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  • Hey all!

    Newbie to the forum and to the series really. I've been working my way through the films (for the first time) starting with Dr No in January. I've recently just reached the end of Moore's era (phew!) :)

    I'm Lewis, 21, and in the UK. Very excited for Spectre!
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited February 2015 Posts: 7,551
    MrBlofeld wrote: »
    Hey all!

    Newbie to the forum and to the series really. I've been working my way through the films (for the first time) starting with Dr No in January. I've recently just reached the end of Moore's era (phew!) :)

    I'm Lewis, 21, and in the UK. Very excited for Spectre!

    Oh man, so many amazing Bond films that you haven't seen yet! Jealous!! haha

    I'm fairly new here as well and never signed this thread. Some of the discussions do indeed stir up some controversy, but the community really is fantastic and a lot of fun!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Welcome MrBlofeld
  • DrGorner wrote: »
    Welcome MrBlofeld

    Thanks! :)
  • MrBlofeld wrote: »
    Hey all!

    Newbie to the forum and to the series really. I've been working my way through the films (for the first time) starting with Dr No in January. I've recently just reached the end of Moore's era (phew!) :)

    I'm Lewis, 21, and in the UK. Very excited for Spectre!

    Oh man, so many amazing Bond films that you haven't seen yet! Jealous!! haha

    I'm fairly new here as well and never signed this thread. Some of the discussions do indeed stir up some controversy, but the community really is fantastic and a lot of fun!
    Love me a bit of debate! I already think I'm an 'odd' Bond fan - I prefer Lazenby to Moore, for example. Eeek.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,551
    MrBlofeld wrote: »
    MrBlofeld wrote: »
    Hey all!

    Newbie to the forum and to the series really. I've been working my way through the films (for the first time) starting with Dr No in January. I've recently just reached the end of Moore's era (phew!) :)

    I'm Lewis, 21, and in the UK. Very excited for Spectre!

    Oh man, so many amazing Bond films that you haven't seen yet! Jealous!! haha

    I'm fairly new here as well and never signed this thread. Some of the discussions do indeed stir up some controversy, but the community really is fantastic and a lot of fun!
    Love me a bit of debate! I already think I'm an 'odd' Bond fan - I prefer Lazenby to Moore, for example. Eeek.

    You may not necessarily find that opinion so "odd" around here :) I certainly prefer OHMSS to a huge amount of Moore's outings.
  • ivegotarocketivegotarocket Bristol
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    Hello all.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Welcome to Hell, Blofeld. :-bd
  • Welcome to Hell, Blofeld. :-bd
    Hell?! No thanks!

    How about a stainless steel delicatessen?
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    Welcome to all our latest new members!!! :D
  • sunsanvilsunsanvil Somewhere in Canada....somewhere.
    edited February 2015 Posts: 260
    Greetings all. Big Bond movie fan, usually watch them all every year or so. Also read the books several times and am working through them again right now in fact.

    It all started when my family moved to East Africa for a time in the 80s and as a young man I got to see everything starting with Dr. No on the big screen during a re-release marathon (leading up to Octopussy if I recall correctly).

    I'm thinking of dabbling into vintage Bond poster collecting, but nothing expensive (say, under $100 pieces).

    I moonlight as a technical consultant in the CE/Home Theater space and have dubbed my personal theater "The 007 Theater".
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Welcome sunsanvil :) I've only recently reread the Books myself.
  • eddychaputeddychaput Montreal, Canada
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    Hello!

    My name is Edgar Chaput. I registered for the message boards literally minutes ago.
    -I'm located in Montreal, Canada
    -I'm in my early 30s
    -I've been a Bond fan since I was a child. I had a sick day from elementary school as a young boy and my mom went to the video store and came back with Octopussy. The rest is history.
    -Most of my interest comes from the films but I've read all the Fleming novels and some, but not all, of the continuation novels.
    -I've read MI6-HQ.com for a few years already but never took the plunge to engage with the message board members. Here I am!

    I look forward to sharing thoughts, ideas, jokes, anecdotes and whatnot with the lot of you.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited February 2015 Posts: 7,551
    Hello, fellow Canadian! :D
  • eddychaputeddychaput Montreal, Canada
    Posts: 364
    Greetings! :)>-
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    Look at us Canadians! :)
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    OMG, the one and only scene filmed in Canada for a Bond movie was Mount Asgard in Nunavut, when Rick Sylvester skied off the mountain with a union jack parachute for the PTS of TSWLM :O :O :O
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Welcome eddychaput. :)
  • eddychaputeddychaput Montreal, Canada
    Posts: 364
    OMG, the one and only scene filmed in Canada for a Bond movie was Mount Asgard in Nunavut, when Rick Sylvester skied off the mountain with a union jack parachute for the PTS of TSWLM :O :O :O

    Great scene, no doubt about it. I never knew where it had been filmed until I watched the special features on of the old DVDs of TSWLM.
  • Hello fellow Bond lovers..
    My name is Angela. I just registered and looking forward to reading all the discussions about Bond. I've loved Bond since I was a teen and my first Bond movie in theater was Goldeneye. I have seen every Bond movie in theater since then.
    I recently got a Bond tattoo on my shoulder last summer, which is my profile pic. I always thought of myself as a Bond girl and wondered where do all the recovering Bond girls go?
    Cheers!
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Welcome, love the tattoos!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Welcome RecoveringBondGirl. Nice ink. :)
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    DrGorner wrote: »
    Welcome RecoveringBondGirl. Nice ink. :)

    It is indeed some nice ink work you have there. Welcome aboard. Look forward for seeing what some of your views on the series are.

    eddychaput wrote: »
    Hello!

    My name is Edgar Chaput. I registered for the message boards literally minutes ago.
    -I'm located in Montreal, Canada
    -I'm in my early 30s
    -I've been a Bond fan since I was a child. I had a sick day from elementary school as a young boy and my mom went to the video store and came back with Octopussy. The rest is history.
    -Most of my interest comes from the films but I've read all the Fleming novels and some, but not all, of the continuation novels.
    -I've read MI6-HQ.com for a few years already but never took the plunge to engage with the message board members. Here I am!

    I look forward to sharing thoughts, ideas, jokes, anecdotes and whatnot with the lot of you.

    If you share a love of Octopussy, then we'll get on fine. Welcome to the forums.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Welcome, all new boys and girls.
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    hi all, i am tojo & i have just joined so i am saying hello.
  • DrShatterhandDrShatterhand Garden of Death, near Belfast
    edited February 2015 Posts: 805
    I've been meaning to post here since joining so here goes...

    Earliest Bond memory: Seeing a poster for TMWTGG in the foyer of my local ABC Cinema on a school holiday trip (probably to watch Escape From Witch Mountain). Remember thinking it looked jolly exciting but I wouldn't be allowed to see it as it looked a bit too racy. Probably just as well on reflection: I think my young impressionable mind would've been 'over-excited' shall we say by the sight of Mary Goodnight in a bikini.

    First Bond movie seen Pretty sure it was DN when it was first broadcast on UK TV in 1975. I remember being thrilled by it, although slightly disappointed that the Crab Key 'dragon' turned out to be an old lorry with a flame-thrower. I'm murkier on my first Bond seen at the cinema, pretty sure it was TSWLM. There was also a viewing of NSNA at a holiday camp cinema one sunny afternoon but I promised not to speak of it again.

    Book Bond My first foray into Fleming was via my local library and their collection of hardbacks with the wonderful Chopping slipcases, which, to my eternal annoyance I always returned. My first purchase (with book token obviously) was a collection including LALD, DAF, GF and DN in a lovely silver case. I've not read all of the others but am slowly putting that right by working my way through the Vertigo Press box set I was given as a gift (just finished TSWLM which was, er, challenging). I start reading the Gardner's when they came out but stopped after the one when he goes up a mountain.



  • GHettoblasterGHettoblaster New York, USA
    edited February 2015 Posts: 15
    Lifelong Bond fan, first time poster. I like serious and gritty depictions of James Bond. I own all the movies on Blu-Ray and all the Fleming Novels. My favorite Bonds are Connery, Craig, and Dalton. I liked OHMSS so Lazenby deserves a mention. I like Goldeneye and a couple of Moore's films but the tone of their movies are much different than that of the other 4 actors. Too many jokes, too much emphasis on the Bond girls, too many gadgets, terrible plots, and too humorous of a tone being set for an ACTION/SPY film. My top 10 (in no particular order): Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, OHMSS, The Living Daylights, Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Skyfall.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
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    Welcome Tojo. :)
  • edited February 2015 Posts: 3
    Hello,

    I'm excited to be hear and to be honest, I am relatively a new Bond fan within the last few of years. I am the editor of a style and entertainment magazine and I'm always consumed with stylish onscreen characters, and that's how I took notice of James Bond. What other character in film history has such impeccable and iconic style.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,266
    Welcome to the boards @TheChickSpy. Indeed, where else to find class and style? You'll probably have loads of fun with the SPECTRE threads here.
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