What are the greatest Bond films of all time?

I'm a huge Bond fan. I thought discussing what we thought to be the best Bond films might be fun.

The following is my complete ranking of all the Bond films from best to worst:

1. Casino Royale
2. GoldenEye
3. Goldfinger
4. From Russia With Love
5. Dr. No
6. Skyfall
7. Licence To Kill
8. You Only Live Twice
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Diamonds Are Forever
11. The Living Daylights
12. The Spy Who Loved Me
13. Live and Let Die
14. Moonraker
15. The Man With The Golden Gun
16. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
17. Tomorrow Never Dies
18. The World Is Not Enough
19. Thunderball
20. Die Another Day
21. For Your Eyes Only
22. A View To A Kill
23. Octopussy
24. Never Say Never Again

Now I want to know from all of you: which Bond do you think is best? How do you think they should be ranked?

Discuss.

Never watched any of them. Maybe I've seen golden eye but can't remember any scenes from it.

1) Goldfinger
2) On Her Majesties Secret Service
3) Casino Royale
....everything else

• The Living Day Lights
• The Man With The Golden Gun
• Moonraker

For me.

Dr No

Casino Royale

I grew up watching the Pierce Brosnan films, so they'd be up there for me.

But I really enjoyed Casino Royale & Skyfall more recently.

1. Casino Royale

2. From Russia With Love

3. Dr. No

4. Skyfall

5. Goldeneye

6-23. who cares

But he helps the Taliban in the Living Daylights.

GoldenEye

:D

To be fair, I don't remember many of those movies and 1 or 2 of those films I haven't watched as of yet. One day I'll have to buy the entire collection and marathon through it. :P

Casino Royale > Everything else. It's a near perfect movie, the problem now is there is no way to match it. Every other James Bond will be a comparison to Casino Royale because it was the best plot of any of the movies. Vesper falls for him but she betrays him, James is actually vulnerable and opens up once and only once and goes back to being a merciless killer.

Goldfinger is my fave
All the Sean connery films (except Diamonds are Forever)

Goldeneye is really good too

Casino Royale.

that film made me sad

Opens up once and only once... so I guess you've never seen On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Haven't seen a huge number of Bond films. Casino Royale and Skyfall are the only two that stick out in my mind. Both of those movies are just fantastic and I really love Daniel Craig's more gritty take on Bond, even if he isn't the Bond actor I am named after.

Tomorrow Never Dies- Its not a great film, I don't think any of the bond films are good but I prefer Brosnan as Bond because hes really smooth and polite how I imagine Bond should be.,

ive only liked Goldeneye.. mostly because of the game and Sean Bean

You Only Live Twice, GoldenEye, Skyfall, and From Russia With Love would be my favorites. I haven't seen the Timothy Dalton ones but I think License to Kill would be one I really enjoyed. I don't particularly like any of the Roger Moore ones.

Diamonds are Forever is my favorite one. I used to watch all the bond films but it's been a while since I had a good marathon.

Goldeneye

You only live twice

live and let die

etc

Casino Royal 100%

From Russia with Love

Casino Royale

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Skyfall

Goldeneye

Live and Let Die

The Man with the Golden Gun

Pretty much all the Sean Connery Bond films are good, but I also appreciated 2 of Roger Moore's: Live and Let Die and The Spy Who LovedMe. The rest of Roger Moores movies were mostly crap.

I gave up on the Bonds after that ( I am old enough to have grown up with 70's Bond movies and the first few of the 80's), but watched Skyfall and loved it.

Casino Royale was the best. That movie had one of the greatest opening scenes of any movie I have ever seen. And like someone else said they would be hard pressed to top that movie.

I thought the man with the golden gun had a better opening.

Love how they integrated it into the climax as well.

Wow,some many classic.I can refer this thread and watch the movie in this list with my jxd tablet.

@JyePhye: Goldfinger and Casino royale. I ahted skyfall so much I couldn't take it. Didn't feel like a bond movie.

Golden eye was the best one I've seen I seen every bond film I likes pierce bros and ones but skyfall casino Royale and quantum of solace are up there to

Zardoz

Same, but I really like the newer ones now. Especially Skyfall.

All fairly different although personally I put Pierce Brosnan at the bottom of the pile as - aside from Goldeneye - they just felt too slick and dated even at the time, especially after Tim Dalton started to move towards a more interesting Bond more akin to Daniel Craig.

I do enjoy a little Roger Moore though (although For Your Eyes Only was terrible, including Sheena Eastons poor title tune). I guess that's part nostalgia though...

The worst of all however was Quantum of Solace. That was the first Bond which I had to turn off half way through - awful in every way.

This, and I'll add You Only Live Twice.

It's funny that you say that because the 007 in the books is a borderline-alcoholic asshole with a gambling addiction, who treats all women with contempt and probably has a dozen bastard children from all the women he's fucked and abandoned. He's charming, yes, but he's also a bit of a douche. Daniel Craig in Casino Royale has been the closest any of the movies have come to matching Bond's personality as he is in the books.

That would be You Only Live Twice. :)

@EPICCOMMANDER: Never knew that, as I said I've not paid much attention to Bond so the Brosnan version of him is the one I identified best with. So Daniel Craig's portrayal of him is closer to the books.

I just think its cooler is he is really polite and professional, but my opinion doesn't mean much for Bond films, never really liked them haven't watched many of them

Whoa, really? I thought the script was pretty shitty (writers' strike, can't blame them) and some of the camerawork was EH but otherwise I really liked it. It gets a lot of shit thrown its way for no good reason IMO.

Dunno, really like Skyfall and Casino Royale, so I guess that.

I've read the books, and I strongly disagree with your description of the Bond character portrayed in them.... specifically the alcoholic and gambling aspects.

Goldfinger is the best, anyone who says Casino Royale is wrong.

I said borderline alcoholic. He's not addicted to it, but he drinks pretty much constantly and he's not having a simple beer either, he has hard liquor. Like he's easily shortened his life by about 20 years from all his drinking. As for the gambling I think I remembered that wrong, though he does love to gamble.

The gambling comes up in two different major sequences, to my recollection, both connected to assignments... sort of. One is Casino Royale (Baccarat, not poker), one is a personal favour to M to help stop a suspected cheater (Moonraker). Neither is recreational for pleasure.

The booze thing... most if not all of it is again connected to context... the era (try watching a movie from the old Thin Man series!), the social situations that Bond engages in on assignment. To my recollection, there is very little to no personal time drinking or dwelling on the drink. The only time anything even approaching referring to it's impact on health is referenced, is when he is sent to a holistic retreat... and the benefits he encounters are overall lifestyle improvements (exercise, fresh air, diet improvement, no cigarettes and booze), and it's related that all males experience similar results... so about then only thing you could generalize is that if Bond has a problem with booze, than so do most adult males of the era.

I'm not trying to come across as the authority on the novels, but I did read them and quite recently, and that's my takeaway. Even the womanizing thing, that's FAR more prevelant in the movies than books. Take as a for instance Tiffany Case from Diamonds Are Forever... in the movie, she's a POA that he nails at the end, just like every movie. Not so in the books, where he reflects on her in the next novel, and laments that she left him after a (somewhat) extended relationship, I think she even moves in with him for a brief period.

Golden Eye

Moonraker

Goldfinger

The script was the glaringly obvious problem from the start - it seemed like a reversion to a cheesier bond of old. Combined with the subsequent crap CGI it fell well below the bar set by Casino Royale. I guess had I persevered I may re-evaluate to some degree, however in context it's a film sitting at the bond table between 2 greats who only magnify its inferiority, and help serve up the greatest disappointment in the franchise to date (IMO o'course)

I'm rewatching all of the Bond films right now, so I'm updating my list as I go. Really interesting how perceptions change over time. I used to not think much of Timothy Dalton, but suddenly I find myself enjoying his Bond a great deal more than I previously did. Definitely bumping Licence to Kill up a notch.

Other than the alcoholic with a gambling addiction part, your description is how I've always seen Bond no matter who plays him...

Because you've spent the entire movie waiting for Bond to show up and he didn't?

I think they're literally all terrible except for Casino Royale and Skyfall.

Priceless.

That's interesting to me. I thought it was even more serious than Casino Royale and that Skyfall tried to be more cheesy by bringing back the gadgets, reptile pit, silly computers and hacking, etc. I have an odd soft spot for Quantum of Solace and I don't even know why, it's basically downloadable content for Casino Royale so that's probably the reason lol.