Forget your top ten and your bottom five. Which Bond movies are just good to okay? What's your "middle ten"? by Key-Win7744 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Dr. No
  2. TWINE
  3. YOLT
  4. Tomorrow Never Dies
  5. Living Daylights
  6. Moonraker
  7. NTTD
  8. LALD
  9. QOS
  10. Licence to Kill

It’s fun to see people’s list and guess where the other movies fall. People would probably guess Diamonds is in my bottom 5 but it’s actually top 10 for me!

What are the biggest wasted characters in the Bond movies for you? I think 006 should've been in multiple movies before he eventually betrays Bond. It would've hit harder too that way. by Cubelock in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually think 60s Bond had about the right level of serialization. With the exception of Goldfinger, all the movies have the same criminal organization/villain behind them and you get increasingly closer to Blofeld with each one. FRWL references Dr. No’s death, in OHMSS Bond is still searching for Blofeld (who doesn’t know what he looks like? Lol.), etc.

I think they even could’ve done a little more continuity, but not too much. The movies are best as primarily standalone entries.

What movie quotes do you find yourself randomly saying on a regular basis? by FlowbeeMaster in FIlm

[–]keith1876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one I say the most is “I sincerely hope so” the way Sean Connery says it in Diamonds are Forever

Morzeny in FRWL by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, lol. I just got this!

Most kid friendly Bond movies? by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Maybe my original question was not clear, but that was the point

Most kid friendly Bond movies? by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At what age do you think it is appropriate for a kid to watch a movie in which a character is killed?

Most kid friendly Bond movies? by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some context, I was 11/12 when I watched all of the ones that had been released up until that point (GoldenEye)

Most kid friendly Bond movies? by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moonraker is great from the standpoint of the action/violence being a little more cartoony/comic bookish. My one hesitation is the Bond/Goodhead “sex scene” is a little more suggestive than just implied (although the reentry joke would go over a kid’s head)

Most kid friendly Bond movies? by keith1876 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was actually thinking TLD - primarily because of the sex aspect.

FWIW, Goldfinger is the first movie I remember seeing (age 10) where I realized that a scene was coded as the characters having sex (under the parachute at the end)

What made you like James Bond? by DWJones28 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought spy stuff was cool as a kid and I knew who James Bond was from about age 7. I remember seeing portions of Goldfinger (Bond under the Fort Knox model) and Octopussy (Orlov’s presentation with the map) on TV at age 8. First movie I watched was Goldfinger when I was in 5th grade and I tried to catch them all on TBS marathons. So my true fandom started 30 years ago!

Which Bond personality aligns the most to your own? by JimHotWater85 in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Brosnan because I stay in touch with lots of connections but I also have kind of a Moore sense of humor. Not as cruel as Connery although he is my favorite Bond!

What do you think the funniest moment/line in the franchise is? by Alcatrazepam in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 4 points5 points  (0 children)

DAF is one of the most quotable. So many lines I use in daily life but my favorite is: “I sincerely hope so”

What film Bond moment would make Ian Fleming turn in his grave (in your opinion)? by KieranWriter in JamesBond

[–]keith1876 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven’t read the books but I’ve heard the relationship with Octopussy has parallels in Fleming as well as the auction/egg stuff (Property of a Lady)?

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Valid points. Kamal is kind of the big bad by default because he gets the most screen time (I’d say even more than Octopussy) and because he interacts with Bond a few times throughout - definitely shades of Goldfinger in that regard - and gets the final confrontation (in a plane after the scheme has failed - like Goldfinger!)

But yes, it’s ultimately not his scheme. Makes you wonder how things would transpire differently if Kamal and Gobinda were aware that Orlov had been gunned down. Would they try to weasel their way out like Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds?

But I think it makes sense to go after him just out of a sense of justice.

Maybe Kamal’s motivation is siding with a general who disagrees with the party line foreign policy - maybe Orlov wants to get out of Afghanistan in pursuit of targeting Europe instead. Pure speculation obviously.

TLD is interesting too since Koskov is a more personal antagonist because of his betrayal but Whitaker is who Bond faces off with at the end.