Die Another Day? (invisible car, villain with diamond zits)

License to Kill (Dalton, lowest grossing Bond film)

Octo***** (Moore, clown costume, swinging from trees on a vine)

Or others? What say you?

Die Another Day is one of the worst films ever made. It's an unintentional comedy at this point. Halle Berry and the godawful Madonna song help seal the deal.

The bad old ones have a campy enjoyabity to them at least.

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Die Another Day was horrible.

A lot of people aren't fans of Roger Moore's movies, but I love them. Campy fun and James Bond is just a stone cold pimp.

I though Quantum of Solace was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Worse than Die Another Day.

On a lighter note, Goldeneye is awesome. You can take it out of the James Bond context, and it's still a great movie on its own. By far my favorite.

Goldeneye is the ****. So's casino royale.

But is anything worse than Moonraker?

Guess I am a rare breed that ranks both of Dalton's movies as among the best.

Die Another Day and Quantum of Solace were awful.

Licence to kill gets a lot of hate. And it was pretty low budget. But I liked it.

A view to a kill was weak. Walken was great but the plot was a mess a d Moore was too old. Octo***** was similar.

Which is the one with Denise Richards?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/quantum_of_solace/news/1780008/1/total_recall_james_bond_countdown_--_find_out_where_quantum_of_solace_fits_in/

Apparently Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan are the worst offenders.

Don't know about the worst, but Thunderball is my favorite.

I liked Dalton. The Living Daylights is one of my favorites.

Moonraker was probably the worst IMO.

A View To A Kill was awful.

Duran Duran did the theme song.

Bond slept with.....Grace Jones? Seriously? I thought that was a dude.

Part of what makes a Bond movie interesting is the evil scheme of the bad guys. The scheme in this one, that a guy was turned into a psychotic genius by a mentor, and they were going to cause Silicon Valley to be destroyed so they could take over that market, and the blimp by the Golden Gate bridge, it was all just a mess.

There is always a lot of unbelievable stuff in movies, but Moonraker had a lot. Drax had what, five space shuttles hidden in silos inside mountains and somehow already had a space station built that nobody knew about? And even more, when the U.S. suddenly realizes there is a space station in orbit, they scramble one or two shuttles full of guys in EVA suits with lasers, and their all ready to go? Has there ever been a shuttle launch that didn't get delayed three or four times?

And 50 globes with nerve gas from rare orchids that will kill 6 billion people? He's going to repopulate the Earth with those dudes and hotties he took up to the space station? Are those couple of dozen people going to have to do all the work to clean up those 6 billion people? Because that is going to be one stinky mess when they get back to Earth.

Die Another Day is the worst.

A View to a Kill is probably second worst.

And yes I've seen them all.


From Russia with Love is the best.

QofS wasnt THAT bad. it had the unfortunate circumstance of following casino royale (one of, if not the best).
die another day was truly terrible, which is a shame because i actually liked the plot (rather the idea of n. korea destroying the 38th parallel). the script was awful and it just looked poorly/cheaply made.

same thing with view to a kill, i like it more than die another day, but again, decent plot (or idea), just a mess of movie overall.

+1 on from russia with love, thunderball, & goldeneye.
also really enjoy moonraker, octo*****, and the spy who loved me (roger moore is my favorite, but craig is a close 2nd)

agree with the Die Another Day and Quantom of Solace choices!

but how in the hell has The World Is Not Enough not made the list at this point (to help the poster earlier....this is the one with Denise Richards)

this movie was the worst out of the 3 I've listed in my opinion (by a small margin granted).....good lord it sucks! but it was so easily forgettable at the same time, I guess I can understand why it hasn't been mentioned at this point

Octo***** is the worst. At least Moonraker has France, Venice and Rio for locations. Octo***** gets East Germany and India. EOT.

Moonraker and Die Another Day. I have all of them and those two can be pretty tough to get through sometimes.

Quantum may well end up being the most forgotten Bond film of all time. It was a bad movie, but not horrifically bad, say, on the scale of Die Another Day. It was bookended by Casino, one of the best, and Skyfall, which was pretty good. If the next one is good, Quantum will only be remembered as a weird WTF moment, and then only by the big fans.

What I don't get is how horrid the Brosnan Bond era was allowed to become. I may get lynched here for saying it, but I prefer Goldeneye to Casino. Brosnan started out as strong as Craig in terms of the quality of their debut (Funny thing, those films had the same director....) they just fell waaaaay off from there.

I agree that some of the camp of the Roger Moore era actually works well on re-viewing years later. They didn't take themselves too seriously, so they don't prompt your scorn either. The latter two Brosnan flicks did take themselves pretty seriously, but to me weren't even funny in caricature. It's sort of like Plan 9 From Outer Space - that's supposedly the worst movie ever, but it's actually hilarious, so it is in fact not the worst ever. The worst ever is trying to be serious and failing to fail in even a humorous way.

Moonraker has great locations and an outlandish outer space plot, plus Moore, who played the whole role with a smirk and a wink. It's not a good movie, but I can't call it the worst because the actor wasn't mega-serious and the plot was so over the top it feels like it was intentional camp to some extent. To me that has some entertainment value.

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Agree on brosnan

Goldeneye - awesome
Tomorrow never dies - average
World is not enough - bad
Die another day - brutal

The only thing that keeps me watching these films from time to time is Q. He's scenes with 007 were always good, and in some instances the best part of thee movie. rip

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What I don't get is how horrid the Brosnan Bond era was allowed to become. I may get lynched here for saying it, but I prefer Goldeneye to Casino. Brosnan started out as strong as Craig in terms of the quality of their debut (Funny thing, those films had the same director....) they just fell waaaaay off from there.

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i'd say that's a fair statement regarding your preference of Goldeneye over Casino.....personally, i think they both stand on the same level for their own individual merits....

the one thing i love about goldeneye, is that it's a great nod to the classic bond films while still having a modern look....the music is spot on with what you'd expect to hear with a sean connery film, and it was the last bond film to still have a classic looking car (car chase in the beginning with Xenya)...

I enjoyed Die Another Day, but only because I'm a huge Bond fan. The movie was packed full of easter eggs refering to previous Bond films, which I loved as a Bond fan, but it overloaded the film and it was way too busy, which made it a horrible film.

Die Another Day almost killed me.

Moore's and Brosnan's Bond films are a very mixed bag, ranging from extremely good (For Your Eyes Only, Goldeneye) to putrid (Octo*****, Die Another Day.) The other Bonds are much more even in terms of general quality. Even QoS gets better with repeat viewings, IMO. Can't say the same about TWINE or AVTAK.

Die Another Day easily takes it. I actually really like Octo****. You just have to kind of accept it for what it is. The Q-Branch scene in that movie is hilarious. Also, Maud Adams is probably my favorite Bond girl (especially in Man with a Golden Gun).

Moonraker is extremely dated and not good.

Octopu**y is, IMO, is a bright spot in the declining era of Moore's films.

Quantum of Solace was a big step down from Casino Royale, but not as bad as the reviews.

License to Kill was a valiant attempt to stretch the series out of the standard formula, and is helped out by Dalton's underrated Bond performance. Personally, I loved Dalton as Bond and The Living Daylights is one of my all-time favorite Bond films.

Die Another Day is, however, the absolute worst Bond film. Even beating out A View to a Kill (which, ironically, has arguably the best Bond theme song).

Madonna's theme song is the only Bond theme I refuse to include on my iPod. Brosnan's performance is bored. Halle Berry is second only to Denise Richards as worst "Bond Girl." Surfing a tsunami. An invisible car. This movie almost killed the longest-running and most successful film franchise of all time.

Never Say Never Again - an remake of Thunderball with a too old Sean Connery.

That movie doesn't count.

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Die Another Day was probably the worst.

I don't see why people hate Quantum so bad. It could have been better and it really was just Casino Royal, the extended ending.

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Ha! Good call. It's funny to think of it that way.

Personally, after Goldeneye, my second favorite Brosnan Bond film is The Thomas Crown Affair.

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I always thought Brosnan played one of the best bonds but he was in some of the worst movies. Die Another Day and The World is not Enough were awful movies but not because of Brosnan.

That being said, A View to a Kill was the worst for me. I generally like roger moore's laid back style but that movie was just too cheesy for me.

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Quantum of Solace was a big step down from Casino Royale, but not as bad as the reviews.

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Yep. I hardly consider it the worst, or down to the level of Die Another Day. At least there were no over-the-top gadgets like the invisible car, and the hotel of ice. Or diamond-face, and the British villain that we're supposed to believe was a North Korean that underwent gene therapy and plastic surgery. Awful. Brosnan isn't my favorite Bond, but I hated to see him go out that way. It was a far cry from Goldeneye. The World Is Not Enough was pretty weak as well.

Quantum will basically go down as the movie in between Casino Royale and Skyfall...two films I consider top 5 in the series.

Never Say Never Again sucked, but when I was a kid I would rent it over and over again because the "World Domination" game they played was freakin awesome.