Let's talk Bond Aliases!

I was trying to remember a few favorite Bond moments last night. One is where Sean wears that little blue terrycloth pool suit (there is NO ONE ELSE how could carry that off).

I moved on to my favorite Aliases. Syngen Smyth from "A View to a Kill" is only topped by a close margin by Sir Hilary Bray. Oh HILLY!

Here's a great list of all of the Bond Alias names.

I watched/listened to it again just to be sure and yeah, I completely disagree. Perhaps with different singer and different arrangement?

Oh, James.
 

Connery and Lazenby are good as Bond. Craig was great in Casino Royal, though the follow up was so bad I will have to wait for the next one to really judge. Dalton was OK, though I just didn't buy it. Same with Brosnan, though I think it had to do with the overall quality of the films. I saw them. Liked them. But I never want watch them again.

If it is about repeatability, Moore wins every time.

Best Bond films:

A. Live and Let Die
B. The Man with the Golden Gun
C. The Spy Who Loved Me

When they are on, I will always watch them from start to finish. By total coincidence, Octopussy and A View to a Kill were on last night. They were both pretty bad. I made it all the way through OP though I gave up half through AVtaK.

I recall actually enjoying Moonraker though I would have to watch it again to decide.


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I can say that, having just watched it on You Tube in the spirit of inquiry, the fight scene in "From Russia With Love" holds up somewhat better than, say, the car chase in "Bullitt" or the dance sequences in "Saturday Night Live."

Or, MadTV, for that matter.

Goldfinger is the best bond movie hands down.

It has the best Bond ie. Connery

The best bond girl name "pussy galore"

The best bond line "Bond: do you expect me to talk Goldfinger.
Goldfinger: No mister bond I expect you to Die.

Whoops. I meant "Saturday Night Fever."

Duly noted.

I know the above comment is a widely held belief, indeed, I just to-day read an article in the Entertainment Weekly that espoused the very same thought -- Goldfinger is the best.

I just watched it and I can not figure out what makes it the gold standard of Bond films. I liked it. It was OK. But I am not convinced of the film's greatness.

I actually was going to go point by point about what I thought was off about that movie, but after writing it, I deleted it. For whatever reason people will always choose Connery as the best, so what can a brother do?

Maybe my fondness and genuine nostalgia for the 1970s clouds my ability to see how Goldfinger could in anyway match a film like The Spy Who Loved Me, which I think ranks not as a great Bond film, but as a great film of the action genre, itself.

Interestingly enough, I read a review that made the claim that TSWLM was the best Bond film -- period, but then went on in the next paragraph to explain by Connery was still better. Ridiculous. It's like Roger Moore was revealed to be a Nazi sympathiser, or something.

You guys are costing me a fortune on iTunes right now. Thought you oughta know. BTW: there's a "The Best of Bond... James Bond" album on there.