Bond’s quip from GoldenEye is one of those classics that lands somewhere between perfectly timed and slightly cheeky for the moment. Coming after a brutal fight with Xenia Onatopp, it feels like Bond blows off adrenaline with this dark joke, even though it has some truth to it. Xenia herself remains one of the most distinctive villains/henchmen with a lethal embrace that is both effective and fetishized. She’s quite the psycho, but also very attractive. I’m sure Bond recognized this instantly and thought, “I can fix her” but failed miserably.
March 30, 2026 – 10:07 PM UTC
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Rita Coolidge’s theme All Time High for Octopussy, but I’ve always wondered what a theme would be like using the unique (and vulgar?) title in the lyrics. Thanks to generative AI, we can do that now easily, and after some curation on my part, I actually don’t hate it:…

