Over dinner one night, someone asked, "Who was your favorite Dr. Who?" Without hesitation, I said, "George Lazenby!" Oh, that was something else.
Someone asked me to name my favorite Bond film today. I said:
Casino Royale
(or)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(or)
Goldfinger
I was surprised at how fast I could answer. But really, consider:
Connery's stuff is fine and all, but only Goldfinger and maybe Dr. No really work for me. From Russia, With Love ends too abruptly, and You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever are sloooow. I think I'm leaving one out. Thunderball was good. Jet packs. Not as good as Goldfinger, though.
Most of Roger Moore's suck. A View To A Kill is the one I like most, followed by The Man With The Golden Gun. The rest are lame, lame, lame. Unless I'm leaving one out. I try to block out most of Roger Moore's Bond movies.
Timothy Dalton. I liked both. I didn't like them better than the above, though.
Pierce Brosnan made one good Bond film - Goldeneye - followed by two mediocre ones that blend together and to this day I can't tell them apart, and one shitty one I won't name, but it involves an ice palace and a swordfight with Madonna. What a shit sandwich.
So, a while back, I watched On Her Majesty's Secret Service with low expectations. I mean, George Lazenby? But...he's pretty good! When you've seen Roger Moore and others suck it up, then you see George Lazenby take it on, it's pretty good, actually. Oh, sure, it's dated and a little silly, but Telly Savalas plays Blofeld!
Yeah. I'm comfortable with this.
1. Casino Royale
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Goldfinger
You?
1 comments:
1. "From Russia With Love"
The ending is abrupt, but it's one of the few that feels like an actual film, with character development and a strong-but-not-a-wonder-woman-wanna-be female lead. Plus Robert Shaw is the best Bond villain of all time. It also predates the gadget-fest bond films, although it doesn't leave gadgets out entirely. First appearance of Q, as well.
2. "Casino Royale"
This one took everything that was good about 40 years worth of bond movies and threw out everything that was bad. Puts a little grit back into the main character and returns the focus to the Bond/villain mindgames that made the old-skool films memorable. I can even forgive that they cast a blond dude.
3. TIE "The Man With the Golden Gun"/"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" Fuck Roger Moore, but it's hard to discard Christopher Lee as Scaramanga. Bond film villains always have a personal beef with the man, but this one is different. As for George Lazenby, he's a little goofy in the role for my taste, but so many important things happen to Bond in that movie that it's at least a must-see.
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