Peter T Chattaway Posted October 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2013 All four Pierce Brosnan films from start to finish: Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 All seven Roger Moore films from start to finish: Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
John Drew Posted November 9, 2013 Report Share Posted November 9, 2013 From Steven Soderbergh's Reading/Viewing list 2009, an interesting write up of his favorite Bond film - On Her Majesty's Secret Service For me there’s no question that cinematically ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE is the best Bond film and the only one worth watching repeatedly for reasons other than pure entertainment (certainly it’s the only Bond film I look at and think: I’m stealing that shit). Makes me want to go back and compare OHMSS with Haywire, and see if he lifted anything. What seems obvious to me, though, is no one was helping him during the shoot or the edit (they won’t even let him finish a fucking sentence onscreen). It feels like everyone was so focused on what he wasn’t (Sean Connery) that they didn’t take the time to figure out what he was (a cool-looking dude with genuine presence and great physicality). For instance, they should have known that a lot of the one-liners that would have worked with Connery don’t work with Lazenby. The last part I think may have been my biggest problem with Skyfall. There was a definite move towards the reliance on one-liners that just wasn't suited to Daniel Craig's Bond. Quote Formerly Baal_T'shuvah "Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted December 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 All the Sean Connery films: Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted January 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Both Timothy Dalton films from start to finish: Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Arkadin Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 The lost Criterion laserdisc commentaries--later banned by EON at Albert Broccoli's request--for Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger are now online. Quote I've Seen That Movie Too Link to post Share on other sites
Anders Posted August 1, 2014 Report Share Posted August 1, 2014 In case you're interested in hearing me ramble about James Bond and Sean Connery's return to the character in the THUNDERBALL remake, NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, I joined with my friends on the Cinema Chase podcast for their latest episode: http://cinemachase.net/episode-007-never-say-never-again/ Quote "A director must live with the fact that his work will be called to judgment by someone who has never seen a film of Murnau's." - François TruffautTwitter.Letterboxd. Reviews and essays at Three Brothers Film. Link to post Share on other sites
John Drew Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Richard Kiel (aka. JAWS) has passed away.Story here. Quote Formerly Baal_T'shuvah "Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude Link to post Share on other sites
winter shaker Posted September 13, 2014 Report Share Posted September 13, 2014 Richard Kiel (aka. JAWS) has passed away.Story here. My first and fondest memory of him is his starring role in The Giant From Thunder Mountain. Quote He finds no mercy And he's lost in the crowd With an armoured heart of metal He finds he's running out of odd-numbered daisies From which to pull the petals Link to post Share on other sites
John Drew Posted February 16, 2015 Report Share Posted February 16, 2015 Louis Jordan has passed away at age 93 Quote Formerly Baal_T'shuvah "Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Posted May 23, 2017 Report Share Posted May 23, 2017 Sir Roger Moore has passed away at age 89. Quote cinemayward.com | twitter Link to post Share on other sites
Peter T Chattaway Posted May 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 Eep. The last few posts are all about people dying. Well, add to the list one more: Chris Cornell, who sang the theme song to Casino Royale (2006), passed away a few days ago. That makes him the first vocalist of an opening-credits James Bond theme song to pass away. (Yes, amazingly, none of the other opening-credits vocalists going back to 1964's Goldfinger have passed away yet -- though Matt Monro, whose vocals were heard over the *end* credits to 1963's From Russia with Love, and Louis Armstrong, who sang the love theme in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, passed away a long time ago.) Quote "Sympathy must precede belligerence. First I must understand the other, as it were, from the inside; then I can critique it from the outside. So many people skip right to the latter." -- Steven D. Greydanus Now blogging at Patheos.com. I can also still be found at Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. See also my film journal. Link to post Share on other sites
kenmorefield Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 I've been watching all the Bond films in order just cuz social isolation and I need something in the background during long stretches of grading. I see you've already called out the misogyny in Diamonds are Forever *and* the gratuitously queer villain. Okay, not much to add here. I don't remember the Moore films being even worse, but I'll keep my eyes open as i watch those. I'm not really a fan of the Connery films. Goldfinger is okay and You Only Live Twice is watchable, but these have not aged well in my opinion. Quote 1More Film Blog Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II Link to post Share on other sites
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