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Pleasently suprised to see Goldeneye leading the field with most indoctrinated Bond fans around here.
Wasn't any different for me. I was aware of a fellow called Bond before 1997, but when the n64 game came around i got immediately sucked into this World.
Then one day i decided to watch the Movie as well and boy it didn't disappoint.
Haven't looked back since.
It still holds up to me, it is pure 90's for sure but i love that.
Monte Carlo, the Casino, Puerto Rico... pure Eye Candy.
Bond is cool as Cucumber and... on(a)top of things,
one of the best cast of villains in the whole franchise... what else do you need?
Also i love the fact that Goldeneye has created its own little universe inside the Bond franchise through a novelization, a video game that expanded the Movie quite a lot plus a remake that completely reimagined the Story, and lots of other fan projects etc around the internet... its a world i love to revisit every now and then.
Second most important Movie for me would be CR, since it got me into Fleming
Great stuff Agent.
If you like this thread, may I direct you to the Advent Calendar thread from last year? You may well have already seen it but there are some wonderful memories posted by a good few members on here. Well worth a look if not seen it.
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/17349/the-great-mi6-community-james-bond-advent-calendar-new-year-s-eve-celebration/p1
Seeing OHMSS and GF as Christmas reruns that same year was just as special.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS 1987
I was 14 years old when I saw this near the end of 1987. My dad took me to the local cinema, Odeon in Bournemouth UK.
In 1987 my dad started to take me to films that are not exactly aimed at 14 year olds.
Lethal Weapon for instance which also had a huge impact on me.
Interestingly TLD was not my first Bond. In fact it was my third!
I did see Octopussy in 1984 when it was shown again but only remember being infatuated with Octopussy, loved her looks, the long beautiful hair and her face.
Two years later, at 12 it was DURAN DURAN that shook my world. While I was already a huge fan in 1984 thanks to discovering their first two albums plus the newly released Seven And The Ragged Tiger, it was A View To A Kill, the song, that influenced me greatly in what kind of music I would love most from then on. Romantic Pop, forever.
A View To A Kill has remained my favourite song of all time.
Still, even when going to the cinema to see AVTAK, I was only interested in the title sequence for the music. Having seen the fantastic promo-clip for AVTAK the song I couldn't wait.
I remember LOVING the PTS of AVTAK and again it was a lady that I remember most, the Blonde waiting in the Iceberg-Sub.
The experience of seeing and hearing the title sequence of AVTAK was out of this world. Roughly three minutes that made my whole body shiver. It was heavenly.
Probably the reason why to this date, AVTAK remains my favourite title sequence. I love the NEON colours, I love the blue/black silhouettes. I just LOVE IT.
But back to the film that changed my life. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.
When we went to see it, I had no expectations at all. I even didn't think of it as another Bond I'll see. I simply had more or less forgotten about OP and AVTAK, the film by then.
The Pre-title-sequence was enough to make it a life-changing experience.
Let me just repeat that I had become a para-scout with Swiss Special Forces five years later. TLD and LTK are responsible for that, there is no doubt about it.
I loved Timothy Dalton, immediately.
The only other "hero" I had seen on screen before was Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. But Gibson seemed out of reach for me. And it didn't help that I had a huge crush on Gibson.
Dalton on the other hand was the kind of man, I felt, I could become. Serving for his country, loyal to the end, suave, dashing, dry wit, always dressed properly and oh so romantic. I loved how he was helping Kara and how they ended up in the end as a couple.
That Dalton shagged the lady on the yacht "better make that two" I simply didn't get at that age :lol:
I loved TLD's locations. Especially Vienna (which I had been before several times as a kid, including the big wheel). And Afghanistan, the military airport base.
I didn't know a lot about its history, so I just loved all the characters.
To this day, once the Afghanistan sequence begins, a romantically glorified view of it kicks in. I just love every part of it.
But let me be clear, even looking at it as objectively as possible, I think it is a great sequence. The cinematography and Barry's brilliant romantic score make it work big time.
The bridge sequence is bloody awesome. Sure, if you look closely you can see it's a model, but even so, it is done beautifully and has stood the test of time imho.
The soundtrack in general made TLD work for me as well. I already was a fan of a-ha, if not as big a fan as of Duran Duran and their title song was a great addition to their already impressive, still very young, body of work.
The soundtrack album was the first one I listened to several hundred times probably. It was also that album that started my interest in soundtracks/scores.
In 1989 I knew more about the Bond franchise, but it was only after I had seen LTK that I became the life-long fan I am now. After LTK I searched for the other Bond films and watched them all between 1990 and 1991, OHMSS I may have seen in 1992 as the last one I discovered.
So that's that. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS has always remained somewhere at the top of my ranking. It was No 1 until GoldenEye and No 2 until last year.
Only recently I finally put OHMSS at No 1 in my ranking because it belongs there and has managed leaving GE and TLD behind.
As you may know I regard SPECTRE as my No 1, but as it is still too new I will wait for final judgement. Just now I have it at No 4 behind OHMSS-GE-TLD, it may go up again, not to No 1 though, OHMSS will forever stay there.
The Living Daylights: Saw as a teen and it was what I wanted, a return to something with an edge, a young Bond, a great story, score... it was all good. I saw it many times and took friends who by this point thought Bond was lame (old Moore and goofy movies leaving their impact). I realized Dalton, who I liked, wasn't the full package, but I was looking forward to many more with him to develop... another disappointment
Never Say Never Again: Family night at the movies... my mother wasn't going to miss this one. We didn't bother with Octopussy. My Mom liked Moore, thought he was so charming, but Connery was her Bond. She was the book lover who grew up on Fleming and had us watching all the movies on TV as kids.
Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man With the Golden Gun, Octopussy: Around 12 or so and really falling in love with Bond movies... going to the video store for VHS tapes and watching these on lazy afternoons. I remember vividly the first time seeing DAF with it's intro and opening chords of theme song, I was so excited... oh, this is going to be good. All the other Bonds I had seen and were pretty well established in my mind, but seeing these during those days was like discovering lost gems.
Thunderball: The one I liked most on TV as a kid with Mom and family. It was always my number #1, also as a teen, measuring all other Bonds against it. Only later would FRWL and CR dethrone it. But I still LOVE this movie.
Definitely the best ending in the series.
There's a lot of attention to detail too, small actions characters especially Bond do that say so much about their character without M needing to explain it to the audience.
Casino Royale does that too, Campbell inserts little moments that propel the story along.
I always knew it was special, but I'm happy to see it getting so much recognition now.
Never have you said anything that I have agreed with more. So many lessons they could learn (or remember) from this one.
You'd also think that the production only shooting in one major area would actually be a cost-effective measure for the budget, where they wouldn't have to worry about hauling equipment, cast and crew to multiple locations over a major shooting schedule, and where they wouldn't have to constantly location spot or get shooting permits from different areas across the globe.
Brilliant!
I fell in love with Connery and for many years, into the VHS years, always thought he was the only Bond.
Then, in the early VHS era, I learned of Moore. I liked him. Enough. Not Connery, though... I missed the rough and tumble and the masculine of Sean...
But there was something passable about Moore, and still elements of this amazing character I discovered way-back-when, in his depiction...
About this time, I started reading the novels, so when Dalton was cast in '86, I was happy... He looked great, and he wasn't Moore, so an added bonus...
TLD was a strong debut, but, even at fourteen, I saw melodramataic cracks in his acting. But at least the story was grounded and I was excited. I hung in tight with Dalton...
Growing older, and with the passage of time, I became conflicted with TD, and hated the casting of Brosnan even more.
My first viewing of GE left me pissed. I felt I couldn't identify with this Bond (But, with more years added on me, I actually do enjoy the film much more now)... But as the Brozzy years went on, I fell off as a lifetime Bond fan... The films became too loud and splashy, and ... meh, to me...
When CR came out, I saw it three times on the first day coz I was like, WTF happened??? This WAS the Bond film I was waiting for: sex, danger, a character who was so brave, macho, but fucking up as he took the next step forward, then, finally, finding the right step again... CR was exhilarating, and certainly gave me a re-birth into this universe again.
Some people may not see DC as being Bond, but, I can't help BUT see Bond in DC because of this film...
I hope my rant makes sense... And, it is only my opinion!