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GoldenGun

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GoldenGun
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Favourite Fleming Novel
For Your Eyes Only
Favourite Bond Film
The Living Daylights
Favourite Bond Actor
Timothy Dalton
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  • FoxRox wrote: » @GoldenGun It's not a popular opinion, but I'm glad there's at least a couple of us! I really love its uniqueness within the series and earnestly do enjoy it a lot. This is a particularly tough list to make because I really like mo…
  • Interesting @FoxRox. I'm still struggling with mine :)) Is there an imaginary line in your ranking where you'd say your 'liked' Bond films would start or do you like all of them in at least some capacity?
  • @FoxRox, very happy to see GE cracking your top 10. I love that score too :)
  • Mathis1 wrote: » Good to read the reviews of a fellow Dalton fan! Only two movies, but what marvellous films they were, and hold up so well! Enjoy your holiday @GoldenGun Thanks, mate! :) FoxRox wrote: » I love LTK, but TLD can't esca…
  • THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Exhibit A why Timothy Dalton was the best Bond ever. Not only portraying James as a man of flesh, bones and real emotions, but also doing it subtlely, without losing that touch of class that makes 007 so distinctively differe…
  • CR54 - 4 DN - 5 FRWL - 7 GF - 5 TB - 7 YOLT - 5 CR67 - 1 OHMSS - 3 DAF - 5 LALD - 4 TMWTGG - 3 TSWLM - 3 MR - 4 FYEO - 3 OP - 4 NSNA - 4 AVTAK - 7 TLD - 6 LTK - 5 GE - 7 TND - 2 TWINE - 3 DAD - 2 CR - 4 QOS - 4 SF - 2 SP - …
  • Someone at the end of TLD asks Kara after her concert: "Will you be staying long in France?" Given that all the signs in the building are still in German, and the exterior shot during the credits is clearly Vienna, I'm not quite sure why they'd a…
  • Given these are twi of my very favourite films, none of them deserves to be "last" in anything, but with only great options to choose from, even great options will end up last. Inevitably. Films 1. The Living Daylights 2. Licence to Kill Bon…
  • Films 1. Spectre 2. Casino Royale 3. Quantum of Solace 4. No Time to Die 5. Skyfall Bond Performances 1. Spectre 2. Casino Royale 3. Quantum of Solace 4. No Time to Die 5. Skyfall Main Villains 1. Le Chiffre 2. Silva 3. Blofeld 4…
  • I must say YOLT was my hardest struggle from all the classic, say pre-1990's, ones. I expected to enjoy it much more, but even the volcano finale didn't impress me as much as it used to.
  • I already thought you were also doing a Bondathon, @FoxRox ;) Just happens that I also finished mine yesterday. I will post my new rankings too. GF, LALD and TSWLM I enjoyed more than ever before, while YOLT, OP and AVTAK enjoyed a bit less.
  • CR54 - 4 DN - 5 FRWL - 7 GF - 5 TB - 7 YOLT - 5 CR67 - 1 OHMSS - 3 DAF - 5 LALD - 4 TMWTGG - 3 TSWLM - 3 MR - 4 FYEO - 3 OP - 4 NSNA - 4 AVTAK - 7 TLD - 6 LTK - 5 GE - 7 TND - 2 TWINE - 3 DAD - 2 CR - 4 QOS - 4 SF - 1 SP - …
  • Our contestants still in the running: - Red Grant - Oddjob - Fiona Volpe The prototypes of the three major Bond henchpeople categories, you might say: - anti-Bond, villainous agent (often also blond), working in the shadows - remarkable,…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » NOSFERATU (2024) My friend @LeonardPine will be delighted to hear that my brother purchased this for me for my birthday last week! So now, having watched it , I can tell him whether I regret not getting to see it in the cinema! W…
  • Mathis1 wrote: » 10/10 for me too, always a glorious watch, and I concur wholeheartedly about Dalton, he conveys so much with a look or reaction. It's often overlooked, but after the brilliantly staged truck chase finale, when he sits down and wit…
  • Films 1. GoldenEye 2. The World Is Not Enough 3. Tomorrow Never Dies 4. Die Another Day Bond Performances 1. GoldenEye 2. The World Is Not Enough 3. Die Another Day 4. Tomorrow Never Dies Main Villains 1. Elektra King 2. Alec Trevely…
  • LICENCE TO KILL This one perfectly illustrates why it's a shame Tim Dalton only did two Bond films. With one glance the man can convey more emotions than many other actors can with a hundred words. Playing 007 with intensity and determination, th…
  • I need to rewatch those originals. Remember they were quite the thing when I was much younger :))
  • thedove wrote: » Chemin de Fer * The players take turns being the "banker" — it's a rotating role. * Players bet against each other, not the house. * Popular in France and in old-school casino scenes (James Bond plays it in Casino Royale). …
  • Well then I stand corrected ;) I always thought chemin de fer (which means "iron road" in French, btw) was a synonym for baccarat, thanks for explaining the difference (I always wanted to know :) )
  • DarthDimi wrote: » When Jaws kills Fekkesh and Kalba, the film truly plays it like a horror flick. The music goes dark, the camera intensifies the moment, and Kiel disturbingly shows what may have been an actual pain face. As a kid, I struggled wi…
  • QBranch wrote: » Doesn't he play in SF? I thought he puts something on the table. Oh wow, could be of course, I may have missed that then, one of my least rewatched entries, to be perfectly honest. QBranch wrote: » Related: In the 1998…
  • I always associated baccarat with James Bond. In reality he only plays it in just a few films, and was last seen playing it in GE. Moreover, while casinos are featured in TWINE and SF, the only time since GE that he played a card game was in CR. …
  • Seve wrote: » Although NSNA is technically a remake of TB I never thnk about it that when I watch it, as as the story is just as much a rerun of the Bond template from other James Bond movies The arch villains, henchpeople, locations, evil sche…
  • We're getting ever closer to our podium places, but first there's our #4: JAWS by Richard Kiel in The Spy Who Loved Me This iconic steel-toothed giant turns out to be the community's favourite post-1960's villain sidekick. He received…
  • I would never claim that NSNA, which I find rather enjoyable but nothing exceptional, is better than TB (which is a top 10 entry for me). That doesn't mean it's "just shit" though. That's all I'm saying.
  • AnotherZorinStooge wrote: » DEKE_RIVERS wrote: » OP should have ended when Bond deactivates the bomb. Maybe it needed a Goldfinger-style epilogue and nothing more. The last 15 minutes are painful to watch. Climaxes are not the strong poi…
  • MajorDSmythe wrote: » Yesterday marked 20 years since the collapse of MG Rover. After a centenary of British build cars for the masses, it was a sad ending to say the least. While BMW could take some of the blame, ultimately is was the Phoenix Fou…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Where does that supposed last name "Johnson" come from? Have I been missing it being mentioned for the last 51 years? Anyway, I had him at # 14, still good. It's mentioned in the novel, if I remember correctly. Not in …
  • mtm wrote: » ColonelAdamski wrote: » Bond's death reminded me of the third film in the new Planet of the Apes series, where Caesar dies on a hill, having seen his life's ambition fulfilled, and there's this almost biblical feel to it, with the…