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Worst Ever Bond Film? Rank your bottom 3 efforts...
posted by Midi-chlorian_CountSTAFFMOD on March 21, 2017 at 4:25 PM
Is this universally considered the worst ever Bond film? I'd certainly say so but maybe not everyone would go along with that...
To expand slightly what do you think the bottom three (official) Bonds would be?
I'd say:-
- Quantum Of Solace
- Licence To Kill
- The World Is Not Enough
Reply by Data20112018
on March 21, 2017 at 4:56 PM
I've never been able to warm to Lazenby in OHMSS . He is just not a good Bond to me. Having only one film does not help. Some say Timothy Dalton was bad but I think he is under rated as Bond. I really enjoyed him especially in Living Daylights.
Quantum of Solace is probably somewhere in the middle the pack for me. No way is it the worst. I think OHMSS, DAF and LTK are my least favourite films in the canon.
Reply by Jeff Larsen
on March 22, 2017 at 4:18 PM
I like all three of those, and I think QoS is seriously under-rated. Bottom would be Diamonds Are Forever, Die Another Day, and...(difficult to choose) Moonraker.
Man With the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die have some charm, and they did keep the series alive by catering to what the era seemed to want... but aspects of them are dire.
Reply by tmdb82469342
on March 22, 2017 at 4:40 PM
Quantum of Solace
Never Say Never Again
Casino Royale (1967)
OR
Quantum of Solace
Die Another Day
Spectre
Reply by Renovatio
on March 22, 2017 at 4:55 PM
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Die Another Day was brutal... None of the Craig bonds are that bad... I really liked Spectre until they did the whole villain-is-your-lost-relative thing... gimme a break
Reply by Dawn Of The Ed
on March 22, 2017 at 5:32 PM
You Only Live Twice
Octopussy
And the worst....Die Another Day
Reply by tmdb65271336
on March 22, 2017 at 6:54 PM
I'd rank Spectre below QoS, but neither are really very enjoyable to me. I really don't care much at all for the Craig bond pictures. Each of the Bonds had their own bad film, imo.
Connery: Never Say Never Again was just depressing. A past-his-prime Connery paired with Kim Basinger was creepy. Even though it has some positive aspects, this was the worst Bond film to me and one I rarely re-watch. It crapped all over Connery's other great movies and had a stupid, stupid ending.
Dalton: I loathed License to Kill, which had the cinematography of a made-for-TV movie of the week. Unlike many, I never took to Timothy Dalton as Bond.
Brosnan Tomorrow Never Dies was pretty godawful . Bad villain. Bad song. Bad Bond girls. Ugh.
Moore For Your Eyes Only mainly due to the dead-eyed actress that played Bond's love interest. The rest of the film was utterly generic, though the action sequences were good.
Reply by FlyingSaucersAreReal
on March 22, 2017 at 7:37 PM
For Your Eyes Only might be my favorite Roger Moore Bond movie. It got away from the camp-comedy approach of the 70s Bonds. I saw in a documentary that Dalton was actually supposed to take over as Bond at that point, and he wanted the movies to return in tone to the early Bonds. The deal fell through so Moore returned, but they kept that approach. So I appreciate Dalton for that, even if he wasn't the best Bond we've seen.
Reply by FlyingSaucersAreReal
on March 22, 2017 at 7:38 PM
Lazenby looked the part, but he had no screen presence.
Reply by rudely_murray
on March 23, 2017 at 12:16 AM
Reply by tmdb82469342
on March 23, 2017 at 1:42 AM
Octopussy and You Only Live Twice are masterpieces.
Reply by Dawn Of The Ed
on March 23, 2017 at 2:02 AM
Not in my opinion. Any movie that has Connery trying to pass himself off as Japanese isn't a masterpiece.
That said, I do consider Never Say Never Again a worse film. I just don't include it as part of the official Bond series.
Reply by SpaceRanger06
on March 23, 2017 at 2:24 AM
@The Midi-chlorian Count Licence to Kill and The World Is Not Enough for me are two of the better Bond movies out there. To put them in bottom 3 is criminal.
Reply by SpaceRanger06
on March 23, 2017 at 2:27 AM
Also why are people listing NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN in their bottom 3, it's not an official Bond movie.
Reply by FlyingSaucersAreReal
on March 23, 2017 at 3:52 AM
It's based on a Fleming novel and features the character James Bond.
Reply by SpaceRanger06
on March 23, 2017 at 5:03 AM
@FlyingSaucersAreReal But the original poster said official Bond movies. And also NSNA is a remake of Thunderball.