12-02-2008, 08:02 PM
The ultimate question, pick you're three favorite Bond Films to determine the champion(s).
A quick refresher based on my shoddy memory, as aided by the intro paragraphs on Wikipedia:
1. Dr. No: Sean Connery goes to Jamaica and fights a doctor with robot hands. Also features a Dragon shaped tank with a flamethrower.
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2. From Russia With Love: Sean is going to help a Russian spy defect. Features a badass Soviet assassin who strangles people with a cord hidden in his watch.
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3. Goldfinger: A chubby rich guy is trying to radioactive Fort Knox's gold, so that his own is worth more. Features hat-throwing Oddjob and starts the tradition of ludicriosuly named Bond girls with Pussy Galore.
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4. Thunderball: SPECTRE is going to launch a missile at an undisclosed major city if the UN doesn't pay up. The villain looks like a Hispanic Big Boss, and has an awesome scene in a shark infested pool.
5. You Only Live Twice: There's a big spaceship that swallows up other ones. Yanks blame the Ruskies and visa-versa. Bond disguises himself as a Japanese fisherman by squinting his eyes (no joke) and infiltrates a fake volcano to fight Blofeld. I believe a pool of piranhas comes into play at one point.
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6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Blofeld has an army of Stepford Wives, which is some how a threat. Bond marries the girl in Fyre's avatar, and then Blofeld kills her for kicks. Also, Bond is played by a random British model.
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7. Diamonds Are Forever: Bond goes after Blofeld who's building a giant satellite laser with diamonds. Features a mildly offense set of stereotypical gay assassins.
8. Live and Let Die: Roger Moore's first film. Some racist portyals of black people are smuggling heroin and Bond has to sort it out. Also features voodoo.
9. The Man with the Golden Gun: A guy with three nipples and Tattoo from Fantasy Island threaten to use the sun to do something bad. Bond ends up dueling him in a fun house like building.
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10. The Spy Who Loved Me: A crazy rich guy wants to destroy the world and create a new civilization underwater. Unlike Andrew Ryan though, he has a henchman with metal teeth.
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11. Moonraker: And if you thought the last plot was crazy, wait till we show you this one! Same basic story (including the metal teeth) except replace ocean with outerspace.
12. For Your Eyes Only: A Greek Guy has a missile command system and Bond wants it back. The Greek Guy also killed the Bond Girl's parent's which pisses her off slightly.
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13. Octopussy: A Soviet General is stealing stuff, and secretly plotting to force Europe to disarm. Feature Roger Moore dressed up rather fittingly as a clown.
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14. A View to a Kill: Goldfinger with Fort Knox replaced with Silicon Valley, and gold replaced with computer chips. Seriously, it's almost the exact same film, only bad instead of good.
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15. The Living Daylights: Bond (Timothy Dalton) has to rescue a Soviet defector while the head of the KGB is having Western spies in a serial killer esque fashion.
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16. Licence to Kill: A Drug Lord has Bond's CIA friend fed to sharks, which sends him on an MI6 approved ramapage. Also featured is a pet iguana.
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17. GoldenEye: First to star Pierce Brosnan. An old MI6 colleague has a Goldeneye satellite that he's using to terrorize London. Also the first to feature Judy Dench.
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18. Tomorrow Never Dies: A media mogul is creating scandalous news stories, which pit China and the US against each other, using his army of mercenaries and a submarine with a drill attached to the front.
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19. The World is Not Enough: Bond's protecting the daughter of an assassinated King. While his assailant plots to blow up some Nukes in Istanbul to drive up oil prices.
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20. Die Another Day: A North Korean General is planning on using a satellite (villains seem to love these) to restart the Korean war. Also, Bond's car can turn invisible in this one :
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21. Casino Royale: A french guy wants to some various dastardly deeds, like steal lots of money from other nations or castrate Bond (Daniel Craig.) Bond's girlfriend turns out to have betrayed him and then dies, but then it turns out she didn't betray him, but then she sort of did, and everything gets angsty.
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22. Quantum of Solace: Some guy wants to steal Bolivia's water, and sell it back to them at two times the price. Bond is still angsty over the death of his girlfriend.
X. Never Say Never Again: Thunderball unofficially remanded, starting Sean Connery.
Bonus Question: Least favorite and why.
My favorites: Thunderball: very fun film with some great underwater scenes. Plus eyepatches are bad ass, and so is feeding you're enemies to sharks.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Perfect balance between light hearted comedy and srz bznes. That it actually makes metal teeth as a weapon plausible is a feat into of itself.
Goldeneye: Like the last three, fun but not ridiculous. Some great action scenes, and Russians always make for good villains.
Least Favorite: Quantum of Solace: Stealing water from Bolivia? Come on!
A quick refresher based on my shoddy memory, as aided by the intro paragraphs on Wikipedia:
1. Dr. No: Sean Connery goes to Jamaica and fights a doctor with robot hands. Also features a Dragon shaped tank with a flamethrower.
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2. From Russia With Love: Sean is going to help a Russian spy defect. Features a badass Soviet assassin who strangles people with a cord hidden in his watch.
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3. Goldfinger: A chubby rich guy is trying to radioactive Fort Knox's gold, so that his own is worth more. Features hat-throwing Oddjob and starts the tradition of ludicriosuly named Bond girls with Pussy Galore.
 Â
4. Thunderball: SPECTRE is going to launch a missile at an undisclosed major city if the UN doesn't pay up. The villain looks like a Hispanic Big Boss, and has an awesome scene in a shark infested pool.
5. You Only Live Twice: There's a big spaceship that swallows up other ones. Yanks blame the Ruskies and visa-versa. Bond disguises himself as a Japanese fisherman by squinting his eyes (no joke) and infiltrates a fake volcano to fight Blofeld. I believe a pool of piranhas comes into play at one point.
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6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Blofeld has an army of Stepford Wives, which is some how a threat. Bond marries the girl in Fyre's avatar, and then Blofeld kills her for kicks. Also, Bond is played by a random British model.
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7. Diamonds Are Forever: Bond goes after Blofeld who's building a giant satellite laser with diamonds. Features a mildly offense set of stereotypical gay assassins.
8. Live and Let Die: Roger Moore's first film. Some racist portyals of black people are smuggling heroin and Bond has to sort it out. Also features voodoo.
9. The Man with the Golden Gun: A guy with three nipples and Tattoo from Fantasy Island threaten to use the sun to do something bad. Bond ends up dueling him in a fun house like building.
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10. The Spy Who Loved Me: A crazy rich guy wants to destroy the world and create a new civilization underwater. Unlike Andrew Ryan though, he has a henchman with metal teeth.
Â
11. Moonraker: And if you thought the last plot was crazy, wait till we show you this one! Same basic story (including the metal teeth) except replace ocean with outerspace.
12. For Your Eyes Only: A Greek Guy has a missile command system and Bond wants it back. The Greek Guy also killed the Bond Girl's parent's which pisses her off slightly.
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13. Octopussy: A Soviet General is stealing stuff, and secretly plotting to force Europe to disarm. Feature Roger Moore dressed up rather fittingly as a clown.
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14. A View to a Kill: Goldfinger with Fort Knox replaced with Silicon Valley, and gold replaced with computer chips. Seriously, it's almost the exact same film, only bad instead of good.
Â
15. The Living Daylights: Bond (Timothy Dalton) has to rescue a Soviet defector while the head of the KGB is having Western spies in a serial killer esque fashion.
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16. Licence to Kill: A Drug Lord has Bond's CIA friend fed to sharks, which sends him on an MI6 approved ramapage. Also featured is a pet iguana.
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17. GoldenEye: First to star Pierce Brosnan. An old MI6 colleague has a Goldeneye satellite that he's using to terrorize London. Also the first to feature Judy Dench.
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18. Tomorrow Never Dies: A media mogul is creating scandalous news stories, which pit China and the US against each other, using his army of mercenaries and a submarine with a drill attached to the front.
Â
19. The World is Not Enough: Bond's protecting the daughter of an assassinated King. While his assailant plots to blow up some Nukes in Istanbul to drive up oil prices.
Â
20. Die Another Day: A North Korean General is planning on using a satellite (villains seem to love these) to restart the Korean war. Also, Bond's car can turn invisible in this one :
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21. Casino Royale: A french guy wants to some various dastardly deeds, like steal lots of money from other nations or castrate Bond (Daniel Craig.) Bond's girlfriend turns out to have betrayed him and then dies, but then it turns out she didn't betray him, but then she sort of did, and everything gets angsty.
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22. Quantum of Solace: Some guy wants to steal Bolivia's water, and sell it back to them at two times the price. Bond is still angsty over the death of his girlfriend.
X. Never Say Never Again: Thunderball unofficially remanded, starting Sean Connery.
Bonus Question: Least favorite and why.
My favorites: Thunderball: very fun film with some great underwater scenes. Plus eyepatches are bad ass, and so is feeding you're enemies to sharks.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Perfect balance between light hearted comedy and srz bznes. That it actually makes metal teeth as a weapon plausible is a feat into of itself.
Goldeneye: Like the last three, fun but not ridiculous. Some great action scenes, and Russians always make for good villains.
Least Favorite: Quantum of Solace: Stealing water from Bolivia? Come on!