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[thuffner]

Woohoo! More marathons!

http://www.bondmovies.com/spike2.shtml

Wednesday, Dec. 24 (9:00 AM-Noon, ET/PT)
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983, TV-PG)

Wednesday, Dec. 24 (Noon-3:00 PM, ET/PT)
THUNDERBALL (1965, TV-PG)


Wednesday, Dec. 24 (3:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT)
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967, TV-PG)


Wednesday, Dec. 24 (6:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971, TV-PG)


Wednesday, Dec. 24 (9:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT)
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987, TV-PG)


Wednesday, Dec. 24 (Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT)
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (9:00 AM-Noon, ET/PT)
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (Noon-3:00 PM, ET/PT)
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (3:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT)
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (6:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
MOONRAKER (1979, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (9:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT)
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999, TV-PG)


Thursday, Dec. 25 (Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT)
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981, TV-PG)


Friday, Dec. 26 (9:00 AM-12:30 PM, ET/PT)
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969, TV-PG)


Friday, Dec. 26 (12:30-3:30 PM, ET/PT)
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983, TV-PG)

Friday, Dec. 26 (3:30-6:30 PM, ET/PT)
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963, TV-PG)

Friday, Dec. 26 (6:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
GOLDFINGER (1964, TV-PG)


Friday, Dec. 26 (9:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT)
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971, TV-PG)

Friday, Dec. 26 (Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT)
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967, TV-PG)

Saturday, Dec. 27 (1:00-4:00 PM, ET/PT)
LIVE AND LET DIE (1973, TV-PG)

Saturday, Dec. 27 (4:00-7:00 PM, ET/PT)
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (1981, TV-PG)

Saturday, Dec. 27 (7:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)
OCTOPUSSY (1983, TV-PG)


Saturday, Dec. 27 (Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT)
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974, TV-PG)

Sunday, Dec. 28 (1:00-4:00 PM, ET/PT)
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN (1974, TV-PG)

Sunday, Dec. 28 (4:00-7:00 PM, ET/PT)
MOONRAKER (1979, TV-PG)

Sunday, Dec. 28 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT)
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987, TV-PG)

Sunday, Dec. 28 (11:00 PM-2:00 AM, ET/PT)
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977, TV-PG)

Monday, Dec. 29 (9:00 AM-12:30 PM, ET/PT)
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969, TV-PG)

Monday, Dec. 29 (12:30-3:00 PM, ET/PT)
DR. NO (1962, TV-PG)


Monday, Dec. 29 (3:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT)
THUNDERBALL (1965, TV-PG)

Monday, Dec. 29 (6:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971, TV-PG)

Monday, Dec. 29 (11:00 PM-2:00 AM, ET/PT)
OCTOPUSSY (1983, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (9:00 AM-Noon, ET/PT)
OCTOPUSSY (1983, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (Noon-3:00 PM, ET/PT)
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (3:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT)
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (6:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (9:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT)
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (1999, TV-PG)

Tuesday, Dec. 30 (Midnight-3:00 AM, ET/PT)
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (1987, TV-PG)

[Tarl_Cabot]

too many commercials! :mad:

[Matt O'S oo4]

Originally posted by Tarl_Cabot
too many commercials! :mad:

Well said, good sir!!

Seems to be MORE commercials than film.

I've thought long and hard about this and I've tried to come up with some simplistic means of describing how I feel about the manner in which thiis "movie Marathon" has been presented.

After long and careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that Spike TV...........

Um...............

Oh, yes.

SUCKS.

That about sums it up, I hope.

Pip, pip....

Cheers.

004

[SeanValen00V]

I'll turn the channel on to increase the ratings, then pop in the dvds of the Bond films.

[Qwerty]

Well, yeah more movies of Bond and sadly, more comemercials as well. I must admit though, I do enjoy just sitting down for a second in the day and popping on the TV to find a Bond film on. I believe it was last Christmas, that I watched a few minutes of You Only Only Live Twice on Christmas Eve. It's always fun.

[BONDFINESSE 007]

me to, i saw some of thunderball last christmas eve night, but i was wrapping presents and could not watch for long

[PaulZ108]

During their Thanksgiving marathon, I noticed that there was at least one extra line in OHMSS that isn't on the DVD.

From blofeldscat.com:
http://www.blofeldsc...o_dvdohmss.html

On the DVD, right after Telly Savalas delivers the line, "Tracy, don't be so proud. Your father's own business is not entirely within the law", it cuts to Bond and Draco in the helicopter, completely cutting the line "His brotherhood also have exotic ways of keeping it a closed shop" (a clip featuring this line can be downloaded in The Screening Room) which is the laserdisc and VHS tape. The stock car race scene has completely different editing and appears to be about 20 seconds shorter than the versions on my laserdisc and tape (I didn't time it so I can't be exact). Finally, after the stock car race, when Tracy says "We didn't even stop for the prize", Bond's line "I told you that crowd would discourage them" has also been cut.  

I definately remember hearing Blofeld use the "closed shop" line, and I think I remember hearing Bond's cut line after the race (not sure though). Anyone else notice this?

I'll probably watch at least OHMSS this time just to check this.

[Athena007]

I wonder is USA will do an marathon too... they sometimes do. A lot less interruptions there.

[Xenobia]

But what can USA do a marathon of? Pierce? The Mike Grahamn movies, Dante's Peak, and GE? Not a bad way to spend a day, by any means, but I think I might want some Bond too.

Do you think if we pointed out to Spike TV that they ODed on the commericals during their turkey of a Thanksgiving marathon, they might cut back the ads this time?

-- Xenobia

[CommanderBond]

i hope the she spys girls dont host again...they got really annoying. But when will Spike tv ever show them in order???

[Xenobia]

I thought of a great tag line for this marathon:

"7 days worth of Bond....21 days worth of commercials!"

-- Xenobia

[DLibrasnow]

I saw the commercial for this over the past weekend on MTV. I'll stick with my DVDs.

[Mister Asterix]

I don

[DLibrasnow]

TiVo is certainly a Godsend!! Is there any other way to watch TV?

[Turn]

I was surfing the channel listings last night and saw TLD was on. I flipped over to it just out of curiosity and guess what part it was? I wouldn't know because it was, gasp, a commercial.

All I can say is I hope a lot of people thinking of watching this gets Bond DVDs for Xmas,

[The Dove]

Thats one of the things I miss most about British television. Way fewer commercials. If a Bond movie was playing, there was at most three or four breaks. Here in the U.S. during those Bond marathons, there are about ten long commercial breaks, so to me it seems like you lose the continuity and flow of the movie. Thank god I got all the films on VHS.

[brendan007]

Originally posted by DLibrasnow
TiVo is certainly a Godsend!!  Is there any other way to watch TV?

What is Tivo?? Ive heard so much about how good it is but havent a clue what it actually is.

[DLibrasnow]

Its a machine that records television. Everything is recorded on an internal memory. I think it will record everything within the last half hour (or maybe an hour I'm not altogether sure).

So say you are surfing the channels and you come across something that looks interesting.
However, it's about 20 minutes into the show. TiVo has the first 20 minutes in its memory so you go back to the start and watch it. Of course while you are watching the start TiVo is recording the rest so essentially you get to see the whole thing but will finish watching the show 20 minutes after it ended.

There is another function with TiVo. You can program it to record everything with one name. Say I punch in "Star Trek" on the TiVo. It will display all of the "Star Trek" episodes that are to be broadcast in the next few days. I can select to have certain episodes recorded (to be watched whenever I feel like it) or tell the TiVo to record all episodes of "Star Trek" as they are scheduled -- ie TiVo will periodically check the schedule from Direct TV (or your cable company) to see when episodes will be broadcast.

What Mister Asterix is referring to in his post is that TiVo will allow you to fast forward through the commercials. So say there is a 3 hour show with one hour of commercials. If you start watching from the start when the broadcast is an hour in and then forward through the commercials, you will essentially end your viewing of the show at the same time as the regular television audience.

[brendan007]

Thanks for the info, but is it any more usefull than a simple vcr?

[DLibrasnow]

Yes a lot more useful because you have to program a VCR and a VCR will not record a show as you are watching it.

[DLibrasnow]

As an example....I was at my landlords the other day my landlady walked in about 10 minutes after the local weather forecast had already been on. She wanted to see the forecast so my landlord backed up the TiVo to the point of the weather forecast.

Nobody told the TiVo to record the forecast. If you had a VCR then she would not have been able to watch the weather forecast!

[Qwerty]

Ah! The Christmas movie marathon soon begins in a few days! Still kind of sad to find out that OHMSS will not be shown on Christmas Eve. However, Turner Classic Movies is also getting into the spirit and will be showing Casino Royale (1967) on Saturday night, I believe. Just wanted to let you all know!

[DLibrasnow]

LOL......I wonder if USA will screen "Goldeneye'?

[CommanderBond]

They did during the last Spike tv marathon. So i dont see why they woulndt do it this time.

[Qwerty]

From what I've seen, it doesn't look like it, DLibrasnow. It would also be nice if TBS brought out A View To A Kill and Licence To Kill, but I haven't seen anything in the guide.

[DLibrasnow]

Oh, I didn't notice they were missing.