Comments on: You Mean I Can Really Be James Bond?

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:01:54 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that plucking Timothy Dalton’s eyebrows

http://www.timothydalton.com/

yields Steve Giddings:

http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~giddings/sbg.html
?

Mmmmmm….

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:42:26 +0000

Although I have always been a Connery man, OHMSS is my favourite Bond film of all time. Why? Partly because it has some fantastic set pieces (I like the opening bit too, but my favourite single scene is probably during the helicopter assault on Blofeld’s mountain fortress, when Bond is sliding along the ice on his stomach firing his submachine gun) and all the usual elements, girls/guns/gadgets (though the latter aren’t over-emphasised) but it’s also a love story, in its own misogynistic way, something Bond normally never goes near. It makes it a bit more intense than usual. So anyway, yeah, I disagree with the blanket statement that “OHMSS was a dissapointment to Bond fans”, it’s a very divisive film – some fans love it, some hate it.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:26:23 +0000

Oh…. I’m saying Lazenby was brilliant…just not as bad as everyone recalls….. and that line makes the film for me…..

-cvj

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:10:28 +0000

Ah, we almost perfectly disagree. I didn’t enjoy the Lazenby film particularly,although I did think it was better than the Dalton ones, which I hated (Dalton is a better actor than all the rest, but I just didn’t like him as Bond). After Connery, I liked Brosnan – smirk and all – that’s what Bond is all about

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:12:58 +0000

Also, the two Timonthy Dalton films were excellent. He was very good, as were the films themselves… They were world-class reasonalby dark, watchable spy thriller movies that the Bond series had forgotten how to make until the Dalton era. As for the later ones, there were good points, but frankly, I found the constant smirk on Brosnan’s face almost as annoying as that on Roger Moore’s.

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:09:53 +0000

I don’t know if it is easy to see these days, but the one film George Lazenby did was also excellent and in the spirit of the old classics. Sometimes one or other of the cable channels does a “seven days of 007″ showing of endless bond movies in the summer. You can just dip in and out at any point and see some….In this way, last Summer, I caught for the first time the one where George Lazenby takes over from Connery. I like it a lot….It is far from perfect, but it is gritty, he gets hurt, he can’t do everything, and it feel more realistic than several bond fims by far…(also because Diana Rigg is in it, and she’s simply too marvellous for words.) I especially love the opening scenes, since it starts immediately in the spirit of the classic old ones, and there is an opening scene where he screeches up in his car, chases after a beautiful woman who he sees trying to drown herself on the beach, and then some people appear and beat him up (basically) and meanwhile she runs away and steals his car. (I thinkit’s his car…I might have mis-remembered.) Anyway, he looks after the car driving away in a a sort of resigned way…The camera comes more close-up to him and he just slightly breaks character, looks directly into the camera and says “This never happened to the other fella”….and then the Bond-esqe title sequence begins…. I love that!

-cvj

By: Quibbler

Quibbler — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:52:30 +0000

Deep down inside, I am loyal to Flemming’s other clever-gadget creation creation — Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Anyone know if that one’s on sale?

–Q.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:32:28 +0000

The fold up helicopter, aka, “Little Nellie” would come in very handy anywhere!

I agree about the Bond’s, Connery or Brosnan. If you have ever read any of Ian Flemming’s Bond books you can see how well they fit the Bond that Flemming created.

My opinion, Thunderball and Goldfinger are probably two of the best Bond movies ever made. They have gadgets/girls/action. And thank goodness they didn’t keep that guy who did “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, OHMSS was a dissapointment to Bond fans.

By: Quibbler

Quibbler — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:38:54 +0000

Oooooh ooooh me! I wanna be Q! I *am* Q!

–Q.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:01:41 +0000

Although the Aston Martins are lovely and would be my first choice, as always, if offered, I would certainly take the Lotus Espirit from the 70s too. I particulalry like the anti-break-in security system. What about the little helicopter that folds up? Or the plane? Those are very cvj. The ‘copter would be very useful for LA. Everybody’s doing it now.

-cvj