I remember seeing this James Bond movie a while back (not one of the new Daniel Craig movies from the reboot). I don’t recall the name of it, but I do remember quite a number of details so that it should be a piece of cake to narrow it down…
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[li]there was a cold open sequence before the credits[/li][li]then there was an animated opening of a gun barrel tracking James Bond before he spun around and shot the POV guy[/li][li]the title sequence featured sexy lady silhouettes against a brash theme song[/li][li]Bond gets a mission from M involving a matter of global implications[/li][li]He flirts with Miss Moneypenny[/li][li]He is briefed on several incredible gadgets by Q, though Bond doesn’t seem to take it as seriously as Q would prefer[/li][li]His mission sends him across the globe to several exotic locales[/li][li]He introduces himself as “Bond. James Bond.”[/li][li]He orders a vodka martini, “shaken, not stirred.”[/li][li]At one point, Bond gets dressed up in a tux for some high-society event[/li][li]He beds several sexy women with surprising ease, with little to no flirting, almost as if it was a foregone conclusion that they would get it on.[/li][li]One of these women was an enemy, but another was an ally.[/li][li]One of these women had a name that was a bit of a double-entendre.[/li][li]Bond returns to his room to find one of these women already there.[/li][li]One of Bond’s field allies is killed over the course of the movie.[/li][li]There was a chase scene[/li][li]Bond makes a punny one-liner after dispatching an attacker[/li][li]Bond is rendered unconscious and is captured.[/li][li]The villain’s headquarters are pretty technologically elaborate.[/li][li]The villain is surprisingly cordial to Bond, going so far to tell Bond his secret plans.[/li][li]The villain has an unusual sidekick or henchman with uncanny abilities[/li][li]The villain opts to dispatch Bond in an elaborate, protracted method that ended up giving Bond an opportunity to escape.[/li][li]Bond escapes the villain’s headquarters before it is ultimately destroyed[/li][li]Near the end of the movie, and upon the mission’s completion, allied forces attempt to re-establish contact with him, but he happens to be getting intimate with a girl at the time(!)[/li][/ul]
“The villain is surprisingly cordial to Bond, going so far to tell Bond his secret plans.” really rules out a lot of them. E.g., in Goldfinger, Bond overhears Goldfinger’s plan by listening to it from under the model.
IIRC, the whole point of License To Kill is that he isn’t on a mission from M in particular, or for Her Majesty’s Secret Service in general; our hero simply turns in his resignation and goes off on a private citizen’s no-double-entendre-names vendetta.
(Who needs a gadget from Q to stop the Big Bad? It turns out that Doused In Gasoline plus Mundane Cigarette Lighter equals Bond Enjoys Watching The Guy Burn To Death.)
I SWEAR there was one movie where Bond ordered his martini “stirred, not shaken.” It caught my attention by going against the standard. Does anyone remember that? Could maybe have been Never Say Never Again, because that movie lived in its own world. And I refuse to rewatch that one.
You’re maybe thinking of You Only Live Twice, where IIRC Bond’s gracious host has prepared him a drink just the way he likes it – stirred, not shaken, right? And our hero doesn’t correct him, because that wouldn’t be awesome.
In addition to Holly Goodhead (the CIA agent who was also qualified to pilot the space shuttle - !), there was Corinne Dufour (played by Corinne Cléry), who worked for the main villain, Drax. She slept with Bond, then was killed by Drax’s dobermans.
I get the point, but of course by making such an extensive list you actually do eliminate a lot of the entries that had most but not actually ALL of the formula, as some said previously.
Tomorrow Never Dies is a fun Bond entry, if somewhat paint-by-numbers. I don’t immediately anyone that would fall into the category “One of Bond’s field allies is killed over the course of the movie.” in that?
