Sorry subby, but "Thunderball" is the best Bond movie of all time. OF ALL TIME. (shrugs)

Quantum of Solace wasn't that bad.

...did they...just list...On Her Majesty's Secret Service at #3...??

That movie was AWFUL. Unwatchable. Horribly godawful.

/ the rest of the list was solid, though

Sybarite: Dalton is probably the only Bond I never have the urge to rewatch when I run across one of this films playing on TV. I find his portrayal so boring.

I never liked Timothy Dalton as Bond. I remember being very disappointed after watching the first movie with him as Bond. He just wasn't as smooth as James Bond should be.

And with respect to the list, Tomorrow Never Dies needs I higher ranking...if anything because of Michelle Yeoh. She's beautiful and an actual bad ass (only woman Jackie Chan ever ok-ed doing her own stunts). And she was farking 35 when she did that movie and looked like this:

I don't like trying to order *all* of the movies, mostly because the actors all differently. The only things I will say are:

1. Connery, being the originator, ALWAYS gets a pass.
2. Lazenby has some issues, but he wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. (Example: the non-reaction to getting found out by Blofeld just seems like something he wouldn't normally do.)
3. Moore, for all intents and purposes, had some really good and really horrid parts to most of his movies. The space scene of Moonraker trumps all for stupidity and pandering to what's popular at the time, though, and the AFB circus scene where James Bond dresses up as a clown will always be the absolute nadir. The flip side to that is that he went up against Lee and Walken, two of the greatest Bond villains ever, and his movies are still mostly based off of original Fleming material.
4. Dalton... again with the bipolar. The Living Daylights wasn't bad until he (a) joins the Mujahideen, and (b) kills Joe Don Baker in his war room. And License to Kill was too much of a James Bond does Miami Vice movie (plus, FFS, Wayne Newton?!).
5. Brosnan was good, probably my second favorite, but on most days I'll say that his movies went downhill until the crash landing into complete implausibility that was Die Another Day. (The "most days" part is that I go back & forth between the two middle movies, mostly dependent on how much I can stomach Paris Carver at any given time.)
6. Craig was incredible in Casino Royale, but as stated a million places in a million ways, Quantum sucked extreme donkey balls. I've yet to see Skyfall so I can't comment on that, but if it's as good as advertised, then he's into a tie with Pierce for my favorite Bond not named Sean Connery.

That's where I stand on all of that.

Jim_Callahan: DjangoStonereaver: Craig's signed for 2 more movies; so far he's 2 for 1, and that's a damn good batting average.

Yeah, I'm not saying he's bad at it or anything, it just took him until the third movie to really figure out who Bond is and start actually playing the character and making it his own instead of looking slightly puzzled whenever asked to do one of the silly mannerisms.

As of Skyfall, Craig's Bond is meaner than most of the others, but he's actually found the groove and I'll keep watching the movies. The bit where he shows real emotion for the first time in three movies over the car was pretty much what convinced me he finally gets it. And he can finally do the one-liners without it seeming like he's reading them off a script. Some of this is his direction, I'm sure, but it helps to have the actor on board, too.

The little adjustment of his cufflink when he jumps into the train (and before anyone whines about a SPOILER, this
is in every trailer & commercial) showed me he finally 'got' Bond. Sort of like how Brosnan popping his head up
out of the tank hatch and adjusting his tie in GOLDENEYE was his signal that he had the part well in hand.

Debeo Summa Credo: Is it necessary or advisable for me to see QoS before watching Skyfall? Or can I just skip QoS?

Strawberry Fields forever!

Other than that one can safely ignore QoS.

cgraves67: I'm going to be thoroughly drubbed for this, but I like Dalton the best followed by Craig and then Connery. Moore is too much a wiseass and Brosnan is a modern Moore. Lazenby...forgettable.

You've got to remember that Timothy Dalton was stepping in after 12 years of Roger Moore. He was precisely what the franchise needed at that point. Less humorous, more hard-edged, almost all the things Daniel Craig is being praised for now, actually.

Robert Davi as Sanchez from "Licence To Kill" has to be one of the best, if not the best Bond villains ever.

Oh, and somehow Octopussy is the 10th best Bond film? On what planet? I'm not a Bond expert, but that seems very unlikely.

Wellon Dowd: From the article:

23. Moonraker
22. Die Another Day
21. Quantum of Solace
20. The World is Not Enough
19. You Only Live Twice
18. The Living Daylights
17. Diamonds Are Forever
16. The Man With the Golden Gun
15. Tomorrow Never Dies
14. Live and Let Die
13. Dr. No
12. A View to a Kill
11. License to Kill
10. Octopussy
9. For Your Eyes Only
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
7. GoldenEye
6. Casino Royale
5. Thunderball
4. Skyfall
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
2. From Russia With Love
1. Goldfinger

A View to a Kill and License to Kill are rated higher than Dr. No, the only Bond movie where he did actual spy stuff? And somehow Skyfall is the 4th best Bond movie? Moonraker is somehow worse than Die Another Day? This list is random.

Connery's the best movie Bond. Craig came close in Casino Royale, but in the end, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall both sucked.

Just saw Skyfall last night and loved it. I get the criticism about the lack of henchman, the lack of a plot to take over the world, no real Bond girls, but I think that is all irrelevant and done primarily by people who have never read the Bond books and don't understand that Skyfall is more true to the character Fleming came up with than any Bond in the past thirty years.

DjangoStonereaver: BillCo: Sean Connery is the best bond ever. This is not arguable.

You've obviously not seen any of the Craig movies, or read any of the books.

You say that like it matters. Sean Connery is Bond.

Goldeneye was badass, because it was still about Bond. He fought, he got his ass kicked, and he still succeeded. Every one after that (in the Brosnan era) was more about the technology that Bond and the bad guys carried (invisible car...WTF?!)

Casino Royale was amazing. It brought Bond back to the real world. It showed him getting tortured (the rope scene made me cringe), and still coming out of it looking badass.

QoS was Bond in name only. It was a revenge flick, not a spy flick and had a terrible plot/bad guy motivation to boot.

I'm sorry, I thought I just saw a list that included four (4) Roger Moore movies ahead of Dr. No. I must have been mistaken.

Nothing will also top the sheer suckitude that is a slideshow. Fortunately, we can deslide this bad boy...