Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

Just push every damn button, will you?!

Mary Goodnight from The Man With The Golden Gun has to be the most frustrating Bond girl (and maybe even any character in general) of all the Bond movies.  Any time she appears, you can anticipate an eyeroll for her cluelessness and unusefulness.

And nothing is worse than the final scene where Bond is trying to dismantle the Solex Agitator laser and an appropriately bikini-clad ditz of a Bond girl errantly turns it on with her buttocks.  This quote is a culmination of Bond’s now non-existent patience with her stupidness.

On This Day…

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September 9, 2025 – 10:07 AM UTC

I don’t blame Lupe Lamora for calling out Franz Sanchez and his weird diamond-draped iguana in Licence To Kill.  It’s probably my only knock against Sanchez as a villain.  Otherwise, he is one of the best villains of all time. There are a few main questions on the topic of Sanchez’s dumb iguana: why give…