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Note: Please use the EoN film series only. That means no Casino Royale from either 1954 or 1967, and no Never Say Never Again.
Just trying a new game here where we can list all the firsts that each Bond movie gives us. For example:
Dr No:
- First movie
- First title sequence
- First movie to feature the Bond theme
- First movie to feature the "Bond, James Bond" line
- First movie to feature Bond's famous "shaken not stirred" vodka martini
- First gunbarrel sequence
- First movie to feature the "Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman" production credit line in the gunbarrel sequence
From Russia With Love:
- First movie to feature its own theme
- First movie to feature Blofeld
- First movie to feature gadgets
- First movie to feature Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Goldfinger:
- First movie to feature a theme song with vocals in the title sequence
- First movie where Bond orders a martini "shaken, not stirred"
- First movie to feature the Aston Martin DB5
- First movie to feature a tricked out car
Thunderball:
- First colour gunbarrel
- First gunbarrel to feature Sean Connery
- First gunbarrel to segue directly into the movie
- First movie where the PTS segues directly into the title credits
- First movie to not be produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman
You Only Live Twice:
- First movie set in Asia
- First movie where the main villain does not die
- First movie where we see Blofeld's face
There'll be more for those movies, and of course there's the other movies. We'll accept anything, no matter how trivial or minor it may seem. Every movie should have several firsts. Have fun!
Just trying a new game here where we can list all the firsts that each Bond movie gives us. For example:
Dr No:
- First movie
- First title sequence
- First movie to feature the Bond theme
- First movie to feature the "Bond, James Bond" line
- First movie to feature Bond's famous "shaken not stirred" vodka martini
- First gunbarrel sequence
- First movie to feature the "Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman" production credit line in the gunbarrel sequence
From Russia With Love:
- First movie to feature its own theme
- First movie to feature Blofeld
- First movie to feature gadgets
- First movie to feature Desmond Llewelyn as Q
Goldfinger:
- First movie to feature a theme song with vocals in the title sequence
- First movie where Bond orders a martini "shaken, not stirred"
- First movie to feature the Aston Martin DB5
- First movie to feature a tricked out car
Thunderball:
- First colour gunbarrel
- First gunbarrel to feature Sean Connery
- First gunbarrel to segue directly into the movie
- First movie where the PTS segues directly into the title credits
- First movie to not be produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman
You Only Live Twice:
- First movie set in Asia
- First movie where the main villain does not die
- First movie where we see Blofeld's face
There'll be more for those movies, and of course there's the other movies. We'll accept anything, no matter how trivial or minor it may seem. Every movie should have several firsts. Have fun!
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- First Bond film with another actor playing Bond
- First Bond film to have an American actor playing the main villain
- First Bond film in which Bond skies
- First use of flashback in a Bond film
- First Bond film to use surround sound - the premiere cut was in 6-track stereo, the last section of the film being in surround sound
Diamonds Are Forever
- First Bond film to have sequences set in Egypt
- First Bond film edited by Bert Bates
- First Bond film to feature an Aston Martin that we don't see Bond drive (TWINE being the other example)
Live and Let Die
- First Bond film to feature Roger Moore as James Bond
- First Bond film to feature David Hedison as Felix Leiter
- First Bond film shot in the 1.85:1 aspect ratio
- First Bond film to not feature Q (if you deem Dr. No's Major Boothroyd to be the same character)
- First Bond film John Barry didn't work on
The Man with the Golden Gun
- First Bond film to feature Roger Moore in an ivory dinner jacket
The Spy Who Loved Me
- First Bond film to feature a Lotus Esprit
- First Roger Moore Bond film to be shot in 2.35:1
- First Bond film to feature Jaws
OHMSS:
The first longest before Casino Royale
The first Se extra's with no subs (and the only one)
Goldeneye:
The first i have seen in the cinema
The first M be a woman
The first Directed by Martin Campbell
The first who set Famke Janssen on fame
Tomorrow Never Dies:
The first short Bond movie before QOS
The first of David Arnold
The World is not Enough:
The first i watched as adult (19)
The first movie from two i have seen in cinema in 2000
The first i bought on dvd with my first dvdplayer
First place /best se dvd menu
The first Desmond as q alread past a way when i watched it in the cinema
The first with John Cleese
Die Another Day:
The first with we missing Desmond
The first Se dvd where all extra's are Dutch subtiteld
Casino Royale:
The first where fans get whant there whant: Campbell returns
The first actor sugestion happend.
Spectre:
The first title song sugestion/expection happend.
Bond 25:
The first Roger Moore can't see any Moore..
The first we will see whyle Roger Moore is no Moore
The first without or picture on the wall of Judi Dench as M.
Flashback is when a particular character flashes back to a previous event, doesn't happen in Goldfinger - that just uses clips from a previous film in its title sequence - not a case of flashback.
In terms of Die Another Day, the Desmond first is incorrect. He wasn't in Dr. No, and during his tenure, he did not make an appearance in Live and Let Die.
Bond 25:
-The first where Daniel Craig will wear a classic black tuxedo with bowtie in the gunbarrel sequence.
- First movie where Bond 'dies' on screen
- First use of the 007 theme
- First train fight
Goldfinger
- First non-Spectre related central villain
You Only Live Twice
- first film without any scene set in Britain
The Man With The Golden Gun
- First film with Chief of staff (tanner)
For Your Eyes Only
- first film without Benard Lee
- first and only film without M
- First film where Blofeld clearly dies
Casino Royale
- first film without Moneypenny
First film where Bond isn't rendered unconscious
LALD - First one I saw any portion of
AVTAK - Last non-contemporary one I saw (TBS marathon)
GE - First I saw in its entirety (VHS) / first I played as a video game
TND - First I saw in theaters / first I owned on DVD
TWINE - First I saw more than once in theaters
DAD - First I saw in the theater with a friend
QOS - First I saw and owned on Blu-ray
SF - First I saw in a theater outside of the US
Sounds really unhealthy ;)
The first Bond movie i haven see alone (Besides other audince of course).
The first Bond movie i have seen in the afternoon in the cinema (Tomorrow Never Dies was first/only Bond movie i have seen in the morning.)
The first Bond i have seen in my 40's. It can have been my 3th Bond movie in my 30's if have been released in April 2020. (3x in my 10's, 3x in my 20's, 2x in my 30's)
The first offical Bond movie starts of with ''N''.
The first Bond movie made by MGM/Universal
The first Bond movie scored by Hans Zimmer
and very sadley: The first Bond movie Sean Connery (and Roger Moore) past a way... and can't see it. Or Barbara Broccoli must have shows Connery movie somewhere in Feb/April 2020 when other cast members of NTTD have seen it.
Yes, they can only see the end.
Invoking the opening titles are a bit of a cheat I know, but Skyfall’s feature stylistic flashbacks to Bond’s childhood and Silva’s torture; I’d understand if those aren’t seen to count though! And is the gunbarrel a flashback of some kind? :)
Here’s a random odd one for you:
AVTAK: the first (and to date last!) Bond film in which 007 doesn’t stay in a hotel :)
There's a flashback in DAD too when he stops his own heart and another in OHMSS when Bond sees Tracy being dragged through the snow in the window. I don't recall one in GE though.
That is an interesting find!
Yes excellent point, especially about the OHMSS one: I knew there was one in an early film somewhere!
Funnily enough, in the book the PTS of the film of OHMSS is a flashback (or a flash forward?) but the filmmakers just left it place but got rid of the messing about with chronology :)
The whole pre-credit sequence is a flashback. I think it takes place five years before the events of Goldeneye?
I'm worried I might be wrong now. I don't watch that one much.
Yes, I recall Fleming doing some weird things with the order of events at the start of that book. I'm not sure that was the best way for him to get the story started.
Yes, of course, you're right. I guess I didn't consider the PTS a flashback because we're not "flashing back" from anything. We start in 1986 and continue after the title sequence in 1995. But I can see how it could be considered a kind of flashback.
Although, for it to be called a 'flashback', should it be a sequence included within the main movie?
With regards the OHMSS novel - it actually makes more sense in the novel, because Bond has a reason to be looking out for Tracy. In the movie, he's just spying on her for no reason.
Fleming did 'flash-forwards' in both OHMSS and YOLT.
It is the same kind of case as in NTTD. Though in NTTD, the editing leaves open the interpretation that the sequence we open with may actually be a flashback of Madeleine's while she's swimming.
Yeah I think it's definitely framed as Madeline flashing back and remembering those events, unlike GE's opening which has the 'nine years later' caption so is more a progression of time.
I would not say the GE and NTTD flashbacks are the same; we explicitly see “present day” Madeleine in SP, then we “flash back” to her as a child, and then come back to “present day”. GE is different if only because there is no “present day” before the “flash back”, making it more akin to a simple progression of time like mtm says.
But ultimately, splitting hairs, who cares.
Yes, that's exactly how I view it too.
It's a good question, I think it is. I thought he may have done much earlier in the 60s movies, but I may have been confusing that with Bond wearing a pair in the books which I'm pretty sure Fleming does have him doing at one point.
There is of course this look though... ;)