I really like the new one by Billie Elish
Why is that pigeon shaking it’s head?
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Moonraker is so delicious cheesy!
“I think he’s attempting re-entry”.
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That is soo bad, for some of the great films there is some shockers.
Saw it during a School Trip to Tassie.
2 Busloads of 15 - 16 yr olds on a 2 week Excursion/Fk about Holiday in one Theatre as that line was delivered is stamped in my Memory .
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You’d have to think that they were inspired by the recent success of Star Wars and got on the bandwagon.
Yep and in the same way was it Live and Let Die tried to tap into the US market?
Check the doco, but he was on ABC radio a month or so ago. His manager recommended he walk away from a £1M contract to become a musician. His manager had a few big names and apparently he thought Bond was going to be relegated to history
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The Spy Who Loved Me, because Jaws.
He was legitimately frightening to me as a kid.
Live and Let Die
Goldfinger
Best villain death?
I’m partial to Blofeld’s.
It’s badass, and kinda cold-blooded when you think about it.
And Milton Krest in Licence to Kill is kinda cool and gross, and a callback to the silly Kananga death from Live and Let Die.
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Can you imagine being a nobody and walking away from a million pound contract 50 years ago?
Went onto do some cool stuff, and says he doesn’t regret it (yeah right…)
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Is he the one that got eaten by the shark?
Its the most iconic scene in the whole of Moonraker
Decompression chamber.
I won’t post the youtube, but you can check it out if you like.
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So I’m guessing Jaws was one of Wims favourite villains. Oddjob from Goldfinger was another memorable villain.
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l gave up on Bond movies when Connery walked out, and Moore walked in. The plots became so weak and truncated that they spnet the first half hour finishing off the previous mission.
Moore made a great Saint, but as Bond he completely lacked menace, the humour was added to the point of sefl parody, whereas Connery’s Bond was still funny, but far more sardonic. The menace wasn’t really rediscovered until Daniel Craig showed up with Casino Royale. He showed a much darker, more disturbed side of Bond, that was welcome.
Although l saw Dr. No and Goldfinger at the movies when they first came out, l find l am avoiding the reruns.
What about meeeee
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It was always a bit of a ritual to watch the latest bond movie with my dad as a kid, so I’ve seen most at the cinema from the 70s on.
My daughter had only seen the Craig films, so we rewatched the lot in reverse chronological order, from Spectre back to Dr No. Honestly, as we moved back in time, they got progressively worse, to the point of it being a chore. The humour and sexism was cringeworthy, the sets looked cheap, and the pacing sooo slooowww. They work as cheesy nostalgia pieces, but that’s about it IMO.
So it’s the Craig films for me.
Edit - the Lazenby film was pretty good I thought. But then who didn’t have a crush on Dianna Rigg in The Avengers!?!
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Speaking of sexism, I actually read Casino Royale, and some of Bond’s thoughts are “interesting” to say the least. I knew the book was going to be like that, and I think it was to show a flawed character. You don’t read to discover fairies and unicorns anyway.
Sean Connery alwaysh sheemed to shpeak with a shpecial, dishtinctive voice.
Wonder if he ever asked anyone to sit on his face?
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