Best Bond Theme

[Gob]

Sir Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die has been named the greatest James Bond theme in a poll of BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 2 listeners.



The track, recorded by McCartney and his band Wings, received more than a quarter of all the votes.

The 1973 film starred Sir Roger Moore, opposite Bond girl Jane Seymour.

Carly Simon's Nobody Does It Better, from The Spy Who Loved Me, was runner-up, while Dame Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger came third.

The chosen track was revealed by film critics Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo during a special Bond edition of their regular review show on Radio 5 Live.

The poll is one of a number of events to mark Bond's 50th anniversary.

Each of the top three tracks will feature in Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night: Bond and Beyond later on Friday, as played by the BBC Philharmonic orchestra.

Sir Paul sang Live and Let Die at the end of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace earlier this year.

Your favourite?

Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View To a Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall

[Lord Jim]

That's a great one, but I think I think there are only two that can hold the record:

The Greatest Bond movie ever made:

Goldfinger...



And my personal favorite: From Russia With Love...:

[Lord Jim]

Well, maybe Nobody Does It Better...

(When I first saw this movie back in the 70's, the whole audience stood up and applauded when James' parachute turned into a Union Jack....)

The Spy Who Loved Me

Got laid with that one:

[Lord Jim]

Greatest James Bond exchange:

"Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?"

Oh no, Mr. Bond....

I expect you to die!...

[dales]

"You Only Live Twice" sung by Nancy Sinatra.

[The Hen]

Never Live and Let Die.

It might make my top six, but maybe not.

[Lord Jim]

The best James Bond line of all time was in The Spy Who Loved Me...

Where the chick says..."James, I need you"....

And Roger Moore replies, "So does England..."... and then he goes on a huge skiing bit....

That was so perfect....

But the best line of all comes from Dr No:

"I thought you were a clever man, Mr. Bond, but I see now that you are nothing but a stupid policeman....



Oh, wrong move....

[loCAtek]

That's a great one, but I think I think there are only two that can hold the record:

The Greatest Bond movie ever made:

Goldfinger...



And my personal favorite: From Russia With Love...:

You're right Jim, much better musical quality. Could it be the BBC and its fans like McCartney, because he was a Brit?

For the best Intro Visuals;







...while I got you here LJ, I know you're fan of Daniel Craig's 'Quantum of Solace' for its realism, but I did finally see it year before last, and it still has its WTF moments. They do fool you into thinking some of the stunts were possible, like the Bourne series does
(and I was going to mention this in the Bourne thread ) ...but that's all they were: stunts.

I got into an argument disagreement with the BF, over that realism. The climatic scene where Bond jumps from a stricken plane with the love interest and just one parachute ...only to survive the fall by getting extra time to open the chute by falling into a cave...



La Loca protested, 'Nah, they would have gone ~splat~!'

My BF was so adamant, that that jump was plausable, that he countered, 'How do you know!?'
I answered, I've seen the movie with Alpha Dog and he agrees they'd have smashed ...and he's been in Airborne.

Far too much wieght, and far too little time for the chute to counter the inertia and gravity. He's not even holding onto her right for an emergency tandem...
I just had to enjoy it for the theatrical stunt techniques ...not the realism.

[Gob]

While we're on the subject...

James Bond anniversary event 007 Days of Bond tours UK

James Bond film stars are to appear at UK locations used in the 007 movies to mark the 50th anniversary of the franchise.

Former Bond girls, including Eunice Gayson, Britt Ekland and Shirley Eaton, and villain Richard Kiel are also among the cast for the 007 Days of Bond tour.

The locations include Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, Penbryn Beach in Wales, and Stoke Park in England.

The latest film, Skyfall, will open in cinemas next month.

Some of the scenes for that feature were shot in London and also Glen Etive, the White Corries and Dalness Lodge in the Highlands.

Roger Moore, 84, who starred in seven Bond films between 1973 and 1985, has officially launched 007 Days of Bond.

Gayson, a Bond girl in Dr No and From Russia With Love in the 1960s, will appear at Eilean Donan Castle in Kyle of Lochalsh on Monday. The castle was used for The World Is Not Enough, which starred Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent.

Later on Monday, a helicopter will retrace the route of a chase scene from From Russia With Love near Lochgilphead, in Argyll, where the scene was filmed.

Over the following days, the event will tour the UK with stop-offs at Penbryn Beach, Ceredigion; Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough; Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire, and The Eden Project, Cornwall.

It will finish in London on 23 and 24 September.

Stars making appearances include Eaton, who was covered in gold paint in Goldfinger, and Kiel who played villain-turned-good-guy Jaws.

Oscar-winning Lindy Hemming, a costume designer on several Bonds including 2006's Casino Royale, stunt co-ordinator Paul Weston and director John Glen are also to take part.

The tour celebrates the 50th anniversary of the franchise and the release of 22 of the films on Blu-ray.

[Lord Jim]

.while I got you here LJ, I know you're fan of Daniel Craig's 'Quantum of Solace' for its realism, but I did finally see it year before last, and it still has its WTF moments.

Actually LoCa, though I know this is considered heresy by Ian Fleming Bond purist snobs, Daniel Craig is my least favorite Bond....(Hell, I even liked George Lazenby better...)

I don't care at all for his humorless, brooding, hyper depressed interpretation of the role....

Connery is my favorite Bond, but I also liked Roger Moore's campier interpretation, which was basically an adaption of the role he had played as Simon Templar in The Saint (Of course my affection for the Moore films may have more to do with my associating them with pleasant high school car sex memories after the movie with the young ladies I took to see them, than the movies themselves.... ) and I liked Pierce Brosnan's Bond too....

I think Lazenby's Bond is grossly underrated...He really wasn't that bad if you take his performance on it's own rather than putting it in the context of his having the misfortune to be the first one to play the role after Connery....(though I have to say the decision to cast Telly Savalas to play Ernst Stavro Blofeld has to rank as one of the most truly bizarre casting decisions in the history of cinema...it ranks right up there with the decision to cast John Wayne to play Genghis Khan- )

I rank Craig along with Timothy Dalton on my list of least favorite Bonds...

[oldr_n_wsr]

Bond girl Jane Seymour.

Got laid with that one:

Me too but she didn't know it.