Powerage5 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Watching Goldeneye and the score is so bad Stood out to me on my re-watch last week as well.Watched Goldfinger on Blu Ray tonight. No need to say it looked and sounded impeccable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Watching Goldeneye and the score is so bad Stood out to me on my re-watch last week as well.Watched Goldfinger on Blu Ray tonight. No need to say it looked and sounded impeccable Watching Goldeneye and the score is so bad Stood out to me on my re-watch last week as well.Watched Goldfinger on Blu Ray tonight. No need to say it looked and sounded impeccable I bet The Man with the Golden Gun looks like shit on Blu ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Watching Goldeneye and the score is so bad Stood out to me on my re-watch last week as well.Watched Goldfinger on Blu Ray tonight. No need to say it looked and sounded impeccable Watching Goldeneye and the score is so bad Stood out to me on my re-watch last week as well.Watched Goldfinger on Blu Ray tonight. No need to say it looked and sounded impeccable I bet The Man with the Golden Gun looks like shit on Blu ray.Everything I've watched from the Bond 50 set looks great...even AVTAK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 You get Never Say Never Again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Not part of the set. Know if it's available on Blu Ray? If so I'll probably pick it up eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Yeah it is about $100. Skyfall has surpassed Thunderball for 2011 inflation. Only the OP seems to know the 2012 inflation but I reckon it is pretty close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 No matter how much James Putin makes at the box office, Connery will always be the best Bond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 No matter how much James Putin makes at the box office, Connery will always be the best Bond.WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The stuff about Connery being the best Bond is subjective. I liked him fine but he is a little overrated. Especially when he couldn't even make YOLT and DAF better movies. I actually prefer Dalton and Craig. If Dalton stayed on we'd have better films Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Craig looks like Vladimir Putin, only uglier. Not a fan of Blondie Bondy.YOLT is a good film, DAF is better than 90% of the Moore films.Dalton sucked and his films were too dark and bleak. I much prefer the line the Connery films balance.It goes like this.Connery > Moore > Brosnan > Lazenby > Niven > Craig > Dalton Edited January 7, 2013 by Vincent Vega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazyman Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Craig looks like Vladimir Putin, only uglier. Not a fan of Blondie Bondy.YOLT is a good film, DAF is better than 90% of the Moore films.Dalton sucked and his films were too dark and bleak. I much prefer the line the Connery films balance.It goes like this.Connery > Moore > Brosnan > Lazenby > Niven > Craig > Dalton Child please. Everything you just posted (outside of YOLT being a good film) is wrong. DAF is one of the worst movies in the series. Dalton is one of the best Bonds, his films are probably closest to the actual novels.Having Craig and Dalton at the bottom of your ranking gave me a good laugh, however. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) I think its clear to see that Connery was phoning it in for his last couple of appearances, its clear he didnt like the pressure of being tied down to the franchise and startd to look at the role with distain. This came across in YOLT and DAF and held those films back, Connery is good but overrated as he was the first Bond.Okay just going to rank the Bonds in my personal order from best to worst.1. Craig - Introduced Bond to a whole new generation and reinvigorated a franchise that was in serious trouble after Die Another Day. Has the looks, charisma and sex appeal while taking the franchise in a more serious direction, it of course helps that his films have been very good. Brings a new physicality to the role that none of the other actors were able to do and gets to utilize his full acting range to great effect.2. Dalton - Very close to how Bond was presented in the novels with a much darker edge which was needed following the excess of Moore. Is let down somewhat by only having two films but they were better than many people give them credit for, his portrayal of Bond laid the foundations for both Craig and Brosnan but with the latter they fumbled it immensely.3. Connery - Overrated in hindsight but From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball are up there with the best, it was only his later films and the feeling he phoned it in that let him down.4. Lazenby - OHMSS is a very good film but sadly he didn't have time to make the role his own and I feel he was impersonating Connery playing Bond.5. Brosnan - Started off promisingly with Goldeneye but then the producers fumbled the more serious tone and started going back to the excess of Moore, was really let down by having bad villains aside from Bean in Goldeneye and in my opinion struggled to make the role his own and instead was an amalgamation of Connery, Moore and Dalton in how he played the role. Could have been one of the best but was let down by having largely bad films.6. Moore - About half of his films were very bad, wasn't a great actor in the first place with his range being limited to one liners and eyebrow raises and, in my opinion he overstayed his welcome in the role, by the end it got creepy with a mid 50s Moore getting with late teens early 20s actresses.Niven doesn't count as Casino Royale (1967) was a spoof and outside of the official continuity, as a result I haven't taken into account Never Say Never again in Connery's performance. Edited January 7, 2013 by Tottenham Hotspur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 As much as I liked Connery in the first four films, he pretty much ruined the role for others. I think Lazenby in OHMSS was better than Connery in YOLT and DAF. Same with Moore in four of the seven Bond films. Dalton in both of them and Craig in all three of his. Roger Moore was the anti-Connery. He was fine with becoming a parody of himself by Moonraker because Cubby wanted nothing more. He saw the box office numbers and he was fine with that. He pretty much played the part until he couldn't play a 40 year old anymore. Dalton would have lead to better films if it weren't for the poor box office performance Licence to Kill, which was mostly because of poor marketing. Instead of getting a series of quality Bond films inspired by Dalton we were left with Brosnan. I feel EON ust told him to do what Moore and Connery did and they watch the numbers and went "okay, so we are just going to do this again until people get sick of it." I use to be one of those people who praised GoldenEye. It was entertaining but it ended up leaving more to be desired. It is unusual for the first Bond film to be the best one from that actor. Connery, Moore and Craig's second or third outings were more impressive than their debuts. Lazenby continues to own all of them because he was in OHMSS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Craig looks like Vladimir Putin, only uglier. Not a fan of Blondie Bondy.YOLT is a good film, DAF is better than 90% of the Moore films.Dalton sucked and his films were too dark and bleak. I much prefer the line the Connery films balance.It goes like this.Connery > Moore > Brosnan > Lazenby > Niven > Craig > Dalton Child please. Everything you just posted (outside of YOLT being a good film) is wrong. DAF is one of the worst movies in the series. Dalton is one of the best Bonds, his films are probably closest to the actual novels.Having Craig and Dalton at the bottom of your ranking gave me a good laugh, however. Thank you.I don't care about how close they are to the original novels. I care about if I find them entertaining or not. I do not find the James Putin films entertaining. Daniel Craig stays at the bottom of my list and Connery at the top. No Blond Bond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Sounds to me that you like Connery more due to the fact he is from the 60s and you idolise that era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Sounds to me that you like Connery more due to the fact he is from the 60s and you idolise that era.It's more that the Connery films have everything a Bond film, to me, should be. I don't like overly dark or gritty or overly realistic films. That might be an aspect of the Bond novels, but it's not what I look for in a James Bond FILM. I like the general balance most of the Connery films have; I like his portrayal as Bond. I simply see Craig as generic, and he looks more like a member of the KGB than he does a British guy. Where's the glamour, glitz, charm? Sorry, like I said, gritty and realistic isn't my thing in spy movies. It's supposed to be about escapism.Goldeneye offers an idea of what a modern Bond could feel like if they really wanted to update it to the times. Brosnan was good but I feel he was trying too hard to be both Connery and Roger Moore at the same time.It's generally the same reason why I prefer the Tim Burton Batman films to the Nolan films. I like fun. Not everything has to be played totally seriously and gritty.Sorry if I can't accept yet ANOTHER change to things. Bond is no longer about escapism or fun spy movies, it's about being dark and gritty too. Edited January 7, 2013 by Vincent Vega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Have to blame the Bourne films for that, they came out and showed everyone how tired the Bond franchise had become. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Skyfall brought back a lot of the old Bond elements. There was blend of fantasy and reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tater Totts Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Personally I don't get the no glitz and glamour argument about Casino Royale, first third of the film is maybe really gritty but then the rest of it is set in a casino, in tuxedos playing poker Edited January 7, 2013 by Tottenham Hotspur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Have to blame the Bourne films for that, they came out and showed everyone how tired the Bond franchise had become.The Bourne films sucked too. With little Commie Boy Matt Damon in the role too. Fuck 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I have yet to see Craig snob about the right temperature to drink a Bollinger or rip M a new one about his poor taste in Brandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I have yet to see Craig snob about the right temperature to drink a Bollinger or rip M a new one about his poor taste in Brandy.I've yet to see Craig do anything interesting at all.Is Craig going to go to readings of Howard Zinn's work with Matt Damon and be a good little politically correct pop tart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streak Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The bourne films were good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 The bourne films were goodI liked them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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