Bond fans pick top 50 favourite movie memories

[Blowfeld]

I am trying to find the complete list.

London: James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘Thunderball’ came top in the list of all time 50 favourite memories from the hit movies. A survey of 1000 moviegoers, conducted by insurance firm esure to mark 50 years of the film franchise, asked fans to name what to them encapsulates their favourite secret service agent.

The famous Aston Martin was followed by Goldfinger’s manservant Oddjob’s metal-rimmed bowler hat that decapitated his enemies, and then the indelible fact that Bond prefers his martinis ‘shaken, not stirred’.

Ursula Andress - dressed in a skimpy white bikini as Honey Ryder in the first Bond movie, ‘Dr No’ - comes in at a rather lowly 22, but she is still 23 places above hunky Daniel Craig emerging from the sea in his tight swimming trunks in the remake of ‘Casino Royale’.

“Bond is famous for the actors who play him, the villains and, of course, the girls,” a leading daily has quoted esure’s Nikki Sellers as saying.

“We wanted to also celebrate the non-human stars of the films, such as the amazing cars, the wonderful inventions and the style icons,” Sellers said.

Several of the movie moments chosen by fans are staples of the 007 films and include the opening title sequence featuring the hero aiming along the barrel of a gun.

But other essential memories have made no more than a single appearance during the past half century. ‘Goldfinger’, which starred Sean Connery in 1964, and ‘Live And Let Die’ with Roger Moore in 1973 both have five unique entries in the list of Bond magic.

Connery’s jetpack from ‘Thunderball’ in 1965 and the incredible flying speedboat in ‘Live And Let Die’ were also in the top five. Michael G Wilson, co- producer of the Bond film franchise, said he “couldn’t choose an absolute favourite because there are so many.”

“But the opening sequence from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, when Bond leaps from Mount Asgard in Canada with a Union Jack parachute, is probably my favourite stunt,” he said.

[Omega]

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The full list of top 50 Bond icons:
1. Aston Martin DB5 (Goldfinger and Thunderball)
2. Oddjob's bowler hat (Goldfinger)
3. Martini shaken, not stirred
4. Jetpack (Thunderball)
5. Flying speedboat (Live and Let Die)
6. Scaramanga's Golden Gun
7. Opening film titles (through gun barrel)
8. Aston Martin DBS (Casino Royale)
9. Jaws' metal teeth
10. Little Nellie one-man copter (You Only Live Twice)
11. Underwater Lotus Esprit (The Spy Who Loved Me)
12. Walther PPK pistol
13 .Bond's dinner suit
14. Cigarette lighter homing device (Live and Let Die)
15. Rolex with laser beam (Never Say Never Again)
16. Blofeld's white cat
17. Acid carrying fountain pen (Octopussy)
18. Lock-opening credit card (View to a Kill)
19. Dagger in a shoe (From Russia With Love)
20. Invisible Aston Martin Vanquish (Die Another Day)
21. Flying snowmobile (The World is Not Enough)
22. Honey Ryder's white bikini (Dr No)
23. Gold painted victim Jill Masterton (Goldfinger)
24. Goldfinger's Rolls Royce Phantom
25. Gondola hovercraft (Moonraker)
26. Fountain pen gun (Never Say Never Again)
27. Double decker bus in chase (Live and Let Die)
28. One man submarine/bathosub (Diamonds are Forever)
29. Goldfinger's industrial laser
30. Fake fingerprint invention (Diamonds are Forever)
31. Revolving sofa (The Living Daylights)
32. Omega Seamaster watch with laser cutter (GoldenEye)
33. Rolex Submariner watch (Dr No)
34. Parker pen grenade (GoldenEye)
35. Garotte wire watch (From Russia With Love)
36. Auto rickshaw (Octopussy)
37. Exploding toothpaste (Licence to Kill)
38. Hot air balloon (Octopussy)
39. Rolex Submariner with magnet (Live and Let Die)
40. Tee Hee's mechanical arm (Live and Let Die)
41. Homing device pill (Thunderball)
42. Trick elevator (Diamonds are Forever)
43. Mini rocket cigarette (You Only Live Twice)
44. BMW Z3 (GoldenEye)
45. Daniel Craig's blue swimming trunks
46. AMC Matador Flying Car (The Man with the Golden Gun)
47. Seiko detonator watch (Moonraker)
48. Wrist dart gun (Moonraker)
49. Trick backgammon dice (Octopussy)
50. Ski pole gun (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Aston Martin DBS in CR I kind of disagree with in one way it is a cool car in another it does next to nothing except be a mobile defibrillator thingy. Timothy Dalton's Vantage/Volante is a more capable vehicle, even the Vanquish in DAD is a better Bond choice.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

No Daniel Craig wobbling a drink in front of a mirror?

[Omega]

No Daniel Craig wobbling a drink in front of a mirror?

He was actually wobbling behind # 20. Invisible Aston Martin Vanquish (Die Another Day)!

[carl stromberg]

How come Craig's swimming trunks is included: I have nightmares about that scene.

[Roger Devereau]

How come Craig's swimming trunks is included: I have nightmares about that scene.

Daniel Craig in a pair of blue swimming trunks is not one my favourite Bond memories.

[The Sweeney]

It has to be the Aston Martin in Goldfinger as the all-time favourite. Glad to see its No.1.