And stupid it is - Roger Moore at his most fatuous, a plot recycled from The Spy Who Loved Me recycled from You Only Live Twice (all directed by Lewis Gilbert a pattern, perhaps?), another cookie-cutter megalomaniacal villain in Hugo Drax (played without much panache by Michael Lonsdale), and the nadir of the series' plunge into sophomoric humor. One of the most glaring examples ever of fabulous special effects going to waste on a stupid movie. It opens with some promise, despite Madonna's hideous theme song (second only to Jack White and Alicia Keys' song for Quantum of Solace for pure awfulness), but quickly devolves into second-rate science-fiction, loaded to the gills with poor CGI, and featuring the most idiotic of all 007's technological accouterments - an "invisible" Aston Martin. easily his worst, and the series' absolute rock-bottom entry. And thus, with no further ado.ĭamned Rodan's List of Damned Bond Films (Worst to Best): Your reaction may be one of the above or something altogether different, and that's just fine because, yes, I am gonna make me this list. Like most, I suppose, the list's middle entries are the most difficult to settle upon the very best and very worst are easy. Since the screen's Bond is 50 years old, Skyfall has surpassed the billion-dollar mark in ticket sales, and I've been on a bit of a Bond kick myself lately, for my first blog of 2013, I'm going to make me a list - not necessarily of my favorite and least favorite EON Productions' Bond films, but what I consider the best and worst of the series, starting at the bottom and working toward the top. Said list this morning kind of made me want to compile one of my own. That's the beauty of lists, though you can jump up and down in delighted agreement, swear the creators ought to be flayed for their audacious stupidity, or just avert your eyes because the whole idea is ridiculous. This morning, I came upon a best-to-worst list of James Bond movies, and while there were some entries with which I quite agreed, I mostly thought the thing pretty well out of whack. I rarely give more than half a hoot about "best of so-and-so" lists since they mean exactly jack shit, but now and again - depending on my mood, I suppose - I derive a little enjoyment from them, particularly when the subject matter is near and dear to me aging ticker.
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