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After Bond 26, release frequency must increase
At this point, I’m reluctantly prepared to extend Amazon and its partners the benefit of the doubt as we endure what is shaping up to be the longest gap between Bond movie in the franchise’s history. The transition to Amazon’s stewardship and the corresponding dilution of the traditional creative control… Read More →
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Check the replay
Die Another Day receives an outsized amount of criticism, yet scattered throughout its excesses are moments that stand apart as genuinely inventive within the Bond universe. One of the most overlooked and unique is Bond’s simulated defense of an assault on MI6 headquarters. The setup is quietly effective: Bond hears… Read More →
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Wait till you get to my teeth
This line from Thunderball is about as close as Bond ever comes to audibly purring on screen to show his interest in a woman. It follows one of the movie’s most cliché exchanges, which almost makes it feel like an unfiltered moment. What makes it memorable is that he mutters… Read More →
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Do you come here often?
Yes, James Bond actually deployed that pickup line. Hard to believe, but he really does drop this timeless clunker when he first meets Domino Derval in Thunderball (while snorkeling, no less). It’s not exactly 007’s most inspired piece of dialogue, and yet because he’s Bond, she was instantly captivated. Naturally.… Read More →
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Transfer the funds from our Siberian holdings
The clandestine Quantum meeting during the performance of Tosca in Quantum of Solace is one of the movie’s most elegant and underrated sequences. I often find myself isolating moments from Quantum and comparing them to the franchise’s earlier eras, and this scene, in particular, would have thrived in the refined… Read More →
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Physically, I’m not going to do anything
The unofficial Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) remains as the only Bond “movie” to place what feels like a pre-title sequence near the end of the movie. Visually, the scene is a striking and surreal montage that accompanies Le Chiffre’s psychological torment of Bond after their baccarat showdown. It dives… Read More →
Filed Under: Casino Royale (1967)