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[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Allow me to vajazzle your Netflix queue with my recommendations of must watch Bond films.

Essential Bond Viewing:

Dr. No

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

You Only Live Twice

Live and Let Die

The Man with the Golden Gun

The Living Daylights

Goldeneye

Semi-essential:

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

A View To A Kill

Licence to Kill

The World Is Not Enough

And of course...all the new films are essential viewing...with Quantum being the sort of so-so film.

Disagree with a lot of this list

I wouldn't call Live and Let Die, You Only Live twice and ESPECIALLY Man with the Golden Gun as essential Bond films. TMWGG is my 4th least favorite Bond film. It's so dull!

I would personally bump License to Kill and On Her Majesty's Secret Service to must watch. And For Your Eyes Only would go into semi-essential.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Disagree with a lot of this list

I wouldn't call Live and Let Die, You Only Live twice and ESPECIALLY Man with the Golden Gun as essential Bond films. TMWGG is my 4th least favorite Bond film. It's so dull!

I would personally bump License to Kill and On Her Majesty's Secret Service to must watch. And For Your Eyes Only would go into semi-essential.

I added The Spy Who Loved Me.

Live and Let Die is a personal favorite of mine...from the theme song, to the car and boat chase, to the awkward and cheesy race relations. I think it's a fun film. Plus...Baron Samedi.

You Only Live Twice is -- in my opinion -- underrated. Plus, the end is what gets parodied in the Simpsons, making it semi-essential nerd viewing. Plus I love the theme song again, and the gimmick (Bond dying) is good. I thought Skyfall sort of revisited some of the themes.

Man With The Golden Gun is perhaps a dull film...I just like Christopher Lee. Plus, it establishes the Golden Gun mythos.

I like OHMSS...I don't know how essential it is, just because it was in a lot of ways a one-off. The constant actor changes with Blofeld is annoying, imo.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I added The Spy Who Loved Me.

Live and Let Die is a personal favorite of mine...from the theme song, to the car and boat chase, to the awkward and cheesy race relations. I think it's a fun film. Plus...Baron Samedi.

You Only Live Twice is -- in my opinion -- underrated. Plus, the end is what gets parodied in the Simpsons, making it semi-essential nerd viewing. Plus I love the theme song again, and the gimmick (Bond dying) is good. I thought Skyfall sort of revisited some of the themes.

Man With The Golden Gun is perhaps a dull film...I just like Christopher Lee. Plus, it establishes the Golden Gun mythos.

I like OHMSS...I don't know how essential it is, just because it was in a lot of ways a one-off. The constant actor changes with Blofeld is annoying, imo.

I also like The Spy Who Loved Me, but if I was to recommend a single Moore film, it would be for Your Eyes Only.

I think Live and Let Die is a fun film as well. Great score. And yeah, the whole racial thing is just bizarre to watch now, but makes for a very unique setting/villains for the franchise thus far.

YOLT.. is iffy.. it has a lot of goofy elements that I love.. the jet pack, Little Nellie, the lair in a volcano, the ninjas and the likes.. but we shall say it's more near the top middle for me.

I can't in good faith ever recommend the Man with a Golden Gun to anyone!

And I love OHMSS because it's one off.. it feels so vastly different from the entire franchise, partially because of that and how toned down it is.

[KillerGremlin]

Yeah, OHMSS is an interesting film...I would say I definitely recommend it, but it gets sort of lost as "canon."

I think everyone can agree that Dr. No -> From Russian -> Goldfinger are essential....after that, things get crazy.

Best Bond villain? Now that's a question for the nerds.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Yeah, OHMSS is an interesting film...I would say I definitely recommend it, but it gets sort of lost as "canon."

I think everyone can agree that Dr. No -> From Russian -> Goldfinger are essential....after that, things get crazy.

Best Bond villain? Now that's a question for the nerds.

I think before it was a discussion, but hard to really say anything after Silva.

[KillerGremlin]

Silva was great...but the whole part where Silva gets captured, and pulls out his teeth...and all that stuff.

It really reminded me of the Dark Knight and the scene with the Joker, when he is in the jail, and the guy has the phone inside him....

I thought the scene on the island was fucking perfect, and the stuff at the end with the Scottish house was fucking perfect. That whole mid-section was also really good, but yeah. It reminded me of the Dark Knight.

It's not a bad thing...I'm just not sure how I feel about it.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Silva was great...but the whole part where Silva gets captured, and pulls out his teeth...and all that stuff.

It really reminded me of the Dark Knight and the scene with the Joker, when he is in the jail, and the guy has the phone inside him....

I thought the scene on the island was fucking perfect, and the stuff at the end with the Scottish house was fucking perfect. That whole mid-section was also really good, but yeah. It reminded me of the Dark Knight.

It's not a bad thing...I'm just not sure how I feel about it.

Silva was indeed amazing - probably the best part of the movie. He owned every scene he was in. There were a ton of great moments though - I'm looking forward to seeing it again at home...I think the loud people at the theater tainted it a bit for me.

The only thing I don't like, when it comes down to it, is how dull Bond actually is in this movie. He probably experiences the least amount of character development. He's depressed almost the whole time, and doesn't really speak much. It's not Daniel Craig's fault - he's a great actor, it's just how the character was written in this movie.

I think in the next one if they combine the bad assery of Craig's Bond with the charm of Pierce Brosnan's, it would be perfect. I just want to like Bond the character a little more than I do, and be able to relate to him.