Ask the guy whose seen almost all of the James Bond movies.

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@mobo85

1. This one involves a spoiler for anyone who hasn’t seen On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although the event is referenced in later movies (which brings me to my question)

At the end of said film, James Bond gets married to the Bond Girl of the film, Tracy (played by Diana Rigg). Soon after their wedding, Blofeld kills her. Bond appears to care for Tracy still. In one film, he refuses to catch the bouquet at a wedding, and another opens with him leaving flowers on Tracy’s grave (although the majority of that sequence involves Bond getting rid of a man who is obviously meant to be Blofeld as a “fuck you” to Kevin McClory). Why is it, then, that this mourning spouse still sleeps around with different women?

But he never loves another woman. I mean, after you’ve had Diana Rigg, how could any other woman match up?

@mobo85

It’s been a while since I saw them, but I remember that my least favorite was For Your Eyes Only- it was very dull compared to other Bonds of the era, and the only good part was a joke at the end involving Margaret Thatcher and a parrot.

Hey now! For Your Eyes Only had the most stunts per minute of running time of any Bond film up to that date, and it borrowed source material from some of the better Fleming short stories. Excepting the horrible disco-themed music soundtrack, it was the best of the Moore Bonds (kicking the hitman’s car off the cliff after flicking the dove pin at him was pure vicious-killer Fleming Bond), and a welcome reprise from the depths that the franchise sunk to with Moonraker. “Detente…you don’t have it, I don’t have it.”

@mobo85

5. Do you expect me to talk?

No, mobo85…I expect you to type.

Stranger

[Carnac_the_Magnificent]

@Stranger On A Train

Lazenby’s single entry, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, was an attempt to do something different with a Bond film; it was esssentially a tragic love story wrapped around a generic Bond plot. It was probably Fleming’s best novel and was in many ways the best Bond film, more akin to something that Hitchcock would have directed than a typical spy action film.

I agree. Lazenby gave a decent performance, the star-crossed lovers plot worked well, and Diana Rigg was hotter than a blowtorch. Lazenby has become a punchline for many jokes, but I too think he might have grown into the role and might have prevented the Roger Moore train wrecks that followed. Lazenby was far more believable than Moore ever was.

Cynical Gabe: My least favorite would probably be A View to Kill. I just never thought much of that one. And I concur regarding the eye-candiness of Jill St. John."

I had lunch with Jill St. John (and several others) about 2 years ago. Still hot (in her sixties) and thinner than a rail.

[Raguleader]

@Only Mostly Dead

So that’s your explanation for Bond being played by several different actors over forty years, and not rotting away from VD?

Yep, my explanation being supported by “Casino Royale” I figure it’s an alias used to confuse counterintelligence agencies “That’s not really James Bond, is it? Didn’t we kill him with that exploding redhead?”

[Tomcat]

You can help me out with Trivia questions in this thread.

Thanks!
-Tcat