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Who is the best James bond

  • Daniel Craig

    Votes: 5 3.4%

  • Pierce Brosnon

    Votes: 31 21.2%

  • Timothy Dalton

    Votes: 26 17.8%

  • Sir Roger Moore

    Votes: 26 17.8%

  • George lazenby

    Votes: 4 2.7%

  • Sean Connery

    Votes: 54 37.0%
  • Total voters
    146
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ArthuriusMartyrius said:
Calvin, nobody gives a fuck about your gay YouTube channel, stop trying to pretend like you aren’t paid to shill this garbage on KF of all places.
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I don't think Calvin the gay homosexual Moore fan is on KF (would be funny though)
His friend "The Bond Experience" is a dead ringer for Epstein

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Man vs persistent rats said:
I like Dr. No a lot, but that's going into it knowing how slow it is beforehand. It still has the DNA of "serious" adventure thrillers and hadn't yet constructed a repeatable formula, which after watching the later films to death can be refreshing. The next one is much better paced.
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For what it's worth I really like this Bond already, bit of an alcoholic womanising scoundrel when not jumping in to danger. You would be too in his position. It's kind of like other depictions of soldiers with high mortality rates partying hard, mein Das Boot Bruders know what I mean.

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I skipped From Russia With Love and went to Goldfinger after peaking the laser scene on Youtube and becoming really excited for it. This is definitely more of what I expected, as an outsider coming in only knowing the Flanderised meme of Bond. Damn was it fun though, and the camerawork was beautiful especially the mountainous shots in Geneva. I'd unironically like some of them as posters.

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I liked it much more than Dr. No and I think it a better starting point. Someone else with less patience (very common today) would probably lose interest after Dr. No.

I also think a more contemporary yet appropriate term going forward for the concept of Chekov's gun would be "Bond's passenger seat"
 
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The first three Connery Bond movies are definitely slower burns than what came after. By Thunderball, the formula really sets in. Though On Her Majesty's Secret Service goes back to the slower burn feel of the first three.
 
I grew up with Bond films regularly on TV from a young age and there was always just a blur of many of the films. Besides the newer ones I was seeing in the theatre.

The notion that Goldfinger was the first true Bond film got into my head. That was where they figured it out. From Russia With Love was good spy film, but not quite Bond yet. As I got older, the films became more individually known to me, but for whatever reason, I just didn't watch Dr No with the idea that I wouldn't like it, It probably was aired the least as well. Literally all I knew of Dr No was that in Jamiaca a tour guide pointed to some docks and said that's where they filmed it.

I was probably in my late teens or early 20s when I got all the films on DVD and did my first complete watch-through. I was blown away with Dr No, really liked it and was confused about whatever I watched or whatever was said to me to make me think if wasn't a proper Bond film yet. There's truth to perfecting the formula in Goldfinger, but that didn't mean it was a proper Bond film or wasn't good.

Also, just a shout out to those DVDs and the documentaries of the making of the films. They were superb.

I think they still have the same making of documentaries on the blu-rays and the 4K of the Connery films.
 
I also had Goldfinger mania, but over time From Russia has become my favourite. It's just good cinema, period, and feels both ambitious but also perfect in the details as a romantic adventure. Very well-structured and feature-complete.

Dr No benefits immensely from when you get burned out on later Bond, when you've maybe watched more '60s cinema and are ready for the slow experience. There's a lot there waiting for you to return to it, although I do consider the pacing to be an objective flaw to be endured in some areas rather than perfectly-realised, but it is mostly gold.
 
I actually haven't watched Goldfinger in a very long time. It's one of those films that I feel like I've seen it plenty of times and so isn't ever I want to randomly put on.

Strangely enough, the reason I haven't done a watch through of the Connery 4k collection, is now I feel like Dr No is one I've seen plenty of times.
 
I need to watch the Moore films again. I often get grand ideas about watching the entire series but by the time I'm done with the Connery films I've usually had enough and take a break, then the cycle repeats.
 
Kharash said:
I need to watch the Moore films again. I often get grand ideas about watching the entire series but by the time I'm done with the Connery films I've usually had enough and take a break, then the cycle repeats.
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It's quite daunting with so many films.

Just segment them out. Live and Let Die to the Spy Who Loved Me. Take a break, Moonraker. Then another short break and the final Moore films.

You get fatigues, you'll come to a film which isn't bad, but it just bores you. For Your Eyes Only did that to me with the Moore films. Watching in isolation is fine, but after Moonraker it's a drag.
 
I think it looks potentially good, but the trailer is a bit schitzo in criticising Bond and complimenting Bond. Starts by saying how he's immature and a bad influence. Then goes no about how he's good for the program, then someone saying he's not ready. Him having to argue he's not an idiot.

I also don't like the, "00's have a short life expectancy" thing with modern Bond. It's like the , "Bond is a blunt instrument assassin" from the Craig era. Doesn't really align with the Bond I grew up on.
 
Screamer_2 said:
I grew up with Bond films regularly on TV from a young age
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I forget if it was TNT or who but yeah they'd beat them into the ground

Goldfinger is nice but those long shots in Miami with, like, a dozen cars is so fucking weird.
 
Screamer_2 said:
I also don't like the, "00's have a short life expectancy" thing with modern Bond. It's like the , "Bond is a blunt instrument assassin" from the Craig era. Doesn't really align with the Bond I grew up on.
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I'm with you, I don't care about this "Bond is a loose cannon." crap. I miss when he seemed to know more about the movie's plot before anyone else. Give me competent Bond again.
 
I got introtuced to bond by a family friend who had Goldeneye on vhs.
I was waaaay to young to watch it and it blew my mind.
Then for the next couple of years, my sibling and I would get bond on VHS for christms.
Amazing shit.
 
Series looks pointless.

Game is coming out soonish. I hope it's longer than some of the PS2 era EA classics and doesn't shoehorn in the online crap of the Hitman games.
 
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