In the cinema at the tender age of about 4, slept through most of it I'm sure but always remembered the car chase and some of the skiing. wasn't untill years later when I saw it on TV did I finally place it. OHMSS. -{
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Not an easy question to answer. . .as a kid in the early '70s, I remember my family watching Bond movies that would appear on TV, and I caught bits of them. I remember seeing portions of Goldfinger, TMWTGG, and especially the crematorium scene in DAF--and I associate that with my Dad saying, "How's he going to get out of this one?" But I guess the first Bond I saw all the way through was The Spy Who Loved Me on HBO back in 1978. Man, I'm old. . .
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Would have been American TV---ABC used to run Bonds as Movies of the Week on Sunday nights :007)
The first one I ever saw on the big screen was DAF, at the age of nine...walked the four blocks up to the local movie palace, which at the time was a single screen old-time venue that dated back to the vaudeville era. Now it's got four screens, but I still go---just saw Green Lantern there a week ago:
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The fiirst Bond film I saw was when "GoldenEye" premiered on ITV back in 1999. Later that year, I went to see my first Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" up at the pictures. Great times!
The first Bond I pestered my Big Bro to take me to was LALD. After seeing the milk ad with the boat chase and a tv Cinema show with a clip of Bond trapped on the island surrounder by Crocs, I'd of been about 9 then.
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Heh, for me it was Live and Let Die on the tv. - I was a kid no more than 7 or 8, and the Voodoo aspects scared the crap out of me! Even now I shudder slightly remembering Geoffrey Holders demonic final turn on the front of the train as the closing credits started up!
My second memory is somewhat irronic. My Grandad introduced me to the world of 007, but I remember my Mum introducing me to Sir Sean's bond when FRWL was on the box - unimpressed with this guy trying to be like Roger Moore, I was totally appalled when he fired the flare gun maiming and killing the speedboat goons in that huge fireball. Ah, how ones perspectives change!
- I also remember seeing Moonraker, with my Grandad one evening while on a family holiday in Wales. Outlandish? Yes. Over the top? Yes. Wonderfully entertaining? Damned yes!!
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Goldfinger, then TB in quick-ish succession on b+w tv around 1975 if I recall but it might have been later, I think they only got their premiere in 1976 actually. Seeing TSWLM in 1977 was the first big screen thing, but it wasn't quite the same really and seemed a different universe to Sean's Bond, not having seen YOLT on telly yet.
Oddly, I don't recall Dr No or FRWL really being shown at all in the 1970s, so I first saw No at the London Palladium when I was 10 in 1980, and FRWL got a TV showing a year later. No idea why they weren't much shown.
OHMSS at a Drive In (remember those?) when I was about 10, so it had to be 1972-73.
Other film was "High Velocity" with Ben Gazzara, I believe.
I was hooked. The music, the Aston Martin DBS, and Tracy! The Avengers was playing on American TV at the time, and in the San Francisco area we always had Monty Python, the Prisoner, etc.
I remember the horror of the 1976 OHMSS broadcast, and the joy of a local cinema at Stanford in Palo Alto doing a Christmas Eve 3 Bond marathon. My sister and I sat through Dr No-GF, and came back for New Years for TB-DAF (4 films)
I went on to become a huge fan, and if you care to look at my posting under "memorabilia and collecting" you can see that I have restored a 1969 DBS to OHMSS specs.
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I was about 8 years old when i seen my first bond movie, growing up we only had 2 channels Channel 2 was PBS and the other channel was 8 and that was ABC and my first bond was From Russia with Love
My first Bond image was waking up late one night and my parents were flipping channels. They happened to land on Wet Nellie.
The first film I saw was when I rented my first video: Live and Let Die at age three. I've never been the same.
The first T.V. airing of Goldfinger in 72 , my Mom LOVED Sean Connery. I was only 5 and I remember the ejector seat. Watching the first airing of Live and Let Die was what really got me hooked though. Between all the Voodoo stuff & Mr Big, Tee Hee with the hook arm, Bond Jumping over Crocodiles, loved it. I was about 8 or 9 then. Live and Let Die is still my favorite Bond film ( Not best mind you, just favorite ) The first Bond I saw in the theater was either TSWLM or Moonraker ( I know I saw Moonraker in the theater, not sure about Spy, I think I did but I can't be sure ) I have seen every Bond film in the theater since then and will see every Bond Film until I can't or they don't make them any longer.
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Maybe back in late 70's or early 80's i used to watch them all when they used to come on tv.
TV, i remember it was when we first got HBO in the late 70's or early 80's but it was definitely before FYEO because the first movie I ever saw was Moonraker
I don't remember the actual movie, but it was a Roger Moore flick. This was back in the early to mid 90's when TBS used to have all the Bond marathons (15 days of 007, 007 days of Christmas, 007 days of 007, etc.) For about 10 years, that was my favorite channel! They usually played 2 Bond movies back to back each night. I remember making sure I was home and able to watch all of them. I saw all the movies up through License to Kill. Then, the first Bond movie I ever rented was Goldeneye. The first Bond movie I saw in theaters was Tomorrow Never Dies. Does anyone else remember all the Bond marathons TBS used to have?
Neither theater or tv but reel to reel. (remember those?) My dad was stationed in Tel Aviv at the time. The old military dependant neighborhood used to have these movie showings every friday. They'd set up this 16 mm in an old basketball court. We'd bring lawn chairs and snacks. One night they played DAF and it had a mesmerizing affect. Connery riding the elevator was sooo badass for a young boy. I remember being creeped out by Wint and Kidd and having strange hormonal feelings for a certain purple bikini. Good God, I fell hard for her. :x
I'm pretty sure it was LALD on tv, and I think I would have been about six or seven at the time. I made a watch like Bond's with a leather strap and a flower shaped fridge magnet. It worked, but looked pretty sh*t...
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I may have slept through a drive-in screening of GOLDFINGER when I was very little in 1964, but I don't remember for certain if it really happened. Nobody remembers anything at that age. At that age I always slept in the back seat when my parents went to the drive-in. I almost made it to OHMSS because my aunt raved about how good it was and assured my mother it wouldn't do me any harm. But I didn't get to see that screened until 1973. My first James Bond movie was the double-feature re-release YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE / THUNDERBALL in the summer of 1970 at the Smith-Haven Mall in Smithtown, Long Island. Followed by DR NO / GOLDFINGER later that summer. It was one of the first "twin" cinemas, but HUGE screens. There was a bookstore across the hall from the theater. I could go browse Bond novels there before and after the movie. I went back to see each double-feature a number times. Spent the entire day and evening there. I posted about this elsewhere on this forum.
You have to experience the early Bond films on a big screen. Television kills them. I can't relate to seeing Bond films for the first time on TV.
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After that I slowly saw all the other films on rental video. I can also still remember which movie I first ever rented. Octopussy.
The first one I ever saw on the big screen was DAF, at the age of nine...walked the four blocks up to the local movie palace, which at the time was a single screen old-time venue that dated back to the vaudeville era. Now it's got four screens, but I still go---just saw Green Lantern there a week ago:
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My second memory is somewhat irronic. My Grandad introduced me to the world of 007, but I remember my Mum introducing me to Sir Sean's bond when FRWL was on the box - unimpressed with this guy trying to be like Roger Moore, I was totally appalled when he fired the flare gun maiming and killing the speedboat goons in that huge fireball. Ah, how ones perspectives change!
- I also remember seeing Moonraker, with my Grandad one evening while on a family holiday in Wales. Outlandish? Yes. Over the top? Yes. Wonderfully entertaining? Damned yes!!
Oddly, I don't recall Dr No or FRWL really being shown at all in the 1970s, so I first saw No at the London Palladium when I was 10 in 1980, and FRWL got a TV showing a year later. No idea why they weren't much shown.
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1973, you mean?
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1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
Other film was "High Velocity" with Ben Gazzara, I believe.
I was hooked. The music, the Aston Martin DBS, and Tracy! The Avengers was playing on American TV at the time, and in the San Francisco area we always had Monty Python, the Prisoner, etc.
I remember the horror of the 1976 OHMSS broadcast, and the joy of a local cinema at Stanford in Palo Alto doing a Christmas Eve 3 Bond marathon. My sister and I sat through Dr No-GF, and came back for New Years for TB-DAF (4 films)
I went on to become a huge fan, and if you care to look at my posting under "memorabilia and collecting" you can see that I have restored a 1969 DBS to OHMSS specs.
Cheers, Tom
The first film I saw was when I rented my first video: Live and Let Die at age three. I've never been the same.
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You have to experience the early Bond films on a big screen. Television kills them. I can't relate to seeing Bond films for the first time on TV.
Richard