Worst Fifth Film In A Series

nah I'll defend the design - the evil lairs are awesome in all but the weakest entries. and yeah the shaw fistfight rules. but people talk about the movies as if the posters never lie - wall to wall excitement and intrigue!!! - and it's nonsense, i mean you compare the boat crap in live and let die with, say, the big chase in the french connection and it's laughable.

From Russia With Love is good because it has an actual plot, unlike most Bonds. But have you seen Dr. No recently? Boring as hell up to the final act - almost nothing happens.

But maybe we should take this onto a Bond thread.

But after that it's one Dalton, first Brosnan and 2/3 of a Craig out of what, 25 big budget efforts?

man goldeneye is not that good

haha yeah i think we have some version of this conversation in each thread for each new bond movie. i think this is the most robust general bond thread: which is the best James Bond movie?

counterpoint: Goldeneye is that good and a bag of chips.

James Bond sucks, thread was right the first time

AF otm

Goldeneye sucks. bish bosh I'm smashing shit with a tank, vv secret agent

train fight in Russia With Love is great, and there are at least two good chases in OHMSS, the best Bond film

Voted other, for Scars Of Dracula (arguably the sixth film, if you count Brides Of Dracula, which I don't because Dracula isn't in it), I don't even like it that much but it's still my favourite fifth film.

Poll is for worst though :(

Silly me, forgot the damn title of the thread. I haven't seen a single one of these films in whole and don't intend to.

Goldeneye is the Bond that people roughly around my age (b. 1978) tend to love the most because it is the first one that we would have seen theatrically with our friends instead of watching on TV with our dads (that's exactly my experience, anyway; I'm told the massively popular video game might have had a lot to do with it as well). I watched it again a few years ago and thought it was pretty mediocre--for as much abuse as The World Is Not Enough takes, it has a better villain and more memorable scenes.

train fight in Russia With Love is great, and there are at least two good chases in OHMSS, the best Bond film

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cryptosicko you are on my wavelength but i don't think i'm allowed to rep for the world is not enough anymore

anyway sorry for continuing The Indefinite Bond Tangent

this would be a much easier "Best" vote tbh ("Seed of Chucky")

seed of chucky is so fucking good

Attack of the Clones is extremely bad, i had decent memories of the Obi-Wan stuff but watching some of those scenes out of context recently i realized they were only decent compared to the other storylines. i guess the Obi-Wan business came as a relief.

i still remember the single worst part of this film that had the audience in laughter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwUAb5EFimQ

i mean everything about this very simple & brief scene, the dialogue exchange and the framing and the movement of the characters, is remarkably terrible.

rogue nation may be the best one here, out of what i've seen. tom cruise always commits to the ethan hunt role, and rebecca ferguson is *amazing*.

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I’m pretty sure most of you haven’t seen Battle for the Planet of the Apes or it’d be getting a lot more discussion here. It’s easily the worst of these that I’ve seen.

i have the apes dvd set, and i watched all of them except battle. i quit after 20 minutes.

Goldeneye is the Bond that people roughly around my age (b. 1978) tend to love the most because it is the first one that we would have seen theatrically with our friends instead of watching on TV with our dads

I was born 78 and I've seen every one since Living Daylights in the cinema... (LD is one of my favourites, perhaps not coincidentally)

im def in that Goldeneye ageset. TBS Bond marathons is pretty much how i've seen most of them.

I abhor Brosnan bonds (born in 76) - but i was raised by a Connery loving Mum who barely even tolerated Moore (I personally enjoy Moore btw)

Brosnan is an extremely likable presence and makes a decent Bond, he's kind of halfway between Moore and Dalton for me persona-wise. i don't think those movies are very good overall, though Goldeneye has Sean Bean, one of the best femme fatales, and Martin Campbell does a very good job of directing it. it feels a little lightweight though.

lol yeah my dad hated Moore and thought he turned the series into a joke. i think he had read some of the books so he was always comparing the films to the books. Moore was the least believable as a trained killer secret agent rather than dopey pretty boy movie star

for a second thought you were saying Sean Bean was the femme fatale

I was

o_O

"Sean Bean, one of the best femme fatales" needs to be somebody's username

That Attack Of The Clones clip is actually the edited version that Lucas released on DVD to make that scene less goofy - I can't find a clip of the theatrical version but her "uh-huh" there is instead a perky "yes!"

I was born in 79 and the Brosnan films are precisely why I never got into Bond

"Gather what troops you can, we've got to get to that hangar!"

iirc, Padme also has no reason to know that Dooku was going to a hangar

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I cannot argue.

poll: how many of these fifth films in a series were you aware existed

i count thirty

monster

very accurate results

I don't hate Genisys, it was stupid action fun. way better than salvation.

that is a very low bar imo

Genisys was only slightly more tolerable than a prostate exam

prostate exam is all over in a couple of minutes so no

With genisys it didn't even matter who you were there with so no

Assuming the one vote for Seed of Chucky was a misunderstanding of the poll topic.

at first I thought this was the Die Hard with my boy Olyphant in it and I was briefly incensed

http://www.benji.com/JoeCamp/ImagesJoe/B&Me-web.jpg

a friend of mine is reading this as research for a "you must remember this" style podcast on Benji. can't wait to hear the real dirt on the troubled shoot for benji: off the leash!

Benji was a total coked-out diva on the set, iirc.