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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
Oh, I've seen quite a few of them. The only ones that I think are really all that great are Goldeneye and Casino Royale. Not a Moore or Dalton fan and the jury's still out on Connery.
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Don't think I've seen Goldeneye.
I've probably seen quite a few Bond movies. I hate the Connery ones. Too gimmicky, too Hefner-Playboy-ish.
Over the past ten years, as Pierce took over, I kept going, thinking, This time they'll do it right. This time it won't be full of gadgets and unreal plot-lines. This time it will be gritty and real and well-written. A couple of them made it about 1/3 through like that and then everything went to hell. The elaborate sci-fi gadgets came out, the villian became all Super-Villainy.
Casino Royale is the only Bond movie I've ever seen that holds up from start to finish as a gritty, real, spy thriller. Its test is that you could take out all the Bond references and make it another spy thriller and it would still be great. It's a great story first, and a Bond movie second. That's what makes it so good.