Top 5 007s

1. From Russia With Love
2. The Living Daylights
3. Goldfinger
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. Goldeneye

1) Goldfinger
2) From Russia With Love
3) You Only Live Twice
4) For Your Eyes Only
5) Goldeneye

1. From Russia With Love
2. Goldfinger
3. Moonraker
4. The Living Daylights
5. Goldeneye

Good picks, Micah!

These five also have my vote

1. From Russia With Love

Tight pacing and an awesome fight scene on the train with Red Grant ("Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something.") A darker, less cartoony Bond than most.

2. Thunderball

SCUBA and sharks! Fiona and Domino place second on my list of beautiful Bond girl duos.

3. Goldfinger

Pussy Galore! I remember reading that only Sean Connery could ever look masculine in that baby-blue terrycloth jumpsuit. The dialogue during the laser scene makes me smile. Great gadgets.

4. Goldeneye

Izabella Scorupco and Famke Janssen. The rest of the movie was good too.

5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Best Bond movie, too bad Lazenby wasn't stronger in the role. To think of what this film could have been...

Honourable Mentions:

License To Kill: hunter-killer Bond; perhaps the darkest/truest Bond since Dr. No.

The Living Daylights, 'cause I never get tired of using the line "Send [it] home in the diplomatic bag" in my line of work.

1. Never Say Never Again
Bond wasn't so invincible in this one, and it has two of my favorite Bond villians ever. The junkie brother is fantastic, the motorcycle is awesome, and Bond plays video games with the bad guy.
2. The Living Daylights
This movie made me fall in love with Timothy Dalton when I was a little girl. This one is so serious and dramatic compared to the wacky Moore ones that preceded it.
3. You Only Live Twice
Cannibalistic rockets, sumo wrestling, and Blofeld. The thing in the beginning with the two Bonds was great. This is maybe my favorite Bond theme, too.
4. View to a Kill
Once again, cheesy movie, fun villains. Killer butterflies, Grace Jones leaping off the Eiffel Tower, Bond skis for his life to the tune of "California Girls". And Duran Duran. And Christopher Walken with an uzi, right on shedule. Unforgettable death scenes for both villains.
5. Live and Let Die
Funkiest Bond movie ever. Yaphet Kotto is cool. Fortified with voodoo, the 7-Up guy, killer snakes, alligators, and sharks, and that crazy cop who acted like he worked for Boss Hogg.

1) From Russia with Love
2) The Living Daylights
3) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4) Goldeneye
5) Goldfinger

Again, great to see the love for Dalton - more evidence CHUD is one of the best sites around.

Mine:

1 - From Russia with Love
2 - Goldfinger
3 - Dr. No
4 - The Living Daylights
5 - Licence to Kil

wow. seeing a lot of love for the timmy dalton bonds... nice. i'd have to go with:

1. goldfinger
2. goldeneye
3. living daylights
4. dr. no
5. live and let die

So what are your favorites, Mr. Opinionated-Man?

Goldeneye
Goldfinger
From Russia With Love
The Living Daylights
License to Kill

Bottom five:

Die Another Day
Live and Let Die
Diamonds Are Forever
Never Say Never Again
A View to a Kill

1. Goldfinger
2. Licence To Kill
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. From Russia With Love
5. Goldeneye

My top 5 007s (in no particular order):
1.) George Lazenby
2.) Roger Moore
3.) Sean Connery
4.) Timothy Dalton
5.) Pierce Brosnan

*ducks*

1. Goldfinger
2. You Only Live Twice
3. From Russia With Love
4. Goldeneye
5. Dr. No

1.You Only Live Twice
2.For Your Eyes Only
3.The Living Daylights
4.From Russia With Love
5.Tomorrow Never Dies

1. Goldfinger
2. You Only Live Twice
3. From Russia With Love
4. Thunderball
5. Live and Let Die

Live and Let Die makes it because it was basically a Connery Bond with Roger Moore in the role. He hadn't become the cartoon that Moore made him yet, and the film benefits tremendously from it.

1. Goldfinger
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. The Living Daylights
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. From Russia With Love

In no particular order...

From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
The Spy Who Loved Me
For Your Eyes Only
Tomorrow Never Dies

I just saw Goldeneye again this past weekend and still don't understand all of the love this film gets. It was average at best, and got off to a horrible start during the pre-title sequence when Bond drove off the mountaintop and "flew" into the plane's cabin. Awful opening. The best thing in it was Famke Janssen. The plot was ordinary, the music was sub-par, Brosnan wasn't quite comfortable with the role yet, and both Sean Bean and Izabella Scorupco were simply bland. The idea of 006 turning evil was a good one, but Bean didn't exude much charisma or menace as a main villain. He should have been somebody's henchman/right-hand man. And there really wasn't a memorable action scene either. True Lies came out a year before and those action scenes kicked ass (-- while still being flawed).

Overall, Goldeneye was okay, but not top 5. It's really hard to compare the films because despite following a familiar formula, the approach taken with them over the past 40 years has radically changed with the times. It's hard to believe all of them belong to the same franchise. Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only were released back-to-back, but couldn't be more different in substance and tone from each other.

My personal preferences, in no order, are:

For Your Eyes Only -- If only John Barry did the score -- Bill Conti's music was horrible. This was a much more realistic and down-to-earth Bond compared to the previous Moonraker installment.

The Spy Who Loved Me -- Over-the-top, but fun. Marvin Hamlish's score was horrible as well. I like maniacal villains who intend to take over the world. Moonraker was simply a retread of this.

Live and Let Die -- See Poxy's comments above. A slightly different feel for a Bond film.

License to Kill -- Only because I wanted to include Dalton, and it deviated from the formula more so than many of the other films.

Goldfinger -- series started to find its groove.

Thunderball -- SPECTRE, jet-packs, underwater battles, Largo, etc.

I found it hard to get past Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (-- great theme music, though).

Note that I haven't seen Die Another Day yet. Don't know what to expect since there have been some quite divergent opinions on it.

And bring back SPECTRE.

1.Goldfinger
2.Diamonds Are Forever
3.Live and Let Die
4.Goldeneye
5.You Only Live Twice

I will never for the life of me understand the love for Goldeneye and License to Kill. LTK tried many things, I'll give him credit for that, but it was a pretty bad movie. As for Goldeneye, it shat on the whole point of the series: lame villains, zero exotism, unexciting action sequences. I even prefer TWINE.

Then again, I liked Die Another Day and thinks OHMSS is one of the best...

1.Goldeneye- The dissenters and I will have to agree to disagree. I thought Sean Bean's 006 was about the best villain ever, the mirror image of Bond. This film got into who Bond was and what he was about. "His loyalty was always to the mission, never the man." That's perfect. The way Isabella confronts him and he admits that his life is simple, that he'll hunt down nd kill the bad guy even if he was a friend for "Queen and Country". I thought the action was great, Martin Campbell knows how to give it bite. I thought Brosnan gave a great performance. Hell, I even loved Eric Serra's score.

2.Goldfinger- The classic. Great villain, great spy intrigue, great plot and scheme, and some of the most memorable Bond moments ever. This one had it all and no weak spots. This is the one that sums up and set the standard for what it meant to be a Bond film.

3.Licence to Kill- The most unfairly reviled film in the series. They try to do something interesting and break the mold and they get shat on. No wonder they stick to formula these days. Dalton's Bond here is magnificent, and like Goldeneye is gets into what makes him tick. He's out for revenge and doesn't care how it gets done. This is the loyal 007, the one who'll risk it all for a friend if need be. The villains are good (Benicio!), the feel of it gritty, and its great to see Bond on his own and willing to do anything to get his man.

4.For Your Eyes Only- Let's give Roger some love. This is a scaled down spy thriller that works very well. We're after an object, and at the end no great catastropge is averted. With the great opening at Tracey's grave and Moore's greatest Bond moment as he kicks the henchman's car off the cliff its a worthy entry.

5.The Living Daylights- I like Dalton. This is a return to a more espionage oriented thriller, I like the way they introduce Bond at the beginning, and the relationship and romance he has with Maryam D'Abo is one of the most heartfelt and affecting of the series.

So many more to love for all sorts of different reasons. OHMSS would have a been a classic had it starred Connery for one of the most heartwrenching and affecting endings ever. "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "TWINE" have superb Bond moments as he kills Elektra and Dr. Kaufmanin cold blood. "DR. No" has a simplicity and fun that is very refreshing. So much to love.

If I had completed my series of Bond articles for the sci-fighter, "Goldeneye" would've been listed at the top of Best Bond Films.

1. Goldfinger
2. Dr. No
3. From Russia with Love
4. For Your Eyes Only
5. You Only Live Twice