{"id":7397,"date":"2016-11-19T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T23:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:41:31","slug":"james-bond-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/james-bond-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read one or two of the original James Bond books by Ian Fleming, and I&#8217;ve seen all the movies except one. I was a big fan of the movies many years ago. Now I think some of the more recent ones are great and most of the older ones don&#8217;t quite hold up.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an interim version of this list, now that I&#8217;ve rewatched all the films starring Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and George Lazenby. If I watch any of these again in the future it will likely be <strong>Goldfinger<\/strong>, <strong>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service<\/strong>, and <strong>The Spy Who Loved Me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Connery<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/dr-no\/\">Dr. No<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1962 -&gt; 3\/5 (+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/from-russia-with-love\/\">From Russia with Love<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1963 -&gt; 3.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/goldfinger\/\">Goldfinger<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1964 -&gt; 4\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/thunderball\/\">Thunderball<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1965 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/you-only-live-twice\/\">You Only Live Twice<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1967 -&gt; 3.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/diamonds-are-forever\/\">Diamonds Are Forever<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1971 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/never-say-never-again\/\">Never Say Never Again<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1983 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>George Lazenby<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/on-her-majestys-secret-service\/\">On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1969 -&gt; 4\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Roger Moore<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/live-and-let-die\/\">Live and Let Die<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1973 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-man-with-the-golden-gun\/\">The Man with the Golden Gun<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1974 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-spy-who-loved-me\/\">The Spy Who Loved Me<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1977 -&gt; 4\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/moonraker\/\">Moonraker<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1979 -&gt; 2\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/for-your-eyes-only\/\">For Your Eyes Only<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1981 -&gt; 3\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/octopussy\/\">Octopussy<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1983 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/a-view-to-a-kill\/\">A View to a Kill<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1985 -&gt; 2.5\/5&nbsp;(+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Timothy Dalton<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Living Daylights\n<ul>\n<li>1987<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Licence to Kill\n<ul>\n<li>1989<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pierce Brosnan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GoldenEye\n<ul>\n<li>1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tomorrow Never Dies\n<ul>\n<li>1997<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The World is Not Enough\n<ul>\n<li>1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Die Another Day\n<ul>\n<li>2002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daniel Craig<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Casino Royale\n<ul>\n<li>2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Quantum of Solace\n<ul>\n<li>2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/skyfall\/\">Skyfall<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2012 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/spectre\/\">Spectre<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read one or two of the original James Bond books by Ian Fleming, and I&#8217;ve seen all the movies except one. I was a big fan of the movies many years ago. Now I think some of the more recent ones are great and most of the older ones don&#8217;t quite hold up. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}