What Bond film (if any) do you *HATE* and why? (Page 2 of 3)

I have fun with Octopussy, but I can see not liking it.
My 'Could (easily) live without' list wold be LTK, DAD, Moonraker, & AVTAK.

With you both. Hate it!

I was gonna say NSNA but I don't class it as an official bond film so I left it out.

That's another I could do without. But I left it out for the same reason.

I enjoyed the Daltons more than you did.  I was thrilled to have a young, physical Bond, for one thing...and knowing that Dalton was a fan of the books was encouraging as well.  Unfortunately, they couldn't completely shake what I considered the gratuitous comedy of the previous era---and Dalton clearly wasn't comfortable with it, which hurt the overall product in my opinion.

I can't believe how many times I watched it just because SC was in it. But every time I came to dislike it a bit more....

Really interesting thread.  I thought I would come out straight away and say I hated AVTAK, but tbh there really isn't a Bond film I hate.  Maybe that's why I called myself the biggest Bond fan in the world, til the net was invented and I found this forum!  LOL.

Anyway, if I have to I woukd say definitely AVTAK.  Reasons:

1.  The awful PTS complete with Beach Boys song.
2.  Roger Moore looking like Tanya Roberts great grandad.
3.  The usually fantastic Chris Walken's totally hammed up villain, Zorin.
4.  Too much Americanisation.

IMHO there are a lot of unused parts of Fleming's novels left. CR and LALD alone have some great moments (for instance the interaction between 007 and Leiter) that haven't been used in the films that I'd like to see.

The film that I don't like (hate is not the right word) is QoS, closely followed by DAD. I don't like QoS because to me it doesn't feel like a Bond film. In my opinion AVTAK is a terrible film but within 10 minutes you'd know you were watching a 007 movie. QoS doesn't have that for me. DAD is the exact opposite. One big homage to 40 years of Bond. I liked the small references like taking the grape in the Cuban clinic but the entire Q scene was a bit too much.

I do not hate any James Bond Films but when I rewatched every single one of them including Never Say Never Again a couple years ago, 4 stood out as not being as good as the others. Those 4 would be:
License to Kill - Two words: Wayne Newton. Four more words: Truck bustin a wheelie
Tomorrow Never Dies - Not very good villain. No memorable scenes other than maybe the precredit sequence and Terri Hatchers bum.
The Man With the Golden Gun - Too much JW on vacation in the middle. Hoky weird scenes with Nick Nack; three nipples, on the beach with the laser and Holly Goodnight (terrible actress)
Quantum of Solace - too many meaningless chase scenes and i dont like chase scenes normally. Horrible Villain. Definately no memorable scenes. Did I say horrible villain. Bond girl ehhh no. Dont even remember the henchmen.

I see Die Another Day on some of this thread and it is straight up my 4th favorite BOND film for sure. Extremely entertaining. Unbelievable pre credit folks. Halle Berry yes mam. Zao beastful henchmen.

There's no movie I hate but DAD comes close. Lame conclusion. Terrible "location" work. Bad acting. Poor casting. Lame villains.

I can see from the other posts that the comments in my original post have merit.  The films disliked by the other members either were non Fleming stories or stuck by the film series formula because that's what brought in ticket sales, even if artistically they were sub-par.  They kept shoe horning in physical humor and bad puns and spectacle at the expense of Fleming's character, turning them into three dimensional cartoons.  Even a friend of mine once commented after seeing an over the top stunt in one film that he thought he had seen something similar in an old Looney Toon.  A good example is DAD.  I started enjoying the precredits sequence up to the over the top mine field chase.  I even enjoyed Bond being in prison for a year and worked over, then traded back in a governmental deal, as it has happened in real life to real spies.  It wasn't Fleming, but the bit before the chase and the prison and trade parts had the spirit of a Fleming novel about them.  The problem was that the producers had still believed that every film had to have spectacular set piece chases with lots of explosions and Brosnan shooting thousands of rounds at armies of men shooting back -  without getting a scratch!  Of course, millions of people are paying to see this type of action in a BOND movie and expect it.  This is my point.  A large Jekyll/Hyde divide developed over the series dealing with Fleming's character and the cinema character of Bond.  The producers got the public used to seeing explosions and spectacle and a cartoon version of Bond coolly detached through it all with a smirk and a straightening of the tie swagger.  That's why when they brought Dalton in to bring the character back to Fleming's ideal, it didn't mesh well - Jekyll is Fleming's complex government spy and blunt instrument;  Hyde the producer's creation - a individual that is all action and lust and baudry humor.  They tried to balance the two again with the Brosnan films, but the bombast of Mr. Hyde would not die.  We then got Craig and CR.  This has been their best effort in balancing the two in a while (OHMSS was the last good balance).  They still had the large action scequences, but focused on Bond himself and kept Fleming's Dr. Jeykll version at the center of the story.  They lost the balance again with QOS.  They tried blending a realistic, morality play dealing with Bond's inner demons with a non-stop action film.  Instead of continuing the Vesper revenge theme, they should have just made a new story line, or perhaps did the whole revenge part in the pre-credits sequence just to bury it and move on.  I think the audience expects to see Bond enjoy himself at times through the story (as he did in the novels).  I hope they do in the new film.  Unfortunately, from what I can see from the trailer, the plot does not seem to afford Craig to have much levity.

I do not like LTK very much as one poster said it has a die hard feel to it i like die hard as a film but LTK belongs in that list of films but as i remembered reading the late 80's saw a lot of films like LTK Die Hard and LW films so it is understandable about how this film isnt liked very much but it has its own fans