad guys but I liked the campiness - my only complaint was he was never a tough guy.  I just never pictured him like that and maybe that’s a result of the campiness or maybe Moore was just too dainty.

 
AAABatteries said:
Fair enough - I think Moore’s films are the most formulaic of a very formulaic series.  He had some weaker scripts and IMO some dud bad guys but I liked the campiness - my only complaint was he was never a tough guy.  I just never pictured him like that and maybe that’s a result of the campiness or maybe Moore was just too dainty.
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Dainty fits Brosnan in my book. He seemed closer to License to Cry than License to Kill.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
Dainty fits Brosnan in my book. He seemed closer to License to Cry than License to Kill.
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Absolutely - I’ll be starting the Brosnan movies in the next day or two and I can firmly say he will Be last in the Bond actors list.  I was too harsh on Lazenby and while I hate Dalton’s movies it’s not his fault they are bad.

 
OMG - the tanker truck chase scene has to be the most ridiculous Bond scene of all time and I don’t think I have to tell you people that’s saying something.

- tanker truck goes on one set of wheels

- tanker truck cab does a wheelie :lmao: :lmao:  

- tanker truck has a cruise control 

this movie is so putrid it’s funny

 
Todem said:
That’s the farce not Daniel Craig's glorious Bond movie.

Casino Royale is one of my top 5 Bond films of all time. Utterly Bond.
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The black & white Casino Royale is an early television production starring Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre.  It was a live broadcast which placed major restrictions on the staging and production values.

The 1967 comedy version is in vivid color.  It's a train wreck but a lot of fun if you adjust your expectations accordingly.

 
Eephus said:
The black & white Casino Royale is an early television production starring Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre.  It was a live broadcast which placed major restrictions on the staging and production values.

The 1967 comedy version is in vivid color.  It's a train wreck but a lot of fun if you adjust your expectations accordingly.
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Wow, I never knew that!

Yeah the 1967 comedy was what I had seen before. 

 
Just an FYI that the Starz Encore Action network is doing the ultimate Bond marathon. They are showing only Bond movies all of September. No Craig movies, but anything else is fair game. 

I must have watched each one 2-3  times so far. It helps that we are between tv shows to binge on. 

You don’t really realize how tame the Bronson ones are until you watch them all in a row. GoldenEye is still solid, but the others are pretty tepid. 

 
Danny Boyle out and Cary Fukunaga in for Bond 25.  It's an interesting choice although putting the script back in the veteran hands of Purvis and Wade seems like Eon is hedging their bets.  Purvis and Wade are familiar with what makes a Bond movie but they have a pretty mixed track record in my opinion.  I'll give them a mulligan on Quantum because of the writers strike but their scripts are at the core of most recent Bond disappointments.  Hitchcock couldn't have salvaged Die Another Day (or Spectre for that matter).

I guess we all have to live until Valentine's Day 2020 to find out.

 
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