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Saw spectre last night, don't want to start a new thread on that as there's plenty on the other. But I started thinking about if you were to watch a bond marathon and could only select one film from each bond actor which films would you have?

Still compiling my list but interested in hive mind view.

(George Lazenby easy choice obviously)


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 8:11 pm
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Dr No
OHMSS
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Living Daylights
Tomorrow Never Dies
Casino Royale


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 8:13 pm
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OHMSS, one of the best Bond films by far. John Williams' score is also excellent and made an appearance in Spectre.....


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 9:45 pm
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Gold Finger
Casino Royale
Live and let die


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 9:47 pm
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They're all dung.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 9:48 pm
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Agree with Harry bar the first one, for which I would have From Russia With Love.

Still not sure which was the best Lazenby Bond film though. Let me ponder on that for a while.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 9:49 pm
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Goldfinger
OHMSS (by default)
Man with the Golden Gun
The living daylights (not because it's all that great but because license to kill is terrible)
Golden Eye
Spectre


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 10:03 pm
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I agree with p-jay with the exception of spectre. For which I'd substitute skyfall.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 10:25 pm
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From Russia with love
Spy who loved me (although I have a soft spot for for your eyes only)
Licence to kill (tough choice, I like them both, but this was bond being a but 'deep and personal' before the Craig films came along waving 'look at me, I'm being deep and personal')
Goldeneye
Casino royale (but i haven't seen spectre)


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 10:42 pm
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I agree with p-jay with the exception of spectre.

P-Jay's an idiot! Licence to Kill is great :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 10:54 pm
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@RobHilton, true, but not because I'm wrong about License to Kill.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 10:57 pm
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They are all shite aren't they? 🙄

Mr Bean is 10x better than them Bond shite.


 
Posted : 04/11/2015 11:02 pm
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From Russia with Love
On her Majesties Secret Service
Live and let Die
Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Casino Royale
With joint favourite being live and let die and casino royale. The voodoo dude being my favourite bond villain ever.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 5:24 am
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The voodoo dude being my favourite bond villain ever.

Baron Samedi. More of a henchman than a villain. Mr Big - Dr Kanaga was the villain. My favourite Bond film.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 5:47 am
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Goldfinger
OHMSS (and also best of all Bond films)
The Spy Who Loved Me
Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Casino Royale (not seen Spectre, or even Skyfall!)

Let's not forget David Niven also so Casino Royale there too 😀


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:14 am
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Odd that there's a few on here that consider HMSS to be the best Bond movie.

It's a pretty brave move but I approve. 🙂

I'd have to watch the rest again to give a decent answer it's been too long.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:27 am
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You only live twice (my favourite bond film)
OHMSS (I agree that it's a good film, not quite my favourite though)
View to a Kill (probably in no small part due to Christopher Walken being in it)
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Casino Royale (haven't seen Spectre yet though)


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:33 am
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Thunderball
OHMSS (best)
Live and Let Die
Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Casino Royale


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:39 am
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Goldfinger
OHMSS
Moonraker (it's by no means good, it was just my first Bond film), if not View to a Kill (Walken + Grace Jones!!)
The Living Daylights
Golden Eye
Casino Royale


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:42 am
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Odd that there's a few on here that consider HMSS to be the best Bond movie.

(re)watched that one the other night. great fun. a couple of things stood out though - firstly the ending obviously, he's a much more subtle character than in most of the films. The other thing was that there's only really one car chase - in which Bond is a passenger, being driven by a woman 🙂

And there was some great cinematography too (apparently that director only did one Bond film) although admittedly that was moreso in the earlier stages before it all kicked off...


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:52 am
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You only live twice (my favourite bond film)

Donald Pleasance was superb as Blofeld, but Bond transformed into a Japanese peasant? Weak, even by the standards of the franchise, Connery was dull, there were too many gadgets and the Bond girl was eye-candy and nothing more.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:54 am
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Odd that there's a few on here that consider HMSS to be the best Bond movie.

In good company Mark Kermode rates it as his joint favourite.

After the high-water mark of Skyfall (my joint-favourite Bond movie with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service),

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/25/spectre-review-another-stellar-outing-for-bond-mark-kermode


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 9:56 am
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Well I didn't expect everyone to agree, ransos 🙂

And while I agree with some of your points, you're still wrong 😉


 
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George Lazenby was best in When I'm Cleaning Windows.

Mark Kermode rates it as his joint favourite

I have had to strongly reassess my opinion on Kermode after his love-in for The Martian - which frankly was a pile of dung.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:06 am
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OHMSS - even with Lazenby who's not that good, it's still the best story, script, great cinematography, amazing scenery, and excellent score. Plus... Diana Rigg! 😀 . Even Telly as Blofeld works as best Blofeld to me.

It's a little more raw, less about gadgets and car chases, more human Bond, and a love story that Connery would have been unsuitable for. Lazenby oddly is probably the only one who could pull that off.

[u]And[/u] it's got Joanna Lumley in it!

Nearest in style to me is Goldeneye.

Oh and I so want to visit Piz Gloria some day 😀 . Just never managed to get a ski trip in the area.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:07 am
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it's still the best story, script, great cinematography, amazing scenery, and excellent score

And is closest to the book it's based on.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:16 am
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I too think my go to would be OHMSS.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:20 am
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OHMSS the niche hipster's choice of bond films. 😉


 
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Phew, lucky I didn't put it down as the best then 😉 I'd have to grow a beard or something.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:28 am
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Not even going to get involved in this discussion, but I am going to see Spectre this evening and I'm somewhat excited about it.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:35 am
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Stop getting bond wrong


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 10:37 am
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Well I didn't expect everyone to agree, ransos

And while I agree with some of your points, you're still wrong

S'alright. I'm not going to take anyone seriously who thinks View to a Kill is better than Live and Let Die 🙂


 
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Ransos's favourite bond character, ever..
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(L&LD was actually my second choice for Rog's films)


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 11:18 am
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Goldfinger
OHMSS
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Living Daylights
Goldeneye
Quantum of Solace


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 11:26 am
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Ransos's favourite bond character, ever..

Nobody cuts and runs on Sheriff JW Pepper!


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 11:29 am
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Good question and I'll need to think about it.

Easy enough to start with Craig though - Casino Royale.

Skyfall could have been better but - much as I love Javier Bardem - the villain stuff was unconvincing and the finale felt drawn out and contrived (I know that's a relative term with Bond!).


 
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I totally agree with chakaping


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 12:14 pm
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In reverse order:

Casino Royale
Goldeneye
Living Daylights
Live and Let Die
From Russia with Love.

leaving out OHMSS as I've never seen it. (it is the only Bond book I've read though)


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 12:27 pm
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Living Daylights for Dalton. Probably the first Bond I saw at the pictures actually.

I really liked this one when it came out - much more exciting than the previous Moore movies and Never Say Never Again.

I was always a fan of Dalton as Bond actually, long before it was fashionable to be. Partly because what came after was so dire maybe.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 12:50 pm
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I was always a fan of Dalton as Bond actually, long before it was fashionable to be.

So even in threads about bond films we have people making the hipster choice of OHMSS as their favourite AND people claiming they were into Timothy Dalton before it was cool. Only on STW. 🙂


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 12:59 pm
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I was always a fan of Dalton as Bond actually, long before it was fashionable to be. Partly because what came after was so dire maybe.

Apparently he would've made more Bond films, but there was a six-year hiatus due to legal wrangling over copyright issues.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 1:29 pm
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I never knew that Ransos.

Grum - hell yeah - my beard is better than Pierce Brosnan;s too.


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 1:43 pm
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I never knew that Ransos.

There was an interview with Mark Gatiss on iplayer, who is a huge Bond fan. It's what he says, anyway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02sx893/premium-bond-with-mark-gatiss-and-matthew-sweet


 
Posted : 05/11/2015 1:45 pm

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