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When I describe to you a British sci-fi character with almost 70 years of history, played by multiple different actors and retaining long threads of continuity despite a cavalier approach to canon, who does your mind jump to? That's right, it's this smug prick!  He's got a million films and he went to space, it's British secret agent 007 James Bond. Unlike real British secret agents of the post-war period, at no point does he turn up fat, drunk and dead in a wetsuit near Chichester. Instead he's 'suave', wildly sexist and he has a trademark drink that's weirdly boring, probably a hangover from the days when British business all paused for a wet lunch at 1pm and never resumed again. I've been listening to Trashfuture spin-off podcast "Kill James Bond", which is a passable listen even if the hosts occasionally find themselves a little too funny and smart. So, what's your favourite obscene thing Bond does? Mine is when he pushes an immobilised man into an airlock and vents him into space.
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Feb 19, 2023 23:51
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Vodka martinis suck, go with gin and load that thing up with olives stuffed with blue cheese
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Feb 19, 2023 23:56
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The space battle in Moonraker was amazing to 10-year old me. I haven’t watched the movie in probably 15 years. Does anyone else remember when some cable channel in the late 90s, I think maybe TBS, basically turned into nonstop Bond movies from Thanksgiving through New Years? It was everything from Dr. No through License to Kill (Plus Never Say Never Again) just being shown in no particular order basically all day and night (Except maybe for a few hours of paid programming from like 4AM to 8AM or something?). There are definitely a few family photos of Christmas mornings and the TV in the background is The Man with the Golden Gun or something equally crazy. A few other channels did similar marathons later on, like TNN for a few years before it became Spike, but it was never quite the same.
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Feb 20, 2023 00:23
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fartknocker posted:The space battle in Moonraker was amazing to 10-year old me. I haven’t watched the movie in probably 15 years. I abslutely remember that and I thought it was in chrono order and I tried multiple times to watch every film and inevitably got bored and gave up well before moore came in
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Feb 20, 2023 03:07
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fartknocker posted:The space battle in Moonraker was amazing to 10-year old me. I haven’t watched the movie in probably 15 years. hell yes i remember this. saw most of the bonds this way but yea entirely out of order. problem i rarely got Connery Bonds, mostly Moore Bonds. which was fine... but I think i've missed one of the Connery Bonds as a result.
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Feb 20, 2023 06:06
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That marathon is how I saw basically every Bond film except "From Russia with Love". I... I don't really like From Russia with Love but I've also not seen it in nearly two decades, so maybe its better than I remember.
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Feb 20, 2023 07:54
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Conventional wisdom is that it's one of the best but conventional wisdom can be pretty bad. The suitcase is cool though, I remember that.
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Feb 21, 2023 00:08
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It's... I absolutely won't say "realistic" in this context, but it's one of the least fantastical Bond movies. It's a fairly straightforward spy thriller and I think a lot of fans appreciate that it doesn't need to lean on any particular gimmick. (Also Daniela Bianchi is smoking hot, holy poo poo) That said I could easily understand someone finding it dull, especially in contrast to some of the other Bond movies, and/or if they're not a Connery fan to begin with.
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Feb 21, 2023 01:24
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Didn’t that have the guy ski into the snow machine?
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Feb 21, 2023 02:13
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Rugikiki posted:Didn’t that have the guy ski into the snow machine? No, From Russia With Love doesn’t have skiing in it. Maybe your thinking of For Your Eyes Only? I know that had a skiing part with the Olympic village-y place and kinda similar plot of Bond going after some communications related thingamajig the size of a suitcase.
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Feb 21, 2023 02:58
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I was thinking OHMSS…was Russia with love the lady with the boot spike?
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Feb 21, 2023 03:18
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Feb 21, 2023 07:31
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I remember From Russia with Love being the most low-key. Lot of focus on a tense train confrontation and trying to outsmart each other in the enclosed space. I think I just like it more when Bond is having ridiculous set pieces rather than more lowkey skullduggery. Hoping the new Bond is good
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Feb 21, 2023 08:36
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I have very fond memories of You Only Live Twice because during one of those TBS (13 Days Of 007?) marathons it was on real late but my babysitter let me stay up watching it until my parents headlights hit the window and I ran upstairs to pretend to be asleep. What a terrible babysitter  Is this going to descend into ranking the actors? Because I am ready with a screed about how Roger Moore sucks
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Feb 21, 2023 12:54
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Roger Moore is a national treasure who looks utter disgusted with himself in Man With The Golden Gun.
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Feb 22, 2023 23:10
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harping on about a podcast like a sad act but the kjb hosts a. don't know what 'cinematography' means and b. really don't know what 'hauntology' means
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Mar 3, 2023 00:45
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I used to love watching Bond marathons on TV with my dad when I was a kid. I just saw some of the older ones recently, The Man With the Golden Gun I believe, and holy poo poo is it sexist lol. Sean Connery - "Take off, men are talking." *slaps her on the rear end* I love Bond movies (haven't seen anything since Brosnon though) but man, they are a product of their time.
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Mar 3, 2023 03:52
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fartknocker posted:The space battle in Moonraker was amazing to 10-year old me. I haven’t watched the movie in probably 15 years. Those TV marathons made me the Bond appreciator I am today. The books are surprisingly good, too
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Mar 3, 2023 06:05
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:I have very fond memories of You Only Live Twice because during one of those TBS (13 Days Of 007?) marathons it was on real late but my babysitter let me stay up watching it until my parents headlights hit the window and I ran upstairs to pretend to be asleep. What a terrible babysitter We're excited to hear it. Most underrated Bond actor is Timothy Dalton
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Clever Moniker posted:Those TV marathons made me the Bond appreciator I am today. The books are surprisingly good, too Same on the movies, though I cannot endorse the books. Because if you thought there's an uncomfortable undercurrent of sexisum and racism in the movies, friend, you are in for a ride in the books Clever Moniker posted:We're excited to hear it. Timothy Dalton walked so Daniel Craig could parkour
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Mar 3, 2023 15:00
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josh04 posted:harping on about a podcast like a sad act but the kjb hosts a. don't know what 'cinematography' means and b. really don't know what 'hauntology' means The trash future podcast extended podcast universe is like 95% pseudointellectual drivel and I'm not afraid to say it.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:48
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Anyways to stay on topic I'm gonna watch goldeneye again this Saturday after I get back from a hike.
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Mar 3, 2023 18:49
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Lawman 0 posted:Anyways to stay on topic I'm gonna watch goldeneye again this Saturday after I get back from a hike. First bond movie I saw in the theater.
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Mar 4, 2023 03:57
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Pennywise the Frown posted:First bond movie I saw in the theater. Same! I could have gone to see The Living Daylights with my brother, but I went to see The Care Bears Movie instead.
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Mar 4, 2023 12:21
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Clever Moniker posted:Most underrated Bond actor is Timothy Dalton This is the most basic bond bitch opinion. Everyone says he was underrated. But in reality he sucked. At best he was a palate cleanser.
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Apr 13, 2023 16:52
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I'm only in it for the crude double entendre
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Michael Westen could kick James Bond's rear end.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I used to love watching Bond marathons on TV with my dad when I was a kid. Yea, my dad and I would watch them together because every summer in the late 80s, ABC would show one bond movie a night on mondays, and we'd always watch them. Its kind of amazing that I didn't grow up to be horribly sexiest. Something I like about watching the 60s and 70s one is seeing what a fancy, high life was like then. What did rich people do? Casinos, drinking, loving, but also what they wore and where they lived and such. I am glad that white jackets and black ties aren't a thing anymore, that just looked awful. A thing i miss about old bonds they never really did with the new ones is the villain with a world domination plan that involves a base of some kind that bond has to infiltrate and stop the evil plan. Everything was so mundane. I guess No Time To Die had that at the very end, but it wasn't the same really. I know shits all about being realistic these days, but that gets boring after a while, be fantastical. The Living Daylights was my first theater Bond, so Dalton has always been a favorite. Plus that movie is literally everything you want from a bond movie, though watching it again as an adult, i realized the plot kind of loses itself when they get to Afghanistan. Okay, so he's a fake defector, and its all an complex ruse, to get him out, get him to the safe house in the country side, kill a bunch of MI6 agents getting him out, who I'm glad aren't completely useless. Yea they're not going to beat the Aryan Thug, but at least he doesn't walk through them like they were paper. Then they get him to Mitchell's base in Tangiers where he's playing warhammer and using it to show off fancy new weapons he wants to sell to the soviets. But they refuse, and then its suddenly about diamonds and opium? It does have a lot of super cool gadgets and the car chase is fantastic though. Also I didn't realize the implications of "Send him home...in a dipomatic bag" were as a kid, it meant they were going to shoot him right there.
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Remember when Vin Diesel's tour de force "Triple X" started with a secret agent parachuting into a back alley in Eastern Europe and taking off his flight suit to reveal a tuxedo, making him an obvious James Bond reference? And then he walked into a 00's-as-gently caress grungy nightclub where Rammstein is playing and the villains see him sticking out like a sore thumb and easily killed him, thereby sending the message that JAMES BOND IS DEAD, GET READY FOR A NEW KIND OF SECRET AGENT? I remember.
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Sanguinia posted:Remember when Vin Diesel's tour de force "Triple X" started with a secret agent parachuting into a back alley in Eastern Europe and taking off his flight suit to reveal a tuxedo, making him an obvious James Bond reference? And then he walked into a 00's-as-gently caress grungy nightclub where Rammstein is playing and the villains see him sticking out like a sore thumb and easily killed him, thereby sending the message that JAMES BOND IS DEAD, GET READY FOR A NEW KIND OF SECRET AGENT? 
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Sanguinia posted:Remember when Vin Diesel's tour de force "Triple X" started with a secret agent parachuting into a back alley in Eastern Europe and taking off his flight suit to reveal a tuxedo, making him an obvious James Bond reference? And then he walked into a 00's-as-gently caress grungy nightclub where Rammstein is playing and the villains see him sticking out like a sore thumb and easily killed him, thereby sending the message that JAMES BOND IS DEAD, GET READY FOR A NEW KIND OF SECRET AGENT? That even is done in Bond. Live and let die has bond walking around 70s Harlem like it's nothing.
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twistedmentat posted:That even is done in Bond. Live and let die has bond walking around 70s Harlem like it's nothing. Considering that every single African American he encounters works for Mr Big, I don’t think his outfit was the problem
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Considering that every single African American he encounters works for Mr Big, I don’t think his outfit was the problem There were some that worked for the cia too. I always forgot that was the first Moore Bond. Best Moore Bond is Spy Who Loved me, super cool final giant battle, submarines and all kinds of neat stuff.
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Aug 2, 2023 23:26
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twistedmentat posted:That even is done in Bond. Live and let die has bond walking around 70s Harlem like it's nothing. To be fair the movie calls him out on it straight away.
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~Coxy posted:To be fair the movie calls him out on it straight away. Which is fantastic. I love when he walks into the Filet of Soul, sits down, and instantly is captured. In You Only Live Twice, after Bond is turned Japanese, doesn't he look more like a Vulcan than a Japanese person? No just because he's 3 feet taller than everyone else but the makeup makes him look like an extra in Star Trek, especially that wig.
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Probably for the best, really.
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btw, Odd Job is not allowed in Goldeneye on N64. That's cheating.
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