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.
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.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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."
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."
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.
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?"
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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. (!)
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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.
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1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
+ Betamax
And videotaped them off the telly first time they were shown.
I think that regarding Dalton as the best is an objective judgement :007)
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Always sucked, when you had to turn the cassette after 45 minutes, I have set a timer at 0:44 for that reason.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
when they were on the telly.
Anyone daring to speak, got a dirty look from Me.
Relax BL big Tam is still number 2
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."
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Roger Moore 1927-2017
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
Another good thread turned into a Dalton- fanboy- gospel, chris -{
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
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?"
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
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.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS