Your Bond eras...

chrisisall

This is how I see it:

The Adventurous Bond- ('62-'69)
DN through OHMSS. What a ride, uneven but amazing. Ahh, the sixties.

The Satirical Bond- ('71-'85)
DAF through AVTAK. Let the jokes begin! And seemingly never end. A few attempts at seriousness here and there, but mainly mindless entertainment.

The Brief Literary Bond- ('87-'89)
TLD & LTK. Dalton's light burned twice as bright and lasted less than half as long. The public wanted giggles, too.

*INTERMISSION*

The Refit Bond- ('95-'02)
GE through DAD. Brand new for the post cold war era, sassy, often brutal, very funny, and of course, PC. The kitchen sink mentality overtook.

The Reboot Bond- ('06-'12)
CR through SF. Brand new for the post 9-11 era, serious, very brutal, brow-crunched, and brooding. Not your father's double-O.

How do YOU divide them up?

Dutchfinger

I'd say I devide the era's up pretty much in the same way. Except that I feel like OHMSS was a stand alone era. Most likely because of George Lazenby and also because DAF sometimes seems like a sequel to YOLT and ignore's the excistence of OHMSS... Though I admitt DAF is campy and more like a Roger Moore movie, I would still see this as the end of an era rather than the beginning of a new one. So I guess I simply devide the era's up with each Bond. LALD, TLD, GE and CS all feel like fresh new starters of a new era to me.

Firemass

The Satirical Bond- ('71-'85)
DAF through AVTAK. Let the jokes begin! And seemingly never end. A few attempts at seriousness here and there, but mainly mindless entertainment.

You paint far too broad of a brush stroke with this one.

DAF LALD TMWTGG = Guy Hamilton low budget campy era
TSWLM MOONRAKER = Lewis Gilbert Big budget blockbusters.
FYEO OP AVTAK = John Glen Getting back to Fleming approach. Serious with a few attempts at humor here and there.

chrisisall

One might also divide them up as:
The Cubby/Saltzman years (DN - TMWTGG)
The Cubby years (TSWLM - LTK)
Other (GE - SF)

chrisisall

Firemass wrote:

DAF LALD TMWTGG = Guy Hamilton low budget campy era
TSWLM MOONRAKER = Lewis Gilbert Big budget blockbusters.
FYEO OP AVTAK = John Glen Getting back to Fleming approach.

A totally excellent subdivision of my second era!

bailorg

chrisisall wrote:

This is how I see it:

The Adventurous Bond- ('62-'69)
DN through OHMSS. What a ride, uneven but amazing. Ahh, the sixties.

The Satirical Bond- ('71-'85)
DAF through AVTAK. Let the jokes begin! And seemingly never end. A few attempts at seriousness here and there, but mainly mindless entertainment.

The Brief Literary Bond- ('87-'89)
TLD & LTK. Dalton's light burned twice as bright and lasted less than half as long. The public wanted giggles, too.

*INTERMISSION*

The Refit Bond- ('95-'02)
GE through DAD. Brand new for the post cold war era, sassy, often brutal, very funny, and of course, PC. The kitchen sink mentality overtook.

The Reboot Bond- ('06-'12)
CR through SF. Brand new for the post 9-11 era, serious, very brutal, brow-crunched, and brooding. Not your father's double-O.

How do YOU divide them up?

I'd separate out DN and FRWL as an original Flemingist era. Then I'd probably lump in the rest of the Connery Bonds with the Moore Bonds as one "Cinematic Bond era" with OHMSS and FYEO as possible exceptions.

chrisisall

bailorg wrote:

I'd separate out DN and FRWL as an original Flemingist era.

Another worthy idea!
But as good as OHMSS & FYEO were, I feel they were heavily saturated with the 'cinematic' Bond 'feel'. IMO, of course.

Mr_Osato

I agree with the opening post.

The golden years would be 1962-1969, including YOLT.

The dark years would be 1971 - 1985, and including FYEO only.

The back to basic years are 1987-1989

The entertainment years were 1995 - 2002

The reboot years were 2006 -2012.

The reboot is over now, it will be interesting to see where Bond 24 takes us to. I assume back to the Brosnan area, but than with better writing, GE level.

chrisisall

Mr_Osato wrote:

The reboot is over now, it will be interesting to see where Bond 24 takes us to. I assume back to the Brosnan area, but than with better writing, GE level.

That's what I'd assume. Or HOPE for, anyway. :007)

Rod Slater

chrisisall wrote:

This is how I see it:

The Adventurous Bond- ('62-'69)
DN through OHMSS. What a ride, uneven but amazing. Ahh, the sixties.

The Satirical Bond- ('71-'85)
DAF through AVTAK. Let the jokes begin! And seemingly never end. A few attempts at seriousness here and there, but mainly mindless entertainment.

The Brief Literary Bond- ('87-'89)
TLD & LTK. Dalton's light burned twice as bright and lasted less than half as long. The public wanted giggles, too.

*INTERMISSION*

The Refit Bond- ('95-'02)
GE through DAD. Brand new for the post cold war era, sassy, often brutal, very funny, and of course, PC. The kitchen sink mentality overtook.

The Reboot Bond- ('06-'12)
CR through SF. Brand new for the post 9-11 era, serious, very brutal, brow-crunched, and brooding. Not your father's double-O.

How do YOU divide them up?

After reading all the other posts I too think that there is a difference between the first two Connery films and the Cinematic Bond that started with Goldfinger. But OHMSS doesn't quite fit in there for me. At the same time I do like Firemass' subdivision.. but after bouncing back and forth I think your original breakdown is probably best. You can argue over this movie or that but overall I think you've nailed it.

Blackleiter

bailorg wrote:

Then I'd probably lump in the rest of the Connery Bonds with the Moore Bonds

How dare you, sir! )