Favourite James Bond Film? by chrisisall

Hmmm favourite Bond film....

I tend to like them for the stunts more than anything else and right now I can't remember which stunt goes with which film... However I do remember liking On Her Majesties Secret Service for the great score, and also Thunderball for er well, the actress who played 'Domino' she was delightful and not so trashy as they tend to be.

I'm also a huge fan of the two Timothy Dalton ones, in particular License to Kill, because it had Bond acting out revenge which I reckon was an emotion overlooked far too often for such a character.

Of the Brosnan ones, Tomorrow Never Dies with Michelle Yeow is awesome! That helicopter/Bike stunt was breathtaking, and watching Michelle flatten those bad guys did it for me!

But the stunts I remember with mouth dropping amazement are, the car spiralling across a river, the Lotus esprit chase that then goes into the sea, the 2CV chase through the olive fields, The car that is chased around vegas, and bond goes up on two wheels to avoid the poilce, and several skiing chase scenes, but as I say can't recall which of the films they belong two. I do always like a bond film if they do something underwater, they're always cool....

In short, I can't decide.....

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Friday, July 1, 2005 4:02 AM

REGINAROADIE

I havn't seen every single Bond movie out there, so I can't really make a proper assessment.

But DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is my favorite Connery Bond movie (the part where he grapples himself to the ledge of the casino and then leaps off, with only two cords holding him up is the one moment in film that always makes me gasp because it looks so real) and TOMORROW NEVER DIES and DIE ANOTHER DAY are my two favorite Brosnan Bond flicks (although I love the tank chase and the bungee jump scene in GOLDENYE).

I havn't seen all the Roger Moore Bond films, but they seemed very cheesy to me.

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Friday, July 1, 2005 4:13 AM

Somnambulist, if your talkin' stunts, Live and Let Die had the king of boat chases!
Plus the best non-fighting Bond girl, Jayne Seymour!!! *he thinks back to his youth*

Solitaire....

Chrisisall

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Friday, July 1, 2005 4:26 AM

Is that the boat chase with that really funny chunky sheriff? He cracked me up, I know he was a totaly hick type steroetype, but I just loved the way he would chew tobaco and shout "Boiii" all the time :)

Yeah that is good stunt work in there. Actually Chrisisall perhaps you can help me out here, in a lot of Bond films there are often stunts with sharks in the water, now with some of the scenes they're clearly fake sharks, but in others usually wider establishing shots they have real shark, and peeps be swimmin in around 'em. Occasionally they have a shark which looks like its taking a bite outa fella, presumably a stuntman, do they have some kind of rig that kicks like a man underwater for those kinds of stunts? Because frankly it can be really convincing and suitably disturbing, and the shark's really going for it!!
Do you know of such a thing? Even in the earlier Bond films where you'd think they'd have a dummy or something in the water, there's often a shot of some figure struggling in the water and a shark's about to pounce?

As for Solitaire.....Miss Seymour. Frankly my youth wouldn't have been the same without her or Ornella Mutti... D'you ever catch her in that Sinbad film! CRICKEY!!!!

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Friday, July 1, 2005 4:42 AM

MELEAUX

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Somnambulist, if your talkin' stunts, Live and Let Die had the king of boat chases!

Chrisisall

That scene was filmed her in Louisisana and my older brothers best friend drove/flew the boat. I was about 10 at the time and all my classmates thought I was the coolest girl ever just 'cause I knew the guy!

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Friday, July 1, 2005 4:53 AM

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Originally posted by meleaux:
my older brothers best friend drove/flew the boat. I was about 10 at the time and all my classmates thought I was the coolest girl ever just 'cause I knew the guy!

You must own that movie, just for memories' sake, right?
It was one of the better Moore Bond films.

Sheriff Chrisisall

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Friday, July 1, 2005 5:03 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
D'you ever catch her in that Sinbad film! CRICKEY!!!!

Eye of the Tiger, my man! She's the best effect in it.
They get underwater animal reasearch people for shots of sharks and people together, and do the padded thing they do with dog scenes, and the sharks usually aren't bigger than 6 feet, so their bites ain't actually all that dangerous, to a professional.
Hollywood's been hirin' these peeps since the 50's for stuff like Creature From the Black Lagoon, and the TV show Sea Hunt.

Ricou Chrisisall

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Friday, July 1, 2005 5:22 AM

DIETCOKE

Diamonds are Forever. Worst: Octopussy.

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Friday, July 1, 2005 5:25 AM

Cheers Big C

I knew I could count on you for this. Man, talking of stunts just makes me wish I'd gone down that route..... Oh well.

So yeah Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.

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Friday, July 1, 2005 7:17 AM

BATMARLOWE

GOLDFINGER. Or as Shirley Bassey would say: Gold-Feen-Gah! I think FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE is a bit underrated. And if Connery had played Bond in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE then I think hands down it would be the best. The ironic thing is that the one movie where Connery could have really done some more challenging acting with the character is the one he turns down. Of course he came back for a buttload of money to do DIAMONDS ARE FORVEVER (the first one I ever saw in a theatre) and I guess an even bigger buttload for NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN.

My nominee for worst Bond movie: MOONRAKER.

Although I have yet to see DIE AGAIN TOMORROW or whatever the most recent one was called.

Favorite Bond girl--too much competetion for that.

And yeah, Ornella Mutti from SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER...let's just she had quite an effect on my 14 or 15 year old self.

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Friday, July 1, 2005 10:36 PM

*random factoid alert*

My dad used to build the sets for the bond films.

and he did the first batman film too.

I used to sit on sean connerys knee and he would read to me.

*random factoid alert ends*

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 3:28 AM

More, more please! What did Sean read to you? What parts of the sets did your dad build? He must be in the credits, right?

Eyes only Chrisisall

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 3:43 AM

I dont know what he read to me, i was only a wee wee baby.

After that it was roger moore, who i know i must have seen a fair bit, but meh didnt register.
Timothy Dalton was the one I remember as being really nice, he kept stealing bits of the set for me.

My dad worked for Eon Production and was answerable to Peter Lamont and Terry Read (i suppose they were his bosses) who he says are in the credits

he worked on the carry on films too and aliens (sigourney weaver took us all out to dinner to say thank you to my dad for single handedly rebuilding a set he had knocked down, because they needed to re shoot a scene)

plus loads of others obviously.

I ignored Tom Cruise once, thats a cringing story

Ive grown up around some the most famous actors around, and yet it took me 3 times to meet Nathan Fillion before I could speak to him........

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 6:16 AM

That's so cool. I met Christopher Reeve backstage at a play (my girlfriend at the time got a kiss off him), talked to Mark Hamill briefly at a convention, and had a couple beers with James Doohan at a bar (he's a really funny guy). But thats only a shadow of the kind of contact you've had with talent.
What's the Tom Cruise story? Enquiring minds need to know.

Celebrity gossip corner Chrisisall

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 6:42 AM

They were filming interview with a vampire and it was a closed set, which meant, i wasnt allowed to look around while they were filming. or even be in sniffing distance of the set while filming

but one day they were all off having lunch, and the set was open, and the producer said i could have a look round, so i was walking around the set which was v surreal as it was outside, yet i was in inside.......

So im pondering the wierdness and this much short bloke enquires as to wether im ok, he had long blonde hair and quite frankly looked wierd, so i grunted and walked away....only to discover later on that it was tom cruise in costume quietly going over a scene for himself.

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 7:27 AM

That's great, thanks, he he
Gotta blaze, work calls.

Hyperdrive Chrisisall

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 7:52 AM

SerenityPunk wrote:

Quote:

*random factoid alert*

My dad used to build the sets for the bond films.

and he did the first batman film too.

I used to sit on sean connerys knee and he would read to me.

*random factoid alert ends*

That's so cool! I've always been impressed with the bond sets - they''re always so huge. I imagine that's down to a great deal of clever eye trickery and ingenuity. Funnily enough last night "The Spy Who Loved Me" was on TV, and I was thinking how great that set where all the subs are stashed was. Excellent. Is your dad still in the business?

Also good tales about bumping into actors n such.

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 8:25 AM

the bond stage was huge. you couldnt miss it as soon as you got into the studios.

plus they had all the lots around. but there is alot of camera trickery. like any scenes on water were actually done in a big tank about the size of maybe 3 swimming pools with a backdrop.

No my dad dosnt do it anymore, he left a few years ago. went to build houses and car parks instead.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:58 PM

SMITH

"I like Timothy Dalton.
In license to kill, Timothy Dalton was a rogue agent, now that's edgy.
I think Timothy Dalton should win an Oscar, and beat Sean Connery over the head with it."

I'm taking alot on faith that you guys are Buffy fans as well as Firefly fans. If not, my statement still rings true, I enjoyed the Timothy Dalton franchise more than the others, he seemed more true to the books for me. Also, call me crazy, but I'd love to see "Casino Royale" redone with Tarantino at the helm.

Jimmy Bond: You can't shoot me! I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says I can't have bullets enter my body at any time.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2005 4:29 PM

GUNRUNNER

“From Russia With Love” & “Goldfinger”

I love Russia because it’s the most true to life Bond movie. Spies really did stuff like that; the objective is just so much more realistic than the latter movies where 'it’s save the world from killer lasers' and such. Goldfinger is a close second just because it’s so classic; cutting Bond in two with a laser- you can’t beat that.

Worst “The Spy Who Loved Me”, although not that bad as a Bond movie I just know too much on the subject that it’s just bad for me- come on Cyanide Gas? Ha, put on EABs and open up the small arms locker, the crews of two Boomers and a Fast Attack wouldn’t have surrendered their boats. But on the plus side a massive ship built by an eccentric billionaire that goes around stealing submarines really existed (and was probably more amazing than any James Bond fiction)!

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:59 AM

EMMA

Wow, Carol, that is seriously cool - you are a wonder!

Anyway, Bond...

My fave bond is Brosnan (swoon) and my fave film was always Live and Let Die...but...

recently I have been trying to rewatch them all on tv and my god how racist and sexist is it possible to get? Naming a woman Miss Goodhead? Strangling someone with her own bikini top just so Bond can see the boobs? I mean... in one film Connery actually dressed up as a Japanese man - complete with offensive eye make-up.

I can't watch the old ones anymore without wanting to put my foot through the screen but I will still be at the cinema for the next one.

extremely dimensionally transcendental

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:33 AM

MANOFSTEEL25

I'm a huge Band fan. been rather diappointed with the Bosnan films though. Ok Bond, some nice scnees, but overall i find them to be lackluster compared to most Bonds of old.

My favorites alt between Goldfinger, On her Majesty's Secret Service and The Living Daylights.

Love the Barry music scores to each. Nice pacing, dialogue and the like. I didn't mind lazenby, LOVE Connery and Dalton and I like Moore. Roger Moore WAS Bond to me as a young child- the first one I saw was For Your Eyes only which also deserves honorable mentio fortaking Bond back down to earth in more ways then one after Moonraker.

Best Bond girl is a tougher question. Character wise it's Tracy form OHMSS (Diana Rigg) but looks wise... man Solitare, Domino, Melina, Holly Goodhead (I know, cringe), Mary Goodnight... too many to choose.

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:37 AM

MANWITHPEZ

Important people don't do field work.

Another one that I knew was a Chrisisall post!!!

My favorite...Thunderball! Man, what a flick...Hot chicks, sharks, hot chicks, unnecessary plastic surgery...Rocket PACK!!!

And Tom Jones singing the theme can't be bad.

Close second, and I have to go with Andrew on this, but License to Kill. I thought that Dalton's Bond as portrayed in that flick was pretty close to Flemming's version.

After that, Goldeneye. Bond was always a cool character, but, never cooler, I thought, than in this one...

And there's three...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:43 AM

LETSBEBADGUYS

Mine... Tommorrow Never Dies.
Great motorbike chase!

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:57 AM

OPTIMUS1998

Brosnan has done a good job, but for my money Connery will always be the best bond. and fav movie? probably goldfinger, but likely because it's the one i've seen the most.....

...May have been the losing side, Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:53 AM

Leaving out personal preference, Thunderball was probably the best movie if only because Flemming had a hand in writing the screen story, which walked a fine line between the realistic spy story and the maniacal world domination ploy.
It worked on every level.

Double OH Chrisisall

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:09 PM

EVILMIKE

I'm surprised that 'You Only Live Twice' hasn't been mentioned yet. (Especially since the remake has.)

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:27 PM

What gorram remake? Did I miss something major??

Liscensed to question Chrisisall

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:31 PM

EVILMIKE

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
What gorram remake? Did I miss something major??

Liscensed to question Chrisisall

Well, it got mentioned as a possible worst -- 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.

'You Only Live Twice', on the other hand, should at least be mentioned when talking about the best Bond films.

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Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:45 PM