Best James Bond intro story?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Best James Bond intro story?

Not to reflect "Which is the best actor to have played Bond", because we all know that mantle goes to Daniel Craig. :D

[porphyrian]

1. Do you mean the teaser at the beginning before the credits? -n/t

[Deja Q]

2. No, I mean the movie itself - judging by the pre-credits teasers:

1. Connery looks suave.
2. Lazenby saves a woman and says it never happened to the other guy.
3. Moore bonks a chick and makes a bad pun
4. Dalton gears into action and kills the bad guy with wit and cold determination
5. Brosnan pokes his head down into a toilet stall and says "Hi"
6. Craig, wry with wit, outwits the opponents before they got a chance


In short, those intros tend to sum up their basic qualities rather well... :D

[DarkTirade]

3. Actually I haven't seen the latest Bond, so I'm still a Connery fan. :)

[Deja Q]

6. Netflix or buy it NOW!

I showed it to my parents last week. Mum is never keen on Bond, but I convinced her to give it a try. (We have similar tastes as to what a good movie is about.)

While they waffled over the ending, they were glued to the set for the vast majority of it. Stayed awake the entire time too -- the latter being one hell of an achievement. :D

[DarkTirade]

8. I was a bit surprised, my mom didn't like the newest one. My brother did though, and I usually like

movies that he likes. Can't always say the same for my mother... ugh. British TV drama miniseries... that's all I have to say. Other than that she's got pretty good taste but... just ugh.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. If you widened it to any intro of a Bond movie

I'd have to vote for "The Spy Who Loved Me" - skiing off the cliff with a Union Jack parachute is definitely the best Bond intro.

[terrya]

5. I agree.

That's a GREAT intro. "The Spy Who Loves Me" is one of my favorite Bond movies. The intro, which you mentioned, tells you how good the rest of the movie is.

[pokerfan]

9. Hands down, it's the teaser for 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

Of course today with CGI and green screens they can pretty much do anything. But the jump in TSWLM was real.

Rick Sylvester donned skis for the breathtaking ski jump that has been ranked among the ten best stunts ever captured on film. The cliff was Asgard Peak on Baffin Island in Northern Canada. Sylvester, second unit director John Glen, and 14 crew members braved freezing temperatures and snowstorms for 10 days while waiting for a perfect opportunity to make the jump. (An excellent account of this stunt can be found under the entry "The Asgard Jump" in Steven J. Rubin's "The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia.")

[Deja Q]

7. Hmmm. The intro to 'The Living Daylights' had me hooked...

Stopping the infiltrating spy at all costs and all... plus the music.

TSWLM wasn't bad, and is one of the best, but TLD is rather better IMHO.