Month: March 2026
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The things we do for frequent-flier mileage
This line from GoldenEye stands out as one of the few Forced Quips in Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond, and it’s a particularly blatant example. Bond delivers the line at an odd moment, immediately after surviving a genuinely terrifying… Read More →
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Beating the Barren Bond Blues
Another day, another post lamenting how difficult it has become to be a James Bond fan. Instead of updates on movie casting or any updates at all, we get nothing. Well, aside from a reality TV contest nobody wanted (007:… Read More →
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This is crazy! You’re a double-0.
Miranda Frost’s hesitation about sleeping with Bond in Die Another Day briefly suggests caution, yet the moment is clearly part of her calculated deception. Bond dismisses the concern as “just a number,” unaware that Frost’s betrayal has been in motion… Read More →
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The animals went in two by two
Bond shows off his intuition with this clever line that reveals how quickly Bond understands Hugo Drax’s plan in Moonraker. Seeing the paired passengers aboard the shuttle immediately evokes the story of Noah’s Ark and Drax’s disturbing vision of repopulating… Read More →
Filed Under: Moonraker -
Your orders were to kill that sniper!
The verbal confrontation between Bond and Saunders in The Living Daylights remains one of the movie’s most effective character moments, not only because the title of the movie is recited. It places two seasoned intelligence officers in direct opposition, each… Read More →
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Steven Knight praises Fleming Bond books: “Underrated”
It’s always good to see Bond writers going back to the source material in Ian Fleming’s Bond novels. As I’ve said before on this site, it’s one thing to mimic a book entirely into a movie (which I’d be against),… Read More →
Filed Under: Bond 26 -
Bond 26 title should be mission name
We know nothing about Bond 26 yet, which makes it the perfect time to throw around some possible titles: The Golden Viper – the name of a new criminal organization with a catchy name The Black Sapphire Affair – similar… Read More →
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We all have our secrets
The betrayal theme that opens No Time To Die never quite worked for me. Doubt and mistrust have appeared in earlier James Bond movies, but they were usually introduced later and with greater subtlety. Beginning the movie with suspicion between… Read More →
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Vesper’s grave explosion was too much
I’ll just say it outright: the explosion at Vesper’s grave in No Time to Die was simply excessive, and any person in real life wouldn’t have survived. It could have been toned down a notch, but in the end, with… Read More →
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Will you yield in time?
There aren’t many lines from Casino Royale that linger the way quotes from earlier Bond movies do, and this one nearly qualifies. It carries clear echoes of Auric Goldfinger’s famous “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die,” but ultimately… Read More →
Filed Under: Casino Royale