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Greatest James Bond Films Official (and Unofficial) |
(chronological by decade) Introduction | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s-2020s |
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Director Studio |
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Villains |
Girls (# of Love-making Encounters) |
Locales |
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Deaths (Bond Kills) |
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 Die Another Day (2002) d. Lee Tamahori MGM/UA |
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Colonel Tan-Sun Moon (Will Yun Lee), Zao (Rick Yune), Sir Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare), Vlad (Mikhail Gorevoy) |
Peaceful Fountains of Desire (Rachel Grant) Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry) Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) 3 |
Pukch'Ong Coast, North Korea, Korean DMZ between N and S Korea, Hong Kong harbor (Yacht Club and Rubyeon Royale Hotel), Havana and Los Organos - Isla de Los Organos in Cuba, London, England, Iceland, Pyongang Airbase (North Korea) | surfboard with sliding door hidden compartment (C4 explosives, a combat knife with GPS, a communications device, a Walther 99 with silencer, and an Omega Seamaster professional chronometer watch with remote detonator pin incorporated into the rotating bezel), Zao's camera-transmitter, Moon's tank-buster (depleted uranium gun), Jinx's mobile phone to detonate explosives, virtual reality simulation glasses, gadgets in Q's lab (an old attache briefcase, a jetpack, a poison-spike shoe, an ultra high-frequency single digit sonic agitator unit (aka bullet-proof glass shattering ring), Bond's 20th Omega watch), Graves' Dream Machine (with fiber-optic mask), Icarus satellite (with suitcase-shaped control panel), Graves' suit (replacement control unit for Icarus with self-defense mechanism equipped with 100,000 volt current stun gun), Jinx's rope descender-ascender, robotic torture table with multiple laser arms, Bond's Omega laser beam-cutting watch, miniature underwater breather or rebreather | Colonel Moon's Hovercrafts, tan/white 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 convertible, remotely-controlled silver-gray Aston Martin V12 Vanquish (or Vanish) with "adaptive camouflager" (also with the usual refinements including ejector seat, torpedoes, target-seeking shotguns to shoot down mobile objects as part of a defensive weapons system, also with sliding roof, radial thermal imaging (heat) display and spike-tires for ice-driving), Graves' turbo-jet-powered Ice Dragster, Jinx's dark red Ford Thunderbird, Skidoo snow-mobiles, Zao's green Jaguar XKR convertible (with rear-mounted gatling gun, front/side door mounted missile rockets, mortar launchers in the trunk, and ramming spikes in the front), the Antonov cargo plane, switchblade body-gliders |
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 Casino Royale (2006) d. Martin Campbell MGM/UA |
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Steven Obanno (Isaach De Bankole), Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian), Carlos (Claudio Santamaria), Gettler (Richard Sammel) | Solange Dimitrios (Caterina Murino), Valenka (Ivana Milicevic), Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)
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Prague, Czech Republic, Mbale, Uganda, Madagascar, Bahamas (Nassau/Paradise Island), London, England, Miami, Florida USA, Montenegro, Serbia, Lake Como and Venice, Italy | Vaio laptop computer (with scanner of cellphone memory card to map call location), Sony Ericsson K800 cellphone (with GPS and digital camera), explosive key-ring bomb, microchip arm-implant transmitter-tracking device, a second tracking device "bug" (placed in Le Chiffre's inhaler), high-tech first aid safety kit including portable AED (automated external defibrillator) and anti-poison/chemical combi-pens | New Holland bulldozer-tractor, Le Chiffre's Yacht, Bond's white Ford Mondeo (Contour), Range Rover, gold Aston Martin DB5, Skyfleet S570 prototype jet, grayish black, sleek Aston Martin DBS V12 (with secret glove compartment containing Bond's Walther P99, and poison antidotes), Le Chiffre's and Mr. White's Jaguar XJ8, SPIRIT yacht |
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 Quantum of Solace (2008) d. Marc Forster MGM/ Sony / Columbia |
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster), Mr. Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson), Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), General Medrano (Joaquin Cosio), Elvis (Anatole Taubman) | Camille Montes Rivero (Olga Kurylenko), M16 Agent Miss (Strawberry) Fields (Gemma Arterton)
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Siena, Italy, London, England, Port au Prince, Haiti, Bregenz, Austria, Talamone (Tuscany), Italy, La Paz, Bolivia and Bolivian desert, Kazan, Russia (Republic of Tartarstan) | there was no gadgets-master Q in this film, nor any major gadgets to speak of, except for Bond's Sony Ericsson cellphone with GPS tracking ability, and with a camera-transmitter to a facial-recognition program. MI6's high-tech offices in London contained vast numbers of computer monitors, touch-screens, and view-screens. MI6 agents also could track Bond's whereabouts with a portable Sony VAIO computer GPS device | Alfa Romeos, Bond's Aston Martin DBS V12, Camille's metallic gold Ford Ka, motorbike, Sunseeker powerboats and motor-yachts, maroon Ford Bronco II, Greene's private Ocean Sky executive jet, Range Rover Sport, Douglas DC3 plane, Aermacchi SF 260 jet fighter and a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, VW beetle, hydrogen-powered Ford | (17) |
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Sony / Columbia |
Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) | Bond's Lover (Tonia Sotiropoulou), and Severine (Berenice
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Istanbul (Turkey), London (England), Shanghai (China) and Macau, Scotland (at Skyfall) | a modified Walther PPK/S 9mm short pistol with an embedded micro-dermal sensor in the grip, and a tiny, standard-issue radio tracker-transmitter (to broadcast one's location) | a Land Rover, a Range Rover Vogue SE, Jaguar XJ L, Aston Martin DB5 (with ejection seat and machine gun headlights) | |||
Sony / Columbia |
Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona), Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista), Franz Oberhauser or Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), and British traitor Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott) (code-named C) |
Estrella (Stephanie Sigman), Lucia
Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), and Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux)
3 | Mexico City (Mexico), London (England), Rome (Italy), Austria, Morocco (Tangier) and the Saharan Desert | smart blood, an explosive alarmed wristwatch, Hinx' double barreled Arsenal Firearms AF2011 Dueller Prismatic, Bond's SIG 226 revolver, a brain drill (for torture), and the 'Nine Eyes' surveillance network (combined data streams of nine nations to prevent terrorist attacks) | Aston Martin DB10 (stolen), Jaguar C-X75, a plane flown like a snowmobile, and Bond's older Aston Martin DB5 | |||
MGM / Universal |
Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), Primo (or Cyclops) (Dali Benssalah), Logan Ash (Billy Magnussen), Dr. Valdo Obruchev (David Dencik), Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) | Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), Nomi (Lashana
Lynch), Paloma
(Ana de Armas)
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Langevann Lake in Nittedal, Norway; Matera, Italy; London, England; Port Antonio, Jamaica; Santiago de Cuba; the remote Kalsoy Island in the Faroe Islands | Aston Martin DB5 (LED number plate, M134 mini-gatling guns in headlights, enhanced smoke screen from tailpipe, mini-mine dispenser (explosive jacks), re-configured control panel, bulletproof body and glass); Laser Cutters, the Heracles DNA Targeting Weapon - the Nanobot Virus; Magnetic Bodysuit Parachutes; Earpiece Transmitters; Blofeld's Bionic Eyeball Walkie Talkie; Omega Seamaster Diver 300M with Limited Radius EMP (Electro-magnetic Pulse); Q-DAR Tracking Device; "Smart" Blood; the "Stealthy Bird" Submersible Flying Glider With Retractable Wings | 1964 Silver-Birch Aston Martin DB5 (gadget car), 1985 Gray Aston Martin V8 Vantage Mark IV, and 2020 Aston Martin Valhalla; and Nomi's new model Aston Martin DBS Superleggera coupe; also Bond's Spirit 46 Sailing Yacht, and Nomi's Seaplane |
(chronological by decade) Introduction | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s-2020s |
