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I discovered Bond my Freshman year of college, so I was 18. It was the fall of 1999. None of the Brosnan films that were coming out in the past few years interested me though. The idea of a guy in a tux saving the world seemed bogus to me at the time. The Mission Impossible series seemed more believable. Then I started to watch the Connery films. The first one I saw was Diamonds are Forever. It was a fun adventure. I realized how much style, charm, and humor was a part of the movies. Then I saw Dr. No followed by From Russia with Love, and from then on I was hooked and proceeded to watch the entire series.
Of course the Goldeneye game for N64 was really popular at the time, and Austin Powers was really big, so Bond was really in the zeitgeist.
About a year later they started showing the old Bond films on TV surprisingly regularly and I was able to catch them all within a year. I loved the first seven but thought that Moore was an embarrassment to the name James Bond - who was this clown that was pretending to be Bond? And I couldn't stand his films - even at that young I found them silly and lowbrow. Because of that the first Bond film I was supposed to see in a theatre was NSNA; when we couldn't get in my friend pressured me to see OP. We saw NSNA the next weekend (and saw it again a couple of weeks later) and then TLD started the trend of seeing all the Bond films in the theatre on opening weekend.
Wow, amazing how similar to my own experience. Same time, same circumstances, proper picture houses.
I was 10 (safe to go out on your own in those days so this meant lots of Saturday morning ABC club and double bills (I remember Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger/Spiderman amongst numerous summer visits ) at the local ABC in the aftrenoon.
Then along came something strange. One film with a villain called Jaws that wasn't part 2 of the shark and you had to queue around the block to see it. Within 10 minutes I was hooked as the parachute opened and the rest they say is history.
Those days we had the main releases in the 'pictures' all summer and then numerous double bill releases so you could catch up with previous encounters to fill in the gaps between film years.
Those were the days.
I'm 24 this September, first Bond I saw was TWINE in the cinema in 1999. Became a fan in 2000 when TV showed all films DN -> GE.
Snap, me too! TWINE, to this day, still holds a special place in my heart. Now the first TV Bond film, was probably Goldfinger, when I was 5 or 6ish, I guess. Either that or For Your Eyes Only; I have vivid memories about the PTS.
My first Bond adventure was DN, which I saw on TV when I was about 7 or 8 - can't say for sure.
I was 10 (I turning 11 later that year) when I watched YOLT on VHS back in 1996. Though I was aware of the James Bond jr cartoon of 1991, it was YOLT that made me a Bond fan.
Maybe it's because I'm so tired but the phrasing of this sentence made me fall in love a little bit...
It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes about Fleming; that he wrote about sex and "love scenes" with "a gentleman's restraint". It's funny how that type of language can be so evocative, so much more than blunt or obvious language...
First encountered Bond at the age of 10.
My first Bond-film in the theatre was Casino Royale when I was 12 :)
Feeling a bit nostalgic now that I think back-- aside from Blockbuster Video, my biggest success in seeing all the older movies was during Christmastime, when they would all be on TV. Anyone else remember that?
First encounter with Bond was when I was 6 or 7 and watching Bond films on TV with my dad and/or grandfather. I still remember asking them "who's Bond in this one?" and calling Dr. No "that scary man with metal hands".
Then when I was 9 I saw my first grown-up movie at the cinema, The World Is Not Enough.
Believe it or not, I became a full-time Bond fan after watching Die Another Day at the cinema, age 12.
32 years young here and first encountered Bond at five or six years-old, I'd say, when my dad let my brother and I watch the Aston Martin chase from GF and the boat chase from The 'Die on his Betamax recordings off the telly. We both were, unsurprisingly, blown away by what we saw.
I must have been seven or eight when I first watched a whole Bond flick, though, and it was probably DN or MR when both were shown at some point on old-school Saturday night ITV. My Bond fandom genuinely began a year or two later in autumn '89, mind, thanks to me buying this very book. Happy days, indeed...! :)
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/187/what-and-when-was-your-first-experience-of-007-
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/380/your-earliest-bond-experiences-and-memories...
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/548/my-bond-experience
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/850/the-story-behind-your-first-bond-movie-viewing
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2164/your-first-bond-moviebond-actor-is-ithe-your-favorite-has-your-opinion-changed
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2425/how-did-you-become-a-007-fan
It would be a shame for posters to share their thoughts in a thread that will only be locked.
No point in closing it now.
I agree with what @Samuel001 is inferring. I'm starting to feel this has to do with an inherent problem with the layout of the site. First of all, I do love this place and it is user friendly, so I don't want to sound critical of a free space that I get to talk about a subject I love...
BUT...there is a problem with an redundancy of discussions. Countless threads just get lost in the shuffle, and then countless REPEAT threads get posted. Then there are the random threads, such as "What do you think about this, or what do you think about that?"--whole threads devoted to one issue, when those could have easily been asked in the questions threads. There is little sense of continuity, because ongoing threads, as I say are lost in the shuffle. I've brought this up before, in that there could be a better layout with the organization of topics and sub-topics. We've added sub-topics...so I don't know what the solution is, and honestly it's a minor gripe. But it would be nicer, if we could have a better way to ARCHIVE the discussions, so that they are easy to find. As we all know, the "search" function is serviceable at best...Maybe discussions could be screened by the MODS first before they are published?, so that we don't have so many redundant threads... But all that being said, I love all you guys, and it's great fun. Intelligent discussion with a supportive staff. Just an issue that's been bugging me a bit... 8-X
I'll let you all do the math.
Fairplay to your dad! =D> It was my mom who introduced me to Bond! with the same movie!
In 2007 my country national broadcaster LTV broadcasted all Bonds, except of then-latest Casino Royale. I only watched a little of GoldenEye. Remember motocycle and plane chase in the PTS, and then Onatopp in casino. And that my mum told me to go sleep :)
About years ago, other broadcaster, TV3 broadcasted DAD. I watched it entire!
I didn't like heavy CGI, smoking Brosnan and Jinx, but it hooked me!
Later in same TV3 I watched Casino Royale, I was soo excited.
QoS in Sunday (CR was in Saturday) wasn't so good, but I was then Bond fan.
Today, I've seen all Bond films, and I love listening to TLD, GE, CR and QOS soundtracks :)
And I'm going to Skyfall at cinema. Maybe not in 1st November, but I am!
LOL, I added here too much bangs :) , and smileys.
First remember watching Bond on tv in the late 80's and playing with the toy cars in the 70's ! Started collecting in the 90's after Goldeneye