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  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Perdogg wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I love the old time diner signs and the original signage on the KFC- it would be interesting to know if the Muldraugh location was one of the Colonel's first franchises. I know we didn't have a standalone one where I grew up in Media, PA, KFC came in when I was in first or second grade and was outletted through the Gino's burger chain.

    I love both KFC and Popeye's, but the best fried chicken I ever ate was at a soul food joint called Sugarbaker's in Ridgeland, SC. Good to be pals with a local in this case.

    The KFC in GF is actually at 701 NW 119th St Miami, FL 33168 if you want to make a pilgrimage.

    Cool. I'll have to do a Google street search to check it out.

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,825

    Most Overrated Bond Film: SF
    Most Overrated Title Track: GF
    Most Overrated Title Credits: GF
    Most Overrated PTS: TWINE
    Most Overrated Score: TSWLM
    Most Overrated Villain: Blofeld (in general)
    Most Overrated Ally: Kerim Bay
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Vesper Lynd
    Most Overrated Minor Character: "Strawberry" Fields
    Most Overrated Henchman: Irma Bundt



  • PerdoggPerdogg
    Posts: 686
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    Perdogg wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I love the old time diner signs and the original signage on the KFC- it would be interesting to know if the Muldraugh location was one of the Colonel's first franchises. I know we didn't have a standalone one where I grew up in Media, PA, KFC came in when I was in first or second grade and was outletted through the Gino's burger chain.

    I love both KFC and Popeye's, but the best fried chicken I ever ate was at a soul food joint called Sugarbaker's in Ridgeland, SC. Good to be pals with a local in this case.

    The KFC in GF is actually at 701 NW 119th St Miami, FL 33168 if you want to make a pilgrimage.

    Cool. I'll have to do a Google street search to check it out.

    You can actually see it on Google
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,227
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I love the old time diner signs and the original signage on the KFC- it would be interesting to know if the Muldraugh location was one of the Colonel's first franchises. I know we didn't have a standalone one where I grew up in Media, PA, KFC came in when I was in first or second grade and was outletted through the Gino's burger chain.

    I love both KFC and Popeye's, but the best fried chicken I ever ate was at a soul food joint called Sugarbaker's in Ridgeland, SC. Good to be pals with a local in this case.

    Agreed completely on the signage. Rare indeed is the huge rotating bucket of chicken that used to be Colonel Sanders' advertising trademark. Hell, they've even changed the name to KFC (apparently the word "fried" is now verboten), and dropped the image of the Colonel (presumably so as not to offend those who despise the old South).

    We've had Colonel Sanders in Lubbock for as long as I can remember, as well as Church's, and more recently Popeye's and a really good Texas chain called Golden Chick. I love 'em all, to tell the truth.

    They changed the name because the state of Kentucky was bankrupted and wanted some royalties from the company that was using its name and making money with it. The rest (that the word "fried' cannot be used, that the meat used is so mutated it is not chicken anymore) is just urban legends.

    Incidentally, one of the smartest medievalist I met was from the University of Kentucky. Every time I see KFC, I remember him, he looked every bit like you'd think a Kentucky man would look like.

    Second anecdote: last time I had KFC, I found it utterly disgusting, enough to put me off the darn thing.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    Overrated by serious Bond fans (not GP) ~


    Most Overrated Bond Film: OHMSS
    Most Overrated Title Track: Goldeneye
    Most Overrated Title Credits: TMWTGG
    Most Overrated PTS: TMWTGG
    Most Overrated Score: OP
    Most Overrated Villain: Hugo Drax (MR)
    Most Overrated Ally: Felix (Jack Lord - Dr. No)
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Lupe (LTK)
    Most Overrated Minor Character: Manuela
    Most Overrated Henchman: Irma Bundt
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited September 2013 Posts: 17,825
    Is it me?
    By "over-rated" I'm thinking something everyone seems to love, but maybe a little too much.
    4EverBonded wrote:
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Lupe (LTK)
    Are you saying that to even find her a bit lame is too positive???
    :))
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    I just thought lots of guys list her favorably on this forum. Perhaps I am wrong.
  • SirHenryLeeChaChingSirHenryLeeChaChing
    Posts: 3,494
    chrisisall wrote:
    Most Overrated Bond Film: SF
    Most Overrated Title Track: GF
    Most Overrated Title Credits: GF
    Most Overrated PTS: TWINE
    Most Overrated Score: TSWLM
    Most Overrated Villain: Blofeld (in general)
    Most Overrated Ally: Kerim Bay
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Vesper Lynd
    Most Overrated Minor Character: "Strawberry" Fields
    Most Overrated Henchman: Irma Bundt

    I'm now going to pretend I didn't read that and assume that the ghost of Harry Saltzman took temporary control of your senses [-(
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,825
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Most Overrated Title Track: GF
    I'm now going to pretend I didn't read that and assume that the ghost of Harry Saltzman took temporary control of your senses [-(
    Sorry Sir Henry, I love the song, but so many seem to deify so intensely that I had to rate it as such; I find her DAF title track song to be far more nuanced & refined.
    =D>
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    This is for features most overrated by serious Bond fans.

    Most Overrated Bond Film: GF
    Most Overrated Title Track: All Time High
    Most Overrated Title Credits: DAD
    Most Overrated PTS: OP
    Most Overrated Score: YOLT
    Most Overrated Villain: Blofeld (YOLT)
    Most Overrated Ally: Jack Wade (TND)
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Lupe (LTK)
    Most Overrated Minor Character: Godfrey Tibbett (AVTAK)
    Most Overrated Henchman: Oddjob (GF)

    MOBF - Goldfinger
    MOTT - Goldfinger
    MOTC - The Spy Who Loved Me
    MOPTS - From Russia With Love
    MOS - Couldn't find a definitive answer
    MOV - Auric Goldfinger
    MOA - Natalya Simonova
    MOBG - Pussy Galore
    MOMC - Nick Nack
    MOH - Xenia Onatopp

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Perdogg wrote:
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    Perdogg wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I love the old time diner signs and the original signage on the KFC- it would be interesting to know if the Muldraugh location was one of the Colonel's first franchises. I know we didn't have a standalone one where I grew up in Media, PA, KFC came in when I was in first or second grade and was outletted through the Gino's burger chain.

    I love both KFC and Popeye's, but the best fried chicken I ever ate was at a soul food joint called Sugarbaker's in Ridgeland, SC. Good to be pals with a local in this case.

    The KFC in GF is actually at 701 NW 119th St Miami, FL 33168 if you want to make a pilgrimage.

    Cool. I'll have to do a Google street search to check it out.

    You can actually see it on Google

    I checked it out. Amazing it's still there. Looks rather different from the original, but at least it still has the image of the Colonel, and the words Kentucky Fried Chicken scrawled across the storefront. I wonder if there is some monument or memorialization of the restaurant's cinematic history thereabouts?

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Ludovico wrote:
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    SirHenryLeeChaChing wrote:
    I love the old time diner signs and the original signage on the KFC- it would be interesting to know if the Muldraugh location was one of the Colonel's first franchises. I know we didn't have a standalone one where I grew up in Media, PA, KFC came in when I was in first or second grade and was outletted through the Gino's burger chain.

    I love both KFC and Popeye's, but the best fried chicken I ever ate was at a soul food joint called Sugarbaker's in Ridgeland, SC. Good to be pals with a local in this case.

    Agreed completely on the signage. Rare indeed is the huge rotating bucket of chicken that used to be Colonel Sanders' advertising trademark. Hell, they've even changed the name to KFC (apparently the word "fried" is now verboten), and dropped the image of the Colonel (presumably so as not to offend those who despise the old South).

    We've had Colonel Sanders in Lubbock for as long as I can remember, as well as Church's, and more recently Popeye's and a really good Texas chain called Golden Chick. I love 'em all, to tell the truth.

    They changed the name because the state of Kentucky was bankrupted and wanted some royalties from the company that was using its name and making money with it. The rest (that the word "fried' cannot be used, that the meat used is so mutated it is not chicken anymore) is just urban legends.

    Incidentally, one of the smartest medievalist I met was from the University of Kentucky. Every time I see KFC, I remember him, he looked every bit like you'd think a Kentucky man would look like.

    Second anecdote: last time I had KFC, I found it utterly disgusting, enough to put me off the darn thing.

    I didn't know about the bankruptcy situation. What a pity.

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    4EverBonded wrote:
    I just thought lots of guys list her favorably on this forum. Perhaps I am wrong.

    I agree. Lupe garners many glowing comments. Too many.

  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    She's the worst part of an otherwise excellent film. Though I don't think she's nearly as bad as, say, Chiles, Bach, Roberts, and whoever the hell it is who played Goodnight. Oh and Halle Berry. Five Bond girls easily worse than Lupe.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    She's the worst part of an otherwise excellent film. Though I don't think she's nearly as bad as, say, Chiles, Bach, Roberts, and whoever the hell it is who played Goodnight. Oh and Halle Berry. Five Bond girls easily worse than Lupe.

    Bang on. I don't think Lupe is terrible, just overrated.

  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,825
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    4EverBonded wrote:
    I just thought lots of guys list her favorably on this forum. Perhaps I am wrong.
    I agree. Lupe garners many glowing comments. Too many.
    Case in point then; she's gorgeous, and... she's... suitably green.... and....really pretty, and.... oh hey, get off her case!!!
    :))
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    She's the worst part of an otherwise excellent film. Though I don't think she's nearly as bad as, say, Chiles, Bach, Roberts, and whoever the hell it is who played Goodnight. Oh and Halle Berry. Five Bond girls easily worse than Lupe.

    It was Britt Ekland

    Talisa Soto is / was a nice looking lady but it was a poor performance for the Lamora character. The often quoted "I love James - so much" makes you want to hide behind the couch. Not a character that lived long in the memory
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    edited September 2013 Posts: 17,825
    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    The often quoted "I love James - so much" makes you want to hide behind the couch. Not a character that lived long in the memory
    Hah ha! Clearly not the case!
    ;) "I love James - so much" is pretty unforgettable...
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    Posts: 6,377
    Most Overrated Bond Film: SF
    Most Overrated Title Track: LTK
    Most Overrated Title Credits: TB
    Most Overrated PTS: GE
    Most Overrated Score: MR
    Most Overrated Villain: Blofeld (YOLT)
    Most Overrated Ally: Quarrel
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Pam Bouvier
    Most Overrated Minor Character: General Gogol
    Most Overrated Henchman: Jaws (TSWLM)
  • SoundofthesinnersSoundofthesinners
    Posts: 3,236
    So many people call Goldfinger overrated that it's starting to become underrated.

    It also needs clarifying whether these are overrated by the general public or by Bond fans like us, in which case what constitutes overrated and underrated will be quite different.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited September 2013 Posts: 11,189
    Most Overrated Bond Film: LALD
    Most Overrated Title Track: TLD
    Most Overrated Title Credits: Thunderball
    Most Overrated PTS: as much as I HATE to say this...GE
    Most Overrated Score: LALD
    Most Overrated Villain: Goldfinger (sorry, I do like him though)
    Most Overrated Ally: Felix Leiter
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Honey Ryder (aah I'm sorry)
    Most Overrated Minor Character: General Gogol
    Most Overrated Henchman: Jaws
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Film-GE
    Title track-Nobody Does It Better
    Title credits-MR
    PTS-TWINE
    Score-TND
    Villain-Sean Bean
    Ally-Zukovsky
    Girl-Octopussy
    Minor character-Vijay
    Henchman-Baron Samedi
  • LudovicoLudovico
    Posts: 15,227
    Perilagu_Khan wrote:
    StirredNotShaken wrote:
    She's the worst part of an otherwise excellent film. Though I don't think she's nearly as bad as, say, Chiles, Bach, Roberts, and whoever the hell it is who played Goodnight. Oh and Halle Berry. Five Bond girls easily worse than Lupe.

    Bang on. I don't think Lupe is terrible, just overrated.

    As a character I prefer her to Pam. If anything I think she is underrated, and this comes from someone who is not a big fan of LTK.
  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    Posts: 2,483
    Soundofthesinners wrote:
    So many people call Goldfinger overrated that it's starting to become underrated.

    It also needs clarifying whether these are overrated by the general public or by Bond fans like us, in which case what constitutes overrated and underrated will be quite different.

    As I said in the OP, I mean overrated by serious Bond fans.

  • Perilagu_KhanPerilagu_Khan
    edited September 2013 Posts: 2,483
    BAIN123 wrote:
    Most Overrated Bond Film: LALD
    Most Overrated Title Track: TLD
    Most Overrated Title Credits: Thunderball
    Most Overrated PTS: as much as I HATE to say this...GE
    Most Overrated Score: LALD
    Most Overrated Villain: Goldfinger (sorry, I do like him though)
    Most Overrated Ally: Felix Leiter
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Honey Ryder (aah I'm sorry)
    Most Overrated Minor Character: General Gogol
    Most Overrated Henchman: Jaws

    Which Leiter?

  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited September 2013 Posts: 987
    Most Overrated Bond Film: GF
    Most Overrated Title Track: AVTAK
    Most Overrated Title Credits: TND
    Most Overrated PTS: TB
    Most Overrated Score: FRWL
    Most Overrated Villain: Dr No (DN)
    Most Overrated Ally: Q
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Pussy Galore (GF)
    Most Overrated Minor Character: Jill Masterson (GF)
    Most Overrated Henchman: Oddjob (GF)




  • fire_and_icefire_and_ice
    edited September 2013 Posts: 6,432
    Most Overrated Bond Film: SF
    Most Overrated Title Track: SF
    Most Overrated Title Credits: Was never keen on TND though would not say its over rated.
    Most Overrated PTS: Will come back to this one.
    Most Overrated Score: SF
    Most Overrated Villain: Elliot Carver
    Most Overrated Ally: Valentine
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: M SF
    Most Overrated Minor Character: Boris
    Most Overrated Henchman: Stamper
  • ThunderballThunderball playing Chemin de Fer in a casino, downing Vespers
    Posts: 815
    Most Overrated Bond Film: TSWLM
    Most Overrated Title Track: Nobody Does It Better
    Most Overrated Title Credits: GF
    Most Overrated PTS: TSWLM
    Most Overrated Score: TSWLM
    Most Overrated Villain: Stromberg
    Most Overrated Ally: Linder's Felix in GF
    Most Overrated Bond Girl: Anya Amasova
    Most Overrated Minor Character: Bambi and Thumper
    Most Overrated Henchman: Jaws
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    Many of the answers given here have me really scratching my head.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    I can't do this thread, as to me, so little is overrated. It's more, 'not as good as people think'.
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