[Film] From Russia with Love tonight 10.45PM ITV1

[PTC Gull]

I've always been more of a Rosa Klebb man.

Frankly, Rosa Klebb was more of a man!

 

[jcdenton08]

They're both gritty British, realistic Cold War espionage films at their most realistic best.

Not a patch on Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read. Move and fire, and move and fire - GET BACK IN THE LIFT LYNN

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The best Connery Bond Film in my opinion...

Great book, and well mapped in the screenplay.

Having re-read all the books plus the 3 by NS, I am still fixated with Sea Island shirts, and the cruel features of the half Scot, half French, Englishman. The travelogues, the whiff of the glamour and grit of the 50s and 60s. The bespoke ciggies. The drinks and women fetishisms. The generous bosom and the boyish backsides. The dénouements.
Connery it has to be.

 

[TomandJerry]

Great book, and well mapped in the screenplay.

Having re-read all the books plus the 3 by NS, I am still fixated with Sea Island shirts, and the cruel features of the half Scot, half French, Englishman. The travelogues, the whiff of the glamour and grit of the 50s and 60s. The bespoke ciggies. The drinks and women fetishisms. The generous bosom and the boyish backsides. The dénouements.
Connery it has to be.

The books, I have a set from 2008 that I haven't gotten round to reading yet, though I might start them soon

 

[jcdenton08]

I’m a big Bond fan, and I do enjoy the older movies, but for me the best is Casino Royale (and IMDB agrees, with 8.0 making it the highest rated Bond movie). It’s pretty much a perfect genre movie and the opening parkour sequence is one of the best action sequences (Bond or otherwise) in movie history. Breathtaking at the cinema and on every subsequent rewatch.

It sets up exactly who this Bond is with the kill shot at the end of the sequence, and those cold eyes.

A truly outstanding movie - even my girlfriend loves it and she doesn’t like Bond at all.

 

[ManOfSussex]

Not a patch on Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read. Move and fire, and move and fire - GET BACK IN THE LIFT LYNN

No! Stop getting Bond wrong!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The books, I have a set from 2008 that I haven't gotten round to reading yet, though I might start them soon

Do them in order. Savour them. They are worth it

(I replaced all mine with a set from a single publisher. Because they're worth it.)

I would add that for greater pleasure, get these three books and splice them in, as the first, middle and last in the series. Anthony Horowitz. He has also done some Holmes - also excellent.

James Bond novels​

1. Trigger Mortis (2015)
2. Forever and a Day (2018)
3. With a Mind to Kill (2022)

 

[TomandJerry]

Do them in order. Savour them. They are worth it

(I replaced all mine with a set from a single publisher. Because they're worth it.)

I would add that for greater pleasure, get these three books and splice them in, as the first, middle and last in the series. Anthony Horowitz. He has also done some Holmes - also excellent.

James Bond novels​

1. Trigger Mortis (2015)
2. Forever and a Day (2018)
3. With a Mind to Kill (2022)

Absolutely, a box set published by Penguin so all in order.

I have had a brief look through some of them, takes you back some years on the language used!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Absolutely, a box set published by Penguin so all in order.

I have had a brief look through some of them, takes you back some years on the language used!

And the social attitudes.
A sign of maturity is the ability to filter though a historical lens. So I tell myself.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Great book, and well mapped in the screenplay.

Having re-read all the books plus the 3 by NS, I am still fixated with Sea Island shirts, and the cruel features of the half Scot, half French, Englishman. The travelogues, the whiff of the glamour and grit of the 50s and 60s. The bespoke ciggies. The drinks and women fetishisms. The generous bosom and the boyish backsides. The dénouements.
Connery it has to be.

The great charm of the first few Bond films is how they're all 60s films before the 60s was a thing.

Like when he shits all over the Beatles at the start of Goldfinger, because obviously a 30-odd year old man in the early 60s wouldn't have been into them.

 

[jcdenton08]

The great charm of the first few Bond films is how they're all 60s films before the 60s was a thing.

Like when he shits all over the Beatles at the start of Goldfinger, because obviously a 30-odd year old man in the early 60s wouldn't have been into them.

You’re saying Bond is an edgelord

 

[Albion my Albion]

FIT.

Has to be Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) for me. Absolute perfection - we don’t talk about the acting.

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Also one of the great Bond one-liners at the end, no matter how contrived.

Alternatively, “Ursula, it's an offence to stop on the hard shoulder unless there is a malfunction with the car.”

One of Charley Sheen's wives. Or was she the only Charley Sheen wife?