When did Bond films stop being family oriented? (Page 1 of 2)

Yeah I think Spectre you could watch with kids from nine or so up. The most scary bit is probably Mr White blowing his top.

Young kids, sure, but it's not a lot worse than the Goldfinger laser table. It's fairly clean torture, not like the CR scene.

I watched Goldfinger laser table when I was nine and it never bothered me.
I watch Spectre now in my 20s and the drilling scene disturbs me.
My mind went to Goldeneye. There was some violence in early connery sure, but by the time you reach Brosnan you have the Onnatopp scenes which were definitely not designed for anyone who hadn't been through puberty.

Exactly!

While the movies have not been as brutal and sexist as the novels, the movies where directed to a more adult audience right from the beginning.
They became more compatible with the younger folks during the Moore age a decade later, but imo the question is missing the point.

When did Bond films start being family oriented?

When Dr No came out it set new standards for sex and violence in the cinema.
It was not a family film. There were plenty of other films for families like Mary Poppins, but Dr No was escapist wish fulfillment for grownups.

A decade later when Moore took over, the films were something parents took their kids to, an old fashioned nostalgic romp. If you wanted cinematic violence, there were films like Deliverance or Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Arguably Dr No opened the door for this type of graphic disturbing film, but somewhere over the last decade James Bond style violence got left behind and was now seen as  kid-friendly and harmless.
And if you wanted graphic sex in the cinema, there was anew generation of more explicit films for grownups, in "specialised" theatres and even for a while in trendy mainstream theatres.

Definitely Licence to Kill was a change in tone, back to images of violence only a grownup should see. It may still be the most disturbing film in the series in terms of atrocities to the human body.

Somebody above suggests Die Another Die as a return to Moore-era family friendly fare. Maybe the violence is more cartoonish, but Halle Berry fakes an orgasm, and Brosnan grunts and rolls his eyes then relaxes. This is the first naturalistic depiction of sex we've actually seen in 20 films. Coitus in Bond films had previously been represented as two adults lounging round in a strategically placed bedsheet drinking champagne and making nudge-nudge-wink-wink puns.

but sure it depends what you want your kids to see. If i had kids I'd want them to enjoy at least a decade of innocence before exposing them to nightmare inducing imagery.

Mr Whites suicide in SPECTRE shocked me!

There is of course the question of what a "kid" is. I'm not saying one should wait until you're 16 or 18. I'm just saying the Bond movies shouldn't be made to fit a very young audience. Bond is about a hard-drinking, womanizing assassin.

TV never showed Bond movies (socialist hell, I know) and I didn't start renting VCRs until I was about 16, sovery late I guess.

The early Bonds were considered
Adult  movies, with several countries
Censoring  parts. Such as the train
Fight in FRWL, but from GF on they
seemed  to become  less violent.
Even DAF seemed to have set the
Template  for the Moore Bonds, becoming
A family night out movie.
I agree that with CR they made Bond
Dangerous  again ( after trying with
LTK ) although  with Skyfall and Spectre
They seem to be moving back  to a family
Audience,  as more bums on seats  means bigger profits.
I too remember LALD in 73, so you're
Not alone sirso 

Interesting the interpretations we all have. Imho the films are sillier than the books which inspired them. I read the Fleming novels at school and have picked them up again over the years, and always thoroughly enjoy them. 

I guess it's how you look at it. I think you could say that Roger's films -which put their tongue very much in their cheek and let you know they think it's very silly- are more grown-up about it than the books which treat all of this nonsense about giant squids and men with metal hands terribly earnestly and seriously

I guess when it starts to get into the stairwell fight and how terrified that makes Vesper, it starts to get a bit more viceral and potentially scary for a kid to watch.

I could (and can) only get NRK due to all the mountains around here.