Film

[Sworntothecans]

Loving these Bond Reviews. Making me think of starting into the oul marathon myself. I'll start tonight ta fuck because all I've been doing in general is watching random history videos on YouTube for ages now due to the torture of trying to pick things

Bond stuff is all on Prime until they take it off Xmas week as the tv rights is a nice little earner.

[Mooncat]

The Man With the Golden Gun

This one has the weird distinction of being constantly rated one of the worst Bond movies, yet still one of the most famous. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not a particularly good film, but if you don't think too hard it is an entertaining one.

Christopher Lee has to be in contention for one of the best bad guys of the series, plus it has a hell of a banger of a theme song.

It's almost the opposite of The Spy Who Loved Me for me. There I could think of tons of great highlights but the film overall just felt a bit shit. With The Man With the Golden Gun I can think of almost no highlights, but the film overall kept me engaged throughout.

Britt Ekland is a terrible Bond girl but holy fuck she rocks that bikini...

[astfgyl]

Loving these Bond Reviews. Making me think of starting into the oul marathon myself. I'll start tonight ta fuck because all I've been doing in general is watching random history videos on YouTube for ages now due to the torture of trying to pick things

Bond stuff is all on Prime until they take it off Xmas week as the tv rights is a nice little earner.

Lovely job, sound. I'd better crack on! Ended just falling asleep after 2 minutes of a youtube video about some odd chronological order to watch the films in, which I won't be doing

[Sworntothecans]

There's no order aside from picking one of the lads and watching their run. 
Bond's only started that lore/watch order shite with Craig as silly YouTubers and redditors discovered the franchise.

[Necro Red]

There's no order aside from picking one of the lads and watching their run. 
Bond's only started that lore/watch order shite with Craig as silly YouTubers and redditors discovered the franchise.

I've often had a Bondaton and watched them all in order. Including Never Say Never Again. The unofficial bond with Connery. He did it to spite cubby Broccoli. Big Bond nerd here. It could warrant it's own thread ha ha

[Sworntothecans]

There's no order aside from picking one of the lads and watching their run. 
Bond's only started that lore/watch order shite with Craig as silly YouTubers and redditors discovered the franchise.

I've often had a Bondaton and watched them all in order. Including Never Say Never Again. The unofficial bond with Connery. He did it to spite cubby Broccoli. Big Bond nerd here. It could warrant it's own thread ha ha

Never Say Never Again always gets included if I'm watching the Connery ones.

Hilarious hairpiece on Sean, Barbara Carrera being camp as fuck and it's great craic.

[Carnage]

TBF Connery had a hairpiece for Dr. No, he was bald as a coot even then.

That was a remake of Thunderball, wasn't it? I haven't seen it in decades.

[Mooncat]

It's one of the few I've never seen actually. Never Say Never Again, For Your Eyes Only, and Quantum of Solace are the only ones I'm missing at this point.

[Sworntothecans]

TBF Connery had a hairpiece for Dr. No, he was bald as a coot even then.

That was a remake of Thunderball, wasn't it? I haven't seen it in decades.

Aye due to a sneaky bit of legal messing with Broccoli over the rights with a former partner that's how it got to be made.

[leatherface]

Moonraker is amazing." Bond in spaace ..". Only Roger Moore could have pulled this one off.

[Carnage]

The Bond girl's name in it was Goodhead, if I remember correctly. The Close Encounters theme on the door keypad too. Jesus, awful muck.    Jaws did alright for himself though.

[Carnage]

I watched F1 there, awful shite. Cheesy as Cheddar and totally predictable, and you'd know Hamilton had a lot to do with it. Still, I was after something to switch my brain off to, job done.

[Necro Red]

TBF Connery had a hairpiece for Dr. No, he was bald as a coot even then.

That was a remake of Thunderball, wasn't it? I haven't seen it in decades.

yep, that's a remake

[Mooncat]

Casino Royale

I initially disliked this in the cinema as I wasn't keen on Craig as Bond, but then I rewatched it a couple of years ago and had to admit it was fantastic, then same again last night. I still miss that it doesn't feel quite like a classic Bond, but more a Bond-flavoured modern action film, but it's also hard not to see it as the best film of the series. It still bothers me somewhat to say that funnily enough, but I just can't think of another film that's better. Even Goldfinger, the ultimate 'classic' Bond just isn't as good as this.

Quantum of Solace

One of the last ones I'd never seen and it seemed a good time to watch it after watching Casino Royale. I'd say I lasted about an hour before I switched it off. Life is too short sometimes. Just a spectacularly bland, by the numbers modern action movie. Whereas all the action in Casino Royale felt very visceral, real and exciting, here it was just yawn car chase and shooting, yawn boat chase and shooting, yawn foot chase and shooting etc. All the new characters were also super bland, with only Bond himself, and to an extent M, carrying to the film. Craig was still good, but like the Brosnan era was unfortunately landed with trying to make something good out of a turd.

[Sworntothecans]

That's where the rot set in. Getting critical darlings to do Bond movies. Yeah the second unit/stunt coordinator may handle all the action, but if you don't have a journeyman director who understands action it just falls flat.

Martin Campbell should have been kept on after Casino but they did the usual "you made us money, fuck off".