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  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    Watched From Russia With Love a couple of nights back. Easily a top 5 Bond movie, never fails to impress.
  • CrzChris4CrzChris4
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    Skyfall.

    Wanted to watch a Craig Bond since he's announced his return and this was the only one I had left to watch this Bondathon. Love a lot of the moments - Bond getting his martini without actually having to say the line, toasting to Severine's bodyguards, the DB5's reveal, Kincade, the assault on Skyfall Lodge, the ending in that office.

    A lot of the characters and their interactions are genuinely funny, and Silva is a great villain. This viewing made it even more apparent that Silva shouldn't have been retroactively made a SPECTRE agent. It would literally be if they decided to make Goldfinger a SPECTRE agent in Thunderball.


    1. From Russia With Love
    2. Casino Royale '06
    3. Skyfall
    4. Dr. No
    5. GoldenEye
    6. Octopussy
    7. The Spy Who Loved Me
    8. Quantum of Solace
    9. For Your Eyes Only
    10. Live And Let Die
    11. You Only Live Twice
    12. SPECTRE
    13. The World Is Not Enough
    14. The Man With The Golden Gun
    15. A View To A Kill
    16. Moonraker
    17. Die Another Day
    18. Tomorrow Never Dies
    19. Never Say Never Again
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    I love the fact that once Bond returns back from "death", he doesn't touch a drink until that first sip of his martini, @CrzChris4.

    When he waits for Patrice's plane to come into Shanghai, Bond sits up at the bar, no drink-- like the ex-alcoholic testing his triggers (and, at the time, he was trying to get back in shape (from the bunker back in London, to the swim in Shanghai)... This always stood out to me, from the first time I saw it. I can't but help but think that this was a subtle subtext of where Bond was at psychologically...
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited September 2017 Posts: 11,189
    Watched Thunderball again this morning. Parts of it could have been trimmed/neatened up a bit and minor characters could have been cut entirely, but I enjoyed it. An easy watch for a Saturday morning. Some beautiful cinematography, one of Connery's best performances and Claudine Auger is VERY easy on the eye.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    GOLDENEYE


    sheer perfection
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    The World Is Not Enough. It's criminal how this movie is so maligned. I almost feel like doing a long write-up on it to defend the poor thing.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    The World Is Not Enough. It's criminal how this movie is so maligned. I almost feel like doing a long write-up on it to defend the poor thing.

    Among the greatest of all Bonds. I remain flabbergasted by how the many don't see it as such. But then, we live in a world that simply doesn't make sense at times.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    The octogenarian-like fight for the last carton of prune juice between Bond and Renard doesn't help. Nor does Christmas, the bad humor, poor chemistry, etc. I never want to be at a place with the film where I call it great, and certainly not a modern Bond classic (I've actually read this), as my mind will surely be unsalvageable by that point. ;)
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited September 2017 Posts: 11,189
    As a teenager I really liked TWINE. I saw it twice in the cinema and it was the second film I ever bought on DVD. But like most of Brosnan's films, it's aged badly. The poor dialogue also really shows itself here - even more so than in his earlier two films (Q's "pipe down 007" after the flame-throwing bagpipe demonstration has to be the worst line they ever got ol' Des to say).

    Brosnan definitely looks his best here though.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    BAIN123 wrote: »
    As a teenager I really liked TWINE. I saw it twice in the cinema and it was the second film I ever bought on DVD. But like most of Brosnan's films, it's aged badly. The poor dialogue also really shows itself here - even more so than in his earlier two films (Q's "pipe down 007" after the flame-throwing bagpipe demonstration has to be the worst line they ever got ol' Des to say).

    Brosnan definitely looks his best here though.

    The endless bad jokes/puns/dialogues are definitely a big hamper on the enjoyment for me. Roger's films often approached self-parody, but they never felt like amateur pastiches, and I think that's what too much of the Brosnan era amounted to. The constant harping about Bond's shoulder becomes a hilarious gag, as does whatever Bond is supposed to have with Elektra. I can see what they intended, but the execution is so off.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited September 2017 Posts: 11,189
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    "Oh I'm sure they're perfectly rounded"
    "Err...he was buried with work"
    (From DAD) "now...you said something about...going down together?"

    Moore didn't really do that - even if he did go into slimy territory too much sometimes.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    BAIN123 wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    Yeah, I get that. Like he's waiting for the BOOM tss from the drums that never comes.
  • Some_Kind_Of_HeroSome_Kind_Of_Hero
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    Again, I see no validity to these criticisms in the film itself. Certainly nothing that could be dubbed parody even approaching what's to be found in the films of Connery and Moore. But I can concede that the part where Bond and Renard have their hands around each other's throats was perhaps inexpertly filmed (though the fight up to that point is excellent).
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: »
    Again, I see no validity to these criticisms in the film itself. Certainly nothing that could be dubbed parody even approaching what's to be found in the films of Connery and Moore. But I can concede that the part where Bond and Renard have their hands around each other's throats was perhaps inexpertly filmed (though the fight up to that point is excellent).

    Not parody, pastiche. I'd take parody if I had to, but it's all too fan fictiony and that's down to how the lines are delivered where the characters seem self-aware that they're in a goofy film. The one-liners feel like they are out of a five year old's idea of a Bond movie, and the trend continued in DAD. That's the point when Bond films stop being Bond films and instead pretend/try to be them, only exaggerated to the max such that it's all too much. They can at times be embarrassing for me to watch.

    Only in those movies could we actually get set ups and one-liners like...

    [Bond fights a group of men as he races down a bowling alley, and throws a man into a line of pins, knocking them all over]

    Bond: "That's what I call a strike out."


    [Bond pulls a lever that releases tons of tied paper bills on top of the villain, crushing him]

    Bond: "I'm green with envy."


    [Bond fires a torpedo from his Aston while parked on a dock, penetrating the hull of a villain's ship as it begins taking water]

    Bond: "Talk about a sinking feeling."


    None of the above would be complete without a cheeky tie-straightening or wink to the camera, though.
  • stagstag In the thick of it!
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    OHMSS -twice over the past seven days! It was shown on TV and I couldn't resist both times.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    BAIN123 wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    Yeah, I get that. Like he's waiting for the BOOM tss from the drums that never comes.

    Thats why I don't blame him for being pissed at the fact that he was never given a good script to work with besides GoldenEye. He was probably like, " If you can't beat them, join them."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    I'm another who watched both screenings of OHMSS and will probably do the same for
    DAF, ( last night on itv 4 )
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited September 2017 Posts: 11,189
    Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: »
    Again, I see no validity to these criticisms in the film itself. Certainly nothing that could be dubbed parody even approaching what's to be found in the films of Connery and Moore. But I can concede that the part where Bond and Renard have their hands around each other's throats was perhaps inexpertly filmed (though the fight up to that point is excellent).

    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    Some_Kind_Of_Hero wrote: »
    Again, I see no validity to these criticisms in the film itself. Certainly nothing that could be dubbed parody even approaching what's to be found in the films of Connery and Moore. But I can concede that the part where Bond and Renard have their hands around each other's throats was perhaps inexpertly filmed (though the fight up to that point is excellent).

    Not parody, pastiche. I'd take parody if I had to, but it's all too fan fictiony and that's down to how the lines are delivered where the characters seem self-aware that they're in a goofy film. The one-liners feel like they are out of a five year old's idea of a Bond movie, and the trend continued in DAD. That's the point when Bond films stop being Bond films and instead pretend/try to be them, only exaggerated to the max such that it's all too much. They can at times be embarrassing for me to watch.

    Only in those movies could we actually get set ups and one-liners like...

    [Bond fights a group of men as he races down a bowling alley, and throws a man into a line of pins, knocking them all over]

    Bond: "That's what I call a strike out."


    [Bond pulls a lever that releases tons of tied paper bills on top of the villain, crushing him]

    Bond: "I'm green with envy."


    [Bond fires a torpedo from his Aston while parked on a dock, penetrating the hull of a villain's ship as it begins taking water]

    Bond: "Talk about a sinking feeling."


    None of the above would be complete without a cheeky tie-straightening or wink to the camera, though.

    Yeah that's true. "Saved by the bell" comes instantly to mind.

    I think Brosnan actually used that "sinking feeling" one in the Everything or Nothing video game.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
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    Does anyone still watch bond films via VHS?
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    I recently (within six months recently, I mean) completed a collection of the Eon films from Dr. No to Die Another Day. It was a strangely refreshing experience to watch them that way after watching them on DVD for so long.
  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
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    CASINOROYALE wrote: »
    Does anyone still watch bond films via VHS?

    I still have my recordings from 2000 from the 15 days of 007 on TBS. Sometimes nice to flashback on that since I was 12 when I recorded them.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
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    Yes, it kinda gives off a vintage feeling!
  • ShardlakeShardlake Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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    VHS??????????????????????????????????????
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    I threw my Bond VHS collection in the bin, charity shops stopped taking videos at the time
  • pachazopachazo Make Your Choice
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    I still have my Bond VHS tapes, but I haven't owned a VHS player in I don't know how long, so they are just cool collector's items for me.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited September 2017 Posts: 25,134
    I had a few different VHS sets over the years, this last one I had was good displayed on a shelf...

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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    It would be interesting to watch the Bonds on VHS, but I don't own any of them in that format, nor do I have that many in DVDs (I only have the first two Craig and all of Connery). The only collection that's complete are the blu-rays, the ones that really mattered for me to track down.
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    BAIN123 wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    "Oh I'm sure they're perfectly rounded"
    "Err...he was buried with work"
    (From DAD) "now...you said something about...going down together?"

    Moore didn't really do that - even if he did go into slimy territory too much sometimes.

    Brosnan delivers the jokes "for the audience", acknowledging the fact they are jokes. You can see the same logic being applied when he puts on the x-ray glasses and walks around the casino looking at the women. His facial expression conveys the enjoyment Bond derives from the situation, but also reads as him saying to the viewer that "yes, I'm damn lucky to be wearing these!" Roger Moore does the same, but Brosnan is perhaps generally more "showy" about it. Still, nothing wrong with that, in my opinion, as long as it doesn't break the tone of the scene. And it doesn't. Furthermore, for comparison's sake, Brosnan never exceeds the level of smartassery Moore reaches in Moonraker.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    BAIN123 wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    "Oh I'm sure they're perfectly rounded"
    "Err...he was buried with work"
    (From DAD) "now...you said something about...going down together?"

    Moore didn't really do that - even if he did go into slimy territory too much sometimes.

    Brosnan delivers the jokes "for the audience", acknowledging the fact they are jokes. You can see the same logic being applied when he puts on the x-ray glasses and walks around the casino looking at the women. His facial expression conveys the enjoyment Bond derives from the situation, but also reads as him saying to the viewer that "yes, I'm damn lucky to be wearing these!" Roger Moore does the same, but Brosnan is perhaps generally more "showy" about it. Still, nothing wrong with that, in my opinion, as long as it doesn't break the tone of the scene. And it doesn't. Furthermore, for comparison's sake, Brosnan never exceeds the level of smartassery Moore reaches in Moonraker.

    I think the issue some, including myself, take is that it all comes off as very unnatural because it is so overplayed. There's no sense of nuance, subtlety or anything of the sort, just very sloppy and overt lines and dialogues to go along with the overt performance. Roger's films were over the top and were slavish to audience too, but there was an attempt to be smart and witty under the surface, and the lines had a lot more thought and craft in how they were written and delivered such that you didn't expect a laugh reel to be playing after everything Bond said; there was nuance and subtlety to the comedy. The Brosnan era often amounts to a C-level tribute band of the Moore films, on account of the lack of talent on board to pull it off, but also because of the era's miscalculation that what worked in the 70s (and 60s for that matter) could still work. It couldn't work, and wouldn't have even if the feel of the 70s was effectively and skillfully realized.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    mattjoes wrote: »
    BAIN123 wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed about Brosnan is that he tends to play the bad jokes like he KNOWS they are bad jokes.

    "Oh I'm sure they're perfectly rounded"
    "Err...he was buried with work"
    (From DAD) "now...you said something about...going down together?"

    Moore didn't really do that - even if he did go into slimy territory too much sometimes.

    Brosnan delivers the jokes "for the audience", acknowledging the fact they are jokes. You can see the same logic being applied when he puts on the x-ray glasses and walks around the casino looking at the women. His facial expression conveys the enjoyment Bond derives from the situation, but also reads as him saying to the viewer that "yes, I'm damn lucky to be wearing these!" Roger Moore does the same, but Brosnan is perhaps generally more "showy" about it. Still, nothing wrong with that, in my opinion, as long as it doesn't break the tone of the scene. And it doesn't. Furthermore, for comparison's sake, Brosnan never exceeds the level of smartassery Moore reaches in Moonraker.

    "Showiness" is the exact word I've thought before of in terms of Brosnan's Bond. Sometimes it works in a cutesy sort of way and raises a smile from me ("lets...toast to your evaluation shall we" and the later tie straightening in the tank), but other times I do find myself cringing a little...especially as I've got a little older.

    I agree that Moore did the same in a slightly more "letchy" sort of way at times (Moonraker's "seems to have an eye for a good investment" line to Corrine again comes to mind in that it's very knowing in a ho-ho-ho aren't I funny kind of way). It's one reason I think MR is one of his weaker Bond portrayals However, Moore (and the scriptwriters) knew when to dial it back.
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