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Which James Bond movie do you consider the worst?
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One from each, excluding Lazenby (who happened to make my favorite) and non-canon (Never Say Never Again):
Connery - Diamonds Are Forever
Moore - A View To A Kill
Dalton - License To Kill
Dalton - Die Another Day
Craig - (I'm about to commit sacrilege here!) Skyfall
Overall top worst:
Diamonds Are Forever - the tone change between On Her Majesty's Secret Service and this is jarring to the extreme, the fake-hip dialogue stinks to high heaven ("forget it, Charlie! You had your chance and you blew it!"), the mafia types were obsolete, quaint and flat cinematic caricatures, a deficiency amplified exponentially when The Godfather came out just a few months later.
Bonus negative points for an unfit and disinterested Connery, seemingly in constant self-amused form at how little effort he can get away with onscreen for a then record million-and-change dollar salary.
BUT...! There is another one, so much worse, but mercifully non-canon: 1967's spoof Casino Royale, with David Niven, Peter Sellers and Woody Allen. Oh my GOD is that thing unwatchably awful!