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1. Diamonds
Are Forever (1971)
Sean
Connery's final official outing as James Bond finds
our hero chasing a cachet of diamonds from Holland
to Las Vegas. Featuring one of the most beautiful
Bond girls (Jill St. John as Tiffany Case), a suave
villain (Charles Gray as Blofeld), and a witty script,
Diamonds is one of the most fun Bond movies ever made.
The Las Vegas locales are used to great effect and
the final battle on an oil rig off the California
coast is one of the classic action set pieces in all
of the Bond films.
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2. Goldeneye
(1995)
Pierce
Brosnan's first and best outing as Bond has agent
007 matching wits with Alec Trevelyan, a former 00
agent who was presumed dead and has gone rogue. The
plot centers on a deadly satellite that can literally
plunge England back into the stone age. Sean Bean
is great as the villainous yet charming 006 and his
henchwoman Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) sports a
lethal pair of thighs. Goldeneye revived the Bond
series after a 6 year hiatus and was the launching
pad for the successful films that have followed.
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3. The
Spy Who Loved Me (1978)
Roger
Moore's strongest outing as 007 has Bond and his Russian
counterpart Major Anya Amasova (also known as Agent
XXX) trying to thwart a megalomaniac's plan to plunge
the planet into World War III. The movie features
7'2" Richard Kiel as "Jaws", one of
the most memorable Bond villains (he sports a deadly
set of metal teeth) and the famous Lotus Esprit, a
car that can turn into a submarine.
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4. From
Russia With Love (1963)
James
Bond matches wits with SPECTRE (the Special Executive
for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and
Extortion) for possession of the Lektor, a Russian
decoding machine. FRWL is more a straight-ahead spy
film than its successors. Closely following the novel
on which it is based, the film features Robert Shaw
as the cold-blooded Red Grant, and one of the greatest
fight scenes ever filmed as Bond fights Grant to the
death on the Orient Express.
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5. On
Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
OHMSS
broke away from many of the conventions of most other
Bond movies. Featuring Australian model turned actor
George Lazenby for the first and last time as 007,
the movie finds Bond chasing his old nemesis Ernst
Stavros Blofeld from Portugal to the Swiss Alps. While
Bond tries to thwart Blofeld's latest scheme for world
domination, he falls in love and gets married, only
to tragically lose his new wife at the end of the
film. OHMSS features some of the best stunt work of
the entire Bond series including an incredible ski
chase, as well as some very good performances by Lazenby,
Telly Savalas as Blofeld, and Diana Rigg as the ill-fated
Tracy. A very different (but still entertaining) take
on Bond, James Bond.
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Honorable
Mentions
Goldfinger
(1964)
Bond takes on Auric Goldfinger and tries to thwart
his plan to irradiate all of the gold at Fort Knox.
Goldfinger featured the debut of Bond's famous Aston
Martin DB5.
Thunderball
(1965)
James Bond races against time to find two nuclear
warheads before SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo can detonate
them.
You
Only Live Twice (1968)
Bond goes to Japan to stop SPECTRE from starting World
War III. YOLT features a breathtaking helicopter battle
with Bond's small autogyro Little Nellie and some
of the largest and most elaborate sets ever built
for a movie.
Moonraker
(1979)
James Bond goes into outer space to thwart billionaire
Hugo Drax's plans for world extermination.
Tomorrow
Never Dies (1997)
Bond matches wits with media mogul Elliot Carver,
who plans to plunge England and China
into war and then provide exclusive coverage on his
networks.
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