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Ponders Revisited said:
For me, Craig's Casino Royale is the perfect Bond film.

Live and Let Die comes in a close second.
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Agree about Daniel Craig's Casino Royale - a fantastic movie, had all the best Bond ingredients. And a cracking theme tune, one of the best ever in my view, with vocals by Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, now sadly deceased.
Mads Mikkelsen was superb as the twitchy and creepy Le Shiffre, and Craig was stone cold and superbly understated as Bond.

Of all the other actors who played Bond more than once, these are my favourite movies;
  • Sean Connery ... Goldfinger (runner up; Dr No)
  • Roger Moore ... For your eyes only (though Live and Let Die is also very good)
  • Timothy Dalton ... The Living Daylights (OK not many to choose from, but I liked it more than the other one)
  • Pierce Brosnan ... The World is not Enough (Sophie Marceau and Robert Carlyle; top supporting cast. Good story I thought. I liked Goldeneye as well)
 
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lardiman said:
Agree about Daniel Craig's Casino Royale - a fantastic movie, had all the best Bond ingredients. And a cracking theme tune, one of the best ever in my view, with vocals by Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, now sadly deceased.
Mads Mikkelsen was superb as the twitchy and creepy Le Shiffre, and Craig was stone cold and superbly understated as Bond.
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That sums it up perfectly, Lardi. <ok>

On a side note, I saw the superb Chris Cornell when he supported Aerosmith at Hyde Park, back in 2007. He performed "You Know My Name" - a real bonus.
 
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Ponders Revisited said:
If I had to take ten films to a desert island (yes, the island has electricity), I'd take the following:

Shawshank Redemption
French Connection (the first one)
Carry On Camping
The Day of the Jackal
Stir Crazy
Porrridge the Movie
Gladiator
Casino Royale
Dumb and Dumber
Watership Down
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How can you not have 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' or 'The postman always rings twice' in there PEA?
 
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AllHellLetLoose said:
How can you not have 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' or 'The postman always rings twice' in there PEA?
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You mention two wonderful films - and they would most probably make my top 25 - but I feel I've hit the right balance with my list. It was difficult leaving out Jaws and The Thing, though.

What ten films would you take to the desert island, AllHell?
 
My top 10 films
1) The Godfather trilogy
2) Pulp Fiction
3) Rise of the foot soldier
4) Once upon a time in America
5) The Shinning
6) Apocalypse Now
7) One flew over the cuckoo's nest
8) The Deer Hunter
9) Scarface
10) Schindler's List
 
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Crackerjack was a fantastic programme when I was a lad <cracker>

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C4 is by far the best news program. The fact that neither May nor Corbyn will agree to be interviewed on it speaks for itself. From what I've seen they are the only TV news station to give proper coverage to the devastation in Yemen. Bring back Paxman. BBC World Service is still excellent though.
 
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