Top 5 Gadgets
5. Remote-controlled BMW - Tomorrow Never Dies
This awesome little gadget (well, I guess as remote-controlled vehicles go, it's not so little) provided the undoubted highlight of Pierce Brosnan's second outing as 007. It also led to probably the best action sequence in the Brosnan era, as well as being damn funny to boot.
4. Little Nellie - You Only Live Twice
The helicopter so cute they gave it a name. Almost small enough to pack in a suitcase, the introduction of this mini-chopper may have been the first sign of the Bond franchise jumping the shark, so to speak, but it's certainly a memorable image. During the shooting of the sequence a stuntman got his leg chopped off by a rotor blade. Ouch.
3. Lotus Esprit - The Spy Who Loved Me
Or, the car that's also a submarine. The actual real-world usefulness of such a concept - who really needs to drive into the sea on a regular basis? - is immaterial, because it's just so damned cool. Even if it does leak.
2. Jet Pack - Thunderball
Although on screen for all of, ooh, 5 seconds, the tin-foil-wrapped (or at least, that what it looks like) jet pack gives Bond an awesome means of escape in Thunderball's pre-credits sequence. And the best part? It actually works. Although the user will probably die horribly.
1. Aston Martin DB5 - Goldfinger
Not only is this obviously the best gadget Q has ever created, it's also quite possibly the most famous car in the history of movies. Its arsenal of weapons and tricks is unbeatable, and it was so good that they brought it back for Thunderball, albeit briefly. And after seeing Goldfinger, who hasn't wanted a passenger ejector seat?
... And the worst:
Invisible Aston - Die Another Day
Just about everything was wrong with the final Brosnan Bond, but this was probably the cardinal sin (well, this and Madonna). I mean, there's ridiculous and then there's bleedin' stupid. Who would want to make something so beautiful disappear anyway?
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