You know you're a Bond fan when, .....................

Blackleiter

At least we agree on who's the best. I'll take that!

Firemass wrote:

Blackleiter wrote:

You spend hours on end on a fan site trying to drop some knowledge about why Connery is unquestionably the BEST Bond, only to have your faith in humanity dashed when he is persistently listed as the 3rd or 4th best by people who should know better! (I'm in recovery, though, and my doctor says I'm making progress! )

There's no doubt in my mind that Connery is the BEST Bond. But I still like Roger Moore better.

ZorinIndustries

You've purchased the entire collection four times..VHS, SE DVD, UE DVD, and BR :007)

Barbel

ZorinIndustries wrote:

You've purchased the entire collection four times..VHS, SE DVD, UE DVD, and BR :007)

+ Betamax

Charmed & Dangerous

Barbel wrote:

ZorinIndustries wrote:

You've purchased the entire collection four times..VHS, SE DVD, UE DVD, and BR :007)

+ Betamax

And videotaped them off the telly first time they were shown.

Thunderpussy

... And before video tape, You taped tham on an old Audio Tape recorder. )

zaphod

chrisisall wrote:

Blackleiter wrote:

Ah ha! Now who's the diplomat?! )

Just because Dalton is my favourite doesn't mean I can't be objective! :007)

I think that regarding Dalton as the best is an objective judgement :007)

ZorinIndustries

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

Barbel wrote:

ZorinIndustries wrote:

You've purchased the entire collection four times..VHS, SE DVD, UE DVD, and BR :007)

+ Betamax

And videotaped them off the telly first time they were shown.

Ahh yes, that too!

Firemass

...when you've unloaded your entire VHS collection except the 007 tapes.

chrisisall

ZorinIndustries wrote:

Charmed & Dangerous wrote:

Barbel wrote:

+ Betamax

And videotaped them off the telly first time they were shown.

Ahh yes, that too!

I didn't realize others did that too....

Higgins

Anyone else took a taperecorder into the cinema (Video did not exist...)?
Always sucked, when you had to turn the cassette after 45 minutes, I have set a timer at 0:44 for that reason.

chrisisall

Bondtoys wrote:

Anyone else took a taperecorder into the cinema (Video did not exist...)?

Yeah, did that too. I could flip the tape in 5 seconds.

Thunderpussy

Never taped a Bond in the cinema but did tape them
when they were on the telly. )
Anyone daring to speak, got a dirty look from Me.

Blackleiter

Only for those who don't know better!

zaphod wrote:

chrisisall wrote:

Blackleiter wrote:

Ah ha! Now who's the diplomat?! )

Just because Dalton is my favourite doesn't mean I can't be objective! :007)

I think that regarding Dalton as the best is an objective judgement :007)

Moore Than

Thunderpussy wrote:

Never taped a Bond in the cinema but did tape them
when they were on the telly. )
Anyone daring to speak, got a dirty look from Me.

) I can relate to that. Though in my case it was not Bond films but episodes of The Persuaders.

zaphod

Blackleiter wrote:

Only for those who don't know better!

zaphod wrote:

chrisisall wrote:

Just because Dalton is my favourite doesn't mean I can't be objective! :007)

I think that regarding Dalton as the best is an objective judgement :007)

Relax BL big Tam is still number 2

Blackleiter

Another misguided chap. Pity!

zaphod wrote:

Blackleiter wrote:

Only for those who don't know better!

zaphod wrote:

I think that regarding Dalton as the best is an objective judgement :007)

Relax BL big Tam is still number 2

Blackleiter

Uh oh! Double post!

chrisisall

I love Connery, but here's a shout out for my boy Dalton:
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/is-timothy-dalton-the-best-bond
"In Glasnost thriller The Living Daylights and rogue-spy revenger Licence To Kill, Dalton brought Fleming’s fractured, damaged psychology back to Bond.

Rugged, vital and physical, his outlook was typified by his self-appraisal to Robert Davi’s drug lord Sanchez. “I’m more of a problem eliminator,” he said.

“The movies had lost track,” Dalton said in 1987. “It’s important to make the man believable. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question...”

And the answer? Critics responded well to a Bond who kills, drinks and shags away inner turmoil, but the public simply didn’t get it, with 1989’s Licence marking a franchise box-office low point."

Blackleiter

I'd say that's a pretty good assessment.

chrisisall wrote:

I love Connery, but here's a shout out for my boy Dalton:
http://www.totalfilm.com/features/is-timothy-dalton-the-best-bond
"In Glasnost thriller The Living Daylights and rogue-spy revenger Licence To Kill, Dalton brought Fleming’s fractured, damaged psychology back to Bond.

Rugged, vital and physical, his outlook was typified by his self-appraisal to Robert Davi’s drug lord Sanchez. “I’m more of a problem eliminator,” he said.

“The movies had lost track,” Dalton said in 1987. “It’s important to make the man believable. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question...”

And the answer? Critics responded well to a Bond who kills, drinks and shags away inner turmoil, but the public simply didn’t get it, with 1989’s Licence marking a franchise box-office low point."

Napoleon Plural

Yeah, except Dalton didn't shag away his inner turmoil, he was oddly sexless, partly cos of the AIDS thing at the time, but also the actor's persona; not much flirty banter with anyone, no cheek to him. He looked like he was doing the job because he wouldn't be much of a laugh anyway doing anything else, which isn't quite the same.

chrisisall

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Yeah, except Dalton didn't shag away his inner turmoil, he was oddly sexless

I guess you missed the parts in his films where he got laid.

Higgins

oh yeah!

Another good thread turned into a Dalton- fanboy- gospel, chris -{

chrisisall

You know you're a Bond fan when you celebrate any & all actors that grace the James Bond movies!

Silhouette Man

...when you buy obscure books with even more obscure Bond links and references in them.

Bleuville

Bondtoys wrote:

Anyone else took a taperecorder into the cinema (Video did not exist...)?
Always sucked, when you had to turn the cassette after 45 minutes, I have set a timer at 0:44 for that reason.

I only did that back in 1970 watching OHMSS. Had to guess in the dark when to turn over the cassette tape.
(remember - this was pre-video tapes and the films were not on TV until 1975. )

Switching on and off between bouts of dialogue, you'd get sound jumps from one scene to another.
but it imprinted some Blofeld (Savalas) lines on the brain !

Bleuville. "..and how many hundred millions do you want for your services this time Blofeld?"

Silhouette Man

I remember taping The Living Daylights on TV in 1993 as a kid. I put it on a tape. I still have the recording to this day, including the voice of my late father telling me I was staying up too late. (!)

Blackleiter

I think Nap closed his eyes during those scenes because they made him nervous! )

chrisisall wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Yeah, except Dalton didn't shag away his inner turmoil, he was oddly sexless

I guess you missed the parts in his films where he got laid.

chrisisall

Blackleiter wrote:

I think Nap closed his eyes during those scenes because they made him nervous! )

) ) ) ) ) )

Napoleon Plural

What are you lot wittering on about? Dalton hardly ever got laid in his films.

No one really believes he copped off with that girl in the boat in the pts of TLD. Two minutes of the Welsh windbag waffling on about the history of Gibraltar and Britain's territorial rights and she'd be back to her Duran Duran albums.

Never gets his shirt off in that film

You see why in the next film, lordy, someone get him a gym membership and a sun lamp. Again, jumps into a swimming pool in his tux for final scene. No bloke ever got laid doing that, unless it was George Osborne at the Oxford ball, and his victim was an inebriated Michael Gove.

chrisisall

Clearly Bondtoys has taken control of NP's account....