# Help me identify this James Bond movie… **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787 "2014-04-10T08:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/1 "2014-04-10T08:10:35Z")
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… [ul] [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] _Sound familiar to anyone?_ ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/2 "2014-04-10T08:26:35Z")
You just realised that? I think it’s called ‘a successful formula’. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/3 "2014-04-10T09:20:28Z")
I believe it was called _Austin Powers International Man of Mystery_. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/4 "2014-04-10T10:00:23Z")
I wanted to say _Moonraker_, but I think there was only the one girl in that one. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/5 "2014-04-10T10:18:19Z")
Dr. No. FRWL, Goldfinger and Thunderball are out. I’d say one of the Roger Moore series. Maybe that one set in India. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/6 "2014-04-10T10:32:59Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Dr. No. FRWL, Goldfinger and Thunderball are out. It sure as hell ain’t _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_. (Or anything with Daniel Craig.) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/7 "2014-04-10T10:38:10Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > It sure as hell ain’t _On Her Majesty’s Secret Service_. > > (Or anything with Daniel Craig.) Yeah, Money Penny straight up shot him down in the latest movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/8 "2014-04-10T11:36:44Z")
_Live And Let Die_ is out, for a variety of reasons. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/9 "2014-04-10T11:44:14Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Yeah, Money Penny straight up shot him down in the latest movie. Yeah, it was a close shave. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/10 "2014-04-10T13:02:19Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > One of these women had a name that was a bit of a double-entendre. The “a bit of” part kinda rules out _Octopussy_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/11 "2014-04-10T13:17:55Z")
“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. Is it the 1960’s _Casino Royale_? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/12 "2014-04-10T13:43:29Z")
Maybe you confused it with one of the Flint movies? _In Like Flint_, maybe? The description sounds nothing like any Bond movie I have ever seen. Pfft. Double entendre names. Who would believe that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/13 "2014-04-10T13:50:02Z")
_The Spy Who Loved Me_ is out as well. Only one Bond girl. No double entendre name, either (except for her codename. Agent Triple X. Yeah…). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/14 "2014-04-10T13:54:40Z")
[quote=“B.Serum, post:1, topic:685787”] [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][/QUOTE] …and it turns out these specific gadgets are, however improbably, _exactly_ what he needs to accomplish the mission. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/15 "2014-04-10T14:23:26Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/16 "2014-04-10T14:24:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/17 "2014-04-10T14:28:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/18 "2014-04-10T14:46:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Bond makes a punny one-liner after dispatching an attacker I believe that was either The Terminator with the Golden Gun or possibly The Spy who Dies Hard. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/19 "2014-04-10T15:08:16Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > I wanted to say _Moonraker_, but I think there was only the one girl in that one. 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. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787/20 "2014-04-10T15:08:39Z")
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? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-james-bond-movie/685787.md?page=2)