HEY TOM !!!

[ericcoleman]

So ... filkertom posts about new DVDs most mondays ... what is coming out, what people intend to buy.

I didn't realize that these were out this week.

FINALLY ... and not in a box set

From Russia With Love ... the greatest of all the Bond films ... anyone who disagrees, I'll kindly have to ask you to step outside.

You Only Live Twice is out too

Once Dr No and Diamonds Are Forever come out (and I can't seem to find a date on that) ... I have all the Connery Bond films

So ... what is your favorite Bond film? And who do you think is the second best Bond? (cause we all know who is the best)

Comments

[ericcoleman]

I could see an argument for Goldfinger. I watched that again not too long ago and it is awfully good. From Russia With Love though ... it has the two best villains, Rosa Kleb and the absolutely terrifying Red Grant (how many screen fights are better then the one on the train) and the gorgeous Daniela Bianchi.

As I said above, Roger Moore is a fine actor, possibly the best to play Bond, but this pudgy middle aged guy playing such a dangerous character ... it just doesn't work. And the movies show it, they move more and more away from him and more and more to silly glitz and big bangs. Even at his worst Connery has the sense of danger that Bond needs. Dalton had that sense, but the movies were terrible, Craig has that in spade but we'll see how he develops the character.

I think that Thunderball is the last of the really good Bond films, but you could see Connery was getting tired of it. I'm looking forward to seeing You Only Live Twice again, which I have not seen in years, just to see if how I remember it is accurate, or if he is as bored by it as he was in Diamonds Are Forever

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

ZARDOZ!!!

As with 'You Only Live Twice' everything but Bond is what I like in that film. Great villian and plot. Connery knows he's going to win so he acts like it. It's his last film (At the time it was) and he knows it. (Kinda like Harrison Ford in 'Return Of The Jedi')

Robert Shaw is on of the greatest actors of our time.