Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
A View To A Kill (1985)

What’s this loaded with? Rock salt.

Now you tell me!

It’s the ultimate “wait… what?” moment of Roger Moore’s Bond era in A View to a Kill, when Bond boldly commandeers Stacy Sutton’s gun only to discover it has all the firepower of a cap gun.   Remarkably, he faces this revelation with unnerving composure, as if improvising with underwhelming weaponry was simply part of his morning routine.  Their survival was nothing short of miraculous, but in the grand scheme of things we all know it’s part of Bond’s greatest weapon of all: plot armor.

On This Day…

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October 9, 2025 – 10:07 AM UTC

It was an exquisitely poetic conclusion for Trevelyan in GoldenEye.  It was a finale so perfectly ironic it might as well have been choreographed by karma itself.  Bond, ever the vengeance connoisseur, must have felt a deep sense of vindication.  Although it still boggles the mind how Trevelyan could have survived the fall just enough…