With 24 films in the series, there's a lot to discuss! We'll go over our personal favorite films. These are heavily colored by nostalgia, of course. There's a fondness for Live and Let Die, as it was one of the first Bond films all of us saw. And Goldfinger is a strong contender.
There are now six actors that played Bond in the series, and each bring their own qualities to the screen. Do you like Connery's toughness? or Moore's more light-hearted approach? Did Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby get enough time in the role? Daniel Craig has been playing Bond for 14 years now - who should replace him?
We can't talk about Bond films without talking about the music of the films. Besides the Bond theme, there have been so many songs connected to the films. You have the classic Shirley Bassey vehicles like "Goldfinger," "Diamonds are Forever," and "Moonraker," and then the pop and rock songs like "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney, "For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton, and "Nobody Does it Better" by Carly Simon. Some have succeeded and some have fallen short of the mark.
As usual, we'll ramble around a bit but it's sort of like a turducken - there's a whole bunch of things stuffed in here, but they're all good!
For the Sensor Sweep, Commander Larry shares an anniversary gift he got for his wife, Lieutenant Jasmine -hmm, sure he got it for her! Feast your eyes on Sideshow Collectibles "The Child" life-size figure. At 16.5" tall, you'll want to give it a cuddle!
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I was wondering when you guys would get to 007 - it seems like an unavoidable topic for any self-respecting pop culture podcast.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I have to say that I'm more in Karen's camp on this one: I'm not much of a Bond fan, at least not any more. I liked the character and the films a lot more before, from my pre-teen years into my early twenties. I even started reading Fleming's novels in high school, but only managed to get through the first three (sorry, Bob, but I found his prose really hard to read and never went back.)
Essentially, though, I agree with some of the points you guys made. I think Connery set the standard, although Dalton (as Bob noted) probably came closest to capturing the Bond from the novels. Personally, though, my favorite Bond film by far is On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I think it's basically the platonic ideal of a Cold War epsionage/action film.
And speaking of the Cold War, I've said it before elsewhere, but I think the Bond films should have stopped when the Cold War did. In fact, I've never watched any Bond film after Living Daylights.
-Edo Bosnar
By the way, on the subject of Bond comics, yeah, Dynamite did a few mini-series in the past few years, but otherwise, there are tons of them and they go way back.
ReplyDeleteThere was a regular newspaper strip in the UK, which ran from the late 1950s and into the 1980s, and adapted the stories from Fleming’s individual novels. I think most of those were collected into tpbs by Titan Books.
Marvel did a movie adaptation of For Your Eyes Only in 1981. Later in the 1980s, Eclipse published a Bond mini-series (Permission to Die) that was written and drawn by Mike Grell. In the 1990s, Dark Horse produced about four or five Bond mini-series, one of which was written by Don McGregor, and one that was written by Doug Moench and drawn by Paul Gulacy (I’m mentioning the creator names mainly because I know Karen will be quite familiar with them).
I think there’s more besides that. I should note that I haven’t read any of them, I just became aware of these a few years ago when a guy on a comics forum I frequent did a review thread about 007 comics.
-Edo Bosnar
Here is a link to the actress I spoke about, who dubbed many of the female voices in the Bind films. The list will amaze you
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