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Watching Bond with our kids.
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Moonraker 6
For my 2019 "Bondathon" I've been sharing the movies with my ten year old daughter. She's often shown an interest in Bond so this year I asked her if she wanted to watch them all with me. She enthusiastically agreed. So far we've watched
Dr. No
She enjoyed this a lot. Said a few times she thinks this might be her favourite so far.
From Russia With Love
Enjoyed it. Didn't say too much about it though.
Goldfinger
Really got into this. She was a bit shocked at the "death by gold paint" bit.
Thunderball
Didn't seem to dig this one all that much.
You Only Live Twice
Now this she LOVED. Really got into it. She's also said she thinks this one might be her favourite so far but she's not too sure. She LOVES the title song.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Surprisingly perhaps she really did get into this. She was very surprised when I told her this was made almost a decade before I was born! "But it's good" she said!
She was a bit bummed out by the ending. Just said "I knew something like that would happen"
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
We watched these three over the weekend and she didn't seem too taken with any of them really. Especially the last one. Just kept saying it was boring and asking me when it was over! Can't say I blame her really. It's a bit of a turd.
Still - she's enthusiastic about watching the rest of them and she wants to listen to some of the soundtracks I have. She LOVES the Carly Simon song and is looking forward to watching that movie on Friday night. Also - we're going out a bit later today so I'm going to play some Bond music for her in the car. Got big things planned.
So have any of the parents in here shown Bond to their kids? What did they think?
Dr. No
She enjoyed this a lot. Said a few times she thinks this might be her favourite so far.
From Russia With Love
Enjoyed it. Didn't say too much about it though.
Goldfinger
Really got into this. She was a bit shocked at the "death by gold paint" bit.
Thunderball
Didn't seem to dig this one all that much.
You Only Live Twice
Now this she LOVED. Really got into it. She's also said she thinks this one might be her favourite so far but she's not too sure. She LOVES the title song.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Surprisingly perhaps she really did get into this. She was very surprised when I told her this was made almost a decade before I was born! "But it's good" she said!
She was a bit bummed out by the ending. Just said "I knew something like that would happen"
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
We watched these three over the weekend and she didn't seem too taken with any of them really. Especially the last one. Just kept saying it was boring and asking me when it was over! Can't say I blame her really. It's a bit of a turd.
Still - she's enthusiastic about watching the rest of them and she wants to listen to some of the soundtracks I have. She LOVES the Carly Simon song and is looking forward to watching that movie on Friday night. Also - we're going out a bit later today so I'm going to play some Bond music for her in the car. Got big things planned.
So have any of the parents in here shown Bond to their kids? What did they think?
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Comments I remember from back then was that he was unsure what he thought of OHMSS, due to the ending no doubt.
TMWTGG was the only film that made him exclaim "What a film!" when it was over.
The Brosnan films he didn t care for at all.
Something else I remember-him commenting on Connery s big bushy eyebrows, and he wondered if he wore lipstick?
Like father, like son, eh? ;)
Of course he is right though.
One day I can ask if he wants to see the first film he ever laid eyes on, and hopefully the ball will roll from there...
@Agent_99 - Old Rog had that effect on the ladies!
:))
My girl was listening to James Bond music on Google Play this morning. She seems quite interested in the David Arnold Shaken And Stirred album.
:))
Can't take the credit I'm afraid! She's just into it.
Your experiences would have made a great blog (a la Adventures with the wife in space and such), podcast or YouTube channel! 😝 I don’t have children so out of interest, what does your daughter make of the special effects in the early films - do they seem ridiculous, put her off, or does she not notice them?
I’m a big Roger Moore fan so I’m hoping TSWLM and Moonraker make up for the disappointing start to Moore’s films! Fingers crossed! 🤞
First one I saw at the cinema was Goldeneye when I was a teenager - and then there was Tomorrow Never Dies and the Goldeneye 007 N64 game. That's what sealed the deal for me!
Funnily enough - we took the kids to a special cinema showing of Moonraker in London a few years ago but I don't think my daughter really remembers it.
As for the special effects - she has mentioned that she thinks a couple of them look a bit fake but it doesn't detract from her enjoyment of the films. She seems to be REALLY getting into them at the moment!
(She's also obsessed with Mamma Mia! The Movie and has a big old crush on Pierce, but you can't win 'em all. @BondStu, has your daughter developed a favourite Bond yet?)
On Friday night we watched The Spy Who Loved Me. She really enjoyed it and at one point said she thinks it's her second favourite out of the series (she's still clinging onto Dr. No as her number one).
Saturday morning we watched Moonraker. I think she enjoyed it but at the same time was a bit confused by it! :)) I told her it was a bit of a wild one, but I don't think she was quite prepared for how wild it was! Especially the bit with the pigeon. In fact - after the movie I told her that it's one that divides the audience a bit and a lot of people out there hate it. And she said "Probably because of that pigeon!"
Saturday evening it was For Your Eyes Only - and I think she was taken aback by the abrupt change in tone after that last two.
Sunday was an interesting day. I told her how 1983 was an interesting year in Bond history and about the "Battle Of The Bonds" at the box office.
Sunday morning we watched Octopussy (which has never been one of my favourites) and Sunday night we watched Never Say Never Again.
She said out of the two that the latter was her favourite. To be honest I'm inclined to agree with her!
So that's the latest!
After reading this thread I'm looking to introducing the Bond films to her in a few years even more than I was!
@Agent_99 - I recommend it. It's a clumsy movie but has charm. And you can't beat of bit of Connery as 007! ;)
Anyway! My daughter and I have just finished watching A View To A Kill. I just thought we'd get it out of the way so we could dive straight into the Dalton era on Friday night.
Afterwards I asked her what she thought of it and she said she thought it was OK. Now I wouldn't say I watched it properly (I was playing with my phone whilst it was on to be honest) but I did pay a bit more attention to it than I have done before.
And what I did see was still as awful as I remembered. There was kind of a mean spirit to this movie. Just... unpleasant. Kind of like Diamonds Are Forever.
Still - I was impressed by the John Barry score. I'll have to give that album another spin fairly soon.
So. That's the latest.
The Living Daylights
She enjoyed this and liked Dalton as Bond. I had to explain a lot of what was going on in it though. Especially how it was a Cold War thriller. I've told her about the Cold War before though so she understands what it was. It's just all the espionage stuff.
Licence To Kill
Was kind of dreading showing her this one cause of the 15 rating and the heightened violence. However - she knows movies aren't real and I didn't think it would be right to miss one out. If I'm showing all of them to her that does mean all of them.
Sadly though - she didn't like it. Leiter getting maimed by the shark nor Milton Krest's death disturbed her particularly.
What she didn't like was Dario getting minced, Heller getting impaled by a forklift - or Sanchez going up in flames (although she did appreciate the symbolism of the lighter used to do it).
I had warned her beforehand that this film was a bit tougher than the rest of them and afterwards she told me she didn't enjoy it - and she didn't understand why violent and nasty films were made. But I explained to her that most of the characters who met a nasty death in the movie deserved it so she was cool with it.
Goldeneye
She enjoyed it for the most part - but like TLD I found myself having to explain a lot of it to her. About how the Cold War had ended before this film was made and how the film referenced that.
She liked Pierce Brosnan and listened with interest when I explained how this was the Bond of MY generation.
She's still hanging on to Dr. No as her favourite. Says there's just something magical about it.
Hm. Sounds like she is the one who should explain things to you.
She has a much healthier attitude towards violence.