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The rest is history!
That's a great anecdote!
@Brady, I didn't even notice the gunbarrel was missing, and my pathway to fandom made me like the character more than any particular movie or actor. You should read all the Fleming books before Christmas, I dont't think you have gotten around to it yet, if I'm not mistaken sorry if I am.
This was me the first time I finished watching GE.
I loved the game so much I decided to check out the movie, then I rented all the VHS movies at Blockbuster (in a completely backwards order too)
That was what I call a JAMES BOND SUMMER!
The first one I actually saw in the theatre was TND, and the rest was history!
Then Geoff Love s instrumental rendition of DAF with the cool bass line teased me somewhat, on a record that also featured Also Sprach Zarathustra and the Godfather Waltz, to name those who stood out for all eternity.
After that I remember seeing clips from TMWTGG (Scaramanga s flying car) on tv. I was 8, so that was awesome! (Still is).
Later, when everyone, including my mom and aunt were raving about TSWLM in 77,and seeing the Bond/Jaws fight on the train on tv, I really started to get intrigued.
In 81, I finally got to see FYEO on the big screen, and shortly thereafter OHMSS and GF at the same cinema.
The year after, I bought Goldfinger by Ian Fleming for my school book money, and spent after school hours at the library, alternating reading Bond books, with music and news mags.
After that, I hunted down the rest of the books at second hand shops, and watched the rest of the films on VHS or reruns in the cinema. I miss the days when old films still got shown regularly at the cinema. That hardly ever happens anymore.
so many Bond medias, I was never that fussed about the movies when I was a kid.
His copies got seriously mistreated by me but I've now replicated them in my record collection, I have all the Barry scores, LALD & SWLM on vinyl.
SWLM was my first experience of the films and on the big screen, since then I've seen them all on original release bar OP,for some reason we didn't go and see it and I caught it on rental.
TV would have been where I got to see Bond outside of that, although as I said in another thread, you were lucky if you got more than 1 or 2 screened a year.
They certainly showed one at Christmas but they certainly weren't a series of them like you get now, Bond on TV was a rarity and a treat.
As for literary I've read a few of them but although I appreciate them returning to literary source for the films, it's always been the visual and aural aspect of James Bond that has been the drive of my fandom.
I'd like to say I'm a student of Fleming but I'd be lying if I said that.
Also I'm not as enamoured with all the entries as some, the Barry scores if I had to nail down the one element that has endured for me and is my all time favourite aspect of the Bond series period.
The Brosnan era put the brakes on my love of the series, I still caught them at the cinema but with none of the excitement of old. CR definitely kick started the passion again and I was chomping at the bit for SPECTRE.
I'm hoping it's just a bump in the road and I will get enthusiastic again about more Bond films, I'm certainly going to be more cautious going into Bond 25 than I have been since before 2006.
This wasn't my very first experience though. In the UK they used to have a James Bond season in the summer, once a week in the evening. It was usually the last thing I was allowed to watch before bed. I remember watching LALD and OP, and for some reason LTK. Strangely enough I seem to remember watching LTK on TV several times throughout my childhood. It always seemed to be on at half one in the afternoon, which doesn't really make sense considering it's the most violent one.
Anyway, Bond movies were on our television from as far back as I can remember. I wish I could remember which one I saw first, but sadly, it all blends together. My first Bond in the theater was AVTAK. We went as a family. I was only six and I might not have completely understood everything that was going on, but I loved every second of it. Throughout the 80's, I started taping the films off television (mostly TBS) and of course saw TLD and LTK when they came out.
I entered high school during the six year gap. I read the novels and certainly developed a better appreciation and understanding of the character. Once i got my own money, I started collecting the VHS tapes, soundtracks, posters, books, anything I could find really. GoldenEye came out during my senior year. It was so exciting to have Bond back again. There truly was a buzz in the air. It still remains one of the best cinema experiences of my lifetime.
During the Brosnan era, and I think even CR, I saw the films with friends and then, eventually, my wife, who eventually became my ex wife. I think it was QoS when I wanted to catch them with my dad again. It's a nice little tradition we have seeing them together again. Hey, you have to spend time together while you still can. Besides, that way I have an excuse to see the new Bond film more than once. For SF and SP, I saw it with the girlfriend on first viewing.
Yes people often don't give him enough credit. He makes films like DAF very enjoyable. And also makes up for the visually unappealing 80's. Score and plot is what's missing from the current era (90's-)
Became obsesessed with them as a teenager. Around 18 became a massive film fan as a consequence. In my early 20's the next step was cinephile.
All my passions in life started with Bond, now that I think of it.