3. Octopussy (1983)
It's done even more wrong in Octopussy, however, easily the worst-titled of any of the Bond films, ensuring that it quickly devolves into a one-note joke about how many poorly-written one-liners and innuendos Moore can spew about the titular character. Even the odd giggle that could be raised between Bond and Octopussy once they meet is somewhat hampered by Maud Adams, whose awkward, stilted performance denies her a single drop of chemistry with Moore. More so than any other entry, this is the one that feels like it made a special effort to humiliate Fleming's character - and if he saw this, he'd surely start spinning in his grave - what with 007 being put in a gorilla costume, donning clown make-up, and most embarrassingly, swinging from a vine and performing a Tarzan yell. It's all the more confounding when we consider that the narrative is a lot more serious than some of Bond's other outings, but these dreadful adornments kill any gravitas stone dead.