Memorable Cinema Audience Reactions to the James Bond Films?
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I'm creating this thread to see if any members here have any memorable cinema audience reactions to the James Bond films from Dr. No (1962) to Spectre (2015)?
The only one that firmly sticks in my mind is the audience laughing at the jokes at the end of TWINE but then again I've only seen Bond films in the cinema since TND.
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The only one that firmly sticks in my mind is the audience laughing at the jokes at the end of TWINE but then again I've only seen Bond films in the cinema since TND.
)This is the place to share your memories! I look forward to hearing them!
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Not the "I never thought I'd have Christmas in Turkey..." line. Mouths dropped open all over the cinema
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I seem to remember the climax of The Living Daylights letting out a gasp as Bond/Necros slid out into the void
Awesome moment.
Applause at the ski jump in TSWLM.
Terrified noises from male audience members (pun not intended) at the torture scene in CR06.
Cheers when Connery says "Bond, James Bond" when he's revealed in the DAF PTS (yes, I remember this! I'm old).
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SP - A lot of laughing and people having a good time. Especially on the "C" line.
"Better make that two."
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
What I recall is a general sense of disappointment. People liked the movie but not with the gusto they thought they would. Bond was a still spectacular in those days -- Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me. For Your Eyes Only was, more or less, a let down. It wasn't a total failure. People laughed in the right parts, such as the pre-titles sequence and the gags with Thatcher and her husband. The song was a big hit. My friend's dad took us to McDonalds afterward, and it was obvious he thought it was crap, though.
There were the same general reactions for Octopussy and A View to a Kill. People were very excited at the stunts -- the little airplane in the pre-titles sequence, for instance -- but there were groans and even some laughter when Moore jumps down onto an elevator on the Eiffel Tower.
People had a similar reaction to The Living Daylights as they had For Your Eyes Only. I even saw the Dalton film again in college at the student union. The fans were a little more boisterous, but one middle-aged fellow, who apparently was English, said to us that he enjoyed the film but couldn't really accept Dalton as Bond.
The reaction to Licence to Kill was even more subdued. I recall people saying it was just a Miami Vice episode, and they didn't like the weird mixture of fantasy and violence in a Bond film.
I actually sank down in my chair during Goldeneye when Brosnan "flies" to catch up with the falling plane because people were laughing at the scene rather than being thrilled by it. The general reaction to the film was better than the others I'd seen in the theater, though.
I recall people clapping when Brosnan appears as Bond in the pre-titles sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies. In general, the audience seemed more engaged than the one I had seen Goldeneye with. I don't recall much about the audience reaction to The World is Not Enough, so it must not have been anything remarkable, but I do recall groans and ridicule at the invisible car and Bond's CGI iceboat or whatever in Die Another Day. People also were somewhat enthusiastic when Madonna showed up.
It wasn't until Casino Royale that I was in a packed theater where people seemed both happy and boisterous about a Bond film. That was good because when they'd shown a teaser trailer a few months earlier, the audience had laughed derisively when Craig was shown at the end as Bond. But they were very happy and excited leaving the theater.
Not so much so in Quantum of Solace. It was another experience where the audience seemed subdued and then let down when leaving. It was pretty obvious they thought it was inferior to the previous Bond film.
They were excited again for Skyfall, though some people, like me, let shaking our heads and talked about the illogic of the story.
I saw Spectre with my girlfriend during sneak preview night. We were in the equivalent to an IMAX theater, and there were, maybe, 10 people in it. We were the loudest of anyone and both enjoyed it.
Cheers during the gunbarrel for GoldenEye as well as DAD (the dots, not the bullet) .
Cheers and laughter in the cello chase in Daylights, as well as the Ghetto Blaster bit.
'OOOOOOHHHHH's when Vargas got it in TB (re-release circa 1974).
Hushed silence when Connery swung out under the Whyte House in DAF.
Big LOL when Mr. Big cut Bond off with "Names is for tombstones..." in LALD.
Gigantic LOL when Bond kicked that guy in the face at Hi Fat's in TMWTGG.
Audible laughs when Bond kicked Locque's car in FYEO.
Audible laughs when Bond mentioned M's 'tricky day' in SP.
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"Audible laughs when Bond kicked Locque's car in FYEO."
Pretty sadistic audience at that screening?
" I don't listen to hip hop!"
Wolf whistles and hoots of laughter as Wint and Kidd hold hands after a kill in DAF.
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After the MGM logo we finally see a Daniel Craig gunbarrel opening! I applauded! Hard!
But stopped quickly after nobody else did.
(In all fairness, it was a matinee theater on a Sunday night in January....)
I remember when seeing TWINE and DAD, people applauded when the gunbarrel came on. And people didn't in Spectre because they probably didn't know what it was anymore. The lack of audience reaction then made me sad.
Pre premiere night, Imax in Holland, a room filled to the Bone with Bond fans!
Once the gunbarrel came, there was a amazing applause and cheering! - I had goosebumps everywhere! What an expierence! I think I can never look at that gunbarrel again without that memory!
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LOL…..same here.
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Goes to show that an audience truly makes a difference. On my second and third viewing, there was no aplause either
The casuals are completely unaware of the significance!
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There was much piss taking of Thatch in those days - and it provided everyone with a big giggle when they left the cinema...
Takes me back to being at an Elton John concert many years ago- when he did "Bennie & The Jets" my friend and I were the only ones to leap to our feet, punch our hands in the air and yell "Bennie!" at the audience participation bit. No-one else in our section did.... ;%
That moment when the volcano set is first revealed in YOLT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaorqo6krg if it's seen as it was meant to be seen, on a big screen with a large audience, never failed to impress. We as Bond fans have spent years watching it on our home screens and have grown somewhat used to it but back in the day it was "the money shot", the drop dead moment, whatever you want to call it, and CGI however well-done can't compare.
The tanker set in TSWLM of course had a similar effect. RIP, Sir Ken.
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High pitched without doubt
As it happens, South Africa has been experiencing an energy crisis in the last few years and for much of 2015 we were subjected to 'load shedding' - rolling blackouts in order to reduce the load on the national grid. And this meant that if you went to the cinema to see a film there was always a fairly good chance that the power would be cut off mid film, and that would be the end of your movie watching experience for the night. So the 'see the light' remark also carried some added irony for South African viewers. Luckily, by November load-shedding had been indefinitely suspended and screenings of SPECTRE were not prematurely cut-off by the electricity company.