http://cherrybrookkitchen.com/products/frosting_vanillaspread.php
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Saturday, 3 March 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
When Halle showed up, she was in a bikini, so your thesis statement is tragically flawed
Tragic attempt to invoke Ursula Andress. The only thing worse than her in DAD is the invisible car.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 3 March 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
better an invisible car than a bucky blue ball
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
For Your Eyes Only is really great!
― piscesx, Sunday, 7 October 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely one of the most interesting of the latter Moores.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 8 October 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
lotta trolling in this poll
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 8 October 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
prime example:
I can't tell any of these films apart― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 6:15 PM (5 years ago)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 8 October 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
'007 And Counting' is my favourite Bond music
― blueski, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 10:37 AM (5 years ago)
Gotta be March in Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczHADTsIec
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, Space March.
They're playing every film here starting in a couple of weeks:
http://tiff.net/bond#
I've seen almost nothing--bad rep prints of a couple of early ones, Live and Let Die when it came out--so I'm looking forward to at least seeing all the Connerys, and also some of the "other Bonds."
― clemenza, Monday, 8 October 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I was not trolling fwiw
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
the bond films are so different in tone and style and even mise-en-scene that i honestly dunno how you could say that -- like even 'from russia with love' is completely different than 'goldfinger.'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
structurally they are all nearly identical in terms of plot mechanics, the sequence of scenes, the overarching themes ("British empire is sexy and authoritative! Also violent!" - the entire premise of which I find alternately laughable and offensive). Moorcock was right about Fleming.
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
essentially they're movies where nothing of consequence happens - the viewer can rest assured that no matter what, there will always be another Bond film a few years later with the same requisite villain/Bond girl/theme song/car chase/explosions etc
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah, but you can say the same of any action film series. just in terms of the way the films are put together -- on a shot-by-shot level -- the first three bonds are completely dissimilar.
fleming's books are terrible, but they aren't the films.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 8 October 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i think even the lesser films are so markedly different that every time i see one on TV it takes me about a minute to figure out which one it is. and i mean there are some that are clearly remotely unlike any other bond, like bond in space or "bond vs the cocaine cartels" or bond + i walked with a zombie + southern caricatures + blaxploitation.
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
i guess for anyone who doesn't like bond it really is best to just start w/casino royale and the first few connery films.
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah, but you can say the same of any action film series
don't think this is true, Bond is kind of unique in this regard. what other action film series' are you thinking of?
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, October 8, 2012 12:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah well christmas and the high holy days come around every year too
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
halloween, new years... how does anyone have a good time??
Space March owns, but my favorite is still On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I like to play it when I'm in the car and pretend I am on some sort of spy caper.
― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda with Shakey on this -- the Moore/Dalton/Brosnan Bonds all blur into 3 decades of smugness and explosions for me, with bonus dyspepsia from Dalton and flat attempts at laughs from Moore.
― Death Grits 2 (WmC), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
nicole otm
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
peak moores are likely 'the spy who loved me' and 'live and let die', i like the two dalton flicks a fair amount, and the brosnans peaked w/goldeneye imo. i think having a couple of ace eurobabes like famke janssen and izabella scorupco are in keeping w/bond tradition a lot better than subsequently trying to juice up bond w/halle berry, denise richards, & teri hatcher. i realize i'm not mentioning michelle yeoh or sophie marceau but they felt so out of place, idk.
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
holidays are like movies in what way now?
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
frequently involve hours of uncomfortable silence surrounded by people you barely know while you crave booze
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
uh in the way you just described
xp well maybe that too
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
shoulda gone with "people you'd normally avoid"
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
being drunk in a movie theater sounds terrible
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
omar otm
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
movies are not rituals
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
let me submit to you to consider that maybe they are sometimes
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
altho maybe for you guys watching Bond films are a ritual - you go through the motions in order to be comforted by their unchanging nature? I dunno.
xp
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I take it you haven't seen this, SMC.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281724/
― clemenza, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
bond movies are constructed more like a long running tv series where these regular notes the films hit become like, idk, norm walking into cheers with another joke or columbo coming back with "one more question" or rod serling's VO. it's also probably overstated how much the films rely on those series tropes, and also they've been kind of messing w/the formula a bit ever since felix leiter got half eaten by a shark.
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
omar otm x 2 - eurobabes are key. or just ridiculously beautiful women that haven't been over publicized by Maxim's hottest thousand list every 2 months. Berry & Richards were gorgeous at the time but eveyrone knew it so it was almost boring to have them there...whereas those lesser-known/exotic beautiful women add more intrigue or something idk
and Nicole def otm with OHMSS -- EXCITEMENT! DANGER! around every corner when it's playing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
omar stop being otm
shakey otm
― omar little, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
ty
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah idg how the rules and conventions of bond films are really any different, more ritualized or restrictive than any genre conventions or dramatic conventions in general.
― wk, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
tbf, the titles are not particularly useful when trying to tell 23 movies over 50 years apart
dr. no, goldfinger and the man with the third nipple at least tell you who the villain is. the latter three brosnans are particularly unhelpful
― mookieproof, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
particularly
pierce brosnan's delivery of the de-rigeur Bond puns was always u_u
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
like that whole Christmas coming once a year or w/e
lol
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
i think the denise richards and the second dalton are the only ones i haven't seen, though several i haven't seen in forever. thank you ted turner.
― balls, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
007 DAYS OF 007
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
syfy did a bond marathon last Thanksgiving...I wonder if they'll do it this year
I'm in the mood for a bondathon
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 October 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
big problem with the Brosnan ones was that there was one good film and then a quick decline into the most joyless shit imaginable
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 8 October 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
was goldeneye actually any good though? kinda suspect more a case of brosnan was good for role, they got some stuff right, we were happy to have bond back and recognizable than goldeneye was actually good. haven't seen it since it was in the theater so i could be wrong.
― balls, Monday, 8 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link