Thoughts/Rank The James Bond Films

Thoughts/Rank The James Bond Films Feb 23, 2018 20:48:43 GMT FridayOnElmStreet likes this

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Post by Salzmank on Feb 23, 2018 20:48:43 GMT

Feb 23, 2018 11:08:47 GMT FridayOnElmStreet said:

Feb 23, 2018 3:45:45 GMT Salzmank said:

- Im embarresed to admit I never actually read any of the novels. My heart belongs to the cinima.

- Connery is indeed great and pretty much gave us the difinitive Bond performences in From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. However my personal favorite is Pierce Brosnan.

- Although I really didnt see a Bond film with Roger untill 2008 he was the Bond heard the most about because he the favorite Bond of my parents. Overall I do really like him as Bond but like I said I prefer Connery and Brosnan.

- Caisino Royale was the first Bond movie I seen and its the one who got me into the series but however Craig himself is my least favorite of the six Bonds. He just reminds me too much of a generic modern day action hero rather than James Bond. is performence in Quantum of Solace is the worst of all the actors in my opinion. And easily the worst film. Most of the Bond films I give an 8, 9 or 10. Quantum I just give a 3/10.

*No need to be embarrassed about not reading them—lots of people don’t even know that there were original books, God help us!—but I do recommend them if you get a chance. From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and Live and Let Die are excellent adventure stories. Doctor No is decent; I think I actually preferred the BBC radio adaptation, though (available for free on YouTube, here). I actually prefer Toby Stephens’s Bond to Daniel Craig’s. Of the ones I’ve read so far, though, only Diamonds Are Forever has been particularly weak (as is its film adaptation, though in a completely different way).

*I’m not a big Brosnan fan, but I think his performance is more recognizably “Bondian”—this is a point to which I’ll return in the last bullet.

*The funny thing is, I really like Roger Moore. (If you’ve never seen the TV show The Saint, I highly, highly recommend it—gleefully absurdist, surreal plots, à la that other great ‘60s spy show, The Avengers [not the superhero team!], and Roger’s really good in it. To whet your appetite for the show, I recommend “Sibao” [Season 3, Episode 21], which is almost a dry run for, and in my opinion superior to, the film version of Live and Let Die.) I just don’t like him as Bond, especially after Connery: too goofy, too much the pretty boy. It never seems that he has a license to kill but, rather, a license to say bad puns. Ironically, from The Saint, as fun as that show is, you could believe he could kill and feel no remorse. He’s tough in it. But you could never believe that of his Bond. Funny, huh?

*While I understand and sympathize with what you’re saying about Craig’s Bond, I feel that the character is more a reflection of his time than anything else. That is to say, nowadays we like the generic action hero Bond—the brooding loner sort, in a way, as with Christian Bale’s Batman—and Craig is the man to do that. Now, do I like it? No, not really, and that’s why I only really find Craig successful in the role in Casino Royale, which still holds up. But I also think it’s as much as the writers’ and directors’ fault as it is Craig’s. With that said, I’m not sure what it is, but I do know what you mean what you say about his not seeming “Bond”… I should note that none of the actors has really played Fleming’s man, except partially for early Connery (Dr. No and FRwL) and Dalton, but I don’t mind as long as the character’s fun and intriguing.