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[Rik]

I was thinking about my Mrs and her hatred of Bond and how I have to drag her to the cinema to see a new Bond movie. Although she has gone easier to the Craig movies, I put this down to her saying "He's fit"

 

Does anyone else have similar issues with their partners?

[mrevans]

Yes.  Though it has gotten better over time and with modern films being more appealing to her.

 

She can't stand Sean Connery or Roger Moore films, though she did self admittedly think GF "wasn't that bad".

This is partly because she doesn't find Connery or Moore attractive.  I think its hard for her to buy them as sex symbols for that reason. Movies seem dated and "dumb" to her.  Silly things like jump cuts and rear screen projection can sink movies for her quickly if she doesn't have an interest otherwise.

 

Liked Lazenby okay but probably liked OHMSS more as she says that's her favorite if  she had to pick one.  She likes that Bond gets married and settles down because him being such a lady's man hurts her enjoyment.  She's into happily ever after type endings hence she can never be too excited about the romance element, if you want to call it that, in any Bond film.  

 

Brosnan she really likes as his are more fluffy action movies she can have fun with and he's the best looking in her opinion.  She didn't like GE though.  Thought it was boring and didn't finish it.  Trying to get her to give that another shot.  (We were dating and she was 16 at the time.  The more mature 20's version of her would probably like it)

 

Likes Dalton a lot. Craig is her favorite.  She accepts Bond and his persona more from a "bad boy" perspective.  She enjoys and wants to see Bond since Craig took up the character.  actually thinks SF is one of the best movies ever. 

 

However she's far from a  Bond fan.  She hasn't watched any one Bond film more than once and she has no use for over half of the franchise.   AND much to my chagrin, she a subscriber to the code name theory as that makes more sense her as a casual viewer.  Ugh.  Don't get me started.  But I guess that's fine considering she's no "Bond fan"  and if you want to consider her that, "Casual" is the operative word there.

You'll never see mrsevans on a forum like this, I can promise you that.    

[Trevelyan 006]

Had my girlfriend sit down a watch a bit of GoldenEye the other day. Her only reaction was that it was too predictable, as she felt that in nearly every scene Bond finds himself in a jam and it is obvious he will escape. On the whole, she found the film slightly annoying.

 

I died a little inside. 

[Eric Stromberg]

My wife seems only too happy to watch Daniel Craig...which keeps me in the gym.

[Professor Pi]

I never met a woman who didn't like Connery.  I once commented to my sister about his infamous interview where he talked about slapping his wife, and my sister had said, "Oh, he can slap me anytime!"  Mind you, I'm not condoning it at all.  I was just amazed by her response.

 

Moore had such charm he never offended anyone despite uttering the most offensive lines. 

 

The Living Daylights is a pretty good date film, as far as Bond movies go.  Still, the ladies don't dig Dalton.

 

I had a half-Japanese girlfriend I broke up with two months before Tomorrow Never Dies came out.  But she liked Bond.  I was stupid.

 

I think I saw every Bond movie up through 2006 with my ex-wife.  She liked it a tad more than her son did.

 

But hey, if they're willing to watch any Bond movie, even once, go with it, whatever their opinion.  Give equal time to their interests as well. 

 

She won't like you because of Bond, but she might love you despite it.

[Rik]

 

 

But hey, if they're willing to watch any Bond movie, even once, go with it, whatever their opinion.  Give equal time to their interests as well. 

 

 

 

Wait.... She has interests as well?

[SecretAgentFan]

Good idea for a thread!

 

My wife is very tolerant of my Bond-fondness but never was a real fan herself. 

 

We met when Brosnan began his tenure, and since she liked him in general, he was the one to make her want to see his Bond films. (I guess Brosnan´s biggest effect on the series was exactly that: he managed to attract a bigger part of the female audience which had stayed at home during the previous years.)  Craig is not really her cup of tea, but she saw his films on DVD (without too much use of my persuasion skills).

Edited by SecretAgentFan, 12 July 2013 - 08:28 AM.

[Jim]

Mrs Jim treats it as something that keeps me out of mischief.

 

Other than that, as an adult, it's obviously of no more than peripheral interest to her.

[Yellow Pinky]

My wife happily indulges my fanaticism, but stops shy of embracing it on her own.  She watched GE with me in the theater, but settled for seeing the rest of the Brosnan era on DVD at home upon their release.

That said, she genuinely likes the Craig era and saw both CR and SF at the theater and again on DVD.  That's a real first for her.  QoS was a DVD only affair, though.

[Rik]

I was watching The Living Daylights today. 

 

Emma (my other half) walks in, looks at the screen "Are you watching Bond again?"

 

Me "I am"

 

Emma "ok, I've changed my mind, he's the best looking Bond" 

 

She then promptly sits down and watches the rest of the movie.

[Mr Twilight]

Good idea for a thread!

 

My wife is very tolerant of my Bond-fondness but never was a real fan herself. 

 

We met when Brosnan began his tenure, and since she liked him in general, he was the one to make her want to see his Bond films. (I guess Brosnan´s biggest effect on the series was exactly that: he managed to attract a bigger part of the female audience which had stayed at home during the previous years.)  Craig is not really her cup of tea, but she saw his films on DVD (without too much use of my persuasion skills).

Well, the situation is pretty much the same here at home. She's very tolerant and still after 12 years together...I Think shes not that much concerned as she appear to be...I guess she's very diplomatic...BUT when we saw Skyfall at the Movie, she was actually really interested and gave it a honest big thumb up. Can't ask for more

[Satorious]

My first true "lady friend" and I got together during The Living Daylights Ferris wheel scene, but it turned out further down the line that she was more of a Brosnan fan than a Dalton one. The good lady I am currently with "gets" Connery's appeal and respects him being the original, although she is really a Craig fan (loving both CR and SF).  The other Bond's she really isn't into - both Brosnan/Moore are smarmy, Dalton lacks the required charm/humour and Lazenby is just plain wrong. I dragged her to see DAD twice (bless her), this is something she won't let me forget easily - although she has still supported me on the opening days of the subsequent films.

[SecretAgentFan]

Mrs Jim treats it as something that keeps me out of mischief.

 

Other than that, as an adult, it's obviously of no more than peripheral interest to her.

 

Oh, too true.  These adults... 

[Major Tallon]

Mrs. Tallon isn't truly a fan, but she's gone with me to every Bond film since TSWLM and has skimmed a few Fleming novels.  More importantly, she's been very supportive of my fandom, even as my little hobby blossomed into quite an expensive pastime.  As we prepared for our recent trip to Bond locations in Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Italy, one of her siblings asked her, "What do you get out of all of this?"  She answered, "I get to go to Istanbul, Vienna, Prague, Venice, and Rome."  Can't argue with that.

[dtuba]

Wife tolerates my juvenile tastes in TV/films/music as long as I keep the cat box clean.......

[David_M]

I actually just had this conversation with the missus recently.  She doesn't find ANY of the Bond actors especially attractive, though Brosnan probably came closest.  Which is not to say she finds them repugnant either, only that sex appeal is not at all a factor for her one way or the other.

 

The "old school" Connery/Moore model Bond was boring and silly to her, but she really enjoyed "License to Kill" and more recently CR and SF (she never saw QoS...I love her too much for that).  So if there's a pattern at all, I'd say she most enjoys the entries where some emotional stakes are involved, and is quickly bored by the more formulaic "kiss-kiss-bang-bang" entries.

[glidrose]

Wife tolerates my juvenile tastes in TV/films/music as long as I keep the cat box clean.......

 

Wot? She doesn't let you use the toilet?

[Eric Stromberg]

My Love Muffins put me on the same program recently.  Unfortunately the box is in the guest room so when we have people staying over it gets quite embarrassing...

Edited by Eric Stromberg, 03 September 2013 - 07:29 PM.

[Dustin]

Over the years - closing in on four decades of self-inflicted Bond addiction - I've had to deal with various girlfriends and wives and their respective openness towards the topic. Experienced everything from utter ignorance (first 'steady' girlfriend) over mildly amused condescension (first wife) to casual - very casual - fan (current wife). Strange as it may seem I actually prefer the 'no/little interest in Bond' position, as I think it helps me getting a more balanced perspective on the whole thing. When I became addicted at the age of ten I used to think if only I could watch Bond films all day I'd do pretty much nothing else. Almost forty years later I shiver to think there are fans out there - breathing human beings, supposedly - who actually live pretty much my childhood daydream. I'm not sure I could stand being married to a woman who was more of a Bond fan than I am myself, it would likely end with us both withering away in front of the telly, tattered Fleming paperbacks in various stages of disintegration beside our shrunken corpses.

What I mean to say is: be thankful for the bits of 'real life' your significant other provides.

[glidrose]

What I mean to say is: be thankful for the bits of 'real life' your significant other provides.

...let's not forget the nookie we get out of them, that is when they deign to let us have some.

I've got begging down to an art form.

[Double Naught spy]

Women!  Can't live with 'em... can't live without 'em (without the CSI team catching on!)

[Janus Assassin]

My girlfriend likes Roger Moore. I remember watching the beginning of diamonds are forever and she asked who is that when was walking towards the lady sunbathing. I told her it was Sean Connery and she just goes like ewwwww. She thinks Roger is handsome but I told her that her opinion will change if she ever watches AVTAK.

[AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän]

My better half doesn't like Bond, but tolerates my fandom with humour. I would never try to force her to come with me to cinema to see a Bond film.  When we got together I showed her a few on DVD and the verdict was that she simply doesn't care about Bond. When she saw our 10 month old son enjoying the James Bond theme she said "Oh no, there's another one!"

Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 07 September 2013 - 11:13 AM.

[Pam Bouvier]

As far as Bond goes, my husband sends mixed messages.

 

When we saw our first Bond movie as a couple (AVTAK) there were a lot of eye rolls.  Yet when I went to my first "Bond get together" (one of Charlie's Dare to Be Bond extravaganzas  in Las Vegas) he planned to go with me(but at the last minute, he ended up with a mysterious case of strepthoat and had to bow out).

 

I came back inspired to throw my own very modest version of a Bond get together for some of our friends and the eye rolling was back big time.

 

Yet, this is the same guy that has bought me both the video and DVD sets for all the movies and makes it a point to inform me when he stumbles on a Bond movie marathon.

 

The same guy that bought me a collection of all the Ian Fleming Bond books.

 

The same guy that went along with a dinner that included much Bond trivia and Vesper martini's with a group of our friends before seeing Casino Royale and Skyfall. 

 

The same guy that says nothing about the Timothy Dalton poster that hangs on a wall in my study (though he heartily believes Connery is the one and only true Bond).

 

However, he's the same guy that claims to be mystified by his very liberal, very feminist, wifes steadfast devotion to the classic Cold Warrior (he also likes to remind me that the Cold war is over, hence that 007 has outlived his usefulness). (Sigh).

 

So, I don't know...is the guy I lay next to every night politely humoring, what he views as, his wifes unexplainable obession...or is he secretly a kindred spirit? 

Edited by Pam Bouvier, 07 September 2013 - 08:57 PM.

[dtuba]

In all my years I have never known a couple where the wife was a bigger Bond fan than the husband. Cheers!

[ChickenStu]

Not really up my wife's street sad to say. She things Roger Moore was fit when he was younger, and we were watching one of his movies once and she said "Phwooar, I'd be HIS Bond girl"... but generally speaking it's not something she really takes much interest in 

[Navy007Fan]

My wife seems only too happy to watch Daniel Craig...which keeps me in the gym.

 

Same here!  Mrs. Navy's first quesion when a new film comes out is "Does he take his shirt off?"  If the answer is yes, she'll go with me to see it in the theater.

[Grard Bond]

As far as Bond goes, my husband sends mixed messages.

 

When we saw our first Bond movie as a couple (AVTAK) there were a lot of eye rolls.  Yet when I went to my first "Bond get together" (one of Charlie's Dare to Be Bond extravaganzas  in Las Vegas) he planned to go with me(but at the last minute, he ended up with a mysterious case of strepthoat and had to bow out).

 

I came back inspired to throw my own very modest version of a Bond get together for some of our friends and the eye rolling was back big time.

 

Yet, this is the same guy that has bought me both the video and DVD sets for all the movies and makes it a point to inform me when he stumbles on a Bond movie marathon.

 

The same guy that bought me a collection of all the Ian Fleming Bond books.

 

The same guy that went along with a dinner that included much Bond trivia and Vesper martini's with a group of our friends before seeing Casino Royale and Skyfall. 

 

The same guy that says nothing about the Timothy Dalton poster that hangs on a wall in my study (though he heartily believes Connery is the one and only true Bond).

 

However, he's the same guy that claims to be mystified by his very liberal, very feminist, wifes steadfast devotion to the classic Cold Warrior (he also likes to remind me that the Cold war is over, hence that 007 has outlived his usefulness). (Sigh).

 

So, I don't know...is the guy I lay next to every night politely humoring, what he views as, his wifes unexplainable obession...or is he secretly a kindred spirit? 

Ofcourse I don't hope this will gonna happen to you, but IF you ever get a divorce, please will you marry me?

Edited by Grard Bond, 17 September 2013 - 05:14 PM.

[Messervy]

My wife quite likes Bond, actually. Not as much as me (she doesn't collect anything, doesn't read the novels,...), but whenever I want to watch one at home she watches with me happily. And she also comes with me to the theatre to watch the newly released Bond movies (although just once, whereas I usually go watch them at least 3 times!).

That being said, she's even more into Bond since Craig joined... I wonder if I should feel jealous?!

[Grard Bond]

My wife quite likes Bond, actually. Not as much as me (she doesn't collect anything, doesn't read the novels,...), but whenever I want to watch one at home she watches with me happily. And she also comes with me to the theatre to watch the newly released Bond movies (although just once, whereas I usually go watch them at least 3 times!).

That being said, she's even more into Bond since Craig joined... I wonder if I should feel jealous?!

No, because Craig is a short guy with big ears and never gets the girl at the end of the movie.