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Recently started rewatching the series and man…some of the Connery scenes are hard to watch in 2026. I didn’t realize how much he “forces” himself when I was a kid.

Well done to everyone who correctly identified Spectre as yesterday’s answer - please see the original image in the comments below.

Now for today’s challenge.
Again - using this fragment of a screenshot of a scene, name this movie.
Answer to be revealed tomorrow

I own a Citizen Promaster Dive and have been thinking to upgrade to something in the $500-1000 range, maybe a Hamilton.

I WILL own a Bond Omega watch someday but don't feel comfortable dropping that kind of money for one yet. I want to wait until the cost is a drop in the bucket of my investment portfolio.

Turns out, Die Another Day is a movie for toddlers!

Mulheres que seduzem ou usam Bond e outros homens em seu próprio benefício. Embora as femmes fatales sejam geralmente vilãs, ocasionalmente existem femmes fatales heroicas.

Acho que está entre Xenia Onatopp, Fiona Volpe e Fátima Blush

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Femme_Fatales

Name your favourite Bond car based on the version seen in a film ie: gadgets and all. Then name your favourite Bond car based on the real life version of the vehicle.

Interested to know why your chosen favourite in the realistic version, is your favourite.

Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953.

From Wikipedia: Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.

I just saw this for the first time recently (First Light inspired me to do my first full Bond Binge. Missed a lot of Connery and Moore) and this might be my favorite middle of the road Bond movie, just for the third act alone.

I despised the first two acts of this movie. Moore was looking increasingly old and too old for him to be with the women he was with and too old to convincingly transition to his stuntmen...but then the third act kicked in.

Even though it was difficult to ignore the transition to stuntmen, the train and plane stunts are so incredible that the movie sucked me back in. They're two of the best action sequences I've ever seen, especially for the 80's. Also Octopussy and her harem are one of the most badass aspects of Moore's era.

All I knew about this one going into it was the goofy title and the clown scene which (other than the 30 seconds wardrobe and makeup change) was completely blown out of proportion.

The third act will definitely make me revisit this one.

For those of you long time fans, what were your thoughts on release and how have your thoughts changed, good or bad, over the years?

And for anybody who's seen it somewhat recently like me, what are your thoughts?

As most bond films follow the fashion of the time, many feel like a time capsule of the decade they were created in? But which feels the most connected to its decade?

Personally A View to a Kill feels so 80s it hurts. The fashion and styling, the computer chip plot, the main theme, the wailing guitar in the score, the fact that an 80s pop star is in the main cast and the American setting (considering the worlds USA obsession in the 80s). Do you agree? Or does another film more linked to its decade?

I know, it's a simple thing. But I'm really trying to focus on this idea from the books that Bond is always living in fear of being murdered.

Early on, M points out that Bond is up at 3 am, and asks "When do you sleep 007?" "Never on the firm's time." Bond retorts half jokingly.

Later in the film, Bond almost gets murdered in bed while he's trying to sleep. It just got me thinking how Bond must have real problems sleeping at night. Why perhaps when he's home in London, he's spending his nights at the Les Ambassadeurs Club and sleeping during the day when it's easier. Being killed in your sleep has to be a terrifying prospect, and and that's maybe why he always has to have a stiff drink before bedtime.

I never really appreciated watching these as a kid how Bond survives countless assasination attempts during this movie, even just leaving the airport, even before he has any idea who the bad guys are. And as much as this Bond tries to suppress it, he's living in constant fear, constantly has his guard up. Even his first encounters with Quarrel and Felix are wrought with this paranoia of "Is this the time it happens?"

It strikes me now with some life experience how so much of this Bond confidence is just a mask. "I'm glad your hands are sweating too." Things like the Dent encounter just really eat away at Bond. Feels like he shoots an extra shot into him just out of suppressed rage at again, being targeted. Or the extra beats of him slaming the bottle into the spider.

The older I get, the more I really start to love Dr No as an underrated thriller!

It reads like Bond’s hit list, and it’s so satisfying just to see that continuity. Aside from him rummaging through his mementos in his desk in OHMSS, the Bond rogues gallery (in spite of the fact that the tropes are often mocked due to things arising like Austin Powers, Mr. Bean and the like) is so fascinatingly iconic that it just simply cannot be ignored.

And while I don’t mind that villains are occasionally downplayed in characterization and appearances in the more modern films, you can’t help but think in these modern times with so many people trying to stand out in an “influencer age,” that it’s not farfetched to have a villain emerge that evokes the energy of the classic gallery.

He was born on July 23rd, 1921. He died on November 11th, 2005