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The Bond 50 - as voted for by you!, But - which one is number 50?

The Bond 50

But which one is Number 50?

Bond vs. henchman: OHMSS	[ 10 ]	[15.38%]
Bond vs. centipede: Dr No	[ 4 ]	[6.15%]
Bond vs. tarantula: Dr No	[ 7 ]	[10.77%]
Bond slides into Piz Gloria: OHMSS	[ 12 ]	[18.46%]
Bond slides into Tylyn: Never Dream of Dying	[ 1 ]	[1.54%]
Hello, hello: From Russia with Love	[ 7 ]	[10.77%]
Goodnight, Goodnight: TMWTGG	[ 5 ]	[7.69%]
Bigmouth Strikes Again: From Russia with Love	[ 3 ]	[4.62%]
Bond vs. practically the whole of Kingston airport: Dr No	[ 7 ]	[10.77%]
The usual lunchtime chitter-chatter: TMWTGG	[ 9 ]	[13.85%]

Total Votes: 72

Jim View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00399 \| Posts: 10482 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 2 August 2001 From: Oxfordshire	3 August 2006 - 18:18 Post #1
	Over the past couple of weeks, CBn has been running an online survey to try to establish what its members consider to be the "Best of Bond". Members were encouraged to PM me with their choice of top 3 Bond moments from the books, the films, the videogames - moments that typify Bond for them, or perhaps moments personal to them and standing out in their memories. Thank you to everyone who voted: as it turns out, 49 suggestions had at least 2 votes, with a handful gathering one vote each. Where moments received an equal number of votes, the eventual order was achieved via a highly sophisticated flip of a coin. What this meant was that there were a number of scenes, all with one vote each, vying for that 50th position. Above, the selections: below, the scenes competing for your vote! So - which is it to be? Pretty impossible to decide, but there's an empty space to fill and a load of Bond to fill it! Number 50? George Lazenby choking one of Blofeld’s Orange-coated hench-ski-trooper with his ski while calmly looking over his shoulder to see if more hench-ski-troopers were coming: OHMSS Why? Nowhere in the film series has there been an actor who was more ‘Bond’ than George Lazenby was that moment. Ultra smooth. Ultra-cool. Number 50? Bond vs. the centipede: Dr No (the novel) Why? Only when you stop reading do you realise how bloody stupid it is. But that’s a mark of how brilliant it is. If someone wants to know what Fleming’s like as a writer, this is it – insane ideas and not very literary but he just gets you and doesn’t let go. Number 50? Bond vs. the tarantula: Dr No Why? The three extra whacks Bond gives the spider. A very humanizing touch, slightly humorous and yet still realistic. Bond is supposed to be a man after all, not a superhero! Number 50? Bond sliding across the ice while firing during the attack on Piz Gloria:OHMSS Why? It's just amazingly cool! Number 50? The description of Bond and Tylyn's intercourse: Never Dream of Dying Why? Very rude. Number 50? Bond's telephone manner: From Russia with Love Why? My all time favourite Bond moment is exactly that: just a moment. It happens when Bond has checked his room for bugs, finally finding one in the phone, upon which (now it happens) he tosses the phone on the bed but keeps the receiver in his hand, and orders a new room. This single movement is just ultra-cool and totally Bond. Never seen it anywhere else before or after (and as this kind of phones is not very much in use any more, it is unlikely that we'll see something similar any more) This guy knows exactly what he's doing and how he has to do it (as we see in the entire scene, anyway). He's a cool, calm and collected pro who has done this umpteen times ago. This is purely routine - down to the fact that it would work like this only in a hotel, where you immediately have a receptionist on the phone when you pick it up (without having to touch a dial or button). Would be interesting to know if it was Connery's own idea to play it like that. Number 50? Bond and Goodnight share a passionate moment onboard Scaramanga's junk: The Man with the Golden Gun Why? A boat on autopilot, a beautiful woman and the whole Andaman sea to enjoy her company after another clash with death. How many guys would actually produce moments like those? Number 50? Meeting Tania: From Russia with Love (novel) Why? Slightly more subtle, stylish, and erotic than the film version - very revealing about both characters, and of course the mouth-size joke always gets a titter. Number 50? Bond arrives in Kingston: Dr No Why? 100% cat-like prowl, confidence, swagger. The way he tells off the driver asking to take his bags... the look in his eye in the phone booth when we realizes the enemy knows he's there. Connery's best. Pure Bond. Number 50? Bond and Scaramanga have lunch: The Man with the Golden Gun Why? [Quoting Survey example] Who said Roger Moore couldn't act? The Bond 50 [sub]The results of CBn survey of its members to find the 50 greatest moments of James Bond movies, books, and videogames[/sub] "There was a violent cruelty, a pathological desire to wound, quite near the surface in the man." CBn: ...we have people everywhere Only James Bond is James Bond.

MarcAngeDraco View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 003161 \| Posts: 3156 Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 9 November 2004 From: Oxford, Michigan	6 August 2006 - 12:47 Post #2
	Just bumping this, so we can get some more votes and break the current four-way tie... But today is the thirteenth...

Jericho_One View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 006755 \| Posts: 1351 Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 19 June 2006 From: Portugal	7 August 2006 - 15:05 Post #3
	While being interesting, this is actually fun. Come now people, vote! Orbis Non Sufficit

darthbond View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 005409 \| Posts: 518 Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 25 September 2005 From: Preston ID	7 August 2006 - 19:56 Post #4
	My vote for the 50 greatest bond moment is in Dr. No when bond walks around the airport and the bond theme is playing. I can't help thinking, Damn! I want to be him. Classic moment of the bond movies. darthbond Awfully sorry to trouble you chaps. - Ian Fleming The name is Bond, James Bond.

Mister Asterix View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00265 \| Posts: 14897 Commodore RNVR Group: The Admiralty Enlisted: 8 October 2001 From: 38.6902N - 89.9816W	7 August 2006 - 21:25 Post #5
	Go Laz choking the hench with the ski! CBn: A pretty cold bastard who wants revenge for the death of someone it loved.

ComplimentsOfSha... ComplimentsOfSharky View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002956 \| Posts: 2747 Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 1 August 2004 From: Station PGH, Pittsburgh	7 August 2006 - 21:40 Post #6
	Bond vs. centipede: Dr No Bond slides into Piz Gloria: OHMSS Goodnight, Goodnight: TMWTGG I managed to narrow it down to these three. I'm going to have to go with the end of TMWTGG I think though I'm not really sure why. Timothy Dalton: Scaring the living daylights out of you and eliminating your problems from 1987 to 1989.

Carver View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 0041 \| Posts: 1446 Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 27 March 2002 From: Out in the sticks	8 August 2006 - 00:52 Post #7
	I voted for "Hello, Hello"- FRWL. Brilliantly described there, and it's always been one of my favourite scenes in all the Bond films. It's just the whole nature of it, it's exactly what he would do when he first entered a hotel room- check for traps. Connery performs it so well, keeping a hand casually in his pocket and only touching objects lightly so it doesn't really show he's interfered with the layout of the room. Plus, that moment with the pohne is effortlessly cool, the way he demands to have a different room: "it just won't do, the bed's too small". This man is Bond, at his all-time best. A new banker, I seem to collect them Delicious...

Johnboy007 View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 002290 \| Posts: 6829 Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 27 August 2003 From: Atlanta	8 August 2006 - 02:54 \| Post #8
	I couldn't help but vote for Tylyn. It's the most incredibly non Bond-like thing in any of the novels but it's certainly memorable in a really bad way. It was also probably the most uncomfortable thing I have read in the middle of class. It wouldn't be a James Bond adventure starring Daniel Craig without some controversy! Strawberry Fields, forever

Timothy View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 005596 \| Posts: 84 Midshipman Group: Crew Enlisted: 13 October 2005 From: Germany, Bonn	8 August 2006 - 11:03 Post #9
	The tarantula in DN was just scary. I still shiver when I see this scene. So does Bond - he's bloody scared. The first vulnerable moment - but James Bond controls himself so well - until the end. Greenpeace won't be amused

Brock Samson View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 007039 \| Posts: 124 Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 8 August 2006 From: Venture Compound East	8 August 2006 - 15:57 Post #10
	Christopher Lee as Scaramanga. Rubbish film, great villian. I'd give my eye teeth to hear Connery say 'Scaramanga'. Swedish Murder Machine I gotta admit I always wanted to get Edgar Allan Poe in a headlock. That thing is like a pumpkin! Oh yeah, the pain. It's not so bad. I hacked up some blood a couple of minutes ago and there was this pink chunk about the size of, uh... one of those little kiwifruit, but I don't feel anything missing, so I'm not too worried.

Mister Asterix View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00265 \| Posts: 14897 Commodore RNVR Group: The Admiralty Enlisted: 8 October 2001 From: 38.6902N - 89.9816W	14 August 2006 - 19:57 Post #11
	We should hand out little �I Voted for Bond�s 50th Greatest Moment� stickers. CBn: A pretty cold bastard who wants revenge for the death of someone it loved.

Jim View Member Dossier Find Member's Posts Agent No.: 00399 \| Posts: 10482 Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 2 August 2001 From: Oxfordshire	14 August 2006 - 20:23 Post #12
	Interesting leader, there. Wasn't expecting that. "There was a violent cruelty, a pathological desire to wound, quite near the surface in the man." CBn: ...we have people everywhere Only James Bond is James Bond.