Hmmm. I am only 19, so realistically I probably didn't understand what they were until 14 or 15 years ago. They have been playing in our house since before I was born though. My brother likes them too, though I think he is a more casual viewer. Not as in love with it as I am.
I've known about Bond since I was a child, every Christmas they would put a Bond film on. Although, the turning point came when I was a teenager. Due to the long gap between films (89-95), Bond wasn't really on my radar, but then Goldeneye came out. I saw the movie and like many other kids of my generation, seriously abused the N64! I have been hooked ever since!
The Craig tenure has reinforced this adoration. :007)
James Bond fan for 11 years, but collecting dolls, books, movies, anything less.
The first thing I bought was James Bond's Omega Seamaster 40 anniversary
About 15 years. I think I was 10 years old when my dad rented Moonraker from the video store and I was instantly hooked on the strength of the pre-titles sequence. Strangely though, I didn't see a Bond film in a theatre until Die Another Day. I wasn't much of a cinema-goer as a child - definitely more of a video kid. I think the interest reached serious levels in 2003.
Goldfinger was my first, too! I saw it when it was released in 1964 when I was 10 years old. That was almost 48 years ago, and I've been an avid fan ever since.
Well over 40 years for me. Been one since I saw the Goldfinger/Dr. No double feature promotion right before the Thunderball release. Then there was the sneaking the Fleming novels into the house.
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M: "Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors . . . the list is endless."
In July 1977 my Dad said to me "Do you want to see the new James Bond film?". The Spy Who Loved Me was my first big screen Bond film and after seeing it I was hooked. I got the Corgi Lotus Espirit that Christmas.
I read a few of my uncle's James Bond books, and then I saw Dr No at the theatre in early 1963. So at least 50 years.
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I was about seven, so about thirty three years! I only watched them on tv until I was twenty, so bank holidays and Christmas were a dead cert if I wasn't working. But we all had turkey dinner and a Bond film if I was ever stationed overseas! I started buying them on video at twenty, then soon had them all on DVD when video seemed doomed! My wife, then girlfriend, bought me the entire Fleming works about eight years ago and I've read them all, probably twice. My son is two and will hum the classic Bond action tune when he jumps off a wall or comes after me with his water pistol. He's starting young! )
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I saw Goldfinger in 1964 and I was hooked.
In those days, movies were first released in the major cities before they came out to the suburbs.
After Goldfinger, would travel into Chicago to see every Bond movie upon their intial release. Of course, I'd see them again when they made it out to the burbs. Even the dark days of Roger Moore could not dissuade me from being a fan.
The release of a new movie was always eagerly anticipated.
48 years later I still look forward to each Bond movie. It's not the major event it used to be, but times change.
39 years ,first film live and let die at the cinema.
I read the Fleming Pan paperbacks from 1968 (i was age 12), and in the same year saw double bill films in London.
e.g.-Dr.No / You Only Live Twice.
So the next year 1969 was the first new film OHMSS with a new Bond.
In those days the only way to see the film again, was to go to the cinema again.
No home video and it wasn't on British TV until about 1975/6.
For me it's about 42 years. Saw a triple feature re-release around 1970 or 1971 of Connery's Bond and got hooked. Then in 1971 saw Connery's return in DAF. Between these two periods, my Grandmother introduced me to the novels by buying me all th Signet Bond books at a second hand bookstore. Then in 1973 I saw Roger Moore in LALD. Have not missed a new Bond movie since 1971.
DG
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So if not 30 years then very close!
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The Craig tenure has reinforced this adoration. :007)
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The first thing I bought was James Bond's Omega Seamaster 40 anniversary
That makes 31 years now
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
LALD left a huge impression on me as a boy and it remains a favourite of mine to this day. I will always have a soft spot for it.
M: "Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors . . . the list is endless."
In July 1977 my Dad said to me "Do you want to see the new James Bond film?". The Spy Who Loved Me was my first big screen Bond film and after seeing it I was hooked. I got the Corgi Lotus Espirit that Christmas.
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Thanks for making me feel old.
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In those days, movies were first released in the major cities before they came out to the suburbs.
After Goldfinger, would travel into Chicago to see every Bond movie upon their intial release. Of course, I'd see them again when they made it out to the burbs. Even the dark days of Roger Moore could not dissuade me from being a fan.
The release of a new movie was always eagerly anticipated.
48 years later I still look forward to each Bond movie. It's not the major event it used to be, but times change.
I read the Fleming Pan paperbacks from 1968 (i was age 12), and in the same year saw double bill films in London.
e.g.-Dr.No / You Only Live Twice.
So the next year 1969 was the first new film OHMSS with a new Bond.
In those days the only way to see the film again, was to go to the cinema again.
No home video and it wasn't on British TV until about 1975/6.
Bleuville.
DG
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