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  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I take it.........none of you will be late.

    I like to say that line whenever I'm setting up a rendezvous of sorts.
    :D

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    I like the train fight here quite a bit. Bond dangling. Close of of his slip on shoes.

    I remember as a kid I had a bright red shirt and black vest. I wore a leather belt over the waist and ran around pretending to be Bond in OCTOPUSSY.
    I wore my slip on shoes as well. I must have been about 10 or 11.
    My hair was easily as long as Roger's here in those days.
    I like these childhood stories. When I was a kid, me and my dad used to play to pretend we were in a Bond movie. The bad guy was often a mad industrialist. We'd use a hula hoop to simulate the gunbarrel sequence.

    My Dad and I used to play like we were in Bond movies too. I remember him being Zorin one time shortly after AVTAK came out.
    One day my Dad's friend from work put together a little package of Bond like items he was going to either sell at a yard sale or donate. So he and my dad brought them over after work.
    He played M and my dad was Q. In this package was an old telescope, a big calculator that kind of looked like the ATAC or Lector decoder, a watch and a few other items. This was in the summer of '83 shortly after OP came out. What a great way to end the day.

    Cool!

    I believe my dad still has that telescope somewhere.
    I hope you were told to "pay attention"!

    In my case, I think the only prop was a toy pistol. But it's pretty amazing how your imagination can transport you to another place.

    I think he did say "pay attention, 007".
    I remember the watch was an old Timex that needed a battery. It was pretty cool looking, really.
    I can remember as a kid it being hard to find a toy pistol PPK replica. Eventually we found a plastic gun that was shaped a bit like the PPK. The metal toy guns looked more like Colt .45's or something John Gardner's Bond carried. The Heckler & Koch or something.
    I had a plastic black holster (really a cowboy holster) that I tied some elastic to and a blue necktie and made a little shoulder holster from it. Fun times as a kid then.
    Did you imagine yourself to be any particular Bond, or you were just yourself?

    I pretended to be Roger Moore.

    (This should have its own thread!)

    Edit: I remember that when we would play, most of the time, the story and the villain's plan would be improvised on the spot, though eventually I did start to occasionally write a plot summary ahead of time. I was a kid, so obviously it was pretty basic stuff in terms of the bad guy's plan and the characters, but at least there was some planning in terms of making Bond follow a number of leads and gathering intel, when investigating his assignment. I still have a couple of those plot summaries. One is set in China and the other in France and Switzerland, IIRC.

    Good point- there should be a childhood Bond memories thread.

    As a kid I switched between Sean and Roger. Anytime I was Sean, I did my best NSNA voice.

    Interesting about your villain plot summaries. When I was a bit older I would draw my own Bond comics, but try to format them like the films, gun-barrel, PTS ,title sequence, etc.
    My plots were very much what a 12 year old might come up with. I think I had a villain threatening to turn all bodies of water into salt water so sharks could swim in rivers and lakes. LOL. That would have been an underwater Bond comic where I tried to draw him like Sean.
    I'd sometimes use chapter titles or Fleming related titles I'd imagine might one day become a real Bond film title. Ironically, I'm pretty sure I did one called Goldeneye and one called The World Is Not Enough. Others I'd make up my own titles. I must have drawn 30 of these. I tossed most of them away, but my mom kept one or two.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    THUNDERBALL


    Along with GOLDFINGER, my favorite gunbarrel music. Unlike many fans, I don't mind the slightly wobbly Sean here.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Sean looks great in THUNDERBALL. I love the charcoal gray suit.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    First time I saw TB on ABC the gunbarrel was cut.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Controversial opinion: the original mono track is far superior to the digital stereo track with the added digital sound effects.
    I'll take the original audio over the DTS any day.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    up, up and awaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    What;s that crap on the back of the Aston Martin?

    Go to the car wash, James!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Love the title sequence. Binder at his greatest, IMO.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    At least one of the beauties in this title sequence looks enough like Claudine Auger that I picture Domino swimming around here in the titles.
    Unlike the title sequence in OCTOPUSSY where the Bond double looks more like Mishka or Grishka in a dinner suit.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Now THIS is a SPECTRE board meeting.

    Somehow I just don't care for the one in SP.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Schrublands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Guy Doleman was in some Saint episodes.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    If it weren't for Bond, I probably wouldn't eat as much yogurt as I do. I should try it with lemon juice.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I've seen THUNDERBALL on the big screen a few times. One was a shoddy print that was missing the white dots.
    In all the versions I've seen on the screen he always says "Sorry old chap. Better luck next time".
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Bond on the rack is pretty funny.

    Hey what the hell!!!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    HEY!!

    HELP!! HELP!! HELP!!


    HEY!!!!
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I love Barry's score as he gets even with Lippe.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I should get a long sleeved black polo shirt.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Like Bruce Willis in the first DIE HARD, Bond doesn't bother to put on his shoes as he goes investigating Schrublands.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I need to get a copy of that BATTLE FOR BOND book, being the big THUNDERBALL fan I am. I'll wear my new black polo as I read it.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I hate to admit this, but every time I watch the Blu-ray I'm disappointed Lowery, by use of CGI (which didn't exist in 1965) removed the wires on the Vulcan.

    There's a handful of Bond films, that IMO, looked closer to the cinematic prints on the earlier SE DVD's before Lowery restored them. THUNDERBALL might just be one of them.

    Others I'd say are: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
    OHMSS
    LIVE AND LET DIE
    THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
    MOONRAKER
    FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
    A VIEW TO A KILL
    THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (most definitely)
    LICENCE TO KILL (most definitely)
    GOLDENEYE (certainly)
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    We need sharks in a new Bond film fairly soon. I'm having a Bond shark withdrawal.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I don't know if we have a villain ranking thread here, but Adolfo Celi's Largo I'd rank pretty high. In fact all of Connery's villains I might place near the top.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Apparently the poolside where Bond and Domino lunch has now been demolished.

  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Felix wears a suit to the beach.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    How old is Domino supposed to be if she refers to Largo as her guardian?
  • RemingtonRemington I'll do anything for a woman with a knife.
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    I think it's time to pop in TB this morning.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    I'm at the Junkanoo scene.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Momentarily distracted here.....................

    back to Bond..............


    Bond sneaks about the Disco Volante............

    Great Barry score here
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Really does look like Sean there, I must say.
    Good stunt work.

    Now Bond, again like Bruce in DIE HARD fights in his bare feet.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
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    Sped up fight is hilarious. I love it, though.
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