I'll be honest I've been getting a bit fatigued with Bond. The last two movies I watched for this blog were barely coherent vehicals for increasingly silly and problematic setpieces. It seems to me that Diamonds are Forever was the peak of that style of Bond film. The type that forgets that movies typically have a narrative and just wants to show us fun action setpiece after fun action setpiece. That this was all I could expect from The Man with the Golden Gun was the attitude I entered the film with.
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Monday, February 8, 2021
Monday, January 4, 2021
Dr. No (1962)
Well we did it. We all survived 2020, and now it's 2021. Now things probably won't be getting much better for a while now, but fitting for the fresh start of the new year the scratch off poster I'm using to structure this blog has led me to a survey of sorts of James Bond films; hitting a few of the highlights of bond over the years. Over the next few weeks I'll be covering Dr. No, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, Licence to Kill, Goldeneye (for some reason labeled "The Golden Eye") and finally The World is Not Enough. It's worth reiterating that this poster only covers the 20th century so there will be nothing past 1999. So this week we'll start with the first Bond film: Dr. No
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