Quantum, Skyfall, For your eyes only, Octopussy, OHMSS, live and let die. All excellent.
Edit - Spy who loved me too. And view to a kill and the living daylights.
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Quantum, Skyfall, For your eyes only, Octopussy, OHMSS, live and let die. All excellent.
Edit - Spy who loved me too. And view to a kill and the living daylights.
I'd like a Quantum of Solace,
but not more than a quantum,
I know you have big bags of solace,
But I don't want them.
Casino Royale is the only Bond movie that I've liked, although I haven't watched that many.
Missed that detail.
If I can just interrupt the Bond theme chat (I'm voting Tomorrow Never Dies as a guilty pleasure) to give a strong recommend to Everything Everywhere All at Once, and definitely to the idea of going into it knowing as little about it as possible.
I don't know who had the idea to put Alicia Keys with Jack White, but it really works well. That said Keys could probably make most things work.
Since then we do seem to have reverted to flavour of the month singing the song. So much so that I can't even remember the song, or who sang it for Spectre.
Die Another Day is comfortably the worst song. Probably not even just counting Bond songs.
I always thought Thunderball is a good one, Tom Jones almost giving himself a hernia by the end of it.
Everything about Casino Royale (theme song included) is about as perfect as Bond will get in my opinion. Normally I’m a sucker for the oldest ones but Casino Royale stands out massively.
In terms of theme songs only, the entire Connery era and Live and Let Die are tremendous. The whole thing went tits up with Brosnan.
I fucking hated the Jack White one.
You Only Live Twice would be pretty high up on my list. Sam Smith dead last because of his voice
Been tasked with picking tonight’s film as my partners brother and mum are here. Going with Everything Everywhere All at Once, don’t let me down TTH.
Licence to Kill time :drool:
I watched Scott of the Antarctic today. That was kind of alright. I did wonder which point in the revisionist history this would coincide with but it felt fairly historically accurate. RP accents all over the shop apart from one lower class lass delivering the post. I quite like the stiff conservatism running all through the acting.
I'd personally have Skyfall and No Time To Die above Casino Royale because I'm a keen poker player and found that section a little boring and very predictable whereas many others would find it thrilling. It's still great overall though.
For me, the best eras are the early Connery films, Dalton and Craig. Personally, I prefer the grittier, more realistic Bond films opposed to the more comedy based slapstick ones (I'm looking at you Sir Roger).
Enjoy. It's my second favourite Bond film.:thbup:
I watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Tonight, odd film.
Did you find out?
Did his arse run out?
All I know about that film is DiCaprio plays a retard ... poorly.
Anyone else here who watched Top Gun:Maverick? Was it just me who came out thinking it was the movie of the year?
Bond update - The Roger Moore years finished, the brief Dalton period done and the beginning of Brosnan.
A View to a Kill
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The Living Daylights
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Licence to Kill
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Goldeneye
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Licence to Kill is just tremendous.
Are all titles available on a certain platform?
Prime is running them all but only for a couple of weeks.
I'll have to get involved.
Licence to Kill was well worth my time to watch again. Love it. Probably one of the best bad guys in the whole thing and Dalton is great.
Was going to stick on Goldeneye but I’ll wait until next Sunday when it’s next up.
I've got a soft spot for A View to a Kill as it's probably the film I've seen the most times overall and it's one of the top end themes, but Roger Moore really stood out as being too old for all this in that one.
Yeah, definitely. He looked fine in Octopussy though and that was only two years previous.
I love hearing that, been looking forward to it for longer than I can remember. What’s Sky store now, about a month after release?
On the subject of MI6, I fancied going through the 2011 Tinker, Tailor again tonight. Really is good. I remembered who did it and most of the plot, so not much suspense this time, but I just loved sitting watching men in bad suits smoke in brown rooms and say 'The Circus' portentously for two hours. Brilliant.
Yeah, it's a shame it rushes out the door with that montage. The deleted scene of Oldman cooking an egg should've made it in.
I watched Sorry to Bother You last night. I wish that film played itself more straight instead of devolving into the forced craziness. Funny at times but really desperate at others. And the director likes nude puppets which is very sus.
I love Goldeneye. Partly it was the first new Bond film I remember (I will have seen the Dalton ones when they first came to TV but I don't remember that at the time.) Goldeneye we went to the cinema though. I remember this because my dad hates heights and obviously the first thing that happens is Bond hurls himself off a dam.
I think Brosnan was a good Bond dealt some terrible scripts, though I maintain that Die Another Day has a great first fifteen minutes or so that then all then goes spectacularly to shit.
Die Another Day also has the worst special effect of all the films, even going back to the 1960's, when that thing on the parachute goes off the ice cliff.
Was Die Another Day the ice castle and invisible car stuff? I remember seeing that one at the cinema and hating it.
I’ve never seen James Bond.
Die Another Day is a classic case of a film of two halves - it's almost as if it's directed by two different people. The first hour is excellent then Iceland happens. It's a shame as it had huge potential.
To have never even seen one Bond film is odd stuff.
The Duran Duran and A-Ha are my favourite themes. The latter is great especially for the backstage drama - the when Barry added some strings, he slightly changed the synths and the Scandi lads just changed it back, and Barry eventually called them Hitler Youth. Class.