James Bond’s Best Girls, Gadgets & Villains 

Sophie Marceau is an underrated Bond girl, even though she turned out to be a villain

It's strange to think that more men have walked on the Moon (12) then have portrayed James Bond in films (6).

The only reason James Bond is relevant to me is the N64 game. Played it so much I could run through each level backwards and sideways. The movies are cheap and sorta like a mediocre slasher film quality, the ones I've seen anyways

To Me, Eva Green (Vesper Lynd) Is Permanently The Number One Bond Girl.

I knew Richard Kiel. He would come into the gas station I worked at in the late 80’s all the time. Super nice man and always was nice to fans who would ask for autographs when he was filling up. He was so tall he even took up most of the room in his vehicles (a Lincoln Town Car and a Ford Econoline van.)

The fact is: Roger Moore had the best girls! And the best films! His last 5 movies(1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985.) were probably the best time in James Bond franchise ever! Of course, Timothy Dalton's first film, TLD(1987), was great too! And Kara Milovy was a gorgeous Bond girl!

Fiona Volpe is the best Bond girl, but keeping with the criteria of the list….Natalya Simonova is number one in my mind.

Halle berry was horrible cast. Carey lowell,was great.She was a fresh breath,and no damsel in distress. Eva green was pretty and great acting.But they went back to the whole opposite attract formula

Best bond girl is eva because she's the only one i ever dated 🤣

Im so glad you included Pam Bouvier on your list of Bond girls. I think she is my favourite. I love her character and she is so beautiful.

Dude. Esprit (esspree)

We're not having any villains in this list. Any way in at number 8, its the villain from the world is not enough

On the Bond girls list, Honorable Mention to Dr. Holly Goodhead in Moonraker. Her knowledge of aerospace engineering and her status as a CIA plant in the Drax Organization made her a stronger female character than most Bond girls. Lois Chiles was a real beauty back then and her filmography shows that she's worked steadily for years, mostly in small parts. Chiles' best other role IMO was in Creepshow 2 as the woman who hits a hitchhiker with her car then gets tormented by his ghost all the way home.

Eva Green Man. Eva Green. She has to be one of the most stunningly beautiful women I have ever seen. I just can't take my eyes off her. You know how there is a type of woman who is so breathtaking, you don't want to see her with her clothes off. The type of woman where just being in her company is everything.

The roles for Carey Lowell and Halley Berry weren’t well written. Maybe with better material their acting could have stood out more. But otherwise they’re forgettable characters in lower tier Bond films.

Luciana Paluzzi, aka Fiona Volpe, Jane Seymour, aka Miss Solitaire, Claudine Auger aka Domino 😘😘😘

Octopussy would qualify as a villain, albeit a minor one, for the early and middle portions of the film - to say nothing of Electra King (so far the only primary XX villain!).

I definitly agree with number one being Vesper Lynd and number two being Pam Bouvier (who also present my two favourite Bond-movies). I miss Michelle Yeoh's Wai Lin in this list, especially for her action scenes in "Tomorrow never dies".

The Aston-Martin DB-V in Goldfinger is the quintessential spy car. Whenever you hear the term "spy car" that's the one everybody thinks of. The arcade game Spy Hunter even used a car with all those things years ago, but I guess couldn't get the music rights for the Bond theme and instead used the Peter Gunn theme. Machine guns, smokescreen, oil slick, etc.

When you look at most comic book, television, & movie superheroes, they do seem more "woke" or Liberal leaning rather then Conservative. This is probably because most of these heroes are written to want to help/save people of all backgrounds & rarely have prejudices against other human beings. An "anti-woke" hero is essentially a James Bond villain.

After the original Blofeld - not the remade Blofeld, i would say the best Bond villain is 006 in GoldenEye. Hes definitely the most understandable and sympathetic. Then of course, theres Goldfinger

So glad you included Mayday as a top villain! She’s indeed one of the most iconic characters in the entire series - the menace, wild fashion/hair/makeup, chemistry with Zorin and her final arc are all excellent

James bond roger moore is 007 brst actor in britain I love the show is the best.

Somebody needs to tell me when Die Another Day became the worst Bond movie.

I think the best villain is Auric Goldfinger. His grotesque obsession with Gold, combined with his need to overcompensate for his shortcomings, (cheating at golf, cards, and paying to be seen with beautiful women) makes him a fully fleshed out character and villain. That humanity is missing in most Bond villains and they are often merely not much beyond "cloak and dagger".

Love Scaramanga personally. Sir Christopher Lee was a legend and his performance in that film was so good. His character is a villain yet you really can't help but liking him. He's top of my list for the villains.

In what universe is Natalya 'mousey looking'? Elektra is also totally a villain. Yeah, she's something of a Stockholm victim, but she absolutely the villain as much as Renard, and indeed she was the mastermind, effectively switching roles with Renard, where he ended up subordinate to her. The glasses in A View to a Kill are less X-Ray specs, and more filters for reflections on glass. He's not seeing through a wall, just making it easier to make out what's going on, on the other side of a window.

Maud Adams is not the only woman to be in two movies. Martine Beswick is in From Russia with Love and in Thunderball

Ursela Andress for me. 🎶Underneath the mango tree🎶 All day, every day. No contest.

Elektra King was the main villain in The World Is Not Enough and Renard was the henchman. The whole plot was hers and Renard was the muscle willing to die to make sure she got what she wanted Elektra was also the one who switched her father’s pin and manipulated MI6 into delivering both Bond and M to their near deaths

When I was a kid, many moons ago, I saw a guy fly one of those jetpacks at of all places Disneyland. Did not remember that till your Bond gadgets retrospective. Thanks.

My re-ranking of your top 10: 10: Carey Lowell; 9 Ursula Andress; 8 Halle Berry; 7: Maud Adams; 6: Barbara Bach; 5: Sophie Marceau (she doesn't belong here...villian); 4: Carole Boquest; 3: Isabel Scorupo; 1a: Diana Rigg and 1b: Eva Green (both are awesome characters and tremendous actors!

Favorite bond girl : Vesper Lynd or Natalya Simonova Favorite gadget : Bond's watch from Live And Let Die (Electromagnet and buzzsaw) Favorite villain : Donald Grant, From Russia With Love

I've often said that Roger Moore should have stopped portraying James Bond with For Your Eyes Only since he was starting to show his age in that film. While his last 2 films weren't bad, it would have been best if a younger actor (even if it wasn't Timothy Dalton) take over the role from him.

Do a list for best james bond villains lairw

i would put Izabella Scorupco in the Top 5. i like Bond girls who gave Bond a hard time, make him work his charm--not by seducing her, but by being there for her in times of need and then she falls in love with him. Natalya Simonova falls under that category.

I like your list. Disagree with 2, 4 and 9, but otherwise solid. Lea Seydoux is still and always will be my #1. (Diana Rigg #2, Eva Green #3)

Carole Bouquet being included in the Top 10 shouldn't be controversial. An excellent Bond girl in the best Bond movie of the Moore era.

To me, Pierce Brosnan is essentially the Matt Smith Doctor Who of the James Bond franchise. His 1st outting as the character was so great & arguably his best, but everything the came after was worse by comparison.

Gadget list. Honorable Mention to the demolition watch in Moonraker. After Drax has Bond and Holly Goodhead placed "where they can be assured of warmth," under the Moonraker shuttle's engines, he escapes by pulling out a small explosive charge from his watch that he uses to blow open an exhaust grate so they can escape. The watch itself acts as a detonator switch for the explosive.

The mobile phone in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is an Ericsson, not a Sony Ericsson (first released in 2022)

I would’ve put Isabella Scorupco a bit higher…Really loved her character in Goldeneye

Unfortunately the absolute best "Bond girl" isnt even part of the James Bond franchise. That would be Ilsa Faust in Mission Impossible

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Michelle Yeoh She was an equal to Bond as Chinese Ministry of State Security agent Wai Lin, Bond's ally.

Trivia note: At 51, Lucia Sciarra from Spectre is the oldest Bond Girl to appear in a James Bond film.

I thought Barbara Bach was wooden and not convincing at all as a Russian agent.

Glad that Miss Goodnight didn't make the list. Although she was integral to the story in Man With The Golden Gun, she was portrayed as little more than a ditzy girl tagging along with Bond.

#1. Eva Green. F'n nailed it guys. Bravo!!!!

Eva Green was also my favorite. The perfect woman, as physical appearances go.

There was a rumour than Anna from the spy who loved me was going to appear in a view to a kill the Russian that bond has a nice time in the hit tub

License To Kill was the closest we ever got to having an R-rated James Bond film.

If he's a "secret" agent why does Bond always tell the bad guys his real name?

13 minutes n and already got 4 pop-up ads. Nice…

Yeah. Eva Green in anything is just chef's kiss.

Pronounced Lotus ES pree not ES prit, despite how it is spelled.

Good Bond Girls list. Eva Green also gets my vote for #1. You might consider a list of "backup" Bond girls regardless of heroine or villain, ones whom figured in the movie and maybe Bond actually slept with. For example, in Dr. No, Bond didn't sleep with Honey Ryder (although he did make out with her in the boat at the end of the movie) but he did sleep with Miss Taro, the double-agent secretary at Government House in Jamaica. There was also Sylvia Trench, whom Bond met at the casino at the beginning of Dr. No, and who returned briefly at the start of From Russia With Love.

Madeleine Swann is also a great and essential Bond Girl.

Great video. Happy to see the Submarine car included. However, i am sad that “Pussy Galore” from Goldfinger was not included in the top 10 Bond girls.

??? No Domino, Wai Lin, or Aki or Kissy? 😢

Monica Bellucci in her short appearance in one of the Daniel Craig films was great - she is awesome. The second most under-rated bond (first being Timothy Dalton) Peirce Brosnan had a pretty stacked Bond girl lineup - Halle Berry, Denise Richards, Teri Hatcher, Famke Janssen (who can forget Xenia?,) Izabella Scorupco , Sophie Marceau, and the amazing talented Michelle Yeoh. That is a pretty ridiculous lineup of amazing. That and I appreciate how so many of Brosnan era Bond's female counterparts were actually portrayed as being somewhat competent - instead of the trope of the older bond movies portraying women as lesser, mostly useless stand-ins for the great Sean Connery to give a pat on the butt. I did absolutely love Grace Jones in A View to a Kill which is one of my favs (along with GoldenEye and MoonRaker.)

1. Eva green, best woman and character 2. denise richards, awesome looks 3. ursula andress, iconic/ 1. Aston Martin 2. Walter 3. lotus / 1. Goldfinger 2. Xenia 3. Le Chiffre or Silva/ Best name: Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun;)

Her majesty secret service is probably the best bond film if you want a grounded story and a bond that doesn’t use q’s gadgets as a crutch in a sense also if you want a odd but somehow good build up to a Bond girl relationship The subject of the Bond girl rlly depends on who plays the Bond girl and what the plot needs to the Bond girl to do

In my head canon that chair scene in casino royale explains why Bond never got any of those women pregnant since it is supposed to be like an origin story

Esprit is pronounced espree, duh

I guess the girl with braces didn't make the cut?

The duel between 006 and 007 is one of the best cinematic fights ever.

Ana de armas

For your eyes only is the first Bond movie I can remember seeing.

Vesper.

I was dressing like Roger Moore too at the age of ten. Friends were like wth but it’s all good. It was 1991 so I got away with it.

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First.. thing to do is hit the like and then start watching

It's weird how RU-vidrs crap on Pierce's Bond films, as they were the best of all, and praise Daniel's Bonds, which are the most boring.