Bond, James Bond
Encore has used July as Bond Month this year, where a Bond movie comes on every night on Encore during the entire month at 7:00 pm Central. What I always get giddy about is that once this is over, a Bond movie shows up all over the package of Encore channels afterward. I just love the fact that a Bond movie could be on at any time I turn to one of the Encore channels. Life (particularly, family life) sometimes interferes with the ability to just sit and watch them in full, but what I saw of Octopussy was actually a pleasant surprise. I don't remember watching this one much as a kid, even though I'm sure it played on HBO all the time; View to a Kill, considered by Bond fans to be one of the worst of the franchise (although, I guess I am in the minority, because I always enjoy it, even if I admit it is one of the weaker entries; nostalgia dictates I will always be drawn to it), was on regular rotation back in the day. Octopussy just doesn't let up, man. It has everything and then some. Sure, I imagine James Bond disguised as a clown makes certain Bond fans cringe, but there's this kick ass train sequence and another action sequence on top of a Cessna that had me completely jovial. There's a scene where an assassin is hired to kill Bond while he's in bed with Octopussy (Maud Adams, who I thought was even sexier in Man with the Golden Gun), and his weapon of choice is a band saw blade on a rope that functions as a yo-yo in that its master can pull and extend it at will!
I have to say that while it may be considered minor Bond, Man with the Golden Gun is one of my favorite Bond movies. I can watch it over and over and never tire of it. I think part of it is because of the villains, Maud Adams and Britt Ekland both serve as some of the best eye candy my sweet tooth could ask for, and that car-plane hybrid (colored in gold, of course), plus Lee's solar power laser installation located in a Hawaiian island fortress, are just pleasures to behold. Hervé Villechaize and Christopher Lee are such colorful villains; I enjoy the fact that these two are such a team. I guess it is an improvement over one of my least favorite Bond flicks, Live and Let Die, but each Bond fan has their favorites and least favorites.
I was watching Never Say Never Again and while seeing Connery making out with a young Basinger might have been a wee bit creepy to me, he's in such impeccable shape and is so fun to watch as an older, more vulnerable 007, I was caught up in the movie. I didn't think it was all that great, when compared to a Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, or even Thunderball, but Connery facing off with Carrera, quite a female psychopath with an enormous ego and joy in her criminal handiwork, was a hoot. Carrera may be one of my favorite female "Bond conquests" of the entire series. I thought that one scene was funny where she demands that Bond write down that she was his *#1* before she shoots him! She insists that her reputation as his best lay be in print, signed by 007 himself. I think this is rather amusing.
I have to say that while it may be considered minor Bond, Man with the Golden Gun is one of my favorite Bond movies. I can watch it over and over and never tire of it. I think part of it is because of the villains, Maud Adams and Britt Ekland both serve as some of the best eye candy my sweet tooth could ask for, and that car-plane hybrid (colored in gold, of course), plus Lee's solar power laser installation located in a Hawaiian island fortress, are just pleasures to behold. Hervé Villechaize and Christopher Lee are such colorful villains; I enjoy the fact that these two are such a team. I guess it is an improvement over one of my least favorite Bond flicks, Live and Let Die, but each Bond fan has their favorites and least favorites.
I was watching Never Say Never Again and while seeing Connery making out with a young Basinger might have been a wee bit creepy to me, he's in such impeccable shape and is so fun to watch as an older, more vulnerable 007, I was caught up in the movie. I didn't think it was all that great, when compared to a Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, or even Thunderball, but Connery facing off with Carrera, quite a female psychopath with an enormous ego and joy in her criminal handiwork, was a hoot. Carrera may be one of my favorite female "Bond conquests" of the entire series. I thought that one scene was funny where she demands that Bond write down that she was his *#1* before she shoots him! She insists that her reputation as his best lay be in print, signed by 007 himself. I think this is rather amusing.
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