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Favorite James Bond movie? Favorite Bond/Bond Girl?

Actors: Connery, of course. Though Craig is a very close second, I was highly impressed with him. Didn't much like Dalton as Bond...too much teeny angst in him and it didn't help that the movies weren't that good either.

Movies: Honestly I generally like most of them with the exception of "A View To A Kill"...just goes to show you that even with good talent you can have a crummy movie. (sorry Hoos). Also didn't like the Dalton movies.

Gadgets: What can I say, I want an Aston Martin! :drool:
 
Sean Connery and Honor Blackman(***** Galore). Favoirte car is the DB5. And favorite movie is obviously Goldfinger.

I am a big fan of The Avengers and there is an interesting little reference to Honor Blackman in one episode called "Too many christmas trees". She had previously been Steed's partner Cathy Gale before Emma Peel came along. In the episode Steed gets a christmas card from her and makes the offhand comment "Whatever can she be doing at Fort Knox" referring to the fact Honor Blackman had gone off to be in Goldfinger.

Interesting Diana Rigg played Mrs Bond (briefly!) in "On her majesty's secret service" (and Joanna Lumley was also in that and she was later in The New Avengers).

Patrick McNee was in "A View to a Kill".

Oh, and he also did the voice over at the start of the original Battlestar Galactica :smile:

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Sean Connery - best Bond. No sassin' back on that either.

Honor Blackman as ***** Galore in Goldfinger. Hot brunette, attitude, and muscle. Uh huh.

A View to A Kill - only because I was in it as an extra - for the best movie. I mean, look at me. Of course, it was the best Bond movie. Hmmph! :wink:

Just an extra? I would have pegged you for a Christopher Walken stand-in...
 
Diamonds Are Forever is my favorite because I saw it with my dad as a child and thought it was really cool. Now whenever I watch it I have great memories of that time.
 
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ROSA KLEBB (Lotte Lenya) OK, she wasn't blonde, but you gotta admit, she was a killer. ;)

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Getting in on this late, a real skill I have, but Sean Connery was Bond, the rest were just handsome actors pretending to be Bond and Goldfinger was the best story. One of the worst did feature Connery, Diamonds are Forever. Even by then, the franchise was becoming a parody of itself.

As for Bond girls, the actress who played Tatiana, the Russian defector, was my favorite. Something about her wearing that black choker and nothing else does it for me. Rose Klebb was good, too, but for all the wrong reasons. Killer shoes. :rolleyes:
 
Sean Connery - best Bond. No sassin' back on that either.

Honor Blackman as ***** Galore in Goldfinger. Hot brunette, attitude, and muscle. Uh huh.

A View to A Kill - only because I was in it as an extra - for the best movie. I mean, look at me. Of course, it was the best Bond movie. Hmmph! :wink:


Ms Galore was very much blonde. You might be confused...

The girls in Thunderball are rather pleasing to the eyes as well.
 
***** Galore best bond girl. (Good band too.)

Wint and Kid or whatever their names were as weirdest villians.
 
Probably Skyfall based on the amount of times I've rewatched it (plus the shaving scene).

Bond Girls - Honey Ryder or Solitaire or Camille Montes (Big fan of Olga Kurylenko)

Villain - Francisco Scaramanga
 

The Count of Merkur Cristo

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Favorite Bond Girl: Jinx (Halle Berry) - "Die Another Day"
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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet". Orson Welles
 
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All of them, and all of them. SERIOUSLY. I own every movie in some format or another and every book in hardcover or paperback as well. I'm a Bond junkie.... shhhh!
 
+1 for this. Plus Miss ______________ Galore from Goldfinger. I saw that when I was 6. My older brother and I asked our grandmother to drop us off at the theater (very small town and 1965, so no danger). She did this for us because she was totally clueless about the movie.

Quite an indulgence!!

I gotta go with Sean Connery in Goldfinger for the best.

As for worst, probably Moonraker with Roger Moore. I wasn't a fan.
 
Best movie - Skyfall
Best Bond - To me it's Daniel Craig simply because to me he's the closest to Ian's Bond in the books. Although Mr. Connery is a very close second.
Worst Bond - To me it's Pierce hands down.
Best Bond girl - Honey Ryder, let's face it, she set the bar pretty high. Vesper Lund with her rather cold demeanour is a close second.
Best Bond villain - Oddjob followed by Le Chiffre. If you didn't cringe at the number that Left Chiffre did to Bond (Craig) with the bottomless chair then you're simply not human.
 
I was fortunate enough to have my first Bond experience being Connery in "Never Say Never Again" with my dad, so Connery cemented Bond for me, though the Dalton era (such as it was) and especially "The Living Daylights" made Bond feel relevant after hokey Roger Moore films.

But really, I can (and will) watch any of them at any time. MAYBE the ones set in America (especially Diamonds) might get a pass, maybe :p
 
Although I grew up on Sean Connery as James Bond, the movies haven't aged well. In retrospect, they are simply too campy and garish. Instead I prefer the darker, grittier Daniel Craig era Bond movies. Sticking with that era, Eva Green as Vesper Lynd
 
Although I grew up on Sean Connery as James Bond, the movies haven't aged well. In retrospect, they are simply too campy and garish. Instead I prefer the darker, grittier Daniel Craig era Bond movies. Sticking with that era, Eva Green as Vesper Lynd


I think this is a very reasonable analysis. I first saw "Dr. No" on the big screen shortly after it was released. And I was young and very impressed.

But rewatching the whole Bond series with my wife in the '90s brought to the fore just how transparent they were to a modern, more sophisticated audience.

But the same is also true of many, many of Hollywood's older films.

I found the Craig "Casino Royale" performance outstanding. And all the subsequent ones as well.

In defense of Moore, he was an employee - albeit a well compensated one. But I doubt Moonraker was under his artistic guidance.
 
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