Things We've Learned from…..Spectre

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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    32) Ct. Cyril is quite a common name in Greece
  • 33. The steroids developed in East Germany for their Olympic athletes were so potent that biathlon competitors could lift motorcycles over their heads.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    34) Given the opportunity to kill the man that killed an MI6 agent Bond is very willing to deal with the consequences of "first digging two graves."
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    35 KGB blows all their money on real estate, leaving none for furniture.
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    36. You should never underestimate the usefulness of a parrot.
  • 50) That Moonraker is, in my opinion, the best Bond-movie of all time.

    Seriously?

    Yeah?
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    50) That Moonraker is, in my opinion, the best Bond-movie of all time.

    Seriously?

    Yeah?

    Is that the one where Jaws falls in love with some little woman?
    That one is the best Bond movie of all time?
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    37. Stainless steel delicatessens do not make good bargaining items.
    38. Parrots love a peck from prime ministers.
    39. The ally isn't always the ally and the villain isn't always the villain.
    40. If you had to get to the top of a mountain, it's usually easier to go up the path rather than doing a vertical climb.
    41. Roger Moore does have a badass side to him.
    42. Sometimes it's easier to film underwater scenes by editing the water in.
    43. If working for MI6, always have a talking parrot with you.
    44. Rogering does not include tapping teenage booty.
  • 50) That Moonraker is, in my opinion, the best Bond-movie of all time.

    Seriously?

    Yeah?

    Is that the one where Jaws falls in love with some little woman?
    That one is the best Bond movie of all time?

    Yep, that's the one.
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    The one where the gondola splits in half with the couple still kissing?
    That comedy film? I'll at least take FYEO over MR, thanks.
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    @doubleohdad, you can tell me how polite you are as much as you like, but it doesn't alter the fact that you refuse to accept others points of view. You provoke unnecessarily and now I must politely ask you to stop doing it. You know full well what I mean and you know full well what you are doing. Thank you
  • edited January 2015 Posts: 1,146
    With respect, if you go back through the threads I think I've been very polite in the face of multiple insults numerous times, and while I'll try to curb any impoliteness, I'd sure like you to see both sides of the fence here and take others to task publicly for their direct insults in the face of my comparatively meager provocation.

  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Stop derailing the thread @doubleohdad. [-X
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    With respect, if you go back through the threads I think I've been very polite in the face of multiple insults numerous times, and while I'll try to curb any impoliteness, I'd sure like you to see both sides of the fence here and take others to task publicly for their direct insults in the face of my comparatively meager provocation.
    Feel free to flag the offending posts, as others have been doing.
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Stop derailing the thread @doubleohdad. [-X

    I can do that! :)

    FYEO is the best Moore bond film, easily!
  • NicNac wrote: »
    @doubleohdad, you can tell me how polite you are as much as you like, but it doesn't alter the fact that you refuse to accept others points of view. You provoke unnecessarily and now I must politely ask you to stop doing it. You know full well what I mean and you know full well what you are doing. Thank you

    Thank you.
  • edited January 2015 Posts: 1,778
    Time to move on to one of my favorite time-spans in the Bond series. The 1980s. An awesome decade that gave me 3 Bond films I cherish and 2 that I still enjoy very much. So far it's the only Bond decade that didn't produce a single Bond film that I didn't care for. So let's start shall we.
    Nobody comes close to James Bond 007 in,
    Things We've Learned from…..For Your Eyes Only.

    1) A solemn Bond laying flowers on Tracy's grave, in my view, made up for all the silliness in Moonraker. A touching moment.

    2) Between the years of 1969 and 1971 Blofeld made a full recovery from his broken neck and even grew a full head of hair. Unfortunately both would regress completely in the subsequent decade. Sorry Ernst.

    3) While being held at the mercy of the man who's wife you murdered on their wedding day, the best way to escape the impending calamity is to offer him a delicatessen in stainless steel. If that doesn't work just yell "Please".

    4) While being hung over the edge of a helicopter, demanding "Put me down" might not be the best choice of words.

    5) Melina won't think there's anything suspect about the pilot flying her home having a massive machine gun mounted on his plane.

    6) Apparently Roger Moore's deal for eternal youth expired on the last day of the 1970s.

    7) Melina, a marine biologist, will suddenly be able to pull off a spectacular shot on a falling target with a cross-bow simply because she's mad.

    8) Q had been slacking off with the bullet-proof glass on the Lotus.

    9) 007 will suddenly develop a moral objection to revenge along as the plot demands it.

    10) Kreiger, a trick-shot marksman, can't so much as graze Bond at a much closer distance than he's used to shooting at.

    11) Apparently Dick Tracy villains hang out at casinos in Greece.

    12) Slow-paced underwater sequences are no more thrilling than they were in Thunderball unless they lead into Bond and an underwear clad Melina pulling a LALD.

    13) Q moonlights as a priest.

    14) The part of this film's sinister Bond villain will be played by what looks like a stern middle-aged suburban father.

    15) Kristatos has some of the most loyal and determined henchman around who are willing to scale down the edge of a giant mountain with an old looking rope.

    16) A flimsy looking basket will support the weight of 2 full-grown men and a woman.

    17) Pistachios=Olympic Sponsorship.

    18) Margaret Thatcher will profusely thank and congratulate Bond despite the fact that he destroyed the one item he was sent to retrieve.

    19) Apparently Q and the defense minister haven't the faintest idea what Bond actually sounds like.

    20) In 1981 Roger Moore was Ian's Fleming's James Bond.


    And look it even says so on the film's IMDB page. On the cast list Moore is officially listed as Ian Fleming's James Bond

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082398/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Kerim wrote: »
    37. Stainless steel delicatessens do not make good bargaining items.
    38. Parrots love a peck from prime ministers.
    39. The ally isn't always the ally and the villain isn't always the villain.
    40. If you had to get to the top of a mountain, it's usually easier to go up the path rather than doing a vertical climb.
    41. Roger Moore does have a badass side to him.
    42. Sometimes it's easier to film underwater scenes by editing the water in.
    43. If working for MI6, always have a talking parrot with you.
    44. Rogering does not include tapping teenage booty.

    45. If one chooses not to tap said teenage booty, one buys icecream instead.
    46. If one is about to assassinate archeologists secretly working for the ministry of defense, it's always best to kill the parrot too. Or buy more pistachos to bribe the animal
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    47) Pistachios seem to be a recurring element in this film. Possible to signify death ala oranges in The Godfather. Or Columbo and Max just happen to enjoy the same snack.

    48) Bond-3 Hockey Thugs-0

    49) The Q-Branch staff can go from testing out all their gadgets and going full speed ahead in their work to completely empty and ready to closeup in 60 seconds flat.

    50) Bond will ask random people if they know any Greek smugglers.

    51) Bond will refuse sex with a 22 year old girl as the age difference is just not right but will happily snog and go skinny dipping with a 23 year old girl at the end of the film. That one year makes all the difference.
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    51) Bond will refuse sex with a 22 year old girl as the age difference is just not right but will happily go skinny dipping with a 23 year old girl at the end of the film. That one year makes all the difference.

    He did show that Bond had taste, not in the cheapish variety but the long legged exotic variety. FYEO proved that the ladies from France have something extra that has gone down very well in the Franchise. ;)
  • SaintMark wrote: »
    51) Bond will refuse sex with a 22 year old girl as the age difference is just not right but will happily go skinny dipping with a 23 year old girl at the end of the film. That one year makes all the difference.

    He did show that Bond had taste, not in the cheapish variety but the long legged exotic variety. FYEO proved that the ladies from France have something extra that has gone down very well in the Franchise. ;)

    Ah very true. Maybe it wasn't so much a matter of age as it was Bibi not floating Bond's boat so to speak.
  • edited January 2015 Posts: 5,968
    The problem with that scene was that the age of the fictional character was below the legal limit. Lynn Holly Johnson was, as they say "Dawson Cast" (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting. The RPG supplement giving her statistics says that Bibi is 17, IIRC (it's been a while since I opened my old modules). And in the module based on the movie, there's a penalty for any male player character who sleeps with her. And rightly so.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    52) There's never a jetpack around when you want one.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    49) The Q-Branch staff can go from testing out all their gadgets and going full speed ahead in their work to completely empty and ready to closeup in 60 seconds flat.

    I'd noticed that and assumed that the machine took longer to work than we were shown.
  • Gerard wrote: »
    The problem with that scene was that the age of the fictional character was below the legal limit. Lynn Holly Johnson was, as they say "Dawson Cast" (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting. The RPG supplement giving her statistics says that Bibi is 17, IIRC (it's been a while since I opened my old modules). And in the module based on the movie, there's a penalty for any male player character who sleeps with her. And rightly so.

    I know the age of the actor was different than the implied age of the character. I was just having some fun. ;)
  • That dune buggies are really doom buggies!
  • edited January 2015 Posts: 1,778
    Well this is the one for me.
    Although objectively I'll list CR, OHMSS, and FRWL as my favorite Bond films, in terms of pure sentiment nothing trumps Octopussy. It, more than any other film, made me a Bond fan. It's also one of the biggest reasons I started this thread. So gentlemen and ladies, forgive me, but I'm going to indulge myself a bit with this one.
    James Bond's All Time High in,
    Things We've Learned from…..Octopussy

    1) Nobody does him better…13 times!

    2) Cuban soldiers pay very little attention to their commander's faces.

    3) Bond went to the Batman school of fitting large vehicles/gadgets into small areas.

    4) A frightened clown being chased by a couple of knife-weilding effeminate twins with perms makes for a more thrilling scene that it sounds.

    5) Moneypenny thought it wouldn't hurt her chances with Bond to hire a young and gorgeous assistant secretary with a suggestive name.

    6) Young and pretty=More flowers

    7) Either M got bald and beety-eyed during his time on leave or a new M being assigned gets about as much attention as a new cashier at Burger King.

    8) Louise Jordan might be as cool as they come but is about as convincing an Afghan Prince as Bond was a Japanese fisherman.

    9) Bond knows a "charming tune" when he hears one.

    10) Rajasthanian hotel maids will actually unpack and hangup your clothes without even asking you.

    11) Like a true playboy, Bond will put up a 500,000 pound Faberge egg as security to cover a 200,000 rupee bet. For all you currency buffs out there that would equal 6,731 pounds in 1983.

    12) The guests at Rajasthanian casinos don't find anything suspicious over the fact the Kamal Khan rolls a double 6 each and every time he needs it…

    13) …and they're even stupid enough to believe Kamal when he tells them that "it's all in the wrist"…

    14) …and even after Bond uses Kamal's "lucky dice" to roll a double 6 they are still unable to put 2 and 2 together. I wish they people at Atlantic City casinos were this dumb.

    15) Gobinda felt the need to outdo Oddjob by crushing loaded dice into dust.

    16) 200,000 ruppess buys an awful lot of curry.

    17) Bond cannot tell the difference between his trusty Walther PPK and a Walther P9.

    18) In his old age Q was having trouble "keeping it up".

    19) At the age of 10 I immediately assumed Magda wanted more champagne when she asked for a "refilling". Ah the innocence of youth.

    20) Bond will casually offer torture suggestions to his captures over dinner.

    21) Temple of Doom has some explaining to do.

    22) In addition to super suaveness Kamal Khan has microscopic vision and easily spot a tiny receiver inside a pile of rubble.

    23) Bond will put an exclamation mark on pretending to be the living undead by adding a ghoulish laugh.

    24) Part of Vijay's job description as a contact is to dry off, rub down, and massage 00 agents.

    25) Andrea Anders must have survived Scaramanga's bullet, inherited his fortune, and opened up her own circus/smuggling ring.

    26) Major Smyth had a strange taste in pet names for his children.

    27) Octopussy thought she could leave Bond unattended on an island populated exclusively by beautiful women for an entire week and he wouldn't get into any trouble. Poor naive woman.

    28) Bond will pull the old "kiss her until she likes it" technique out of retirement for old time's sake.

    29) M makes a lousy motivational speaker.

    30) German youths are jerks to hitchhikers.

    31) German motorists will aggressively offer hitchhikers sausages.

    32) Bond dressed as a clown trying to defuse a nuclear bomb with no one believing him is a much more tense and effective scene than haters give it credit for.

    33) Kamal Khan can't say "Octopussy" without sounding hilarious.

    34) When going to apprehend a villain at his palace stronghold be sure to travel there in a Union Jack hot-air balloon so they all know that the British Secret Service is on their way.

    35) When facing a villain guarded by a few dozen armed guards Bond will bring along his elderly Quartermaster to help even the odds.

    36) Said Quartermaster is a pimp.

    37) When overwhelmed by multiple armed henchmen Bond will pull a Denise the Menace and slide down the banister to grant himself tactical advantage.

    38) Gobinda will walk onto the wing of a plane at mid-flight at Kamal's request. Now that's Oddjob level loyalty.

    39) Crippling injuries mean absolutely nothing to Bond.

    40) On his best day, Kevin McClory couldn't make a film half this entertaining.
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    41) Indian thugs get their weapons from Home Depot

    42) Bond has been to the Barbara Woodhouse school of animal training.

    43) That joke went way above the head of non-British audiences.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Gerard wrote: »
    43) That joke went way above the head of non-British audiences.

    Not a bit of it. I love that gag!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    44 Johnny Weissmuller on vacation in India managed to ruin one scene without anyone noticing until the premiere.
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