Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
Octopussy (1983)

I could come in for a nightcap

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This is a great throwaway line from Sir Rog from Octopussy.  He obviously knows he’s not allowed to stay with Magda at Kamal Khan’s estate – maybe he was trying to make Gobinda chuckle?  Also, Magda is a top-tier Bond girl – stunning and easily underrated.

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Live And Let Die (1973)
August 19, 2026 – 10:07 PM UTC

Agent Hamilton’s death at the beginning of Live And Let Die is particularly brutal, especially because he is casually observing a New Orleans funeral procession when a seemingly innocent question gets him stabbed in the gut. The close-up staging makes the killing even more uncomfortable, with the camera lingering just enough on the stabbing itself…


GoldenEye (1995)
August 19, 2026 – 10:07 AM UTC

In GoldenEye, Natalya Simonova understandably suspects something more suggestive when Boris Grishenko offers his rather cheeky password riddle, “What I sit on but I don’t take with me?” There are certainly plenty of alternative answers involving one’s backside, but Bond cuts through the distraction and gives the obvious answer: “chair.” It’s a tiny exchange, but…
August 19, 2025 – 10:07 PM UTC

Yes, Helen Mirren, we know.  Not sure why she chimed in on this specifically.  We’ve heard zero rumors about a female James Bond – who would obviously not be named James Bond.  The argument (if there is one?) is just a bizarre topic at this point.  Eyes on the prize – a young James Bond…