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Here is the actual correct order for anyone who is interested:-
(And as you can see OHMSS is ranked No. 1!)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldfinger
Moonraker
The Spy Who Loved Me
You Only Live Twice
The Man with the Golden Gun
Dr No
Octopussy
Die Another Day
Live and Let Die
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
A View To a Kill
Goldeneye
Diamonds Are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale
From Russia With Love
Skyfall
The World is Not Enough
Licence to Kill
Quantum of Solace
I can't help but think that this is simply revisionist nonsense.
It's important to note that this wasn't Dalton's first Bond film. Nor was a more muted tone even new just to Dalton - Moore had already done the pared down FYEO as well.
The main problem with License To Kill was that it was simply Miami Vice-lite garbage. The plot was more at home as a prolonged TV episode, as was the cinematography. It was just plain bad.
The box office doesn't lie either in this case - this film performed very poorly even against the two relatively modest Bond films I mentioned previously.
The truth is that Dalton was just a disaster as Bond.
I don't particularly care for FRWL - I think it's got a bit of a revisionist boost from the Daniel Craig (non-) Bond film fans but I just find it kind of boring. Again, I think License to Kill also gets some of that revisionist boost but for me that's getting to the point in my list where the films are actually just bad.
The Javier Bardem character in Skyfall? Come on he's as ludicrous as Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd in DAF...
At least everyone seems to agree that QoS is awful!
Well not necessarily - I just prefer my Bond Bond rather than not being Bond.
OHMSS, Goldfinger, Dr No all near the top but not particularly silly, and DAF and Skyfall near the bottom despite definitely being silly...
Here is the actual correct order for anyone who is interested:-
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Goldfinger
Moonraker
The Spy Who Loved Me
You Only Live Twice
The Man with the Golden Gun
Dr No
Octopussy
Die Another Day
Live and Let Die
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
A View To a Kill
Goldeneye
Diamonds Are Forever
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale
From Russia With Love
Skyfall
The World is Not Enough
Licence to Kill
Quantum of Solace
I noticed it but didn't find it confusing as they literally mentioned that would happen - in the actual film's dialogue! - just a few minutes before.
Wrong drink mon ami. I'm actually enjoying a Rhubarb Sling in my local park's summer gin pop-up bar waiting for my bff Casper to arrive (the wife said I should probably give the children some space today after their trauma).
Anyway, whilst I may agree with some of your sentiment, you must remember that your children aren't growing up in your world of 20/30 years ago. They're growing up in this world of today. Just be careful not to shape them too far out of sync with their society otherwise they may never fit in. e.g. if one of them decided to be transgender or whatever it doesn't necessarily mean that they actually want to be transgender. It just means that is how society has shaped up to allow kids to think they're "different" or "special" in some way. If you try to cut off their life experience in some way I'm not sure they'll thank you for it in the long term.
Anyway... Cheers!
Yes, you should certainly get excited / outraged by this.
Did you know there has just been two mass killings in America and from what you read absolutely no one cares anymore about the victims / the families caught up in these things, all anyone cares about is the race of the perpetrators so they can be suitably outraged.
What a world...
True that is. You can choose to either just ignore the prequels or take them with a punch of salt as I do and view them more as a comedy series completely disconnected from the OT.
That is interesting. Definitely the shooting script?
It's also messed up cause Han has that "wonderful Human Being" line which looks daft when his finger is pressing into the cgi'd Jabba.
Maybe the original, original intention was a creature but changed to a costumed actor for the shoot and then dropped altogether when Lucas didn't like the look of it. In which case I'd be wrong really to call it a retconning of the truth.
Good call. We could have seen him gluing a stripe down the centre of his head and patting down lower beard shavings into place to form a Mohican. He could have then left his natural mouser hair in place to give us a moutachioed Mohican Ford.
That would have given this film the credibility it so sorely lacked.
Agree with this ^ dude.
Always believed that to be a George Lucas retcon of the truth. The guy had a Han Solo-ish costume on from what I remember. Doesn't seem very likely that the original intention was he was a "placeholder" given that what he was wearing doesn't exactly look like a 1970s motion capture outfit 😂
Ed Sheeran is 100% the correct choice for the type of singer who should be singing the theme song for a Daniel Craig "James Bond" film...
You would have to be in a very special mental place to genuinely criticize people for complaining that no.20 or whatever it is in a series of generally quite generic copy / paste Marvel films is "boring".
i.e. is there really anything wrong with saying "this mindless action entertainment film (not that there's anything wrong with that) doesn't match up with what I've come to expect from these mindless entertainment action films"? Or is there actually something more wrong with questioning people who may say this?
Not if they have an even taller periscope...
For me it didn't.
It was like the whole show had a lobotomy or at least the Duffer Bros did. It went from a sci-fi horror show set in the 80s to a "Remember The 80s" show featuring some sci-fi comedy...
Steve was a completely different character. Hopper was a different character. El goes for a style make over, having no idea what this means, despite going off and having an entire "in the city" episode in the previous season which she came back from with a new style... wtf?!
Really weird direction they took...
Yawn.
So it's not actually fully about Picard, rather this latest super-powered all action backflipping, kung-fuing female with a mysterious past...
Awesome. I wonder if this will turn out as well as that super-powered all action backflipping, kung-fuing female with a mysterious past worked out for Star Trek Beyond.
Exactly. Bond has lost its soul trying to be a sub Bourne or MI film rather than a prime Bond film. It's sad.
That's why I really don't get this 007 hysteria. I don't want to sound like a SJW here (as this 007 thing obviously is pandering to that) but it's almost bordering on sexism as far as I'm concerned if you can complain about that yet accept Daniel Craig being "Bond" just because he's also a white male man (the only characteristic he shares with the Cinematic Bond).
Not necessarily. It's perfectly possible and therefore plausible to watch that scene in the context that he's just woefully saying that to himself as he watches Tracy, jumping into her car and speeding off, from a distance.
There's no big wink and cheesy grin at the camera as he says it.