Mr. FLG’s Bond Hierarchy: Your turn…
September 11, 2008
Here is Mr. FLG’s Bond Hierarchy…I am a Bond Book aficionado and favor them above the movies, I personally only like Sir Sean, and only watch his outings, but I know many of you out there dig the films, as it were…Well, concerning Mr. FLG’s list, the only thing I can say is that I have never before seen Tonya Roberts and “pros” in the same sentence…What do you think?
1) Sean Connery – Indisputable, but Diamonds Are Forever is a travesty.
2) Pierce Brosnan – Good, but no Connery
3) George Lazenby – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a good movie.
4) Daniel Craig – I would have preferred Clive Owen
5) Roger Moore – Think he is too low? Watch Moonraker again. I would’ve added A View to a Kill because of Grace Jones, the awful plot, and Moore’s overall swarminess, but its pros are Tonya Roberts, Alison Doody, and Chris Walken.
6) Timothy Dalton – Both the Bond movies he was in sucked.
Ahem, http://www.bondmovies.net/girls/tanya-roberts1.jpg.
I wish I could have found a larger version though.
As much as “Diamonds are Forever” is not one of the top Bond films, it did produce at least one memorable line: Upon meeting Tiffany Case (Miss St. John), who is dressed in a RCBfA-approved outfit, James Bond remarks, “That’s a cute little nothing you’re almost wearing.”
ODT, I might add that the film did feature Jimmy Dean, which is an obvious plus…And remember the “Hi, I’m Plenty”…”But of course you are” lines between Bond and Plenty O’Toole…Classic.
As long as the collars and cuffs match…
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That is a classic exchange.
And Blofeld, played by Charles Gray, had a couple of good lines early on the film–”Making mudpies, 007?” and “Wrong pussy, Mr. Bond”–as well as when Tiffany Case has been abducted by Blofeld (disguised as a woman), “My, look what the cat dragged in.”
The effects of rationing during and long after WWII has prevented England from bringing forth, in recent years, a decent James Bond. This will only prove trickier as they eat animals anymore in Britain. Arugula does not build men.
Although Ciarán Hinds bats for the other team, his father had been raised on a steady diet of meat and meat, and then more meat which made Hinds (physically) an old school batter for the other team, I always thought he would have, at the very least, done an interesting screen test for Bond.
Hinds bats for the other team? Gads… Where have I been?
Here is the line to which Basil refers–and another excellent exchange that follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf4xw4mE2Xk&feature=related