Bond Films you never got to see on The Big Screen but wished you had..

chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
in The James Bond Films
I was very fortunate to have seen most of them In revivals (the 60's Bonds) and first run, but there are a few I missed:
OHMSS- only home video for that one. Too bad, Piz Gloria would have been breath taking.
TWINE- Son born then, no time for movies!
Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    For the shear scale I'd have loved to have seen TB and YOLT. -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    For the shear scale I'd have loved to have seen TB and YOLT. -{
    Oh yeah, they looked amazing, especially YOLT as you might imagine. TB had a very grand under-water feel to it... no wonder they left all those shots in.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    I've seen all of them on the big screen. Ahhhh....the advantages of old age! :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,868Chief of Staff
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I've seen all of them on the big screen. Ahhhh....the advantages of old age! :))

    +1. Not quite since they started (I'm not THAT old!) but I caught the early films on double bills in the 60s.
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I've seen all of them on the big screen. Ahhhh....the advantages of old age! :))

    +1. Not quite since they started (I'm not THAT old!) but I caught the early films on double bills in the 60s.

    Well, actually I saw Dr. No and From Russia With Love on a double-bill re-release, so I'm not quite that old! (Still old, though! :)))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I've seen all of them on the big screen. Ahhhh....the advantages of old age! :))

    +1. Not quite since they started (I'm not THAT old!) but I caught the early films on double bills in the 60s.

    Well, actually I saw Dr. No and From Russia With Love on a double-bill re-release, so I'm not quite that old! (Still old, though! :)))
    I wasn't ALLOWED to see Bond movies until after I was 10, so don't go thinking you guys are any older than me!
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,868Chief of Staff
    Blackleiter wrote:

    Well, actually I saw Dr. No and From Russia With Love on a double-bill re-release, so I'm not quite that old! (Still old, though! :)))

    Yeah, me too! {[] Those were the days....
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,868Chief of Staff
    chrisisall wrote:
    I wasn't ALLOWED to see Bond movies until after I was 10, so don't go thinking you guys are any older than me!

    Oh, I think we are, Chris!!!!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    I wasn't ALLOWED to see Bond movies until after I was 10, so don't go thinking you guys are any older than me!

    Oh, I think we are, Chris!!!!
    Raise your hand if you're as old as Brosnan.
    Mine's down.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,868Chief of Staff
    Mine too!
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    In the immortal words of Maxwell Smart, "Missed it by that much!" If Brosnan had been born a year later, yours truly's hand would be raised high! :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Hell I'm a kid next to Brosnan. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    In the immortal words of Maxwell Smart, "Missed it by that much!" If Brosnan had been born a year later, yours truly's hand would be raised high! :))
    Okay, so maybe you're a little older than me... that just means you 'got' Mission Impossible's first two seasons where I was more into Batman & Star Trek. 8-)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Hell I'm a kid next to Brosnan. :))
    TP, you're a kid next to Justin Bieber. :)) :D B-) ;)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • StawazStawaz CanadaPosts: 101MI6 Agent
    I got a chance to see OHMSS at Tiff, as well as GF, but I really wanted to see Tomorrow Never Dies and Living Daylights at the cinema.
  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,320MI6 Agent
    All the Connery ones (bar DAF) and OHMSS
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  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia, PAPosts: 754MI6 Agent
    Thunderball & Moonraker. Love the absolute spectacle. Also Goldeneye. It was my first Bond film, but I didn't get to see it til it came out on VHS.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    MooseWithFleas wrote:
    Also Goldeneye. It was my first Bond film, but I didn't get to see it til it came out on VHS.
    GE & TND absolutely rocked my world in cinema!
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia, PAPosts: 754MI6 Agent
    TND was my first cinema Bond. I was 10 and it absolutely rocked my world.
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    In the immortal words of Maxwell Smart, "Missed it by that much!" If Brosnan had been born a year later, yours truly's hand would be raised high! :))
    Okay, so maybe you're a little older than me... that just means you 'got' Mission Impossible's first two seasons where I was more into Batman & Star Trek. 8-)

    Fair enough. :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    MooseWithFleas wrote:
    TND was my first cinema Bond. I was 10 and it absolutely rocked my world.
    I was 37 and felt the same way! -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • SherbrookSherbrook Melbourne AustraliaPosts: 137MI6 Agent
    Dr No on its opening night
    I must be dreaming
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote :
    TP, you're a kid next to Justin Bieber.

    :)) Thanks for that chrisisall, I'm going to dig out my old Baseball cap and start
    wearing my jeans half way down my ass. :D ( such a treat for the Ladies :)) )

    At lest I was never a Kid next to Jimmy Saville. :#
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • PeppermillPeppermill DelftPosts: 2,860MI6 Agent
    The first Bond movie I saw in cinema was GoldenEye. I was 12 at the time and I think this is around the right age to see your first Bond movie in cinema. I had seen all the other Bond movies on TV/tape before 1995. Unfortunately the older Bond movies have never been reissued in cinemas where I live so I never got the chance to see them on the silver screen. So, in short, I would love to see them all again on the big screen (even the ones I have seen in the cinema). However, I think Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me are movies where the cinema experience really adds a lot to the spectacle.
    1. Ohmss 2. Frwl 3. Op 4. Tswlm 5. Tld 6. Ge 7. Yolt 8. Lald 9. Cr 10. Ltk 11. Dn 12. Gf 13. Qos 14. Mr 15. Tmwtgg 16. Fyeo 17. Twine 18. Sf 19. Tb 20 Tnd 21. Spectre 22 Daf 23. Avtak 24. Dad
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Sherbrook wrote:
    Dr No on its opening night
    In '62?
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    It's crazy to me that Live and Let Die wasn't rereleased in 1978 or 1980 to capitalise on Moore's newfound success as Bond, a whole generation would have seen it and it would have raked in around the same amount as the new Bond films I reckon! :s Golden Gun too perhaps but I could have done without that.

    They had a resissue of many films in 1980 at just one London cinema, the Pavilion I think, and I did get to see Dr No but my parents wouldn't take me to the others, a missed opportunity when video and DVD didn't exist. :(
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Peppermill wrote:
    However, I think Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me are movies where the cinema experience really adds a lot to the spectacle.

    That's absolutely right! I'll never forget the thrill of seeing those movies on the big screen in all their glory. -{
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • Ens007Ens007 EnglandPosts: 863MI6 Agent
    First Bond I saw on the big screen was Moonraker. Would dearly have liked to have seen TB or FRWL at the cinema.
  • Bond lifeBond life Posts: 57MI6 Agent
    Gold finger and the spy who loved me
  • raptors_887raptors_887 CanadaPosts: 215MI6 Agent
    Definetly Casino Royale. I watched the god awful Die Another Day on the big screen and I just assumed CR would be of the same quality so I skipped it. I ended up watching it for the 1st time about 6 months ago and it blew me away. Just an incredible movie.
    1: Casino Royale 2: Goldeneye 3: Skyfall 4: Octopussy 5: Goldfinger 6: Tomorrow Never Dies 7: The World Is Not Enough 8: The Living Daylights 9: From Russia With Love 10: The Spy Who Loved Me
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