It started with a small goal - let's watch four 007 movies since they are on HBO Max, picking one film from each Bond actor. Well, of course I couldn't stop there. I watched all of the ones that HBO had to offer. I decided I really wanted to watch The Living Daylights as I remember that one fondly. Finally, I wanted to watch the latest No Time to Die. I didn't really need an excuse for that one but it did give me a good opportunity to re-watch Spectre. There were four I didn't re-watch for this list (Skyfall, Quantum, Casino, Goldeneye) but I am more familiar with them or I felt like I had watched them more recently. I did not include the 1967 Casino Royale spoof. I did watch it once, but feels worse and out of place with the others.
Similar to the basketball movies, I'm using my average of how I ranked them, how I ranked them about 10 years ago, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and the Rotten Tomatoes non-critic score.
The World is Not Enough was my first Bond movie and maybe the only one that I've ever watched in a theater. I remember my dad watching these growing up and my sister gave me all the dvds back around 2012, which lead me to watching them all originally. GoldenEye was a popular movie in college and game in High School. Between that one and World, I was excited for Die Another Day. But like Alien 3, I was dissapointed. Halle Berry felt out of place as a Bond girl. The beginning of the movie threw me off the first time I watched it. Bond goes to foreign prison and tortured all during the intro. In retrospect, even Daniel Craig's Bond doesn't go through this kind of punishment that Connery and Moore wouldn't have dreamed of for the character. It is one of the few songs I recognize in a Madonna song, but even that kind of feels out of place. The story is a mess, it's some kind of face-off type plot with a dash of sun laser as the macguffin. It's a (bad) cgi fest, feels overly long, the expected heel turn is telegraphed as most of the Brosnan Bond movies are. I actually think it worked better as a re-watch, or second re-watch in my case. I put it at 19 on my recent rank, but the general dislike by viewers everywhere makes this a solid dead last.
It's been a year since I did the Basketball movie rankings, and while I swear I will get to 100 baseball movies some day, today I'm starting Bond.
Similar to the basketball movies, I'm using my average of how I ranked them, how I ranked them about 10 years ago, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and the Rotten Tomatoes non-critic score.
The World is Not Enough was my first Bond movie and maybe the only one that I've ever watched in a theater. I remember my dad watching these growing up and my sister gave me all the dvds back around 2012, which lead me to watching them all originally. GoldenEye was a popular movie in college and game in High School. Between that one and World, I was excited for Die Another Day. But like Alien 3, I was dissapointed. Halle Berry felt out of place as a Bond girl. The beginning of the movie threw me off the first time I watched it. Bond goes to foreign prison and tortured all during the intro. In retrospect, even Daniel Craig's Bond doesn't go through this kind of punishment that Connery and Moore wouldn't have dreamed of for the character. It is one of the few songs I recognize in a Madonna song, but even that kind of feels out of place. The story is a mess, it's some kind of face-off type plot with a dash of sun laser as the macguffin. It's a (bad) cgi fest, feels overly long, the expected heel turn is telegraphed as most of the Brosnan Bond movies are. I actually think it worked better as a re-watch, or second re-watch in my case. I put it at 19 on my recent rank, but the general dislike by viewers everywhere makes this a solid dead last.
| Movie | IMDB | Rot Tom | Rot Tom Aud | 2012 Rank | My Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26. Die Another Day | 6.1 | 55% | 41% | 22 | 19 |
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