Current Events > I just watched a James Bond movie for the first time

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Before tonight, I'd never seen a Bond film. Started with Dr. No, it was solid; shows its age a bit, but still enjoyed it.

I think I'm gonna try to slowly work my way through the series. Just gonna go by release order I suppose.

I ultimately want to watch Golden Eye, that's the one I always hear about, and I know Sean Bean is in it.

I have like, 18 more films to go before then though. :/

@Parappa09
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the only Bond movies that I've seen to completion were the ones starring Daniel Craig.

Casino Royale and Skyfall were dope.
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Wonder what your least favorite is gonna be. People think it's Spectre but Die Another Day is flipping crazy if you asked me.

Daniel Craig is really polarizing, which I find fascinating because he was just as polarizing at the time he was announced.
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g0ldie posted...

the only Bond movies that I've seen to completion were the ones starring Daniel Craig.

Casino Royale and Skyfall were dope.

I've heard good things. I'll get to them eventually, lol.

It's always been intimidating trying to make myself watch any of them before, knowing how fucking many of these movies there are. Have to play a lot of catch up if I'm gonna watch them all.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Wonder what your least favorite is gonna be. People think it's Spectre but Die Another Day is flipping crazy if you asked me.

Daniel Craig is really polarizing, which I find fascinating because he was just as polarizing at the time he was announced.

Are they polarizing? Most of the people I've talked to seemed to like him, guess I haven't really met anyone from the other side.
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It's downhill after the next one

i've only seen the newer bond films since the 'reboot', but there's some good classics that are worth watching from what i've heard

some of the older ones don't age particularly well, especially in light of metoo >.>
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Parappa09 posted...

i've only seen the newer bond films since the 'reboot', but there's some good classics that are worth watching from what i've heard

some of the older ones don't age particularly well, especially in light of metoo >.>

Yeah, that's what I've heard. >_>

Dr. No wasn't nearly as bad about it as I was expecting, which makes me worry about the next few, considering a friend of mine told me specifically that the Connery films were pretty bad about that stuff.
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You are in for a good time imo, a lot of iconic characters, cool spy tech, and some fantastic villains. I found something enjoyable with each actor overall, and it adds to the experience.

Surprised you haven't seen a 007 movie, it will be cool to follow your progress, i'm a bit of a fan.
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Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

MabusIncarnate posted...

You are in for a good time imo, a lot of iconic characters, cool spy tech, and some fantastic villains. I found something enjoyable with each actor overall, and it adds to the experience.

Surprised you haven't seen a 007 movie, it will be cool to follow your progress, i'm a bit of a fan.

I think what I'm most hype for is the villains tbh. I love me a good villain, and I've consistently heard the series has some quality ones.

It looks like at least most of them are on Netflix, so I'm just gonna start slowly plowing through them, lol. Looks like From Russia With Love is up next.
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bossjony posted...

Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

bossjony posted...

Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

I didn't know fictional characters were the same as their actors, good to know.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

bossjony posted...

Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

I didn't know fictional characters were the same as their actors, good to know.

What he's a real person in the show and real in real life wtf r u saying u defend dudes that groom little girls ..

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch
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Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

Not a 007 movie.. but a good watch. This was kind of random except that it's about a movie, lol.
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Have fun with them. I own them all. Grew up with the films as my dad was a Bond fan.
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Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

It's super good, enjoy.

I've been meaning to rewatch it myself, I need to get around to doing that.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

Not a 007 movie.. but a good watch. This was kind of random except that it's about a movie, lol.

lol, I rec'd it to him a few days ago.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

It's super good, enjoy.

I've been meaning to rewatch it myself, I need to get around to doing that.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

Not a 007 movie.. but a good watch. This was kind of random except that it's about a movie, lol.

lol, I rec'd it to him a few days ago.

ohhh gotcha lol
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MabusIncarnate posted...

Parappa09 posted...

i'm gonna try and get round to watching snowpiercer this week

i'm on a 4 hour flight to the canary islands on thursday, so that would be good to watch

Not a 007 movie.. but a good watch. This was kind of random except that it's about a movie, lol.

waffle put it on his list of films for me to watch lol, and i felt like getting the topic back on track with film talk at least
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Airhammy posted...

Have fun with them. I own them all. Grew up with the films as my dad was a Bond fan.

I've never been a huge fan of the handful of spy type films I've seen, but they're such a huge part of cinema that I feel like that's a pretty big hole in the films I've watched as a film lover.

Even Dr. No was pretty fun though. Pacing felt a little weird, but that's also in part to it being the 60s.
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Haven't you done topics about seeing a bunch of movies? Kinda surprising you've never watched a Bond flick.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

Airhammy posted...

Have fun with them. I own them all. Grew up with the films as my dad was a Bond fan.

I've never been a huge fan of the handful of spy type films I've seen, but they're such a huge part of cinema that I feel like that's a pretty big hole in the films I've watched as a film lover.

Even Dr. No was pretty fun though. Pacing felt a little weird, but that's also in part to it being the 60s.

Do they include Topaz, the Harry Palmer and Derek Flint movies?
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I still haven't seen a Bond film. I remember when it was announced that Danny Boyle would be working on the next one and I got super excited. But he dropped out.

Imagine having creative differences with literal Danny Boyle. That's as bad as the MCU dropping Edgar Wright.
Dude probably have more creativity in the tip of his dick than all of those producers and execs on those movies put together.

Edit: The closest I got to watching a Bond film were the Kingsman movies.
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Kitt posted...

I still haven't seen a Bond film. I remember when it was announced that Danny Boyle would be working on the next one and I got super excited. But he dropped out.

Imagine having creative differences with literal Danny Boyle. That's as bad as the MCU dropping Edgar Wright.
Dude probably have more creativity in the tip of his dick than all of those producers and execs on those movies put together.

Edit: The closest I got to watching a Bond film were the Kingsman movies.

I feel like Kingsman can be the new modern 007. If they made 10 more, i'd watch them all.
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Shotgunnova posted...

Haven't you done topics about seeing a bunch of movies? Kinda surprising you've never watched a Bond flick.

Yep, I've seen tons. The Bond movies just haven't been part of them, lol.

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

WafflehouseJK posted...

Airhammy posted...

Have fun with them. I own them all. Grew up with the films as my dad was a Bond fan.

I've never been a huge fan of the handful of spy type films I've seen, but they're such a huge part of cinema that I feel like that's a pretty big hole in the films I've watched as a film lover.

Even Dr. No was pretty fun though. Pacing felt a little weird, but that's also in part to it being the 60s.

Do they include Topaz, the Harry Palmer and Derek Flint movies?

Nah, I don't think so.

Kitt posted...

I still haven't seen a Bond film. I remember when it was announced that Danny Boyle would be working on the next one and I got super excited. But he dropped out.

Imagine having creative differences with literal Danny Boyle. That's as bad as the MCU dropping Edgar Wright.
Dude probably have more creativity in the tip of his dick than all of those producers and execs on those movies put together.

Edit: The closest I got to watching a Bond film were the Kingsman movies.

Damn, Danny Boyle would have been dope, fucking love him.

The Kingsman movies are really good, I enjoyed both of them.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

Kitt posted...

I still haven't seen a Bond film. I remember when it was announced that Danny Boyle would be working on the next one and I got super excited. But he dropped out.

Imagine having creative differences with literal Danny Boyle. That's as bad as the MCU dropping Edgar Wright.
Dude probably have more creativity in the tip of his dick than all of those producers and execs on those movies put together.

Edit: The closest I got to watching a Bond film were the Kingsman movies.

I feel like Kingsman can be the new modern 007. If they made 10 more, i'd watch them all.

Eww no please

Just watched Thunderball. As a follow-up to the defining classic Goldfinger, Thunderball falls short. The plot in particular is weak. Goldfinger's scheme wasn't what it seemed to be, but in Thunderball, the villain just plays a straightforward ransom game. Moreover, the viewers are made aware of where the two nukes are held and how they were obtained, whereas Bond doesn't. This robs us the thrill and suspense of discovery as he gradually pieces together the information we already know.

Not gonna spoil much more than that, but... well... be warned about the ending. The boat sequence has some of the worst backprojection I've ever seen. It's supposed to depict an out-of-control boat perilously speeding past rocky skrags, but looks more like sped-up footage shot from a low-flying helicopter.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

The Kingsman movies are really good, I enjoyed both of them.

I loved the first one.
Outside of a very few cool moments, the second one left me painfully disappointed.
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Kitt posted...

WafflehouseJK posted...

The Kingsman movies are really good, I enjoyed both of them.

I loved the first one.
Outside of a very few cool moments, the second one left me painfully disappointed.

I enjoyed 2 a lot, it was super goofy and over the top, but I felt like that played in its favor and set it apart from other secret agent sort of films.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Wonder what your least favorite is gonna be. People think it's Spectre but Die Another Day is flipping crazy if you asked me.

Daniel Craig is really polarizing, which I find fascinating because he was just as polarizing at the time he was announced.

I'll just start off by saying I hate Craig Bond. Huge fan of Bond. But the last two I just watched on tv. And after SPECTRE I have no interest in them anymore. Not until they drop this moody realistic shit that has no place in Bond.

Which leads me to my next point. Die Another Day is bad. It's stupid. It has embarrassing cgi. But I would rather have 100 movies like that than ever have another SPECTRE.
They get back the rights to SPECTRE and Blofeld after all those years and thats what they do with it.

Supposedly, Austin Power's ridicule of the Bond formula is what led to the miserable ass Craig movies. And now we've lived long enough to see Bond take a ridiculous plot point from an Austin Powers movie that existed as a joke, and try and do it straight faced. Turing Bond and Blofeld into brothers albeit adopted. How utterly and fucking stupid. And to go a step further with it they have Blofeld claim that all previous 3 Craig film's villains and plots were all his machinations. All to fuck with Bond because daddy loved him more. Are you kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me with that shit? Sure the first 2 were Quantum/SPECTRE agents but they didn't do what they did to specifically fuck with Bond. And Skyfall's villain. He had nothing to do with Bond. Bond isn't even on his radar with what he wanted to accomplish. Yet here comes SPECTRE and it's pathetically stupid script and says oh no. All three worked for Blofeld and did what they did to fuck with Bond. OMG.
Hey, let's have the villain's entire pointless base blow up with a single bullet.
Let's have a magic ring that evidently we're to believe was worn by all 3 previous villains to get their DNA off of.
Blofeld built this entire evil network and rose to be this ultimate bad guy not to control the world or anything. But just to fuck with Bond when the time came. The computer spying software plot becomes a distant afterthought even to Blofeld while he's trying to kill Bond at the end.
Oh and Bond's tiny gun takes down Blofeld's chopper from a half mile away, while Bond if in a moving boat. Even by Bond standards that's ridiculous.
Ah! And don't even get me started on the worst song in the entire series they used.
After QoS's "song" I didn't think they could do worse. Holy shit was I wrong.
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Just finished From Russia With Love. I enjoyed it. The stuff with the train dragged a bit, but otherwise I felt it was a lot better paced than Dr. No.

Didn't have as memorable a villain, but the multiple ones it did have were all decent, just wish there was more of a central villain than there was.

So far I'd rank them:
2. Doctor No.
1. From Russia With Love

Next up is Goldfinger, IDK if I'll watch it now or not, but either way I'm hype, isn't it consistently considered one of the best?
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Thompson posted...

Not gonna spoil much more than that, but... well... be warned about the ending. The boat sequence has some of the worst backprojection I've ever seen. It's supposed to depict an out-of-control boat perilously speeding past rocky skrags, but looks more like sped-up footage shot from a low-flying helicopter.

Yeah it looks wrong, but I love that scene. The music going nuts, the boat out of control, the cartoonish crack of Bond's punches, and finally Domino asserting herself. It's fun.
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Rank them as you go like the other guy did.
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WafflehouseJK posted...

Next up is Goldfinger, IDK if I'll watch it now or not, but either way I'm hype, isn't it consistently considered one of the best?

It's pretty much the best, yeah. It's the "most Bond-like" of the Bond films and establishes a lot of the cliches.
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My favorites were always the Roger Moore movies. Oh and Daniel Craig is spectacular.

BruceWayneJr posted...

Thompson posted...

Not gonna spoil much more than that, but... well... be warned about the ending. The boat sequence has some of the worst backprojection I've ever seen. It's supposed to depict an out-of-control boat perilously speeding past rocky skrags, but looks more like sped-up footage shot from a low-flying helicopter.

Yeah it looks wrong, but I love that scene. The music going nuts, the boat out of control, the cartoonish crack of Bond's punches, and finally Domino asserting herself. It's fun.

Quite unrelated, but I wrote "skrags" instead of "skerries". What's a skrag, I don't know, but I may've unconsciously translated the Swedish word "skr" into pseudo-English.
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bossjony posted...

WafflehouseJK posted...

bossjony posted...

Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

I didn't know fictional characters were the same as their actors, good to know.

What he's a real person in the show and real in real life wtf r u saying u defend dudes that groom little girls ..

Ya just ignore me smh

^ Wew lad
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bossjony posted...

bossjony posted...

WafflehouseJK posted...

bossjony posted...

Stfu u know is ur avatar is a predator of little girls right tc

I didn't know fictional characters were the same as their actors, good to know.

What he's a real person in the show and real in real life wtf r u saying u defend dudes that groom little girls ..

Ya just ignore me smh

Because you're not using an ounce of logic, and literally think a fictional character and their actor are the same person. This is the last time I'm responding to you.
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I think I might watch Goldfinger tonight, didn't get to it this morning.
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There are a lot of great characters in this franchise. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on each one.

Goldeneye was the first one I watched, and remains my absolute favorite, while Live and Let Die is a close second.
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Kajagogo posted...

There are a lot of great characters in this franchise. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on each one.

Goldeneye was the first one I watched, and remains my absolute favorite, while Live and Let Die is a close second.

I'm really hype for Goldeneye tbh. That's the one I always heard about growing up.
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You saw the back of Blofelds head for the first time in FRWL lol. The train is the the best bit, my god that fight scene is amazing.
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spikethedevil posted...

You saw the back of Blofelds head for the first time in FRWL lol. The train is the the best bit, my god that fight scene is amazing.

I did like the fight, but the entirety of them being on the train from begining on the end just felt really, REALLY long.

Even Dr. No had a pretty large number of locale/set changes.
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The early sets are amazing with the best one being in You Only Live Twice.

Note that YOLT and On Her Majestys Secret Service are in the opposite order in the books and OHMSS didn't get many changes in the film for some odd reason and it makes the film continuity a tad odd.

Oh and ignore the code name theory as it's pure BS.
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Just finished Goldfinger. It was really good. Best villain so far, best evil plan, and Bond's puns and zingers were a lot better in this one, a lot of them fell flat in the first 2.

There were a couple things I was eh about, like Goldfinger's death looked real silly, but it was the 60s, they did what they could. The scene in the barn with Pussy came off a little.... sketchy. But also, again, it was the 60s.

But it's definitely my favorite of the first 3.

3. Doctor No.
2. From Russia With Love
1. Goldfinger

Also:

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TC you should watch Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. Those are the best of the Connery era.

AcFan87 posted...

TC you should watch Thunderball and You Only Live Twice. Those are the best of the Connery era.

THunderball's next on my list. I'm trying to watch as many as I can before Netflix takes them off.
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Glad you're liking them. Imo you have the best of the series on either end with FRWL/Goldfinger then Casino Royale/Skyfall. The long middle is nothing special, sad to say, though you should see them for cultural reasons. Goldeneye is a good shot in the arm before Craig brings it roaring back.
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