Bond, James Bond

Sports post below. But in honor of the new Bond movie coming out tomorrow, I submit my James Bond Movie Power Rankings. To remind you all of the Bond movies that have come before it:

I bumped Die Another Day down a bit just because of the awful flying bullet effect during the intro. Ugh.

Below are the movies in reverse order of rank, along with their actor and IMDb rating. I would take all ratings with a large grain of salt. IMDb voters are usually retarded.

21. Moonraker (Roger Moore, 6.1)

20. Die Another Day (Pierce Brosnan, 6.0)

19. Tomorrow Never Dies (Brosnan, 6.4)

18. A View to a Kill (Moore, 6.1)

17. Octopussy (Moore, 6.5)

16. The Man with the Golden Gun (Moore, 6.6)

15. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (George Lazenby, 6.9)

14. The World Is Not Enough (Brosnan, 6.3)

13. The Spy Who Loved Me (Moore, 7.1)

12. The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton, 6.7)

11. License To Kill (Dalton, 6.5)

10. Diamonds Are Forever (Sean Connery, 6.7)

9. For Your Eyes Only (Moore, 6.8)

8. Dr. No (Connery, 7.3)

7. Live and Let Die (Moore, 6.8)

6. You Only Live Twice (Connery, 7.0)

5. Casino Royale (Daniel Craig, 8.0)

4. Thunderball (Connery, 7.0)

3. Goldeneye (Brosnan, 7.1)

2. From Russia with Love (Connery, 7.5)

1. Goldfinger (Connery, 7.9)

A few notes:

• How does Moonraker have above a 6.0 rating? Vomit.
• 6 of my Top 10 feature Sean Connery as Bond. Hm, maybe he was the best.
• What the fuck were they thinking when they made Die Another Day? Were the previous two movies not awful enough?
• Roger Moore is incredibly fat in A View to a Kill. Unintentional comedy rating is very high in that movie, especially because Christopher Walken is the bad guy.
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a pretty decent movie. The only bad part of it was George Lazenby, who just shouldn't have been James Bond. And the inexplicable disguise he uses to infiltrate Blofeld's secret resort or whatever. OK, the movie wasn't that decent.
• Jaws is the worst Bond villain ever. Unbelievable.
• If you ever watch all of the movies, count the following things: number of girls Bond has sex with (either shown or referenced), number of movies with ski chase scene (hint: almost every Moore one), number of unintentionally racist moments, etc.

Feel free to argue these ranks with me in the comments section. I am a huge Bond enthusiast, and I love to talk about the movies. I'm cautiously optimistic about Quantum of Solace. My early prediction of ranking is 12.

- Matt