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Bond Movie Ratings

ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
edited April 2016 in Bond Movies Posts: 1,984
I'm surprised I couldn't find one of these here. The objective here is just to rate each of the Bond films, giving each one a percentage. You can come back to this thread to re-rate the movies, but only you have a drastic difference in opinion for 5 or more of the films, otherwise we'll clog up the thread with repetitive figures.

Here are mine, as of now, arranged in descending order of rating:

Casino Royale - 96%
From Russia With Love - 94%
The Spy Who Loved Me - 91%
GoldenEye - 88%
Goldfinger - 87%
Skyfall - 86%
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 84%
Thunderball - 84%
Octopussy - 83%
Dr No - 82%
The Living Daylights - 80%
For Your Eyes Only - 78%
Tomorrow Never Dies - 77%
Licence To Kill - 77%
Spectre - 75%
You Only Live Twice - 74%
Live And Let Die - 73%
Diamonds Are Forever - 68%
Quantum of Solace - 66%
The World Is Not Enough - 64%
The Man With The Golden Gun - 64%
A View To A Kill - 63%
Die Another Day - 57%
Moonraker - 54%

Here are my averages for the actors:

Connery - 81.5%
Lazenby - 84%
Moore - 72.3%
Dalton - 78.5%
Brosnan - 71.5%
Craig - 80.75%

Comments

  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    edited April 2016 Posts: 2,252
    Here is my recently done subjective ratings of out 80. Weighting is 60 film elements (characters, writing, direction, etc), 20 personal tilt. I haven't perfected the weightings, but I put more bias towards things that strongly influence my enjoyment, such as score (which takes up 10 of the 80 points). The way I rate each element is score from 1 to 5 or 10 and rank them relatively so the average is in the middle. The minimum possible score is 12.

    OHMSS - 75.75
    OP - 73.25
    CR - 71.5
    FRWL - 70.5
    TLD - 67.25
    GE - 62.25
    DN - 60
    MR - 60
    FYEO - 59.75
    LTK - 58.75
    TSWLM - 57.5
    AVTAK - 57.25
    TB - 54.5
    TND - 49
    DAF - 45
    GF - 42.5
    YOLT - 42
    TWINE - 37.5
    LALD - 37
    TMWTGG - 34.5
    QOS - 34.5
    SP - 33.5
    SF - 33
    DAD - 30.5

    My personal ranking (without giving ratings) is:
    TLD
    OP
    CR
    FRWL
    OHMSS
    GE

    FYEO
    TSWLM
    TND
    Dr No
    MR
    DAF
    LTK

    YOLT
    AVTAK
    GF

    TMWTGG
    DAD
    TB
    LALD

    TWINE
    QOS
    SF
    SP



  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
    Posts: 1,984
    @w2bond - An interesting list. We have a fair bit in common - other than your dislike for GF/TSWLM and Craig's non-CR films, as well as your stronger love for OHMSS, we're close to the same. Nice to see OP being so high up, although putting it over 90% is surprising, even for an apologist of the film like me.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    ForYourEyesOnly wrote: »
    @w2bond - An interesting list. We have a fair bit in common - other than your dislike for GF/TSWLM and Craig's non-CR films, as well as your stronger love for OHMSS, we're close to the same. Nice to see OP being so high up, although putting it over 90% is surprising, even for an apologist of the film like me.

    @ForYourEyesOnly
    I've always liked OP, even in my earlier Bond fan days. It's got a great combination of score, villains, action and fun....now that I think of it the 4 most important factors for me. The 5th is perhaps the "spy thriller" element which my top ranked films have
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
    edited April 2016 Posts: 1,984
    @w2bond - Well, it's certainly a Cold War thriller, and it may well be the most action-packed of the Bonds from its time - certainly the best in terms of non-stop, consistently amazing stuntwork. And I have a weakness for its score, so I tend to rank it quite highly. But then, I always felt I was already being overly generous to it. Then every once in a while, I see someone who has it in their top 3.

    You're not affected by the amount of self-parodying that goes on in there with the clown suit and Tarzan yell and so on? I have to say that while it is quite funny at times, some of the attempts at humour just feel... cheap. And that degrades the quality of the film for me, as does the oft-perceived lack of engaging villains (Kamal Khan is suave but never threatening, Orlov is crazy but never threatening).
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    @ForYourEyesOnly OP's humour is juvenile for sure, and call me the same, but I love it. Gorilla checking the time, tennis during tuk tuk chase, etc.

    I woudn't call OP self-parodying (GE's script is that) but for me, the pros definitely outweigh the commonly cited cons.

    Khan is perhaps not the most memorable but the way he delivers his lines is perfection, among my favourites in the series. The henchman ensemble is neck in neck with GE as the best.

  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 6,789
    I gave all the films scores out of 10 for these categories:

    1. James Bond
    2. Bond girls
    3. Villains
    4. Allies
    5. Direction
    6. Music
    7. Cinematography
    8. Action
    9. Dialogue
    10. Plot

    In total every film gained a rating out of 100. This is what I came up with:

    The Living Daylights => 98%
    From Russia with Love => 97%
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service => 97%
    Goldfinger => 93%
    Licence to Kill => 93%

    Dr. No => 89%
    GoldenEye => 89%
    Casino Royale => 89%
    Skyfall => 84%
    Thunderball => 83%

    The Spy Who Loved Me => 76%
    The Man with the Golden Gun => 76%
    The World Is Not Enough => 76%
    You Only Live Twice => 75%
    For Your Eyes Only => 75%
    Quantum of Solace => 74%
    Octopussy => 74%
    Tomorrow Never Dies => 72%

    A View to a Kill => 68%
    Moonraker => 68%
    Diamonds Are Forever =>65%
    Spectre => 64%
    Live and Let Die => 61%
    Die Another Day => 61%

    This slightly differs from my actual ranking to be honest.
  • w2bondw2bond is indeed a very rare breed
    Posts: 2,252
    Interesting how the lowest is 61%
  • vzokvzok
    Posts: 4,025
    I couldn't imagine ranking half the series below 50% and 3/4 below 60%. I wouldn't consider myself a fan of the series.
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
    edited April 2016 Posts: 1,984
    @vzok - w2bond's ones are out of 80, not 100.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    edited April 2016 Posts: 9,020
    New ranking after seeing 8 movies in my current Bondathon:

    99% 1 SP
    99% 2 GE
    99% 3 TLD
    99% 4 OHMSS
    98% 5 CR
    97% 6 OP
    96% 7 GF
    96% 8 FRWL
    95% 9 TND
    95% 10 LTK
    92% 11 QOS
    92% 12 FYEO
    92% 13 TSWLM
    92% 14 MR
    90% 15 LALD
    90% 16 DAD
    88% 17 DN
    85% 18 TB
    85% 19 YOLT
    80% 20 TWINE
    75% 21 SF
    74% 22 DAF
    74% 23 AVTAK
    74% 24 TMWTGG

    Average per actor:
    87% Connery
    99% Lazenby
    87% Moore
    97% Dalton
    91% Brosnan
    91% Craig
  • vzokvzok
    Posts: 4,025
    ForYourEyesOnly wrote: »
    @vzok - w2bond's ones are out of 80, not 100.

    I should have read the manual

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,691
    My explanation of my top 5 Bonds:
    #1 TLD- Dalton. Barry. That's all. ^:)^
    #2 LTK- Again, Dalton. And a great reworking of Kurosawa's Yojimbo for a Bond revenge story.
    #3 TND- Brosnan at his finest; a perfect 'greatest hits' tribute & a timely message about controlling IT and world opinion to boot.
    #4 QOS- A raw, unusual and almost unfinished seeming gem of film-making that sees Bond becoming the agent I know & love.
    #5 DN- THE most Fleming of the movies- how could it not be? No other developed patterns to follow. Connery rocked big time.
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