Bond Movie A vs. Bond Movie B (Dr. No vs. SkyFall)

SaintMark

GF

actonsteve

Both top five in my book.

But CR just has more meat on the bone.

BAIN123

Both are great but as someone who enjoys cheesey Bond GF wins for me :D Its more iconic, has a better theme song, isn't quite as pretentious, has some fantastic characters and Connery is cooler than Craig (there I said it!).

I'll agree that GF is a bit "oafish" and slightly overrated but I think he's more memorable than LeChiffe. Plus, when was the last time you saw Bond and the baddie play golf. Bond plays cards all the time ;)

I suppose they are quite different in style. GF was never a particularly "deep" novel anyway.

identigraph

Definitley Goldfinger, despite it's flaws it's a classic Bond film with Connery at the peak of his time in the role.

DaltonCraig007

GF.

DoubleOhhSeven

Unless Im mistaken it's 8-6 for CR. CR started out dominating but GF has been making a comeback.

BAIN123

If I'm honest I'm not sure I can see Royale being as popular 50 years down the road. I could be VERY wrong though.

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Unless Im mistaken it's 8-6 for CR. CR started out dominating but GF has been making a comeback.

I'd be happy to vote twice!
:P

Agent007391

Casino Royale

Samuel001

0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 said:

Samuel001 said:
I think these to are very evenly matched. I think I'd pick Goldfinger going by memory. I'm not certain on that though.

Someone needs to do a GF/CR double bill!!! ;)

No, I think I need to watch them all and will do later in the year. I've forgotten why I thought what I did, about many of the films.

QsAssistant

Goldfinger hands down!
I love Casino Royale and it will always be in my top five but GF is in my top two. It's the first Bond film I saw from start to finish and just has a good feel to it. Plus it has more classic scenes, like when Bond is tied down to the table with the laser about to cut him in half, when Bond and GF are playing a game of golf, and when Bond meets Pussy for the first time.

JBFan626

GF

These two films feel like polar opposites to me.

00Beast

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Unless Im mistaken it's 8-6 for CR. CR started out dominating but GF has been making a comeback.

Thanks! It's a very tedious task trying to count up the votes, so I'm glad someone did the job for me!

Currently, the score is 9-8, with Casino Royale in the lead by one vote! I knew this would be a good round!

JBFan626 said:
GF

These two films feel like polar opposites to me.

That was my thinking when I was trying to decide which two to pick. Also, GF is considered a classic, and even in only 5 years, CR is starting to go down that road as well, so we'd get a similiar feel. I figured that we'd bring in the "Fantasy Bond" fans and the "Fleming Bond" fans with this round.

BAIN123

00Beast said:

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Unless Im mistaken it's 8-6 for CR. CR started out dominating but GF has been making a comeback.

Thanks! It's a very tedious task trying to count up the votes, so I'm glad someone did the job for me!

Currently, the score is 9-8, with Casino Royale in the lead by one vote! I knew this would be a good round!

JBFan626 said:
GF

These two films feel like polar opposites to me.

That was my thinking when I was trying to decide which two to pick. Also, GF is considered a classic, and even in only 5 years, CR is starting to go down that road as well, so we'd get a similiar feel. I figured that we'd bring in the "Fantasy Bond" fans and the "Fleming Bond" fans with this round.

GF the film isn't TOO different to GF the book. True its more fantastical and some of the plot details are different but quite a lot is fairly similar

-Bond being asked to investigate Goldfinger on suspicion of cheating at cards in Miami
-Bond meeting Jill Masterson
-The presence of Oddjob, Goldfinger and Pussy Galore
-Bond playing golf with GF
-Bond being trapped by GF and almost being killed only to be spared at the last minute (its a saw rather than a laser).
-Tilly being killed by Oddjob's bowler hat (at the end rather than half way through)
-The elimination of a gangster who doesn't want to be in on GF's scheme
-The climax is on board an aeroplane

00Beast

@BAIN123: I've only read the ending before, where they are on Goldfinger's plane, and I must say, the directors butchered that fight between Bond and Goldfinger! Now yes, some things had to be changed from that to keep the Fort Knox climax in, like Oddjob getting sucked out of the plane window, but since the movie used the plane climax to some degree, why not use that fight from the novel and make it a duel to the death, where Bond barely comes out alive after choking Auric to death? That would have been much better than the cheesy death where he gets sucked out the window.

Dr_Metz

Goldfinger by far. Casino Royale is an abomination, and hopefully will be forgotten in a decade or so. Goldfinger is a better adaptation of the book as well. I don't remember Bond running through a construction site and breaking into an embassy, with only a slap on the wrist as a punishment in the Casino Royale novel. It's not really that "gritty" as everyone says, is it? Sounds like absolute fantasy to me. Also, 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, it has the "Best Bond theme"? Are you kidding me? How is the OHMSS theme a lesser theme to Chris Cornell's whiny voice screaming incredibly bland lyrics?

Agent007391

Dr_Metz said:
Goldfinger by far. Casino Royale is an abomination, and hopefully will be forgotten in a decade or so.

An abomination? That's quite a bit of anger for a man of peace, Professor Doctor Metz.

BAIN123

00Beast said:
@BAIN123: I've only read the ending before, where they are on Goldfinger's plane, and I must say, the directors butchered that fight between Bond and Goldfinger! Now yes, some things had to be changed from that to keep the Fort Knox climax in, like Oddjob getting sucked out of the plane window, but since the movie used the plane climax to some degree, why not use that fight from the novel and make it a duel to the death, where Bond barely comes out alive after choking Auric to death? That would have been much better than the cheesy death where he gets sucked out the window.

The death of GF in the book is more brutal thats for sure. Fleming said it was the first time Bond "went beserk". I suppose they wanted to tame it down a bit. I don't really have an issue with GF's death, its still quite a good sequence (naff special effects aside).

00Beast

BAIN123 said:

00Beast said:
@BAIN123: I've only read the ending before, where they are on Goldfinger's plane, and I must say, the directors butchered that fight between Bond and Goldfinger! Now yes, some things had to be changed from that to keep the Fort Knox climax in, like Oddjob getting sucked out of the plane window, but since the movie used the plane climax to some degree, why not use that fight from the novel and make it a duel to the death, where Bond barely comes out alive after choking Auric to death? That would have been much better than the cheesy death where he gets sucked out the window.

The death of GF in the book is more brutal thats for sure. Fleming said it was the first time Bond "went beserk". I suppose they wanted to tame it down a bit. I don't really have an issue with GF's death, its still quite a good sequence (naff special effects aside).

Eh, I really hate the ending. It's too rushed, which makes no senese considering they had PLENTY of time to draw it out, given the 1 hour 50 minutes run time. Also, the fight between James and Auric is WAY to short. You get this build-up throughout the movie as if it'll come down to a kind of fight like 006 vs. 007 in GE, and then it turns out too short and very dull.

BAIN123

I do think its quite funny how Bond is frantically trying to fly the plane bending over the co-pilot chair one minute then the next the dot shows he's ejected. Also, would a seat have a tracker on it?

OHMSS69

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Plus I don't think GF has aged as gracefully as some of the other 60s Bond films such as FRWL or OHMSS. I honestly don't think it deserves it's reputation.

YOU ARE SOOOO RIGHT!! Despite what GF meant to the series/genre and containing all the elements from beautiful women, eglomanical villian, good henchman, Sean in his heyday and charm it simply has not "aged" well. It looks very very "dated".

CR like FRWL and OHMSS will age very gracefully. so my vote goes to

Casino Royale

bondbat007

GF is a killer film and I love it. But if you ask me which film I would rather watch again for the 100th time, it would be CR, every time.

Casino Royale

BAIN123

OHMSS69 said:

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Plus I don't think GF has aged as gracefully as some of the other 60s Bond films such as FRWL or OHMSS. I honestly don't think it deserves it's reputation.

YOU ARE SOOOO RIGHT!! Despite what GF meant to the series/genre and containing all the elements from beautiful women, eglomanical villian, good henchman, Sean in his heyday and charm it simply has not "aged" well. It looks very very "dated".

CR like FRWL and OHMSS will age very gracefully. so my vote goes to

Casino Royale

Most of Fleming's books are pretty dated too but they are still "classics" when it comes to 007.

Agent007391

BAIN123 said:

OHMSS69 said:

DoubleOhhSeven said:
Plus I don't think GF has aged as gracefully as some of the other 60s Bond films such as FRWL or OHMSS. I honestly don't think it deserves it's reputation.

YOU ARE SOOOO RIGHT!! Despite what GF meant to the series/genre and containing all the elements from beautiful women, eglomanical villian, good henchman, Sean in his heyday and charm it simply has not "aged" well. It looks very very "dated".

CR like FRWL and OHMSS will age very gracefully. so my vote goes to

Casino Royale

Most of Fleming's books are pretty dated too but they are still "classics" when it comes to 007.

Well, typically, "classic" means "old".

DoubleOhhSeven

Just becasue GF was the first to utlize the full formula doesn't neccesarily mean that it did it best. Personally I enjoyed the likes of OHMSS, TSWLM, FYEO, CR, etc more. I still liked GF but it lacks any edge that DN and FRWL had and Bond spends alot of time kinda just sitting around.

Agent007391

DoubleOhhSeven said:
GF ... lacks any edge that DN and FRWL had and Bond spends alot of time kinda just sitting around.

This fits GF perfectly.

SJK91

I'm going to give it to Casino Royale. CR and GF are 1 and 2 on my list respectively...but I think Casino Royale just edges Goldfinger out....by that much.

For me it's very difficult. Goldfinger is the first one I saw but Casino Royale is the one that made me a Bond fan. CR is 2 in my ranking and GF my 4. While I think GF contains more historical salience, CR is better made in some ways. With some improvements GF could have been much better, with Terence Young perhaps.
Conclusion: Casino Royale.

AussieBond

CR

00Beast

Final Score: Casino Royale with 14 votes, and Goldfinger with 9 votes

Now on to the next round! It'll be a showdown between Connery and Moore, as we go to the space Bonds!

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