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  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Archie Comic No. 159, November 1965

    Good one, Veronica!
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Some new-fangled cutting edge font style: TIMEBOND
    No time to die typeface.
    Alphabet font eighties style.
    Classic uppercase set a to z.
    James Bond 007 typography designs.

    By Haqqani Slab

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  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Some new-fangled cutting edge font style: TIMEBOND

    Nice!

    Some classic Getting Bond Wrong from Rylan on Radio 2 this afternoon:

    "It's an online feshtival...feshtival? Who am I, Roger Moore?"
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    Jay Kay out on a drive:


  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Pretty cool, @Torgeirtrap. I dig that license plate.
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Pretty cool, @Torgeirtrap. I dig that license plate.

    Didn't notice that until you mentioned it – nice detail for sure!
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited June 2020 Posts: 2,896
    From an article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site:

    The absolute worst depictions of San Francisco in film
    A View to a Kill (1985)

    Roger Moore was nearly 60 when he made his last Bond movie. That's too old to be scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, so the director used a much younger stunt double in a bad wig - and that's the least of the film's problems. 007's adventure in California is somehow both very slow and very confusing. Christopher Walken, as evil geneticist Max Zorin, hatches a very baffling, dastardly plan that involves blowing up the Hayward Fault to flood Silicon Valley and stifle the production of microchips? No one told the screenwriter that silicon is not actually mined in Silicon Valley. Letting James Bond loose in San Francisco should have been fun, so it's a real shame that the movie spends an interminable amount of time watching Roger Moore try to buy a horse. And seeing an out-of-shape 58-year-old get it on with 30-year-old Bond girl Tanya Roberts is ... not good.The movie is slightly redeemed by Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower, and Duran Duran's theme song slaps.
    Best worst moment: An old man, an airship and some bad wigs on the bridge.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    Revelator wrote: »
    From an article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site:

    The absolute worst depictions of San Francisco in film
    A View to a Kill (1985)

    Roger Moore was nearly 60 when he made his last Bond movie. That's too old to be scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, so the director used a much younger stunt double in a bad wig - and that's the least of the film's problems. 007's adventure in California is somehow both very slow and very confusing. Christopher Walken, as evil geneticist Max Zorin, hatches a very baffling, dastardly plan that involves blowing up the Hayward Fault to flood Silicon Valley and stifle the production of microchips? No one told the screenwriter that silicon is not actually mined in Silicon Valley. Letting James Bond loose in San Francisco should have been fun, so it's a real shame that the movie spends an interminable amount of time watching Roger Moore try to buy a horse. And seeing an out-of-shape 58-year-old get it on with 30-year-old Bond girl Tanya Roberts is ... not good.The movie is slightly redeemed by Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower, and Duran Duran's theme song slaps.
    Best worst moment: An old man, an airship and some bad wigs on the bridge.

    Kind of a muddled piece. They don't acknowledge the horse scenes take place in France, not in SF. And the city itself is nicely showcased actually. This seems more of a diatribe against Moore and the filmmakers than anything against the city itself. And I'm somebody who considers AVTAK one of the two weakest Bond films.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
    edited June 2020 Posts: 3,564
    BT3366 wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    From an article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site:

    The absolute worst depictions of San Francisco in film
    A View to a Kill (1985)

    Roger Moore was nearly 60 when he made his last Bond movie. That's too old to be scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, so the director used a much younger stunt double in a bad wig - and that's the least of the film's problems. 007's adventure in California is somehow both very slow and very confusing. Christopher Walken, as evil geneticist Max Zorin, hatches a very baffling, dastardly plan that involves blowing up the Hayward Fault to flood Silicon Valley and stifle the production of microchips? No one told the screenwriter that silicon is not actually mined in Silicon Valley. Letting James Bond loose in San Francisco should have been fun, so it's a real shame that the movie spends an interminable amount of time watching Roger Moore try to buy a horse. And seeing an out-of-shape 58-year-old get it on with 30-year-old Bond girl Tanya Roberts is ... not good.The movie is slightly redeemed by Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower, and Duran Duran's theme song slaps.
    Best worst moment: An old man, an airship and some bad wigs on the bridge.

    Kind of a muddled piece. They don't acknowledge the horse scenes take place in France, not in SF. And the city itself is nicely showcased actually. This seems more of a diatribe against Moore and the filmmakers than anything against the city itself. And I'm somebody who considers AVTAK one of the two weakest Bond films.

    I like AVTAK. Partly (not entirely) because of the SF scenes. And as @Revelator knows, I'm a resident of the SF Bay area. The (deleted from the film but available elsewhere) scenes from a boat checking out Chevron's Pt. Richmond refinery are like Old Home Week for me!
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    BT3366 wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    From an article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site:

    The absolute worst depictions of San Francisco in film
    A View to a Kill (1985)

    Roger Moore was nearly 60 when he made his last Bond movie. That's too old to be scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, so the director used a much younger stunt double in a bad wig - and that's the least of the film's problems. 007's adventure in California is somehow both very slow and very confusing. Christopher Walken, as evil geneticist Max Zorin, hatches a very baffling, dastardly plan that involves blowing up the Hayward Fault to flood Silicon Valley and stifle the production of microchips? No one told the screenwriter that silicon is not actually mined in Silicon Valley. Letting James Bond loose in San Francisco should have been fun, so it's a real shame that the movie spends an interminable amount of time watching Roger Moore try to buy a horse. And seeing an out-of-shape 58-year-old get it on with 30-year-old Bond girl Tanya Roberts is ... not good.The movie is slightly redeemed by Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower, and Duran Duran's theme song slaps.
    Best worst moment: An old man, an airship and some bad wigs on the bridge.

    Kind of a muddled piece. They don't acknowledge the horse scenes take place in France, not in SF. And the city itself is nicely showcased actually. This seems more of a diatribe against Moore and the filmmakers than anything against the city itself. And I'm somebody who considers AVTAK one of the two weakest Bond films.

    I like AVTAK. Partly (not entirely) because of the SF scenes. And as @Revelator knows, I'm a resident of the SF Bay area. The (deleted from the film but available elsewhere) scenes from a boat checking out Chevron's Pt. Richmond refinery are like Old Home Week for me!

    Where can you watch this, @BeatlesSansEarmuffs?
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    More AVTAK bashing in the press, this time from the New York Times, in the article "1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche":
    Still, [Chuck] Norris was more with the program than James Bond. The ’80s action movie didn’t put the 007 brand out of business. It just embarrassed the films’ relative decorum. In “View to a Kill,” Bond is trying to stop Christopher Walken from drugging horses and blowing up Silicon Valley (Walken’s bleached hair made him a dead ringer for the decade’s top bad-guy star, Rutger Hauer). There was no place for tuxedos and dressage and the usual risible double entendres. (One young horse rider identifies herself as Jenny Flex.)

    It’s not that the action here doesn’t work. The ski-slope pre-credit sequence ought to be scooped and coned; and the climactic mine-shaft explosion looks like it cost a lot of money and geology. But the finale involves a blimp. Why? And in his seventh stint as Bond, Roger Moore had aged from vital to bewitchingly indecipherable. Grace Jones is the most alive person in the movie. A poster puts her and Moore back to back and actually wonders whether Bond has finally met his match. There’s no contest. At some point, she jumps off the Eiffel Tower and glides into Walken’s speedboat. Imagine Hollywood with this woman’s stardom breathing down Stallone’s neck. Imagine the political pornography of her.
  • Benjamin_Weekly69Benjamin_Weekly69 London
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    Washington in Tenet. Pay attention to the three piece suit. Resemble anything?

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  • GerardGerard
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    There's a big reference to GF in the ninth issue of the current maxi-series Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. Unfortunately, I don't have a scan.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    Revelator wrote: »
    More AVTAK bashing in the press, this time from the New York Times, in the article "1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche":
    Still, [Chuck] Norris was more with the program than James Bond. The ’80s action movie didn’t put the 007 brand out of business. It just embarrassed the films’ relative decorum. In “View to a Kill,” Bond is trying to stop Christopher Walken from drugging horses and blowing up Silicon Valley (Walken’s bleached hair made him a dead ringer for the decade’s top bad-guy star, Rutger Hauer). There was no place for tuxedos and dressage and the usual risible double entendres. (One young horse rider identifies herself as Jenny Flex.)

    It’s not that the action here doesn’t work. The ski-slope pre-credit sequence ought to be scooped and coned; and the climactic mine-shaft explosion looks like it cost a lot of money and geology. But the finale involves a blimp. Why? And in his seventh stint as Bond, Roger Moore had aged from vital to bewitchingly indecipherable. Grace Jones is the most alive person in the movie. A poster puts her and Moore back to back and actually wonders whether Bond has finally met his match. There’s no contest. At some point, she jumps off the Eiffel Tower and glides into Walken’s speedboat. Imagine Hollywood with this woman’s stardom breathing down Stallone’s neck. Imagine the political pornography of her.

    Thanks for the link, interesting piece. That was the same week I graduated high school. Rambo was the most anticipated movie by most of my classmates; being a Bond fan was pretty lonely, although friends from other schools were also fans, but I also looked forward to Rambo as First Blood was a good film, so there was lots of good will.

    '85 was the summer of Rambo. It wasn't great action or a very good film, but it was what people responded to at the time. AVTAK was indeed a letdown and seemed tired in comparison. Stallone having Rocky IV just 6 months away made him the man back then.

    Another factor back then was the interest in the Vietnam war. They mention Chuck Norris but I don't think it referred to his 2 Missing in Action films, the first which had the same concept of going back for POWs and both were modest hits. Platoon was 18 months away and many of the other films about Vietnam. Norris wasn't so much with the program as the author claims as he was available, churning 3-4 cheap films a year at that point, always basically the same character.

    Of course, the legacy was that by the time of the third Rambo three years later, the interest had waned and it underperformed at the box office and the character was mothballed for 20 years before being brought back in ultra-violent sequels nobody really asked for. Bond came back strong in TLD and there's some irony in that Rambo also went to fight alongside Afghani freedom fighters against the Russians in III. I wonder if reviews at the time noted the similarity.

    Lastly, looking at that top 10 chart for that week, I saw 9 of them. The exception was Rustler's Rhapsody, which was the film AVTAK replaced at the theater in my town.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    There was just an episode of Queer Eye, where at the end Antoni Porowski had a segment where he was showing how to make a dirty martini, and it was very Bond-themed; he was wearing a tux, there was Bond-esque music in the background, he shook the martini which is very un-traditional.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited June 2020 Posts: 13,043
    Gerard wrote: »
    There's a big reference to GF in the ninth issue of the current maxi-series Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. Unfortunately, I don't have a scan.
    Whoah, @Gerard, I came across a source for that one. Beautifully done.

    http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com/2020/03/review-jimmy-olsen-9.html
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    "Nobody Does It Better", Susie Vanner
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited June 2020 Posts: 17,295
    Suave and sophisticated James Bond is unquestionably one of the most glamorous characters of all time. But was the world’s most famous spy named after a humble bus?

    In the most recent episode of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, there's a mention of a quite odd press release by National Express, from the time of the release of SP.
  • BeatlesSansEarmuffsBeatlesSansEarmuffs
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    Torgeirtrap wrote: »
    BeatlesSansEarmuffs wrote: »
    BT3366 wrote: »
    Revelator wrote: »
    From an article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site:

    The absolute worst depictions of San Francisco in film
    A View to a Kill (1985)

    Roger Moore was nearly 60 when he made his last Bond movie. That's too old to be scaling the Golden Gate Bridge, so the director used a much younger stunt double in a bad wig - and that's the least of the film's problems. 007's adventure in California is somehow both very slow and very confusing. Christopher Walken, as evil geneticist Max Zorin, hatches a very baffling, dastardly plan that involves blowing up the Hayward Fault to flood Silicon Valley and stifle the production of microchips? No one told the screenwriter that silicon is not actually mined in Silicon Valley. Letting James Bond loose in San Francisco should have been fun, so it's a real shame that the movie spends an interminable amount of time watching Roger Moore try to buy a horse. And seeing an out-of-shape 58-year-old get it on with 30-year-old Bond girl Tanya Roberts is ... not good.The movie is slightly redeemed by Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower, and Duran Duran's theme song slaps.
    Best worst moment: An old man, an airship and some bad wigs on the bridge.

    Kind of a muddled piece. They don't acknowledge the horse scenes take place in France, not in SF. And the city itself is nicely showcased actually. This seems more of a diatribe against Moore and the filmmakers than anything against the city itself. And I'm somebody who considers AVTAK one of the two weakest Bond films.

    I like AVTAK. Partly (not entirely) because of the SF scenes. And as @Revelator knows, I'm a resident of the SF Bay area. The (deleted from the film but available elsewhere) scenes from a boat checking out Chevron's Pt. Richmond refinery are like Old Home Week for me!

    Where can you watch this, @BeatlesSansEarmuffs?

    It's in the extras of the MGM Special Edition DVD of AVTAK. (Sorry for the delay in getting back to you...)
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    GN'R TAKES JAB AT TRUMP
    See the complete article here:
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    GUNS N' ROSES has begun selling a new t-shirt that appears to take a jab at U.S.
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    Earlier in the month, Trump visited a manufacturing plant without wearing a face mask as GUNS N' ROSES ' rendition of "Live And Let Die" played on loudspeakers during his visit. Video footage of Trump 's visit went viral because he and his entourage were at a Honeywell factory in Phoenix to witness the production of anti-COVID-19 N95 masks, with the soundtrack also reportedly consisting of the likes of SURVIVOR 's "Eye Of The Tiger" and ANIMALS ' "House Of The Rising Sun" .

    In response to the Internet hoopla, GUNS N' ROSES has just released a shirt features the slogan "Live N' Let Die With COVID 45", apparently referencing the fact that Trump is the 45th president of the United States.

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  • GerardGerard
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    Remember Jeux sans Frontières ? Better known in the UK as It's a Knockout ? Well, in 1974 (I think, it's too long ago, and my memory isn't what it once was), they had a game inspired by James Bond. More precisely, inpired by LALD. The man of the team had to jump on plastic crocodiles in a swimming pool, get to an island, and get back the woman of the team. The fastest team won the game. Ah, memories !

  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Maybe not a reference as defined in this thread, but I just read the movie section in a Heavy Metal magazine from July 1984, where it said that "David Bowie will reportedly co-star in the next James Bond film From A View To A Kill."
  • GerardGerard
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    Well, it was in prject (the first production sketches showed his distinctive eyes), but he was replaced by Christopher Walken before the filming began.
  • BT3366BT3366
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    I don't think Bowie was ever particularly on board. His name was thrown about and the press at the time ran with it. It would make sense as MTV was reaching its height and it would've paired Bowie, hot off his Let's Dance album, with Grace Jones. But to hear his comments on it, he was never really interested, saying something like he didn't want to stand around for four months and watch his stunt double fall off a mountain.

    I think Rutger Hauer was also mentioned as a potential Zorin, but said he'd only be in a Bond movie if he could play Bond. That was more than 20 years before the notion of a blond Bond was a possibility.
  • Benjamin_Weekly69Benjamin_Weekly69 London
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    Gerard wrote: »
    Remember Jeux sans Frontières ? Better known in the UK as It's a Knockout ? Well, in 1974 (I think, it's too long ago, and my memory isn't what it once was), they had a game inspired by James Bond. More precisely, inpired by LALD. The man of the team had to jump on plastic crocodiles in a swimming pool, get to an island, and get back the woman of the team. The fastest team won the game. Ah, memories !


    I'll ask my grandfather.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    And some will tell their grandchildren. Pretty awesome.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    BT3366 wrote: »
    I don't think Bowie was ever particularly on board. His name was thrown about and the press at the time ran with it. It would make sense as MTV was reaching its height and it would've paired Bowie, hot off his Let's Dance album, with Grace Jones. But to hear his comments on it, he was never really interested, saying something like he didn't want to stand around for four months and watch his stunt double fall off a mountain.

    I think Rutger Hauer was also mentioned as a potential Zorin, but said he'd only be in a Bond movie if he could play Bond. That was more than 20 years before the notion of a blond Bond was a possibility.

    And Sting.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    I'm 15 years behind but someone added this Kanye West number, Diamonds from Sierra Leone, to the office playlist. Some very familiar samples.

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