7. Come Drink With Me (1966) No list about the best movies of the wuxia genre would be complete without a few King Hu films. A pioneer of the genre, King Hu made wuxia immensely popular, both at home in China and around the globe. Come Drink With Mewas among the first wuxia films to gain attention from Western audiences. The film follows Golden Swallow, a girl who’s very skilled and hell-bent on saving a boy from a violent gang....
7. Aston Martin DBS (Casino Royale) A stripped-back car given to Bond by MI6, the Aston Martin DBS was Daniel Craig’s debut modern Aston Martin. And though it didn’t feature for too long in the film, it was unmistakably cool. The car was outfitted with a secret weapon compartment that housed his signature Walther PPK, as well as a medical kit complete with a defibrillator for those inevitable emergencies. It came in handy after Le Chiffre poisoned Bond, who staggered back to his car and used the kit to stay alive....
7. The Apprehension of Mr. White in Quantum of Solace (2008) Following the end of Daniel Craig’s first Bond outing inCasino Royale,Quantum of Solacepicks up where he left off. Having captured Mr. White, Bond is now in a chase against bad guys in Italy. He’s in an Aston Martin DBS—with sparse gadgets—and is fending them off with a machine gun sat in his passenger seat. The chase epitomizes Daniel Craig’s Bond: unrelenting, emotional, and cold-blooded....
7. The Exploding Pen GoldenEyewas a movie laden with gadgets, even ones we never got to see (like Bond’s BMW). But the exploding pen wasn’t just an awesome gadget to have—it was crucial to the story. When Alec Trevelyan’s code breaker Boris is trying to crack Natalya’s codes during the film’s climax, he has Bond’s pen in his hand, twirling it about and clicking it as he does. What Boris doesn’t know is that three clicks will arm the device....
7. The Weird in The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) Kim Jee-woon’sThe Good, The Bad and The Weirdis a direct result of—and takes heavy influences from—the iconography ofThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly. This South Korean film follows a similar plot to the original, but with its own unique style and panache that make it unmissable. Song Kang-ho’s character, The Weird, is one of the most compelling and bohemian cowboys in cinema history....
