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[Janus Assassin]

Is everybody ready for Bond this Thanksgiving again? I know I am. Five things that make Thanksgiving for me.

The Beach
Turkey
Family
Football
007

[Mister Asterix]

Bond on Spike:

Dr. No: I'm a member of SPECTRE James Bond: SPECTRE? Announcer: Do you have dry itchy scalp? Try Flake-a-Way to get rip of the embarrassment of dry-itchy scalp. Woman: I had dry itchy scalp and now I use Flake-a-Way and the dry itchy scalp is all gone. Man: My boss noticed I had dry itchy scalp and it was embarrassing, so I used Flake-a-Way and now I Back to top #3 Athena007 Athena007 Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 12936 posts Location:H O L L Y W O O D Posted 24 November 2004 - 05:48 PM Full SPIKE TV Thanksgiving Schedual... "Spike's Thanksgiving Bond Movie Marathon" Wednesday 24th through Sunday 28th of November Back to top #4 Johnboy007 Johnboy007 Commander CMG Veterans 6990 posts Location:Washington, D.C. Posted 24 November 2004 - 05:53 PM Pity it doesn't start until tonight, I was looking forward to spending today watching a few. Back to top #5 Athena007 Athena007 Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 12936 posts Location:H O L L Y W O O D Posted 24 November 2004 - 05:56 PM While you're waiting you can enter the Xtreem Bond contest. Back to top #6 Bryce (003) Bryce (003) Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 10110 posts Location:West Los Angeles, California USA Posted 24 November 2004 - 06:22 PM Well quoted Mister A. It is what it is but it's Bond on one channel when there's nothing else better. Here's to BOND-ing with holidays. If it gets too frustrating with the commercials, go for your DVD's. Back to top #7 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 24 November 2004 - 08:03 PM Here's to BOND-ing with holidays. If it gets too frustrating with the commercials, go for your DVD's. Exactly. I hope the commercials aren't too frustrating this time. Back to top #8 dajman_007 dajman_007 Sub-Lieutenant Crew 223 posts Location:Colorado Posted 25 November 2004 - 01:53 AM Ah, this makes my day... But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"??? Back to top #9 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 25 November 2004 - 02:20 AM Ah, this makes my day... But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"??? That was cancelled several years ago, TBS no longer has the rights to a great deal of James Bond films. Back to top #10 rafterman rafterman Lt. Commander Veterans 1963 posts Location:Republic of Korea, south of the Axis of Evil Posted 25 November 2004 - 04:33 AM Something to pass out in front of after the turkey. Back to top #11 zencat zencat Commander GCMG Commanding Officers 25814 posts Location:Studio City, CA Posted 25 November 2004 - 06:45 AM Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie. Oh, I Back to top #12 Athena007 Athena007 Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 12936 posts Location:H O L L Y W O O D Posted 25 November 2004 - 06:52 AM Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie. You're right... technically it Back to top #13 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 25 November 2004 - 07:18 AM [quote name='Athena007' date='25 November 2004 - 01:52'][quote name='zencat' date='24 November 2004 - 23:45']Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie.[/quote] You're right... technically it Back to top #14 Blofeld's Cat Blofeld's Cat Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 17542 posts Location:A secret hollowed out volcano in Sydney (33.79294 South, 150.93805 East) Posted 25 November 2004 - 07:28 AM So Bond is the hockey game while the Spike ads are the fights. Back to top #15 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 25 November 2004 - 07:40 AM Ah, this makes my day... But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"??? A very old link: TBS. Back to top #16 INTREPID INTREPID Sub-Lieutenant Crew 154 posts Location:Toronto, Canada Posted 26 November 2004 - 01:58 AM As if the commercials after commercials wouldn't be so bad... in Canada I don't even get ANY Bond marathon on Spike. D'oh! Well at least I can watch CSI. Back to top #17 hrabb04 hrabb04 Lt. Commander Veterans 1706 posts Posted 26 November 2004 - 02:26 PM I am listening to the Bond movie with all of the Afros in it. God, this one is bloody awful. It makes Die Another Day look like Masterpiece Theater. Back to top #18 Mister Asterix Mister Asterix Commodore RNVR The Admiralty 15519 posts Location:38.6902N - 89.9816W Posted 26 November 2004 - 04:04 PM [quote name='zencat' date='25 November 2004 - 00:45']Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie. Oh, I Back to top #19 hrabb04 hrabb04 Lt. Commander Veterans 1706 posts Posted 26 November 2004 - 04:17 PM Damn, Smoky and the Bond is still on. Proof that rednecks and James Bond don't mix, Back to top #20 Johnboy007 Johnboy007 Commander CMG Veterans 6990 posts Location:Washington, D.C. Posted 26 November 2004 - 11:19 PM Watched the end of Moonraker and the beginning of TWINE with the family (I wasn't the one who put it on, I swear!) "How much longer does this marathon run? -Few days -Dammit!" Back to top #21 hrabb04 hrabb04 Lt. Commander Veterans 1706 posts Posted 26 November 2004 - 11:56 PM TWINE is the only real Bond movie on today. Ok, Octopussy isn't bad, but Live and Let Die and Moonraker really blow. And Spy Who Loved Me has Hermann Munster in it, and is insanely stupid. Back to top #22 Johnboy007 Johnboy007 Commander CMG Veterans 6990 posts Location:Washington, D.C. Posted 27 November 2004 - 01:58 AM I'm enjoying the little commercials they have where they have little one liners then clips from the films. Some pretty good stuff on those commercials, can't say that about the others (especially the Snoop Dogg, Spike Video Game Awards *yawn*). Back to top #23 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 27 November 2004 - 02:01 AM Watched the end of Moonraker and the beginning of TWINE with the family (I wasn't the one who put it on, I swear!) "You're a terrible liar, my dear." -Tomorrow Never Dies Back to top #24 Turn Turn Commander Veterans 6837 posts Location:Ohio Posted 27 November 2004 - 02:06 AM I haven't watched any of these films since last Christmas. How's the editing? Anything unneccesary taken out in this post nipplegate era? I don't even know if they still have the rights, but in addition to their various commercial interruptions, AMC hacked the films to pieces when they showed them last winter, eliminating entire scenes, not just questionable content. Back to top #25 hrabb04 hrabb04 Lt. Commander Veterans 1706 posts Posted 27 November 2004 - 04:48 AM Loved it tonight. My friends ask me what I am watching, and I say, with a straight face, "Octopussy." I swear they think I'm watching pørn! Back to top #26 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 27 November 2004 - 04:55 AM I don't think there's been too many problems lately with the editting of them. Seems to be the commercial intercutting. Back to top #27 PaulZ108 PaulZ108 Lt. Commander Veterans 1569 posts Posted 27 November 2004 - 05:24 AM I didn't see any editing in Thursday night. Krest's head explosion and several uses of "" were left intact. I wasn't paying close attention though so I may have missed something. The commercial interruption didn't seem as bad as it was last year. I seem to remember TWINE's pre-credits sequence being cut by commercials last year and not this year. And seeing Snoop Dog watching the DOA girls was definately less annoying than those damn Clorox commercials they showed incessantly the year before last. Back to top #28 Adrian Carlisle Adrian Carlisle Sub-Lieutenant Crew 157 posts Posted 27 November 2004 - 06:15 AM I don't think there's been too many problems lately with the editting of them. Seems to be the commercial intercutting. They put some blurry squares on Barbara Bach's assets during the brief shower shot of TSWLM, General Pushkin's girlfriend in TLD, and also blurred the brief shot in Octopussy when Bond sees the women get out of the pool at Octopussy's palace. Since Spike does their "Uncut" movie series, they usually show every frame on all the movies they show and only edit the strongest language. But female body parts often get nixed. Back to top #29 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 27 November 2004 - 06:19 AM Ah, I see. I guess I can see why they would then. Thanks for the info Adrian. Back to top #30 Janus Assassin Janus Assassin Lt. Commander Veterans 1898 posts Location:Where You Vacation, Florida Posted 29 November 2004 - 02:51 PM Commercials still ticked me off again. I enjoy watching them... but there is no need to drag a 2 hour movie to 3 hours. If they did 2 1/2 hours per film... they would be able to play them again. Back to top Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next Back to United States of America Reply to quoted posts     Clear

[Athena007]

Full SPIKE TV Thanksgiving Schedual...

"Spike's Thanksgiving Bond Movie Marathon" Wednesday 24th through Sunday 28th of November

[Johnboy007]

Pity it doesn't start until tonight, I was looking forward to spending today watching a few.

[Athena007]

While you're waiting you can enter the Xtreem Bond contest.

[Bryce (003)]

Well quoted Mister A.

It is what it is but it's Bond on one channel when there's nothing else better.

Here's to BOND-ing with holidays. If it gets too frustrating with the commercials, go for your DVD's.

[Qwerty]

Here's to BOND-ing with holidays. If it gets too frustrating with the commercials, go for your DVD's.

Exactly. I hope the commercials aren't too frustrating this time.

[dajman_007]

Ah, this makes my day...

But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"???

[Qwerty]

Ah, this makes my day...

But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"???

That was cancelled several years ago, TBS no longer has the rights to a great deal of James Bond films.

[rafterman]

Something to pass out in front of after the turkey.

[zencat]

Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie.

Oh, I

[Athena007]

Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie.

You're right...
technically it

[Qwerty]

[quote name='Athena007' date='25 November 2004 - 01:52'][quote name='zencat' date='24 November 2004 - 23:45']Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie.[/quote]

You're right...
technically it

[Blofeld's Cat]

So Bond is the hockey game while the Spike ads are the fights.

[Qwerty]

Ah, this makes my day...

But what happened to TBS's "15 Days of 007"???

A very old link: TBS.

[INTREPID]

As if the commercials after commercials wouldn't be so bad... in Canada I don't even get ANY Bond marathon on Spike. D'oh! Well at least I can watch CSI.

[hrabb04]

I am listening to the Bond movie with all of the Afros in it. God, this one is bloody awful. It makes Die Another Day look like Masterpiece Theater.

[Mister Asterix]

[quote name='zencat' date='25 November 2004 - 00:45']Yippee! Spike TV's annual commercial marathon...punctuated by the occasion 8 min clip from a Bond movie.

Oh, I

[hrabb04]

Damn, Smoky and the Bond is still on. Proof that rednecks and James Bond don't mix,

[Johnboy007]

Watched the end of Moonraker and the beginning of TWINE with the family (I wasn't the one who put it on, I swear!)

"How much longer does this marathon run?
-Few days
-Dammit!"

[hrabb04]

TWINE is the only real Bond movie on today. Ok, Octopussy isn't bad, but Live and Let Die and Moonraker really blow. And Spy Who Loved Me has Hermann Munster in it, and is insanely stupid.

[Johnboy007]

I'm enjoying the little commercials they have where they have little one liners then clips from the films.

Some pretty good stuff on those commercials, can't say that about the others (especially the Snoop Dogg, Spike Video Game Awards *yawn*).

[Qwerty]

Watched the end of Moonraker and the beginning of TWINE with the family (I wasn't the one who put it on, I swear!)

"You're a terrible liar, my dear." -Tomorrow Never Dies

[Turn]

I haven't watched any of these films since last Christmas. How's the editing? Anything unneccesary taken out in this post nipplegate era?

I don't even know if they still have the rights, but in addition to their various commercial interruptions, AMC hacked the films to pieces when they showed them last winter, eliminating entire scenes, not just questionable content.

[hrabb04]

Loved it tonight. My friends ask me what I am watching, and I say, with a straight face, "Octopussy." I swear they think I'm watching pørn!

[Qwerty]

I don't think there's been too many problems lately with the editting of them. Seems to be the commercial intercutting.

[PaulZ108]

I didn't see any editing in Thursday night. Krest's head explosion and several uses of "" were left intact. I wasn't paying close attention though so I may have missed something.

The commercial interruption didn't seem as bad as it was last year. I seem to remember TWINE's pre-credits sequence being cut by commercials last year and not this year. And seeing Snoop Dog watching the DOA girls was definately less annoying than those damn Clorox commercials they showed incessantly the year before last.

[Adrian Carlisle]

I don't think there's been too many problems lately with the editting of them. Seems to be the commercial intercutting.

They put some blurry squares on Barbara Bach's assets during the brief shower shot of TSWLM, General Pushkin's girlfriend in TLD, and also blurred the brief shot in Octopussy when Bond sees the women get out of the pool at Octopussy's palace.

Since Spike does their "Uncut" movie series, they usually show every frame on all the movies they show and only edit the strongest language. But female body parts often get nixed.

[Qwerty]

Ah, I see. I guess I can see why they would then. Thanks for the info Adrian.

[Janus Assassin]

Commercials still ticked me off again. I enjoy watching them... but there is no need to drag a 2 hour movie to 3 hours. If they did 2 1/2 hours per film... they would be able to play them again.