Best and Worst Bonds by Decade

60s: Dr. No, and Thunderball
70s: The Spy Who Loved Me, and The Man with the Golden Gun
80s: ...I'll say Licence To Kill as well, and Octopussy
90s: Goldeneye (but I loooove The World Is Not Enough), and Tomorrow Never Dies
00s: Casino Royale, and Die Another Day

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60's: BEST: From Russia With Love (Best Bond film ever)
WORST: You Only Live Twice (Good title music but Connery was getting bored)

70's: BEST: The Spy Who Loved Me (Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan were not great
Bonds)
WORST: Moonraker

80's: BEST: The Living Daylights (Good start but the sequence in Afganistan
makes me wish Senator Charlie Wilson never helped the Taliban
against the Soviets. Timothy Dalton was good as Bond.) Octopussy
was OK.
WORST: Never Say Never Again (the worst Sean Connery Bond)

90's: BEST: Goldeneye (Good title song, Sean Bean was a great villain)
WORST: Tomorrow Never Dies

00's: BEST: Casino Royale (Rivals the Connery Bonds)
WORST: Quantum of Solace (I hate this movie- shaky cam, bad title song,
brainless plot. I saw it for free in the theater and the film was
upside down and backwards. I had to come back for a later showing.)

Monsters from the Id

Its good to see that people have been putting QoS as the worst of the 2000s lately. It was just horrible.

60's
Best: From Russia With Love
Worst: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (though it's still good)

70's
Best: The Man With the Golden Gun
Worst: Moonraker (still decent until they go into space)

80's
Best: The Living Daylights and License to Kill (tie)
Worst: A View to a Kill

90's
Best: Tomorrow Never Dies
Worst: Goldeneye

00's
Best: Casino Royale
Worst: Die Another Day (worst of the whole series!)

I know this might come off as a cliche by now, but I have a strong bias towards the darker, more brutal incarnations of Bond rather than the lighter, campier films. Thus, my choices may not be much of a surprise.

1960s-

Best: Goldfinger (The best Bond ever, 'nuff said.)
Worst: You Only Live Twice (If, for nothing else, inspiring the entire Austin Powers series.)

1970s-

Best: The Spy Who Loved Me (Almost by default; this was probably Bond's worst decade.)
Worst: Moonraker (This is practically a parody in its own right.)

1980s-

Best: Licence to Kill (A much-needed bullet to the head of the entire Roger Moore era)
Worst: Octopussy (Bond becomes a clown. Literally)

1990s-

Best: GoldenEye (Again, almost by default. The 90s were not kind to 007.)
Worst: Tomorrow Never Dies (And people called Dalton's movies bland...)

2000s-

Best: Casino Royale (Second only to Goldfinger, IMO)
Worst: Die Another Day (Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous)

2010s-

Best: Skyfall
Worst: Skyfall

60's:

BEST. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia With Love
3. Dr No
4. Goldfinger
5. You Only Live Twice
WORST. Thunderball

70's:

BEST. Moonraker
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. Live And Let Die
4. The Man With The Golden Gun
WORST. Diamonds Are Forever

80's: (Best Decade)

BEST. For Your Eyes Only
2. The Living Daylights
3. A View To A Kill
4. Licence To Kill
WORST. Octopussy

90's: (Worst Decade)

BEST. Goldeneye
2. The World Is Not Enough
WORST. Tomorrow Never Dies

2000's:

BEST. Casino Royale
2. Quantum Of Solace
WORST. Die Another Day

60's: From Russia With Love, ??? (Still deciding)
70's: The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker
80's: Licence to Kill, Octopussy
90's: Goldeneye, The World is Not Enough
00's: Skyfall (still figuring out where exactly I rank this one), Die Another Day

60's: Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice
70's: The Spy Who Loved Me, Man with the Golden Gun
80's: For Your Eyes Only, A View To A Kill
90's: The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Dies
00's: Casino Royale, Die Another Day




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