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Who do you watch Bond movies with?

chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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A girlfriend? A Wife? A Son or Daughter? Friends?

Sadly, I watch Bond movies by myself. My Wife hates them. My Son watched TLD with me for Father's Day as a total courtesy. He didn't like it much.

I'm all alone here. *snif*
:-??
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  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,362
    I mostly watch them by myself but sometimes I'll watch them with my Mom and my friends. Me and my dad watched them together. Good memories.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Me and my dad watched them together. Good memories.
    :)>-
  • 00130013
    Posts: 1,817
    I often watch them solo but I remember seeing CR and QOS with a girlfriend once and TND with another one. The former found them "offensive" in some scenes (I wonder what would happen if she sees TMWTGG or GF!)
  • SuzanneStoneSuzanneStone
    Posts: 372
    I watch them alone as well. Not gonna watch them with my family, because sometimes there´s saucy bits and I don´t feel like having to pokerface my way through them. Can´t watch them with my friends because I´m a girl; I have much more female than male friends and they (I guess it sounds rather stereotypical) do not like Bond movies.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited August 2014 Posts: 14,698
    I envy those who can take a whole bunch of friends to the cinema to see Bond. I wish I had friends.

    Seriously, all my friends bar one couldn't give a damn about Bond, sadly. The only person I watch Bond films with is my flatmate, who is nowhere as fanatical as me- and even then, I get the strong feeling he doesn't care too much for the pre-Craig films. That gets on my goat a bit, because he acts like one of these new fans who dismiss the earlier films for whatever reason, even though I know he is fond of Moore and Dalton. I think his favourite one is QOS. I'm glad he accompanied me to the cinemas for SF, although he didn't care for it too much because it was moving away from the grittiness of the previous two, venturing back into OTT Bond territory with the DB5 gadgets, melodramatic villain etc.

    I have another friend interstate who loved to thrash GE and GE64 when they first came out. When I visited him a couple of years back, I asked him if he's still into Bond, and all I got was a 'nah'. Not much left to do after that but change the topic :(

    This is why I love being on the forum here, because even though I can't watch the films with you all, at least I can talk non-stop Bond without getting on anyone's nerves!
  • JohnBarryFanJohnBarryFan
    Posts: 1,405
    Seriously I enjoy them more alone. Everytime my wife goes on a trip somewhere for a few days I always put 2 or 3 Bond movies in the DVD. When one does come out, I always take a leave from work and go see it alone in the afternoon before going again with my wife at night. If, like Casino Royale, I really like the movie, I go for a 3rd and 4th times, all by myself.
  • ThighsOfXeniaThighsOfXenia
    Posts: 1,596
    I enjoy them more alone usually. I do very much like showing them to friends who haven't seen them though. And my little brother Nathan back home usually wants to watch one when I come home to visit.

    When I do Bondathons though I usually just watch them myself with some popcorn and sometimes a cup of coffee after. :P
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited August 2014 Posts: 12,837
    Just whoever really. When I was younger I used to watch them with my adoptive dad. I've watched them on my own before (and still do sometimes), I've watched Bond films with my brother before, with mates and with different girlfriends before, now most of the time I watch them with my wife who is pretty indifferent towards them. She doesn't hate them or love them but she sits through them when I watch them at home and she goes to see the new ones with me at the cinema.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,698
    I think the one person I've seen the most Bond films with is my mum! I moved back in with her briefly during 2007, and she not only watched (possibly all) the films with me, but helped me collect the UE DVDs. Awesome! :)>-
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    Posts: 4,813
    I tend to watch them alone, save for the Craig ones. My girlfriend saw each of those in the theater with me.
    SuzanneStone wrote: »
    Not gonna watch them with my family, because sometimes there´s saucy bits and I don´t feel like having to pokerface my way through them.

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    I watched Oldboy with my parents!
  • mirandafrostmirandafrost
    edited August 2014 Posts: 368
    I watch them mostly with my family (but it's very hard to convince them. They always say "But you just watched one!" :))) or with my best friend who is also a huge James Bond fan. :)
  • timmertimmer
    edited August 2014 Posts: 4,622
    Best to go see each new Bond movie with a girl. More fun that way. You come out feeling like Bond and she comes out feeling like a Bond girl, but hopefully not mommy Dench.
    If you're lucky, she'll endure you making up pet Bond girl names for her.... for a while anyway.
    Outside of new releases, I do my best to subject anyone and everyone to Bond blu-ray doubles. I pick the movies naturally. A GF DAF double is my preferred choice for newbies.
  • SuzanneStoneSuzanneStone
    edited August 2014 Posts: 372
    @Master_Dahark

    Never seen Oldboy as it looks quite violent, but I'm assuming there's explicit parts in there. :p I once watched Malèna with my mom and dad and it's an experience I would like to forget. I don't want my mom and especially not my dad to know that I have the slightest clue of what it is a twelve year old boy thinks about.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    Posts: 4,813
    I'll sum it up for you in one word:
    incest
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,271
    Most of the time it's just me. I prefer to watch them late at night while the rest has gone to bed. In any case, I'm the only one here who can truly appreciate the bonds. ;-)
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
    Posts: 2,667
    Mrs Tokoloshe, for all her good points, is not an aficionado of the Bond series and would therefore aggravate the life out of me if we tried to watch one together.

    However I will soon begin work on making Tokoloshe Jr (male, age 4) my heir to Bond fandom, so to speak.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    Like Dimi, most of the time it's just me. I prefer it that way, I don't care to watch them with someone who is going to nitpick or take me out of the experience.

    We did a Craig marathon at college during the winter, though, and I got my girlfriend to watch all three of them, I believe. It's so cute seeing her squirm by trying to figure out which is what. "Skyfall is the one where the girl is actually bad and Daniel Craig swims after her, right?"

    ..."yes, sweetheart. That's it..."
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,271
    @Creasy47, you're an incurable romantic. ;-)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @Creasy47, you're an incurable romantic. ;-)

    I aim to please. ;)

    Of course, getting to watch Bond comes with the returned favor of watching classics that are better than any Bond film, such as: 'Endless Love' or 'The Other Woman.' Oscar-winning films like that can't be overlooked! :P
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
    edited August 2014 Posts: 5,080
    Just myself, although some of my friends are big Bond fans too. I suppose we could watch The Living Daylights one day, as that's the one all three of us enjoy very much.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,837
    mirandafrost wrote: »
    "But you just watched one!"
    I get that from my family every time I put one on (and the headphones so they don't have to hear it).
    8-|
  • OHMSS69OHMSS69
    edited August 2014 Posts: 2,341
    When I first started watching Bond films back in the sixties, I watched them with a school chum. As I got older I started bringing dates. Bond films are great date films.
    I saw CR and Q0S alone,but saw SF with my present girlfriend.
    My family members were never that into 007
  • SuzanneStoneSuzanneStone
    Posts: 372
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @Creasy47, you're an incurable romantic. ;-)

    I aim to please. ;)

    Of course, getting to watch Bond comes with the returned favor of watching classics that are better than any Bond film, such as: 'Endless Love' or 'The Other Woman.' Oscar-winning films like that can't be overlooked! :P

    Christ. Even from another woman's perspective that seems like an unfair tradeoff. :p
  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    Master_Dahark wrote: »
    I watched Oldboy with my parents!
    It was tough for me to watch it alone..I can imagine the awkwardness between and your family during the movie..
  • wdmwdm
    Posts: 16
    My wife and I are expecting our first child in January. We don't know whether we're having a boy or a girl yet, but either way, I can't wait to introduce my baby to Bond. I used to watch Bond movies with my niece when she was less than a year old. I know she won't remember, but she liked the colors (particularly in Diamonds are Forever), and I hope she picked something up through osmosis.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Usually just me however my better half has really enjoyed the DC Bond films, and has said she would like to watch the others at somepoint? :-bd
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Lucky bloody you! :))
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
    Posts: 618
    Since we first met, Mrs. CraterGuns and I have seen every new Bond film in the theater (GOLDENEYE onwards)... At home I mostly watch 'em alone, but I believe she's seen every 1962-89 film at least once.

    I suppose I'm fortunate in that she generally likes the franchise. Her favorite Bond is Craig, but she's okay with Connery and Dalton as well. (The other fellas not so much.)
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    chrisisall wrote: »
    Lucky bloody you! :))

    Yep! :D Hopefully this will also include plenty of gratuitous sex and violence?!!!!! ;)
  • SharkBaitSharkBait
    Posts: 2,107
    My buddy came to watch Skyfall in the cinema once with me, but other than that I watch them by myself. I don't know a lot of people who are as into Bond as I am. Used to watch them with my parents when I lived with them.
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