Do you like James Bond parodies?
GothamKnight1902
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You know, parodies like the Austin Powers Trilogy, Our Man Flint, In Like Flint and David Niven's Casino Royale? I like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, that movie was great but the sequels, Goldmember and The Spy Who Shagged Me sucked donkeys.
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Anyway, Bond parodies. I enjoyed The first two AP films a lot. Also I always considered Diamonds Are Forever a borderline parody.
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I explained some of the humor (Random Task, Allotta Fagina) in the movie to people in my office. They didn't get it. I'm glad I don't work there any more.
No, I hated the Moore films!
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I really must see that one...and I love all the Bond parodies. My favourites were made by Eon, from the Early Seventies through the Mid-Eighties {:)
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"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
The first Austin Powers was a laugh. And I quite liked Spies Like Us with Chevy Chase.
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You know what? I forgot to mention that Get Smart, both the TV Show and the Steve Carell movie were parodies of James Bond films.
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Philippine Bond parody series.
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Hmmm, I doubt those movies are available in a Region 1 DVD format...
-Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
I thought Johnny English was okay....
The Austin Powers films grate on my nerves, like fingernails on a chalk board, worse than watching Liberace play Bond.
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I loved ''Spy hard'' with Leslie Neilson, that was classic, Although that did Parody loads of action movies, But still none the less a funny Bond spoof
The Austin Powers movies, I think copy and try to be a bit like Casino Royale 1967, at first and just drift into rubbish humour and obvious scenes etc. its been and gone and should stay gone, but as long as people pay to see it, they will make another no doubt. all in all the Powers films are rubbish, they have the odd funny Bond element but over 3 films running 2 hours long each aprox, 6 hours and there is in all of that about 5 mins worth of decent comedy, just dosent justify it sorry to say
''Johnny English'' was ok .. to be honest, still a rubbish film, but as opposed to the amount of other Bad Bond spoofs, it was ok
A GREAT BIT OF Bond spoofing Comes from Roger Moore Himself in THE CANNONBALL RUN Film.. what a great entertaining film Cannonball Run 1 and 2 where ever 3 was ok AKA Speed Zone..... But Moore in the first one was a good bit of Bond spoofing, Hes even driving the Actual DB5 from Goldfinger !!! ha ha also proves every Bond actor has driven an Aston
a god awful Bond spoof was Opperation Kid Brother, Jeez I got a nose bleed and had to go see my doctor after forcing myself to watch it to the end
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A favourite of mine is Carry On Spying - firstly because I enjoy the Carry On films, and it is also a very interesting Bond spoof. When it came out, only the first two Bond films had been been released, so it has quite a different slant to later parodies which got most of their material from spoofing the more outlandish films like Goldfinger and Thunderball. Carry On Spying also mixes Bond with a spoof of film noir (especially The Third Man), and the film is shot in Black and White. If you haven't seen it, I think it is well worth a look. Also love the poster!
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I'm not sure I would call most of the spy craze films parodies of Bond so much as imitators with more humor. Except for the references to SPECTRE and 008 in Our Man Flint, for instance, it could just as easily stand on its own as another entry using the formula for a 1960s spy movie. What's telling about it and its sequel and the Dean Martin film Murderer's Row is how they would predict just how silly the Bond movies would become by the 1970s.
Murderer's Row, for instance, features a brutish henchman with a steel plate for the top of his head who has the physical statue of Odd Job but sticks out as ridiculously as Jaws, a wisecracking and overly sexist hero who never seems in any real danger, an obvious age difference between the middle-aged Helm and the women, and hovercraft battles, campy gadgets, and moments of self-referential humor. It could be the formula for a Moore Bond. It also has a jazzy, instrumental theme by the great Lalo Shiffrin that predates John Barry's better but not unsimilar On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Perhaps my favorite moment in In Like Flint is where Flint finds out that they've replaced the President of the United States with an actor surgically altered to resemble him . . . and Flint is horrified at the idea of an actor as President. This is in 1968 and a dozen years before Reagan would get into the office.
In that respect, there are few direct parodies of Bond. Certainly, the TV series Get Smart parodied Bond directly, with perhaps my favorite -- and very, very non-PC -- character "The Craw," who is mocking Dr. No.
It's interesting to note that Get Smart's Don Adams (Maxwell Smart) eventually becomes Inspector Gadget and he takes on a character whose also called "The Claw" and we never get to see The Claw's face, or at least I don't think we get to see his face. I don't know. My memory of Inspector Gadget is a bit hazy. I can't remember the series finale, other than the fact that Inspector Gadget and his dog "Brain" were in trouble and Gadget's niece Penny actually saved the day....By save the day I mean she rescued Brain and Gadget and Doctor Claw probably got away to plot some new evil schemes another day.
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