I like the Bond series for their endless inventive set-pieces, blend of crude eroticism and one-liners which would sink any other film bar the one it appears in. Go for early Connery (Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball) and the sole George Lazenby effort, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, to see how brilliant they are. I don't care much for the Moore films; Dalton had something about him which I liked, and the Brosnan films became tame and undisciplined after Tomorrow Never Dies. Die Another Day is one big bloated, fat, grandiose film which doesn't come close to the ice-cool appeal of the Lazenby film or the melting pot of the Connery films.

I like GoldenEye, though.