Every James Bond Movie Pre-Credits Scene Ranked Worst To Best

24. A View To A Kill - Bond Escapes Some Soviets In Siberia

The pre-titles scene of the fourteenth James Bond flick is arguably the worst Bond opening ever, and it's a cocktail of dire elements with one hell of a nasty aftertaste.

It's a very lazy start to the film that revolves around a dreary, uber-generic action sequence that we've seen so many times before, and the distracting way in which Roger Moore is clearly almost sixty at this point makes it even harder to get into.

And the worst part? It features a strong contender for the worst James Bond scene of all time. While Bond is snowboarding along, he takes out a bad guy and suddenly, the soundtrack changes from John Barry's score to... a cover of 'California Girls' by The Beach Boys. Err... what?!

This horrendous gag turns the cringe factor up to eleven and it is absolutely painful to watch. Seriously, what were they thinking? Finally, the scene ends with Bond getting into a submarine disguised as an iceberg and making out with a woman young enough to be his daughter (Mary Stavin), so this is a sequence that'll piss you off from beginning to end.

The only saving graces here are the solid cinematography and music (aside from the aforementioned needle drop, of course!); other than that, it's a fittingly terrible start to a terrible movie.