by 007hertzrumble | Aug 12, 2013 | Misc.
Oh it’s that time again. It’s time to deny the existence of Bond’s dead wife. It’s time to dump ooze on Blofeld and call it “revenge.” It’s time to visit Circus Circus, you know, for fun. It’s time to use a 2-hour movie to set up a five-second joke about Jill St. John’s bum. It’s time for Bambi. It’s time for Thumper. It’s time for DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER Live Tweet. The first Diamonds Are Forever live tweet was a goddamn riot. I’m telling you now. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS. LIVE. TWEET. You’ve been warned. Join us Wednesday at 9pm EDT. Follow #DAF hashtag. And may Fleming have mercy on your followers.
Diamonds Are Forever 007 – Trailer 1971 by mariotoledo
by 007hertzrumble | Aug 9, 2013 | Live Tweet Digests, Wraparound
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Live Tweet revealed that #OHMSS was a favorite or Top 5 of many #Bond_age_ fans. Many regulars were out on vacation for this live tweet. Even I was tweeting remotely from the Delaware beach with an ocean breeze blowing through the rental. It wasn’t exactly the ideal environment for a snowbound Bond, but OHMSS can charm anyone in any climate. We gave it the #Bond_age_ it deserved.
…but wait…. who’s this fellow?…
by 007hertzrumble | Aug 7, 2013 | My Favorite #Bond_age_
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: This Never Happened To The Other Fellow
by Kerry Fristoe (@echidnabot)
So here’s the thing, I love Sean. Sean is Bond. I didn’t grow up in the 80’s or 90’s with Dalton, Brosnan, Craig, and Dench. Moore is a poor man’s excuse for Bond. All ruffled tuxedo and demeanor. Moore is to Connery what New Coke is to Coke; sweeter and more generic. He’s the supermarket Kola you find when you’re looking for the real thing. Naturally I thought I’d write about Sean for this favorite Bond series. I thought about Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, and Dr. No immediately. Then I realized something. I didn’t own a single Bond film. Why was that? I thought about it and realized that for me, the entire series lacked depth. Bond played baccarat, cracked wise with arch-villains, bedded a bevy of beauties, and foiled the world domination plots of many while maintaining his poise and retaining his boutonniere. He never lost his cool because he wasn’t a real guy. Let’s face it – it’s hard to get excited about a cardboard cutout, even a really attractive one. Without depth and some vulnerability, all the ski chases and 11th hour bomb defusing came to naught. Bond seemed less superhuman and more subhuman. Then it hit me. Lazenby. The odd man out. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The answer to many a Bond trivia question. Lazenby fit the bill. George Lazenby was tall, dashing, an Australian male model with a smartass demeanor. This made him made him the perfect…er, replacement… for Connery back in 1969 and his film, the perfect vehicle. In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service we see Bond fight, ski, seduce, crack wise and even fall in love all set to a gorgeous John Barry score. (more…)
by 007hertzrumble | Aug 6, 2013 | #Bond_age_ Project, OHMSS
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service represents the sixth essay in a 23-part series about the James Bond cinemas. I encourage everyone to comment and join in on an extended conversation about not only the films themselves, but cinematic trends, political and other external influences on the series’ tone and direction.
Of [In]human #Bond_age_ #6: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Pleads the 4th
by James David Patrick
I originally embarked on this voyage to watch and discuss all 23 James Bond movies because I wanted to look more closely at the temporality of the Bond adventures. A theme inspired by a moment in Skyfall when Daniel Craig retrieves the Aston Martin DB5 from storage, a car with which his Bond has had no prior relationship. Having had six different actors play the role with eleven different directors behind the camera, how did the series adjust from one actor to the next? Natural shifts in style and substance brought upon by external market influences and cinematic trends? How did filmmaking decisions attempt to explain the continuity from film to film? Or, conversely, did the filmmakers try to explain it at all?
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by 007hertzrumble | Aug 5, 2013 | My Favorite #Bond_age_
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: All the Time in the World
by Patrick Goff (@p2wy)
I saw my first Bond films in the early 1980s. My first was Octopussy, watched on ABC (edited for television) with my family. Then I saw A View to a Kill in the theater as a 13 year old. I didn’t realize at the time that these were James Bond at his most elderly, and that the series had reached it’s apex of silly. Regardless, I was enchanted by the exotic locations, the woman, the fast cars. I had a thirst for more. At the time, we didn’t have a VCR so my only recourse was to visit my local library and check out Ian Fleming’s novels. This written Bond was something completely different, a more shadowy character with real flaws and a streak of darkness…. something that was completely absent from the later Roger Moore portrayals.
Over the years, the Fleming character stayed with me as I eventually came to watch most of the series. You would see small snippets of the Fleming Bond in Dr. No or Goldfinger…a taste of him here or there, but it was still the “movie” Bond…. as was the case in just about every Bond film I’d seen. (more…)
