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How old are you? At what age did you first encounter Bond?

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  • chamutakramchamutakram Dallas
    Posts: 40
    I'm 21. First Bond movie I saw was either GF or OP (can't quite remember which) when I was about 5.
  • SpectreNumberOneSpectreNumberOne
    Posts: 129
    I'll always remember it, an old fashioned cinema 1969, my father took me to see a double bill, GF & FRWL. Loved the idea of an individual fighting for right from the start, DB5 & sexy chicks didn't hurt for an impressionable young man, saw OHMSS on release some months later & I was hooked.

    Bond has been copied, ridiculed & written off, but yet he endures, because you can't keep a good man or good ideal down.
  • Agent005Agent005
    Posts: 562
    I'm 26 and I was first introduced to Bond by my grandfather when I was about four years old. My very first memory of ever seeing a movie was watching The Living Daylights with him and seeing Bond and Kara riding in the cello case. I didn't become a real Bond fan until I was about ten years old, but the seeds were sown early.
  • Goldeneye95Goldeneye95
    Posts: 546
    I was 7 when I first discovered James Bond. I saw 1995's Goldeneye.
  • MaxRebo120MaxRebo120
    Posts: 136
    15. I've seen a few Bond films throughout my life, mainly with my dad, but I've only just got into it about 7 months ago.
  • 007salfordstan007salfordstan
    Posts: 22
    I'm 34.
    Can't remember how old I was when I first saw my first Bond but always remember it being a part of my childhood that's when bank holidays and Christmas meant a Bond film.
    My earliest memories of Bond was Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me their the two that always seemed to be on all the time. Can still remember now hiding behind the sofa when Jaws came on, I was so scared of him.
    ^#(^
  • lorenloren
    Posts: 1
    17, first Bond in theatre was Casino Royale. I was completely blown off by it.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    Won't disclose my age, just something never done, but I'm one year younger than I will be tomorrow, it gives me little pleasure to say

    Been a fan of the series longer than most, can't say exactly when it all first started, but Connery was in the part and would of been around the time of You Only Live Twice, but only started actually going to regular theater releases some time after that. Seen a lot of changes over time I can tell you, not all for the better
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,801
    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    Won't disclose my age, just something never done,
    Well, I'm Bond's age in MR, and I encountered Bond on ABC TV in America. Goldfinger, I think. Then DAF in the theatre.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    chrisisall wrote:
    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    Won't disclose my age, just something never done,
    Well, I'm Bond's age in MR, and I encountered Bond on ABC TV in America. Goldfinger, I think. Then DAF in the theatre.

    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I thought we had someone older than me there for a moment..
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    I thought we had someone older than me there for a moment..

    We have one member that is in his 80s. He doesn't come around much, but he did say he went to DN with his mates when he was an adolescent.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    chrisisall wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))

    I have licences for all sorts of things...but not a driver's. :P
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))

    I have licences for all sorts of things...but not a driver's. :P

    Some make you taller, some make you forget...
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))

    I have licences for all sorts of things...but not a driver's. :P

    Some make you taller, some make you forget...
    Ha, I didn't even mean to set you up for that! :))
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    edited November 2012 Posts: 5,745
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))

    I have licences for all sorts of things...but not a driver's. :P

    Some make you taller, some make you forget...
    Ha, I didn't even mean to set you up for that! :))

    The important question is, do you have your license to kill? I never passed the test :(
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    So...80? Oh, you mean Bond, not Sir Rog. ;)
    Do you have a licence to do comedy?
    :-? :))

    I have licences for all sorts of things...but not a driver's. :P

    Some make you taller, some make you forget...
    Ha, I didn't even mean to set you up for that! :))

    The important question is, do you have your license to kill? I never passed the test :(

    Yeah, but they don't let me out in the field that often. I always seem to wreak some kind of havoc. You know, boys with toys and all that.
  • lahainelahaine
    Posts: 161
    I'm 31 and have been a fan of the Bond films since i was 6. I wasn't a die hard fan until Casino Royale and Craig stepped into the role and just really dragged me in with his sheer coolness and kickassery that i never taught i see again after the first 4 connery Bond films. Ever since i've been a Bond fan.
  • JimThompson45JimThompson45
    Posts: 803
    I'm 45, and I started reading the Fleming books when I was seven.
  • GambitGambit
    Posts: 40
    I saw Thunderball on tv when I was 8 or 9, It seemed like 007 was on tv every Sunday night
    back then. :D
  • BoothroydBoothroyd
    Posts: 3
    I'm 42 (although I've got my kids convinced I'm perpetually 28). I vaguely remember watching the last half FRWL on Atlanta's Channel 17 when I was 7 or 8. I really got hooked on Bond 15 years or so later when the same TV station - by then Superstation WTBS (or "Superstation 17" as it was still known locally) - ran a Bond marathon after Ted Turner purchased the MGM film library. They ran 'em all from DN to LTK, usually two a night. I taped every one them. I think I still have a couple of those old VHS tapes sitting around somewhere.

    Although I was old enough to have seen (at the very least) AVTAK, TLD, and LTK on the big screen, the first Bond I saw in the cinema was GE at the ripe old age of 25.
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
    Posts: 3,144
    This year I hit 50 Bond has been a great part of my life since I first saw DAF at the cinema
    in 1971 never looked back since CR was the first grown up book that I read having been introduced to the books by my fathers collection in paperback .
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    How time flies. I was seven when I saw my first Bond film, the summer of 1983...Octopussy at my local cinema. Then the Christmas of that year, The Spy Who Loved Me was on tv. We'd just got our first VCR and so I recorded it. Then watched it over and over. And so began an interest in James Bond that continues to this day.
    30 years have now passed, and I'm happy to say, that spark is still there, the interest is always growing, and the whole Bond universe still has plenty to offer.
  • oorogersoorogers
    Posts: 122
    i am 26 and have been a bond fan since i was very young i can not remember how old i was but the first time i saw bond he was skying of the top of a mountain in the spy who loved me my dad was watching it and since then i was hooked. love films with a large dvd collection but no body touches the bond dvds apart from me by law lol

    the first Bond i saw at the cinema was goldeneye and i loved it and have been to the first day showings for every one that followed

    i also played the n64 goldeneye a game that as never been beaten in my view there was no better fun the blowing the crap out of your mates and goldeneye delivered every time do not get me wrong other bond games have been fun just did not ever match the n64 version for having a laugh
  • thelionthelion
    Posts: 72
    I'm 21 years old, and I'm a Bond fan since I was 9-10 years old. I was with my grandmother. It was a Saturday, movie afternoon at grandma's home. She used to play movies for me and my brother on her VHS player every Saturday.
    And then, one glorious Saturday, she put DAF playing. I absolutely loved it. I was instantly hooked. She was also a great Bond fan. That's why, despite all its flaws, DAF will always have a special place in my heart.
  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
    Posts: 3,277
    28 tomorrow. :D
  • Villiers53Villiers53
    Posts: 802
    I first encountered Bond in 1962 at the Pavillion picture house in Ferryhill, Co.Durham.
    I was 9 years of age and I went to see Dr.No on a Monday evening, I went back with my mum and saw it again the following night and I went on my own the night after.
    I then persuaded my mother to buy every Bond book that was available in Pan paperback (CR thru' FYEO) and read them in chronological order!
    Between them, Terence Young and Ian Fleming instilled me with a life long love of film and literature. I owe them both a great debt.
  • calvindysoncalvindyson
    Posts: 31
    I'm 23 and I first encountered Bond when I was about 9 after an Aunt bought me Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever on VHS. I'd never seen a Bond film before but I was very big on Star Wars so she thought Moonraker would be a good bridge. Probably explains why I still have so much fondness for dear, old Moonraker.
  • PlykshowPlykshow Kent, United Kingdom
    Posts: 35
    I grew up seeing bits of the Bond films because my brother was watching them. The first one he saw was A View To A Kill. The first one I saw all the way through was Goldfinger when I was about 6. I was 8 when Die Another Day came out and I really wanted to go and see it but they wouldn't let me. Then I saw Casino Royale at the cinema when I was 12. Thats probably why I didn't like the reboot or CR and QOS because I expected it to be like the 'Brosnan Bond Format'. Skyfall is good though. I'm glad to see the series getting back to how it should be
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