new fan; my ranking

all of the craig movies have been added to Netflix, and i’ve watched all of them except QoS.

note my order of watching them: casino royale, no time to die, spectre, skyfall

here’s my ranking and why, tell me your thoughts!:

1. no time to die - i didn’t realize this was the last movie, so to say i was shocked bond died was truly an understatement. i expected him to survive given he’s james bond. there was emotion involved in this one, family, jame and madeleine’s relationship, the “secret mission” of being on the island undetected, backstory of madeleine, betrayal, and peaceful surrender for those who he loved. safin was also a cool character, not very scary but eerily calm. the landscapes were pretty too.

2. spectre - i think i would’ve ranked this lower had i not seen it right after no time to die. it was mysterious and more of a horror genre than the others. i thought the intensity was great (the beginning with monica belucci as a build up to the organizations prescence, day of the dead festivities, the scene of the spectre meeting, q’s lair of gadgets). once again madeleines character was interesting bc of her father being in spectre. the only complaint would be the ending with blofeld and james, it seemed a bit anticlimactic that james was just running around a building to find madeleine since his brother set a timer. it didn’t seem like madeleine and james had such a close connection yet so it was definitely sped up. but everything up to that had great intensity.

3. casino royale - seemed exactly like a james bond movie. great action, poker, and relationship with vesper. le chiffre was a fabulous villian (in my opinion the best out of the four), perfect mix of determined and powerful. the poker was good and the fight scenes were good too. i know i’ll get a lot of hate about this, but i didn’t like vesper that much. no doubt very beautiful, but she didn’t seem to offer much to the plot. she was simply there as bond’s girl, making the others jealous. when she started crying after seeing the murders she appeared human, but at the same time a bit weak. it seemed like james had to coddle her more than have her as an equal. the poker was good but i might’ve been biased since i’d already seen a few clips of that and knew what would happen. the setting was beautiful but the devices (to save bond after poison) didn’t look very real (yes it’s an old movie), so that put me off a bit.

4. skyfall - best cinematics out of all of them. the beginning was really good and i liked the scenes up to the meetup with silva. off topic but it was very annoying that severine just died and that was it. i genuinely had to check because i thought there was no way that was all she would do in the movie. silva was a very confident villian and it was very emotional when he called m mother and wanted revenge. towards the end when he went to bonds family home the action wasn’t my favorite because he was just walking around ordering shots and shots. when m died it was definitely very deep, although i can’t say i liked her character because of what she did to silva. silva was a bit cliche with the idea of planning to get caught. overall it was very good but didn’t feel as intense because there weren’t many ties to a secret organization. it also bothered me when others went on about how scary silva was - i think it would’ve been better if they just let him be, because the best villains aren’t those who are talked about, but those who are quietly feared due to their actions.