by 007hertzrumble | Aug 14, 2013 | My Favorite #Bond_age_
Diamonds Are Forever: “Welcome to hell…” or Is It Just Las Vegas?
by Tom Wilcox
Diamonds Are Forever is by no means the best James Bond film, but it is certainly an idiosyncratic one. Blofeld clones? A moon buggy chase? Gay hitmen? Blofeld in drag? Country singer/future sausage king Jimmy Dean as a reclusive billionaire? Fitness-obsessed lesbians giving Bond an ass-kicking? You can only say you saw these in one movie. Diamonds Are Forever is nothing if not memorably off-the-wall.
When reviewing the strange case of Diamonds Are Forever, it’s important to consider a little historical context. 1971 was not exactly overflowing with movies you’d call “fun”. More like overflowing with “portraits of existential despair.” Bond shared the box office with films like The Last Picture Show and The French Connection. These are excellent films, but bleak, and lacking in that all important movie element – lasers. The return of Sean Connery and the promise of some honest-to-god entertainment (and lasers!) was enough for audiences to make the movie the third-highest grosser of 1971. (more…)
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 2, 2013 | Live Tweet Digests, Wraparound
Things got pretty crazy at my house before the live tweet when my toddler toddled into the floorboard and busted open her eyebrow. Only a couple of saved tweets and I had to disappear for a spell during the You Only Live Twice presentation, but goddamn, SLOUCHY BOND still won the day.
