I watched Spectre a few weeks ago and while it looked amazing and clearly had a load of money thrown at it the story was half baked, the action scenes felt incomplete and the script was poop. So an average Bond film then.
It got me thinking as to which Bond films I liked the most. What was my favourite Bond film? Who was my favourite Bond? There’s 24 films to choose from so I grouped the films by actor and ranked them accordingly. That generated the following:
Sean Connery
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Dr No
Thunderball
Diamonds Are Forever
George Lazenby
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Roger Moore
Live and Let Die
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Man with the Golden Gun
Moonraker
Octopussy
For Your Eyes Only
A View to A Kill
Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill
The Living Daylights
Pierce Brosnan
Goldeneye
The World is Not Enough
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day
Daniel Craig
Casino Royale
Skyfall
Spectre
Quantum of Solace
That made it a bit easier to list my favourite Bond films as follows:
Favourite Bond Films
- Casino Royale
- From Russia With Love
- Goldfinger
- Skyfall
- Live and Let Die
- Goldeneye
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- You Only Live Twice
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Spectre
- Dr No
- Thunderball
- Licence to Kill
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- The World is Not Enough
- Quantum of Solace
- The Living Daylights
- Moonraker
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Octopussy
- Die Another Day
- For Your Eyes Only
- A View to A Kill
So who’s my favourite Bond?
- Sean Connery
- Daniel Craig
- Pierce Brosnan
- Roger Moore
- Timothy Dalton
- George Lazenby
Poor George – great film, shit Bond. If Daniel Craig does sign up for one more hopefully we see more of the criminally wasted Christoph Waltz who ended up being one of the weaker parts of Spectre. If you have seen Spectre, I loved this post that tries to explain it’s ending.
With only a couple of work weeks left of the year I’m looking forward to revisiting some of the old classics again over Christmas. Can’t beat some Little Nellie.