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Single WORST line in a James Bond film?

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"What a view..."

"...to a kill."

It probably is, but its Walken so I can't hate it. His Zorin was one of my favourite Bond villains ever. So psychotically disinterested.
 
I'm honestly not sure what the absolute worst was, but I'm almost certain it was uttered by Pierce Brosnan. God, his Bond films were just terrible. Not his fault I don't think. But they were unbelievably bad in retrospect.

He didn't write the script, but Brosnan's Bond was utter shit. He could not pull-off mugging for the camera, but he was always doing it. His jokes were delivered as-if to pause for a canned laugh track.
 
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Are you hoping for a glimmer?

Ugh, just terrible.
 
This whole exchange is fucking stupid:

"Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?"
"You think we better, huh?"
"No, just different. Like Peking duck is different from Russian caviar. But I love them both."
"Darling, I give you very best duck."

... :D
 
From Die Another Day

Rosamund Pike: "I take it Mr. Bond has been explaining his big bang theory"

Halle Barry: "yeah I think I got the thrust of it"

It is not even the lines so much just the whole delivery and reactions are so bad, I actually like Die Another Day more than most.

Me too. It seems to almost revel in the stupid tropes of the Bond films, which is why I enjoy it.
 
For me, it has to be from The World is Not Enough, after bond screws Denise Richards:

"I thought Christmas only comes once a year."

I still remember watching the film in theaters and hearing the entire audience groan when he said that line.

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"I don't know any doctor jokes."

same movie.
 
Probably not the worst, but really weird.
In Octopussy there is a scene where Bond encounters a Tiger and tells it "Sit!". In the german dub of this movie he says: "Du gehört in den Tank!" (You belong in the (gas) tank). Which was a reference to a slogan of Esso (european division of Exxon) "The tiger in the tank". So its a product placement that's only in the german dub.
 
Casino Royale is probably one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time, but this line destroys me every time I watch it:

I have no armour left. You've stripped it from me.

Cold-hearted, cocky-as-the-day-is-long super spy James Bond lets lose with the cheesiest pseudo-romantic garbage pair of sentences I've ever heard. It's jarringly bad.
 
Q: "Don't touch that! That's my lunch!"

That line was dope. Q dropping a joke after like 20 movies of "Don't touch that! It's a *gadgety gadget gadget* of increasingly ridiculous forms only for this sandwich to actually be his lunch and not some wacky contraption was great.
 
It probably is, but its Walken so I can't hate it. His Zorin was one of my favourite Bond villains ever. So psychotically disinterested.

He was a decent Bond Villain. Plus he had Grace Jones as a heavy.

And bonus points because his evil plan was to flood Silicon Valley.


But it was a pretty schlocky Bond movie during the campy Moore era.
 
"I bet this never happened to the other guy"
Breaking the fourth wall in OHMSS still makes me mad.

Oh shit, I never realized that.

I, honest to God, thought it was a reference to Cinderella--which is stupid, because it's EXACTLY what happens to the other fella: girl drops her shoe(s) and runs away. Double fail.
 
Casino Royale is probably one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time, but this line destroys me every time I watch it:



Cold-hearted, cocky-as-the-day-is-long super spy James Bond lets lose with the cheesiest pseudo-romantic garbage pair of sentences I've ever heard. It's jarringly bad.

Yeah, I get that it was supposed to be an origin story of how James turned into the ass he is, but the whole romance sequence was just not very good and this was easily the worst part of it.
 
Quantum of Solace, just awful.

Made worse by the fact it's sandwiched between two great movies. Like a burger with good tasty buns and a turd in the middle instead of actual quality meat.
 
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