I've seen a lot of Bond films. But I can't really remember the plot of any of them.
Wow! What a horrible story. I too had a very conservative dad. But my parents weren't together enough to stop me from watching completely inappropriate films! I am most grateful to my parents for being bad parents!
I will say this about Thunderball: it's the one with the underwater scene so I remember it! Kinda.
Ian Fleming is the worst!
Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond. But you are right: the films are terrible!
But I must admit, the Bond films are occasionally better than Marvel/DC films. They are pretty much always more believable. At least Bond doesn't dress up like he has to do a shift at the drag show after fighting crime!
My poor dad. I hated the guy, and I'm glad he's in Heaven now, and I still have nightmares about living with him. But I don't wish the severity of that mental illness on anyone. (Well, anyone less evil than Kissinger.) He went from "strict conservative" to "rabid paranoia about Satan's influence" to months of lying in bed with a long beard and stinking, because he never showered. And that happened in the space of a few years.
With the Bond films, at least I'm happy that Amazon probably vastly overpaid for this stuff; I can't imagine almost anybody being interested, now. They'll always have a place in my heart for what they meant to me when I was a kid, but I don't think these things will ever catch the public imagination again. Maybe Bond can fight the Woke enemy? That might make money. Heck, I'd even write the script, under a pseudonym, for a bazillion dollars...
For all my parents' faults (and there were many), I always felt loved by them. That's why I give them a pass. But it is a great blessing to me that my father, who was a John Bircher when I was a kid, is now a Trump-hating liberal. I don't even know how that happened.
I didn't even like Bond films when I was a kid. The first "adult" film I liked as a kid was A Fistful of Dollars. I remember (at like 6) thinking, "Oh! Westerns don't all suck!"
Old folks are funny that way. Sometimes they'll very much surprise you! My Mom went from very Catholic conservative to really sensibly liberal. Dad went from John Birch to "even the John Birch Society are in Satan's grasp." You never know what's gonna be in some people's heads.
That's sweet about your Dad. I suspect that if you genuinely love your kids, and they know it, most parenting mistakes won't matter much. And the people obsessed with being the best parents who get their kids into the best pre-K schools are probably among the worst of all! But then, they probably don't love their kids all that much, except as trophies.
I have a memory of my dad when I was a little boy that I can't even talk about without crying. My dad never forced me to excel because he clearly thought I was so great I would conquer the world! He was, to put it mildly, completely wrong! But I appreciate his faith!
Its what I hate about most "nostalgic memories of childhood" movies. Even if they depict the specific moments, they don't get at what it's like to really want the growup most in your life to approve of you. And how much it means when they do. And how much it stings when they don't.
What are you talking about, not gonna conquer the world! Everybody can! If you believe it, you can achieve it...
Good stuff here--the power of media to escape into and the power of writing to work through those emotions years later.
I had the advantage of being the perfect age for when Goldeneye hit the Nintendo '64--so Pierce Brosnan will forever be MY BOND.
My favorite 007 flick? Casino Royale (2006). The franchise had an opportunity to really reinvent itself after that sorta-prequel--but then Quantum of Solace was such a gigantic flop that they went the generic route again with Skyfall and all others afterword.
I want Christopher Nolan to get a shot at a Bond film just to see what that would look like!
I've seen a lot of Bond films. But I can't really remember the plot of any of them.
Wow! What a horrible story. I too had a very conservative dad. But my parents weren't together enough to stop me from watching completely inappropriate films! I am most grateful to my parents for being bad parents!
I will say this about Thunderball: it's the one with the underwater scene so I remember it! Kinda.
Ian Fleming is the worst!
Pierce Brosnan was the best Bond. But you are right: the films are terrible!
But I must admit, the Bond films are occasionally better than Marvel/DC films. They are pretty much always more believable. At least Bond doesn't dress up like he has to do a shift at the drag show after fighting crime!
My poor dad. I hated the guy, and I'm glad he's in Heaven now, and I still have nightmares about living with him. But I don't wish the severity of that mental illness on anyone. (Well, anyone less evil than Kissinger.) He went from "strict conservative" to "rabid paranoia about Satan's influence" to months of lying in bed with a long beard and stinking, because he never showered. And that happened in the space of a few years.
With the Bond films, at least I'm happy that Amazon probably vastly overpaid for this stuff; I can't imagine almost anybody being interested, now. They'll always have a place in my heart for what they meant to me when I was a kid, but I don't think these things will ever catch the public imagination again. Maybe Bond can fight the Woke enemy? That might make money. Heck, I'd even write the script, under a pseudonym, for a bazillion dollars...
For all my parents' faults (and there were many), I always felt loved by them. That's why I give them a pass. But it is a great blessing to me that my father, who was a John Bircher when I was a kid, is now a Trump-hating liberal. I don't even know how that happened.
I didn't even like Bond films when I was a kid. The first "adult" film I liked as a kid was A Fistful of Dollars. I remember (at like 6) thinking, "Oh! Westerns don't all suck!"
Old folks are funny that way. Sometimes they'll very much surprise you! My Mom went from very Catholic conservative to really sensibly liberal. Dad went from John Birch to "even the John Birch Society are in Satan's grasp." You never know what's gonna be in some people's heads.
That's sweet about your Dad. I suspect that if you genuinely love your kids, and they know it, most parenting mistakes won't matter much. And the people obsessed with being the best parents who get their kids into the best pre-K schools are probably among the worst of all! But then, they probably don't love their kids all that much, except as trophies.
I have a memory of my dad when I was a little boy that I can't even talk about without crying. My dad never forced me to excel because he clearly thought I was so great I would conquer the world! He was, to put it mildly, completely wrong! But I appreciate his faith!
I think I understand.
Its what I hate about most "nostalgic memories of childhood" movies. Even if they depict the specific moments, they don't get at what it's like to really want the growup most in your life to approve of you. And how much it means when they do. And how much it stings when they don't.
What are you talking about, not gonna conquer the world! Everybody can! If you believe it, you can achieve it...
Don't dream it... Be it!
Good stuff here--the power of media to escape into and the power of writing to work through those emotions years later.
I had the advantage of being the perfect age for when Goldeneye hit the Nintendo '64--so Pierce Brosnan will forever be MY BOND.
My favorite 007 flick? Casino Royale (2006). The franchise had an opportunity to really reinvent itself after that sorta-prequel--but then Quantum of Solace was such a gigantic flop that they went the generic route again with Skyfall and all others afterword.
I want Christopher Nolan to get a shot at a Bond film just to see what that would look like!
I've heard so much about that game being great that I'm jealous I never played it!