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That's interesting. So you are one very first Bond fans. Woow its so cool you got to see Bond in theaters since it started.
@Szonana: there's an entire topic thread dedicated to the "original" fans: SirHenry's Originals welcomes the younger fans too. Check it (us) out. Yes, for the record, I read all the Fleming novels while Connery was still the one & (we thought at the time) only Bond.
I believe I read the first Fleming novel in 1994.
Today I own them all, several times :P
reading them as a 12 yr old or so.
But yeah long story short I knew about the Fleming novels before Craig, but it was Craig who finally got me reading them.
Connery has tremendous screen presence, great in the part but i found him a little too cold and unemotional to be Flemings Bond, Lazenby tried to ape Connery too much, but his was a brave effort, Moore played the role exactly how it should have been played at that time, but stayed in the part too long, Dalton nailed it, Brosnan was a disaster, miscast even, and Craig brought back gravitas to the role.
Sorry, strayed a little from the theme. The novels are always worth reading, and i hope future screenwriters continue to mine them for characters and situations.
I read Fleming's name in the title, too, back then, in the 90s when I was a teen. And I then learned that this Fleming guy wrote the original novels that the films were based on. But as I said, I didn't read one for whatever reason until 2005.
How is it possible i never heard of that name before Craig became Bond?
But again i started Bond with till Die another day, so I could say i knew about Bond one year latter.
Of course by now i've read all Flemings at least once, and my plan is to read all the other Bond novels in the next 3-4 years.
I didn't read Fleming properly until shortly after I'd seen CR for the first time. After that I read most of the books fairly quickly. I confess though that I still haven't read TSWLM or a few of the short stories.
@Birdleson. For me, Goldeneye N64 was the definitive game that I associate with Bond. The games could be quite fun but obviously are no where near as essential as the books.
I feel like a lot of people are sabotaging their own enjoyment of certain things by giving them all kinds of labels 'this is true/essential, and this is not'
The games were definitly essential for me to becoming a Bond fan since i was very much into gaming at that time, and no other medium makes you feel like you are Bond as much as the games. Also they got very sophisticated at one point and featured their own storylines. Thats why I consider Brosnans run to be 6 movies instead of four (Nighfire and Everything or Nothing included)
Forgive me if I sounded a little pompous.
I too enjoyed Agent Under Fire, Nightfire etc back when I was a teenager. All I meant was that they don't provide the framework for the Bond world in the way the original FLEMING books did.
Obviously every generation has their own experience growing up with Bond, however the books were what started everything and without them there would obviously be no films. Everything that's come since (spin offs, continuation stories, games) is a cool bonus.
No you didn't sound like that at all :) sorry if i implied that.
And you are right that the Games don't provide the Fleming framework, but Bond is so many things by now and has evolved into all kinds of directions. It is what it is, i can enjoy it all, while some people here think i am not a 'true' Bondfan because i started with the Brosnan movies and consider his run to be one of the best. Brosnan was the first true multimedia Bond and it helped a great deal to cement his status for me. Since i haven't been around when Connery and Moore were still in the role, Brosnan still has the best overall media presence.
Totally agree.