Many lists put Die Another Day last
Die Another Day was meh, but I really didn’t care for Skyfall and No Time to Die. The plots were too contingent on inorganic and out of character details. Q wouldn’t be stupid enough to plug a USB drive into an MI6 networked device found on a known hacker supervillain. The convenience of the targeted DNA nanobots just magically being declared to have no solution without anyone doing any testing of theories was unbelievable and just revealed the obvious “we need to kill Bond in this one so come up with a reason for him to die nobly” pitch meeting pitch. It ruined the suspension of disbelief entirely. I feel like they just tried too hard to keep upping the stakes and outdo themselves that it just got ridiculous.
What killed No Time to Die for me were the nanobots being declared unsolvable in the same movie that explicitly shows EMPs being used. I thought for sure that was a Chekhov’s gun being set up but no, just bad writing.
EMP, MRI, or what about anti-nanobots? If you can program nanobots that kill people with particular DNA, couldn’t you program nanobots that target other nanobots? I would assume they hadn’t yet built in a self-defense protocol for the nanobots since they were cutting edge and not assumed to have any countermeasures yet. Anti-nanobots seem just as plausible as DNA targeting nanobots.
Casino Royale… no, not that one… the other one. :)
No, not that one, the other other one.
I actually watched them all back to back a couple years ago and ranked them as I went. Here’s my complete list, from top to bottom:
- Casino Royale
- From Russia With Love
- Skyfall
- Goldfinger
- Dr. No
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Thunderball
- For Your Eyes Only
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- GoldenEye
- The Living Daylights
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- Spectre
- Quantum of Solace
- No Time to Die
- You Only Live Twice
- Octopussy
- License to Kill
- The World Is Not Enough
- Never Say Never Again
- Moonraker
- Die Another Day
- Diamonds Are Forever
- A View to a Kill
- The Man With the Golden Gun
- Live and Let Die
Great list!
I’d move some around a bit but very close to what I remember when I watched them all like 5-6 years ago.
The George Lazenby one is truly underrated.
Hear, hear! Director/Editor Peter Hunt had a style all his own!
Thunderball.
It is the only Bond film I would call dull. It might just be that underwater fight scene at the end. But it doesn’t work for me.
Say what you want about Moonraker and Die Another Day. I at least had fun watching them.
I guess the fight scene looked good on paper, but it was quite long and not very dramatic.
I watched them all up to Spectre and would put View to a Kill at the bottom followed by Quantum of Solace.