James Bond

[hopalong]

Is there anyone, like me, out there who just hates the James Bond films.   

[Meekstaaa]

i dont know but all i do know is there getting worse and worse every timet hey make a new one die another day is pants!

[pamnez]

I just refuse to watch them.  Fortunately, hubby doesn't like them either. I can't see what people rave about. Rubbish.

[SteveH75]

I love them and have every one on dvd, but don't you think that's the beautiful thing about personal choice? When they release the next one ... you don't have to go and watch it!! =o)

[ermintrude35]

..I hate Bond movies, I was dragged as a child to the cinema by my parents to watch them, and every christmas we would settle down to watch one on the tv...the last James Bond film I saw had Roger Moore and Grace Jones in it (the title escapes me as they are all so similar)..as I think the year that this was released was the year I told my parents ( in the nicest possible way) where they could stick their Bond movies...

[seal!]

I'm not a fan myself, but how can you possibly say that they're getting worse, have you seen Dr. No, its awful.

[Meekstaaa]

if you cared ermintrude35 the film was called a view to a kill. i like the older ones personally but it seems like there trying too hard to think up new ideas

[SteveH75]

ermintrude35 .. you have a point with a View to a Kill ... I don't deny there have been low points .., that, Octopussy and Licence to Kill - but Brosnan really brought the films back to life and have improved no end of late (imho) - still, as mentioned. If you don't like them, don't watch them. There's a film out there for everyone ...

[johngammon]

Surely some of the 007 movies are good and some of them are bad. I went to see the early ones when they came out and was very impressed with the narrative inventiveness and the performance of Sean Connery. I went off them after George Lazenby appeared, which is when the formula was pretty much set in stone.  I can't stand the kind of knowing mickey taking that Roger Moore was doing. Pierce Brosnan has the right stuff for the role, but the stories aren't interesting enough and despite the CG effects are a bit old fashioned. They're trying to keep up with the times, but don't go far enough.  Can we believe that new M, with maybe 30 years in the service, can't get out of a jail cell or kill someone herself when she has to (The World is not Enough)? Connery's Never Say Never Again is intelligent, far better than Thunderball from whence its plot derives, and shows you don't need the trappings of the formula to make an entertaining film.

I think Timothy Dalton was very underrated, and The Living Daylights did make a brave attempt to rework the thing.