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Anyway ... I saw my first Bond at about age15, Diamonds Are Forever. I was certainly old enough. I went out and bought even more hot pants after watching Jill St. John and proudly wore them to school (rather liberal dress code at that time at my school). :D
For younger kids (younger than 10, say), I would definitely not introduce them to any of Craig's Bond films. Too violent, for one thing. Any of Moore's would suffice, hopefully with an adult ready to talk about some things that may come up as questionable or out or curiousity ("Gee, were women really as annoyingly stupid and lacking in self esteem as Mary Goodnight?" for example). ;)
Dalton's TLD is fine, LTK is okay but not for the very youngest, due to violence. I'd probably make that for a 10 year old and older (but that's me). I know kids today are more jaded and used to lots of violence. But still ...
I think all of Brosnan's are fine but not as appropriate for younger kids as Moore's are. Moore's films are pretty much family friendly.
Basically, I wouldn't have a child younger than say 7 years old watch any Bond film, exception being Dr. No.
I think Dr. No is the mildest in terms of violence, treatment of women, sexual innuendo. FRWL a close second.
- Quarrell gets burned alive (and there's that shriek!)
- Bond shoots Dent in cold blood (one more in the back even when he's clearly dead.)
- Then there's also the cyanide death of Mr Jones.
I've always considered TB and YOLT fairly innocent Bond films. :-)
TB .... maybe. YOLT yeah okay pretty innocent for younger viewers.
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Oh good, I can post from work computer :)
Yeah, I hear you, @chrisisall, but I think kids are saturated with violence these days even more than ever, thru more media than ever. I think in general, having younger viewers with an adult, for nearly every Bond film, is still a good idea. I would hope a kid younger than 7 would not be left on his or her own at home anyway.
It took me to the age of 24 to understand that line. ;-) :D
As if you believed I was still innocent and pure at that age! ;-)
As was I believe it or not but by then I had clocked on to the sexual innuendo.
Actually the one that took me a while to understand was the "cunning linguist " line.
And if it was put up to a 15 cert then that would badly affect the takings at the box office ala LTK.
I do think that the torture scene in CR is pretty brutal for a 12 certificate. As well as the full on screams Bond makes when he's being tortured we also see a close-up of Le-Chiffe with the bullet hole in his head. The violence isn't quite as graphic as LTK but it's not far behind IMO.
It was a reference to Peter O'Toole. That was always my understanding. :)
I got scared by Helga dying in YOLT , only 8 then.....also Jaws scared me when he went into the pyramid to kill Fekkesh.....same thing with scientists being gassed in MR , twas unsettling lol
If I had kids I wouldn't let them watch LTK until about age 12.....I certainly wouldn't let them watch things like Cannibal Holocaust until 15 or older.
I explained most of the plot as we went along, mainly using the poisonous liquid as the recurring theme (Glass jars -> Venice -> Orchids -> Jungle -> Space). He found the multiple brown-haired female characters confusing. Corinne, Goodhead and Manuela all look fairly similar when you're young and he couldn't work out how the lady who was attacked by the dogs was then OK in the next scene (and several similar moments). This film could have done with a redhead or a blonde other than Dolly!
Any suggestions for which films to watch next?
In France, no such certificate was given, AFAIK, so children could go and see it. BTW, in Germany, children under 6 could not even go and see a Disney cartoon.
As a kid my favourite Bond was Roger, as he had the humour and the gadgets. The Connery Bonds were also more plot driven, whereas the Moore Bonds are generally easier to follow. My favourite was Moonraker - love the dart gun!
I was fairly lucky, my parents considered Bond fairly tame for a kid, and by the time LTK was on the television I was well and truly old enough to watch it.
My own boy is now nearly ten, and we have watched all the Bonds in order up the Craig era. The version of LTK we watched was off the tv, so some of the more egregious stuff had been cut out, but it was still probably inappropriate for him. Hence why we haven't moved on to the Craig films together, Zorin madly machine gunning his own people in AVTAK was also inappropriate but at least it wasn't graphically realistic, unlike LTK. I just don't think he's ready for people having their eyes ripped out and people getting drowned in sinks so Craigs Bond will have to wait a little.
My own boys favourite Bond is Roger, because of the humour and gadgets and his favourite film is Moonraker. He really liked Jaws becoming a Bond ally, something I appreciated from MR when I was ten or eleven as well. I am often critical of Roger on these pages but it pays to remember how many kids he converted into fans. When I get around to it I might start a thread asking who was everyones favourite child hood Bond. I suspect Roger will canter it in.
Why not TSWLM? Kids like to see the same over and over. It s somewhat similar and much better.
We've debated ages and have tentatively decided that it would be ok when they both reach 10. She wanted me to start with a Roger Moore film and recommended TSWLM or MR. So we have our plan in place. The only issue now is whether they come across it inadvertently first on youtube or elsewhere which would be annoying.
At the moment they are more obsessed with other fare, like Batman (they've watched all of the 1990's films but aren't permitted to watch the Nolan entries yet), The Avengers, Spiderman etc. They really enjoyed TFA but didn't like the Lucas prequels.