If you like the theme...which is brilliant...check out the vid OHMSS The First Four Chords. It gives a real eye-opener on the score and how it was used, subtly, as a refrain throughout the movie.

Probably me favourite track in franchise aside for the classic Bond theme.

It was the first Bond movie I owned and will always be my favourite.

Aye, watched The Music of Bond, or whatever it was called) on Amazon last week... 'From Russia With Love' and 'O.H.M.S.S.' main theme completely ignored. Plus, an hour of being subjected to Billie Eilish... no thanks.

Same

I think it's close as well, but for me the villains of LTK give it the slight edge

LTK is awful. Most people won't admit it tho

Thank you. Licence To Kill feels like a low rent knock off a Bond movie. I am feeling less EON, more Cannon from that film. I know the budget was reduced after Living Daylights but damn, did it have to look so cheap ?

@@strikerbowls791 It has a legion of fan boys who insist it's closer to the novels and it is on a superficial level.

I think skyfall is good, but it's always felt odd how they introduced Craig's Bond as being in his younger years and then rather abruptly go into the whole "past his prime" thing. Edit: and look at that, that's what he says in the video lol

@@derekwalter4238 Yeah, but is that the fault of Skyfall itself? Maybe it fails as a direct sequel to Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, but it never really marketed itself as such. Then again, the whole "past his prime" thing isn't Skyfall's only quality. If you view it as a stand alone film, it is pretty great in my opinion.

@@phcookie.t Yeah I know, I said I thought it was good.

Spectre is easily worse then sky fall

I loved the beauty and action and general filmmaking of sky fall but it did fall emotionally short for me and some of the plot holes were too noticeable for me. Still my second favourite Craig obviously but Royale will always be my numero uno.

My thoughts exactly

And its plot has aged like fine wine. A mega Billionaire using his media empire to create disinformation.

Hated the ridiculous villan. Yeoh and Brosnan are great.

Yes, that's what I noticed... It's an unfortunate fact

That's why both movies are my two least favourite in the series

Honestly, I cant take anyone seriously who says OHMSS is their favourite bond movie.

Thanks, Josef!

Lazenby stepped into Connery's massive misogynist shoes and made it something new, modern.... and we know he wanted to take that even further. You have to remember the sexual politics and anti-Establishment feeling in 1968... Mi5 probably gave Cubby notice to get Bond 'back on track' by dumbing him down, waving the Union Jack at every possible opportunity.... and that still continues to this day; why the series should be put to sleep... much like the British Establishment.

@@telsutton George Lazenby was a cad far worse than Bond in real life, lmao.

First bond movie I ever owned; solidified my interest in the character.

Lazenby was ok but the movie is garbage.

@@kkarx cap

What does apologist mean?, I love moonraker too, it’s the first bond movie I saw on release as a young boy. I didn’t really care for many of the films after for your eyes only.

@@iancocks9408 It means I'll defend the film to the death from detractors. Moonraker divides opinion a little bit.

The problem for me is not the silliness but that it managed to be kind of boring in the end and that I always fall asleep.

Not directly after, but from the shift in tone, Bond goes from a late thirties renegade to a late forties burnout. The grizzled and grey muzzle of stubble and the reflection on a career of sacrifice all add up to say it's at least ten years later, which doesn't work. It could have been fine, if only they had dropped the "tired and burned out" approach to his character. He could still have been ambitious and energetic and made the story work just as well. As it happens we're now getting the third film in a row where Bond is a burnout, because that's the story each director wants to explore, but it didn't need to be that way.

@@rageagainstmyhatchet In other words, it doesn't work for you personally.

You're right that Skyfall doesn't take place immediately after Quantum, but you seem to think Casino and Quantum are a prequel to the Connery-Brosnan films and Skyfall and Spectre (and No Time to Die, I presume), the sequels. This is incorrect. The Craig films operate in their own, standalone timeline. Casino Royale was a reboot, not a prequel. Just like Batman Begins isn't a prequel to the Tim Burton Batman film, but a reboot. The reason Skyfall shows a Moneypenny origin story is because that's the first time the character has met Bond in this timeline. It's not a continuity error.

​@@beethockmtee8565 I feel like you are being unusually dense. Casino Royale was the very first book written by Ian Fleming, and takes place, before the other books. It wasn't a reboot, it was the first book. The Hobbit wasn't a "reboot" of LoTR, it was the first book written. The Craig-era, wasn't officially a reboot until Spectre, prior to that, they toyed with the idea of it not being a complete reboot.

@@hat8918 no, the Craig era was a reboot. The books don’t matter. Casino was an adaptation of the first Fleming book, yes, but it was a reboot of the Bond series.

Skyfall is a film I didn't like and agree with the video but the plot mirrored The Dark Knights plot in parts .

It used to be my absolute favourite right after seeing it and still some time later. It can probably still make my top 5, but the film's flaws regarding it's plot only become more visible with each viewing.

I like Skyfall a little better than Eyebrow does, but it's nice to see someone think that it's overrated. He's right that Bond goes from "cocky hotshot" and "old and struggling" way too quickly, and I still can't watch the climax without thinking of Home Alone.

Skyfall has flaws, but Eyebrow is overstating his case to justify a lower rating for the movie. It's not even true Bond didn't accomplish anything (or failed at everything). Despite seeing the movie repeatedly, Eyebrow still seems to miss some of the subtleties of the film. For once we have a Bond movie that doesn't spoon feed every plot point to us. Eyebrow was looking for excuses to rate this lower than it deserves. His opinion is his, though, and this is his list.

To me Skyfall is just an ok film, one that has a lot of great components but which the plot does a poor job of connecting. For example Silva should be an interesting villain, but what I got out of the film was more just that Javier Bardem is a good actor, because the story itself just doesn't do enough for me to really care about his backstory and motivation. And the plot a lot of the times comes across as nonsensical to the point that it just feels like the filmmakers didn't care as long as they can shoehorn in the themes they wanted.

I think From Russia with Love is my favorite, as well, except for the woman with the shoe and the guys with the room service take it down a few notches below Casino Royal and Skyfall.

It's definitely got one of the very best villains!

it’s my favourite and I never get the bad comments it receives .

I just think it is ordinary. There is nothing for me, that I think makes it standout

No, skyfall is bang average

"for me the canon pretty much ends in 1969." A defensible stance.

Thank you, kindly!

Quality comment. I'm always here for more Tomorrow Never Dies love.

Except I've always felt the Director killed off Paris far too soon. The interactions with her and Bond were truly something to enjoy.

Pretty close to Dan's list it turns out. Great minds..

The whole train sequence is also my favourite stretch of From Russia with Love.

Thanks man. The key is I'm very dumb and don't consider how long things will take until I've actually committed and need to finish by the set date :P

Ditto

I would put Spectre at 9. To say it's worse than the god-awful Diamonds Are Forever - you must be a Connery fan. But seriously, that movie just sucks in so many ways. And Moonraker is BOR-ING. Live and Let Die so poorly gets culture. Spectre rises above them all in many ways. Maybe Thunderball above Spectre. But Octopussy, no way. For Your Eyes Only is also cheesy in many ways, but I still love it for reasons I cannot fully explain. Maybe I like the cheesy song. I like the crossbow Greek Chewbacca chick getting revenge. Or the awful acting hot blonde skater. Whatever, I just like it. It makes no sense that I like it. Total agreement on Casino Royale, which I have just under Goldfinger, although it's overall acting, stunts, everything really just rocks. The script writing in CR is probably the best in all of the Bond movies. Skyfall just a shade behind it... and the ending of Skyfall is the most epic. From Russia With Love is an amazing theme song, and the Bond girl is sublime. I hate jaws so that is why the Spy Who Loved Me falls down the board. Dr. No is epic for the Caribbean scenes done right. On Her Majesty's Service is absolutely not number one the dude's just intrigued but that doesn't make it a great movie. I felt Lazenby fell flat as Bond. And I can't get over that. Quantum of Solace is also not the piece of trash everyone says it is. Yes, there are flaws and after Casino Royale it would be hard for anything to measure up. But Quantum of Solace has its moments. I truly love the opening sequence and the bullring fight scenes. The airplane scene is good. The desert hideaway is weak. That's probably what tanks the movie. If they'd had a more sinister evil hideout, maybe someone truly more bad guy than Green, the movie would be stronger. The movie that doesn't make this list, but should, is the one that came out the day he made this list. And it belongs just under Skyfall, in my opinion, only because it's so damned long. But the opening, the depth of James' love, betrayal, and rediscovery of his love is unrivaled in any Bond movie. I was touched. The opening scenes where Bond visits Vespa's tomb is a particularly amazing fight sequence. Oh - one more thing - you have to rate Spectre higher if only for the amazing helicopter sequence over the city. Which is epic.

Ranking all of Craig’s era dead last is craaaazyyyy

It's important for everyone to have their own opinions and I actually enjoy that film, as well. As you said, not brilliant, but contains some good elements.

Quantum has all the flaws Eyebow flags, but I do think it embodies the one real strength Craig brings to the role, even if it doesn't fully compensate for his limited charisma: He's the best of all the Bonds at the *physicality* of the role. Roger Moore himself insisted on this in a 2012 interview: "I thought his action was quite extraordinary-he did more action in the first 30 seconds of the film than I did in 14 years of playing Bond. To me, he looks like a killer. He looks as though he knows what he’s doing. I look as though I might cheat at backgammon." (TIME Magazine, Nov. 09, 2012)

​@@richardmalcolm1457 I've always felt the same. From the very opening of Casino Royale, beginning with this Bond's "first kill" and proceeding through the skyway chase scene, you know this Bond brings a dimension to the role that hadn't previously been seen. There's something to be said about a Bond actor "making the role his own", and whereas Brosnan's Bond had all the charisma one could ask for, this era of Bond has plotted it's own course. Connery was--of course--the perfect blend of both elements, in my estimation. Cheers.

Did watch all the Daniel Craig movies in close succession, prior to watching the new film, it definitely sits better, as a continuation of the over arching story, well specifically the start and end scenes are really good, the bit in the middle is a bit rushed, particularly after Mathis gets dumped out of the story. The action just seems to be on fast forward until the villain's lair is destroyed, which typically signals the end of a Bond Movie albeit with a brief nod to confirm the villian is defeated or dead, the memorable and nasty end for Greene is needed to avenge agent Fields, and Mathis. Next more vengence this time for Vesper, a return to the opening of of the story, in a cold icy and downbeat environment, the scene is exciting and gripping but is presented in such a way that is the antithesis of spectacle, exoticism, and adventure, and furthermore this end is the ending, just because it is the last scene in the movie, evidently James Bond Will Return'... and needs to so the audience can discover what happens next, especially considering the time frame that this movie began at, in relation to the previous movie.

QoS slaps.

George was offered a contract-he refused it. He was essentially a hippie, at that time, and didn’t think much of short hair; or the overall Bond vibe. UKposts has a great video of him speaking about it; he tells great stories about OHMSS. Of course, in his later years, he truly regretted his decision.

@@stevehackett2678 Well, Lazenby was bang on and probably saw Bond like myself - the worst human on Earth - Establishment-cock-sucking detritus, probably protecting a paedo ring when he wasn't called on to crack a mystery or keep the Cold War going forever. p.s. Are you the REAL 'Steve Hackett' cos I've never met another.

Thanks Tony!

Perhaps, but had Lazenby not blown his chance, we can never know just how good he could have been. Him and Connery were the only two Bonds, to me, who looked like they could handle themselves.

​@@spanishpeaches2930 Lazenby couldn't act if his life depended on it.

@@laurencewhite4809 Neither could Moore tbf. Lazenby was learning and would have got better. He was a good Bond who properly looked like he could beat the sh1t out of an opponent..unlike Brosnan, for intance.

​@@spanishpeaches2930 I think its fair to say Moore wasn't a very versatile actor, but the one character he played in pretty much all his movies were great. Lazenby on the other hand is so out of his element it was embarrassing.

I couldn't ever rate Spectre higher than Skyfall since Spectre is honestly one of the more terrible Bond outings in general. I think save for Die Another Day, which truly is bad in a lot of ways, and maybe even one or two Moore films, Spectre is a contender for the worst Bond film ever.

It’s wild that they were made by the same team (writers / director). You can tell how much they cared about Skyfall, how much love and enthusiasm went into that film. Contrarily, you can tell that SPECTRE was just a paycheck, nobody cared or thought they were making something special. And it shows.

Specter is bad on so many levels. My biggest gripe is it ruined the motivations for Silva. A man out for revenge being his own man? Nope....specter agent....give me a break. One problem with bond as a series. Trend chasers. Marvel had all the movies connected so let's make all the craig movies connect!

@@dereklewis4321 absolutely. It’s also so fucking lazy because it’s basically the writers saying “hey, we have no way to make the villain of this film intimidating or compelling, so we’ll just (basically) steal all of the good shit done in Casino Royale and Skyfall and just assume that because people loved those films, they’ll automatically love this one because now the plots of those films are the plot of this film!” And just….no. I hate SPECTRE so fucking much. Easily the only Bond film that I hate.

@@ghani666 Shooting down a helicopter at night time with a handgun at 200 meters out was the biggest groan I have had at a movie. I know its Bond and I need to suspend disbelief but even that was just god awful writing. Dimonds and Die another day are bad but they are still entertaining to watch. This movie tho is the only Bond film I have absolutely 0 desire to ever watch again. And it blows my mind its by the same team that brought us Skyfall. I dont know how this guy could rank it so high.

Oh it's definitely dumb. In a better movie it'd probably frustrate me but for Die Another Day it fits right in.

@@EyebrowCinema I can understand that. I just have a very bitter feeling toward that scene in particular, because I was still trying to take the plot seriously up to that point when I first watched the film and it somehow was my breaking point. Had I gone in just expecting silly entertainment I might have had a very different opinion of the scene and perhaps the movie as a whole.

i totally agree with goldeneye, it's the epitomy of Bond and Brosnon got screwed over with the producers for the next three films. What a waste!

One of the cool things about making this list is hearing other people's rankings which have often been wildly different.

"SPECTRE is the closest we’ve come to a ‘proper’ Bond film." For Daniel Craig, I agree: this is very hard to dispute. It brings in more classic Bond elements than any other film he's done. Its problem is that the script just isn't very good. It has a few fantastic setpieces; it has a great cast; but the pacing is a mess, it wastes the talent (how do you make Christoph Walz boring?), the climax is contrived, and as a totality, it just doesn't quite work. Whereas SKYFALL and CASINO ROYALE may be closer to Jason Bourne films, but they're just very well written and executed. The hard part is deciding if you can take them on those terms.

I appreciate the compliments. It's nice to hear I have in fact been getting better. Also, you make a good point with Spectre's cinematographer. That opening oner is definitely indulgent. But I find taken as a whole, the film less so than Skyfall. As good as Skyfall looks, almost every shot feels like it's begging you to admire just how pristine and beautiful it is. Spectre's visual style blends a bit more with the story.

@@EyebrowCinema the only good thing in Spectre is that opening long shot.

Thanks for letting me know. They were auto-generated by UKposts and have since been deleted.

great list! but for me you shouldn't include those Non-Eon Bond films, they should be rank differently

Spectre and NTTD should be last

@@dgnoel4180 i have rewatched the entire franchise since I posted this list in lead up to NTTD. I do now hate spectre, but not NTTD. That one has some letdowns like poorly displayed gimmick of a bland super villain, the nonsensical reason Bond decides not trust her. But it also has really great highs like the action choreography and callback music from OHMSS (the music in general, even the theme is great)

I agree I thought surprisingly No Time to Die is the best movie of the Craig Era. He really went out with a bang. Easily his best movie was his last and one of the better bond movies of the entire franchise. Strange we had to wait two years longer to watch this excellent bond movie due to covid and it turns out to be the best bond movie of the Daniel Craig era in my opinion.