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the I WANT TO BE LIKE JAMES BOND thread - open the frigde, this baby's going on ice

DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
edited May 2012 in Bond Movies Posts: 24,256
Introduction

Wouldn't it be nice if we could be part of Bond's world? Wouldn't it be nice if we could sleep in the same hotels, visit the same places, fight the same villains, bed the same girls,... ? Let's say we start with one at the time.

This thread is designed with the purpose of making one choice in each category. If you could share one car, hotel, drink, ... with Bond, which one would it be?


Rules

Make your choice, add a comment, dream happy dreams! Live the fantasy. That's this thread's motto!
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited April 2012 Posts: 24,256
    <font color=green size=7><b>01) HOTELS</b></font>

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    <font color=red size=4> <b>If you could sleep in one particular hotel from the Bond movies, which one would it be and why?</b></font>

    Over to you!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited April 2012 Posts: 24,256
    I would choose the [url="http://shatterhand007.com/OHMSSNarration/OHMSS76BondTracysCar.jpg "]hotel[/url] we see at the beginning of OHMSS. I simply love the idea of having a bed on the balcony outside of the actual room. Also, I love the design with the arcs and the curves and whatnot. Now granted, Piz Gloria looks fine as well, but I'm simply not the skiing type. ;-)

    My top 5 choices:
    <ul>
    <li> OHMSS
    <li> The Ice Palace (yes!) from DAD
    <li> Hotel Splendid (CR)
    <li> the Whyte House (DAF)

    and

    <li> Bond's hotel from DN
    </ul>

    I have a thing for exotic locations. ;-)
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    The Ice palace.

    With Frost or Jinx, or both ;)
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    My first thoughts would be the one in Octopussy, can't remember the name but it's still there by all accounts

    The Ice Palace would have to be included too maybe, what a unique structure that was
  • bondbat007bondbat007
    Posts: 1,407
    The OHMSS hotel for sure. Sleeping outside on that bed? Wow.

    And the Atlantic Hotel from TND...there's something about it that I really like
  • W_PPKW_PPK
    Posts: 172
    I'd like ice Palace.
  • Hank_ScorpioHank_Scorpio
    Posts: 68
    I stayed at the Hotel Tropicana in Vegas last time I was there. I heard it was quite comfortable, and back in 1971 it might have been. Not a bad place, but not great either.
  • W_PPKW_PPK
    Posts: 172
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    The Ice palace.

    With Frost or Jinx, or both ;)

    I'd like with Frost.
    It's frozen palace.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,256
    The ice palace seems a desired place. ;-)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited April 2012 Posts: 28,694
    I'd love to stay in the Ocean Club from CR in Nassau. I would open the doors when the nice breeze rolls in at night, and just relax in tune with the sweet sounds of the lapping ocean. Paradise...
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Ocean club hotel in the Bahamas (CR)

    Honourable mentions go to
    OHMSS (just after the TS)
    TB (right next door to Fiona)
    FRWL (the bridal suite with Tatiana and her "big" mouth. My size of course)
    LTK (not really a hotel but Sanchez' manshion was incredible!)
  • St_GeorgeSt_George Shuttling Drax's lovelies to the space doughnut - happy 40th, MR!
    Posts: 1,699
    Goooood thread idea, Dimmster - and awesome opening gambit.

    Here's my top five (in reverse order because I find that more fun ;) ):


    5. The Cuban beach hut ~ GE

    I'm assuming this hut that Bond shares with Natalya - and the short of stretch of beach they lay about on - is part of a hotel development; I hope so anyway because what a luxuriant, but stripped back, get-away-from-it-all holiday destination it would be.


    4. The Miami Beach hotel ~ GF

    Marvellous Mid-Century Modern design throughout, but mostly because of that viewing-the-swimming-pool-underwater-through-glass gimmick - unlike Felix, I'd probably spend all day down there. ;)


    3. The French Riviera hotel ~ OHMSS

    The one in which Bond and Tracy rendezvous after the pre-title sequence. Its style may be a little gaudy, but it's cool as hell (that 'Casino' neon lighting up the pool's irresistible), as well as the opportunity to seduce a girl on a bed on your room's balcony. For some odd reason.


    2. The swanky hotel in Rio ~ MR

    Seriously, who wouldn't want to stay here? And in the Presidential Suite, of course, being it's so big you need a cab to get around it when you get lost. Moreover, if Manuela came as an optional extra I'd probably never make it to the carnival at all.


    1. Piz Goria ~ OHMSS

    Because, well, you would, wouldn't you? Waking up to that amazing, stark and snowy landscape outside the window, eating in front of the roaring fire at sunlight and walking around a place so achingly '60s-cool it'd have to make you feel like Terence Stamp; it's a no-brainer. Especially if - again - the Angels Of Death were in attendance...

  • DCisaredDCisared Liverpool
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    I'd love to stay in the Ocean Club from CR in Nassau. I would open the doors when the nice breeze rolls in at night, and just relax in tune with the sweet sounds of the lapping ocean. Paradise...

    Exactly this , heaven
  • imranbecksimranbecks Singapore
    Posts: 984
    Definitely the Ocean Club in Nassau..... Its just very $$$$$
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I'd be quite content spending a night in that old barn in OHMSS to be perfectly honest, but one night only I feel, seems like a kind of cosy surrounding, and after that back to Piz Gloria and it's unique setting and lavish landscapes

    I would of said the Zorin estate too, but it's not a hotel so to speak but a chateau setting, but even so, I would have jumped at the chance for a stay there
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited April 2012 Posts: 17,819
    The Ocean Club in Nassau. It's one of the elements in CR I find most classic Bond. And, any hotel with a receptionist like that get's my vote!
  • Commander_SkyfallCommander_Skyfall
    Posts: 371
    Add me the Ocean Club list, sounds like it's going to be crowded.... ;-)
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    I'd also like to spend some time at the Ocean Club... with Gemma Arterton as my girlfriend :)
  • Commander_SkyfallCommander_Skyfall
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    I'd also like to spend some time at the Ocean Club... with Gemma Arterton as my girlfriend :)

    Oh, don't get me started, I met her at a charity do, absolutely stunning in the flesh, and very charming.

  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Commander_Skyfall wrote:
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    I'd also like to spend some time at the Ocean Club... with Gemma Arterton as my girlfriend :)

    Oh, don't get me started, I met her at a charity do, absolutely stunning in the flesh, and very charming.

    I always had a thing for older women...... :x
  • Commander_SkyfallCommander_Skyfall
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    Commander_Skyfall wrote:
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    I'd also like to spend some time at the Ocean Club... with Gemma Arterton as my girlfriend :)

    Oh, don't get me started, I met her at a charity do, absolutely stunning in the flesh, and very charming.

    I always had a thing for older women...... :x

    Ah man, that makes me feel old, as she's about 15 years younger than me, which, to be fair, was right up my street... ;-)

  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    Posts: 15,723
    Commander_Skyfall wrote:
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    Commander_Skyfall wrote:
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    I'd also like to spend some time at the Ocean Club... with Gemma Arterton as my girlfriend :)

    Oh, don't get me started, I met her at a charity do, absolutely stunning in the flesh, and very charming.

    I always had a thing for older women...... :x

    Ah man, that makes me feel old, as she's about 15 years younger than me, which, to be fair, was right up my street... ;-)

    She's 6 years older than me ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,256
    Interesting choices, folks. But moving on...

    <font color=green size=7><b>02) GADGETS</b></font>

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    <font color=red size=4> <b>If you could equip yourself with one useful or amusing gadget from the Bond movies, which one would it be and why?</b></font>

    Over to you!
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited April 2012 Posts: 13,356
    Icarus straped to my wrist. The world would be at my mercy.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited April 2012 Posts: 24,256
    I wouldn't mind being the proud owner of Bond's briefcase, as seen in FRWL, but I'm a total sucker for the LALD watch. The magnetic field inducer and the cutting wheel all make sense in real life situations if you ask me.

    In a second place, I suppose the Drax killing dart shooter on my wrist wouldn't lower my social status... too much. ;-)
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Icarus straped to my wrist. The world would be at my mercy.

    Ssssjt! We were not going to reveal our world domination plans just yet, Sam. :-SS
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited April 2012 Posts: 12,837
    Only one? Hmmm.... I'd like the laser watch, or the tear gas key, but I have to choose the Jetpack. I'd freak people out on planes when they're sleeping by knocking on the window then flying away, or I'd make everyone stuck in traffic jealous by flying round and round and round.

    Plus, babes dig Jetpacks ;)
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    edited April 2012 Posts: 13,999
    Dalton's V8 Vantage. :D

    If I can't have that, i'll have the Tear Gas/Plastique Key Finder.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited April 2012 Posts: 12,837
    MajorDSmythe wrote:
    Dalton's V8 Vantage. :D

    If I can't haave that, i'll have the Tear Gas/Plastique Key Finder.

    Can we choose cars, if we can I'll have the underwater Lotus. I'd drive round under the sea near the beach, playing the jaws theme really loud :D
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    You can, although the cars will reappear later on in this thread. ;-)
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Then I think you all know what i'm gonna pick. :-\"
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