Goldfinger is overrated and From Russia With Love is the best Connery film though I suppose if you like to watch Bond get owned it’s one of the best, he’s really outclassed by Goldfinger the entire film
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From Russia with Love may also have the best collection of villains in any Bond film, with none of them played for jokes.
sep 1, 2025, 2:16 am • 3 0 • view
Lotte Lenya owns that movie!! And a young Robert Shaw is hot.
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Had Goldfinger stuck to his original plan the series would have been very different. "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die." [Bond dies.]
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
YES TO FROM RUSSIA BEING SUPERIOR!!! That train fight with Robert Shaw!!! (And the TDalts point, too, you remain galaxybrained, sir.)
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If you've never heard KILL JAMES BOND, they loved Kronstein so much that they give out an award to the minor villain in each movie they appreciate most: the Kronstein Rosette
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Goldfinger has a banger theme song and not too much else.
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Dammit! Fasten your Seat Belts for my best Shirley Bassie
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah watching bond get consistently clowned on is excellent.
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
I just want to take a moment to point out that the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker was about James Bond going up against Eugenicists & Corrupt Space Industrialists.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 8 1 • view
True. Prescient in that way. Although, it's still a pretty ridiculous movie, and undermines itself by turning a moderately serious setup into a ridiculous climax full of slapstick zero-gee fight scenes. I recently read Moonraker, the novel, and it's a far more serious story.
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The best James Bond film is True Lies.
sep 1, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
Casino Royale is underrated and Skyfall is cataclysmically overrated
sep 1, 2025, 2:00 am • 7 0 • view
Also the most entertaining and possibly least Bond-like Bond film is Goldeneye, which is deeply stupid and 100% aware of that fact the entire time. I love it so much
sep 1, 2025, 2:01 am • 16 0 • view
I thought everyone agreed that Casino Royale was top 3 and arguably #1 overall? fully agree on Goldeneye which is one of the most purely entertaining Bond movies and in my personal top 5
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 7 0 • view
Maybe the thinking has shifted back but for a while people wouldn’t shut up about how amazing Skyfall was relative to its two predecessors
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
Every Brosnan Bond is a cartoon version of James Bond and the only one that fully nailed the formula was Goldeneye. Tomorrow Never Dies was relatively close
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 am • 5 0 • view
Michelle Yeoh!!!!
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For me it’s Brosnan driving a tank through half of the buildings of St. Petersburg while sticking out the top, it is somehow the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen and also the best
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Also, Goldeneye has Famke Jansen having a massive orgasm while raking people with a kalashnikov ; which was a formative moment for many in that era.
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Goldfinger was the first Bond movie I ever saw and I did not vibe with me and I didn’t get the appeal, but would later watch Man with the Golden Gun and have the opposite reaction.
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I say From Russia With Love as in direct contention with Casino Royale for best across the series. I'm biased as a Sting and Jaws fan. Robert Shaw!
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 0 • view
Thunderball definitely has the best villain's lair.
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
How awful a driver must Bond be if his DB5 couldn't manage to keep up with a Rolls-Royce limousine made of solid gold? That's what bothers me with Goldfinger.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 4 0 • view
Quantum of Solace is good BECAUSE it's weird (emotionally and otherwise)
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
As a child, I was so disappointed watching Goldfinger; Hank Scorpio had Mr. Bont secured to a laser table, and he used a nickel to escape (action!). Goldfinger has Bond in the same trap and he escaped.... by talking????? BORING!!!!!
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Also there's no corrective rape in it. It's truly the worst thing Gold Finger that the only thing Bond actually succeeds at in the entire film is raping a lesbian to save the day. Credit to @killjamesbond.bsky.social for the best Bond takes.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 2 0 • view
Goldfinger is one of the worst for making you go, "Wait, why did . . . ?" (e.g., Wait, why did Goldfinger exposit his whole plan to people he was going to kill no matter what?)
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Because people who don't need people need people around to know they're the kind of people who don't need people.
sep 1, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view
I honestly think so much of Goldfinger getting love comes down to the theme plus Oddjob just looking neat. Auric Goldfinger is an amusing character, but yeah, the movie is kind of just an average Bond movie that gets gassed up based on mostly the two strengths I mentioned.
sep 1, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
I agree, from Russia with Love is my favorite Connery Bond film. It is paced wonderfully and has some of the best chase scenes in the whole franchise.
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Correct.
sep 1, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
I watched Goldfinger a couple of years ago. I was astonished at how deeply bad it is. Like, high school drama class level bad. Like, unwatchable bad.
sep 1, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
View to a Kill is the shit because of Christopher Walken
sep 1, 2025, 5:09 am • 0 0 • view
also Timothy Dalton is the closest Bond to the books, which is just objectively correct (he’s not my favorite screen Bond but he was done dirty)
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 136 1 • view
Timothy Dalton is one of my favorite actors.
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(Also, there are a lot of screen-Bond fans who have never read the books and have no idea the extent to which screen-Bond is actually less... uh... problematic than book-Bond.)
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
You ever think about how impossibly handsome young Timothy Dalton was? Fucking wild stuff.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 2 0 • view
The best bond was Austin Powers
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Almost. This is the correct order of fidelity of Bond actors: Lazenby Dalton Connery Craig Brosnan Connery Moore
sep 1, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
the living daylights whips ass
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
I wish they'd found a way to let Dalton be a Bond *villain*. He's perfect for it
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 9 0 • view
Like in Hot Fuzz!! He was so fucking sinister and hilarious.
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A really good Bond villain needs to be a grandiose scenery-chewing sociopath and a little bit scary. James Spader would also qualify.
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 3 0 • view
That's the thing with Dalton: he doesn't quite nail playing heroes, but he is utterly brilliant at playing extremely charismatic bastards. Which is what made him a good Bond.
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did you watch him in Chuck? he was the best villain in that show by far and having a wonderful time chewing the scenery he’d have been incredible
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 8 0 • view
Oh Chuck. That show aged like it chose the wrong Grail. But I do remember Dalton being superb, like always
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God that show is such cheesy dumb fun
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
Daniel Craig is forever my favorite Bond because they actually killed him.
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
He was my favorite Bond, personally. Outside of Bond, he's been in a lot of bad *movies* but I'm not sure he's ever turned in a bad performance. Growing up, I remember his Bond getting a lot of flak. It's interesting watching consensus opinion on him slowly start to come around over the years.
sep 1, 2025, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
Agree on Dalton. Should've let Brosnan play it more straight too. There's moments in all of his when he's closer to Dalton than any of the others and really good but then bits in the script that were at Moore levels of corny. Really jarring shifts in tone which I think let him down as a performer.
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IIRC, Fleming had pictured Bond on a young Roger Moore, but when it came to making the first movie he was signed on to a new TV spy series: The Saint. Old Roger as Bond was a huge mistake, he was barely tolerable in 'The Persuaders' with Curtis.
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License to kill was one of the better bond movies imo
sep 1, 2025, 2:06 am • 3 0 • view
He doesn't really *do* anything in Goldfinger besides boinking Goldfinger's girlfriend in the latter's hotel room AND SLEEPING THERE. Of course getting twatted immediately after. The rest of the plot kind of happens around him from then on.
sep 1, 2025, 5:48 am • 0 0 • view
Omfg Goldfinger is so *bad.* I remember trying to watch it with a friend a decade or so back, and the pacing was wretched.
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THANK YOU FOR THIS CORRECT OPINION.
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