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#61 elizabeth

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Posted 17 September 2013 - 09:34 PM

I don't think my parents could give less of a crap about Bond.



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Posted 17 September 2013 - 09:52 PM

My dad is a somewhat 007 fan. I know Thunderball is his favorite film. We've seen the last four bond films in theatres together

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Posted 17 September 2013 - 10:06 PM

Ah, Goodnight, you're making me feel old. Mrs. Tallon and I just had our 35th anniversary.

My parents, and particularly my mother, were vehement anti-smokers, and when they found out that this Bond character that I so enjoyed smoked 60-70 cigarettes a day, they were certain that I was on the road to utter ruin. Now, I never smoked, but my mother was really worried about it for a while.


Ah Major Tallon, that is very sweet, big congratulations to you and Mrs Tallon. :)

I don't know if this really counts as Bond connection regarding my parents but it does invovle Queen and country so I'll give it a mention...
My parents got married on 29th April 1978, 33 years later Prince William and Kate Middleton married on April 29th 2011. Pretty cool.

Anyway my parents have been very accepting of my James Bond obssesion, we went to see the Bond clothing exhibition at the Barbican last year, and paid for the three of us to go on a Bond tour of London as a birthday present (the amphibious duck bus) travelling up the Thames was awesome :D

Just the other day my mum was at second hand book sale and got me a Book about the Bond girls, it was only a £1, but it's not the price that matters, it's the value...that meant the world to me. :D

Sorry for going on and on.

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Posted 18 September 2013 - 06:01 AM

My late father was never a Bond fan. He didn't dislike the films, he just wasn't interested that much, although I do remember watching DAF with him in my late teens and he had one laugh-out-loud moment - right at the end when Mr Wint went overboard with his tail between his legs. Quite why that tickled his funny bone I don't know - maybe it was the expression on Wint's face and Bond's throwaway comment after he'd thrown away Wint!

 

My late mother became something of a Bond fan, however. She took me to see OHMSS at our local "fleapit" when I was eight years old - after much nagging from yours truly, probably. And, as a child under a certain age you had to be accompanied by an adult to see the films, so she sat through the others I wanted to see at the flicks in my earliest Bond fan days as well. She stopped going to see them at the cinema once I was old enough to be let in on my own, but caught up with them again during the 1990s and 2000s. I actually took her to see Quantum of Solace at the local multiplex on 31st October 2008 - the opening day for the film, which also happened to be her birthday. It was the last time she went to see a Bond at the cinema - she died in 2011. I think that she would have enjoyed Skyfall.

 

I don't think Dad ever read Fleming, but I remember Mum picking up a book and flicking through it. She made a jocular comment that if she'd known what I'd been reading as an almost-teenager she wouldn't have let me, but I don't think she meant it. There were crime novels every bit as salacious when she was a girl!

 

 



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Posted 22 September 2013 - 12:20 PM

My late father kind of introduced me to Bond by telling me after I'd raved about Happy Anniversary 007 special that he had seen several of them in the cinema back in the 60's and promised to rent Goldfinger for my 9th birthday. His favourite Bond was definetely Connery, followed by Moore. I don't know did he ever saw Brosnan flicks and he passed away 2 months shy of Casino Royales premiere. Incidentally he looked very much like Daniel Craig and shared literary Bonds height and weight measurements. :)

My moms (who's a casual fan) favourites are Connery and Craig.


Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 22 September 2013 - 12:21 PM.


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Posted 22 September 2013 - 12:35 PM

My Mum was a massive fan of the books when she was a kid. She read them all. As for the movies, as far as she's concerned Sean Connery is the only one. Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, even Craig - she doesn't want to know. When I tell her that some of them are still rather good and worth a watch - she's just like "Nope, only Connery. He WAS Bond". She's totally blinkered.

 

She can remember them all when they came out at the cinema, and she tells me that at that time Sean Connery was the biggest movie male sex symbol on the planet. Still to this day she describes him as "sex on legs". I think the only movies she's seen are the ones with Connery in, save for Licence To Kill which we watched on holiday when I was a kid. 

 

Many years ago, I tried to get her to watch Goldeneye. She ummed and ah'd about it... but in the end it didn't happen. 

 

She's weird my Mum. When Skyfall came out last year, and there was all the hoo-hah about the 50th anniversary - my Mum's attitude was "Come on, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" "OLD HAT?!?!" 50 years old or not, those movies still sell out cinemas! I'd hardly call that "Old hat"!



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Posted 23 September 2013 - 05:31 PM

My Mother remembers watching the Connery films on TV and took my uncle to see The Spy Who Loved Me when it came out but isn't really a fan.

I think my Dad liked them because he used to watch them with me but I haven't seen him in a few years so I'm not sure.

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Posted 23 September 2013 - 06:13 PM

My parents don't like Bond movies and I think I am more or less responsible.
When I was young, I usually wanted to watch a Bond movie on TV and I was very boring... That's why they dislike Bond.

I remember someday I had an awful dream : I was at home with my parents and Pierce Brosnan came in the kitchen with a AK 47 weapon (like in GoldenEye) and he shot my parents. After that he looked at me and just went away.

This is the most amazing dream I made.



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Posted 23 September 2013 - 06:32 PM

My Mum has always stubbornly but understandably disliked the Bond films, although she saw OHMSS in the cinema and told me that she remembered liking it. She went to see AVTAK because Alison 'Jenny Flex' Doody grew up on her street. For some unknown reason she went to see 'Skyfall' as well and she reluctantly admitted that she absolutely loved it. 

 

My Dad saw Doctor No at a screening they had in his school. At the screening he won 30 shillings. He also had the Corgi Aston Martin (with the ejector seat) which he told me about for years, under the mistaken belief that it was a Ford Thunderbird. I was delighted when I got the updated version of the toy around the time TWINE came out. 

 

I'm sure it was my Dad who first watched Bond with me (it was either NSNA or FYEO) on TV. He claimed he'd seen them all, although I'm not sure that's true. He's always maintained that Connery is his favourite.

 

We've seen all of the post-TWINE films in the cinema, although I can't be sure what he thinks about the Craig era. 

 

In my Grandfather's final years I discovered that he too was a big Bond fan - refusing to watch any of the films post-Connery (although I did catch him watching and enjoying OHMSS one time). I had recently acquired a toy Walther P99. When I showed him he got very excited and did his best Bond impression, which I will never, ever forget (it was awesome).

 

Weeks before his death he said that he had recently watched 'Licence to Kill with Pierce Brosnan in it' and said that it was 'crap'. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was mistaken in at least one way. ;-)

 

After my Grandad died I found Pan paperbacks of 'For Your Eyes Only' and 'Goldfinger' and a 'Thunderball' souvenir magazine, all from 1965, all which I still have. None of them are in great nick but they're readable (the first time I read FYEO and GF, it was those books). He also had a bunch of 'The Saint' novels which I must unearth. 



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Posted 28 September 2013 - 02:57 AM

My dad got me into Bond. Way back when, (when you couldn't just see a movie anytime you wanted...before DVD or even VHS) I would read all of Dad's Fleming books for my Bond fix, and listen to the Goldfinger soundtrack on vinyl.

 

I still have fond memories of seeing TLD in the theater with him. That was probably one of the last times he's seen a movie on the big screen! Plus I recently gave him all my DVD's when I upgraded to blu ray. He loves tractors and stuff so he liked the digger scene in SF.



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Posted 28 September 2013 - 11:10 AM

If anything my parents have been very supportive of my love of the Bond series. Dad took me to The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, I believe he slept through both of the films. As for their interest in the series I never thought it was that high, but I was completely suprised when I learned they actually have went to see the past two Bond films together at the theatres (QOS and SF). Glad to hear my parents go on dates, Bond bringing them together, so romantic. My most vivid memory with one of parents in watching a Bond film was when I had Goldeneye on VHS and it was the pre-titles sequence, I was sitting on the floor watching it, enjoying ever second of it, and the scene were Bond jumps off the cliff with the bike and catches the plane, my Dad just says Bullsh**.


Edited by nickjb007, 28 September 2013 - 11:11 AM.


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Posted 29 September 2013 - 08:12 AM

My Mum was a massive fan of the books when she was a kid. She read them all. As for the movies, as far as she's concerned Sean Connery is the only one. Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, even Craig - she doesn't want to know. When I tell her that some of them are still rather good and worth a watch - she's just like "Nope, only Connery. He WAS Bond". She's totally blinkered.

 

She can remember them all when they came out at the cinema, and she tells me that at that time Sean Connery was the biggest movie male sex symbol on the planet. Still to this day she describes him as "sex on legs". I think the only movies she's seen are the ones with Connery in, save for Licence To Kill which we watched on holiday when I was a kid. 

 

Many years ago, I tried to get her to watch Goldeneye. She ummed and ah'd about it... but in the end it didn't happen. 

 

She's weird my Mum. When Skyfall came out last year, and there was all the hoo-hah about the 50th anniversary - my Mum's attitude was "Come on, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" "OLD HAT?!?!" 50 years old or not, those movies still sell out cinemas! I'd hardly call that "Old hat"!

Going a bit off topic - I'm talking about friends now, rather than family - I have a good friend, some years older than me, who also read all the Ian Fleming novels as a youngster. I think I've mentioned him on Cbn before. For him, Fleming's Bond is the only Bond. He doesn't rate the films  - he finds even the more hard edged "serious" ones utterly risible. Or so I thought.

 

All that said, I was in my local pub with him one evening when the landlord put the Sky007 channel on the lounge TV. Skyfall was showing, and my friend was interested, which surprised me. We sat through most of it - we'd missed the first twenty minutes of so, and I had to explain why Bond was looking unkempt. SF kept his attention. (I don't think he's seen CR or QoS yet.)  Maybe Daniel Craig's Bond will be the one that, for my friend, comes closest to the one on the printed page.



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Posted 29 September 2013 - 03:45 PM

My parents are divorced but do like Connery the best as Bond. Mom likes Brosnan for the modern era and my Dad has learned to like Craig. My Dad's favorite Bond film is Thunderball. Mom really doesnt have a favorite.

 

 

This is a cool topic BTW



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Posted 29 September 2013 - 09:20 PM

I mentioned this on a previous post, but it bears repeating in light of this new topic.

 

In the summer of 1980, I discovered the James Bond movie series while visiting my cousin's house (thank you HBO!) and watched Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever.  When I returned home from my summer trip, it was obvious to my parents that I had become an over-night 007 fan.  Since we didn't have HBO (nor a VCR - not that there were really any video rental businesses back then to rent from), I focused on devouring as many of the Ian Fleming novels as possible. Both my mom and my dad would take me to the local used book stores to indulge in my newest passion.  Given that I was a poor student - I guess they were thrilled I was reading anything!  LOL!

 

My mom (who is no longer with us)  knew who James Bond was but though of him as someone like Eastwood's Dirty Harry, Willis's Die Hard, or Statham's Transporter (i.e. just another "movie character.")  My dad however, did take me to see For Your Eyes Only (his favorite), Octopussy (he also liked a lot), and Never Say Never Again.  Around the time of A View To A Kill, I had my driver's license and went to see it and future films on my own (which I think my dad was OK with, as he probably, by that time, was tired of hearing my teenaged "countdown" to the next 007 movie). I've tried to get him to watch more recent movies on TV or DVD (from Dalton onwards) but he's just not interested. 

 

Aside from taking me for a few years-stretch to the latest 007 film, there's one thing I'll forever be grateful for to my dad. I don't know if it's an "American thing" but there used to be "midnight movies" in theatres (and it was usually Rocky Horror Picture Show in my town) back in the day.  Around 1981, I saw in the movie section of the local paper that there was a scheduled midnight showing of Goldfinger.  Despite the fact that it was well beyond BOTH our bedtimes, my dad took me to see it.  Aside from the HBO showing of Diamond Are Forever back at my cousin's house, this was the first (well, second) Connery 007 film I ever saw.  And thanks to my dad, it was the first (and only!) Connery film I've ever seen on the big-screen. 

 

Given the proliferation of DVD/Blueray, large-screen HD TVs, and videos on demand, this post won't resonate with the younger folks out there.  But, for me (circa 1981), being at the mercy of ABC and their occasional "Sunday Night Movie" to get my "007 fix", my dad taking me to see Goldfinger was an unforgettable moment in my childhood.  I'll never forget (and hopefully dad won't either) how I literally sat at the edge of my theatre seat that night in an effort to get as close to the screen as possible, so I could absorb each and every detail of the movie in front of me. 


Edited by Double Naught spy, 29 September 2013 - 10:20 PM.


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Posted 30 September 2013 - 04:55 PM

My father is the reason I am a Bond fan.  He's Indian, moved to Jamaica as a teen, met and married my mother.  So he was a huge Bond novel collector and lived in Jamaica.  My mother worked briefly as a secretary at Frome, I've been to Goldeneye several times, James Bond festival, you name it, anything Bond related in Jamaica I've experienced it.  My father gave me all his Bond books, he would read them as they came out and I have literally all of them in pristine condition from original publishing date ... OK, that's a stretch, most of the books are a 70's vintage but all the Gardner's and after were brand new when he got them.  

 

Now we live in the US but with half my family in Jamaica and the other half in India I still get back very often and am still very close to the Bond roots.



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Posted 01 October 2013 - 02:18 AM

My mother is somewhat a Bond fan. Brosnan is her clear favourite, in part to Remington Steele. My father is a bigger Bond fan, but not a massive one. His favourite Bond is Connery, though does like Craig quite a bit too.



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Posted 03 October 2013 - 12:34 AM

My mom loves Daniel Craig, like loves loves loves him. She also really loved Brosnan I believe and she told me the first Bond movie she went to see was Goldfinger.



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Posted 03 October 2013 - 03:31 PM

 

My Mum was a massive fan of the books when she was a kid. She read them all. As for the movies, as far as she's concerned Sean Connery is the only one. Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, even Craig - she doesn't want to know. When I tell her that some of them are still rather good and worth a watch - she's just like "Nope, only Connery. He WAS Bond". She's totally blinkered.

 

She can remember them all when they came out at the cinema, and she tells me that at that time Sean Connery was the biggest movie male sex symbol on the planet. Still to this day she describes him as "sex on legs". I think the only movies she's seen are the ones with Connery in, save for Licence To Kill which we watched on holiday when I was a kid. 

 

Many years ago, I tried to get her to watch Goldeneye. She ummed and ah'd about it... but in the end it didn't happen. 

 

She's weird my Mum. When Skyfall came out last year, and there was all the hoo-hah about the 50th anniversary - my Mum's attitude was "Come on, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" "OLD HAT?!?!" 50 years old or not, those movies still sell out cinemas! I'd hardly call that "Old hat"!

Going a bit off topic - I'm talking about friends now, rather than family - I have a good friend, some years older than me, who also read all the Ian Fleming novels as a youngster. I think I've mentioned him on Cbn before. For him, Fleming's Bond is the only Bond. He doesn't rate the films  - he finds even the more hard edged "serious" ones utterly risible. Or so I thought.

 

All that said, I was in my local pub with him one evening when the landlord put the Sky007 channel on the lounge TV. Skyfall was showing, and my friend was interested, which surprised me. We sat through most of it - we'd missed the first twenty minutes of so, and I had to explain why Bond was looking unkempt. SF kept his attention. (I don't think he's seen CR or QoS yet.)  Maybe Daniel Craig's Bond will be the one that, for my friend, comes closest to the one on the printed page.

 

 

My Mum's a funny one. When I told her about Skyfall... or pretty much whenever a new one comes out... she always says the same thing "Come on Stu, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" Despite the latest one taking a BILLION at the Box Office. She makes me laugh. She thinks Star Wars is old hat too. 



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Posted 04 October 2013 - 06:58 AM

 

 

My Mum was a massive fan of the books when she was a kid. She read them all. As for the movies, as far as she's concerned Sean Connery is the only one. Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, even Craig - she doesn't want to know. When I tell her that some of them are still rather good and worth a watch - she's just like "Nope, only Connery. He WAS Bond". She's totally blinkered.

 

She can remember them all when they came out at the cinema, and she tells me that at that time Sean Connery was the biggest movie male sex symbol on the planet. Still to this day she describes him as "sex on legs". I think the only movies she's seen are the ones with Connery in, save for Licence To Kill which we watched on holiday when I was a kid. 

 

Many years ago, I tried to get her to watch Goldeneye. She ummed and ah'd about it... but in the end it didn't happen. 

 

She's weird my Mum. When Skyfall came out last year, and there was all the hoo-hah about the 50th anniversary - my Mum's attitude was "Come on, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" "OLD HAT?!?!" 50 years old or not, those movies still sell out cinemas! I'd hardly call that "Old hat"!

Going a bit off topic - I'm talking about friends now, rather than family - I have a good friend, some years older than me, who also read all the Ian Fleming novels as a youngster. I think I've mentioned him on Cbn before. For him, Fleming's Bond is the only Bond. He doesn't rate the films  - he finds even the more hard edged "serious" ones utterly risible. Or so I thought.

 

All that said, I was in my local pub with him one evening when the landlord put the Sky007 channel on the lounge TV. Skyfall was showing, and my friend was interested, which surprised me. We sat through most of it - we'd missed the first twenty minutes of so, and I had to explain why Bond was looking unkempt. SF kept his attention. (I don't think he's seen CR or QoS yet.)  Maybe Daniel Craig's Bond will be the one that, for my friend, comes closest to the one on the printed page.

 

 

My Mum's a funny one. When I told her about Skyfall... or pretty much whenever a new one comes out... she always says the same thing "Come on Stu, it's all a bit old hat now isn't it?" Despite the latest one taking a BILLION at the Box Office. She makes me laugh. She thinks Star Wars is old hat too. 

 

It took me four years to get around to seeing the first Star Wars film at the cinema. (This, mind you, in the days when a blockbuster didn't automatically end up on TV or video release within months of its theatrical debut, so cinemas tended to re-run films that were several years old - indeed, that's how I managed to see all the Connery Bonds in the early 1970s.)

 

I don't know why it took me so long. Might have been a strange teenage act of "contrarianism" - if the rest of the world is raving about Star Wars, I'll give it a miss. Good job I didn't take that attitude about Bond.



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Posted 17 October 2013 - 12:44 AM

My parent's were born in the late 50s, I'm 26. Anyway, I'm sure they've seen a Bond movie or two in their time, but I've never seen either watch a single one. As far as I know, they know next to nothing about Bond beyond the sort of cultural influences and things everyone knows.



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Posted 17 October 2013 - 12:11 PM

My father thinks Roger Moore is the best one, however he doesn't like Bond movies. My mother hates all of them, she thinks that Brosnan is an awful actor and Connery was bad-looking when he did Bond.

On the other hand, my grandmother has read several Fleming books and watched most of the movies. Her favourite actor is Connery.



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Posted 18 October 2013 - 01:51 AM

My parents didn't really discuss Bond with me, though they didn't discourage me when I happened upon the  series in my best friend's garage at the age of 11 and got hooked on the books.

 

They did take my sister and me to see Live and Let Die at the local drive-in a few years later. They seemed to enjoy it, but they didn't seem to view as the major event that I did.

 

With all of the spy mania going on when I was going up (I was born in 1959) the only comment I remember either of my parents making about any of my "must see" spy hero's was when my Mom whole heartedly agreed with me that Robert Vaughn (formerly The Man From Uncle but at the time was  playing Harry Rule on The  Protectors) was still and always would be "a very sexy guy".

 

I don't know which shocked me more; That Mom agreed with me or that she let13 year old  me get away with calling someone "sexy".



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Posted 23 October 2013 - 09:13 PM

My Dad introduced me to my first Bond film when I was 8, AVTAK. And then he brought home this boxset with all the films up to Die Another Day when I was a bit older, and I watched all of them. And since then, I have been completely sucked into the world of Bond. :)



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Posted 24 October 2013 - 01:46 PM

They were against the whole "Bond" thing, but I persevered with it regardless. Different generations and different ideas.



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Posted 02 January 2014 - 06:12 AM

It was my sister's idea that my parents take me to see The Spy Who Loved Me.  They had seen the Connery ones in the theater, then not for about ten years after I was born in 1967.  I had to then beg them to take me to see Moonraker two years later, but they did.  My sister took me to NSNA, she just loves Connery.  Eventually, I started going on my own. To my surprise, they all wanted to see The Living Daylights on opening night.  Saw TND with my dad and took both parents to see Quantum of Solace.  That was my mom's last.  She passed on the day before Skyfall came out--eerie now given its story line.  But I took my dad to see it a few weeks later.  Oddly, he hadn't seen Casino Royale until I watched it with him last month.  One of his unintentionally funny questions to me in 2002, "Have you seen the new Bond movie?  What color is his car?" :D

 

My mother bought me the first Gardner books and a Fleming Omnibus trying to get me to read as a teenager.  It worked!  I remember discussing the Gardner novel Icebreaker with my dad though he didn't read any of the others.  Saw a lot of Bond on TV, the pre-HBO "On" TV subscription service, and film festivals, so I did see them all on the big screen.  Dad liked the soundtracks to Spy and FYEO, but no one but me got into John Barry.  They all liked James Bond, but none got obsessed like I did.  Though I've noticed dad buys the occasional Bond DVD when he finds them on sale.  My sister still sees the movies too.  We haven't seen one together since GoldenEye, but usually discuss the latest entry on the phone once we've each seen it. 

 

Thanks, Sis. :)


Edited by Professor Pi, 02 January 2014 - 06:15 AM.