Shaken, Not Stirred

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One of my Encore channels is showing Bond movies all day, apparently in random order, which means:

a) I will get nothing done all day, and
b) it becomes incredibly obvious that Roger Moore is just the worst Bond ever.

Watching 'You Only Live Twice' in which Sean Connery says to the girl in bed, 'Why do Chinese girls taste different than other girls?'


Your favorite Bond, and favorite movie?

 

[Shoeless Joe]

(doing the same)

Sean Connery and From Russia with Love.

 

[The Good Doctor]

Connery. And I have a soft spot for Goldfinger. I have no idea why. It certainly isn't Honor Blackman.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Watching 'You Only Live Twice' in which Sean Connery says to the girl in bed, 'Why do Chinese girls taste different than other girls?'

They're not very filling, though. A couple hours later you're hungry again.

Connery. Thunderball, with the recent version of Casino Royale a close second.

 

[Bubbler]

Connery, From Russia With Love. Though On Her Majesties Secret Service is a close second, despite Lazenby.

My 5-year-old son, who has some sort of devilish croup, was watching Goldfinger with me in the middle of the night last night. Sniff!

 

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When you watch these movies in random order, it's so clear that Connery was the one and only Bond. They should have stopped when he did.

The Moore films are like watching 'Lassie' recast with a poodle.

 

[Bubbler]

When you watch these movies in random order, it's so clear that Connery was the one and only Bond. They should have stopped when he did.

The Moore films are like watching 'Lassie' recast with a poodle.

Unfortunately, he couldn't stop when he needed a buck. Connery made the execrable Diamonds Are Forever (which they had to wrap before it was done partly because of his salary, it's why that movie has such an abrupt end for Blofeld) and meh-ish Never Say Never Again with dollar signs dancing in his head.

Moore's one and only decent flick was The Spy Who Loved Me, but it's not better than any of the Connery movies, save Diamonds Are Forever. I watched Octopussy the other day -- the first Bond I ever saw -- and it was kind of like coming to the realization that some middle school girl you had a crush on was really an ugly freak in retrospect.

The early Moore movies are just awful, though points to Live And Let Die for its blacksploitation-lite vibe. The Man With The Golden Gun and Moonraker are the absolute nadir of the series.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Moonraker his quickly thrown together crap, and it shows. It wasn't even supposed to be the next movie when it was. The producers wanted to take advantage of the space shuttle craze and just slapped out whatever they could.

Moore, like Brosnan, was more a victim of poor scripts than his ability to play the role.

 

[DanOregon]

Best Connery: You Only Live Twice (the space ships, the karate, great opening sequence)
Best Moore: For Your Eyes Only

 

[brettwatson]

Live and Let Die. .. Not because of the actual film but because of the circumstances in which I "watched" the movie.

It came out during the summer and I had lucked into a free pass for the neighborhood drive-in movie theater. You may have to be 35 or older to know what those were, but suffice it to say the priority was not on what occurred on the outside of the car.

Let's just say I "saw" that movie every weekend all summer. Still don't really know the plot but 12 of the best Friday nights of my teenage life unfolded with that crazy tune playing over the tinny speaker attached to the window. To this day, I can't hear the Live and Let Die theme song without getting nostalgic, and even smiling a bit at the memories.

Thank you James.

 

[slappy4428]

Best Connery: You Only Live Twice (the space ships, the karate, great opening sequence)
Best Moore: For Your Eyes Only

Best Connery: Diamonds are forever
Best Moore: Octopussy
Best Dalton: None
Best Brosnan: Goldeneye

Best Connery Babe: Daniela Bianchi
Best Moore babe: Kristina Wayborn
Best Dalton Babe: Talisa Solo
Best Brosnan babe: Teri Hatcher

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Maude Adams as Octopussy.... very exciting.

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

Sean Connery is the ONLY james bond. It is "stirred, not shaken," since shaking bruises the gin, and the only weapon he uses is a Walther PPKS, the detective's version.

 

[jlee]

Live and Let Die. .. Not because of the actual film but because of the circumstances in which I "watched" the movie.

It came out during the summer and I had lucked into a free pass for the neighborhood drive-in movie theater. You may have to be 35 or older to know what those were, but suffice it to say the priority was not on what occurred on the outside of the car.

Let's just say I "saw" that movie every weekend all summer. Still don't really know the plot but 12 of the best Friday nights of my teenage life unfolded with that crazy tune playing over the tinny speaker attached to the window. To this day, I can't hear the Live and Let Die theme song without getting nostalgic, and even smiling a bit at the memories.

Thank you James.

You do mean James Bond, right?

 

[slappy4428]

Live and Let Die. .. Not because of the actual film but because of the circumstances in which I "watched" the movie.

It came out during the summer and I had lucked into a free pass for the neighborhood drive-in movie theater. You may have to be 35 or older to know what those were, but suffice it to say the priority was not on what occurred on the outside of the car.

Let's just say I "saw" that movie every weekend all summer. Still don't really know the plot but 12 of the best Friday nights of my teenage life unfolded with that crazy tune playing over the tinny speaker attached to the window. To this day, I can't hear the Live and Let Die theme song without getting nostalgic, and even smiling a bit at the memories.

Thank you James.

You do mean James Bond, right?

ZING

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Sean Connery is the ONLY james bond. It is "stirred, not shaken," since shaking bruises the gin, and the only weapon he uses is a Walther PPKS, the detective's version.

"Your man James is ordering a watered-down martini and being snooty about it."
-- President Jed Bartlet.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Oddly enough, Roger Moore never ordered a vodka martini. He drank a couple that were prepared for him, but he never placed the order himself.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

I always loved the fact that Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The original Fleming books make good beach reading

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I have a half dozen of the original paperbacks from when they first came about and a first edition You Only Live Twice hardback. The paperbacks aren't in good repair, but it's kinda nice to have.

 

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Sean Connery is the ONLY james bond. It is "stirred, not shaken," since shaking bruises the gin, and the only weapon he uses is a Walther PPKS, the detective's version.

'You Only Live Twice' is the only time Bond takes the drink stirred, not shaken. The guy says something like, 'You take it stirred, not shaken, I believe?' and Bond says, 'Of course.' Never noticed until I watched 15 Bond movies this weekend.

And you know what else? All of those Bond girls of the 60s and 70s (before anyone worked out) would be considered out of shape by today's movie standards.