I think it was YOLT on tv back in the 70's, then seeing TSWLM at the pictures, after that I saw all of them there, right up to DAD. But as kids we all played with the aston martin car and the lotus etc, so he's always been there.
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I was on holiday in Cornwall and my Mum and Dad took my brother and me to the cinema to see "Live and Let Die" one day. It was still one of my first times at 'the pictures' (as my parents called them) and anything would likely have impressed me...by LALD blew me away. All the action, Moore as Bond etc. We left the cinema and I WAS James Bond. Fortunately, having understanding parents, the next day they bought me a toy James Bond gun with a plastic silencer which survived until very recently. For some reason, I didn't see TMWTGG at the cinema, but I have seen all of the others since...and of course I've seen every single one countless times on the telly. LALD remains one of my top three all-time favourite Bond films to this day!
I was on holiday in Cornwall and my Mum and Dad took my brother and me to the cinema to see "Live and Let Die" one day. It was still one of my first times at 'the pictures' (as my parents called them) and anything would likely have impressed me...by LALD blew me away. All the action, Moore as Bond etc. We left the cinema and I WAS James Bond. Fortunately, having understanding parents, the next day they bought me a toy James Bond gun with a plastic silencer which survived until very recently. For some reason, I didn't see TMWTGG at the cinema, but I have seen all of the others since...and of course I've seen every single one countless times on the telly. LALD remains one of my top three all-time favourite Bond films to this day!
I remember seeing a few of Roger Moore's at the cinema when I was a kid, and they were really an event. Rows of parties of kids with only one or two adults in charge, kids with plastic ppk's, loads of groaning when he kissed the women and laughing at the humour/visual gags. A completely different demographic to today's audience, and a lot less of an event.
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Oh great topic! I grew up with Sir Roger as Bond, and ironically it was with the character in tv repeats. It was genetic, My Mum and my Grandparents (her parents) loved the Bond films from the start. It was a shock to all three of them that I was not impressed by Sir Sean at first!
I remember watching TSWLM, MRKR and FYEO with my Grandad, and loving all of them - esp the latter. I don't kbnow why, but there was something about the camaraderie between Bond and Columbo that worked very well.
The other films have grown on me, and new ones are added to the list. - But FYEO was the one that made me a fan.
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The first movie I went to see as it was released was Diamonds are Forever. I saw a double feature of earlier films but that must have been later as I remember being dumped at my Grans place when my parents went to see OHMSS. I would have been on the cusp of being 4 when OHMSS came out. Have been a HUUUUGE fan pretty much all my life.
was just the same with me. after the opening sequence my mom came in and i had to turn the tv off - i never forgot that! next day my friends in school told me about what happened...
GoldenEye originally got me into Bond because my brother and I would always play the N64 video game and we caught the film on tv once. I've been hooked ever since.
Dr No of course,,,however, it was Live And Let Die that revived my interest in the movies again.
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It could only have been two films, Goldfinger and Thunderball, both with the iconic DB5, both on TV, a 21in black and white telly to be precise.
For some reason, Dr No and FRWL just didn't get shown much in the mid 70s onwards, while YOLT was aired in late 1977, after TSWLM came out in cinemas. So the latter seemed a big jump, genre wise, from the likes of TB.
Geez I am old! I was first attracted to Bond by the books, which I read before seeing a Bond film, so I was hooked before laying eyes on the film creation. First. Bond film I saw in person was Thunderball at an outdoor theatre, the film captivated me then and still does.
Was both Goldeneye first on video and the video game that got the ball rolling, but it was Tomorrow Never Dies that really set the hooks in. Although at the same time the movie debuted, TBS was doing their annual 15 days of 007, so I was exposed to all of the old ones at once. Lets just say 15 days later my life was changed forever!
Nostalgists of a certain age might check out the new 007 mag in the movie shop in St Martin's Lane, London, full of those back-to-back double-bill posters, surely not official artwork but oddly sanctioned all the same, all have a bootleg, ad hoc vibe to them.
The first film I ever rented. At age three I was allowed to pick one video in the store to rent, so I searched for what seemed like years, finally stumbling across this cover of an impeccably dressed man with a gun in a defiant pose in front of giant tarot cards with boats, explosions, exotic women, alligators and creepy figures. That was the one...
And life was never the same. LALD got me into Bond, film, film history, filmmaking and virtually all of my life pusuits can be traced back to that one film.
TSWLM, Moonraker, and all the Roger Moores. I remember as a child in Florida if I ever get my car driven into the Gulf I could get the air out of the tires to survive! As I got older Sean Connery was my Bond but it was Moore that made me want to be a spy as a little tyke.
I can remember my first three bond movies in the order I saw them. TMWTGG and MR on television were my introductions but the one that really hooked me was OP on home video rentals. After that I really wanted to see them all.
What got me hooked was GoldenEye, the game first then the movie. This will show how ignorant I was, I was expecting the movie to follow the game at the time lol. But what helped fuel it for the rest was there was a lot of Bonding going on at the time I got the game, in between two film years, 1998 and then that next fall when TWINE came to theaters, marathons were every where on TV, the one that stands out was TBS (back when they played movies) and their 15 days of 007. I was hooked, I wanted soundtracks, anything with the logo on it. But the only thing, even to this day, that I am missing is the full set on one format, I want the whole set, minus Never Say Never Again, on DVD
1, GE 2, CR 3, SF 4, TWINE 5, Spectre 6, TMWTGG 7, DAD 8, LALD 9, AVTAK 10, LTK 11, Octopussy 12, Moonraker 13, TLD 14, GF 15, QOS 16, Tomorrow 17, FYEO 18. TSWLM Not seen much: Dr. No, Russia, Thunderball, Twice, Majesty.
1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
Even though Connery was my first (and I guess, the best) Bond, Brosnan's first two were 'great' even if they did depict Bond as more of a straight arrow hero than the books or the Connery or Craig movies. It was a different take on the character, one I appreciated for its brief time. AND, although I feel Connery was the best Bond, to use Dr. Who terminology, Brosnan was my Bond.
The pendulum swings, all of us are happy with these movies at certain points; I just happen to enjoy more different versions of this character than most, I guess. Even two or three of the Moore flicks.
A shame they never employed my PERSONAL choice for who I feel would have been the ULTIMATE Bond actor...
The first Bond movies I can recall seeing were Roger Moore ones, especially Octopussy. I was captivated by the stunts and scenery and longed to grow up to look as good as the glam Bond girls!! I remember when TLD came out on VHS and my next door neighbour and I would rent it out and watch it together over again. At the time I thought Dalton was great and his seriousness of the role made this movie seem grittier than the later Moore films I had previously seen, so I would say it was TLD that got me hooked. I also remember being gutted when LTK was released at the cinema as it was the only Bond movie to have a ‘15’ certificate and I was too young to see it… I had to wait until Goldeneye and by then I was a huge fan! -{
TSWLM! From the PTS of the ski chase to the Union Jack parachute opening, to the underwater Lotus Esprit (which was my favourite Corgi car btw!),the girl dropped into the shark tank from the elevator with a retractable floor, to the first frightening view of 'Jaws' in Egypt, this film will always be the one I always refer to when comparing other Bond films.
I remember starting a topic like this years ago. For me it was LALD.... Although the GE N64 game was what drove me to start buying and watching bond films on VHS.... LALD was the first bond film I brought (and watched). I loved it, and was hooked ever since.
What actually got me hooked into the 007 franchise wasnt one of the movies but the animated series James Bond jr (hence my screen name). The first film i ever saw was Goldfinger.
It was the hot British summer of 1977. I was just a kid. My parents took me to see TSWLM at the ODEON, London Road, Liverpool...OMG!!!
Those navy boys in their uniforms on the submarines, the ski chase and parachute jump over the mountain, the underwater "city", the Lotus, train fight, exotic locations, everything...EVERYTHING!!!! I loved it, and was hooked ever since.
My first memory is watching a clip of the Las Vegas car park chase in Diamonds Are Forever on TV around the time of it's release. But it was Live And Let Die that converted me into a Bond fan. It was the boat chase more than anything that really excited me as I had never seen anything like it. To this day it remains one of my favourite Bond films, aswell as a sentimental favourite.
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A person whom my brother and I grew up with was very much into Bond.
I can't actually say there was ONE particular film which got me hooked on Bond; my brother and I began watching them on TV (starting around 1985) and it grew from there (I HAD seen TSWLM with my family, but was only about 4 at the time).
In '85 alone I watched DN, FRWL, DAF, LALD, MR and AVTAK. After that I began learning about many things Bond-related (as well as watching other Bond films, of course).
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I remember seeing a few of Roger Moore's at the cinema when I was a kid, and they were really an event. Rows of parties of kids with only one or two adults in charge, kids with plastic ppk's, loads of groaning when he kissed the women and laughing at the humour/visual gags. A completely different demographic to today's audience, and a lot less of an event.
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I remember watching TSWLM, MRKR and FYEO with my Grandad, and loving all of them - esp the latter. I don't kbnow why, but there was something about the camaraderie between Bond and Columbo that worked very well.
The other films have grown on me, and new ones are added to the list. - But FYEO was the one that made me a fan.
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Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
...little did i know that there were even better movies in the series...
was just the same with me. after the opening sequence my mom came in and i had to turn the tv off - i never forgot that! next day my friends in school told me about what happened...
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For some reason, Dr No and FRWL just didn't get shown much in the mid 70s onwards, while YOLT was aired in late 1977, after TSWLM came out in cinemas. So the latter seemed a big jump, genre wise, from the likes of TB.
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The first film I ever rented. At age three I was allowed to pick one video in the store to rent, so I searched for what seemed like years, finally stumbling across this cover of an impeccably dressed man with a gun in a defiant pose in front of giant tarot cards with boats, explosions, exotic women, alligators and creepy figures. That was the one...
And life was never the same. LALD got me into Bond, film, film history, filmmaking and virtually all of my life pusuits can be traced back to that one film.
Yeah, I was hooked. -{
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
1: Brosnan 2: Craig 3: Moore 4: Dalton 5: Connery and 6: Lazenby
The pendulum swings, all of us are happy with these movies at certain points; I just happen to enjoy more different versions of this character than most, I guess. Even two or three of the Moore flicks.
A shame they never employed my PERSONAL choice for who I feel would have been the ULTIMATE Bond actor...
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
It was the hot British summer of 1977. I was just a kid. My parents took me to see TSWLM at the ODEON, London Road, Liverpool...OMG!!!
Those navy boys in their uniforms on the submarines, the ski chase and parachute jump over the mountain, the underwater "city", the Lotus, train fight, exotic locations, everything...EVERYTHING!!!! I loved it, and was hooked ever since.
I can't actually say there was ONE particular film which got me hooked on Bond; my brother and I began watching them on TV (starting around 1985) and it grew from there (I HAD seen TSWLM with my family, but was only about 4 at the time).
In '85 alone I watched DN, FRWL, DAF, LALD, MR and AVTAK. After that I began learning about many things Bond-related (as well as watching other Bond films, of course).