All things Bond, eventually

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Looks like you can find all the opening credits sequences on youtube. Fun!

[mousepod]

One of my friends used to have a videotape of all the opening credits from their original TV broadcasts. Since the originals contained naked ladies (in silhouette, mostly), they actually shot completely different versions for ABC. I'd love to see those again.

[Not Afraid]

Let's talk Bond Aliases!

I was trying to remember a few favorite Bond moments last night. One is where Sean wears that little blue terrycloth pool suit (there is NO ONE ELSE how could carry that off).

I moved on to my favorite Aliases. Syngen Smyth from "A View to a Kill" is only topped by a close margin by Sir Hilary Bray. Oh HILLY!

Here's a great list of all of the Bond Alias names.

[Strangler Lewis]

I can say that, having just watched it on You Tube in the spirit of inquiry, the fight scene in "From Russia With Love" holds up somewhat better than, say, the car chase in "Bullitt" or the dance sequences in "Saturday Night Live."

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

or the dance sequences in "Saturday Night Live."

Or, MadTV, for that matter.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I can say that, having just watched it on You Tube in the spirit of inquiry, the fight scene in "From Russia With Love" holds up somewhat better than, say, the car chase in "Bullitt" or the dance sequences in "Saturday Night Live."

Originally Posted by Tref

Or, MadTV, for that matter.

Whoops. I meant "Saturday Night Fever."

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Whoops. I meant "Saturday Night Fever."

Duly noted.

[frodo potter]

Goldfinger is the best bond movie hands down.

It has the best Bond ie. Connery

The best bond girl name "pussy galore"

The best bond line "Bond: do you expect me to talk Goldfinger.
Goldfinger: No mister bond I expect you to Die.

[Tref]

Originally Posted by frodo potter

Goldfinger is the best bond movie hands down.

I know the above comment is a widely held belief, indeed, I just to-day read an article in the Entertainment Weekly that espoused the very same thought -- Goldfinger is the best.

I just watched it and I can not figure out what makes it the gold standard of Bond films. I liked it. It was OK. But I am not convinced of the film's greatness.

I actually was going to go point by point about what I thought was off about that movie, but after writing it, I deleted it. For whatever reason people will always choose Connery as the best, so what can a brother do?

Maybe my fondness and genuine nostalgia for the 1970s clouds my ability to see how Goldfinger could in anyway match a film like The Spy Who Loved Me, which I think ranks not as a great Bond film, but as a great film of the action genre, itself.

Interestingly enough, I read a review that made the claim that TSWLM was the best Bond film -- period, but then went on in the next paragraph to explain by Connery was still better. Ridiculous. It's like Roger Moore was revealed to be a Nazi sympathiser, or something.

[Morrigoon]

You guys are costing me a fortune on iTunes right now. Thought you oughta know. BTW: there's a "The Best of Bond... James Bond" album on there.