Favorite Bond films?

I'm a big 007 fan and thus I can't rank the films in order but my favs are:

Casino Royal
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
For Your Eyes Only
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Skyfall
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Goldeneye
The Spy Who Loved Me

On another level. Top 10 of the 60s good. Better than Psycho and 2001 good.

1. From Russia With Love - 9.5


High stand-outs. Can go back and watch these anytime

2. The Spy Who Loved Me - 9
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 8.5
4. Tomorrow Never Dies - 8
5. Spectre - 8
6. Dr. No - 8


Exquisitely produced and quality entries. Love those, but just a little less than the ones above it.

7. Casino Royale - 8
8. Live and Let Die - 8
9. Skyfall - 8
10. Goldeneye - 8
11. Quantum of Solace - 7.5
12. Moonraker - 7.5


Varying degrees of enjoy. Some are bad, but I still enjoy them.

13. Goldfinger - 7.5
14. For Your Eyes Only - 7.5
15. The Living Daylights - 7.5
16. Octopussy - 7
17. You Only Live Twice - 6
18. The Man With the Golden Gun - 6
19. Thunderball - 6
20. A View to a Kill - 5
21. Licence to Kill - 5


I don't enjoy or appreciate these. These signaled the end for me.

22. The World is Not Enough - 4.5
23. Diamonds Are Forever - 4
24. Die Another Day - 2

1. Skyfall
2. Goldfinger
3. Casino Royale
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Lazenby was so underrated)

It seems like the small sample of people on this thread don't like Tomorrow Never Dies that much. Wonder why. I know sometimes it feels like a 90s action film instead of a Bond, but I'm ok with that. I like most of the action sequences although the submarine stuff was too long.

And I agree with you on The Living Daylights. It's always been the most underrated or vaguely recollected Bond movie. Everyone talks about how good the first 3 Connery films are, and 1st and 3rd Craig entries. And everyone likes On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but one film that some people tend to forget exists is The Living Daylights. Partly because it was Dalton - the brief Bond, and also because Bond in 1987 was in an obscure era of Bond.  The main stuff everyone went to go see in 1987 was Robocop, Beverly Hills Cop, etc and stuff.

But I always thought it was underrated and deserves to be called one of the better Bonds. It has a very sp-y intrigue to it, and it had the Russians in it - and it feels continental like From Russia With Love.  There's probably more to it than meets the eye with that film. I used to like it a lot more than I do now. But I think some of the ones I rank above it stands out a little more.

urbanpatrician and ibbi, I agree with you what I appreciate so much on The Living Daylights. It goes more back to the basics of a good spy film, like it was for example with From Russia with Love or Thunderball. With a lot of Bond films I have the feeling they think about, what action scenes would look good and then they try to make a movie around it. With The Living Daylights it's the exact opposite. There you've got a story about a defector, a missed assassination and an agent, who thinks that there's something wrong about this. This actually could nearly be John Le Carre style. And then they develop it and expand it with the Bond style. They add exotic places, great action scenes to it, that feel more natural than forced and it totally works, the airplane fight for example is one of my favorite Bond scenes.

For once I'm pretty sad, that Dalton didn't go on, cause I really like his two movies and I feel he gets unfairly criticised for what he brought to the Bond franchise. Craig did very similiar things 20 years later and got mostly praised for it. I definitely prefer Dalton over Craig. I also don't get the hate for Licence to Kill. It's true, that it gets a little more serious here and it feels like they wanted 1) make a clear cut from the Moore era, that got too ridiculous sometimes; 2) to add the success of more straight action films like Die Hard to the Bond series. I personally don't think that Licence to Kill misses the Bond spirit though.

As for Tomorrow Never Dies to me this is just like any standard action flick. It really has no charm at all to me, I find the story bad even for Bond standards and the villains incredible dull and Michelle Yeoh totally unmemorable.

I think The World is Not Enough is one of the hardest to rank for me. I remember I really loved it when I saw it first. But rewatches have dragged my opinion of it down a bit. The dialogues are sometimes pretty bad and some of the scenes feel to abrupt and a bit misfitting (that skiing scene early is one of the examples I moaned before, when I said that many of the action scenes feel forced) and some of the criticism I have for Tomorrow Never Dies fits here as well in that sense, that sometimes it feels too much like a standard action flick of the 80s/90s.
However it has some undenial advantages like the fabulous opening sequence(s), some kind of great humour and of course Sophie Marceau/Elektra King, who was not only finally a female villain, but a very interesting one.