Best James Bond Moments (What are your faves?)

[manofsteel25]

Solo- Great comparison, but to further even the score you forgot:

The DB5 Smoke Screen

The V8 ability to tap police/LE bandwidths on the radio.
"Must be an atmospheric anomoly"

I love both cars- and the V8 chase was a bit campy for Dalton but I love the scene anyway.

Daylights also contains the last John Barry Bond score- and probably up there in my top three favs of Bond scores. I thought he did a good job of interweaving the three main themes (four counting the Bond theme itself ) in the films quite well.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

There's a scene in, I believe, Dr. No where Bond comes back to his hotel room after a rough night of work. He searches the room--I think he had placed a hair on his door on his way out that he found disturbed when he got back--for bugs or cameras, etc., then fixes himself a drink. The scene takes its time and there is no dialog spoken. By the time James sits down in a chair and holds the icy glass to his forehead, I'm totally drawn into his world. Nothing happens in the scene of consequence, but it drips with a feeling of poignant realism, in my opinion. Sadly, I believe most moviegoers today would find it mundane and boring.

The Wook

Here, here. If the Bond can't be mesmerising while walking around a hotel room for minutes on end doing nothing at all, then it ain't a proper Bond.

And speaking of literary Bond, one of my favourite moments is when Bond and friendly Japanese agent Tiger are having a culture fight between Britain and Japan (You Only Live Twice). Tiger's really knocking the Brits. Bond loses it and lets fly with: 'Balls to you, Tiger! And balls again!'

 

[Solo4114]

Solo- Great comparison, but to further even the score you forgot:

The DB5 Smoke Screen

The V8 ability to tap police/LE bandwidths on the radio.
"Must be an atmospheric anomoly"

I love both cars- and the V8 chase was a bit campy for Dalton but I love the scene anyway.

Daylights also contains the last John Barry Bond score- and probably up there in my top three favs of Bond scores. I thought he did a good job of interweaving the three main themes (four counting the Bond theme itself ) in the films quite well.

Damn. You're right.

Here, here. If the Bond can't be mesmerising while walking around a hotel room for minutes on end doing nothing at all, then it ain't a proper Bond.

Yep. That's one of my favorite scenes in any Bond film because it feels REAL. The similar sequence in From Russia with Love also feels real even though it has a bit of humor thrown in. By the time they go for the hat-trick in Goldfinger, it's played purely for laughs. That's pretty much the progression of the franchise right there. They sacrificed the bulk of the realism in favor of the over-the-top elements.

Book Bond was not always into the latest thing in cars:

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/literature_fleming_cars.php3?t=&s=

Haha, yeah, but the books are dated in that respect, too. It's still a bit of an anachronism, but it'd be more like a secret agent today driving a 1970 Dodge Challenger or something. The first car was the hotrod of yesteryear in, what, 1955? I think that's when the first book was written. Somewhere in the mid to late 50s anyway.

 

[jedi573]

My favorite Bond scene is from Casino Royale. After he kills the two guys on the stairs, he goes back to his hotel room, downs a big glass or liquor, cleans off the blood, and then stares at himself in the mirror. The last bit especially.

The importance of someone getting killed is in proportion to how many get knocked off. Not too many people died in that movie; it made it more pivotal that they did.

Heroes get boring when they turn into superheroes; all suspense and tension is lost when you know the good guy will win.

When I watching Casino Royale, I honestly wondered at times if he was going to lose.

Andy

 

[IndyFanChuck]

I'm watching tons of James Bond all weekend. How can you not love these movies!

 

[Goonie]

Love the whole series and the original Ian Fleming books are great too!

I wouldn't say it's my most favourite scene, but I thought it was memorable; in OHMSS, George Lazenby takes the Playboy magazine with him. :lol

 

[Treadwell]

Pierce Brosnan was, in my opinion, one of the best Bonds in some of the worst movies.

Yes. Although I hold Goldeneye in high regard. That movie is almost perfect--its weakest link is the horrendous score. If only John Barry had done it.

 

[Solo4114]

I think its weakest link is Sean Bean. Stick to Sharpe, Sean. His accent just felt forced to me. But it was a good return to the franchise. Just not QUITE as good as it could've been. It's also the best of the Brosnan films. The other Brosnan films had decent or good moments, but were weighed down by their flaws.

 

[Ttaskmaster]

SOLO.... Stop talking. You're not leaving me anything to say!!

Seriously, you've said pretty much the exact same things I've been thinking throughout this whole thread!!

Bravo, sir!!!

 

[Solo4114]

Haha sorry, you go ahead next time.

 

[Ttaskmaster]

Nah... you has better words than what I got. You is edumacated and stuff!!

 

[vaderdarth]

Gotta agree on Craig's torture scene in Casino. When he tells the guy slamming his undercarriage, to aim a little more to the left..............man that makes me hurt and bust a gut at the same time. I know it's been said already, but that is the toughest baddest Bond ever in my book.

 

[Ttaskmaster]

Gotta agree on Craig's torture scene in Casino.

Meh... Craig is very cool as a properly cold Bond, but the book was still better - More graphic, in terms of getting inside your head and making you squirm. Truly terrifying!!

 

[smordant]

I have a fondness for Live and Let Die because it was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre, but I liked the Dalton movies for getting grittier and I like Casino Royale for less gadgets and not having Moore's campness.

Started to read the original novels again and Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis.

The moment with Bond and the laser in Goldfinger stands out as a favorite.

 

[Smiling Demon]

I like the opening to Quantum of Solace where Bond is driving the Austin and just rips the crap out of it!!!

Priceless!!!!

 

[Solo4114]

If I'd been able to follow all the nano-second jump cuts in that sequence (or that film overall) I might've enjoyed it too....

 

[Serafino]

...but the books are dated in that respect, too. It's still a bit of an anachronism, but it'd be more like a secret agent today driving a 1970 Dodge Challenger or something. The first car was the hotrod of yesteryear in, what, 1955? I think that's when the first book was written. Somewhere in the mid to late 50s anyway.

This is an important point about Bond. He is very much a creature of his time, he could not exist today. His characteristics, idiocyncrasies, motivations, and habits don't translate. You simply can't do full justice to the book Bond in a movie set in modern times. I say this with no hope of ever seeing a period Bond film, unless I live long enough to see the novels become public domain and the BBC do a version. :lol

Yes. Although I hold Goldeneye in high regard. That movie is almost perfect--its weakest link is the horrendous score. If only John Barry had done it.

Barry would have been great, sure, but the Serra score is right on target in the quiet moments, and better than Arnold IMO in the action scenes. Highly under-rated score.

Incidentally, anyone who loves Barry and his spy scores have a look at his last score, Enigma. Has a great feel to it, perfect atmosphere for the movie. It's a perfect intersection of his style with a subject (Great Britain during WW II).