First Bond film I saw on the big screen so it'll always be special, probably the one that really kickstarted by love of all things Bond.
Dalton will always be my Bond.
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First Bond film I saw on the big screen so it'll always be special, probably the one that really kickstarted by love of all things Bond.
Dalton will always be my Bond.
First Bond I bought my own ticket for. (Second Bond in the theater. Moonraker was the first.) Dalton was the first time I was there for the Changing of the Bond. And of course I remember the whole Remington Steele kerfuffle.
His "Bond, James Bond" as a total throwaway is by far my favorite. (I know there are people that HAAAAATED it.)
Happy Birthday, Rassilon!
His "Bond, James Bond" as a total throwaway is by far my favorite. (I know there are people that HAAAAATED it.)
Happy Birthday, Rassilon!
Believe it or not, I didn't see a Bond movie in the theaters until Casino Royale. Before that, I either caught them on TV or watched them on VHS.
I've never had a problem with that, I love it too.
Goldeneye in my case.
For me it was Die Another Day.
First Bond in the theater? Diamonds Are Forever. (Yes, I'm old.) My dad took me, and given my tender years, he probably shouldn't have. 
I grew up with Moore and he's my sentimental and emotional favorite, but I do have to concede that Connery and Dalton are both stronger portrayals from a dramatic standpoint.
Honestly, I don't even think it's that bad a movie. Are there better ones? Definitely. But I don't know, I still find it an enjoyable way to spend two hours all the same.
After Quantum of Solace I don't think Die Another Day seems AS bad.
There is a fantastic Bond movie in both Die Another Day and The World is Not Enough. In TWINE it's interspersed through the film alternating spy stuff and drama with a James Cameron action spoof. (Some of the action still works a treat to be sure.) Then in Die Another Day they front load the good movie on the front half and then switch to the silly action flick (the parasail... shudder) on the back half. No way to say goodbye to Pierce.
There's a lot of Quantum of Solace that I loved. Just not the plot or the direction. But angry, vengeful Daniel Craig with exasperated Judi Dench? More, please.
There's a lot of Quantum of Solace that I loved. Just not the plot or the direction. But angry, vengeful Daniel Craig with exasperated Judi Dench? More, please.
Moonraker was my first in-theater Bond experience when I was a little kid. I've seen every other Bond movie in a theater ever since, except for Craig's final bow (My wife doesn't like going to movies and I didn't have anyone else to go with). Hard for me to say, exactly which is my favorite. Casino Royale comes close, as does Skyfall. But I'm also very fond of You Only Live Twice.
The first act of DAD is incredible. The next two are shite. The North Korean angle was a clever take on modern real world politics and Bond being captured and tortured for an entire year and rendered largely useless as a secret agent was inspired and the first time in the franchise 007 had faced long-term personal consequences of being apprehended by the enemy. But the plastic surgery and ice hideout and CGI iceberg windsurfing stuff was just asinine to the extreme and sank the entire movie.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS and every one after. I require no future ones, really.
Me neither. QUANTUM is mostly a bad BOURNE cuisinart in editing-hell even Michael Bay couldn't properly follow.
And the Moneypenny epilogue 50th anniversary moment?
I'm pretty ok with DAD up until the finale on the plane, setting aside why Graves somehow thought he was safer in mid air the power rangers suit is just ridiculous. Yes the CGI surfing is shit and so is the invisible car (though not impossible) but there's a lot of good stuff in the film, it just really loses its way. The opening act, Bond swaggering into the Hong Kong hotel, the sword fight (just snip Madonna out), it just gets worse as it goes alone.
For QoS I'd say the opposite. It's chaos personified in the first half, but I think once they get to Bolivia it calms down and becomes a decent film. It's never going to be top ten but it's better than Spectre (IMHO obviously)
For QoS I'd say the opposite. It's chaos personified in the first half, but I think once they get to Bolivia it calms down and becomes a decent film. It's never going to be top ten but it's better than Spectre (IMHO obviously)
The last time we see Moneypenny in the original timeline and she's basically shagging a holodeck version of Bond as a member of Monty Python walks in. Sigh. At least it wasn't Lois Maxwell's version so she got to save face.
It's also more than a couple nods to Flemming.
40th. And it's VERY charmingly played. It's just a terrible scene.
I thought the ice hideout in Die Another Day was kinda cool. 
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