New James Bond = Daniel Craig.

Moore's first go has aged p badly (eg race)

the hillbilly sheriff from the moore era is the disco stu of the bond franchise

xp yeah it' o________O from start to finish. So is TMWTGG in the middle.

no love for live and let die then? I thought that was by far the best moore film

oh, live and let die WAS the first moore. my bad.

QoS is so good. Skyfall and Spectre are bottom tier Bonds but QoS is one of my favorites. A stumped, dumb Bond staggering around killing people, no interest in the girl, she's got no interest in him. I think there's some humour there. And it's so zippy, neat, lean. Villain with a mundane, realistic plan but quite entertainingly portrayed. Nice real world locales. The opposite of the two disasters that followed basically.

i feel a little better about QoS now after the last pair of Bonds bc its minor ambitions to be a bourne ripoff are more charming and more in keeping with the bond series kind of following action movie trends.

I saw no glaring qualitative difference between the last four James Bond movies. All serviceably entertaining, moderately dumb action movies featuring fan service that I at least half understood due to the cultural ubiquity of the 468 Bond movies which I haven't seen.

I just rewatched Casino Royale after reading the book, and also because I needed cheering up after Spectre. Nomar OTM -- it's a really good film, and the action scenes are tight -- I can't believe Sam Mendes saw them and thought "What Bond movies *really* need are worse action scenes and better cinematography."

What I didn't remember is just how cheesey it is, at least for the first hour: the old mobile phones, the chintzy Miami hotel scenes, the dorky jokes. Very nineties. It's like a Brosnan Bond done right.

Also, Eva Green is really fun - a definite improvement on Vesper in the book, and just miles and miles better than any ot the other subsequent female leads (not counting M).

thinking over it again, dave bautista might be the best part of this recent one

the plane chase down the mountain was tight, enjoyed the really sterile clinic before it, too

the idea that james bond is more comfortable in a shack or rat's nest drinking booze than in anything nice and modern is a good touch, the character should only seem at home in a sleek modern building if it's on fire

"What Bond movies *really* need are worse action scenes and better cinematography."

Now Sam Mendes is otm.

this is about Bond, not whether Sam Mendes has ever had salient ideas

casino royale was such a great movie, the tone was so excellent and craig had the perfect humor and devil may care attitude and even when it got "serious" it wasn't stifling. then they had to go and fuck up the reboot and make it deadly serious

otm

nah come on Léa Seydoux rocked.

CR is great until car crash. After that is Mendez shit.