Over the past few months, a mysterious commentator named “Slammerworm” has been watching all the James Bond movies and leaving his own take in the comments below each of my Bond movie reviews. Impressed by his diligence and thoughtfully funny comments, I compiled them all into this huge post for future reference (with permission, of course). Slammerworm ranked all 23 Bond films (including the oddities Never Say Never Again and Casino Royale [1967]) into a mega-list from best to worst.

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A few months ago, I challenged myself to watch all the James Bond films… and so did the author of The Man Who Saved Britain, however he did it as a result of growing up in England. This thoroughly entertaining book is a simultaneous memoir, history tome, and James Bond tribute. It attempts to place the suave spy in British history, claiming that the popularity largely stemmed from how the British empire - spanning multiple nations worldwide and with a technologically superior fighting force - fell apart after World War II, and looking for something to believe in, latched onto the macho myth that is Bond.

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For completeness’ sake, I watched the 1967 spy spoof Casino Royale, which features several James Bond type characters and more than one director. It’s stuffed with familiar actors: Orson Welles, David Niven, Peter Sellars, and Woody Allen. To call this film bizarre is an understatement (it’s a “psychedelic comedy”). I found it particularly surreal to watch after the recent, way serious, Casino Royale starring Daniel Craig as Bond.

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I just got through watching the James Bond movies, which we all know are famous for their various sirens, chanteuses, and femme fatales. Here are my top seven (once again, in honor of 007) favorite Bond ladies, in no particular order.

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Casino Royale is a complete “reboot” of the Bond franchise, featuring a grittier, more serious take on the beloved super spy, not unlike Batman Begins. The jury is still out whether Daniel Craig as Bond or this film will stand the test of time, but at the very least, it’s easily the best Bond film since GoldenEye.

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Guess what… I’m still here! This is the third time Webomatica has dealt with the Digg effect. Here’s my obligatory “dugg” post, with some info-porn graphics like last time.

In this case, my post The Best And Worst Bond Films was submitted by someone else (richstyles [thanks!]), so I didn’t have much prep time. I noticed it had been submitted because of Feedburner - which shows a little graphic noting the number of diggs in the RSS feed - at around 25 diggs. This is a good number at which to start paying attention.

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Ah heck. I guess we’ll all get to see if WP-Cache can do what it promises. My post on Best and Worst James Bond movies just hit the digg front page at 72 diggs.

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So what was the point of my watching all twenty-something James Bond movies? So I could write several awesome “Best Of” posts laden with Bond quips, cool images, and / or sexual innuendo. So here are what I consider the best Bond films - exactly seven, in honor of “007″:

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Rounding the corner, ths is second to last James Bond film I need to watch (the last being the new Casino Royale) on my quest to see all the Bond movies.

I was expecting to dislike this film after seeing License to Kill. But here, after a long string of progressively worse Roger Moore films, it’s surprisingly good - a stunning mesh of the Roger Moore and the Sean Connery films. It seems with every new Bond actor, the producers take a fresh look at the Bond franchise put forth their full efforts.

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This is odd Bond, not unlike Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Many feel it shouldn’t even be included in the canon, as it wasn’t produced by EON Productions. But it has one aspect making it somewhat worth seeing: Sean Connery.

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