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Yes, Never Say Never Again was poor. Casino Royal (the Niven one) is quite good if you remeber that it is a spoof.
The book itself is a very gritty read, and could be made into a very good, cold movie. Trouble is, that they won't and it wll end up being a huge steamy pile of bats crap, just like the last two.
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I don't know where all that Licence to Kill-hate came from, but I think it's the fourth best Bond film of them all, just beneath Goldeneye and From Russia With Love. (Just above Thunderball and The Spy Who Loved Me.)
I thought Dalton was the best Bond since Connery. And I really don't get why people liked Brosnan so damned much.
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From Russia With Love is, in my opinion, seriously overrated. I'm sorry, but not much happens in it...and if I recall, they play the Bond theme when Bond is in his hotel room turning on lights and fluffing his pillow.
My favorite Bond films are Goldeneye, Goldfinger, and Diamonds Are Forever. The worst Bond films, I think, are The Man With the Golden Gun, A View to a Kill, and the aforementioned FRWL. Connery is the best Bond, followed by Brosnan, Dalton, and Moore. Lazenby made just one film, so he's like William Henry Harrison--he doesn't count (plus that's his one claim to fame).
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I'd say you're definitely crazy here, Marshal. Goldfinger is *severely* overrated, and...Diamonds Are Forever??? Come on, what are you thinking here???
The theme was playing in the hotel in FRWL because it was one of Connery's signature things at that point to check the room for bugs (listening devices, not insects) and it was something that the audience anticipated. (Like the tossing of the hat on the rack.) He did it in Dr. No and Thunderball as well.
FRWL is a serious spy movie that (although it has its humorous moments as do all the films) was not dumbed down or played for schtick like many of the others, and was actually relevent to real-world politics of the period. Robert Shaw is also great in it and Daniela Bianchi is the epitome of a HOT RUSSIAN MAMA! Plus it had THE ATTACHE CASE! And that HELICOPTER SEQUENCE! What's not to like?
By the way, I see I made a mistake in my above post. Either I meant to call Licence To Kill the THIRD best of the films, or I meant to place Thunderball above it instead of below it. Just thinking about it offhand, I can't decide which.
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Consider yourself bitchslaped Veers for even thinking, let alone saying that Diamonds are Forever is better than From Russia With Love.
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